Solzhenitsyn Series Prompts Editorial Spotlight
The Dallas News runs a New York Times series on Solzhenitsyn’s exposure of Siberian labor camps from the Lenin Stalin era. The Nobel laureate, famed for Cancer Ward and The First Circle, details camp life and mass arrests possibly numbering six to ten million before 1956.
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Dallas News
New York Times
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Siberian
Solzhenitsyn
Cancer Ward
First Circle
Russia
Paris
France
Stalin
Solzhenitsyn on dictatorship and Mao era fears
The passage contrasts Solzhenitsyn's struggle with dictatorship to Mao's late 1960s Red Guard campaigns, noting dissidents in Siberia and fear for lives. It argues leadership under totalitarian rule transcends ideology and praises Solzhenitsyn's courage and honesty.
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Siberia
China
Mao
Red Guards
Solzhenitsyn
Stalin
Paris
Area Roundup Rockdale Honors, Vandals Break Col. Henniger Statue
The 70-year landmark statue of Col. Herman Henniger at Rushdale Cemetery lies broken after Christmas night vandalism. Sheriff Carl Black offers 50 reward. Constable Spud Caywood adds 25 for information leading to arrests and conviction.
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Rockdale
Rushdale
Herman Henniger
Carl Black
Spud Caywood
Georgetown Boys Burned in Garage Explosion
Two Simmons boys ages 12 and 14 were critically burned when a barbecue grill in their Georgetown garage ignited gasoline fumes causing an explosion. Berry suffered 80 percent and Carl about 50 percent body burns, both flown by DPS helicopter to Breckenridge Hospital in stable condition.
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Georgetown
G. E. Simmons Jr
Berry
Carl
Breckenridge Hospital
DPS
Man Dies After Fall From Brazos River Bank
A man was killed when he fell about 30 feet onto the rocky Brazos River bank beneath a Steinbeck Bend Road bridge after a three car wreck and a prior two car crash. Police cannot determine if he jumped or was pushed during the wreckage.
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Texas
Brazos River
Steinbeck Bend Road
Belton Band Delayed By Snow On Return From Rose Bowl
Belton High School Marching 100 Ban faced schedule changes after a 4 1/2 inch snowstorm in Las Vegas delayed their return from the Rose Bowl Parade. Heavy snow and ice forced detours, cancelling Hoover Dam and Grand Canyon visits planned for the trip back to Texas.
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Belton
Belton High School
Las Vegas
Hoover Dam
Grand Canyon
Texas
Houston man awaits bond ruling after Texas conviction appeal
Harrelson Bond Refused HEARNE Charles V Harrelson was escorted back to his jail cell in Brownsville after Cameron County District Judge Darrell Hester refused a 22500 bond from a Lubbock bail bondsman. Harrelson, in jail since his Atlanta arrest on November 20 1968, appeals a 15 year sentence for killing Sam Degelia Jr of Hearne in 1968.
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Charles V
Harrelson
Brownsville
Darrell Hester
Cameron County
Lubbock
Houston
Atlanta
Texas Rangers
Sam Degelia Jr
Hearne
Livestock Show Drive Underway in Milam County
Milam County Junior Livestock Show set for January 12 with a growing fund drive. Donors include Cameron Livestock Auction Milam Grain Cameron Swine Producers Milam County Farm Bureau and Milam County Young Farmers. Three judges named Dr Bill Thomas Benton Moore and Richard Dale with ties to Texas A&M Sam Houston State University Groesbeck and Temple.
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Milam County
Cameron
Milam Grain
Milam County Farm Bureau
Bill Thomas
Texas A&m University
Benton Moore
Sam Houston State University
Benton
Groesbeck
Richard Dale
Temple
Bell County
SPDD Opens Office In Cameron For Alcohol Help
SPDD, a Bell County Mental Health and Retardation Center program, now holds regular office hours on Tuesdays 2 to 4 p.m. in the Milam County Courthouse third floor Cameron office with Dorothy McCelvey as Alcohol Information Consultant. Local contact and phone details provided. DST change noted with Cameron school hours 8:30 to 3:45.
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Bell County Mental Health and Mental Retardation Center
Cameron
Milam County
SPDC
Dorothy McCelvey
McCelvey
Temple
Bergeron details Alcoa Rockdale Works 1973 highlights
Fred P. Bergeron, Alcoa operations manager, describes 1973 at Rockdale Works as marked by record demand for aluminum and near capacity production. Despite energy risks and price controls, the plant produced about 266 000 tons with strong shipments and rising employment while inventories shrank and construction plans exceeding 30 million dollars were announced for modernization and pollution controls.
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Alcoa
Rockdale Works
Aluminum Company of America
Rockdale
Fred P. Bergeron
Bergeron
U. S
Transportation Department
Alcoa Conductor Products Company
Marshall(Tex
Comet Kohoutek Visible From Evening Skies
Experts Yeomans and With discuss optimal viewing of Kohoutek with clear skies and dark horizons. The comet brightens around sunset and becomes naked eye visible at times, while binoculars or small telescopes assist during February as brightness fades. Kohoutek, found by Charles Kohoutek, will not return near Earth for about 19 000 years.
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Kohoutek
Donald K. Yeomans
Computer Science Corporation
Silver Springs
Arthur Withmore
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Kohutek
Charles Kohutek
Earth
EPA Plans Cyanide Predator Control Program
The EPA will begin an experimental program allowing use of the M-44 cyanide gun for predator control. Starts by February 1 for at least one year, possibly two, in Texas and other affected states. Farmers may participate if they record all predator and non target kills and livestock losses. program limited to private lands and data reviewed to decide on potential registration.
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Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Cong. W. R. Poage
Texas
Poage
Pond Creek Group Seeks Easements for Watershed Plan
Pond Creek Group seeks land easements after January 15 as Edwin Bigbee, agent for the watershed authority, continues negotiations with property owners. Pond Creek, a Brazos River tributary, drains about 146000 acres in Milam and Falls counties and floods annually, damaging 15313 acres of farmland and property. The plan calls for 22 floodwater structures and 31.6 miles of straightened channels, benefiting 285 farms directly and over 600 landowners indirectly.
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Pond Creek
Edwin Bigbee
Watershed Authority
Bigbee
Cameron
Brazos River
Milam
Falls
Pond
Little Pond
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Waco
Weather Forces
Woman Iis
McGregor
Gladys Bohne
Roegelein Provision Co
SPDD
D. R. Dodson
Central
Pond Creek Group
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