Independence Day Hamburger Stand Draws Huge Crowd
The Kiwanis hamburger stand at Towle Memorial Park served about 2,000 burgers on July 4, with crowds estimated between 10,000 and 11,000 for the celebration. Pat Moore arrived late to the event and praised the hamburgers as possibly better than last year amid favorable weather and large fireworks mortars from Oklahoma.
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Pat Moore
Kiwanis
Moore
Towle Memorial Park
Ira
Pepsco
Towle Park
Oklahoma
Chamber of Commerce
Wacil McNair
Today in History highlights and notable dates
Tuesday July 8 1975 marks the 189th day of the year with 176 remaining. Notable events include Norway moving government to London in 1940 after Nazi fighting, Rhode Island chartered in 1663, Shelley's 1822 drowning, Bryans 1896 Cross of Gold speech, Wilson at Versailles 1919, Saipan victory 1944, Paris founding anniversary 1951, Lodge ambassador nomination ten years earlier, Nixon policy proposal five years earlier, Trudeau Liberal elections one year earlier.
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Associated Press
Norway
London
Ae Charles II
England
Rhode Island
Percy Shelley
Gulf
Spezzia
William Jennings Bryan
Chicago
Woodrow Wilson
New York
Versailles
Saipan
Paris
Lyndon Johnson
Henry Cabot Lodge
U.S
South Vietnam
Maxwell Taylor
Richard Nixon
Congress
Pierre Trudeau
Liberal Party
Canada
Weather Forecast for Snyder and Texas Panhandle
The forecast shows high temperatures near 95 in Snyder with a low around 69 today and 70 at 7 am. Northwest and Southwest Texas expect clear to partly cloudy skies through Wednesday with widely scattered showers in the Panhandle tonight and Wednesday, continued hot with highs 94 to 102 and overnight lows 57 to 77.
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Snyder
Texas
Panhandle
Big North Central
New Facility To Aid Pilots Here
Scurry County and the Federal Aviation Administration signed an agreement to maintain a non directional beacon at Winston Field. Louis Pare of the FAA and Luis Preston Wilson for the county signed the document. Jay Huckabee installed a 359 kHz transmitter and will perform maintenance. The FAA will inspect biannually to ensure proper operation. County commissioners and airport board member Jimmie Joe Key attended. The commission also approved hiring Monte West to conduct the annual outside county audit.
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Preston Wilson
Scurry County
Federal Aviation Administration
Winston Field
Louis Pare
F.A.A. Airways
Midland
John Thomas
Jay Huckabee
Federal Aviation Adminstration
Luis Preston Wilson
F.A.A
Huckabee
National Air Space
Pare
Jimmie Joe Key
Monte West
City Sets Plan to Collect Delinquent Taxes and Fund Projects
Snyder city officials move to hire an attorney to pursue delinquent taxes totaling about 119000, mostly from absentee properties, while budgeting 89000 for 1975 76 capital improvements to the sewage and water systems and police building. They propose funding from contingency with small rate increases for sanitation sewer and water, and approve 110 more sanitation containers for full containerized collection.
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Snyder
George Patterson
L.E. Griffin
Griffin
Patterson
Tom Gordon
Abilene
Snyder Independent
Gordon
Texas Comptroller forecasts 27 million surplus for 1977
Comptroller Bob Bullock estimated a 27 million dollar balance at the end of the 1977–79 two year period. He credited vetoes by the governor and new tax collection staffing for the excess and noted 13.4 billion dollars in revenue for the period.
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Bullock
Texas
Soviet Presence in Somalia Reported by U S Intelligence
U S intelligence says about 3 000 Soviet specialists man a growing Russian military complex in Somalia around Berbera. Reports cite an underground reinforced facility near Berbera, expanded fuel storage, and a new airfield eight miles southwest of Berbera with a likely readiness by year end.
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Washington (P
USS
Somalia
Sen. Dewey F. Bartlett
R-Okla
Pentagon
Bartlett
Berbera
Indian Ocean
Persian Gulf
U.S
Ford Announces Candidacy In President's Race
Gerald Ford declared his bid for the 1976 presidency from the White House. The former vice president and president said he aims to project a steady presidency rather than run a campaign and would seek election in his own right.
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Frank Cormier
Associated Press
Washington AP
Gerald Rudolph Ford
Ford
White House
Michigan
Richard M. Nixon
Spiro T. Agnew
Nixon
House of Representatives
Congress
The
Miami Herald
Ronald Reagan
California
Washington
Knight
Reagan
Herald
Ron Negsén
Protest Staged In India By Congress Youth Leaders
About 200 demonstrators from the Nehru Brigade gathered before the U S Information Service building in New Delhi and shouted Shame on the CIA. The rally, the first anti American outburst since emergency rule, lasted about 30 minutes with no police interference.
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New Delhi
India
Indira Gandhi
Congress Party
CIA
U.S. Information Service
Nehru Brigade
Prisoner Goes Berserk in Paris Court Heist
A prisoner on trial in Paris opened fire wounding two guards and abducting the court president M Cozette and a prosecutor after a woman posing as a lawyer with a grenade entered the room. He forced Cozette to handcuff himself and fled with both officials in a getaway car.
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Paris
Jean-Charles Willoquet
Giselle Bauwens-Mille
Palace of Justice
Cozette
Willoquet
Will
Oquet
M. Cozette
Willaquet
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Bill K. Evans
Eighteenth Street
Ksny Drive
WTC
Western Texas College
Duane Hood
Future Farmers of America
Sudan
Houston
U.S. 84
Don Ham
Gary Ham
Cogdell Hospital
Larry Bellar
Dary Roberts
Craig Doty
Mark Lane
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