Try Walking and FHA's 35 Years of Promoting Homes
The SDN Column notes bumper stickers urging walking for health while many motorists offer rides. It marks the Federal Housing Administration's 35th birthday and its lasting impact on homebuilding and mortgage financing, now within HUD with many programs unchanged since the 1930s.
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Federal Housing Administration
FHA
United States
Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Wacil McNair
Today in History June 27 highlights events and figures
On June 27 historical notes include Truman ordering U S Air Force and Navy to aid Korea in 1950, New Amsterdam’s 1652 wagon speed law, Mormons Smiths killed in Carthage in 1844, telegraph between New York and Boston in 1847, 1893 stock market collapse and railroad bankruptcies, 1936 Democratic convention renomination, Kennedy’s 1963 Ireland visit, and past UN refugee aid calls and arms talks.
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Harry S. Truman
U.S. Air Force
Navy
Republic of Korea
North Korea
New York City
New Amsterdam
Joseph
Hyrum Smith
Carthage
Brigham Young
New York
Boston
New York Stock Exchange
Philadelphia
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
Ireland
World Council of Churches
United Nations
Henry Cabot Lodge
South Vietnam
U.S
Soviet Union
Weather outlook by region with hot temperatures across Texas
The forecast shows extreme heat in Snyder with 104 degrees Thursday and 76 tonight. Northwest Texas remains fair with highs 90 to 102 and lows 52 to 80. North Central to Northeast Texas stay hot with highs 96 to 102 and lows 76 to 82. South Central and Southeast Texas stay warm with highs 92 to 102 and 90 to 97 respectively, with scattered thundershowers in the southeast. Coast winds 10 to 22 knots through Saturday.
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Texas
North Central
Louisiana
Finch withdraws nomination fight for Dr Knowles_health head
Secretary Robert Finch abandons bid to nominate Dr John Knowles for assistant secretary for health and scientific affairs amid AMA and Dirksen opposition. Finch says Knowles cannot function effectively and will ask Nixon to nominate another candidate. Knowles to hold 1 p.m. Boston news conference. Nixon away at St Lawrence Seaway visit.
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Washington
Robert H. Finch
John H. Knowles
American Medical Association
Senate
Everett M. Dirk
John Knowles
Finch
Nixon
House
Knowles
White House
Boston
St. Lawrence Seaway
Aggies Arrested In Drug Raids
In Bryan and College Station authorities seized a makeshift drug lab and arrested nine people after a three month undercover operation. Texas A&M students James S. Moore and Barbara M. Wells, both 22, face narcotics paraphernalia charges. A ramshackle College Station cottage held lab gear, chemicals, capsules, and a manual on drug manufacture, prompting suspicions of artificial mescaline and LSD production. Sheriff J. W. Hamilton said searchers found nothing else in additional hours of raids.
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Bryan
Tex
College Station
Texas Liquor Control Board
James Bundren
Texas A&m
James S. Moore
San Antonio
Barabara M
Bundren
JW. Hamilton
Incendiary Bomb Triggers Dallas School Fire
An incendiary bomb caused about 2800 in damage Thursday night at Arlington Park School in northwest Dallas amid neighborhood tensions. Firefighters faced rocks and beer bottles while battling three fires in the area the prior night without interference.
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Dallas
Arlington Park
Stopgap Surtax Bill Heads to House Approval
The stopgap surtax bill would let the government keep collecting the 10 percent surtax through July 31 with refunds if the tax isn’t extended. It aims to simplify filing and bookkeeping without a vote on extending the tax, while Ford claims 40 more GOP votes and House Republicans total 170.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
Nixon
Congress
Senate
Gerald R. Ford
Tax Bill Hurdles in House as Nixon Aims for Votes
Ford’s count shows Nixon needs about 50 of 245 Democratic votes to pass a surtax plan. Opponents demand broader reform and leverage the measure to push for changes beyond the Ways and Means Committee draft. House leadership delays surtax debate to rest after the Independence Day recess.
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Ford
Nixon
House
Ways and Means Committee
Five finalists picked for stromonk title final
CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP five candidates were chosen from more than twenty in a contest to select a monkey named astromonk for a 30 day spaceflight. The winner will be tested for brain and body responses to weightlessness aboard a capsule launched at 11 10 pm EDT Saturday with postflight medical examinations planned.
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U.S
Earth
W. Ross Adey
Brain Research Laboratory
University of California At Los Angeles
Adey
Hobson B R Dies at 50 in Big Spring Veterans Hospital
Brady R Hobson 50 died at 745 am in the Veterans Administration Hospital Big Spring after a lengthy illness Rites at Bell Seale Funeral Home Snyder born April 22 1919 in Cisco he was a retired aircraft worker Survived by daughter Jolene Hobson Venita Okla two sons Eugene at Ft Bliss and Michael Snyder three sisters and four brothers
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Brady R. Hobson
East Highway
Veterans Administration Hospital
Big Spring
Cisco
Hobson
Snyder
Jolene Hobson
Venita
Okla
World leaders open talks on paper gold plan in OECD meeting
Paris AP reports central bankers and treasuries from 23 nations begin deliberations on issuing SDR paper gold to supplement or replace metal in reserves. U.S. favors large yearly issuances starting at 5 to 6 billion dollars, while creditor nations push for smaller initial sums.
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Paris
Treasuries
Organization For Economic Cooperation and Development
OECD
Group of
Paul W. McCracken
Nixon
Council of Economic Advisers
U.S
United States
Britain
West Germany
Italy
Japan
International Monetary Fund
IMF
Washington
Charles de Gaulle
France
Georges Pompidou
Valery Giscard D
Trio Aids Blind With Braille Arboretum Guide
Three sightless high school students Mark Johnson Rhonda Nelson and Anne Grant produced 100 braille copies of the University of Washington native plant walk booklet. The project was funded by Seattle public schools special education department and a civic club.
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Seattle
University of Washington Arboretum
Mark Johnson
Rhonda Nelson
Anne Grant
Special Education Department
Seattle Public Schools
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Rickey Williams
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