Professor recalls Rio Bravo history in Monterrey talk
David M. Vigness of Texas Tech University spoke to the Congress of the Northeast History of Mexico about the 375th anniversary of Monterrey. He described the brief Republic of Rio Bravo proclaimed in January 1840 with its capital in Lerdo and states Nuevo Leon Coahuila.
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Monterrey
Mexico
Republic of Rio
Vigness
Congress of the Northeast
Wigness
Spain
Republic of
Rio Bravo
Laredo
Jesus Cardenas
Tamaulips
Republic
Nuevo Leon
Coahuila
Mexico City
Zacatecas
Durango
Sinaloa
New Mexico
Californias
Santiago Vidaurri
Republic of the Rio Bravo
New research to aid ranchers in Texas grasses study
Researchers at Texas A and M University evaluate Higgins buffelgrass Bell Rhodes grass Kleberg Bluestem and blue panic grass in a funded two year project. The study aims to measure productivity nutritive value best seasons fertilization and irrigation responses to guide cattle ranching.
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Texas A&i University
Lynn Drawe
Richard M. Kleberg Foundation
Alice G. Kleberg Foundation
South
Texas
Draw
North Texas Professor Forecasts Great Depression After 1972
Denton, Tex AP A North Texas State University professor predicts a deeper post election downturn than 1929. Dr George Christy argues stock and bond markets collapse and unemployment soars as wage inflation accelerates globally. He warns inflation fighting measures may fail and recessions grow worse into 1973 74.
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Denton
Tex
North Texas State University
America
George Christy
North Texan
Christy
College of Business Administration
Nixon
Mrs Pearl Goode, 87, lifelong Billy Graham crusade fan
In Irving Texas Mrs Pearl Goode a Pasadena California resident and Lufkin Texas native has attended 47 Billy Graham crusades. She began her revival faith about 70 years ago at a Methodist meeting and first watched a crusade in Los Angeles in 1949.
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Los Angeles
Goode
Texas
Professor to study atmosphere at Rice University
Houston AP reports a seismic graphic system worth 500000 dollars loaned to Rice University. Dr. Arthur Few will use the gear to study atmospheric storms and improve safety for commercial aircraft passing through electrical storms. The equipment includes two seismic digital field systems used in oil exploration.
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Houston
Rice University
Arthur Few
Few
Rice Department of Space Science
Texaco Geophysical
Temple Junior College to receive federal dormitory grant
The Department of Health Education and Welfare approved a 476000 grant to Temple Junior College to help finance a new dormitory. Funds cover interest on revenue bonds at rates above 3 percent, 11376 annually for 35 years, with the facility housing 120 students in male and female sections.
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Temple, Tex
Temple Junior College
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Hubert M. Dawson
Milk and Meat House From JA Ranch Preserved at Tech
Texas Tech University adds the milk and meat house from the JA Ranch near Clarendon to its Ranch Headquarters outdoor museum. Donor M. H. W. Ritchie, grandson of the original owner, gave the building and $2,000 for restoration. Built around 1878, the facility housed a buttery and meat house with evaporative cooling and spring water, reflecting pioneer methods for preserving beef, butter, and milk. The JA Ranch, founded by John Adair and Col. Charles Goodnight in 1876, grew to about a quarter of a million acres in the Texas Panhandle.
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Lubbock
Texas Tech University
Jerry Rogers
M. H. W. Ritchie
Galveston News
John Adair
Col
Charles Goodnight
Pueblo
Colo
Palo Duro Canyon
Adairs
Goodnight
Panhandle
Adair
Lady cop confident of trend in Dallas police hiring
Margaret Mc Gee, 26, first black woman to join the Dallas Police Department, says others will follow. She graduated 19th in her class of 36 and moved from Navasota to Dallas to pursue a master’s degree while working as a jail clerk and becoming interested in police work.
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Dallas
Margaret McGee
Dallas Police Department
Navasota
Grimes County
Frontier Airlines
North Texas State University
Texas Sprouts 19 Million Seedlings In Planting Season
Texas planted or distributed 19.353 million seedlings in 1970 71 as part of Southern forest efforts to grow a new regional forest by 2000. The survey by the Southern Forest Institute notes most seedlings went to industry owned land with a minority to private owners.
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Atlanta, Ga
Texas
Forest Products Industries
Southern Forest Institute
Atlanta
Boarding decline at Love Field in eight months
Airline business slumped with a 2.7 percent drop in passengers boarding at Love Field from January through August. Nine airlines combined to 3,468,747 boardings, down 96,406 from the prior year, though August showed a rise of 385 boarding passengers versus August of last year, according to City Aviation Director Howard Megredy.
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Dallas
Love Field
City Aviation
Howard Megredy
Group to fight NM income tax appeal in Supreme Court
The Non-resident Taxpayers Association of Pennsylvania and New Jersey joins an El Paso group in Camden to challenge New Mexico income tax as applied to Texas residents. They also seek to contest Pennsylvania state income tax and Philadelphia wage tax in a jurisdictional hearing before a three judge panel led by Judges Kitchen, Cohen and Adams. The aim is to speed a high court ruling on non resident taxation.
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Camden
N. J
Taxpayers Association of
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
el Paso
Supreme Court
New Mexico
Texas
Michael Nole
Philadelphia
Oyster harvest law takes effect in Texas bays
A new oyster harvest law in Texas goes into effect, superseding prior regulations. It bans harvesting May 1 through October except Laguna Madre area south of Port Mansfield, allows harvesting sunrise to sunset during Open Season, and governs dredge use and allowable oyster amounts per boat. Contact local Parks and Wildlife officers for details.
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Rockport
Tex
Texas Bays
Laguna Madre
Port Mansfield
Parks and Wildlife Department
Wage-Price Freeze Q and A from IRS guidance
Answers about the Nixon announced Wage and Price Freeze. Questions cover pricing on World Series tickets, pay differentials for moves to higher cost areas, rent deposits, and how to request exemptions. The column outlines base period pricing, documentation requirements, and filing steps with the Office of Emergency Preparedness Regional Office.
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U.S. Internal Revenue Service
Nixon
Office of Emergency Preparedness
Profit Sharing and Charitable Contributions During the Freeze
The guidance states that pre scheduled profit sharing cannot be implemented during the freeze while charitable contributions are not frozen. It also requires importers to disclose the surcharge passed to buyers on sales tickets and invoices.
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