DDD Begins. Cowboys Colts Face Super Bowl Today
The column notes Direct Distance Dialing goes into effect today and recalls early issues with inadvertent long distance calls. It also highlights the Dallas Cowboys versus Baltimore Colts Super Bowl in Miami and includes a water district rate increase impacting Snyder Odessa and Big Spring, with Snyder at 23.29 cents per 1000 gallons.
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Snyder
Hermleigh
Dallas Cowboys
Baltimore Colts
Miami
Fla
Dallas
Miller Robinson
Robinson
Colonial Hill Baptist Church
Colorado River
Today in History highlights for January 17, 1971
Events from 1945 Warsaw liberation by Soviet and Polish forces. 1773 James Cook crosses Antarctic Circle. 1917 US buys Virgin Islands for 25 million. 1942 Japanese near Singapore. 1950 armored car heist in Boston for 1.5 million. 1962 quiz show winners get suspended sentences for perjury. Eisenhower warns about military industrial complex. One year ago, South Vietnamese generals relieved in Mekong Delta.
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Associated Press
Warsaw
James Cook
United States
American Virgin Islands
Denmark
Singapore
Boston
New York
White House
Dwight D. Eisenhower
South Vietnam
Mekong Delta
Weather outlook for Texas region this week
Snyder reports cool to mild temperatures across Texas. Northwest Texas stays fair with highs upper 30s to mid 50s and lows teens to 20s. North Central and Northeast Texas see a cooling trend with highs 50s to 60s and lows 20s to 30s. Southwest Texas enjoys fair skies with highs in the 50s and 60s and cold nights in the 20s to 30s.
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Snyder
Northwest
Texas
North Central
Southwest
Texas lawmakers seek quick fix for $50 million emergency tax
Texas legislators confront a $50 million emergency tax crisis tied to a $49.6 million appropriation due by March 1. Debates hinge on a 1 percent sales tax or 0.75 percent with nonresident tuition hikes, plus potential deficit spending. plans aim to cover welfare, medical aid, and general revenue gaps by August 31.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Medi
Senate
Charles Wilson
Lufkin
Preston Smith
House
New York Police Ignore Court Order in Pay Dispute
Nearly all of New York City's patrolmen refused to perform regular duties for a third day amid a pay dispute. Spokesmen said over 75 percent joined the job action, with 50 percent fewer patrol cars answering calls, while essential services continued and talks for new contracts with police, sanitation, and firemen were organized.
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New York
John V. Lindsay
Patrick V. Murphy
Lindsay
Patrolman’s Union
State Supreme Court
Nixon at Camp David Prepares State of the Union
President Nixon remains at Camp David in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains for a weekend of drafting the State of the Union message. The White House says he will devote the period to readying the address for delivery to Congress next Friday night.
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Camp David
Catoctin Mountains
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Congress
Snyder Adopts Direct Distance Dialing and Obituary Notice
Snyder begins direct distance dialing at 12 01 a m with Abilene operators handling Snyder calls. Dorothy Adams 39 died in Houston after a long illness and services set for 3 p m Monday at First Baptist Church with burial in Hillside Memorial Gardens.
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Snyder
Bobby McCormick
Abilene
Bill Gilliland
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Gilliland
First Baptist Church
Dorothy Adams
Houston
L. W. Hatfield
J. J. Speers
Ranger
Hillside Memorial Gardens
Bell-Seale Funeral Home
Adams
Tyler selects 1971 Queen of Texas Rose Festival
Miss Mary Martha Fair, a brown eyed blonde known as Mimi, is named 1971 Queen of the Texas Rose Festival in Tyler from October 20 to 24. She is 18, daughter of James W. Fair, granddaughter of R. W. Fair and S. E. Wood Jr., attends Randolph-Macon College, with siblings Ginger, Wood, and Allen.
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Tyler
Tex
Mary Martha Fair
Mimi
James W. Fair
R. W. Fair
S. E. Wood Jr
Marshall
Blocker Honored With Texas Medical Association Award
Dr. Truman G. Blocker Jr of Galveston received the Texas Medical Association’s distinguished service award. He is president of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and a former brigadier general in the U S Army. His career spans 41 years in Galveston as student, surgeon, educator, administrator and leader in plastic surgery and burns research.
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Shriners Burn Institute For
Galveston
Freed Swiss ambassador returns home after kidnapping ordeal
Swiss Ambassador Giovanni Bucher arrived at his residence after 40 days in captivity in Brazil. He thanked the Brazilian government for aiding his release and mentioned the guard Helio de Araujo who died in the kidnapping.
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Sergio Leitao
Associated Press
RIO DE Janeiro
Giovanni Enrico Bucher
Freedom Today
William Roch
Roch
Chile
Bucher
Helio
Helio de Araujo
Home Builders Meet in Houston Focus on Rates
National Association of Home Builders holds its 27th convention at the Astrodome with 50 000 industry professionals. Romney Hodgson and other officials discuss taxation the 1970s housing challenges and a proposed revenue sharing plan affecting local real estate taxes.
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Houston
National Association of Home Builders
Congress
Housing and Urban Development
George Romney
Labor
James D. Hodgson
Jack Miller
A-Iowa
Wright Patman
D-Tex
House Banking and Currency Committee
FHA
Eugene A. Gulledge
John Sparkman
Dala
Senate
Committee On
Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
Gulledge
Greensboro
N.C
Home Builder
Louis Barba
Chatham
N.J
Barba
Romney
Hodgson
Patman
John B. Anderson
R-Ill
Drug Information Day to Feature Expert Panel in Snyder
Plans for a Drug Information Day in Snyder on February 1 attract wide interest. The Scurry County Coliseum event will host professionals from medicine law enforcement education and rehabilitation along with a former addict to discuss drug abuse and prevention for Snyder and Scurry County residents and students from seventh grade up.
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Snyder and
Snyder High School
Coliseum
Wilton N. Jones
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