T C Wood retires after 35 years in printing work
Tom C Wood known as T C from The Daily Favorite era ends a 35 year career in commercial and newspaper printing. A Bonham resident and Army veteran with 22 years service, he recently retired to enjoy sports and fishing after a career starting as a printer's devil.
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Tom C. Wood
T. C
Favorite
J.C. Brannen
Bonham
West
Daily News
Inglewood
Calif
Truck Driver Endures Weather During Panhandle Run
A Bonham trucker stopped briefly Sunday night citing constant rain sleet snow and ice on his six recent trips. He planned to push into the snow covered Texas Panhandle but highways were closed in many sections, forcing an overnight stop.
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Bonham
Texas Panhandle
Panhandie
Five Thousand Dollar Bond For Three Teenagers In Car Thefts
Three teens were each ordered held on $5000 bonds after being charged in two car thefts Sunday night. Justice of the Peace Benton set the bonds for hearings Monday. Deputies identified the suspects as Gaskil Preston Keddie Bell and Roy Ppless. A truck owned by Bill Sanderson was stolen from the First Baptist church parking lot and another truck was taken from a church parking lot west of town.
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Justice of Peace
Clark Benton
Monay
Gaskil Preston
Keddie Bell
Roy Ppless
Bill Sanderson
First Baptist Church
Warm Weather Returns to Bonham Area
A Texas weather shift brings warmer temperatures across the state. Bonham reports a 90 degree low and a 16 degree forecast for today with west winds easing. By Wednesday expect partly cloudy skies and a mid-30s to lower 60s range as temperatures rise.
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Texas
Panhandle
Bonham
Texas Panhandle
Barcelona students rampage after police break up meeting
Hundreds of students rampaged through Barcelona after police dispersed a university meeting. They stoned the business of a former member of the Cortes, disrupted traffic, and overturned two vehicles. Police arrested 16 students.
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Barcelona
Spain
UPI
Cortes
Hall Ethics Bill Faces Senate Subcommittee Fight
Texas politics eyes ethics reform as Sen Ralph Hall Dallas area faces opposition in Senate subcommittee over a bill banning lobbyist ties to state work and requiring disclosure of gifts and substantial interests. Supporters warn of a mass exodus without clear standards while opponents fear political demagoguery and confidentiality issues. May 38 special election may yield an Ethics Commission to draft a conduct code and salaries.
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Hall
Secretary of State
Ethics Commission
Life Sentence Given 14YearOld Boy in Georgia
A 14-year-old boy in Cobb County Georgia was sentenced to life imprisonment after pleading guilty to rape robbery and car theft Judge Harold C Raven imposed the sentence following a recommendation by the district attorney’s office The youth’s name cannot be published due to his age He was charged with raping a 27 year old Marietta woman at knifepoint after locking her four year old son in a closet He had been a fugitive from the Augusta Training School police said.
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Marietta
UPI
Cobb County Superior Court
Harold C. Raven
Georgia
Augusta
Nearly 80 Percent of Americans Have an Auto
A historical note reports that about eighty percent of Americans own an automobile. The data point highlights the rising ownership trend and its implication for mobility and economy during the period.
Rabbi Continues 40 Day Fast Aims Prayer for POWs
MCALLEN Texas reports Michael Manson in week two of a 40 day fast to protest POW treatment. He says he may end the fast if needed but plans to endure while seeking support from President Nixon for a national day of prayer.
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Mcallen
Tex
Cera
Michael Manson
Manco Tome
Manson
E. Ene
Assam
Nison
Viet General Killed In South Vietnam Amid Air Strikes
U S fighter bombers hit missile sites in North Vietnam while Lt Gen Do Cao Ta, leader of South Vietnamese forces in Cambodia, was killed when his helicopter exploded near Tay Ninh. Francois Sully among nine others died. reports say some Americans may have been among the dead. American air power also aided convoy protection near Phnom Penh after a Mekong ambush.
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Saigon
UPS
North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
U.S
South Vietnam
Do Cao Ta
Cambodia
Fay Ninh
Sully
Indochina
Trang Son
Tay Ninh
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laos
South Vettnam
Phnom Penh
Mekong
Japan
Vietnam
Tri
Patton
George 5
Europe
Senate Democrats seek Indochina troop withdrawal by 1972
In secret session the Senate Democratic Policy Committee approved a resolution urging President Nixon to withdraw all U S troops from Indochina by the end of 1972. The plan, nonbinding, would set a time certain and not require public dating, with Mansfield noting support if acted on.
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Washington
Senate
Indochina
U.S
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
Nixson
Gene
Nixon
Senate Democrats
Nixon calls for quick ban on germ warfare at Geneva
President Nixon urged the Geneva Disarmament Conference to pursue a prompt international treaty banning the development production and stockpiling of biological weapons. He also endorsed negotiations to prohibit chemical weapons under the same framework as progress toward global security.
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Geneva
UPI
Nixson
United States
Geneva Disarmament Conference
Nixon
Apollo 14 Moon Rocks May Be 4.5 Billion Years Old
Houston scientists said the Fra Mauro lunar samples brought back by astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell could be the oldest moon material. They estimate the rocks originate from the moon’s crust about 4.5 billion years old, older than Apollo 11 and 12 specimens.
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Shepard Mitchell
William Phinney
Manned Spacecraft Center
Cone Crater
Shepard
Mitchell
Gil
Nixon seeks two year extension of wage price controls
Treasury Secretary Connally urged Congress to extend authority for wage and price controls for two years while avoiding general application. He left room for selective controls in certain industries and warned a broad freeze would require a national emergency and new congressional mandate.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Congress
Treasury
John B. Connally
House Banking Committee
Connally
Wright Patman
D-Tex
Bonham students clean streets with ecology club haul
About 60 members of the Bonham High School Student Ecology Club collected a ton of trash in half a day on Saturday. City Manager Dan Mize praised the effort and urged residents to avoid littering as sponsor David Hembree oversees proceeds from can sales to fund student expenses.
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George
Pat Chelf
Louisiana
Bonham
Blackwell
Okla
Student Ecology Club
Bonham High School
Dan Mize
David Hembree
Ecology Club
Dalles
Conference to Protest Jews' Treatment Opens
Delegates from 37 countries met in Brussels for a three day world conference to protest the treatment of Soviet Jews. The gathering, called by the American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry and its Latin and European counterparts, aimed to ease deep anxiety among Soviets and press for rights and freedom.
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Brussels
Russia
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