Water issue wins ethics trounced voters reject three
Texas House approves a drink tax bill amid a Senate plan to raise the tax per barrel from $4.30 to $5.70, described as punitive by Mutscher who backs a later bill to reduce the increase before Governor Preston Smith signs.
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House
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Pearce Johnson
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xJim Hoge
xJim Wells
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Texas
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Primar
xTravis
Vas Verde
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Paul Wilsoniper
Tornadoes hit Midwest towns and severe weather rolls on
Storms swept through Iowa Missouri and Michigan with tornadoes damaging farms and buildings. In Blairstown Newhall Knoxville and nearby areas in Benton County Iowa homes and farm structures suffered damage with no injuries reported. The Kansas City area also reported a tornado and widespread wind effects with trees and lines damaged.
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Gaylord
Mich
St. Joseph
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Benton County
Blairstown
Newhall
Knoxville
Donald Shuck
Missouri State Highway Patrol
Kansas City
Lubbock
Snyder
National Weather Service
Monkey rescued with artificial respiration after pet shop fire
A small monkey overcome by smoke in a Columbus Ohio pet shop fire receives artificial respiration from a Franklin County sheriff's deputy. The monkey survives while about 40 other animals die in the blaze.
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Columbus
Ohio
Franklin County
Peace Groups Targeted in Bank Records Probe
Washington AP report says subpoenas yielded bank records on two peace groups. Rep. Richard Ichord chairing the House Internal Security Committee says details will be released later. NPAC accuses the panel of a smear campaign tying the peace movement to the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Party USA.
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D-Mo
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House Internal Security Committee
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Jerry Gordon
National Peace Action Coalition
NPAC
Schord
Socialist Workers Party
Communist Party USA
People’s Coalition For Peace and Justice
PCPJ
Mayday
Washington
Russell Dickenson
National Capital,parks
Washington Monument
Gordon
House Committee
Rail Strike Halts Production as Workers Face Layoffs Nationwide
Thousands of commuters faced delays on day two of a nationwide rail strike. Auto plants including Chrysler and GM cut hours or closed sections as production slowed and workers were laid off. Kellogg’s idled 3000 at its main cereal plant while coal mines and other industries warned of deeper cuts if the dispute persists. Congress passed a compromise moratorium while aiming to protect key rail operations.
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Lorain
Mutuchen
N.J
American Motors
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Congress
Bob Eckhardt
D-Tex
Senate
Nixon
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Quaker Oats Co
Cedar Rapids
Iowa I
Iowa
Los Angeles
Bethlehem Steel
Sparrows Point
Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association
Texas feels pinch of rail halt as strike spreads
Rail signalmen’s walkout snarls Texas economy with limited carloads of vegetables, halted GM Arlington parts shipments risking 3500 layoffs, and a Dallas Post Office embargo on outbound mail. Priority trains move only under supervisory staff as shortages loom in groceries and field crops.
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General Motors Assembly
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Ennis
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Ben H. Keith Vegetable and Frit Company
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Texas Citmis and Vegetable Growers and Shippers Association
Harlingen
Valley
Students Receive WT Scholarships
West Texas State University Friends of Fine Arts awards six thousand six hundred dollars in scholarships to sixty eight high school seniors from Texas and New Mexico. Recipients include Gene Morrison Jamie Martin Emily Landrum Terry West from Canyon and other students from Plainview Hobbs Clovis Kress Colorado City Levelland Morton Lamesa and Orton.
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Friends of Fine Arts
West Texas State University
Gene Morrison
Jamie Martin
Emily Landrum
Terry West
Ronald McCandless
Kathy Cunningham
Plainview
Michelle Proudcot
Deborah Ann Canterbury
Hobbs
N.M
Rusty Rushing
Shirley Worley
Len Albert Vohs
Clovis
N. M
Nick Steward
Kress
Bailey Joe Young
Colorado City
Joyce Glover
Levelland
Russell Tanner
Cheri Doris
Orton
Shelby Lynn Race
Morton
Dixie Ann Kilgore
Lamesa
Hobbs High Prom Rescheduled After Tension
Hobbs High School officials announced the prom postponed Friday due to racial tension has been moved to Thursday at 7 p.m. The event will be held on the mezzanine level of the High School Auditorium with the theme Let the Sun Shine In.
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Hobbs
Hobbs High School
Rubidium Clock Aims For Centuries Of Precise Space Travel
A clock built by scientists at the Space Center Houston uses rubidium to keep electrons vibrating at a constant frequency. The device would drift only one second in 50 years, enabling ultra accurate timekeeping for long space voyages.
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Time Space Center
Houston
UPS
Ex-Police Boss Rizzo Wins Philadelphia Mayor Primary
Former Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo, known as a tough cop, won the Democratic primary for mayor of Philadelphia with a decisive margin over William Green III and Hardy Williams, signaling a hard line law and order campaign.
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Philadelphia
UPI
Frank Rizzo
Rizzo
William J. Green III
Senate Debates Rail Crisis Pay Compromise and Amendment
The discussion centers on a wage increase to ease a rail crisis with a 13.5 percent retroactive raise from Jan 1, 1970, aligned with a presidential emergency board. Sen Prouty proposed a 42 percent rise over 42 months but withdrew the amendment as both sides rejected compulsory arbitration.
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Senate
Winston L. Prouty
Signamen
Prouty
Fence Fire Spreads to Homes on 38th Street
A fence fire around 32:50 pm spread to two houses on the 400 block of 38th Street causing heavy damage to a bedroom and theatre at the Ronald Hall residence 4410 38th St and two bedrooms and theatre at Bobby Inier 4412 38th St. Four units responded and flames were under control in under 15 minutes.
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Ronald Hall
38Th St
Bobby Inier
15Th St
Ave. C
Shamrock Services
FE. Brown
N. Avenue U
Agnew blasts media and elites over protests and Vietnam stand
In a forceful defense of administration policy Agnew denounces media bias and calls out critics. He labels some officials as repressive for dissent and condemns Washington demonstrations as a sickening spectacle. He accuses Javits and Fulbright of misrepresentation and states Fulbright lies.
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Ington
New Left
Sens
Jacob Javits
New York
Fulbright
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