Training and WPS Card Rules for Terry County Workers
Kerry Siders outlines employer duties under the 1995 1996 WPS rules. Training and blue cards required for workers over 15 days in 1995 and over 5 days in 1996. HANDLERS must be trained before handling tasks. trainers must be certified or trained. Extensions Service aids with materials but issues cards via Texas Department of Agriculture. Contact Lubbock TDA and Terry County office for details.
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Kerry Siders
Terry County
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Texas Department of Agriculture
Lubbock Tda
Boeing
WPS
Texas Agriculture Extension Service
Texas Independence Day History and Firework Facts
Talk of Texas FOOTNOTE TO HISTORY traces July 4 as a holiday date, noting its late official recognition and Texas adaptation after San Jacinto. Also covers Denmark fireworks tradition, Texas flag origins, sparklers’ German roots, and the world’s largest flag record.
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Jesse Helms
North Carolina
Congress
United States of America
Gerald Ford
Continental Congress
Thomas Jefferson
Texas
Mexico
U.S
San Jacinto
South
Denmark
Rib
Philadelpha
Fifty Years Ago This Month Peebles Memory Highlights
A retrospective list recalls events from July 1945 including Australian troops in Balikpapan, Truman urging UN ratification, MacArthur Philippines action, heavy bombing of Honshu, Potsdam Conference, Petain trial, Attlee becoming prime minister, UN Security Charter approval, and the sinking of the USS Indianapolis with 880 lost.
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Honshu
U.S. Pacific
Hokkaido
Truman
Churchhill
Stalin
Potsdam
Marshal Petain
Paris
France
U.S. Senate
U.S
Indianapolis
I Am the Nation Fourth of July Salute
Gatesville Messenger reprints Otto Whittaker Jr.’s 1955 essay I Am the Nation praising American liberty. It lists founders, battles, landmarks, and symbols from Lexington to Vietnam and Kuwait, urging integrity and freedom as the nation’s core identity. It ends with well wishes for a Happy Fourth of July.
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Gatesville Messenger
Marshall Day
John F. Kennedy
Martin Luther King Jr
Otto Whittaker Jr
Roanoke
Nathan Hale
Paul Revere
Lexington
Kuwait
Brooklyn Bridge
Kansas
Vermont
Virginias
Pennsylvania
West
Golden Gate
Grand Canyon
Independence Hall
The
Monitor
Merrimac
Challenger
Atlantic
Pacific
Ben Franklin
Philadelphia
Betsy Ross
God
Congress
John Glenn
Neil Armstrong
Eli Whitney
Stephen Foster
Tom Edison
Albert Einstein
Billy Graham
Horace Greeley
Trivia Quiz Cliff Notes From Historic Headlines
A set of quick trivia prompts covers quotes from a famed speech, Rhett and Scarlett in Gone With the Wind, Yuri Gagarin’s orbital first, St Francis of Assisi city naming, Candid Microphone host in 1947, the 1940 assassination in Mexico City, the non representable number for Roman numerals, and the largest bullfighting arena worldwide.
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Rhett
Scarlett
Earth
U.S
St. Francis of Assisi
Mexico City
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Lee Arrington
Cea-Ag
South Plains
Water Conservation District
Talk of
Ald National Forest
United States
Germany
America
Peebles
Balikpapan
East Borneo
Harry Truman
United Nations
MacArthur
Philippines
Churchill
Clement R. Attlee
Japan
SUE Eel Ae
Spellbinder
Brownfield News
Car & Mat
P.O. Boxee
West Hitt
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