SDN Column Recaps Broadway Oddities and Local Water, Football
Charles Holland returns from New York City noting Broadway theater informality and over dressed attire. Lake J B Thomas water rise reaches 3,300 acre feet, signaling readiness for fall. Dallas Cowboys televised game faces protest from District 33A as Snyder Tigers host Monahans. Austin’s Legislative History Office pursues a comprehensive biographical file of Texas lawmakers since 1846 described as Texas history’s biggest manhunt.
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Charles Holland
Western Texas
Snyder
Holland
New York City
J.B. Thomas
Dallas Cowboys
Bill J. Hood
Snyder Tigers
Monahans
Tiger Stadium
Office of Legislative History
Austin
Texas
House
Senate
Wacil McNair
Today in History highlights major events on August 21
Notable events listed include 1951 US orders first atomic submarine construction. 1680 Pueblo Indians take Santa Fe after driving out the Spanish. 1858 Lincoln Douglas debates begin. 1918 WWI Somme battle begins in France. 1940 Trotsky dies in Mexico City. 1943 Japan evacuates Kiska. 1945 US halts lend lease. 1967 US planes over China possibly shot down. 1975 Gemini Five concerns. 196? Nixon Diaz Ordaz border accord at Puerto Vallarta. 1975 Ford announces 1976 run for president.
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Associated Press
United States
Santa Fe
N.M
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
Somme
France
Leon Trotsky
Mexico City
Japan
Aleutian
Kiska
U.S
South Vietnam
China
North Vietnam
U. S
Richard Nixon
Gustavo Diaz Ordaz
Puerto Vallarta
Mexico
Rio Grande River
Ford
Weather outlook for Texas with scattered storms
Weather section covers Snyder and Texas regions. Temperatures range from lows around 60s to highs around 90s. widespread thundershowers are possible in northwest southwest and coastal areas. Friday highs mostly 90s with some 80s in mountains.
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Snyder
Texas
Upper 50S
Jailed by Officers at Ballinger Three Held in Crude Oil Theft
In Ballinger Texas three men Dennis T Davis 31 Abilene Clinton L Wilkerson 43 Houston and Jackie Clough 20 Winters were jailed on two counts of felony theft bonds 25000 5000 respectively as investigators from the FBI Texas Rangers Railroad Commission and sheriff offices pursue an interstate oil theft ring alleged to move thousands of barrels from West Central Texas to a Texas City refinery. Warrants were issued for three more men amid probe into spotters truckers and syndicate links across state lines.
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Roy Payne
Texas Railroad Commission
Atty
Payne
Louisiana
Texas
Abilene
Texas City Refining Co
Texas City Refining
Railroad Commission
East
West
Texas Rangers
Kissinger Arrives in Israel Under Heavy Guard
Secretary of State Kissinger lands at Ben-Gurion amid record security for his Middle East peace mission. Police report a foiled assassination plot and hunt for a second suspect. Israeli forces brace for violence after border clashes and Palestinian raids. Dinitz signals talks with Egypt still unclear but progressing. Dayan remains openly skeptical.
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Barry Schweid
Associated Press
Jerusalem
Henry A. Kissinger
Israel
Middle East
Ben- Gurion International
Kissinger
Ben-Gurion International Airport
Richard M. Nixon
Cern
Haifa
Lebanon
Washington
Simcha Dinitz
Defense
Moshe Dayan
Dinitz
Connally blasts Congress at Dallas stockholders meeting
Former Texas governor John Connally said Congress is the most irresponsible in his lifetime and favors political expediency over long term solutions. Speaking at the Zale Corp meeting in Dallas he urged productivity and free enterprise while predicting no 90 cent gas and possible removal of oil price controls, with gasoline rising another five cents by year end.
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Rick Scott
Associated Press
Dallas
Texas
John Connally
Congress
Connally
Treasury
Zale Corp
Zale
Open House at CRMWD Building in Big Spring
Area residents invited to open house Sunday for the Colorado River Municipal Water District headquarters at 400 E 2th Big Spring. The 8,320 square foot steel and precast concrete building cost about $400,000 and marks the district’s first own facility after 25 years leasing space.
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Colorado River
P. C. Harbour
Odessa
CRMWD
South Mountain
Goliad
Fm-700
O. H. Ivie
Strikers In Frisco Accept Bid After Marathon Talks
In San Francisco the police and firemen union leaders accepted a proposed settlement mediated by Mayor Joseph L. Alioto after lengthy talks. A supervisor called the mayor’s announcement premature while strikers remained on the picket lines.
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San Francisco
Marathon
Joseph L. Alioto
Board of Supervisors
John L. Molinari
Alioto
Inflation Rises 1.2 Percent as Prices Jump
State grant announced for Scurry County children in need of special educational aid under Title I Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. July price surge driven by food gas and used cars, with GNP growth noted and meat milk bread beer costs reviewed for profiteering, Earl Butz forecasts and FTC analysis.
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Washington, D. C
Omar Burleson
Office of Education
State of Texas
Scurry County
Washington
Agriculture
Earl L. Butz
Federal Trade Commission
Partial Lifting Of Cuban Embargo Set
Washington sources report the United States will announce a partial lifting of the embargo allowing American firms operating in third countries to sell goods to Cuba for the first time in years. The move signals a gesture toward third countries and may ease Havana relations while keeping two way trade barred by law since 1962. The State Department asks Congress not to repeal the original ban pending bilateral talks. Foreign critics urge freer American sales and question U S regulation of firms abroad.
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Washington
United States
State Department
Cuba
Havana
Congress
Argentina
Canada
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Ballinger
John Hill
Hill
John Odam
Jerry Carruth
Attorney General
Organized Crime Division
Dist
Royal Hart
San Angelo
FBI
Scions
Frisco
Commerce Department
Labor Department
Great Plains Wheat and
Western Wheat Associates
International Longshoreman‘s Association
Ray Davis
Potter
Neb
National Association of Wheat Growers
Erv Freihe
McCook
Western Wheat Assn
Ken Kendrick
Stratford
Tex
Great Plains Wheat
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