Unusual bumper sticker sightings and small town notices
Readers report odd signs and local quirks from Abilene country to Bonham. Bruce Cranfill weighs in a one pound fish after a late afternoon pool catch. crowds plan reunions at Whitewright Fireman's Hall while surrounding towns schedule rodeos, garage sales, and homecomings as authorities log minor street scenes.
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Jack Keene
Abilene
Jack
Bruce Cranfill
Wayne Cranfill
Bruce
Sadat Opens Suez Canal as Peace Gift to World
President Anwar Sadat reopened the Suez Canal at Port Said in a ceremony described as a contribution to peace. He warned real peace requires Israel’s withdrawal from occupied Arab lands, and signed the transfer of canal authority from military to civilian hands aboard the launch to Port Said.
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Port Said
Egypt
UPI
Anwar Sadat
Suez Canal
Sadat
Port Fuad
Middle East
Bonham seeks injunction to delay Lone Star Gas rate rise
Bonham Texas joins 14 other cities in filing a Travis County suit seeking a temporary injunction delaying retroactive gas charges set by the Texas Railroad Commission. The injunction would push start of the charges from January 28 to May 9 ahead of a June 16 commission hearing on increased rates. May include $500 total cost pro rated among participating cities with Lone Star Gas facing another rate request for residential and commercial customers. The Texas Utilities Advisory Council will represent Bonham at the June hearing.
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Bonham
Texas
Lone Star Gas Co
Texas Railroad Commission
Dan Mize
Railroad Commission
Travis County
The
Texas Utilities Advisory
Council
Texas Municipal League
Advisory Council
la Vaca
City Commission
Austin, Tex
UPS
Texas Highway Commission
Ton Island
Bolivar Peninsula
Jeffboat, Inc
Jefferson
Ind
Highway Department
Court Tells Bell to Delay Move on Intrastate Rates
Texas Supreme Court orders Southwestern Bell to postpone implementing intrastate long distance rate hikes until Attorney General Hill's lawsuit is decided. He says the increases since May 15 1975 cost Texans about 230000 daily and may be unrecoverable if ruled improper. The court set June 18 for arguments. In February Bell announced the raise, later challenged by Hill, with legislative action and potential utilities regulation looming.
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Austin, Tex
UPI
Texas Supreme Court
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
John Hill
Hill
State of
Texas
Hull
Supreme Court
Bell
Dallas
Southwestern Bell
St. Louis
Tom Blackwell
Third Court of Civil Appeals
Judiciary
Utilities Commission
Dolph Briscoe
Enrolled 423 in Northeast Texas Summer Safety Institute
Jeff Ells, program director, reports 423 youngsters are enrolled in the summer swimming classes at Bonham State Park and Bonham Golf Club, after Lake Fann location became unavailable. The largest group is 247 beginners, followed by 93 advanced beginners, 37 intermediates, and two in a swimmers class.
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Northeast Texas Summer Safety Institute
Jeff Ells
Bonham State Park
Bonham Golf Club
Lake Fann
Elus
Ellis
Felix McKnight to Speak at Bonham Chamber Banquet Tonight
Felix R. McKnight vice chairman of the Dallas Times Herald will be the keynote speaker at the Bonham Chamber of Commerce banquet tonight at 7 30 in the Bondi cafeteria. Ed Southerland Bonham attorney serves as master of ceremonies with Aubrey McAlister introducing McKnight and Gene Danner outlining officers. The Jaycees will run the banquet and the Fife and Drum Corps and Bonhi Sextet provide entertainment with bicentennial decorations. McKnight began in 1928 at the San Antonio Light and rose to executive editor of the Times Herald before joining Dallas News and then the Times Herald in 1957. He is a Dallas native who graduated from Texas A&M in 1932.
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Texas
Bonham Chamber of Commerce
Bondi
Felix R. McKnight
Dallas Times Herald
Ed Southerland
Bonham
Aubrey McAlister
Bonham Daily Favorite
McKnight
Gene Danner
Bonham Chamber of
Associated Press
Dallas News
The
Times Herald
Dallas
San Antonio
Texas A&m
Thunderstorms Forecast for Bonham Residents
Bonham area faces a 20 percent chance of thunderstorms tonight and Friday as a cool front moves through. Expect partly cloudy skies tonight and mostly cloudy conditions Friday with cooler temperatures, a mid 70s low Friday morning and upper 80s in the afternoon. Winds shift to northeast Friday as the front passes.
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Bonham
National Weather Service
Texas Panhandle
Sadat Reopens Suez Canal as Middle East Tensions Rise
Sadat inaugurates the Suez Canal reopening in Port Said calling it a peace step while vowing to regain land lost in 1967. Arab guerrillas in Lebanon fire Katyusha rockets at Quiryat Shemona wounding one. a grenade injures a guard in Jerusalem. Libyan officials denounce the move as treason amid regional flare ups.
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United Press International
Anwar Sadat
Suez Canal
Middle East
Israel
Jerusalem
Lebanon
Quiryat Shemona
Tion
Revolution Command
Tel Aviv
Government Is Getting Tough in Beirut Barricade Clearances
Security forces issued orders to remove barricades and shoot resistors as Beirut endures 16 days of fighting that left 129 dead and 300 injured. Fresh clashes in suburbs flared with rockets and mortars though a later radio report said the capital was quiet.
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Beirut
UPI
Interior Ministry
Aso
Beirut Radio
Lebanon
Phalangist
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Red Wheeler
Itt Pickett
Tucson
Ariz
Daily Favorite
Dewitt
U. S. Navy
Baily Inglish
I. W Evans
Obe Hefner
Whitewright
CMF
David Bingham
Windom
Dodd City
Center Point Association
Brown Cemetery Association
Denton, Jr
Rocky
Nelson Rockefeller
Naval Academy
Mohammed Gammassy
Court
Edgard, la
Tiple
St. John the Baptst Parish
Leonard C. Washington
Gretna
Stanley Johnson
Marrero
Sexton
Laplace
Elis
Minne Lindbergh
Phoenix
Kay Butler
New Orleans
Fannin
NETSS
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Felix McKnight
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Texas Daily Newspaper Association
Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Association
Cotton Bowl Athletic
Russia
Khruschev
Sigma Delta Chi
Southwestern Journalism
Congress
Headliner
Texas Constitution Bevin Commission
Highland Park United Methodist Church
Dallas Country Club
Preston Trail Country Club
Augusta National Golf Club
Eldorado Country Club
Dalas Salesmanship Club
Amrican Newspaper Publishers Association
TDNA
Mideast
Libya
Arab Revolu
Hazmieh
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