Runoff turnout low in Scurry County despite four races
The SDN Column notes only 2,615 Scurry County voters, under 30 percent turnout, with four races on the ballot. Jess Everett won Precinct No 4 commissioner after a campaign where a voter spoke of past poll tax days. Beans and prices are discussed alongside cautions from the Texas A&M Extension Service about bean futures.
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Scurry County
Jess Everett
Texas
Texas A&m Extension Service
Wacil McNair
National Weather Service
White River
White River Lake
Crosby County
Today In History Highlights June 4 Across Centuries
On June 4 across history, key events include the 1942 Battle of Midway start and Japan's first major wartime defeat, England's 1647 hostage seizure of King Charles I, 1805 treaty with Tripoli, Leopold becoming Belgium's first king, Ford’s Detroit night drive, Blum's Socialist France, Peron’s 1946 inauguration, and notable 1964 to 1974 events including Korea martial law, Cuban air escape, and Vietnam servicemen non combat deaths.
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Midway
Japan
England
Charles I
United States
Tripoli
Leopold
Saxe-Coburg
Belgium
Henry Ford
Detroit
France
Leon Blum
Juan Peron
Argentina
Korea
Chung Lee Park
Seoul
Cuba
Spain
Defense Department
Vietnam
Weather outlook for Texas with scattered thunderstorms
Snyder region reports a near term high of 87 and a low of 58 with 64 at 7 am. Northern Texas sees thunderstorms developing this evening spreading west to central and dissipating by mid morning Wednesday. Coastal winds rise to 8-18 knots with seas 2-4 feet tonight and Wednesday.
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Snyder
Texas
Big Bend
Panhandle
Nixon to Tour Five Middle East Nations in June
President Nixon plans a week long Middle East tour June 12 to 18 to bolster peace efforts. The trip covers Egypt Saudi Arabia Syria Israel and Jordan with stops in Salzburg Austria before heading to the region. Kissinger will join the president and Mrs Nixon while Mansfield notes bipartisan support despite Watergate.
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Gaylord Shaw
Associated Press
Washington
Nixon
Middle East
White House
U.S
Salzburg
Austria
Egypt
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Israel
Jordan
Gerald L. Warren
Henry A. Kissinger
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
Helena
Mont
Kissinger
Wall Street Rises on Rate Cut Hopes as Dow Surges
The noon Dow Jones 30 gained 8.14 to 29.40 with a 19.09 point rise Monday on NYSE gains 5 to 1 as banks in Chicago and St Louis cut prime rates. Tandy Corp led active trading at 23% after 134,400 shares changed hands. Amex index rose 0.91 to 82.95 while Syntex traded down and the Big Board composite edged up 0.48 to 47.29.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Alysts
Chicago
St. Louis
Tandy Corp
NYSE
American Stock Exchange
Amex
Syntex
St Clair Welcomes Colson Testimony in Impeachment Inquiry
White House lawyer James St Clair said he would welcome testimony by former White House counsel Charles Colson in the House Judiciary Committee impeachment inquiry. He told reporters it would be highly supportive of the President as he entered the committee room for another session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Beckler
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
White House
James St. Clair
Charles W. Colson
House Judiciary Committee
St. Clair
Jaworski
William Merrill
Colson
Judiciary Committee
Peter W. Rodine Jr
D-N.j
Ford Praises Kissinger Middle East Breakthrough
Vice President Ford hailed Kissinger's Middle East peace achievements as a new era of negotiation and U S leadership. He credited Nixon's bold foreign policy and said Kissinger narrowed Israeli Syrian gaps without forcing a settlement while promising continued arms balance support for Israel and noting Soviet arming of Arabs.
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New York
Gerald R. Ford
Henry A. Kissinger
Middle East
USA
Nixon
Ford
American Apparel Manufacturers Association
Kissinger
Moscow
Peking
Israel
Syria
United States
Soviet Union
Flooding Hits Panhandle Plains as Tornadoes Rake Texas
Thunderstorms and several tornadoes swept the Panhandle Plains causing evacuations in Plainview. Running Water Draw rose flooding homes and businesses along U S 70 while warnings covered Floyd and Dickens counties and Hale County. A tornado near Trent destroyed a truck stop cafe and overturned a mobile home as counties faced rising flood risk.
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Associated Press
Texas
Panhandle-Plains
Plainview
H. P. Pelphrey
U.S. 70
Pelphrey
White River
Floyd
Dickens
Hale County
Floydada
Trent
Abilene
Oklahoma Panhandle
Levelland
Littlefield
Lockney
Petersburg
Cone
Crosby County
Paducah
Wichita Falls
Awash
South Plains
City approves cost of living raise for employees
City workers will receive $50 more per month starting July 1 for the current fiscal year while firemen’s retroactive raise to May 1 follows new federal minimum wage rules. Zoning changes are approved or rejected on first reading, including a shop site, neighborhood grocery, and animal clinic plans. The council also considers water line connection for Key Mobile Home Park and fills a vacancy on the Planning and Zoning Commission.
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George Patterson
J.B. Early Jr
Paul Sizemore
Thirtyseventh Street
Avenue E
W.J. Murphree
Murphree
Robert R. Taylor
DVM
Early
Sizemore
Bill Vestal
J.D. Hinton
John Fagin
Rhames Blakey
Truett Bryan
Vestal
Franklin Pruitt
Planning and Zoning Commission
Ronnie Sutton
Former Texas justice Meade Griffin dies at 80
Meade Griffin, longtime jurist of Texas courts and former mayor of Tulsa, died at his Austin home after an extended illness. Griffin served on the state Supreme Court, then on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals as a special judge in 1969. Survivors include his widow. Funeral services were pending.
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Austin
State Supreme Court
Meade Griffin
Joe Greenhill
Griffin
Texas
Greenhill
Supreme Court
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Cottonwood
Tulsa
High Plains
University of Texas
Law School
Leon Springs
Swisher
Plainview
Hale
Beauford Jester
Acute Shortage Of Baling Wire Brings Higher Farm Costs
The baling wire shortage worsens amid scarce fuel fertilizer and grain raising beef and milk prices this winter. Farmers face losses as wire prices jump from 11 to 14 dollars to about 55 per roll with one third of hay potentially unfenced. CF&I in Pueblo leads production, with Armco Kansas City and Illinois Wisconsin plants also contributing.
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Rod Davis
Associated Press
Dallas
United States
Texas
Oklahoma
Colorado
Kansas
Southwest
Midwest
U.S. House Agriculture Committee
Boston
Cleveland
Los Angeles
Colorado Fuel and Iron Co
Cf&i
Pueblo
Colo
Armco
Kansas City
Ilinois
Wisconsin
Belgium
Japan
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Pentagon
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Leon Jaworski
Ellsberg
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