Plains farming exports of oils top last season
Walter W. Sikes, director of the fats and oils division at the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, reported at a joint annual meeting of three large agricultural cooperatives that U S exports of cottonseed and soybean oil are well ahead of prior years, possibly surpassing 1 million tons. He said the 1.9 billion pounds export forecast for cottonseed and soy oil remains realistic.
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Walter W. Sikes
Sikes
U.S
Europe
Loye
Pakistan
Egypt
Turky
Hong Kong
One Second Delay Hits 200000 SWPS Customers
A fan failure at Plant X Lamb County slowed clocks for 90 minutes as SWPS rerouted 100000 kilowatts to other stations. Clocks ran one second slow until 9:16 a.m. when the faulty fan was fixed and normal operations resumed.
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Southwestern Public Service Company
Plant X
Lamb County
Gene McDonald
SWPS
Lubbock
Blaylock Pleads Guilty in Robbery Case in Lubbock
Jimmie Frank Blaylock, 23, of 1901 Birch, pled guilty in 72nd District Court to a May robbery by assault. He had been granted a new trial last week after defense objected to the jury charge and was sentenced to eight years. Willie Shepard, 43, of Alvin Tubbs, faces a pending trial on the same indictment.
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Lubbock
Gulty
Jimmie Frank Blaylock
Birch
Blaylock
Willie Shepard
Alvin Tubbs
Shepard
Finkbines Await Board's Decision on Abortion
Mrs. Sher ri Finkbine waits as the State Medical board considers granting a legal abortion after she took thalidomide. The Phoenix mother of four is 30 and in the 13th week of pregnancy, with Swedish doctors citing 15 weeks as the deadline. Her husband Robert Finkbine and the family stay in a suburban home awaiting Friday’s ruling.
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Stockholm
UPI
Sherri Finkbine
State Medical Board
Phoenix
Ariz
Finkbine
Robert Finkbine
Bailey PCG Unit To Meet Today
Bailey County unit of the Plains Cotton Growers Inc. will meet at 8 p m at the Cox Restaurant in Muleshoe. Two directors for the 23 county group will be elected. Current Bailey County directors are Guy Nickles Sudan and Bill Millen Muleshoe. Don Johnson PCG director of field service will review PCG activities. New directors from the area will be installed at the annual meeting in Lubbock early in September, with officers to be elected there.
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Muleshoe
Bailey County
Plains Cotton Growers, Inc
Cox
Guy Nickles
Sudan
Bill Millen
Don Johnson
PCG
Lubbock
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