Comprehensive Texas plan shapes outdoor recreation future
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department planners map future outdoor recreation needs to 1980 using public opinion surveys and cross state coordination. Urban growth, rising population, and metropolitan concentration drive a 309 percent facility demand rise, with Houston Dallas San Antonio Fort Worth El Paso and Austin leading growth and programs expanding to meet needs.
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Texas
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
Land and Water Conservation Fund
Houston
Dallas
San Antonio
Fort Worth
el Paso
Austin
National Highway Week Observed in East Texas District
National Highway Week 1973 will run September 23 to 29 in an eight county Tyler District including Anderson Cherokee Henderson Gregg Rusk Smith Van Zandt and Wood. The observance features speeches highway dedications and open houses with events in Tyler Athens Henderson Lindale Longview and other cities led by Texas Highway Commission members and state engineers.
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Texas
Tyler Highway District
Anderson
Cherokee
Henderson
Gregg
Rusk
Smith, van Zandt
Wood
Charles E. Simons
Texas Highway Commission
Tyler
Brady Gentry
Henderson Optimist Club
Lindale
Longview
West Front Street
Gregg County
Smith County
Gladewater Police Probe Runaways Disturbances and Hitchhiking Incident
Police investigated multiple reports including runaways and family disturbances. A young hitchhiker said a carload of men tried to coerce him and another into drugs. he was thrown from the vehicle on Pyeatt Drive. A tape deck was stolen from a pickup at a Tyler Highway lounge. An escapee from Rusk State Hospital asked for help returning there and was detained.
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Gladewater
Pyeatt Drive
Tyler Highway
Elizabeth’s
W. Upshur
Rusk State Hospital
Early women's rights fight detailed in school exhibit
Troy New York AP report describes Russell Sage College hosting a newspaper exhibit on the early women’s rights movement with first editions and signed poetry volumes. It features quotes from 1869 World and 1860 National Anti Slavery Standard on wage gaps and equality debates, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton addressing lawmakers.
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Troy
N.Y
Caroline Bird
Russell Sage College
Miss Bird
Froman
Russell Sage
Washington, D. C
New York World
U.S. Treasury
National Anti-Slavery Standard
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
New York Assembly Chamber
Fleisher Named Associate Conductor of Baltimore Symphony
Leon Fleisher, associate conductor for the 1973 74 season, also teaches at the Peabody Institute. A 1952 Queen Elisabeth winner at age 24, he later lost use of his right hand and began conducting in 1970 at New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival. Legio Comissiona serves as music director.
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Baltimore (Ap
Leon Fleisher
Baltimore Symphony
Peabody Institute
Fleisher
Belgium
New York
Lincoln Center
Legio Comissiona
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Boy Scouts
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Ies
S&h
Russell Stover
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S. Main
Stonehenge
Salisbury Plain
England
B.C
John
Andrew
Simon Peter
Simon
Messias
Christ
Jesus
Jona
Cephas
Galilee
Philip
Baltimore
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