Snow and rain blot South Plains as harvest slows
Wet cold weather cripples cotton harvest across the South Plains and eastern New Mexico. Light snow and drizzle spread from Bovina to Seagraves with heavier accumulations in central New Mexico. National Weather Service warns icing on highways near Lubbock and Clovis Portales as temperatures hover near freezing.
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Danny Ellington
Avalanche-Journal
South i Plains
Plains
New Mexico
Bovina
Happy and Childress
Slaton
Tahoka
Seagraves
Moun
Panhandle
Muleshoe
Plainview
Matador
Dimmitt
Floydada
Lubbock
National Weather Service
NWS
South Plains
Mercury
Clovis-Portales
Ceasefire Signed in Laos Ends Decade of Conflict
The split Lao factions signed a ceasefire in Vientiane to halt hostilities at noon, with foreign troops to withdraw within 90 days and a unity government to form within 30 days. U S air strikes stop, and POWs are to be released. Cambodia remains the only area still fighting in Indochina.
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Vientiane
Laos
U.S
Vietnam
Pathet Lao
Cambodia
William P. Rogers
Indochina
United States
North Vietnam
Can
Ferry Collision Off Rangoon Sinks Ferry
A Burmese ferry and a Japanese car ferry collided on the Rangoon River and sank instantly. Police reported forty survivors rescued hours later and about two hundred passengers feared drowned with four bodies recovered.
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Rangoon
Rangoon River
Area Weatherman Cited For 50 Years Of Service
Edwin Goose Jamey, a weather observer who built his first rain gauge in 1911, was honored for 50 years of service by the National Weather Service. Vernon Husson and Young T. Sloan presented the honor in Ramney's home, with a note of a 60th anniversary in 1983.
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Becky Berryhill
Dimmitt
Edwin “Goose” Jamey
National Weather Service
Vernon Husson
Young T. Sloan
Lubbock
Ramney
Hudson
Iney
Ramey
Frocery
Weatherman
Nixon vows food price relief despite budget cuts
President Nixon said his plan to ease the food-price spiral will show results by year end and protect family budgets without harming farm income. He warned that loose fiscal policy could wreck the economy and noted January February prices will rise due to wholesale food costs.
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Washington
Nixon
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Congress
Prayer Captioning Love Commandments
A reader offers a short prayer asking Heavenly Father to help believers love others as commanded. The invocation ends with Amen.
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Heavenly Father
House approves bill expanding accident damages in Texas
The Texas House tentatively backed a Nugent bill to allow accident victims to seek damages despite contributory fault replacing with comparative negligence. The measure, amid debates on passenger claims and campaign finance reporting for speaker races, advanced on a 130 to 7 vote with final passage expected.
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Austin
House
Jim Nugent
Kerrville
Senate
Preston Smith
Texas Trial Mal Lewes Association
Bers
Nugent
Ben Bynum
Amarillo
House Insurance Committee
Bynum
Secretary of
Bob Bullock
Price Daniel Jr
Bee
Lubbock Power and Light eyes bond plan and revenue shifts
The Lubbock council pressed the LP&L financing issue during an after noon work session. They instructed the city manager to study a tie in with a private power company, reviewed a potential rate increase, and considered a bond schedule funded by a 1.5 million annual transfer to the general fund. The Electric Utility Board backed proposals to retain 25 percent of LP and L revenues for expansion and to allocate 500000 yearly from revenue sharing for incentives and donations.
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VAUGHN HENDRIE _R
Sion
Vatane
Southwestern Public Service Company
SPS
Morris Turner
SWPS
Citizens Advisory Committee
Lp&l
General Fund
Lubbock Power and Light
Electric Utility Board
Lp&i
U S and China to Issue Joint Communique
Washington reports the United States and Communist China will issue a joint communique today. The document follows Henry Kissinger's talks with Chinese leaders in Peking including Chairman Mao Tse-tung. It will be released in Peking and Washington at 10 00 a m CST.
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Washington
United States
Communist
China
Henry A. Kissinger
Peking
Mao Tse-tung
White House
Court Allows Variations in State District Boundaries
The Supreme Court, in a 5 to 3 decision, ruled that states may reapportion with flexibility from strict population equality to preserve traditional county and city lines. The Virginia plan was cited, showing up to 16.4 percent variation between largest and smallest districts.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Virginia
Killed in Plane Crash Sparks International Moral Outcry
Libyan jetliner forced to crash land in Sinai killing at least 74 as Arab states condemn Israel. Waldheim and Nixon express condolences and concern. Egypt calls the act murder of civilians. Tunisia and Algeria condemn it as a violation of human principles. Page 11.
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Associated Press
United Nations
New York
Kurt Waldheim
Libya
Israel
Nixon
Muammar Kadafi
Anwar Sadat
Egypt
Sinai Desert
Houari Boumedienne
Algeria
Cairo
Waldheim
House of Dele
Gates
al Banner
Richmond
Jos
Senate
Norfolk
William H. Rehnquist
U.S
Rehnquist
Virginia
Air Piracy Curbs Approved in Senate Unanimous Vote
The Senate approved a security plan to create a federal antihijacking force and empower the President to ban flights from nations linked to air piracy. The measure funds security personnel and detectors, sets life imprisonment for hijacking, and requires foreign airlines to meet U.S. security standards at boarding gates.
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APL
Senate
House
Federal Aviation Administration
Federal
Supreme Court
Sen
Dames Sr
Abourezk
Norris Cotton
R-N.il
United States
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