Americans Plan Nigeria Evacuation Amid Nigerian Crisis
U S officials prepare an airlift for eastern Nigeria as war threats rise between Biafra’s Odumegwu Ojukwu regime and central government. About 800 Americans in Lagos Port Harcourt and Enugu seek evacuation, with 700 elderly and vulnerable travelers slated to depart Saturday aboard chartered DC4 planes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arnold Zeitlin
Lagos
Nigeria
Port Harcourt
U.S
Elbert G. Mathews
C. Odumegwu Ojukwu
Republic of
Biafra
Enugu
Ojukwu
Housing session set on public housing meeting Friday
Carl Geyer of Fort Worth head of HUD property acquisition and rehabilitation will attend a Friday meeting at city hall to discuss vacant FHA houses for public housing. A HUD representative from Lubbock will also attend the 7 30 p m session in the city council room. Elderly and disabled residents are urged to mail names for the public housing survey to P O Box 1202 Snyder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Geyer
Fort Worth
Department of Housing and Urban Development
City Hall
FHA
Lubbock
P. O. Box
Snyder
Weather snapshot across Texas with varied storm chances
Weather report shows temperatures from 57 to 102 across Texas regions. Southeast Texas and South Central Texas expect partly cloudy to warm conditions with scattered showers and thundershowers later Friday. North and Northeast Texas remain partly cloudy with isolated or widely scattered storms. northwest area cooler with some severe thunder potential in the north.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snyder
Texas
Northwest
Armored Force Hits Guerrillas in Coastal Clash
American armored units moved into a large Viet Cong coastal complex in Quang Ngai Province after a naval bombardment. The operation followed U S casualties totaling 2 941 last week with 36 aircraft lost in May. The assault met a firefight as forces and enemy bunkers were targeted and 18 more enemy soldiers killed.
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George McArthur
Saigon
U.S
North Vietnam
Quang Ngai
Arab forces mass in Egypt amid Middle East crisis
Egypt hosts forces from Iraq Kuwait and other Arab nations as Britain urges open international passage through the Gulf of Aqaba and the U N calls for cooling tensions. Nasser faces regional mobilization while Britain and the United States maneuver diplomacy and naval deployments.
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Cairo
Iraq
Kuwait
Egypt
Israel
Britain
Gulf of Aqaba
United States
U.N. Security Council
Middle East
Aqaba
Gulf
Elath
Gamal Abdel Nasser
George Brown
House of Commons
Brown
Harold Wilson
Commons
Nasser
Sinai Peninsula
Six Persons Indicted by Scurry County Grand Jury
A Scurry County grand jury indicted six individuals including James Castillo of Snyder on three forgery theft and passing offenses. Mary Alice Berryman, also of Snyder, faced two forgery and passing counts, Ernest Garcia of Roby faced one forgery and passing, and other indictments named Clarence McFarland of Austin for DWI second offense James Howell of Snyder for non support and Jimmy Medina for theft and robbery by assault. Two people Vernon Eugene Melton and Ottis Boyd were declared “No killed” by the grand jury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scurry County
James Castillo
Snyder
Mary Alice Berryman
Ernest Garcia
Roby
Clarence A. McFarland
Austin
James Howell
Jimmy Medina
Grand
Vernon Eugene Melton
Ottis Boyd
Unfair labor charge filed against Firestone by UAW over strike pact
The United Rubber Workers union filed an unfair labor practices charge against Firestone Tire & Rubber Co alleging a mutual aid pact with four other rubber firms interferes with good faith bargaining. Pickets remained at Firestone gates despite a court order restricting activity and unrest grows as strike fund wanes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron, Ohio
United Rubber Workers Union
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co
UAW
Peter Bommarito
Firestone
B. F. Goodrich Co
Bom
Marito
Merchants Plan Campaign At Snyder Chamber Meeting
Merchants map a united ad and promotion plan to boost Snyder business. Plans include contests for friendliest sales clerk, local slogans like sparkling values in Sparkle City, and cooperation among merchants led by Loren Sullivan with other attendees.
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Merchants Committee
The
Snyder Chamber of Commerce
City Hall
United Effort
Snyder
Chamber of Commerce
Sparkle City
Loren Sullivan
Morris Sanders
Bill Gattis
Marvin Rogers
Tom LeMaster
Don Jeffcoat
Bentley Baize
Bill Butler
Harold Bennett
Rex Miller
T. Jay Rogers
Terrorists Trained in Hong Kong Said by AP
The Hong Kong Star reports scores of young local Communists are being trained in armed methods. The tabloid published two photos showing youths on a rooftop with rifles, unclear if real firearms or dummies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hong Kong
Hong Kong Star
Egyptian envoy warns US on Middle East crisis
Egyptian envoy Mostafa Kamal warned Washington to avoid third party involvement in the Arab Israeli dispute over the Gulf of Aqaba. He spoke after meeting with Secretary of State Rusk as President Johnson's cabinet discussed the crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Egypt
Gulf of Aqaba
Mostafa Kamel l
Dean Rusk
Johnson
White House
State Department
Turkey
U.S
Middle East
Robert J. McCloskey
McCloskey
Starr County Rift Moves to Remove Rangers in Farm Labor Dispute
State Senator Joe Bernal arrived in Rio Grande City to mediate the Starr County harvest conflict. He will meet with Capt A Y Allee plus farm growers and county officials as Rangers face calls for removal after 57 arrests since May. Organizers led by Eugene Nelson note the labor movement’s yearlong disputes and growing national attention.
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Gary Garrison
Rio Grande City
Joe Bernal
Starr County
Bexar County
Texas Rangers
Capt
A. Y. Allee
Rangers
Bernal
County Atty
Randall Nye
United Farm Workers
Nelson
Austin
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Jerrie Reding
Dorothy Smith
Levelland
Grace Wooten
Dorothy Horney
Arlene Brooks
Alma Lawson
Lucio F. Diaz
del Rio
Ments
Albion
Ioast
British Defense Ministry
London
Yakubu Gowon
Att
Aden
Red Sea
Hermes
Far East
U.S. Navy
Suez Canal
Vietnam
Jordan
Hussein
Damascus
Vietnam Highlands
Conall E. Murphy
Arlington
Mass
U.S. 4Th Infantry Division
Starr County Rift
Solon
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