Road to ruin sign solved at HemisFair display
A roadside riddle from Haskell’s saloon sign is featured in a San Antonio Institute of Texas Cultures exhibit during the HemisFair era. The sign once hung over the only saloon in Haskell, a frontier town near Willow Springs founded after Captain Randolph Marcy explored the region.
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Tanner Laine
Avalanche-Journal
History
Frontier Wit
Institute of Texas Cultures
San Antonio
West Texas
Haskell
Willow Springs
Randolph Marcy
Road to Ruin saloon sign joins Texas exhibit network
The "Road to Ruin" saloon sign with a large key motif was salvaged by Tom Lemmon of Haskell and loaned to the Institute of Texan Cultures via Texas Tech University. It now features among Texas history items at the Institute, reflecting West and Texan humor and heritage.
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Tom Lemmon
Haskell
Museum of
Texas Tech University
Tom Lemmon Jr
Tom Rawlins
Levelland
Lillian Kay
Lubbock
C. M. Kaigler
Institute of Texan Cultures
University of Texas System
U S Jets Chase MIG After Laos Collision
U S Phantom jets hunted a North Vietnamese MIG 21 over Laos with no damage reported to either side. In central South Vietnam a Communist buildup was noted as Air Force F105s struck into North Vietnam near Ban Karai Pass. Four B52 waves dropped 360 tons to break up a suspected offensive. Lt Gen Ngo Dzu cited 2 500 reinforcements and a Viet Cong HQ moving into Qui Nhon area.
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Saigon
U.S
Laos
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Ban Karai Pass
Ngo Dzu
Binh Dinh
Qui Nhuon
Dzu
Quang Ngai
Dockside Deadlock Looms Over West Coast Ports
Negotiators for the ILWU and PMA pressed talks Sunday ahead of a Monday deadline to avert a resumption of a 24 West Coast port strike. Federal mediator J Curtis Counts warned Congress could force workers back if talks fail, as talks extended through the weekend without public PMA response.
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San Francisco
Calif
West Coast
J. Curtis Counts
Federal Mediation Service
Nixon
Congress
ILWU
Taft-Hartley
PMA
Prayer of Gratitude and Blessings Call
A reader offers a brief prayer thanking God for mindful thoughts of others and asking for a grateful hearth to honor blessings through Jesus' name.
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Father
Jesus
Nixon Policy Switch Restores All Food Stamp Benefits
The Nixon administration reversed last year’s tightening, restoring full food stamp benefits to all eligible recipients. About 10.9 million people currently receive stamps, with the switch funded from USDA appropriations for the year ending June 30. Agriculture Secretary Butz said governors urged a review to prevent hardship and that the change returns benefits to the liberal policy of the past.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
Farl L. Butz
Butz
USDA
Agriculture Department
Liberian Merchant Ship in Trouble Off North Carolina
A Liberian merchant ship with 63 aboard reported heavy seas and high winds about 200 miles southeast of Cape Lookout. The Coast Guard said two lifeboats were lost with two men per boat and the vessel listed as much as 45 degrees before an unconfirmed report that the list was reduced to 15 degrees.
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Portsmouth
UPI
Atlantic
Cape Lookout
North Carolina
Coast Guard
Hughes Eyes Cryogenic Freeze After Death
Howard Hughes reportedly plans to have his body frozen after death to await revival and health restoration. Robert P. Eaton cites a 13 year relationship and notes Hughes finds cryogenics fascinating and believes there is a possible, though unproven, chance of reviving a frozen person in the future.
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Associated
Preas
New York
Howard Hughes
Ladies Home Journal
Robert P. Eaton
Hughes
Howard
Eaton
Howard R. Hughes
Robert
Ex Defense Chief Cited In Hughes Loan To Nixon Kin
Former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford is alleged by Clifford Irving to have asked Howard Hughes for a 205000 loan for Nixon's brother Clifford. Nixon and his brother deny Hughes gained any benefit from the loan. Irving says the loan is tied to Hughes's upcoming autobiography and his claim about its terms.
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Nixon
Associated Press
New York
Clifford Irving
Howard Hughes
Defense
Clark Clifford
Richard Nixon
Clifford
Harry S. Truman
Johnson
Joan
Nix
Irving
Bangladesh Premier Labels Pakistan Killings a Massacre
In an interview with David Frost Mujibur Rahman declares West Pakistani troops killed three million people in East Pakistan during the independence war. He accuses Pakistani leaders of war crimes and recounts his capture and nine months of detainment before release by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto after India’s victory.
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London
Sheik Mujibur Rahman
Bangladesh
United Nations
Pakistan
Mujib
David Frost
Dacca
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Bhutto
Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan
India
East
Four Wounded In Gun Spree In Los Angeles
A man identified as Fred Worthy shot his former girlfriend and three family members with a rifle in Los Angeles. Worthy, 26, was wounded by police who arrived at the scene, after living nearby the victims. Authorities described the attack as a family shooting spree.
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Los Angeles
Fred Worthy
Two Midwest home fires claim multiple lives
Two separate fires in the Midwest killed at least 16 people on Sunday. In Tyrone Pennsylvania a hotel explosion and fire left four dead and several injured as frostbite and smoke inhalation affected fire crews.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Pennsylvania
Tyrone
Robert Mc Wilson
Tyrone Hospital
Wilson
James W. Hoover
Dominick Turiano
Christ
Wife and daughter of professor die in Slaton crash
Barbara Imke and her daughter Jane, residents of 3419 Mth St, died at the scene when their car collided with another vehicle two miles west of Slaton at County Roads 76 and 31. Imke, an accounting professor, and the other driver, David Keen Brake, were hospitalized in critical condition. Funeral services are planned in Slaton.
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Texas Tech University
Slaton
Barbara Imke
Jane
Justice of the Peace
Alvin Stafford
Frank James Imke
Imke
David Keen Brake
Methodist Hospital
Train Collision Near Mt Olympus Kills Fifteen in Greece
A head on collision between two passenger trains near Mount Olympus in Larisa Greece left 15 dead and 36 injured. All victims were Greek. one Sudanese national among the wounded was hospitalized in Larisa hospitals with serious injuries.
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Larisa
Greece
UPI
Mt. Olympus
Arctic Deep Freeze Sets U.S. Record Lows Across States
A bitter Arctic wave spread from the Plains to the east coast causing at least three deaths in the Pittsburgh area as temperatures plunged to 20 below in Indianapolis and reached single digits in Chicago and New York. Record lows were recorded from Texas to Pennsylvania and Georgia to Michigan with a 43 hour stretch below zero in Chicago.
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Pittsburgh
Chicago
Greensboro
D.C
New York City
Texas
Pennsylvania
Ilinois
Michigan
Georgia
Indiannapolis
Ind
Weather Washes Through Lubbock With Warmer Day
The Weather in Lubbock and vicinity calls for fair skies and a high near 65 this afternoon. A low around 30 tonight is expected with gusty winds up to 25 mph.
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