Slow Train Through China Provides Interesting Trip
AP reporter Wes Gallagher describes a derailment near Qishuyan on the Nanking to Shanghai route. A village crowd favors Americans, sells watermelons and seed cakes to passengers, then drives them to Soochow and Shanghai. The piece notes China's crowded farms, limited mechanization, and challenges of rural modernization.
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China
Wes Gallagher Soochow
Qishuyan
Nanking
Shanghai
Great Canal
Revolutionary Committee
China bus trip reveals rural life near Soochow
A Chinese survey route shows rice yields up to 800 kilograms per mu in fertile areas and per acre far above U.S. levels. The journey through Qishuyan and Soochow depicts village life, irrigation, tree lined roads, brick kilns, two room houses, no running water but growing electrification, and a public presence of Red Army troops assisting farmers.
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Soochow
Shanghai
United States
China
Nanking
Qishuyan
Horst Faas
Ois
U.S
California
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Qishuyan- Soochow
Numerous visits across Texas and neighboring states noted
A flurry of weekend trips and visits spans Lubbock Midland Plano Amarillo Childress Odessa Borger and other towns. Residents including Mrs Stinnett Mr Crain Mr and Mrs Garrison and many others travel to see family attend church shop and visit hospitals and relatives across multiple states and locales with plans to tour St Louis and Arkansas en route home.
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Alton Smith
Benny Land
J. B. Stinnett
Lubbock
Alberta
Canada
Ute Park
N.M
Troy McNeill
Hereford
Dalton Reece
John Browning
Julia
Cee Wee
Dallas Love
J. D. Elliott
Childress
R. C. Elliott Sr
Marilyn Shippy
Bryan Smith
J. C. Smith
Joe Liles
D. W. Groseclose
Oliver Hightower
Florence Montgomery
Broken Bow
Okla
J. W. Bryant
Beal Smith
Wayland Trent
Wendell
Denise Blacksher
Amarillo
Ernest Rae
James Stevenson
Vernon Trent
Mike Lopez
Michael
Kenneth Brooks
Borger
Pat Alexander
Randi
Rhonda
Gene Gambel
Frank Barksdale
Ruby Cannon
Cayla Cordell
Ed Edwards
Big Springs
Juanita Stevens
Shawnee
Carmelita Allgood
Munich
Germany
Tommy Garrison
Tom and
Shawn
J. A. Stinnett
Laverne Mikeal
Tammy
Lynn
DeAnna
Kirkland
W. A. Garner
Cecil Slover
Earth
Mineral Wells
Frank Howard
Ernest Rea
Rayford Jones
Jerry
Seymour
Av‘ H. Rhodes
Everett Corbin
Leda Kay
Mansfield
A. A. Whitelock
H. B. Rhodes
Ted Jones
Ruby Stroud
C. E
Memphis
Phyllis Turk
Deborah
Tony
W. O. Keel
Cindy
Roy Wygal
Gene Conn Conn
Hearne
Merrell Conn
M. A. Barron
Jack of
Mary Lou Polk
A. B. Wyatt
Caféy
Edwit’ Wyatt
Kavin
Kris Weatherly
Terry
Larry Conn
Willis Moran
Grand Prairie
Troy Manuel
Fort Worth
Vernon Moran
Jerry Conn
Larry
W. C. Cawthron
Willie Dean Rose
Lockney
Sammie Weir
Cynthia
George Weir
J. Baldwin
Wellington
Virginia Hassell
Ethel Laningham
Ethel Seider
Edwin Wyatt
Connie
Amee
St. Louis
Randy Messey
Arkansas
Roundup Planned By Church Group In Childress
The Assembly of God at 5th and Ave B Southwest Childress will open the 1972 school term with an old fashioned Round-Up Sunday. Ladies in long dresses and bonnets will attend. A basket lunch noon meal will be served in the church annex. Services are at 9:45 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.
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Assembly of God
Ave. B
Childress
Weekend Revival at Tell South Side Baptist Church
Tell South Side Baptist Church hosts a weekend revival from Friday to Sunday with 8 p.m. services and Sunday morning 11 a.m. worship. Rev. Bagger Jones of Wichita Falls is revival evangelist. music by Mrs. J. D. Cox and Clifton Smith. Friday fellowship follows the service with sandwiches cake and homemade ice cream. Public invited per Rev. Earl King.
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Tell
Tell South Side Baptist Church
Bagger Jones
Wichita Falls
J. D. Cox
Clifton Smith
Earl] King
Virginia oks new anti piracy law for records
Virginia adopts a law prohibiting manufacturing distributing or selling any recording known to be pirated. The measure raises the count of states with anti piracy statutes to ten joining New York California Arizona Arkansas Tennessee Florida Texas Washington and Pennsylvania. The federal Copyright Amendment covers recordings issued after February 15 1972 leaving pre 1972 pirated records under state law.
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Richmond, Va
Virginia
New York
California
Arizona
Arkansas
Tennessee
Florida
Texas
Washington
Pennsylvania
Social Visit Across Towns Ends With Lunch
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Childers of Muleshow and Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Childers of Rockpan visited Mrs. Frankie Childers at her home. The group shared a midday meal at the Ranchouse cafe in Childress.
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Frankie Childers
Morris Childers
Muleshow
Oscar Childers
Rockpan
Childress
Red Tide Invades Galveston Beaches
A sudden red tide of phyto plankton has invaded the Galveston beachfront, leaving dead marine invertebrates along the shore. Researchers from the Texas A M marine laboratory report the phenomenon and note the nocturnal phosphorescent glow while oxygen depletion harms small sea life. Dr Sammy Ray, director, commented on the findings.
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Galveston, Tex
Galveston
Texas A&m Marine Laboratory
Sammy Ray
Red Tide Causes Die Off Of Nonmobile Marine Life
Discovery details mass deaths of blue crabs hermit crabs oysters snails worms sand dollars and other bottom dwellers. Ray notes these creatures are nonmobile while mobile life like fish can flee the red tide effects.
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Ray
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Tepper Company
Dallas
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