Fifty years since Lubbock chosen for Texas Tech site
Celebration planned at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 8 marks the 50th anniversary of Lubbock being named the site for Texas Technological College, now Texas Tech University. Gov. Pat M. Neff's announcement ended West Texas site competition, with Snyder and other towns vying for the college.
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Lubbock
Texas Technological College
Texas Tech University
Pat M. Neff
Snyder
West Texas
Chamber of Commerce
West Texas A&m
Texas Tech
Protection From Big Brother Urged By Panel
A 24 member government advisory panel urged new safeguards to curb computer based record keeping and to restrict Social Security numbers. It opposes a national identity number system and calls for laws against secret data banks, access to records, and protections against data used for unintended purposes. It proposes penalties and civil remedies for misuse.
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Washington
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
Today in History July 31 highlights through the years
On July 31 across history notable events include Lafayette offering services to the American colonies in 1777 and becoming a major general. Columbus discovering Trinidad in 1798, Samuel Hopkins patenting a potash process in 1790, Edison patent activity in 1877, WWI’s Flanders battle in 1917, Laval’s surrender in 1945, Idlewild airport dedication in 1948, and various 10 5 1 year milestones.
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Christopher Columbus
Trinidad
U.S
Samuel Hopkins
Vermont
Thomas A. Edison
Flanders
Pierre Laval
Austria
Harry S. Truman
New York
Idlewild
John F. Kennedy
U.N. Security Council
Portugal
Lyndon B. Johnson
United States
Thomas F. Eagleton
Missouri
Weather outlook across Texas with scattered storms
The report covers Texas regions with partly cloudy to mostly cloudy skies and scattered thunderstorms through Wednesday. Temperatures range from highs in the 80s to mid 90s, with overnight lows mostly in the 60s to mid 70s. Port Arthur to Brownsville may see southeast winds 6 to 16 knots and gusts in storms.
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Texas
Port Arthur
Brownsville
Ball High to Forfeit 1972-73 Basketball Victories
A I L executive committee ruled Ball High School Galveston must forfeit all 1972 73 basketball victories for using a paid player. Ball is disqualified for 1973 74 season and on probation for 1974 75. Sanderson High fined for using two nonresident players in multiple sports.
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Ball High School of
Galveston
University Interscholastic League
Sanderson High School
Ball
Sanderson
Haphazard Rains Persist Around Snyder Area
Unpredictable showers persisted around Snyder with a reported tornado sighting north of town that did not reach the ground. Rainfall was sporadic with a city gauge showing only a trace and lakes in the region collecting minimal moisture. The Colorado River flow measured three feet at Silver, not forecast to raise Lake E V Spence without further rainfall.
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Snyder
City
Colorado River
J.B. Thomas Caught Only A Trickle Following Rains In Borden County
Colorado
Silver
E.V. Spence
Granbury Man Leroy McElroy Dies in Snyder Visit
Leroy Scott McElroy 65 of Granbury dies at 4:20 a.m. in Cogdell Memorial Hospital after a week in Snyder visiting his sister Mrs Corena Cole. A retired carpenter and Bosque County native, his body was moved from Bell Seale Funeral Home to Stephenville Funeral Home for funeral arrangements.
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Leroy Scott McElroy
Granbury
Cogdell Memorial Hospital
McElroy
Snyder
Corena Cole
Thirty-fourth Street
Bosque County
Bell Seale Funeral Home
Stephenville
Haldeman Okayed 90000 for Black Projects Funds
Former White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman testified that he approved a $90,000 campaign budget for black projects before the 1972 Republican convention. He did not know the specific projects. The testimony also covered a memo seeking funds for White House political efforts and related meetings tied to Watergate.
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Washington
H. R. Haldeman
Haldeman
Senate Watergate Committee
White House
John W. Dean III
Nixon
Charles W. Colson
Colson
Robert C. Marchan
Dean
Atty
John N. Mitchell
Jeb Stuart Magruder
G. Gordon Liddy
Samuel Cash
Mitchell
Magruder
Snyder City Council sets Sept 4 hearing on budget
In a special session the Snyder City Council amended the Price Construction bridge contract to add 1250 for restoring a displaced concrete support and anchoring it. The public hearing on the 1973-74 budget is scheduled for Sept 4 with first reading next Monday and final approval after the hearing.
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Snyder
Price Construction Co
Delta Flight 723 crashes at Logan Airport in heavy fog
A Delta DC9 carrying 90 aboard crashed on landing at Boston's Logan International Airport. Reports said 85 died with two survivors. a temporary morgue was set up. The craft reportedly struck a seawall and broke apart on the runway near Birds Island Flats.
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Delta Airlines
Logan International Airport
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston Harbor
Burlington
Delta
Manchester
N.H
New Hampshire
Leopold Chouinard
Marshfield
Atlanta
Delta Flight 723
Birds Island Flats
Eastern Airlines
Starlings
Logan
Evans Rites Set Thursday
Funeral service for George H. Evans, 42, will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Bell Seale Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. George Magner and Rev. Jack Riley officiating. Burial is in Hillside Memorial Gardens. Survived by mother Minnie Evans of Snyder, three sisters Gladys Russell, Martha Poindexter of Big Spring, Mary Lois Graham of Snyder, and brother Ralph Evans of Singapore.
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Bell- Seale Funeral Home
George H. Evans
George Magner
Jack Riley
Hillside Memorial Gardens
Bell Seale Funeral Home
Minnie Evans
Snyder
Gladys Russell
Martha Poindexter
Big Spring
Mary Lois Graham
Ralph Evans
Singapore
Skylab 2 Crew Returns to Work After Sickness
Skylab 2 astronauts Bean Garriott and Lousma work through motion sickness and settle in to tidying the space lab. A space walk is postponed again as they adapt to zero gravity and resume replacing film in cameras and planning sunshade erection.
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Richard Saltus
Associated Press
Winter Space Center
Houston
Alan L. Bean
Owen K. Garriott
Jack J. Lousma
Bean
Paul Buchanan
Space Agency
Buchanan
Garriott
Lousma
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