Three Lakes Project Launched In Kermit
Joe Shepard of the Kermit Chamber announces a Soil Conservation Service led Resource Conservation and Development project to build three lakes across Winkler Ward Loving and Reeves counties. The SCS will fund up to 75 percent of many phases as plans proceed with a steering committee meeting today at the Kermit Chamber office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soil Conservation Service
West Texas
Joe Shepard
Kermit Chamber of Counties
Winkler
Ward, Loving
Reeves Counties
SCS
Shepard
Commissioners Courts
Patrick J. Rice
Monahans
Upper Pecos
Rice
Kermit Chamber of Commerce
Texas
Lubbock City Council Adopts Multiple Ordinances in September and October
City officials approve amendments and new fees across several ordinances including preliminary and final plat fees, environmental and water sewer construction fees, and revised storage of certified birth and death certificates. The measures span publication provisions and public notices with readings from September 28 and October 12, 1972.
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Lubbock
Texas
Wid
Morris W. Turner
Lavenia Lowe
City OF Lubbock
Teversa Lowe
Lavenia Locly
Sandhill Crane Hunt Opens This Weekend Near Muleshoe
The 10th annual Sandhill Crane Hunt sponsored by the Mule Shoe Jaycees runs this weekend and the next two. Land by Mule Shoe National Wildlife Refuge hosts hunters with as many as 100000 cranes typical for this season. Jaycees provide transport. licenses and shells sold at Dinner Bell Restaurant. Costs 5 dollars per day 7 50 per weekend and 15 for all three weekends. The top hunter wins a 12 gauge Browning auto shotgun. For details contact James Brown hunt chairman Route 3 Box 90 Muleshoe.
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Muleshoe
Muleshoe Jaycees
Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge
Jaycees
Hunt
Dinner Bell
James Brown
Box 90
Mouse May Be Man's Friend
Chicago dispatch reports Britannica stating mice are indigenous to nearly every land area and are the most important prey group of mammals. Their role as a primary food source supports fur-bearing animals and predators that would otherwise hunt more valuable species including livestock.
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Chicago
UPI
Rape Charge Made In Area In Midland
Leonard Ray Smith 20 was charged with rape and robbery of a 61 year old Midland nurse. The woman said the man entered her living room, she pulled a pistol but he disarmed her and took the pistol and her purse. Smith was arrested four hours later. Bond set at 25000 by Justice John Biggs.
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Midland
Leonard Ray Smith
Smith
John Biggs
Murder charges filed in Midland case
Jasper McKee Jr., 33, was charged with murder after Laura Ann Moore owner of Ann's Lounge was shot at the club Saturday night. Moore died 90 minutes after at Midland Hospital. McKee surrendered at the hospital after the shooting following an argument at the lounge. A Justice of the Peace set bond at $10,000.
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Midland
Jasper McKee Jr
Laura Ann Moore
Tower to visit Permian Basin campaign events
U S Senator John Tower plans a Thursday trip to the Permian Basin arriving at 11 30 a m at Midland Odessa regional airport. A luncheon in his honor follows at the Downtowner Motel then a press briefing and a 2 p m reception at his campaign headquarters.
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Midland
U.S
John Tower
Permian Basin
Midland-Odessa
Downtowner
Tower
Texas Senate Race Sparks Tower Sanders Contest
The Tower Sanders battle in Texas shapes the presidential race as Tower defends his seat with Nixon ties and Sanders, a Dallas lawyer and former LBJ aide, gains ground in polls. Briscoe leads Grover in the gubernatorial race while La Raza Unida and Socialist Workers candidates also appear on the ballot.
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Associated Press
Texas
John Tower
R-Tex
Barefoot Sanders
White House
Lyndon B. Johnson
Tower-Sanders
Tower
Sanders
George McGovern
Nixon
Dolph Briscoe
Uvalde
Henry Grover
Houston
Ramsey Muniz
Waco
la Raza Unida ”Party
Debby Leonard
Socialist Workers
Ralph
Yarborough
Dallas
U.S. Atty
LBJ
Johnson
U.S. Senate
Waggoner Carr
John B. Connally
McGovern
Congress
Connally
Secretary of Treasury
Larry Temple
Texas Democrats
Joe Kilgore
Democratic
U.S. ‘Senate
Flores Amaya
la Raza Unida
Tom Leonard
Spur native named Cornell assistant professor of Asian religions
Joe Bruce Long of Spur has been named assistant professor of Asian religions in Cornell University’s Department of Asian Studies in Ithaca New York. A Baylor graduate, he is one of two Cornell faculty nominees for a National Endowment for the Humanities summer grant and has held three research Fulbright and Ford Foundation grants to India since 1967.
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Joe Bruce Long
Spur
Cornell University
Ithaca
N.M
Baylor University
Cornell
National Endowment For the Humanities
India
Fulbright
American Institute of Indian Studies
Ford Foundation
Police Seek Four Robbers After Early Morning Hold Up
Four men were sought Monday in a strong arm robbery at the Fair Restaurant parking lot. Cliff Chandler reported gunmen took his wallet about $38 and other valuables. A getaway vehicle was later found near 8th St and Ave E. A separate burglary at 2902 Cornell St involved a stove, an air conditioner, and two carpets valued at $550.
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Cliff Chandler
7Th St
the Fair
Ave. A
Chandler
8Th St
Ave. E
Cornell St. Marcos
Casanova
16 Month Old Falls 80 Feet From Tokyo Veranda
Police report a 16 month old boy named Akio Sato survived an 80 foot fall from a ninth floor veranda in Tama Tokyo. He sustained a serious head injury requiring about a month of hospital treatment. the baby slipped past a veranda fence while his mother was cleaning.
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Tokyo
Tama
Akio Sato
Tomio Sato
Magnetic Survey Plan Aims At Global Navigation Accuracy
The Navy reports ongoing magnetic surveys to verify and update magnetic charts for navigation. A $9 million Lockheed Orion electronic reconnaissance plane is stationed in Maryland for final checks on its all weather navigation system. Johns Hopkins designed the automatic pipeline of six navigation methods, including satellites Omega Loran inertial systems and Doppler radar, to chart Earth's magnetic field with unprecedented precision.
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Navy
NGTON
Des
Haves
Vias
South America
South Afstags
O Hay
Oriel
Patuxert River
Navaja
Tts
Johns Hopkins University
Eek ‘Physics
Laboratory Silver Md
Magnetometrcs
Floydada Program to Aid Small Business Set
Floydada and the U S Small Business Administration sponsor a November 2 conference to help small business operators analyze competition identify problems and explore solutions. J B Hare and Millard A Townsend of SBA Lubbock will speak 7 30 to 9 30 p m at the First National Bank Community Room Floydada. Public invited no registration fee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floydada
Floydada Chamber of Commerce
U. S. Small Business Administration
J. B. Hare
Millard A. Townsend
Lubbock
The
Small Business Administration
Leading recording company auditions amateurs
A prominent recording company invites amateurs to audition. The audition is free of charge and open to interested performers. For details or scheduling, call AC 817 732-7311.
Flying Ace Eddie Rickenbacker Maintains Slow Improvement
World War I ace Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, 82, was described as relatively out of danger after a stroke. He spent an hour in a hospital chair at Mercy Hospital in Miami and shows slow, steady improvement, according to Dr. John Handwerker. He was admitted on October 11.
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MIAMI
Eddie Rickenbacker
Astroke
Rickenbacker
John Handwerker
Rickenbackr
Mercy Hospital
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Ann Margret
Roger Smith
Hollywood
Sahara Tahoe Hotel
Las Vegas
Southwestern Bell TE Phone Company
Sandhill
T-Bone
Soviet Union
Cotton Club
Palm Room
Brookshire Inn
Jim
Bonnie Malatchi
OFC
Suffet Johnson House
Ave
Slide Road
Frijoles
Texas Tech
Methodist Hospital
Dorae
Villa Club
Dora Hallow
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