Chinese Mob Storms Soviet Trade Ship
Mobs of Chinese Red Guards stormed a Soviet merchant ship in Darien Manchuria near Vladivostok, smashing equipment and taking the captain prisoner. A Soviet correspondent described an enormous mob on the embankment as the incident drew a strong protest from Moscow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Tais
Vladivostok
Darien
Red China
Dairen
Soviet Union
China
Peking
Red Guard
Red Guards
Flood Cost Figures Are Sought By Deep Creek Committee
A Snyder Chamber of Commerce flood committee seeks damage data from property owners within the Deep Creek watershed for June 12 and June 26 floods. Owners may mail estimates or bring them to the chamber office. Data will stay confidential and help assess feasibility of conservation structures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deep Creek
Snyder Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Gene Best
Best
Scurry County
Snyder Public Schools Prepare for 1967 68 Opening
The district plans August 16 registrations for elementary pupils and welcomes new staff with a dinner August 27. Orientation workshops run August 2 30 led by Dr. Dwight Kirk and Texas Tech consultants. Classes start August 31 with Labor Day on September 4. school resumes September 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dwight Kirk
Texas Tech
Olive Wheeler
Jack Davis
Riggs Rites Set Today
Funeral service for Ira T. Riggs Sr. age 67 is set for 5 p.m. Sunday at Dunn Baptist Church. He died Friday night at Cogdell Memorial Hospital. Burial will follow in Snyder Cemetery. Survived by wife Barbara Russell Big Spring daughter Ira T. Riggs Jr. Snyder sister Ollie Prestridge Snyder brother Howard Riggs Snyder and five grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ira T. Riggs Sr
Cogdell Memorial Hospital
Riggs
Parker County
Scurry County
Dunn Baptist Church
Shelby Jones
Cone Merritt
Exhibit Space For 1967 Scurry County Fair
Notices sent to firms and organizations about renewing commercial exhibit space for the 1967 Scurry County Fair in Towle Memorial Park October 4 to 6. Interested parties should contact the Snyder Chamber of Commerce office.
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Scurry County Fair
Towle Memorial Park
Snyder Chamber of Commerce Office
New Chapter In N-Treaty Talks
Washington reports a renewed push in nuclear nonproliferation negotiations. William C. Foster will return to Geneva to work with Alexei Roschin on a joint U S Soviet draft treaty aimed for late October submission to the U N General Assembly. The plan envisions pledges by nuclear powers not to transfer arms and by nonnuclear states not to acquire them, with inspection provisions to be agreed at Geneva.
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Washington (Ap
Sys- U.S
William C. Foster
Gogram
Geneva
U.N. General Assembly
Foster
Senate
Alexei Roschin
U.S
Washington
Moscow
Sopur Smoviets
Inflation Threatens Vietnam Food Prices Rise Sharply
Saigon AP reports soaring living costs in Vietnam with a 35 percent year to date increase driven by higher prices for fish pork and eggs. Economists worry over potential economic and political fallout amid Mekong delta transport disruptions by Viet Cong mines.
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John T. Wheeler
Saigon
Vietnam
Mekong Delta
Junior High Band Summer Classes Placed At Lamar and Travis
Junior high bands begin summer sessions at Lamar with A Band woodwinds 8 to 9, A Band brass 9 to 10, A Band drums 10 to 10 30, old beginner woodwinds 10 30 to 11 15, old beginner brass 11 15 to 12, new beginners 1 to 2. Lamar drums are not offered. At Travis all A Band runs 8 to 10, old beginner woodwinds 10 15 to 11, old beginner brass 1 to 11 45, new beginners 1 to 2. Drums have no summer classes at Travis. New students may try out Monday at 7 30 a.m. at their school.
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Lamar
Travis
New Bomb Raids Reported From Hanoi and Saigon Fronts
Hanoi broadcast claims seven US planes shot down and pilots captured after raids on Hanoi while Saigon reports indicate heavy fighting around Quang Tri Province with Viet Cong assaults on four army compounds. US pilots flew 150 strike missions with hits on the Doumer Bridge in Hanoi and multiple targets along the Phu Ly and Haiphong corridors.
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Saigon
Hanoi
Radio
ADN
Berlin
Quant Tri
la Vang
Quang Tri City
Hai Lang
Quang Tri
North Vietnam
Doumer Bridge
Red River
Red China
Hat Toms
Sung van
Snyder Lass Solos On 16th Birthday
Dana Thompson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Thompson, soloed at Snyder airport on her sixteenth birthday in a Cessna 150. After nine hours of flight time she logged a fifteen minute solo, circling and landing twice as observers praised her control and nerve. Her father is a World War II pilot with over 6,000 hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dana Thompson
J. A. Thompson
Thirty-third Street
Snyder
Miss Thompson
Dana
Weather Summary for Texas Regions
Weather readings show highs in the 80s to 100s across Texas with warmer Sundays. Lows range from the 40s in the north to the mid 70s in the far west and south. North Central and Northeast Texas expect fair skies, Southeast Texas mild and warm, and West of Pecos with widely scattered showers late.
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Snyder
Texas
Pecos
Senate votes to ban Eximbank use for Soviet auto plant
The Senate barred Export-Import Bank financing for a Soviet auto plant, a blow to Johnson's East West trade push. Lawmakers also extended the Eximbank's five year life by voice vote, sending the measure to the House as debates loom after Labor Day recess.
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Joe Hall Washington
Senate
Johnson
North Vietnam
Italy
Fiat Motor Co
Fiat
Karl E.mundt
South Dakota
Vietnam
Mundt
House
Solons Decline To Watch Viet Vote
United States senators reject the South Vietnamese request for congressional poll watchers as the Saigon regime pushes ahead with September elections. Kennedy joins leaders in opposing a observers' delegation citing potential charges of rigging and urging reliance on existing diplomatic outlets and press coverage. Official sources urge restraint and no prejudgment on election fairness.
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Washington
Saigon
Congress
South Vietnam
Robert F. Kennedy
D-N.v
Senate
Nguyen van Thieu
Kennedy
Thieu
Nguyen Cao Ky
Mike Mansfield
Everett M. Dirksen
Dean Rusk
Bul Diem
Mansfield
Dirksen
Kennnedy
United States
U.S
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Snyder Public Schools
Classroom Teachers Association
Texas State Teachers Association
American
West Harlem
New York
France
Red
Fey
Constellation
Phu Ly
Cmdr
Bob Kemper
Shelbyville, Ky
Phu Ly Highway
Snyder Lass
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