Snyder council awards 53 730 clearwell contract
Snyder city council, after a four hour meeting and a facility tour, awarded a 53730 contract for an additional one million gallon clearwell at the water treatment plant. The bid from H B Bruce of Fort Worth was the lowest of nine bids.
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Snyder
Thirtyseventh Street
H B Bruce
Fort Worth
Odessa
Bruce
Colorado River Municipal Water District Board
CRMWD
Wo A McGlain
Lyle Deffebach
John Blum
Rex Fields
Rescue crews resume hunt for raft sighting off Johnson Island
Planes searched 48 000 square miles of ocean near Johnson Island after a man was reportedly seen on a raft about 430 miles off Hawaii. A C124 crew said they saw a man waving from a raft at 1 30 PM Wednesday, suggesting the survivor may be from the C124 that went down January 2 with nine aboard.
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Honolulu
Johnson Island
Pacific
Johnson
Weather snapshot across Texas with cooler conditions
Readings show varied but consistent cooling across regions. North Central Texas remains fair and cold with lows around 25 to 35 and highs near 45 to 55. Northeast and Northwest Texas follow cooling trends with clear skies and frigid nights. South Central and Southeast Texas see decreasing clouds and showers ending, then clear and colder nights with mixed highs in the 50s to 60s.
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Snyder
Texas
Northwest
Panhandle
South East
Mission Burned Out in Congo Rescue Underway
Two UN helicopters and a light plane fly mercy relief to Kandale in Kwilu Province to evacuate seven American missionaries and two children after guerrilla attacks. Allied with Pierre Mulele bands, the Evangelical Congo Inland Mission station was burned. three Belgian priests were killed earlier.
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Leopoldville
the Congo
Kwilu
Kandale
Tshikapa
U.N
Pierre Mulele
Antoine Gizenga
Evangelical Congo Inland Mission
Elkhart
Ind
Congo
Mukedi
Kikwit
Evacuation of Dallas Hospital After Fire
Rescue units evacuated all 78 patients from the Medical Arts Building Hospital in downtown Dallas after a fire in an adjoining building sent smoke into the hospital. The blaze, believed smoldering earlier, caused about 125000 in total damages and 35 patients arrived at Baylor Medical Center within 30 minutes.
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Dallas
Medical Arts Building
Baylor Medical Center
EE. Spillman
Spillman
John Berry Dies Today Rites Set
John W. Berry 93 died at Snyder Hospital at 12 15 a m today in Huntsville Alabama after moving to Texas as a child with parents. Funeral at Union Baptist Church 2 p m Sunday. Burial Snyder Cemetery. Survived by wife five daughters two sons twenty grandchildren 35 great grandchildren six great great grandchildren five lodges memberships.
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Union Baptist Church
John W. Berry
Jim Fields Big Spring
Murry Kay
Union Church
Bobby Phillips
Avenue D Baptist Church
Snyder Cemetery
Bell Funeral Home
Wayne Berry
Leverette Lewis
Leonard Ervin
Brady Bynum
Weldon Ervin
Charlie Eastman
Heart Transplant Fails as Recipient Dies at Medical Center
Surgeons at the University of Mississippi Medical Center transplanted a human heart into a patient in terminal heart failure. The heart beat for over an hour but proved insufficient. the donor heart was too small for the recipient. The three hour operation began just before midnight and the patient died early today.
Sukarno Says He Is Willing To Talk Peace
AP dispatch reports Kennedy arrives in London to brief on Kuala Lumpur peace mission while Sukarno in Jakarta rallies support for his Malaysia campaign. He vows no retreat and supports a cease fire on the Malaysia Indonesia border, with talks planned next month among Malaysia Philippines and Indonesia.
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Tom Ochiltree
London
Robert F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Bangkok
Thailand
Indonesia
Sukarno
Jakarta
Malaysia
Indonesian Communist Party
Sarawak
Sabah
British North Borneo
Britain
Foreign Office
Kuala Lumpur
Tunku Abdul Rahman
Goldwater calls Johnson stereo gift too expensive
Sen. Barry Goldwater says President Johnson should have known an administrative aide on a Senate salary could not afford an expensive stereo gift. Johnson maintains the 1949 stereo was a gift from a friend to Baker, who owed his job to Johnson. investigators tie the stereo to an insurance agent who funded it.
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Washington
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Johnson
Robert G. Baker
Senate
Baker
South Carolina
Goldwater
Mike Mansfield
Montana
White House
Senate Committee
Don B. Reynolds
El Paso Man Dies in Highway 290 Crash Near Sonora
Hugh Ward, class of 1938, of El Paso died Thursday when his car lost control and struck a tree beside Highway 290 near Sonora, Texas, AP reports.
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Sonora
Hugh Ward
el Paso
Texas
New Test Of Infantry In Pacific
A 1000-man Army infantry brigade of the 25th Division will test airlifted deployment to Okinawa using C135 jets and Globemasters. Depot ships from Subic Bay loaded with tanks artillery and stocks head for Okinawa to support the move. The exercise termed Quick Release aims to prove air and sea prepositioning for rapid combat readiness.
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Washington
Pacific
Criss Points
Hawaii
Okinawa
Military Air Transport Service
Subic Bay
Philippines
West Germany
Texas
Chief Weatherman Dies Of Cancer In Texas
Oren E. Edrington, 55, longtime chief of the San Antonio Weather Bureau, died Thursday from lung cancer. He had served 15 years in the post and was stationed at Brownsville, Texas, since January 1949. Survived by his widow and four children.
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SAN Antonio
Oren E. Edrington
San Antonio Weather Bureau
Brownsville
Tex
Johnson Hails 24th Amendment as Liberty Triumph
President Johnson hailed the 24th Amendment as a triumph of liberty banning poll taxes for federal elections. South Dakota became the 38th state to ratify, clearing the path for nationwide voting rights in federal races. The measure does not affect state elections where poll taxes may still apply.
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Washington
Johnson
South Dakota
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