Carter Signs Canal Treaty Amid Mixed U.S. Support
Washington AP reports the Carter administration has Latin American backing for the Panama Canal treaty but faces doubt at home. Reagan and Flood plan to testify before a Senate panel while polls show minority public support as Carter touts international backing and the neutrality guarantee.
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Washington
Carter Administration
Congress
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee On
California
Ronald Reagan
Daniel Flood
D-Pa
Carter
Senate
Organization of American States
Omar Torrijos
OAS
Latin America
White House
United States
Torrijos
Downtown Childress Sets Sidewalk Sale and Meetings
Local merchants hold a third annual September sidewalk sale this Saturday in Childress with reduced prices. The Childress Chamber of Commerce sponsors the event. The Childress World War I Veterans group meets at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Veteran's Building. Former Childress resident J. T. Robinson, 66, dies in Levelland. funeral services in Levelland tomorrow at Smith Funeral Home. Survivors include his wife Audrie, two daughters Glenda Bowman and Marie Hatfield, three brothers and three sisters. The Commerce Carnival runs through Saturday at the southeast corner of Fair Park with rides booths and refreshments managed by Mrs. Hazel O’Donnell.
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Childress
Childress Group of Veterans of
Veteran's Building
J. T. Robinson
Levelland
Texas
Smith Funeral Home
Audrie
Glenda Bowman
Marie Hatfield
el Paso
George
Beaumont
Arthur
Lovington
N.M
Jack
Kenneth Owens
Kermit
Russell Grimes
Petersburg
Milton Howard
Childress Chamber of Commerce
Hazel O'Donnell
Fair Park
Multiple US states report political and legal developments
The Panhandle rejects cloud seeding to influence bail, the Water Resources Department confirms election results, E C Black pleads guilty to forgery in a highway project dispute, G Gordon Liddy begins days of freedom on Nixon era anniversary, Cornelia Wallace seeks legal protection as her marriage to Gov George Wallace falters, Price Daniel Jr. enters the Texas attorney general race, Hanns Martin Schleyer kidnappers threaten to kill unless searches end, Elvis Presley family plans moving graves to a garden at Graceland.
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Associated Press
Austin
Panhandle
Water Resources Department
Bill Clayton
Kiwanis Taco Supper Before Memphis Game
The Kiwanis club hosts a taco supper at Fair Park Auditorium before the Memphis game on Friday September 9 from 5 30 to 7 00 p m Adults ticket price is two dollars.
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Memphis
Fair Park
New Views On Social Security
Washington AP reports on long range problems and possible reforms for Social Security. Topics include raising retirement age proposals, funding reserves, gender equity, and blending with welfare and private pensions.
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Congress
Farm Population On Skids Decline Accelerates in 1976
Washington AP reports the U S farm population fell by 610000 to 88253000 in 1976, a 6.9 percent drop the steepest since 1969 70. Demographer Vernly Banks notes Census adjustments explain about 130000 of the decline leaving a 481000 adjusted fall. Regional changes show rural areas rising while farm residents fall across the South and North Central regions. The West bucked the trend with a 4 8 percent increase to 1 0 million.
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Washington
Carter
Congress
House
Senate
U.S
Agriculture Department
Vernly Banks
Department
Economic Research Service
Census Bureau
Banks
Ms. Banks
South
North Central
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
One Vote Carries Dry Precinct Results in Childress County
Unofficial results from Childress County JP Precinct Five show a 33 to 34 vote against allowing alcohol sales for on premise consumption, with Tell Gin polling 25 for and 24 against. Absentee ballots flipped the tally, and final canvass awaits Monday morning. The county remains dry.
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Childress County
Harper Knight
Justice of the Peace
Tell
Hall County
Cottle County
Wheat program provisions tied to 1977 act outlined
Gene Frisbie ASCS describes proposed provisions if the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 becomes law. Target price 3 per bushel if 1978 wheat production exceeds 1,900 million bushels. 3.05 if below 1,800 million. 1978 loan rate 2.25 unless 1977 average exceeds 105 percent. then 2.35. Set aside 20 percent to vegetative cover, base acreage set by 1977 crops with adjustments. total 1978 crops limited to base minus set aside. National wheat program acreage announces after enactment. allocation factor applied if planted acres exceed national program.
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Gene Frisbie
ASCS
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Lancer
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Wichita Falls
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G. Gordon Liddy
Montgomery, Ala
George C. Wallace
Cornelia Wallace
Price Daniel Jr
Dolph Briscoe
John Hill
Bonn
West Germany
Hanns Martin Schleyer
Memphis, Tenn
Elvis Presley
Singer
Graceland Mansion
Commerce
Juanita M. Krepps
Claude Pepper
Dfla
House Committee On Aging
Supreme Court
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