Auto travel notes and local items from Bonham area
A collection of brief notes covers a Houston trip interrupted by heavy rain near Kaufman and a bug siege on the windshield before returning to Bonham. Ada Clements remains in recovery from an earlier auto accident with family updates and contact details. A Georgia style computer crafted calendar art by JoAnn Shaw Howell is noted. Texas traffic harms and safety tips emphasize rural driving cautions and new laws.
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Joe Tate
Houston
Kaufman
Joe
Greenville
Bonham
Ada Clements
Alva Cobb
Memphis, Tenn
Blytheville
Ark
Memphis, Hospital
Doc
South Broadway
Blytheville, Ark
Texas
Two Vehicle Wrecks Reported With $490 Damage Total
Wednesday's collisions caused an estimated $490 in damage. Officers named owners Finis Odell Brown and Paula Alnip Simpson of Ravenna Rt. 2 in one crash near the courthouse. Sharon Maxine Newton and Willie Lan Ulmer were identified as drivers in a second accident at Main and 12th.
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Jay Duckworth
Ralph Taylor
Finis Odell Brown
Ravenna
Rt. 2
Paula Alnip Simpson
Court House
Sharon Maxine Newton
Willie Lan Ulmer
Duckworth
Leon Harper
Main
Friday Temperature Rise Forecast For Bonham Area
Partly cloudy and warmer weather expected Friday in Bonham with temperatures ranging from the mid 60s to the mid 80s. Light showers were reported earlier Wednesday and again Wednesday night.
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Bonham
U. S
U S Forces Launch Offense After Cease Fire Ends in Vietnam
U S forces begin offensive as a three day Ho Chi Minh cease fire ends. B52s drop 360 tons on Communist positions while fighting rages near Da Nang and Que Son Valley. In Saigon area battle losses include four Americans killed and twelve wounded. Two American officers are killed by a South Vietnamese guard at a compound near Saigon. the guard suicides later.
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Saigon
UPS
Ho Chi Minh
U.S
Abrams
Vietnam
Washington
Nixon
Siberia
Que Son
da Nang
Egyptian Air Combat Flares Across Sinai Front
United Press International reports Egypt launched air raids into Israeli Sinai retaliation for a major Tuesday attack. Seven to eight Egyptian planes were claimed shot down by Israel, as clashes extended to the Jordan front. Israel said its pilots hit Arab guerrilla positions near the Sea of Galilee and reported casualties on both sides amid renewed fighting.
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United Press International
Egypt
Sinai
Israel
Beisan
Sea of Galilee
Middle East
Golan Heights
Syria
Tel Aviv
Israeli Sinai
Suez Canal
Cairo
Zaffaran
Ras Shukeir
Gulf of Suez
Suez City
al Ahram
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
Moscow
Damiya Bridge
Jordan River
Dead Sea
Jfsraelis
Nixon Aide Papers Say Viet Cong Cease Fire Question Answered
The Viet Cong renewed shelling as the cease-fire ended while the Nixon administration held talks at Camp David. Ziegler said troop withdrawals and replacements would be key topics in the general Vietnam review with Gen. Abrams and South Vietnam's Thieu meeting before the Friday summit.
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Washington
Ziegler
Vietnam
Creighton W. Abrams
U.S
Maryland Mountains
South Vietnam
Nguyen van Thieu
Saigon
Miss Ann Kidwell Competes For Miss Texas Peanut Queen 1969
Miss Ann Kidwell of Trenton travels to Eastland's Majesty theater for the first annual Miss Texas Peanut Queen pageant competing Friday and Saturday against 12 peanut county entrants She will give a two minute peanut industry talk sing and wear bathing suit and evening gown She is backed by local sponsors and is a 1968 Miss Fannin County winner with a $500 scholarship prize and travel expenses for the peanut industry committee next year.
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Fannin County
Ann Kidwell
Trenton
Fastland
Miss Kidwell
Majesty Theater
Eastland
Fannin County Field Crops Committee
Udell Brown
Brown Brown Tractor Company
Carl Hanes
Hanes Equipment Company
Powell & Birdwell
Ford Tractor Agen v
Bonham
First National Bank of
Mrss Kidwell Wll
Sill
Grady Kidwell
Queen Ann
Dallas
Wayne Cranfill
Southwestern Peanut Shellers Association
Southwestern Peanut Growers Association
Eastland Jaycees
Peanut Industry Committee
Kosygin Meets South Vietnamese Provisional Government Leaders
Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin met with leaders of the Communist backed South Vietnamese provisional revolutionary government in Hanoi Tass reported. The talks focused on Soviet support for the liberation struggle and the two sides expressed warm gratitude for Moscow's aid.
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Moscow
UPI
Alexei N. Kosygin
Tass
Hanoi
Soviet Union
South Vietnam
Kilgore Bulldogs Open Season With Scrimmages Preview
Kilgore hosts the Kilgore Bulldogs Friday night in the season opener at Warriors Field. The Purple Warriors boost a veteran squad with several returning lettermen and new starter Charles Smith at quarterback after Lonnie Bennett’s injury. Kilgore’s defense features a large middle line and speedy secondary as they prepare to face a tough East Texas foe in Bonham.
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Purple Warriors
Fridaight
Kalsere Budogs
Warriors Field
Warriors
Ardmore
Paris
East Texas
Waln Bonham
Kilgore
Warners
Charles Smith
Lonnie Bennett
Jack McElhannon
Smith
Bob Jenkins
Marsh White
Alvin Brown
Preston Anderson
Charles Butler
Mike Howard
Joe Max
Missing Boy’s Body Found After Field Search
Four volunteers from a 200-student group found the partially mutilated body of 14-year-old Robert Wayne Lawson two miles from Mountain Creek Lake. His mother identified him. police said the arm was chewed to the elbow by an animal.
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Dallas
UPI
Robert Wayne Lawson
Mountain Creek Lake
Donna Lawson
Belfast Wall rises as barrier in troubled street
In Belfast a barbed wire peace line grows under British army engineers as Protestant and Catholic crowds watch in silence. Both sides reinforce barricades amid rioting while Catholic resistance centers on the core opposition to dismantling the barriers and a local Civil Defense Committee vote favors keeping them.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
UPI
Charles Porter
Peter Boyle
Carmel Fogarty
Eric Cole
Catholic Civil Defense Committee
Talks Postponed Amid Conference Table Dispute
Paris reports say Vietnam talks were delayed again as U S and South Vietnamese negotiators rejected a Viet Cong request to delay to Friday and proposed Saturday instead. The wrangle echoed the long debate over the conference table shape and filled both sides with grounds for victory claims.
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Paris
UPI
Vietnam
U. S
Ho Chi Minh
the .S
Saigon
Not Guilty Verdict in Bonham Arson Trial
A 6th District Court jury found Edward Sanders not guilty of arson in the burning of an unoccupied building south of Bonham last year. The panel deliberated only a few minutes after a Tuesday morning trial began with jury selection.
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6Th District Court
Edward Sanders
Sanders
Bonham
Not Enough Taxes Smith Says Some Items Face Veto
Gov. Preston Smith warns he must cut about 1.2 million from state appropriations after lawmakers overspent against a 348 million tax bill. He notes new courts costing around 1.2 million and says he will trim budgets across agencies without harming programs.
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Austin, Tex
UPI
Texas
Preston Smith
Smith
Comptroller
Robert S. Calvert
Legistes Committee
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JoAnn Shaw Howell
Joe Shaw
Benham
Gerald Newby
Texas Safety Association
Vege
Eugene F. Smallwood
Fairfax
Maj
Anthony J. Broulton
Jackson Heights
N.Y
Kilgore Bulldogs
Roger Steward
Freddie Denney
John George
Hopson
James Brooks
Roger Ba
Chris Lovelace
Chris Hill
Kenneth Fuller
Hawk’ Shaw
Steve McKenzie
Eddie Collins
David Bragg
John Burtner
Jerry Goff
Tommie Briscoe
Bruce Garner
Jesse Parrish Jis
Briscoe
Parrish
Ste
Ward
Butler
Howard
Brown
Shaw
Anderson
Scott McAnally
Garner
Maxwell
George
Denny
Bulldogs
Leon Griffin
Kevin Seller
Bobby Terry
Larry Lloyd
Larry Crawley
Terry Crabb
Steve Dorman
Tommy Thompson
Jackie Clayton
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