Disease Threat Bites Texas Gulf Coast Horses
Mexican and U S officials held talks as Venezuelan Equine Encephalomyelitis spreads along the Texas Gulf Coast. Over 100 horses are dead in Aransas County. the illness has killed thousands in Mexico and infected humans with mild flu like symptoms in some cases. Experts warn of potential spread to Kentucky if vaccination fails.
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Brownsville
UPI
Mexico
United States
Texas Gulf Coast
D.M. Meador
Rockport
Gulf City
Corpus Christi
Aransas County
Oklahoma
Texas Panhandle
Rio Grande
J. Habluetzel
Ingleside
Tex
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Kentucky
United States-Mexico
Matamoros
Texas horse disease quarantine expands across states
The USDA imposes a regional quarantine on horse movement out of Texas and neighboring states amid Equine Encephalomyelitis concerns. Officials report 779 human infections in Mexico with no deaths, and inoculation drives begin across several states with hundreds of thousands of vaccine doses shipped to Texas locales.
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Pettersson
Mexico
U.S
Steinfeld
USDA
Houston
Texas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Arkansas
Louisiana
Norvan Meyer
Dallas
Fort Worth
Tentative Postal Pact Reaches Between Bell System and CWA
A tentative agreement ends the Bell system postal labor dispute in District 6 with Southwestern Bell. Terms include wage and benefit increases averaging about 31 percent over the contract, plus cost of living escalator clauses and extra pay for workers in large cities. The strike ended with no widespread service disruption.
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CWA
Bell System
Southwestern Bell
A. S. Alston
Alston
Beirne
New York City
Union
The
Bell
Haynes
Lubbock County
Local 6203
West Texas
Bell Picketing Ends Today in Lubbock and South Fiains
Picketing at Bell Telephone facilities in Lubbock and other South Fiains cities will end at 10 59 p m today according to Odis Haynes president of local 6203 of the Communications union.
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Bell Telephone
Lubbock
South Fiains
Odis Haynes
Local 6203
the Communications
Lubbock Utilities Labor Talks and Strike Resolution
Community fuel and power concerns surface as Pioneer and LP and L plan standby fuel and new gas turbines. Mayor Granberry explores extra gas lines while strikers return after a three year wage pact. Southwestern Bell signs a three year deal boosting wages by about 586 million for the region.
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Bob Mills
Pioneer
Mills
Lp&l
Holly Avenue
Holly
No. 2
McCullough
Wall
Lubbock
James Granberry
el Paso Natural Gas Co
Apollo 15 mission faces minor inverter glitchbefore launch
NASA checked a new electrical inverter aboard the command ship after a countdown rehearsal glitch caused a ms dropout. Apollo 15 Saturn 5 launch scheduled 8 04 am CDT Monday with Basin Scott and Irwin guiding the Falcon lunar lander toward Hadley Rille and the Apennine highlands for 22 miles of lunar exploration.
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Oon
Moon
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Scott and
Irwin
Falcon
Apennine Mountains
Hadley Rille
Space Aewcy
Soviet Union
U.S
Space Agency
United States
Nixon Seeks Restraint On China Speculation
President Nixon briefed congressional leaders on plans for a forthcoming visit to Communist China and urged restraint in public discussion. He said private views could be shared via Secretary of State Rogers who will set up procedures. The White House welcomed initiatives to ease the Vietnamese problem.
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Associated Press
Washington
Nixon
Congress
China
William P. Rogers
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
Chou Eun-fai
Peking
Senate
Hugh Scott
Mike Mansfield
House
U.S
Robert Dale
Kansas
State Department
Rogers
United States
Asan Wafons
Formosa
People’s Republic of China
United Nations
U.N
Nobuhiko Ushiba
James Shen
Nationalist China
Ropers
Shen
Henry Kissinger
Spiro T. Agnew
Weather and storm activity sweep across the nation
A late Monday line of showers and thunderstorms moves from the South Plains to the Southwest Louisiana area with scattered activity and isolated tornadoes in Ohio Louisiana and Georgia. Temperatures range from near zero in Michigan to the mid teens in California deserts as heat persists in the Southwest.
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South Plains
Midland
Orange County
Texas
Brown Airport
Jefferson County
Louisiana
Midwest
Mississppi
New England
Plains
Intermountain
Ohio
Georgia
Elberton
California
Arizona
Marquette County
Mich
Duluth
Minn
Needles
Blythe
Fatal Two Car Wreck Claimed Local Resident
A fatal two car wreck Friday in Andrews County left one identified victim, Jones. Services for Jones are pending at Rix Funeral Directors. He is survived by his parents Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Jones, a sister Cynthia, and grandparents in New Deal and on Rt. 2.
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Andrews County
Jones
Rix
E. L. Jones
Rt. 2
Cynthia
W. E. Jones
New Deal
C. S. Wales
Military coup rocks Sudan as Atta seizes power
Beamed from Beirut Cairo Radio says Maj. Hashim Atta, ousted last November for Communist sympathies, has seized control in Khartoum. Tanks surround the Presidential Palace, radio and airport seized, lines cut as Gaffar Al Numeiry’s RCC regime uncertainty follows.
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Beirut
API
Hashem Atta
Sudan
Cairo Radio
Khartoum
Gaffar Al-Numeiry
Revolutionary Command Council
RCC
Africa
Morocco
Hassan
Red Sea
Egypt
Cairo
Atta
Numceiry
Farouk Hamdallah
Babakr Osman
Numeiry
Communist Party of
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Carlos Campillo Sainz
Ramon Tellaeche
Gustavo Reta Pettersson
Jesse L. Steinfeld
Usda Association
Francis J. Mulhern
Ned. D. Bayley
Insurance Board
Wade
Aengthy
Cotten
NBL
Little Rock
Louisiana Gulf Coast
Cameron Parish
Sharp
National Bankers Life Insurance Company
Frank W. Sharp
Sharpstown State Bank
Jesuit Fathers of Houston, Inc
Wohler
Tech
Ry Ata Ds
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Postal Service
Post Office Department
United Transportation Union
Southern Railway
Union Pacific Railroad
Labor Department
UTU Presi
Dent Charles Luna
Cleveland
UTU
Alton & Southern
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Houston Belt & Terminal
General Motors Corp
Monay
Fairfax
West
Union Pacific
Pacific
Jim Shults
Post
Milton Adams
Aras Peres
Clude Abilene
Amarillo
Odessa
David Eisenhower
Beach Ave
Atlantic City
Julie Eisenhower
Mediterranean
Were
Wace
Lufkin
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