Texas Veterans Land Board may reopen land loan applications
Rep. Renal B. Rosson says the Texas Veterans Land Board will likely take new applications soon for land purchases under the Veterans land program. Bonds sold at 4.06 percent finance the project after prior depletion of funds. Capt. Gary E. Vice, a Snyder native and 1958 Snyder High School graduate, sends holiday greetings from overseas.
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Texas Veterans Land Board
Veterans Land Program
Rep. Rosson
Gary E. Vice
Snyder
Vice
Southeast Asia
Tews
APO
San Francisco
Capt
Snyder High School
SST Dispute Still Unsettled in 91st Congress
Senate backers of a faster than sound jet liner failed to break a filibuster delaying $210 million in federal subsidies for the 1800 mph, 300 passenger SST. The cloture vote failed 44 to 42 as Christmas break loomed, with Proxmire leading critics citing environmental and economic concerns.
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Washington
Senate
SST
United States
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Cambodia Reopens Highway 4 to Sea Amid Heavy Losses
Government forces claim more than 50 miles of Highway 4 are open to traffic from Phnom Penh toward Kompong Som after a week of sweeping operations. They report 400 to 500 enemy casualties, with 10 soldiers killed and 60 wounded on their side. Air strikes aided by American and Cambodian planes dispersed Viet Cong units near Trapeang Krabeung.
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Texas Assembly
Institute of Urban Studies
University of Texas At Arlington
Texas
Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Kompong Som
Sosthene Fernan
Dez
Highway 4
Fernandez
Phnom
Penh
Trapeang Krabeung
Today In History Highlights and Notable Dates
On December 22, 1970 a list of historical events is noted. It includes the 1894 Dreyfus treason verdict, 1650 bread law, 1775 Continental fleet formation, Sherman’s Savannah gift message, 1869 15th Amendment ratification link, 1942 Rangoon raid, 1944 Bastogne refusal, 195? budget shift, 1965 Humphrey in Asia, and 1969 Devlin jail sentence. provides a compact retrospective of varied world events across centuries.
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France
Alfred Dreyfus
Devil's Island
New England
Continental
Erek Hopkins
William T. Sherman
Abraham Lincoln
Savannah
Congress
Georgia
U. S
Rangoon
Burma
Anthony McAuliffe
Bastogne
Belgium
Soviet Union
Hubert Humphrey
Far East
Vietnam
Bernadette Devlin
Northern Ireland
Weather update for Texas regions and marine winds
Regional forecast across Northwest to Southeast Texas with temperatures ranging from the mid teens to mid seventies. Cool nights expected with low 20s to 60s, scattered showers and possible thundershowers in several zones, clearing by Wednesday. Winds 10 to 20 knots along the coast.
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Snyder
Texas
Southwest
Pecos
3608 POW Names Are Released
Senator Edward M. Kennedy said North Vietnamese diplomats in Paris gave a Washington lawyer a list of 368 American prisoners of war. The list, handed to Jon Noland, includes 20 names of prisoners who died, nine released, and notes capture and death or release dates.
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Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Paris
Kennedy
Jon Noland
Department of Justice
Massachusetts
Noland
18 Year Old Vote Solicited Across Nation
Youth groups push to register 18 to 21 year olds after Supreme Court ruling allows 18 year olds to vote for president and Congress. Officials warn of higher costs and separate registration lists as states weigh extending voting rights to state and local elections. Governor Dan Evans questions fairness and urges uniform 18 year old voting.
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Supreme Court
Young Republican National
Ron Romans
National
Young Democrats
Oregon
Edward M. Kennedy
Senate
High Court
Dan Evans
Pope Paul VI Warns West Over Corrosive Criticism
In his Christmas address to Rome and Vatican officials, Pope Paul VI denounced Western intellectual centers for spreading corrosive criticism of Catholic traditions. He also condemned war, political strife, and Italy's new divorce law, and announced a September synod on priesthood and justice in the world.
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Vatican City
Paul VI
Rome
Vatican Curia
Italy
West
America
39 Unsafe Toys Ordered Back
The FDA ordered 39 toys off the market for hazards including pins needles and sharp wires. Toys listed include dolls stuffed animals and lawn-dart sets with Toy Town of Randallstown Md named for a Squeaking Toy Donkey. FTC inspectors will seize noncompliant products and refunds or repairs may be offered under a new rule.
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Washington
Federal Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Toy Town
Randallstown
Harold Moore
Congress
Chase Manhattan Cuts Prime Rate to 6 Percent
Chase Manhattan Bank lowers its prime rate to 6 percent from 7 percent citing falling market rates and moderate loan demand. The move follows a prior 7 to 7 percent cut four weeks earlier, as Citizens & Southern National Bank of Atlanta also drops to 6 percent.
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New York
Chase Manhattan Bank
Chase
Citizens & Southern National Bank of Atlanta
Apollo 14 mission details reveal planned moon walks
Apollo 14 astronauts will land in a narrow Fra Mauro valley near Cone Crater. Shepard and Mitchell plan two outside excursions totaling about four to five hours each and establish a nuclear powered station for data relay for a year. Roosa will orbit the moon photographing sites and conducting experiments.
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Washington
Moon
Cone Crater
Apollo
Chester M. Lee
Cape Kennedy
Lee
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Edgar D. Mitchell
Fra Mauro
Stuart A. Roosa
Shepard
Mitchell
Earth
Antares
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