Opposition grows to Louisiana REA loan for co op expansion
Rural Electrification Administration seeks a 57 million loan to a Louisiana co op system for a new generation and transmission facility. Eight co ops outside the system would pool power costs with four inside for 35 years, likely raising rates for customers not served. Senator Ellender opposes the plan saying rural consumers would pay more than they could from private utilities and urges halting expansion.
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Rural Electrification Administration
Louisiana
Allen J. Ellender
Senate
Committee On Agriculture and Forestry
Ellender
REA
Welfare and Unemployment Sparks Critique in News Digest
The News Digest reports that unemployment figures distort reality due to indifference and the will to work. Los Angeles unskilled workers reject low pay, Detroit shows 6 percent joblessness, while some turn down jobs for tax free relief. The piece laments welfare’s effect on national will to work.
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News Digest
Oregon Business and Industry
Los Angeles
Detroit
The Coming Of Spring And Its Gentle Call
The article extols spring as nature renewing life with March through June bloom and activities from gardening to vacations. It urges embracing renewal, laying aside bitterness, and enjoying creation, while noting spring fever and the season’s inspiration. A separate note from Ocean City Sentinel Ledger critiques higher education reforms and student radicalism.
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Ocean City
N.J
Sentinel-Ledger
America
New Park Staff Training School Opens March in Bastrop
A new training school for Texas Parks and Wildlife Department supervisory staff runs March 3 to 28 at Bastrop State Park. Twenty three current and seven new employees will attend with about 40 instructors covering park philosophy maintenance government functions and wildlife issues. Buck notes hires include graduates in biology archeology forestry history government and related fields to boost professional park management.
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Austin
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Bastrop State Park
Johnny Buck
Buck
Department
Inside Washington on Nixon and GOP shifts
Moderates in the Republican Party applaud Nixon’s White House moves hoping to broaden the parties base among the middle class. Liberals foresee an Eastern Establishment–led GOP policy, while conservatives worry Nixon’s actions diverge from his campaign pledges. President Nixon notes cabinet roles as stepping stones to the presidency with Rogers resisting any ambitions.
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Washington
N. Y
Nelson A Rockefeller
Richard M. Nixon
White House
Nixon
America
Dwight Eisenhower
GOP
Barry Goldwater
Executive Mansion
Republican Party
State Department
William P. Rogers
Republic
Jefferson
Madison
Monroe
John Quincy Adams
Martin van Buren
Rogers
Marcus McCrary Chosen For Kilgore Saddle Tramps
Marcus McCrary son of Mr and Mrs Raymond McCrary of Rt 2 has been selected as a Saddle Tramp Pledge at Kilgore College. The new honorary service group accepts six freshmen and trains pledges in college data and campus layout. Other pledges include Charles Gaudet Fate Carlton Steve Yarbrough John Huffman and Tom West. Charter members are Gene Lee Bill Hale Jerry Walton Sammy Brumit John Branch. Club sponsor is J W Bolton.
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Marcus McCrary
Raymond McCrary
Rt. 2
Kilgore College
Saddle Tramps
Marcus
Charles Gaudet
Kilgore
Fate Carlton
Steve Yarbrough
Dallas
John Huffman
Tom West
Longview
Gene Lee
Bill Hale
Jerry Walton
Sammy Brumit
John Branch
Overton
J. W. Bolton
Henderson
Coates To Again Head Easter Seal Campaign
Grady Coates, chairman of Gregg County Easter Seal Campaign for 1969, leads over 100 volunteers in a fundraiser from March 1 to April 6. He urges Gregg County residents to support efforts aiding crippled children and adults through the Society as costs rise and needs grow.
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Preston Smith
Byron Moore
Bryan
Texas
Ben Barnes
Easter Seal Society
Grady Coates
Gregg County
Coates
Gregg County Society
Ancient Olympic Games drew only a few hundred athletes
Historical estimates suggest the ancient Olympic Games drew a few hundred competitors at most. The event centered on athletic contests held in Olympia, with participants from various Greek city-states, reflecting early forms of organized competition and regional pride.
Paul Harvey Column Schedule Continues in Mirror
Editor notes continued publication of Paul Harvey's three weekly columns in the Mirror with two appearing on editorial pages each Thursday and one on Sunday, preserving the familiar feature for readers.
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Paul Harvey
the Mirror
If Every Black Turned White Tonight
A dated reflection argues that racial blame is misguided and asserts that white crime rates and unemployment persist despite a hypothetical mass black-to-white switch. The piece praises long history of black‑white cooperation, contrasting it with longer global cultural tensions.
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Britain
Garrison blamed instincts surge beyond law
A broad critique argues New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison overreached in the Clay Shaw case, basing prosecutions on hearsay and hypnosis memory. It urges bar association intervention while condemning the broader stance that oversimplifies race and politics in post Bay of Pigs America.
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Jim Garrison
Garrison
New Orleans
Kennedy
U. S
Cuba
Castro
United States
Miami
Dist. Atty
Clay Shaw
Russo
American Bar Assay
Louisiana
Washington
Willie Jeffrey To Study In Sweden
Twenty one Sacramento State College students were accepted to study abroad for 1969 70 under the California State College International Program. Willie E Jeffrey will study in Sweden and will join an orientation in San Francisco this summer before departing overseas and returning in 1970 to resume SSC studies.
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Sacramento State College
California State College International
Sweden
Willie E. Jeffrey
Willie Jeffrey
Gladewater
San Francisco
America
SSC
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