Nixon wins one veto fight but loses another in House
President Nixon's veto battles yielded mixed results as the House repassed a 4.4 billion education bill and sustained his veto on an 18 billion independent offices appropriation. A new measure to replace the latter will start after Labor Day.
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Associated Press
Washington
Nixon
House
Senate
Office of Education
Department of Housing and Urban Affairs
Veterans Administration
Congress
Ronald L. Ziegler
White House
Pross
Independent Offices
Ziegler
Rain and Hail Hit West Texas Plains as Tropical Storm Formations Loom
A thunderstorm band moved across the South Plains bringing up to half an inch of rain and pea hail in towns like Littlefield Floydada Crosbyton and Levelland. A second storm dumped more moisture with lighter hail across several areas while a tropical low near San Juan showed signs of developing into a hurricane.
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Hub City
Navy
Caribbean
British Virgin Islands
San Juan
Lamb
Hockley
Littlefield
Floydada
Crosbyton
Lockney
Smyer
Levelland
Ropesville
Brownfield
Anton
Amherst
Florida school board eyeing pay incentive plan for reading
Riverside Elementary principal Genevieve Curry proposes a bonus penalty to Polk County teachers based on student reading progress. If 51 percent or more of a class fails to reach a defined reading level, the teacher faces a $5 penalty. successful teachers receive a reward.
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Florida School Board
Fort Meade
Fila
Little Johnny
Polk County
Genevieve Curry
Riverside
Polk County School Board
Israel accuses Egypt of violating ceasefire over missiles near Suez
Israel charges Egypt moved SAM2 and SAM3 batteries within 12 to 18 miles of the Suez Canal just after the ceasefire began. Dayan says Egypt violated a key ceasefire clause and demands missile withdrawal while Washington discusses the matter. Cairo denies the report as U.S. officials monitor the dispute.
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Jerusalem
Iisrael
Middle East
Suez Canal
United States
Israel
Sennecee Eete
Ventaiea Es
Liege
Seo
Moshe Dayan
Knesset
Dayan
Cairo
Washington
Jerusaem
Egypt
Us Department
U.S
U.N
Lubbock Area Towns Launch Summer Celebrations
Regional page notes four area towns initiate summer festivities to lift dry weather blues. The coverage highlights civic events and community enthusiasm as the season begins.
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Sec. C
Suit Could Close LHS and Other Units
Federal attorneys asked the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans to compel Dallas judge Joe Estes to move up a Sept. 10 desegregation conference in Dallas. The appeal comes as officials in Lubbock schools are served papers detailing the federal suit naming six districts. The government plans to seek a 1968 desegregation plan proposal.
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Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Lubbock
North Texas
San Angelo
Wichita Falls
Ferris
USS
Justice Department
U.S. 5Th Circuit Court of Appeals
New Orleans
Dallas
Joe E. Estes
Prayer for guidance and steadfast faith
A reader offers a morning prayer asking for eyes to see life’s important things, divine guidance in distress, and the strength to keep faith and do Thy will today. Amen.
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Father
Flower Power Spruces Up Downtown San Diego
A bartender known as Little Joe started planting flowers around city trees, enlisting customers to help. Seed packets are offered at his bar, with blooms of marigolds and petunias thriving around about six hundred trees along sunlit stretches, from his waterfront locale to blocks away.
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Joe
Joseph Parker
Little Joe
San Diego
Joseph B. Parker
Chattanooga
Tenn
Parker
32Nd
Main
City Delays Action On Gas Rate Hike Involving Pioneer
Pioneer Natural Gas Co asks City Council to study a rate increase from 70 to 82 cents per 1000 cubic feet. Officials say home bills would rise about $1 monthly. Council delays action pending a steering committee report from West Texas Utilities Committee.
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W. Eugene Smith
Avalanche-Journal
Pioneer Natural Gas Co
Pape City
West Texas Utilities Committee
James Granberry
Tex Watson
Amarillo
Pioneer
Nixon to Send Agnew on Asia Fact Finding Trip
Vice President Spiro Agnew will visit Korea Taiwan Thailand and South Vietnam from August 22 to August 30 for a fact finding tour. He will assess the Nixon Doctrine and its impact on non communist Asian nations during a series of working conferences. Mrs Agnew will not accompany him.
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United Press International
Washington
Nixon
Spiro T. Agnew
South Viettnam
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
Agnew
Korea
Taiwan
Thailand
South Vietnam
Guam
Asia
U.S
Ziegler
Pentagon Reveals Secret War Room And Hot Line
Pentagon officials opened the National Military Command Center to reporters. The 24 hour hot line to Moscow uses hourly coded messages and Russian language experts to relay crisis updates to the White House.
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Washington
Pentagon
Moscow
Robert Frost
Kremlin
Washington-Moscow
Air Force
Robert Makinen
National Military Command
Makinen
White House
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Dr. Strangelove
Officers Nab Nine In City Drug Raid
Detectives and district attorney aides seized five bags believed to contain marijuana and narcotic paraphernalia during a late Thursday city raid. Nine suspects were arrested including one woman and eight men after a fleeing vehicle sped from the scene. A separate raid in East Lubbock involved attorneys Bob Odom and Troy Hurley.
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District Attorney’s Office
Mike Beebe
Mike Cooper
East Lubbock
Bob Odom
Troy Hurley
Workers laud temporary repairs on light plant
Larry Cheek reports on Lubbock Power and Light Plant No. 2 on Municipal Hill recovering from a May twister that caused more than half a million dollars in damage. The plant provides about 60 percent of LP&L output, with two cooling towers destroyed and others limited by cooling shortages.
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Lp&l
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Comic Dictionary
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Avalanche Journal
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