Snyder Notes and Football Hints Loom Large This Week
A postcard from Mrs. Elmo Dunn cheers Snyder for delaying Christmas talk after Thanksgiving as downtown lights and Santa debut. The piece recalls public holiday timing debates since FDR era and previews Texas vs Arkansas 1969 football clashes with coaches Royal and Broyles facing pressure. Texas and Arkansas share nine SWC titles in ten years amid strong records.
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Snyder Daily News
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Santa Claus
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Austin
Tex
Fayetteville
Ark
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Arkansas
Darrell Royal
Frank Broyles
Broyles
Wichita State University
Royal
Navy
Baylor
TCU
Wacil McNair
Today in History December 4 1969 highlights
On this day 1851 workers rebelled in Paris and were suppressed by Louis Napoleon. Washington bade farewell to officers in New York in 1783. Britain founded Queensland in 1816. Boss Tweed escaped prison in 1875. In 1942 US bombers hit Italy. Roosevelt Churchill and Inonu met in Cairo in 1943. Athens clashes worsened in 1944. Eisenhower arrived in Rome in 1959. FBI arrests in Missouri occurred in 1964. Pope Paul VI urged obedience in 1968.
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Associated Press
Paris
Louis Napoleon
George Washington
New York
Britain
Queensland
New York City
Tammany
Boss Tweed
William Marcy Tweed
Spain
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Winston Churchill
Ismet Inonu
Turkey
Elas Party
Athens
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Rome
Europe
Asia
Africa
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Missouri
Pope Paul VI
Weather snapshot across Texas with varied forecasts
The notice summarizes regional Texas weather showing temperatures Wednesay high p2 degrees and 46 morning reading. It details cloudiness and warmer trends through Friday with low to mid 60s in many zones, scattered showers in several regions and variable winds along the coast.
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Snyder
Northwest
Texas
Southwest
the Pecos
Rogers pessimistic on US peace efforts with North Vietnam
Secretary of State William P. Rogers told 14 NATO foreign ministers in Brussels he is pessimistic about U S efforts to negotiate a peace with North Vietnam and said the United States will insist South Vietnam determine its own political future in any settlement. He also condemned My Lai atrocities, noted SALT talks will pause, and urged prudence before any new European security conference.
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Paris
Nixon
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Michael Stewart
Britain
No Hope For Survivors In Crash
Rescuers pulled bodies from Caribbean waters after Air France Boeing 707 plunged from 33 000 feet near La Guaira. Sixty two aboard including crew and passengers. 11 women and nine men recovered. divers to search at dawn for crash clues. Folke Claeson and his wife named among victims. eyewitnesses allege explosion.
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Stockholm
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Rail wage deal ends nationwide rail strike threat
48 000 shopcraft workers gain wage settlement after 20 hours of bargaining. Secretary of Labor Shultz declares no strike and credits free collective bargaining. Unions involved include machinists electricians sheet metal workers and boilermakers with ratification needed from four unions.
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Washington
George P. Shultz
William W. Winpisinger
Winpisinger
John P. Hiltz
National Railway Labor Conference
Shultz
Congress
Nixon
Nixon Faces Delayed Decision on South Vietnam Pullout
President Nixon is likely to delay a third stage troop withdrawal as North Vietnamese infiltration and American casualties rise. White House officials keep open a Monday news conference while noting uncertainty about the size and timing of any further reductions from the current force of about 430,000.
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Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Nixon
U.S
South Vietnam
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
Clark M. Clifford
Johnson
Clarkson Rites Pending Here
Lenoir Clarkson who lived west of Snyder on the Lamesa Highway died early today at Kendrick Memorial Hospital in Abilene after a long illness. Funeral arrangements were pending at Bell Seale Funeral Home here.
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Snyder
Lamesa Highway
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Abilene
Bell Seale Funeral Home
South Vietnam Announces 94 Hour Holiday Cease Fires
Saigon reports 24 hour truces for Christmas and New Year with U S backing. Thieu's office sets Christmas from 6 p m December 24 to 6 p m Christmas Day and New Year from 6 p m December 31 to 6 p m January 1. Both sides routinely declare holidays despite alleged violations.
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Saigon
U.S
Nguyen van Thieu
Haynsworth to Remain Chief Judge of Fourth Circuit
President Nixon announced that Judge Clement F. Haynsworth Jr. will stay as chief judge of the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals despite the Senate defeat on his Supreme Court nomination. Haynsworth said he was encouraged by letters and support from judges and the bar after the November 21 vote.
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Nixon
Clement F. Haynsworth Jr
Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Haynsworth
White House
Supreme Court
Senate
Fourth Circuit
Bar
Gore Seeks Tax Exemption Boost in Reform Bill
Senate favors increasing personal exemption to 800 dollars amid White House veto risk and House resistance. Mills may seek a compromise in conference to win broader support, while Gore touts cross party backing and strong House support, despite Nixon’s fiscal concerns.
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Joe Hall
Associated Press
Washington
Albert Gore
Senate House
Senate
Nixon
Gore
Wilbur D. Mills
House
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
Mills
Wet Weather Returns To West Texas
Wet weather spread across much of West Texas with a Gulf of Mexico moist air surge. Light rain extended from El Paso toward the north and east while temperatures were near normal for the season, from 37 at Lufkin to 64 at Brownsville and McAllen.
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Panhandle
Texas
Lufkin
Longview
Wichita Falls
Brownsville
McAllen
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