SDN Column notes on highway funding and national politics
The column reports Rep. Elmer Martin supporting Gov. Briscoe's $398 million highway plan without new taxes, calls it a sensible fix. It cites Vernon Record's preconvention take on the Republican National Convention and quotes Lovington Leader editor Hop Graham urging students to choose colleges by academic fit and ideological bent. The Borden Star adds a vacation tip about packing and budgeting.
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Sweetwater
Elmer Martin
Colorado City
Dolph Briscoe
Vernon Record
Ford
W.H
Hop) Graham
Lovington
Graham
Inflation steady in July with rise in gas and medical care
Consumer prices rose five tenths of one percent in July continuing the steady pace from June. Food costs rose moderately while gasoline and medical care jumped, keeping inflation at a 6.2 percent annual rate and 5.4 percent above last year, the Labor Department reported.
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G. David Wallace
Associated Press
Washington
Labor Department
U.S
Soviet Union
Agriculture Department
Republicans Prime Ford and Dole in Carter debate bid
Ford and Dole travel from Kansas City with GOP unity as Carter challenge prompts a planned debate push. Dole offers to debate Mondale while Ford urges changes to vice presidential selection rules as Carter accepts a debate invitation.
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Donald M. Rothberg
Associated Press
Kansas City, Mo
Middle America
Gerald R. Ford
Robert Dole
Jimmy Carter
Dole
Senate
Walter Mondale
Mondale
Today in History highlights for August 20, 1976
This date marks Vitus Bering's discovery of Alaska in 1791 and notes births and key events including Benjamin Harrison's 1833 birth, WWI occupation of Brussels, WWII actions at the Dnieper Dam, 1955 riots in Morocco and Algeria, the 1961 Berlin Wall build up, Ford naming Nelson Rockefeller as VP in 1974, Vietnam forces near 300000, Arab Republic federation talks, and a Mars mission launch from Cape Canaveral one year ago.
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Associated Press
Vitus Bering
Alaska
Benjamin Harrison
North Bend
Ohio
Brussels
Belgium
Dnieper
Ukraine
Morocco
Algeria
East
West Berlin
Gerald Ford
Nelson Rockefeller
U.S
South Vietnam
Libya
Egypt
Syria
Federation of Arab Republics
Mars
Cape Canaveral
Weather snapshot for Snyder and Texas regions
High Thursday 90 degrees and a 7 am reading of 67 as of today. West Texas: partly cloudy through Saturday with scattered showers and storms, lows 50s to 60s in mountains, highs 80s to 90s, Big Bend near 90. North Texas: very warm, some afternoon showers possible, highs in 90s, lows 65 to 74. South Texas: warm with daytime showers, highs upper 80s to low 90s, tonight upper 60s to low 70s. Upper Coast and Lower Coast see easterly winds 15 to 20 knots, seas 4 to 7 feet, higher near thunderstorms.
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West Texas
Big Bend
North Texas
South Texas
Carter Eager To Debate Ford In White House Bid
Plains Georgia AP Carter says he will debate President Ford and prefers more than one debate perhaps under League of Women Voters. He expects Senator Dole to attack the Democrats while sidestepping personal slurs and defends Congress against delays in investigations.
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Carter
Plains
Ford
Sen. Dole
White House
League of Women Voters
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Georgia Redneck
Richard M
Nixon
Congress
Indian Relics Found In Pecos Cave
Archaeologists describe relics found by Frank Granado in a Pecos area cave as highly significant. The Hueco Indian era artifacts include mummified infants, nets, mats, rabbit hunting sticks, and intact materials in good condition. Samples will be analyzed to determine diet and dates.
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Pecos Cave
Pecos
Tex
Frank Granado
Granado
Don Hamilton
Texas Archeological Research Laboratory
University of Texas
Hamilton
Granada Cave
James M. Malone
Texas Historical Commission
Charles Ortega
Eastern New Mexico University
Ortega
Mrs Dole Might Resign From FTC Post
Sen Robert Dole suggested his wife Elizabeth Hanford Dole may resign from the Federal Trade Commission amid his nomination as the Republican vice presidential candidate. Dole said he did not know how long that would last and discussed potential conflict of interest concerns if both served in related roles.
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Kansas City
Robert Dole
Federal Trade Commission
Dole
ABC
Elizabeth Hanford Dole
FTC
Nixon
Washington
US Sends Jets To South Korea After Panmunjom killings
The United States transfers two jet squadrons to Korea as homeward bound bodies of two American officers killed at Panmunjom are flown out. Washington warns Pyongyang while Kissinger notes precautionary military measures and Seoul pledges retaliatory steps if provoked.
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Seoul
South Korea
United States
Panmunjom
Chung Hee Park
U.S. Defense Department
Okinawa
Korea
Mountain Home Air Force Base
Idaho
Washington
Pentagon
Air Force
North Korea
Henry A. Kissinger
South
Rean
North
U.S
Pyongyang
Vietnam
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Nancy
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Liberty, Tex
Southern Pacific
Texas
Department of Public Safety
DPS
Liberty County
Bayport
Taft
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