Fire Prevention Week recalls 1871 Chicago blaze and heroism
The note marks Fire Prevention Week with a reflection on the 1871 Chicago fire that killed hundreds and left thousands homeless. It highlights the need for fire safety, honors firefighters, and urges public cooperation in prevention and education through the annual observance.
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Chicago
Fire Marshals Association of 7Th America
National Fire Protection Association
United States
Canada
Brownfield
Earl Flood
Bob Meeks
Virgil Proffitt
Panchita Alvarez Heroine of Goliad Story Told in Texas Tale
Pan chita Alvarez a Mexican Army member cooked healed and helped Texans at Goliad after the Alamo. She untied injured Texans bandaged Captain Fannin and aided doctors during the siege and massacre. She saved five Texas soldiers and hidden a boy before Mexican forces executed many.
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Texas
Panchita Alvarez
Memorial Museum
Goliad
Panchita
Alamo
Santa Anna
J. W. Fannin
la Bahia
San Antonio
Fannin
Mexico
Fly-in opens new airport and old events tidy Terry County
Ten years ago Terry County looked at progress with a Fly-in inaugurating the first official use of a new airport. The All-Texas Air Tour arrived while the Chamber of Commerce offered typing and shorthand classes and Joe Shelton retired as postmaster with a farewell party. Brownfield leaders earned 40 year pins at a Legion event.
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Chamber of Commerce
Joe Shelton
Brownfield
Legion
Cubs
Terry
South Plains Fair
Kiwanis Club
Kendrick Memorial Library
Lubbock
Wright, Murphy, Hinson
Campaigns Shift in Texas as Nixon Humphrey Race Heats Up
In Austin and Fort Worth Texas politics see a split among Democrats with Humphrey Muskie backers led by Will Davis and Jim Wright forming a two committee structure while Ralph Yarborough heads a separate Citizens group. Polls show Nixon and Humphrey close with Wallace third as campaigns target Texas voters ahead of November 5.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
Hubert Humphrey
Will Davis
Jim Wright
Fort Worth
Democrats
Humphrey Muskie
Cecil Burney
Corpus Christi
Robert Strauss
Dallas
John Connally
Johnson
Humphrey
U.S
Ralph Yarborough
Texas Liberals
Yarborough
Eugene McCarthy
George McGovern
Nelson Rockefeller
Sen
Robert F. Kennedy
Richard Nixon
George Wallace
Nixon
Wallace
Alabama
Himparey
Jom Hurd
Laredo
GOP
University OF the North
Higher-Education Coordinating Board
Denton
North Texas State University
Texas Woman's University
University of Texas At Arlington
Board of Regents
Viet Cong Dong Nai Regiment Faces Desertion Crisis
In a pre 1965 profile the Dong Nai Regiment led Viet Cong strength in the Saigon approaches. Today, due to depleted native recruits, North Vietnamese officers and conscripts fill most ranks. New evidence of “premeditated collective desertions” highlights grave enemy trouble and foreshadows a possible failure of Hanoi’s third round offensive.
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Washington
Dong Nai
Saigon
U. S
South Vietnam
Delta
Creighton Abrams
Hinoi
Viet Cong
Donz Nai
Vietnam
The
Washington Post Co
Los Angeles Times Syndicate
Chevrolet 1969 Features Sell Cars with Convenience and Security
The 1969 Chevrolet lineup highlights maintenance ease and safety with automatic windshield wash, heated rear windows on Caprice and Impala, and mobile tire chains for traction. New hidden headlights on select models, variable ratio power steering, and a concealed rear bumper step add practicality. Locking ignition and steering wheel deter theft.
The Nations Mint Revenue Sparks Debt Question
The letter questions US coinage profits noting a quarter costs one cent in metal and claims 24 cents profit per coin. The author links this to mounting national debt of 350 billion dollars and accuses mismanagement.
Weekly Crossword Clues and Scattered Phrases
Puzzle fragments include terms like Toward it Compass punt Knave of hides in low numbers and scattered clues such as Fate Fascinate Greek letter Land measure Little girl Litigation Elliptical Warmth and Infreqent.
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Brownfield News
Larry Crabtree
Billie Morman
Yoakum
Gaines
Terry County
Hospital
District Farm Bureau
South Plains
Billie Lyle
Hinson
Sam Teague
Dodge
C.F. Ross
A.L., Stell
Baptist Missionary State Executive Meeting
International Parks
Stallings Farm
Brownfield Cubs
Ralls Jackrabbits
New Rio Theatre
Jim Parks
Earl Wilson
Woodrow Chambliss
England
Wheel Inn
Edith Mae Collins
Lamesa
Wilson Collins
Wellman
Rotary
Santa Fe
John C. Scudday
Alpine
Roy Howell
Pappy John Powell
Tech
P.E. Chessir
Meadow
S.W. White
Earl Cadenhead
Tom Verner
Old Terry
W.H. Black
J.E. Shelton
R.E. Burnett
J.N. Lewis
J.C. Lewis
William Howard
A.B. Bynum
George Tierman
John Burnett
W.B. Carson
Czechoslovakia
Daley
Paris
Board
Constitutional Revision Commission
Lehman Brothers and Associates of
New York
American National Bank of Austin
Coordinating Board
Texas College and University System
Unijunior
Texas Education Agency
Houston
Rex Braun
Joseph Alsop
Chevrolet
Surace
Turnrow Tunker
iBy O. C. McBride
Little Girl
T& Valises
Credit
Debit Tome
AC Ross
Nage Way
Anawer
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