Colleges Now Start Earlier Cutting Winter Break Alignments
The SDN Column notes colleges beginning classes before Labor Day to shorten the academic year and align with Christmas holidays. The Texas Farm Bureau will run its fifth Market-Builder Tour starting Sept 7 with 65 members visiting Ireland Scotland and Scandinavia by jet. A new Holiday Road Patrol will aid motorists in Texas using 50 to 60 patrol cars equipped with tools radios and first aid gear.
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Texas Farm Bureau
Elmer Spears
Snyder
Farm Bureau Group
Ireland
Scotland
Scandinavia
England
Europe
Texas
The
Texas Motor Transportation Association
Council of Safety Supervisors
Chamber of Commerce Merchants Committee
Merchants Committee of the
Chamber of Commerce
This Day In History Highlights From Aug Twenty Ninth
Key events listed include the 1782 Portsmouth shipwreck with nearly 1100 drowned, the 1916 Santo Domingo tidal wave killing 43, 1921 Klansmen tar and feathering 43 in Texas, 1935 Queen Astrid’s death, 1943 Danish ships scuttled, 1957 Senate civil rights bill passage, and recent political and weather events related to Humphrey and Hurricane Cleo.
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Associated Press
Portsmouth
England
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Ku Klux Klan
Texas
Astrid
Belgium
Switzerland
Copenhagen
U. S. Senate
India
Guadeloupe
Haiti
Florida
Hubert H. Humphrey
Chicago
Weather overview for Texas regions with variable showers
The report notes high temperatures ranging from the mid sixties to the mid nineties across Texas regions. Northwest Texas sees partly cloudy weather with thundershowers in the afternoon and evening. Central and southeast areas expect more cloudiness with scattered showers and warmer highs into the nineties.
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Snyder
Northwest
Texas
Pecos
Tax Bill Is Pushed Aside For Holiday
Texas senators take Labor Day break as House tax bill moves ahead 77 to 59 after delayed hearing. Lt. Gov. Barnes urges rest and reading while debate over a package to raise about 380 million dollars continues amid vetoed and emergency spending measures. Labor Day seen as retail and business holiday across the state.
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Jack Keever
Associated Press
Austin
Texas
A. R. Schwartz
Galveston
Ben Barnes
House
Senate State Affairs Committee
Barnes
Senate
Bryant Rites Here Today
Funeral service for George Franklin Bryant age 69 was set for 4 p.m. today at Bell Seale Chapel. He died Thursday morning at Cogdell Memorial Hospital. Rev. Jesse Dea and Rev. H. C. Adair to officiate. Burial in Ira Cemetery under Bell Seale Funeral Home direction. Pallbearers named Layfield Eubank Payne Dupree Preston Jones Farmer Huddleston.
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Bell Seale
George Franklin Bryant
Cogdell Memorial Hospital
Jesse Dea
Union United Methodist Church
H. C. Adair
Levelland
Ira
Bell Seale Funeral Home
Bill Layfield
Wayne Eubank
Clarence Payne
Bob Dupree
Max Preston
Charlie Jones
Whit Farmer
Aubrey Huddleston
Arch R. King Dies at 71 in Lampasas Visit
Arch R. King, 71, died unexpectedly about 1:30 a.m. today in Lampasas where he was visiting a son, Kenneth King. He lived with his daughter Mrs. Jessie B. White at 2811 Avenue Y. Mrs. White left for Lampasas this morning. Funeral arrangements to be announced later.
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Arch R. King
Lampasas
Kenneth King
Mr. King
Jessie B. White
Avenue Y
North Korea May Exchange Crew For Confession
North Korea said the three American helicopter crewmen shot down on August 17 are alive and offered to exchange them for a confession and apologies from Washington. The KCIA chief cited injuries to Captain Crawford and Specialist Hofstatter and minor injuries to WO Malcom Loepke, with medical treatment described.
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K. C. Hwang
Associated Press
Panmunjom
Korea
North Korea
Washington
Korean Armistice Commission
David H. Crawford
Pooler
Herman E. Hofstatter
Lowpoint
Ill
WO Malcom V. Loepke
Lee
U.N. Command
Pueblo
U.S
Uijongbu
Seoul
Kumchon
Marines Press Forward In Hill Battle Southwest of Da Nang
U S Marines push up a hillside south west of Da Nang under heavy enemy fire in a two week battle. Reports tallied 72 American deaths and 646 North Vietnamese casualties with Marines advancing amid fortified bunkers and tank support. Also noted were helicopter losses and a shift in Green Beret command toward Col Michael D Healy after charges against several officers.
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Saigon
da Nang
7Th Marine Regiment
196Th Light Infantry Brigade
U.S
Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
U.S. Army
Green Berets
South Vietnam
Michael D. Healy
9Th Infantry Division
Alexander Lemberes
Robert B. Rheault
Green
CRMWD Eases By Critical Period
The Colorado River Municipal Water District reports the critical demand spike has subsided after a 70 day period with roughly 60 million gallons daily. Odessa reduced park watering for three days and reservoirs rebounded to 60 percent above capacity. Directors authorized bids for pump station automatic controls and approved a second residence at Lake E V Spence with maintenance machinery, totaling about 52 000? 000 in costs. Lake J B Thomas retains 50 000 acre feet and Lake E V Spence holds about 20 000 acre feet.
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Colorado River
Big Spring
Odssa
Odessa
Paschall Odom
O. H. Ivie
Lake E. V. Spence
Ivie
Lake J. B. Thomas
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SDN
London
United States
George Habash
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
PFLP
Palestine
Jordan River
Damiya Bridge
Habash
Israel
Zionist Movement
Amman
Jordan
Mediterranean
el al
Athens
Zurich
Jerusalem
Cairo
al Ahram
Holy City
Jerusa
Loreen Avakian
Gareen
Michigan State Fair
Formr
Shirley Temple Black
Katie Louchheim
United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization
Washington Post
Waco
Pacific
Nicaragua
Henery L. Tigerino
Salt Lake City
Clyde D. Barour
University of Utah
Bryant
R. King
N. Korea
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