UIL Football's Golden Anniversary Highlights Texas Champions
Bailey Marshall details UIL's 50 year history and expansion from two classifications to seven, noting state champions and final scores. He lists programs like Abilene Breckenridge Brownwood and Estacado as historic powers, and muses on how districts shape perennial contenders.
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Bailey Marshall
University Interscholastic League
UIL
Texas
Waco
Amarillo
Abilene
Breckenridge
Cleburne
Brownwood
Port Lavaca
Bridge City
el Campo
Lubbock Estacado
Graham
Odessa Permain
San Angelo
Abilene Cooper
Abilene High
Estacado
Aug 26 in History Highlights From 1969 AP Note
Today marks August 26 the 238th day of 1969 with 127 days remaining. Key events include the 1920 19th Amendment taking effect granting women voting rights, the 1346 Crecy battle artillery claim, Hutchinson house vandalized over Stamp Act views, and Krakatoa eruption deaths. Also noted are fiscal year July 1 beginnings in 1842, Hitler’s Saar demand in 1934, and a 1958 Japanese typhoon toll.
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Associated Press
U.S
Crecy
France
Thomas Hutchinson
Massachusetts
Krakatoa
East Indies
Adolf Hitler
Saar
Germany
Japan
Weather Summary for Snyder and North Texas Regions
The forecast shows highs near 87 in Snyder Monday with a low around 66 and 7 am reading 69. Northwest Texas expects scattered thundershowers tonight and a warmer Wednesday with highs 83 to 93 and lows 62 to 72. North Central Texas will have cloudy conditions with scattered storms, especially east and north, tonight and Wednesday highs 78 to 88. Northeast Texas faces cloudy skies tonight with scattered storms central and north, partial clearing Wednesday and highs 89 to 94.
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Snyder
Texas
Beer Tax War Splits Texas Legislature
In Austin the fight over beer taxation froze a budget package as Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes clashed with Gov. Preston Smith and Speaker Gus Mutscher. A scuffle at the House microphone followed a failed conference report amid threats of a new special session and a tense floor fight among lawmakers.
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Austin
Ben Barnes
Preston Smith
Gus Mutscher
Barnes
House
Senate
R. H. Cory
Victoria
Curtis Graves
Houston
Withdrawal Talks in Thailand Set for Sept First
Bangkok and Washington announced talks will begin September 1 on a graduated reduction of U.S. troop levels in Thailand. The plan aims to adjust troop numbers over time without specifying totals or dates, contingent on the regional security situation and Vietnam war progress.
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Thailand
Thia Foreign Ministry
U.S
Thanat Khoman
Leonard Unger
Bangkok
Southeast Asia
United States
U.S. State Department
Thanom Kittikachorn
Israel Warns of Retaliation as Arab Summit Talks Spur Tensions
Israel threatens broader retaliation after a London Zim Company office bomb blast as Arab nations move toward a summit on Jerusalem. Moshe Carmel vows protection for all Israeli transport and corridors while Beirut's Popular Front claims responsibility and Scotland Yard investigates. Cairo hosts Arab ministers amid talks of an Islamic conference and jihad rhetoric grows.
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Moshe Carmel
London
Israel
Carmel
Jerusalem
Zim Company
Regent Street
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
Beirut
al Aksah
Scotland Yard
Cairo
al Aksad
Egypt
al Ahram
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Red Cross Appeals for Hurricane Camille Aid
Sis Jones of the Snyder Red Cross announces a national goal of 6 million with Scurry County seeking 330. Donations go to West Texas State Bank for the Disaster Fund. Red Cross units supplied food clothing and shelter to 70 000 victims the first night after the storm. Four hundred Red Cross nurses and several doctors volunteered at the site in Mississippi.
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Sis Jones
Snyder
American Red Cross
Camille
Red Cross
Scurry County
West Texas
Mississippi
Texas Areas Get More Good Rains
Rain covered Texas with as much as 5.05 inches at Austin Town Lake. Temperatures stayed below 100, with highs of 99 at Laredo and McAllen and 80 in Amarillo, Austin, Fort Worth, and Lubbock. Rain gauges varied, noting Brownfield 1.03 and Bertram 2.84 among other totals. Damp cooler weather was forecast to linger across the state.
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Texas
Austin Town Lake
Laredo
McAllen
Amarillo
Austin
Fort Worth
Lubbock
Plane Lost Over DMZ First Since June 1995
A US Command report says a Marine F4 Phantom was lost last Tuesday over North Vietnam while escorting an RF4 recon plane near the DMZ. Two crewmen are missing. The loss, attributed to unknown causes, is the first American aircraft over North Vietnam since June 5 and the sixth since bombing halted last Nov 1.
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Associated Press
Saigon
North Vietnam
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
School Term Opens In Snyder Independent District
The summer session ends as hundreds of public school pupils prepare for the 1969-70 term. Teachers began orientation and pupils will attend three days this week before Labor Day with classes resuming Tuesday, Sept 2.
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Snyder Independent
Pair Charged In Mercury Thefts
General Washington Reynolds and his son William Reynolds were remanded to county jail in lieu of $5,000 bond after being charged in Justice of the Peace Court with stealing mercury. They were arrested by sheriff’s authorities Saturday night northwest of Union.
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Washington Reynolds
William Bea Reynolds
Justice of the Peace Court
Union
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Mutscher
Louis B. Russell, Jr
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Connie
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