Balancing Wire Shortage and New Hawaiian Bird Find
Snyder area baling wire prices surface with imports at 47.50 and American at 52.50 per roll. Chamber of Commerce notes no purchases or intermediaries involved. University of Hawaii students report a rare Hawaiian Honeycreeper in a 10 square mile rain forest habitat with an estimated 100 to 200 individuals observed by National Wildlife Federation.
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Mickey Nunley
Snyder Chamber of Commerce
Scurry County Board of Development
Nunley
Chamber Bcd
Snyder Area
National Wildlife Federation
University of Hawaii
NWF
Wacil McNair
Today in History June 26 1974 highlights UN Charter signing
AP notes events on this date across history including the 1945 signing of the United Nations Charter in San Francisco by 50 nations. Other items cover Pizarro’s 1541 death, Dutch independence in 1549, Tyler and Gar diner’s 1844 wedding, Nazi labor service in 1935, Finland at war in 1941, Cherbourg in 1944, and recent political and social moments.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Francisco Pizarro
Lima
Peru
Netherlands
Holy Roman Empire
John Tyler
Julia Gardiner
New York
Nazi Germany
Finland
Soviet Union
Cherbourg
France
Spain
Omaha
Neb
Cairo
Ill
Kokomo
Ind
U.S. House of Representatives
Cambodia
Laos
Weather Summary for Texas Regions Tue to Thu
Snyder reports highs near 86 Tuesday with 60s overnight. Panhandle and west Pecos face scattered storms tonight. Big Bend to 103 expected Thursday. North Central mostly fair with mid 80s to mid 90s Thursday. South Central and Southeast rise to high 80s to mid 90s. coast winds 8 to 18 knots, seas 3 to 5 feet.
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Snyder
Texas
Panhandle
Pecos
Big Bend
South Central
Judiciary panel to release most Watergate evidence
The House Judiciary Committee voted 22 to 16 to publicize most evidence from seven weeks of secret impeachment hearings including tapes and witnesses. The release could include Watergate cover up materials and presidential conversations, with Rodino editing the full 7,000 page record.
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John Beckler
Associated Press
Washington
House Judiciary Committee
Watergate
White House
Peter W. Rodino Jr
D-N.j
Rodino
Ronald L. Ziegler
Nixon
Brussels
Utah
Watergate Grand Jury
John D. Ehrlichman
Daniel Elisberg
Senate Watergate Committee
Howard H. Baker Jr
R-Tenn
CIA
Watergate Committee
Congress
Bhe
Cambodia
Defense Department
Detroit Desegregation Case Hangs amid Supreme Court Term
The Supreme Court left Detroit school busing unresolved as the 1973 74 term ends, with a possible fall decision. July 8 hearings on Watergate tapes and other rulings include limits on prisoners legal representation and habeas corpus hearings, plus a bank merger antitrust ruling and Youth Corrections Act sentencing guidance. NAACP calls the Detroit case its most significant since 1954.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Detroit
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Nixon Leads NATO Leaders in Broad Cooperation Pact
At Brussels Nixon and other NATO heads sign a declaration urging wider cooperation between America and Western Europe. The pact, approved at the Ottawa conference, reaffirms the alliance as essential to security. Nixon also outlines aims for detente and troop strength in Europe amid Moscow talks.
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Brussels
Belgium
Nixon
North Atlantic Alliance
America
Europe
Moscow
North Atlantic Council
U.S
Leonid I. Brezhnev
NATO
Joseph M. A. H. Luns
Ottawa
United States
France
Valery Giscard d’Estaing
Jacques Chirac
Charles de Gaulle
Soviet Union
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Helmut Schmidt
Harold Wilson
Mariano Rumor
Middle East
Atlantic Alliance
Annual hearings held inflation casts shadows on budgets
Tax representatives for Chevron Oil Co and other oil interests met with Scurry County Junior College District trustees and Snyder Independent School District officials to review proposed budgets for 1974-75. WTC plans $1,577,223 and Snyder Schools $5,117,758, both citing raises and potential state funds as factors.
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Scurry County
Snyder Independent
Western Texas College
Robert L. Clinton
WTC
Arthur H. Dimney
Chevron
Snyder Public Schools
Burleson Approves Veterans Cost-of-Instruction Grant
Congressman Omar Burleson announces a $3,833 award to Western Texas College Snyder under the Veterans Cost-of-Instruction Program. Funds support veteran enrollment services including counseling recruitment remedial tutoring and community outreach targeting educationally disadvantaged veterans.
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Washington, D.C
Omar Burleson
Western Texas College
Snyder
No Quarrel Looms On Oil Tax Values
The Snyder Independent School District expects no defendant role in upcoming oil tax suits as SACROC's 1972 and 1973 challenges were settled. Oil Company representative Arthur Dimney praised amicable discussions with the district valuation engineers, noting past disputes were with the valuations, not the district.
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Snyder Independent
Sacroc Oil Producing
Arthur H. Dimney
Chevron Oil Co
Sacroc
Chevron
Pritchard
Abbott
Dimney
Tropical Disturbance Off Yucatan Could Become Alma
Forecasters watched a low mood off Mexico's Yucatan threatening to become the season's first tropical storm named Alma. A reconnaissance plane would check the disturbance later, with the National Hurricane Center reporting winds of 30 to 35 mph, just below storm status.
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Miami
Fla
Mexico
Yucatan Peninsula
Mexican
Gulf of Campeche
Alma
National Hurricane Center
Mid-Atlantic
Florida
Cape Hatteras
N.C
William R. Woodard of Ira Died in San Saba Hospital
William R. Woodard 65 of Ira died at 1 15 p m Tuesday in San Saba Memorial Hospital after a sudden illness while visiting. Funeral set for 2 30 p m Thursday at Ira Baptist Church with Rev O L Gober and Rev Roy Haynes officiating. Burial in Ira Cemetery under Bell Seale Funeral Home direction. He was a farmer and music director at Ira Baptist Church. Survived by wife, daughter Barbara Norris of Lockhart, son Jimmie L Woodard of San Marcos, mother Mrs W L Woodard of Lovington New Mexico, three sisters, two brothers and four grandchildren.
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William R. Woodard
Ira
San Saba Memorial Hospital
San Saba
Woodard
Ira Baptist Church
O.L. Gober
Roy Haynes
Bell Seale Funeral Home
Barbara W. Norris
Lockhart
Jimmie L. Woodard
San Marcos
W.L. Woodard
Lovington
N.M
Erma Lee Hurst
Corpus Christi
Mildred Yancey
Jessie Black
Colorado City
Raymond Woodard
Lovington, N.M
Joe Woodard
Carthage
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SDN
Towle Memorial Park
Tracy Moore
Cynthia Ferrell
Billy McCormick
Everybody’s Thriftway
Fluvanna
Kirby White
Fluvanna High School
Paint Creek
James Chapman
Chapman
Texas Tractor Pullers Association, Inc
West Texas
Scurry County Coliseum
Oil Company
Bill J. Hood
Veterans Grant
W. Woodard
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