OU recruit talk and NASA moon timing noted in SDN Column
Sid Patterson of Norman comments on the Sooners football outlook and a California prospect, while NASA schedules the July 20 Moon touchdown at 2:22 p.m. EDT with Armstrong to step ashore nine hours and fifty minutes later. Patterson also notes his firm's private postal system franchises in Oklahoma and Texas cities.
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NASA
Neil A. Armstrong
Sid Patterson
Norman
Okla
Sooners
Texas
Missouri
Patterson
Henderson
Joe Wiley
Jack Mildren
Abilene Cooper
Wiley
California
Lubbock
Amarillo
Oklahoma City
Wacil McNair
Stanley M. Long
Long
This Day in History June 6 1969 Highlights
Today marks the 157th day of 1969 with notable events recalled from 1944 D-Day landings to 1966 James Meredith shooting and later milestones. Names include Na than Hale Lee Kuan Yew and Robert F Kennedy with locations France Mississippi Singapore and Los Angeles.
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Associated Press
Normandy
France
Nathan Hale
Coventry
Conn
Alsace
Germany
Belleau Wood
Congress
Securities and Exchange Commission
U. S
Yorktown
Midway
James Meredith
Meredith
Mississippi
Lee Kuan Yew
Singapore
Saigon
Robert F. Kennedy
Los Angeles
Weather outlook across Texas with warm weekend highs
The forecast shows high temperatures reaching the upper 80s to near 100 across regions. Today starts with 7 am readings around 64, then highs 88 to 98 in North Central, South Central, and Southwest Texas. Nights stay mild with lows mostly 60s to low 70s and fair skies.
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Snyder
Northwest
Texas
North
Southwest
Jet Missing After Being Hit Over Biafra
The Nigerian air force reports a DC6 carrying supplies to Biafra was shot down near Eket. A Swedish Red Cross aircraft with four aboard is also missing after being hit, with the crew including American pilot David Brown and a Norwegian flight engineer Kjell Pettersen.
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Lagos
Biafra
Swedish Red Cross
Stockholm
Nigeria
Eket
Kwa Ibo River
Calabar
Biaf
Red Cross
David Brown
Real Loan Crunch Hits Students Across Banks
Hundreds of banks and lenders warn of a real loan crunch this summer threatening more than 640 million dollars in government guaranteed loans for about 750000 students under the Higher Education Act of 1965. As rates rise toward 10 percent, many institutions may halt or sharply curtail student loans, risking aid for needy students.
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H. L. Schwartz
Washington
U.S. Office of Education
Congress
Vored
National Student Defense Loan
First chlorine shipment marks milestone at American Magnesium Co
This morning the American Magnesium Co plant near Snyder completed its first rail shipment, with a Santa Fe locomotive pulling a tank car loaded with about 92 tons of liquefied chlorine bound for El Paso. Company officials including Joe Pitts and Santa Fe personnel witnessed the historic departure as construction crews worked on processing facilities and magnesium storage still being scaled up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Magnesium Plant
Bill Stanley
Frank Taylor
Shelby Coker
Bill Wilson
Frank Love
H. F. Clark
Joe Pitts
Santa Fe
American Magnesium Co
J. P. Spears
Slaton
el Paso
Obie Cates
William A. Cockwell
Lubbock
Lieass
Snyder
Summer Heat Spreads Across Texas With Highs Near Ninety
Texas endures a heat wave as temperatures soar into the 90s with El Paso at 98 and Galveston cooler at 76. Skies stay mostly cloudless while a dry air mass and high pressure bring fair conditions through Saturday.
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Texas
Mercury
el Paso
Lubbock and
Childress
Amarillo
San Angelo
Wink
Dalhart
Laredo
McAllen
Galveston
New Additions Highlight Diamond M Art Museum Exhibit
The Diamond M Foundation invites the public to a Sunday 2 to 6 PM opening on the second floor, showcasing new paintings since the last show. Featured works include Prospectors by the late Dean Cornwell, watercolors by Stanley M. Long, Street Scene Paris by Cortes, Taos Pueblo by Salisbury, and Christmas Eve at the Ranch by Lambdin. The expanded space doubles prior exhibit capacity.
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Diamond M Art Museum
Dean Cornwell
Harvey Dunn
Howard Pyle
Frank Brangwyn
Cornwell
Los Angeles Public Library
Lincoln Memorial
Redlands
Calif
Tennessee State Office
Eastern Airlines
Rockefeller Center
Raleigh
Hotel Warwick
New York City
Paris
France
Edouard Cortes
Paul Salisbury
Taos Pueblo
R. M. Lambdin
Ranch
Diamond M Museum
C. T. McLaughlin
Diamond M Foundation
Diamond M
Search Continues For Missing RC135 Over Alaska
Anchorage AP report says 15 military planes and two Coast Guard vessels fly the western Aleutians seeking an Air Force RC135 missing with 19 aboard. Plane last radioed near Amchitka Island after a routine flight from Shemya to Eielson Air Base.
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Anchorage
Eielson Air Force Base
Fairbanks
Alaska
Pentagon
Heath Rites Set Saturday
Funeral service for Mrs. Lea Heath is scheduled for 2 30 p m Saturday at the Bolger Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev Louise Sutton officiating. Burial will be in Snyder Cemetery under Bolger Funeral Home direction. A Blackwell native, she had lived here for 46 years.
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Bolger Funeral Home
Lea Heath
Louise Sutton
Apostolic Faith Church
Heath
Snyder Cemetery
Blackwell
Nolan County
Man From Odessa Sentenced To Life For Slaying
Odessa AP reports Clyde Hendrix, 43, was sentenced to life in prison for the killing of Dwight Dwain Creek More, 31, last summer.
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Odessa
Clyde Hendrix
Dwight Dwain Creekmore
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SDN
Norway
Kjell Pettersen
Stig Carlsson
Harry Arxelsson
Sweden
Cluding
Staton
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