America’s last real Fourth of July foreseen by columnist
The SDN Column cites Jim Cornish predicting a future ban on fireworks after this year with only licensed night displays allowed. He notes prices will rise and many companies may close, while urging one more display at Towle Memorial Park on July 4. The piece also mentions State Rep Heatly travel expense questions and a bons mots from the San Angelo Standard Times.
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Jim Cornish
The
Post Dispatch
America
Cornish
Houston
Astrodome
Lamesa Press- Reporter
Slaton
Towle Memorial Park
W.S. Heatly
San Angelo
Wacil McNair
This Date in History June 28 Highlights Across 1914 1967
On June 28 events shaped world history from the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand in 1914 to major wartime milestones in World War I and II. Other notes include Monmouth battles in 1778, Victoria’s 1838 coronation, the 1919 Versailles Treaty, Luzon reconquest in 1945, Jordan talks in 1967, and Nixon’s 1969 Pacific plans.
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Associated Press
Austria-Hungary
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Sarajevo
Bosnia
Monmouth
N.J
Molly Pitcher
Britain
Victoria
France
Yugoslavia
Douglas MacArthur
Luzon
Philippines
Hussein of Jordan
Johnson
Washington
Jordan
Israel
Henry Cabot Lodge
South Vietnam
U.S
Asia
Nixon
Pacific
Weather forecast for Texas highlights hot weekend
Snyder area reports 90s Thursday and near 63 at 7 am. Panhandle cool nights and thunderstorms. highs Saturday from 90 to 105 in various regions. North Central mostly fair with 88 to 98 Saturday. South Texas partly cloudy, warm with 86 to 96 Saturday. Coastal winds 8 to 15 knots, seas 2 to 4 feet.
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Snyder
Texas
Panhandle
Chrysler Raises Auto Prices After Steel Cost Jump
Chrysler Corp increases prices on cars and trucks by about 60 dollars per vehicle as steel costs rise, effective next Monday. The move comes amid industry wide price hikes as Bethlehem and U S Steel lift steel prices and GM Ford AMC respond with varied changes.
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Detroit
Chrysler Corp
Chrysler
U.S
General Motors
Ford
American Motors
AMC
Bethlehem
US. Steel
U.S. Steel
Bethlehem’s
Separation of powers article approved by Texas Constitutional Convention
The convention approved the separation of powers article and adjourned to 2 p.m. Monday. Sen. Bob Gammage noted the General Provisions Committee cannot finish before then for an informed debate. The judiciary article was finalized Thursday with seven amendments mostly minor. The article proposes merging the Texas Supreme Court and Court of Criminal Appeals while civil appeals gain criminal jurisdiction.
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Robert Heard
Associated Press
Austin
Bob Gammage
D-Houston
Texas Supreme Court
Court of Criminal Appeals
High Court
Subpoena Denied In Bail Bond Inquiry
A Dallas County District Court judge denied motions to subpoena two Dallas Times Herald reporters and three county officials in a bail bond inquiry. Lawyer John Coil sought subpoenas for Tom Johnson executive editor of the Times Herald, Bob Dudney investigative reporter, Commissioner Jim Tyson, Asst. Dist. Atty. Howard Fenter, and Special Prosecutor Whitley Sessions. coil, summoned as a witness, offered no reason for the subpoenas.
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Dallas
Dee Brown Walker
John Coil
Tom Johnson
Dallas Times Herald
Bob Dudney
Times Herald
Jim Tyson
Tarrant County Asst
Howard Fenter
Whitley Sessions
Walker
Coil
Humphrey Defends Use Of Personal Campaign Funds
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey defends using more than $100,000 of his own money in 1972 campaign finances and concealing it from the public. He calls the move an honest deal and says it reflected a lifetime investment by him and his wife Muriel. The Watergate panel also releases a report on McGovern and Lindsay funds, noting McGovern's use of $340,417 in leftover 1972 money for Senate re election and Lindsay’s $10,000 cash raised from contractors. legality questioned but not challenged.
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Washington
Sen
Hubert H. Humphrey
Senate Watergate Committee
Lord Jesus Christ
Minnesota
Humphrey
Associated Press
Muriel
Donald Sanders
George McGovern
John V. Lindsay
McGovern
Senate
John Holum
Holum
Watergate Committee
New York
Lindsay
City Highway Department
Panel Not Persuaded By St. Clair
Washington AP reports House Judiciary Committee members show presidential lawyer James D. St. Clair did not persuade the panel to overturn the impeachment case. Some lawmakers said his presentation was helpful but not convincing and did not contradict Doar’s framework. Rebozo seeks court block on further inquiry into his affairs.
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Washington
House Judiciary Committee
James D. St. Clair
Henry P. Smith II
R-N.y
St. Clair
George E. Danielson
Dcalif
Nixon
Judiciary Committee
John Doar
Charles E. Wiggins
Rcalif
Doar
Wiggins
Senate Watergate Committee
Hubert H. Humphrey
George McGovern
New York
John V. Lindsay
Humphrey
Associated Press
Charles G
Bebe’’ Rebozo
Watergate Panel
Soviet press omits word in Nixon Brezhnev report
Pravda deleted the word personal from Nixon's Kremlin toast sentence, signaling Soviet hopes for continued detente regardless of leadership. Editors aim to emphasize state guarantees over individual ties, with front page photos casting Brezhnev and Nixon as old friends.
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Moscow
Nixon
Soviet Communist Party
Soviet Union
Communist Party
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Kremlin
Pravda
Brezhnev
United States
Ehrlichman Approved Break-In, Plumbers Trial Opens
Prosecutor Merrill opened the Plumbers case stating John Ehrlichman approved the Fielding office break-in. Ehrlichman’s lawyer denied involvement, saying any rights breach did not stem from him. The court heard a July 31 1971 phone thread and noted approval depended on secrecy.
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Washington
White House
John D. Ehrlichman
Daniel Ellsberg
William SS. Merrill
Ehrlichman
Henry H. Jones
Plumbers
Merrill
Lewis J. Fielding
Beverly Hills
Ellsberg
Pentagon
Fielding
Cape Cod
Mass
David R. Young
Egil Krogh
The
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Texas Electric Service Co
Snyder Square
Barry Schweid
Henry A. Kissinger
Andrei A. Gromyko
Alexei N. Kosygin
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Star City
Ronald L. Ziegler
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