Vegetable Growing Boosts Area Farm Income Level
Officials report Texas vegetable farming boosted regional income with $15 million in the Panhandle and High Plains last year and projected again this year. The season runs from early summer to fall, with tens of thousands of acres planted including onions potatoes carrots peppers cabbages and squash across the Rio Grande Valley and surrounding regions.
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Rio Grande Valley
trans-Pecos
Winter Garden
Laredo
Texas
Upper Coast
Coastal Bend
San Antonio
Texas Panhandle
High Plains
Plainview
West
Castro County
Dimmitt-Muleshoe
Hale County
Plainview Area
Costa High
Hayes O'Quinn
Travis Goree
O'Quinn
Guard units push riot control training amid civil unrest
The Pentagon and National Guard officials discuss expanded riot control training for state units as nationwide civil disturbances surge. Guardsmen numbered about 20,000 this summer across at least 10 states to quell more than a dozen incidents, with emphasis on legal use of force and local regulation.
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Continental Army Command
Army Reserve
Pentayton
Pentagon
National Guard
Washington
Chrysler posts higher 1967 profits on growing 1968 model costs
Virgil F Boyd notes sales are hit by rising material and labor costs and by new safety features. Chrysler reports a bigger domestic market share at 8.1 percent and 2.29 percent in Canada, with six month units 1,985,611 worldwide, though six month sales fell 3.5 percent from 1966. Factory disruptions during Detroit racial violence delayed 1968 models.
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Send
Virgil F. Boyd
Chrysler
Detroit
Motor City
Longview Boy Killed In Motorcycle Crash
David Gene Williams 15 of Longview died in a Longview hospital after a motorcycle collided with a pickup on private property about one and a half miles from Longview. He died roughly an hour after the crash according to police.
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Tyler
David Gene Williams
Longview
Williams
New Rates From Page One Adjust Postage Classes
The article outlines revised postage rates across classes three and four, with changes to first two qunees to six cents, educational materials, and library rates. It notes proposals on fourth class rates for libraries and schools, special rates for catalogs, and the defeat of adding maps and globes. Colorado’s statehood date and context are mentioned.
Water Inc. Sets Committees and Budget for Year
Water Inc. reports $55,000 in dues and forms two committees the membership and interagency relations with K Bert Watson and Homer Garrison leading respectively. Herbert Nelson, Lubbock attorney and former state rep, urged water imports as essential. The board approved a $200,000 budget and a work program, authorizing a publicity brochure and a movie.
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Interagency Relations Committee
Interagency Relations
K. Bert Watson
Homer Garrison
Herbert Nelson
Lubbock
West Texas
Jong
Nelson
Actress Marries in Barbados Wedding at St James
Actress from page one Christian R. Holmes Uland and Lex Barker wed December 25, 1965 in St James Barbados. She has two children from earlier marriages, Miss Dahl of Pacific Palisades and Lichine of New Nori.
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Christian R. Holmes Uland
Lex Barker
Miss Dahl
Pacific Palisades
Lichine
New Nori
St. James
Barbados
West Indies
Morton proposes nationwide citizen corps to prevent riots
Sen. Thurston Morton urges immediate funding to create a large unemployed youth citizen corps to work among poor Black communities in 100 major cities. He argues preventive measures and criticizes partisan politics after Detroit unrest, with support from Senate leaders Mansfield and Case.
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Washington
Thurston B. Morton
R-Ky
Johnson
Citizens Corps
GOP
Morton
Senate
Sam Browne
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Mansfield
Clifford P. Case
R-Nj
Cause
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Pingrer Street
Bat Eo
Aine
Walker Brothers Produce Co., Inc
Hereford
Wendell Holloman
Plainview Daily Herald
Colorado
The
Republican Coordinating Com
Mittee
GOP Policy Coordinating Committee
Michigan
George Romney
Romney
Cannon Towels
Globe
Dacron
Globe Discount City
Zaith
Dan River
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