Train service fights endure as hearings delayed
The SDN COLUMN notes delays on Santa Fe and Texas lines plans to discontinue passenger service. Hearings set for Jan 25 in Lubbock were postponed indefinitely. Local station crowds remind Snyder residents trains still run to Houston Dallas Fort Worth and California. The piece links the fate of regional passenger trains to larger metro services.
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Chamber of Commerce
Lubbock
Santa Fe
Texas
Snyder
Houston
Dallas - Fort Worth
California
Texas and Pacific
Today in History highlights several 18th to 20th century events
On this date January 14th multiple milestones are noted including the 1784 U S ratification of a peace with Britain ending the American Revolution. Also listed are Belgian and world events from 1809 to 1963 with leaders like FDR Churchill Kennedy Kiesinger and Tito referenced.
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United States
England
Spain
Napoleon Bonaparte
Denmark
Norway
Sweden
Albert Schweitzer
Henry Ford
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Casablanca
Morocco
Yugoslavia
Tito
U. S
John F. Kennedy
Paris
Kurt George Kiesinger
France
Germany
Weather highlights across Texas regions this weekend
Snyder reports 7 am reading 23 degrees with high 47 and low 21 on Friday. Northwest Texas sees fair conditions tonight and Sunday with lows from 14 to 25 and Sunday highs 45 to 56. Central regions expect fair skies tonight and Sunday with similar warmup and Sunday highs 50 to 60 in South Central Texas. Southwest Texas remains partly cloudy with cold nights, warmer Sunday, lows 18 to 28 and highs 48 to 58. North Central and Northeast Texas forecast fair with warming Sunday, lows 20 to 26 and highs 45 to 55.
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Snyder
Northwest
Texas
Southwest
North Central
Secret Service Chief to Speak at Snyder Chamber Banquet
James J. Rowley director of the U S Secret Service will address the Snyder Chamber of Commerce banquet on January 26 at the Scurry County Coliseum. Rowley, head of the agency since 1961, began in 1938 and has served presidents from Roosevelt to Johnson. He received the Mr Sam Award on January 13 for distinguished service.
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James J. Rowley
U. S. Secret Service
Snyder Chamber of Commerce
Scurry County Coliseum
Secret Service
Rowley
White House
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Yalta
Harry S. Truman
Casa Blanca
Potsdam
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Rayburn
Texas
House of Representatives
Tom Clark
National Civil Service League
New York City
St. John’s University
Brooklyn
New York Department of Banking
Federal Bureau of Investigation
New York District
Crowley Declares Candidacy For Precinct One Constable
A. E. Crowley a 37 year peace officer and Snyder Police captain announces candidacy for Precinct No 1 constable. The 65 year old native of Fisher County served 20 years in state and county law enforcement and 17 years in city service including 15 years in Snyder. He is a World War II U S Coast Guard veteran.
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A. E. Crowley
Crowley
Fisher County
Snyder
U. S. Coast Guard
Yarborough Declines Texas Governor Bid in 1968
U.S. Senator Ralph Yarborough announced in Austin he will stay in the Senate and not seek the 1968 Texas gubernatorial race. He said his move aims to shift power in Washington and noted broad support urging continued Senate service after consultations in Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio.
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Garth Jones
Associated Press
Austin
U.S
Ralph Yarborough
D-Tex
Senate
Texas
Yarborough
Washington
Sup
Dallas
Houston
San Antonio
Don Yarborough
Connally
Ed Clark
Australia
Clark
Sen
CH53 helicopter crash site located in South Vietnam
A CH53 helicopter with 41 aboard crashed Monday night on a mountain near the DMZ between Dong Ha and Phu Bai. Rescue efforts were hampered by rain and fog with no signs of life seen, and weather hindered ground or air recovery.
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Robert D. Ohman
Associated Press
Wester Saigon
Demilitarized Zone
U.S. Command
South Vietnam
Dong Ha
Dmz
Phu Bai
Air Force
da Nang
U.S
5Th Regiment
Williams Seeks Re-Election As District Judge
Sterling Williams announced Saturday his candidacy for re-election to the 132nd Judicial District seat serving Scurry and Borden Counties. He pledges fair and impartial rulings if voters back him in the Democratic Primary.
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Sterling Williams
132Nd Judicial District
Scurry
Borden
Williams
Winter Storms Halt Travel and Freeze The Nation
Heavy snow sleet and gale winds crippled highways and knocked out power across the southeast and Midwest. Subzero cold blanketed the northern Plains and north Atlantic states while warnings covered 16 states from Missouri to Pennsylvania and Georgia. Red Cross Civil Defense and volunteers opened warmth centers as ice storms left homes dark and cold. Albany posted a record low of 17 degrees as temperatures plummeted to 20 below in the plains. In India, thousands of students burned an effigy of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in Gauhati shouting Down with Indira Gandhi.
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Southeast
Midwest
Plains
North Atlantic
North Pacific
Missouri
Pennsylvania
Georgia
Red Cross Civil Defense
Carolinas
Indiana
Kentucky
Tennessee
Albany
N.Y
Pentagon cancels $175 million atomic warhead program
The Defense Department scrapped a new and bigger single warhead project for land based missiles, redirecting funds to modernize existing Mark 11 warheads while expanding multi warhead programs. The move follows a re evaluation of requirements amid rising costs and anti missile defense concerns.
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Bob Horton
Washington
Pentagon
Defense Department
Governor Connally to keynote Texas Jaycee event in Snyder
Gov John Connally will attend and deliver the principal address at the two day Texas Jaycee festivities in Snyder. The awards banquet on Feb 17 at Scurry County Coliseum will crown the outstanding young farmer of Texas with other dignitaries present.
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John Connally
Snyder
Max von Roeder
Snyder Jaycee
Scurry County Coliseum
Cleghorn Service Set for A M Cleghorn
Funeral at 2 p.m. Sunday at Bell-Seale Chapel for A M Cleghorn 76 who died Friday at Methodist Hospital Lubbock. He lived 31 years in town from Roscoe born in Georgia. Survived by wife Mary, son James a Odessa teachers, sister Marguerite Cox, brothers Rube Leonard John, two grandchildren. Don Browning to officiate. Burial Snyder Cemetery. Pallbearers named.
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Bell - Seale Chapel
M. Cleghorn
Cleghorn
Fourteenth Street
Avenue E
Methodist Hospital
Lubbock
Roscoe
Georgia
Mary Cleghorn
James Cleghorn
Odessa
Marguerite Cox
Dublin
Rube
Lingleville
Leonard
Brownwood
John
Madison
Ala
Don Browning
Snyder Cemetery
Bell - Seale
John Floyd
Alton Davis
Marion Dabbs
Leroy Hammitt
Raymond Stansell
Alvis Minton
Fred Russell
Oscar Hooper
Peasants Killed in Pro Mao Rebellion in Kwangtun Province
Moscow Radio reported that over 200 starving peasants were killed by Red soldiers after a revolt in a village 70 miles from Canton. The broadcast said the uprising arose from a food shortage and was quickly suppressed by pro Mao forces.
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Tokyo
Moscow Radio
Mao Tsetung
Kwangtun
Canton
Capial
Madrid Police Stifle University Protest
Madrid police halted a planned downtown demonstration by University of Madrid students before it began. Students have expressed anger over the closing of the political and economic sciences school and seek a free student union and other concessions from university administration.
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Madrid
University
University of Madrid
Political and Economic Sciences School
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William J. Schiebel
Wacil McNair
Sparkle
Washington, D. C
Ernest Sears
Keith Pitner
Johnson
THE
Calcutta
India
Indira Gandhi
Gauhati
Jaycee
Gov. Connally
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