Apollo 15 astronaut Scott moved to space agency desk job
Space Center Houston reports Col. David R. Scott former Apollo 15 commander has been removed from the astronaut corps and appointed technical assistant to the Apollo spacecraft program manager. The reprimand followed his role in smuggling 400 unauthorized stamp covers to the moon and back, a factor in the personnel reassignment.
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Eagleton offers to step down if medical past harms McGovern bid
Sen. Thomas Eagleton said he would withdraw as vice presidential nominee if his psychiatric history jeopardizes George McGovern's campaign. He noted prior hospital stays in 1960 1964 and 1966 with electric shock therapy, while McGovern and many Democrats backed him. Eagleton called the disclosures a mistake but framed them as not serious, as reports lingered from Honolulu and Sylvan Lake.
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Missouri
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California firm lands shuttle contract with large job forecast
California firm awarded contracts for the Space Shuttle expected to provide up to 160000 jobs. The notice appears on page 3 section F.
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California
Lawmakers To Face Veto Threat
President Nixon urged Congress to curb spending and warned he would veto tax and inflation measures. He proposed a 250 billion dollar ceiling for fiscal 1973 and cited a budget emergency. Treasury officials backed a spending cap as Fed Chairman Burns warned of rising outlays and the crossroad in fiscal policy.
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Daily Prayer Prayer of Gratitude and Peace
A reader shares a brief prayer expressing gratitude for inner peace and contentment with what God has provided, ending with Amen.
Deputy S M White Dies in Quanah Wreck
Deputy Shirley M. White, 55, of White Deer died at the scene when his privately owned car was broadside by a truck on U S 287 in Quanah. The truck driver J Paul Wilson, 59, Amarillo, said he could not stop after a car stopped in his lane. Services were pending at Smith Funeral Home in Panhandle. White had worked at Random Motor Co. before becoming deputy two years ago.
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Avalanche Journal
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Carson County
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J. Paul Wilson
Amarillo
City Council drops garage sale permit plan amid new restrictions
The council paused formal action for two weeks and rejected requiring a garage sale permit while adopting other limits aimed at curbing professional sales. Staff warned permits would impose administrative burden. In zoning actions three requests for changes were denied, reinforcing a prohibition on a service station request.
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Vaughn Hendrie
Avalanche-Journal
Rockefeller to Name Nixon at Convention in Miami
A source says Governor Rockefeller will place President Nixon's name in nomination for a second term at the Republican National Convention in Miami. The two had been estranged since 1968 when Rockefeller lost the nomination to Nixon, but their relationship has since softened.
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Richard M. Nixon
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Miami
Lubbock zoning decisions limit commercial strips and approve east expansion
City council denied commercial zoning at 50th Street and Indiana Avenue and at 66th Street and Quaker Avenue. Industrial zoning near single family West Lubbock residences was denied while the panel halted future commercial strip zoning along a throughfare. The council then approved rezoning east of University Avenue and north of 82nd Street with a revised development plan noted on permit page 12.
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Governor To Ask Reforms In Insurance Board Shakeup
Gov. Preston Smith called for drastic insurance reform in Texas and said he may push a special session. He criticized the State Board of Insurance as industry dominated and pledged a replacement for Tea ver plus specific proposals to reorganize regulation. He noted the board’s $27,000 annual pay and hinted at a plan affecting the next budget.
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Larry Teaver
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Smith veto blocks $6.35 million in Texas budget items
Gov. Preston Smith vetoed $6.35 million in the $4.1 billion state budget bill during a special session. Vetoed items include $1.5 million to block a one story Texas Highway Department building in downtown Austin and a $1.2 million plan for junior college occupational-extension centers in Haskell, Coleman, Lubbock and Palestine. Smith argues these projects are unnecessary or can be postponed and criticized branch-campus plans as pork-barrel politics aimed at specific towns. The action affects health care programs and a South Plains College extension campus in Level land.
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Coleman
Palestine
Texas
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Mayor Lauds Complex as South Plains Mall Opens
Thousands from Lubbock and the South Plains gathered for the formal opening of the South Plains Mall at Loop 289 and Slide Road. An estimated 2,500 to 3,000 attended the ribbon cutting at 9:30 a.m. Traffic was directed by city police as the $25 million complex eyed broad economic impact for Lubbock.
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Opening of New Lubback Shopping Center Attracts Crowds
Mayor Morris Turner praised the new Inew shopping center at Lubback during a mid morning ceremony. Traffic stretched back toward 50th Street and Slide Road as residents and officials joined the ribbon cutting with Miss Lubback 1972 Charlotte Smith.
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Charlotte Smith
Lubbock
Weather Map Page 9 A Forecast for Lubbock and Vicinity
Fair conditions with little temperature change through Friday. Highs in the low 90s and lows around the mid 60s. Partly cloudy skies possible this afternoon.
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