Floods Block IS 20 Near Merkel as West Texas Sees Rain
West Central Texas faced flooding rain and a brief flash flood warning near Merkel, 20 miles west of Abilene, while other regions had scattered thundershowers from the Panhandle to the Gulf Coast. Temperatures hovered around 99 high and 64 low with overnight chill in the 30s to 40s in parts of the Upper Great Lakes and Appalachians.
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Pecos
Texas
Associated Press
Texas Panhandle
Gulf of Mexico
Bend
Dalhart
Pan
College Station
Interstate 20
Merkel
Abilene
Breckenridge
Rising Star
Seymour
Brownwood
Colorado
High Plains
Atlantic
Gulf Coast
Rockies
Plateau
Great Plains
Middle Atlantic States
Appalachians
Upper
Great Lakes
Northern Lakes
Upstate
New York
University students back Southwest flights
UT Austin students could benefit from Southwest Airlines expansion, with estimates that about 22 percent of UT’s 43,000 students may save 41 to 66 percent on fares. Public witnesses from UT and other Texas institutions urged approval, citing broader Texas accessibility and regional benefits. Odessa Mayor Dan Hemphill endorsed Midland Odessa service, noting current flights are overloaded, while Tech students also supported the plan.
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Frank Erwin
Austin
Regents
UT System
Erwin
Southwest
Lubbock
Corpus Christi
el Paso
Midland-Odessa
Texas Tech University
Texas
West Texas
Rio Grande Valley
Odessa
Dan Hemphill
Los Angeles
Hemphill
Continental Airlines
Midland- Odessa
John Austin
South Padre Island
Terry Wimmer
Texas Tech University Student Association
Texas Aeronautics Commission
Tech
Bruce Pearson
Midland
Soviet coach and commissar toast cheating to win gold
The Moscow dialogue depicts a Soviet Olympics coach and a health commissar discussing performance and cheating. They joke about medals and even threaten punishment, reflecting state pressure and propaganda. Olga Korbett and a Romanian winner are referenced amid the satire of sport as a geopolitical tool.
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Gene Douglas
Moscow
Commissar
Streetsweeper
Mysterious disease linked to legion convention deaths
The mysterious illness following the American Legion convention in Philadelphia killed 19 people and hospitalized 52, with 16 identified dead earlier aged 39 to 82. Health officials in Harrisburg pursued virus versus bacteria causes, weighing swine flu as a possibility while autopsies proceeded and vaccination plans loomed.
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Paul Carpenter
Associated Press
Harrisburg, Pa
American Legion
Leonard Bachman
Bachman
Jay Satz
State Health Department
Philadelphia
Bis
Pennsylvania
Federal Center For Disease Control
Atlanta
Disease control center tests aid in flu like outbreak
Atlanta CDC labs receive specimens from Pennsylvania victims to identify the illness. Cultures will take two to three days to grow as epidemiologists in Pennsylvania trace patient activities from the Philadelphia American Legion conference. The illness resembles influenza and may be an early strain akin to past Asian and 1918 outbreaks.
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Atlanta
Pennsylvania
Center For Disease Control
U.S. Public Health Service
CDC
Don Berreth
Berreth
American Legion
Philadelphia
Michael Gregg
Rhea birds killed at city park zoo
Two of the Municipal Park zoo's new rhea birds were killed and the third injured, apparently by dogs. The birds, donated from L.A. Waters of Houston, were valued at about $500 each. City manager J.J. Maxey said replacements are uncertain while a fence around the ostrich pen is being reinforced. Acting police chief Charles Smith ordered closer night patrols and authorized shooting dogs to protect zoo exhibits.
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Municipal Park
Stephen Bates
Municipal Park Zoo
L.A. Waters of
Houston
J.J. Maxey
Bill Hopper
Maxey
Charles Smith
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