Muleshoe refuge faces fund cuts in 1974 federal budget
Lubbock Audubon Society members report proposed 1974 budget would slash Muleshoe Refuge funds from 36 000 in 1973 to zero while Hagerman and Buffalo Lake refuges face reductions. Interior official says Muleshoe is a likely target due to low production efficiency and non wildlife public use steps are being limited.
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Carrie Line
Start
Menaul
39Th St
Lab
Bok
Audubon Society
William M. White
Albuquerque
Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife
Hagerman
Buffalo Lake
Muleshoe Refuge
White
Farm Campaign Set To Push 1974 Planting Across Acres
Washington officials outlined a nationwide effort to urge farmers to plant every available acre in 1974 to boost supplies of key crops. The push follows a new farm bill guaranteeing income protection for feed grains cotton and wheat, with signoff expected from President Nixon. Campbell said the campaign aims to balance demand and price support across four crop years beginning in 1974.
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Washington
UPD
Agriculture Department
Congress
Nixon
J. Phil Campbell
Campbell
Earl L. Butz
Butz
Buzz
Mare
Three City Meat Markets Close Amid Price Freeze Fallout
Lubbock area markets halt operations as Armour plant in Hereford plans to close Monday, impacting 253 jobs. Officials cite Nixon price freeze on beef and a 60 percent nationwide cut, while retailers adjust by selling different cuts and prices for chicken and pork rise. Agricultural policy changes anticipate acreage idling, zero set-aside supports, and a potential surge in wheat and corn production.
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Lubbock
Armour and Co
Hereford
Armour
Nixon
Comic Dictionary Kibitzer At Card Game Emerges Onlookers
An onlooker at a card game breaks from sidelines and injects commentary as a kibitzer. The scene captures a playful noncombatant adding wit and edge to the tense play.
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Kibitzer
City Artist’s Work Aids Ranger Fete
Jack Hays a Texas Ranger captain icon of frontier history featured in Saturday ground breaking for the Ranger Hall of Fame in Waco The commemorative bronze bust by Juan Dell of Lubbock and the figures Rangers on Patrol and The Authority form the cast approved by the Texas Rangers Commemorative Commission highlighting the 150th anniversary of the force
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Jack Hays
Story
Sec. A
Pauline Warner
Gerry Burton
Avalanche-Journal
Texas
Ranger Hall of Fame
Waco
Lubbock
Juan Dell
Joe Wade
Buffalo Springs Lake
Jerry House
Melvin C. Warren
Clifton
Metz Castleberry
Weatherford
Texas Rangers
Hays
Court Reverses Bombing Ban Over Cambodia
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall overturned Justice William Douglas’s ban on U S bombing in Cambodia arguing seven justices supported his action. Douglas decried the move as precedentially invalid while the Pentagon said it would honor Congress’s Aug 15 deadline to end the air campaign.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall
U.S
Cambodia
William C. Douglas
Nixon
Douglas
Marshall
Goose Prairie
Wash
Yakima
Cathy
Pentagon
Congress
Prayer request for peace love and joyful relationship
A reader asks for heavenly enrichment through a dynamic personal relationship with God and His Son. The note ends with Amen.
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Amen
Last Texas Tunnel Rail Derailment Signals Daylight Plan
A Fort Worth & Denver freight train derailed in the Caprock tunnel near Quitaque Texas. Nineteen cars derailed 13 of which carried cotton seed oil cotton and wheat injures none reported. Railroad officials say daylighting the tunnel may take two to three weeks pending decision by Burlington Northern Inc. executives. Train service continues on alternate routes while crews clear debris from the 150 yard tunnel and assess cause.
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Worth Wren Avalanche-Journal
Quitaque
Texas
Fort Worth & Denver
Bob
Fonzingo
Lubbock
Estelline
South Plains
Fort ‘Worth
Denver
Burlington Northern Inc
Fort Worth
Wes Phillips
Lubbock Traffic Chief Discusses New Signal System
Vaughn Hendrie reports on Bill McDaniel, Lubbock's traffic engineering director, as locals joke about synchronized lights and a beard growing driver. The piece notes the new $1.1 million signal system and its impact on downtown traffic.
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Bill ‘McDaniel
Lubbock
Bill
Jokes Not Funny To City Official See CITY Page 16
City Councilman Bryce Campbell reported he ran six red lights on Texas Avenue on his way to a budget meeting and would approve McDaniel’s budget if the traffic lights were fixed. McDaniel says the system is not yet working though expect it to be fully operational soon.
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Bryce Campbell
Texas Avenue
McDaniel
Achievement Tests Under Study Here
Lub bock educators question the value of achievement tests that compare students to a national norm. The district will resume tests in grades three five and eight with a refined version. Time costs reach three to six hours per city wide testing for 200 teachers over about three days. Administrators warn that the tests may be overemphasized and costly with uncertain benefit.
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W. Eugene. Smith
Avalanche-Journal
Lubibock
Johnny
Gordon
Lubbock Public Schools
Ed Stokes
National Education Association
Asst
Jay Gor
Don
G. B. Morris
Stokes
Weather forecast for Lubbock area includes mid 80s this week
The forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy skies with little temperature change through Monday. Slight chance of thunder storms tonight with high temperatures in the mid 80s and overnight low in the mid 60s.
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Lubbock
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