Texas Gov. Smith critique of Nixon policy amid recession
Gov. Preston Smith told the Motor Transportation Association Texas is less affected by the recession than the nation he blamed Nixon for Hooverism in coping with the slump. He cited Texas unemployment at 3 percent and personal income growth of 9.4 percent, with Houston and Austin at 2 percent. He argued confidence in Texas remains strong.
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Dallas
Preston Smith
Texas
Nixon
Smith
Motor Transportation Association
Tex
Houston
Austin
Israeli Drive Across Golan Heights Ends With Withdrawn Forces
Israeli tanks and armored cars attacked Syrian positions along the Golan Heights frontier for about seven hours with air and artillery support. Tel Aviv later said troops withdrew as Damascus claimed heavy blows against Israeli forces. Both sides reported losses with Syria claiming large tank and troop casualties and Israel acknowledging minimal aircraft losses.
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Syria
Tel Aviv
Golan Heights
Damascus
Israel
Israeis
Tost
Stay Order Sought In Pollution Case By Texas Officials
Texas Atty Gen Brantors Martin said he will seek a US Supreme Court stay to halt spraying of toxaphene on 20 million acres in the Canadian River watershed. Officials fear contamination of drinking water supplying 11 Texas Panhandle cities. case dismissed in Albuquerque due to lack of federal agency participation.
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United Press International
Austin
Brantors Martin
U. S. Supreme Court
New Mexico
Canadian River
Martin
Texas Panhandle
Byron R. White
Texas
Sec. of the Interior
Hickel
Texas Water Quality Board
Gordon Fulcher
Atlanta
Tex
Fulcher
Water Pollution Control Agency
US. District Court
Albuquerque
Dstrict
H. Vearle Payne
US Supreme Court
Payne
Interor Department
Wich
U.S. Interiorm Department
David D. Dominick
Federal Water Quality Administration
Joe Teller
Sax
Tornado study may aid future life saving efforts
Washington scientists explain how tornado data could improve warnings and save lives. Air Force Base expands youth job programs to fight poverty. Pentagon seeks full identification of prisoners held in North Vietnam. Government chases hitchhiking termite passes. House urges Peru aid for quake zones. Czech party membership removed from Dubeck as expected. Radio TV logs, market reports, farming notes, editorials, comics, classifieds, horoscopes. Mother defines a mother as a caregiver and supporter.
Prayer for Comfort and Hope Read by A Reader
A brief devotional note asks God to comfort those who mourn and lift up the cast down as faith and hope endure. The message closes with a simple Amen from a Reader.
Gala Parade Set To Open Pageantry At Jones Stadium
Avalanche Journal reports festive Fourth of July preparations at Jones Stadium for a Coaches All America game event. Banners and 44 American flags adorn the venue with a giant Old Glory flag missing after it was blown away. A damaged light standard and tornady sign are noted as decorations are adjusted for the 8:30 p.m. kickoff.
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Allamerica
Jones Stadium
Attico
Tornady
City Sizzles as Thermometer Tops One Oh One
Lubbock and much of Texas endured 101 degree heat for a second day while South Plains skies stayed clear. Storms blasted the Rio Grande Valley with heavy rain flooding Edinburgh and McAllen, and a tornado near Del Rio derailed 16 cars of a Southern Pacific freight train with no injuries reported. Del Rio’s communications were knocked out for hours as power and phone lines along the railway were downed.
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Avalanche-Journal
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Rio Grande
Edinburgh
McAllen
del Rio
Bracketville
Southern Pacific Streight
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Southern Pacific
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Draft cards to curb junk mail flood at Selective Service
The Selective Service System moves to use postcard check-off replies to handle mass junk mail from registrants and nonregistrants. Local boards may ignore letters from unidentifiable individuals while officials print 200000 form postcards with 500000 more planned.
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Washington
National Headquartere
Funay
Curtis W. Tarr
Tarr
Taft
Jeter
Selective Service
Cocal Boards
Dettersa
Nixon Briefs News Executives On Southeast Asia Policy
President Nixon met with 15 broadcast executives and 23 newspaper editors and publishers for over five hours at the Western White House to brief them on Southeast Asia policy including Cambodia troop deployment and Vietnam disengagement. A coordinated relief plan for tornado damage in Lubbock was also discussed with embargo on details until next Thursday.
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Calif
White House
Nixon
Southeast Asia
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Cambodia
Washington Federal
South Vietnam
West Texas
Lubbock
Tornado Relief Specialists Report Successful Innovations
In a Thursday meeting OEP field directors told other federal agencies handling tornado recovery that the innovations have been very successful.
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OEP
Enemy Gains In Cambodia
North Vietnam and Cambodia actions escalate as U S forces report new clashes in the delta and near Phnom Penh. A Navy Corsair struck a radar site 135 miles northeast of the DMZ while U S and Cambodian units clash at Long Vek with several fatalities and injuries reported.
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Avalanche-Journal News Services
Saigon
Hanoi
North Vietnam
U.S
South Vietnam
Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Fishhook
Tonkin Gulf
Demilitarized Zone
Navy
Dmz
Gur
Vinh
Long Vek
Qudong
Laird Clarifies Cambodia Bombing Policy After June 30
Secretary Melvin Laird states U S bombing in Cambodia after June 30 will mainly target supplies to aid South Vietnam, with a side effect of helping friendly Cambodian forces. He notes ongoing debate and says air support for Cambodian and South Vietnamese troops is not ruled out.
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U.S
Washington
Sec. ‘of
Melvin R. Laird
South Vietnam
Laos
Mekong River
Khong
Thomas Doaley Foundation
United Press International
Washington — Sec. of Defense
Laird
Europe
United States
Nixon
Sec
William P. Rogers
Pentagon
Defense Department
Unified disaster relief effort tested by Laubock tornado
After Hurricane Camille, federal agencies streamlined aid from emergency housing to long term rebuilding. In mid May a tornado devastated Laubock’s business district with a two mile by ten mile path, complicating relief amid many Spanish speaking neighborhoods. An OEP spokesman said interpreters were deployed for the first time.
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Laubbock
Office of Emergency Preparedness
OEP
Weather Map Page Forecast for Lubbock Area
The forecast for Lubbock and vicinity calls for mostly fair skies with continued heat. Afternoon cloudiness possible and high near 100 today and Sunday, with overnight lows in the mid 60s.
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Wan Rikes Seaey Ass
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