Nixon seeks fast congressional action on Moscow arms curbs
President Nixon urged Congress to approve by Sept 1 the Moscow defensive missiles treaty and a companion offensive missiles accord to start broad-based talks in October. Kissinger appeared before 122 legislators at a White House briefing as part of a major lobbying push to press for curbs and fund a bigger defense program.
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Associated Press
Washington
Nixon
Congress
Moscow
White House
Henry A. Kissinger
Senate
House
United States
Kissinger
Luis Echeverria Alvarez
Mexico
Peking
Capitol Hill
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
House Foreign Affairs Committee
House Armed Services Committees
Joint Committee On Atomic Energy
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Henry MM. Jackson
Foreign Relations and Armed Services
William P. Rogers
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Second Cathay crash in Vietnam kills 81 including 17 Americans
A Cathay Pacific Convair 880 crashed in the Vietnam central highlands killing about 81 aboard, including Thomas J. Kenny and five family members from West Bend Wisconsin. Rescue teams found some bodies with no survivors as the site was secured overnight.
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Associated Press
Saigon
Vietnam
Central Highlands
West Bend
Wis
Thomas J. Kenny
B.C. Ziegler Co
Roberta
Kathleen
Daniel
Mary Jane
Colleen
Andrew Pick
Cathay Pacific
Singapore
Andrew Kenny
Pick
U.S
Asia
New Delhi
Bangkok
Hong Kong
Pleiku
Cheo Reo
South Vietnam
Highlands
Convair
Welfare Windfall Helps Avert Tax
Texas welfare chief Raymond Vowell told lawmakers a $125 million federal windfall is forthcoming to fund social services and all state programs for a year without new taxes. He said he could certify the amount to the comptroller in about two weeks, enabling a balanced appropriations plan this summer.
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Associated Press
Austin
Raymond Vowell
Preston Smith
Smith
House
Senate
Vowell
Tom Creighton
Creighton
Texas
U S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Robert S. Calvert
Makris Found Guilty in SEC Probe Perjury Case
Michael A. S. Makris, 44, convicted of three counts of perjury in the SEC probe into the Frank W. Sharp empire. U.S. District Court Judge Carl O. Bue set sentencing for Aug. 7 and gave a June 30 deadline for post-trial motions.
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Houston
Michael A. S. Makris
Securities and Exchange Commission
Frank W. Sharp
U.S. District Court
Carl O. Bue
Makris
Sharp
SEC
Bombing Near Hanoi Briefly Brought To Halt
U S warplanes continued over North Vietnam but avoided the Hanoi area as Podgorny visited the capital. Officials say the Hanoi pause is to accommodate Soviet efforts and may last only while the Soviet leader is there. Elsewhere in the north strikes hit bridges depots warehouses and supply vehicles.
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Saigon
United States
Hanoi
Soviet Union
U.S
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Moscow
North Vietnam
Podgorny
Calcutta
Vietnam
America
Irreplaceable Zeno Smith dies at 70 in Texas
Zeno Smith former Texas Ranger died at 70 from an apparent heart attack in his San Antonio backyard. He had served as a Wilson County deputy sheriff since retiring from the Rangers in July 1969.
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San Antonio
Tex
Zeno Smith
Texas Ranger
Wilson County
The
Rangers
Old Settlers Seek Queens For County Event
The Childress County Old Settlers Association announced girls who may be sponsored as Queen candidates for this year. Sponsoring fee is five dollars. Events include rodeo dance barbecue fiddlers contest and parade. A boat jousting contest on Fair Park Lake was proposed by Ray Shade.
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Childress County
Old Settlers Association
Susan Smith
Vicki Hines
Melinda Weatherbee
Kimberly Dorsett
Mary Lou Bradley
Patricia Hart
Nancy Forbis
Carol Hart
Julia Browning
Vikki Luck
Greenbelt Town and Country
Pam Writer
First State Bank
Lisa Garrison
Lois’ Shop
Beverly Weatherbee
KCTX
Laurie Halford
Rucker’s
Ray Shade
Fair Park Lake
W. E. Helms
Shade
Cee Vee Hit By Heavy Rain
Heavy rain favored the Childress area with five inches in Cee Vee and over the region. Other gauges: FAA airfield 1.03 inches, West Ranch 2 inches, Kirkland 0.5 inch, High Point 1.20 inches. Thunderstorms spread across West Texas and north central Texas with tornado warnings near Levelland Shallowater Lamb Lubbock Hale and Hockley counties but no verified tornado damage reported.
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Childress
Cee Vee
FAA
Air Field
West Ranch
Red River
Kirkland
Floyd Biddy
Associated Press
West Texas
Panhandle Plains
North Texas
Levelland
Shallowater
South Plains
Lamb
Lubbock
Hale
Hockley
Abilene
San Angelo
Fort Stockton
Lake Brownwood
Junction
Langtry
Government seeks buyers for worn-out dollar windfall
Federal Reserve banks grind old cash instead of burning it to comply with antiburning laws. The Treasury tests uses from ground-up dollars as drilling mud and roofing felt, with a Kansas firm buying at ten dollars a ton. No wide market exists for worn money and only two billion notes yearly face twelve billion dollars in value.
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Washington
U.S
Federal Reserve Banks
Treasury
Treasury Department
Kansas
David Mud and Chemical Co
Dallas Federal Reserve Bank
Appointee Cleared First Hurdle For Texas Water Board
J. Doug Toole of Houston won Senate Nominations Committee approval for the Texas Water Quality Board appointment. A major contributor and former Harris County campaign manager for Gov. Preston Smith, Toole still awaits a full Senate vote. Other Smith appointees face grilling.
Appeal for Red Cross Flood Victims Across South Dakota
The American National Red Cross calls for five million dollars to aid Rapid City and Black Hills flood victims. Hearrell Seales cites massive losses. funds drain from earlier floods. Childress County chapter targets 166 dollars. donations may be mailed or dropped at local offices to support immediate relief efforts.
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American National Red Cross
Rapid City
Black Hills
South Dakota
Red Cross
Hearrell Seales
Texas
West Virginia
Kentucky
National
Jim Moody
Located
Cross
Childress County
Childress
Childress Index
Sim Vaughn
First State Bank
Wanda Leary
First National Bank
Scales
Lone Star Gas Company
American Red Cross
P.O
Briscoe Spends Big as Governor Nominee Faces Grover
Dolph Briscoe reports total expenditure of 2.28 million for his two mayoral races with 1.58 million spent for the May and June primaries. He contributed 697 thousand of his own funds and received gifts totaling 619 thousand. Frances Farenthold spent 672 thousand with 590 thousand in gifts, running in the Democratic runoff. Bill Hobby in the lieutenant governor race spent 1.08 million with 189 thousand in gifts and 252.5 thousand borrowed.
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Associated Press
Austin, Tex
Dolph Briscoe
Henry Grover
Briscoe
Frances Farenthold
Corpus Christi
Houston
First City National Bank
Texas Again Tops on Feedlots in National Race
USDA June 1 inventories show Texas feeding 2,045,000 cattle for slaughter versus Iowa’s 1,819,000. A month earlier Iowa led 2,003,000 to Texas 1,848,000, continuing a pattern of shifts in the Texas Iowa cattle feeding race with Texas again in front. The six states totaled over 7.9 million head, up from May and 12 percent above a year earlier. Texas posted a 22 percent year over year rise in feedlot cattle.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
USDA
Texas
Iowa
Midwest
Nortex Council of Governments Meeting in Paducah Tonight
Mayor Glenn Buckley and council members Louis Sally Kermitt Waters R A Yarbrough J A Steed Guy Moseley Robert Carter and Jim Vaughan will attend a Nortex Council of Governments meeting in Paducah tonight.
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Glenn Buckley
Louis Sally
Kermitt Waters
R. A. Yarbrough
J. A. Steed
Guy Moseley
Robert Carter
Jim Vaughan
Paducah
Nortex Council of Governments
Merrifield to Attend Texas Chamber Managers Conference
Gene Merrifield Chamber of Commerce manager will be in Amarillo Sunday night through Tuesday for the Texas Chamber of Commerce Managers Conference. Industrial Committee met Tuesday to discuss prospective industries for Childress with no progress report released.
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Merrifield
TCCM
Gene Merrifield
Chamber of Commerce
Amarillo
Texas Chamber of Commerce Managers
Industrial Committee of the Chamber of Commerce
Childress
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