Colisee Open House Planned for Scurry Coliseum Exhibit
Snyder Jaycees celebrate paying off a 1500 dollar bank note by burning it in a Friday luncheon at Sallies Cafeteria. Doug McGlain outlines Scurry County Coliseum plans, prime contract review by County Commissioners Monday, and a September Open House for the 57 acre site with 300 seats and 500 chairs. facilities include offices, catering, and multiple entrances.
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Snyder Jaycees
Sallie’s
Doug McGlain
Coliseum
McGlain
Snyder High School
Anl
Scurry County Coliseum
Billy Bob Hardee
Johnson unveils farm policy amid Vietnam focus
President Johnson outlined a new farm policy while keeping the Vietnam fight on the front burner. He argued farmers deserve collective bargaining rights and acknowledged domestic programs bogged down as Congress debates crime, civil rights, and urban renewal.
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Dent Johnson
Vietnam
Congress
Snyder High School Band Announces Drill Series Schedule
The Snyder High School Black and Gold Band plans a full marching and playing rehearsal schedule starting Monday in preparation for a Sept 8 performance at the Andrews Snyder football game. About 110 members are expected, led by band director Melvin Montgomery and assistant Charles Shaw.
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Snyder High School
Black and Gold
Andrews-Snyder
Andrews
Melvin Montgomery
SHS
Montgomery
Charles Shaw
Godley Rites Here Monday
Funeral service for Frances C. Godley 71 former Snyder resident who died Thursday in El Paso will be held Monday at 10 a.m. at Bolger Chapel. Burial in Pyron Cemetery. Survivors include two sons Col. L. E. Godley Albuquerque and Jim Godley Sacramento New Mexico two sisters Blanche Patterson Snyder and Mrs Travis Reed Big Spring a brother E. J. Ely El Paso and two grandchildren.
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Frances C. Godley
Snyder
el Paso
Godley
Alamogordo
N.M
Miller Robinson
Colonial Hill Baptist Church
Bolger Chapel
Pyron
Bolger Funeral Home
Western Oil Cartels To Be Nationalized
A Pan Arab conference near final agreement on gradual nationalization of U S and British oil firms in the Arab world. Governments to co own shares initially and expand to full ownership, with a possible three month oil production shutdown. A summit in Khartoum Aug 9 to approve resolutions.
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Syria
U.S
Middle East
Khartoum
Iraq
Algeria
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait
Libya
Kuwaiti
Baghdad Radio
Suez Canal
Arab Fund For Economic
Front To Usher In More Rain Across Texas
The Associated Press reports soaking showers blanket large parts of Texas with a cold front promising additional rain. Tornado struck Texas City damaging a bowling alley and homes without injuries. Dal las area storms knocked out power lines and caused flooding in Balch Springs with two inch rain and high winds.
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Texas
Weather Bureau
Texas City
Dallas
Balch Springs
San Antonio
Brownsville
Victoria
Houston
Bryan College Station
SHS Choir Classes Set For Week Schedule
SHS director J. D. Smith announces daily section classes for high school choir students from Aug 21 to 25. Altos meet 9 to 10:30, sopranos 10:45 to noon, tenors and basses 12:30 to 1:30. The A Cappella Choir rehearses 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. Monday Tuesday and Thursday.
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J. D. Smith
SHS
US Raiders Lose 3 More Planes In North Vietnam Raids
AP dispatch from Saigon reports stepped up raids cost the United States three additional warplanes. Command tallies show 647 U.S. aircraft shot down in the North to date, with 168 missions flown Friday but no loss details given. Ground fighting remained sporadic across South Vietnam as B52 bombers hit the A Shau Valley.
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A Shau
South Vietnam
Laos
U.S
Scurry County Fair Plans Third Annual Event
Plans advance for the third annual Scurry County Fair set for the first weekend in October starting Thursday October 5 and ending Saturday night. Commercial exhibit space is being reserved with notices sent to past exhibitors and reservations handled by the Snyder Chamber of Commerce. L M Dawson head of the fair association says the catalog is in progress with distribution planned around September 1 and organizers aim to stage barbed wire trade day plus a display of local artifacts.
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Scurry County
Snyder Chamber of Commerce
L. M. Dawson
Dawson
The
Fair Association
Rap Brown Held On Federal Firearms Charge
H Rap Brown militant Black Power leader was held on 25000 bail on a federal firearm charge in New York. He faces a maximum five years and 20000 fine for transporting a carbine across state lines while under indictment for arson rioting and inciting to riot in Maryland.
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John Vinocur
NEW York
H. Rap Brown
Black Power
Brown
Manhattan
New Orleans
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Maryland
William Kunstler
U.S
Earl N. Bishopp
Stephen EF
Kaufman
Bishopp
Hubert Gerald Brown
Rap Brown
Weather Snapshot for Texas Regions Friday Through Sunday
Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday with scattered showers, mainly in the northeast. Highs range from 80s to mid 90s across regions. lows from the upper 50s to mid 70s. Northeast and Southeast Texas show showers, while the West and Northwest report cooler spells. Coastal winds 8 to 18 knots, gusty in scattered showers.
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Texas
Northwest
Pecos
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Coliseum Described
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LBJ
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Washington
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Gulf of Tonkin
Red China
Peking
United States
George McArthur
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