Travel bargains and consolidators underscore buyer beware
Travelers face bargain offers from airlines agents travel clubs and consolidators with risks such as unconfirmed tickets nonrefundable or transferable restrictions and variable prices. The piece also guides choosing reputable computer resellers and cites a BBB CompTIA brochure for buyers alongside Texas state officials contact details.
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BBB
Council of Better Business Bureaus
CBBB
Computing Technology Industry Association
Comptia
Bureau
Texas links to presidents and civic notes in history
Texas ties to eight presidents born elsewhere include Eisenhower born in Denison and Johnson near Stonewall. Bush is a Texan by adoption and Rayburn upheld strong ethics. A UT poll shows attitudes differ between Houston and Austin on property defense, with 59 percent vs 39 percent supporting the right to kill to defend property.
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Texas
North Carolina
Vermont
United States
Virginia
Ohio
New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Denison
Lyndon Johnson
Stonewall
Coca F. Kennedy
George W. Bush
Massachusetts
Midland
Houston
Congress
Texas Universe
Zachary Taylor
Franklin Pierce
New Hampshire
Ulysses S. Grant
Jefferson Davis
Confederate States of America
Austin
University of Texas
Traveling Texas to Aden Crater and Big Craters Near El Paso
A travel note invites readers to visit Aden Crater in the New Mexico desert, about an hour northwest of El Paso, describing a 20,000-year-old volcanic crater 2.7 miles wide and 150 feet high with a 100 foot deep vent. Kilbourne and Hunt Holes nearby add to the volcanic site’s appeal. Guides from the El Paso Geological Society and BLM at Las Cruces provide maps and listings.
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Bonds
Virginia
San Antonio
Robert E- Lee Foundation
Texas
el Paso
New Mexico
Aden Crater
Kilbourne
Hunt Holes
el Paso Geological Society
Bureau of Land Management
Las Cruces, N.M
Spit n Whittle Days Thank Brownfield Supporters
The Spit n Whittle Committee and Brownfield Chamber of Commerce thank volunteers and sponsors for the first Spit n Whittle Days in Brownfield. City Council Terry County Commissioners Court Sheriff Department Police Department park and utilities staff and merchants supplied access fences entertainment and honors for the event with thirty vendors and special guests including Rev. Cletus Caswell and Outstanding Senior Citizen Charles E. Price.
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Spit N Whittle Committee
Brownfield Chamber of Commerce
Brownfield
Terry County Commissioners Court
Terry County Sheriff's Department
Terry County
Don Robertson Electric
Joplin Electric
Higginbotham Lumber
B & B Construction
Gebo's
Brownfield News
Courthouse Square
Glenn Larsen
C.R.T.C
Cletus Caswell
Charles E. Price
Spit N Whittle
Jackie Moss
Euro English to Simplify European Communications
Guest column by M Gene Dow discusses language shifts and a mock plan for Euro English. The piece lampoons spelling changes and pronunciation reforms proposed by European and British authorities, concluding with a satirical prophecy of a single, easy writing style.
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European Union
Texas One Texan In Five Lives In Poverty
A Texas report notes one in five residents lived in poverty in 1993 amid a poverty threshold of $14,350 for a family of four and $28,803 for an individual. The data highlights rising hardship despite overall economic activity and calls for targeted aid programs.
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Texas
Texas-Mexico
This Week In History June 17 to 22 Highlights
Notable historical events span 1745 Louisburg capture in King George's War and 1788 New Hampshire ratifying the Constitution to 1972 DNC break-in arrests. Other entries include 1775 Massachusetts retreat, 1778 Philadelphia evacuation, 1812 war declaration, 1898 Guam seizure, 1928 Herrin mine violence, 1922 mine strike deaths, 1928 Earhart Atlantic flight, 1947 Taft Hartley veto, 1963 Lord's Prayer ruling, 1964 Mississippi killings, 1944 G I Bill, 1954 McCarthy hearings end, 1937 Louis Braddock title, 1964 missing activists.
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Massachusetts
William Howe
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U.S
France
Guam
Herrin
Amelia Earhart
Atlantic
Joe Louis
James J. Braddock
Truman
Joseph McCarthy
R-Wis
Supreme Court
Mississippi
Democratic National Committee
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