Rancher Stroup recalls love of Valley Of Tears tale
A rancher reflects on his cattle business and land sale choices after selling 900 head of cattle and 6.5 section of family land earlier this year. He kept his home section bought in 1925 while a student at Wayland College where he earned four athletic letters. He notes a hospital stay and Medicare dispute over the term retired rancher.
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Stroup
Wayland College
Briscoe County
Valley of Tears
Georgia
Tornado Sightings, Heavy Rain Reported Across Wide Texas Area
A cold front and warm Gulf air produced a tornado and funnel cloud near Muleshoe at 9 36 p m Friday triggering a tornado alert for the city. Light rain fell in Spring Lake and El Paso reported runoff flooding while storms moved into Mexico.
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Wichita Falls
Abilene
Midland
Muleshoe
Avalanche-Journal
Spring Lake
Earth
Littlefield
el Paso
Texas Highway Department
Franklin Mountains
Mexico
Godley
Cleburne
Joshua
Seminary South
FBI marksman kills hijacker at JFK in two-aircraft piracy case
FBI assistant director John F. Malone said the lethal shot by agent Levin foiled a calculated hijack attempt that began at LaGuardia when James Massey observed a gunman commandeering a TWA 335. The suspect demanded a Milan run, prompting authorities to divert to Kennedy where Levin fatally fired after distracting the hijacker.
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TWA
Maria Concepcion
Burbank
Calif
FBI
Jfk
New York
John F. Malone
Levin
F .C. Wiser
John F. Kennedy
LaGuardia
Miss Concepcion
A. Hawes
Milan
Italy
Hawes
la- Guardia
Frank Weaver
Kennedy
Runway 22
Miss Conception
Kenneth Levin
Kennedy Airport
Richard Obergfell
Passaic
N.J
LaGuardia Airport
Chicago
Negotiations Continue as Rail Strike Expands Across Lines
Government talks intensify after a week-long rail strike spreads to Southern Pacific and Norfolk & Western. AUSTIN negotiators report uncertainty while Chicago and North Western settles a 42 percent wage package amid union tactics to pressure a national settlement.
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Associated Press
Washington
John P. Hiltz
Hiltz
W. J. Usery
Southern Railway
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Norfolk & Western
Union One
Chicago & North Western
Kent State Death Suit Dismissed by Court
U S District Court Judge James C Connell dismissed a 4 million wrongful death suit filed by Louis Schroeder for his son William one of four Kent State students killed during campus disorders on May 4 1970. The judge ruled the state had sovereign immunity and could not be sued without consent.
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Cleveland
UPS
U.S. District Court
James C. Connell
Kent State University
Ohio National Guard
Connell
Louis Schroeder
Lorain
William
Kent
Ohio
James Rhodes
Sylvester di Corso
Robert Canterbury
National Guard
Kent State
Robert I. White
Rhodes
Canterbury
del Corso
Space launch near. astronauts wives prepare for lift off
Police warned of a massive traffic jam expected at launch day as astronauts David R. Scott Alfred M Worden and James B Irwin prepared for a 12 day mission. Worden and Irwin kept a low profile at the spaceport while Worden played tennis and families visited through a glass partition. Weather forecast called a go with partly cloudy skies near 85. Lightning and electrical surges raised concerns about ground equipment but not the Saturn or its crew.
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Highway Patrol
Len Brady
David R. Scott
Alfred M. Worden
James B. Irwin
Air Force
Spaceport
Worden
Irwin
Scott
Earth
Saturn
Ita
June price index climbs as living costs rise
Government figures show consumer costs up five tenths of a percent in June, the second largest monthly rise in seven months, with annual inflation near five percent for late 1971. Officials praise progress but critics urge stronger action and wage price controls as buying power erodes.
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Labor
J. D. Hodgson
White House
Nixon
Hodgson
Ronald L. Ziegler
O’brien
O'Brien
George McGovern
South Dakota
Congress
Bureau
Burns urges action on wage board and exports policy
Burns cites need for wage board to curb inflation and warns inflation is rising at an unacceptable rate. He contrasts with Nixon administration economists praising moderating wages and prices and supports relaxing antitrust laws to boost exports and government aid to exporters.
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Burns
U.S
Congress
White House
Stock Case Relates to NBL Ownership and Immunity Deals
Wilson says he sold NBL stock in 1969 before joining the Justice Department and has disqualified himself from the probe. Gonzalez calls for U S Attorney Farris to resign over seeking immunity for Sharp in exchange for a guilty plea to two minor federal banking infractions.
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NBL
Texas
Allan Shivers
Wilson
Justice Department
Gonzalez
U.S
Anthony J. P. Farris
Sharp
Sappers hit Mỹ and South Vietnamese bases near Tay Ninh
Casualties included four South Vietnamese guards and nine wounded on both sides as sapper teams attacked a South Vietnamese division headquarters and a U S Military Police compound near Tay Ninh. Two attackers were killed. Other Viet Cong actions reported across the Mekong Delta and near the Cambodian border include mortar fire and air strikes.
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U.S
Tay Ninh
Saigon
Pee
Pate Cam Cambodia
Pep Toe Ate
Ninh
Binh Long
Mekong
Delta
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Europe
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Wichita
Kan
Albuquerque
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Obergfell
Trene
Jake Mernick
Miss Con
Cepcion
Mernick
Atlantic
Richard Obergfeil
AFL- Cio
United Transportation Union
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