Texas Sets Publicly Financed Primary Filing Rules
State officials outline mandatory filing fees or petition routes for both parties with specific amounts per office and deadlines. The plan funds May and June primaries via state transfers, drawing support from Gov. Smith and opposition from legal offices seeking opinions on legality. The item also notes oil allowables rise, water bonds sale, and a South Texas development plan affecting 60 counties.
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Austin
Tex
Bob Bullock
Texas
Bullock
U.S
Court of Civil Appeals
State Board of Education
Robert S. Calvert
Preston Smith
Texas Railroad Commission
Byron Tunnell
Tunnell
South Texas
Smith
Val Verde
Refugio County
Gillespie
Comal
Rio Grande
Franklin at Stanford sparks campus free speech clash
Editorial argues the Franklin case echoes historic persecutions but shows limited campus reaction. It notes Stanford faculty found he incited violence and recommended dismissal, while liberal colleagues vow legal fight and the broader public shows little mobilization.
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Franklin
Stanford
America
H. Bruce Franklin
Joke cycles and fall guys in modern humor
Dr. Jan H. Brunvand of the University of Utah explains joke patterns cycle over time with Polack jokes among the long lasting types. He notes most jokes have a fall guy and that minority groups often become the easy targets while jokesters rarely know the stereotypes they repeat.
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Jan H. Brunvand
University of Utah
Polack
Brunvand
New Hampshire's Bold Journey To 200th Birthday Legacy
A historical survey of New Hampshire from colonial times through statehood in 1788, highlighting patriots like Gen. John Stark and Gen. John Sullivan, institutions such as Dartmouth College, forest and industrial growth, conservation efforts, and landmark features like the Presidential Range and Lake Winnipesaukee.
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Robert Betts Copley
George II
England
New Hampshire
Royal Navy
Committee of Safety
Sons of Liberty
Portsmouth
Fort William and Mary
Congress
John Stark
Londonderry
Bunker Hill
Bennington
Saratoga
Princeton
Trenton
John Sullivan
Boston
Long Island
Brandywine
Germantown
U.S
Dartmouth College
Hanover
Dublin
Atlantic
United States
Presidential Range
White Mountains
Mt. Washington
Winnipesaukee
Robert Frost
February Doldrums Lifted by Daydreaming in Boyle’s Column
HAL BOYLE muses on February’s sluggish blood and winter gripes. He suggests optimistic fantasies as antidotes, from ghostwriting Santa’s memoirs to speeded space breaded cutlets, with witty absurdities about politics, GoGo girls, and goading suburban dandelions.
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Hal Boyle
New York
North Pole
Santa Claus
Mae West
New York City
Howard Hughes
Grain for India promised by Johnson on Feb 4 1966
President Lyndon B. Johnson announced the United States would ship three million tons of grain to drought stricken India. The commitment, disclosed on February 4, 1966, aimed to ease a severe food shortage in the affected regions.
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Grain For
India
Lyndon B. Johnson
U. N. General Assembly
United States
Cuba
Indonesia
Sukarno
Britain
the Baptist W.M.A
B.A. Toliver
Guy Walker
Baptist Orphan’s Home
J.P. Donnell
Today in History Highlights From February 15
On this date in 1898 the U S battleship Maine exploded in Havana Harbor signaling the Spanish American War. Other events include St Louis founded as a fur trading post in 1764 and Susan B Anthony born in 1824 in Adams Massachusetts.
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Associated Press
Maine
Havana
Cuba
St. Louis
Susan B. Anthony
Adams
Mass
Miami
Fla
Anton Cermak
Chicago
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Singapore
Valencia Shipyard Constructs Two Super X Ferryboats
The Valencia shipyards are building two modern Super X type ferryboats. Each vessel measures 423 feet in length and can carry 250 cars and 734 passengers. Vehicles will enter under their own power through collapsible doors at the bow and stern.
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Valencia
Pecos Community News Highlights and School Club Events
Pecos reports on new home for the Eberstadt family as Mr. Eberstadt becomes Commercial Club secretary in Bryan. Pecos hosts marriage of Lucile Smith and Charles Stocks and notes street improvements, local club meetings, and youth activities including 4-H, dance club formation, and basketball queen selection.
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S. E. Eberstadt
Bryan
Mr. Eberstadt
Commercial Club
Mrs. Eberstadt
Pecos
Lucile Smith
Whitewright
Charles E. Stocks
el Paso
S.E. Alley
Miss Smith
Mr. Stocks
Monahans
Barstow
T& P
Pecos Chamber of Commerce
Nublin
Buck Jackson
20Th Century Club
J.Y. Crum
Maine
New Hampshire
Connecticut
Bill Collie
Catherine Armstrong
Fred Shuster
Clayton Keller
Halla Bryan
Jo Roy Smith
Business and Professional Women’s Club of
Mabel Atchison
Lillian Poe
Dallas
Jocnlyn Odell
Kansas
National Youth Administration
N.Y.A
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Texas Water Development Board
First National Bank of Dallas
Board For Water Supply Project Construction
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Alfred Dreyfus
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Martin Niemueller
Sacco
Vanzetti
Stanford University
Mike Oestreicher
Peggy McCracken
South Cedar Street
Ress Association
Boyle
Berlin
Spanish Shipyard
Sylvia Sandoval
Time Club Bureau of Current National Affairs
Merry Wives Club
George Ross
Harold Lindley
William L. Kerr
H.H. Johnson
Doris Calley Dickman
Floyd Calley
Jim Tom Kelton
Frank Kelton
First Christian Church
Wade Hampton
Nancy Miller
Willis Miller
South Cypress
Pecos High School
Miss Miller
Vickie Clark
DeEtte Green
Lynda Winterrowd
Mike Dowling
Andrews
Reeves County
Houston
Buck Wheat
Jimmy McNeal
Bart Bullock
Tommy Sparks
Bryan Grammer
George Perkins
Dennis Turnbaugh
Mary Lou Elkins
Lambs
Butch Doty
Larry Smith
Sherry
Candy Talley
Cecilia Hart
Linda Fonville
Becky Johnson
Jeanine Johnson
Charlene Lamkin
Belinda Pigman
Jimmye Hall
Al’s Burger Bar
C.C. Reagan
Greyhound Bus Company
Reagan
Bob Maule
Greyhound
Maule
Earl Bell Elementary Pta
Ezequiel Levario
Paul Rogers
Church of Christ
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