South Viets Sustain Heaviest Losses Yet
AP reports February casualties in South Vietnam set a record with 870 KIA, 1,820 WIA, 1,450 missing, totaling 4,140 and surpassing December's high. American combat deaths numbered 43 in February, linked to Pleiku and Qui Nhon attacks and retaliatory strikes. Viet Cong casualties reached about 2,065, with 2,500 government weapons lost and 655 Viet Cong weapons captured.
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George McArthur
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Pleiku
Qui Nhonl
North Viet Nam
Qui Nhon
Central Vietnamese
Patton Files for Snyder City Council Place 3
R C Patton has filed to run for Place 3 on Snyder city council in the April 6 election. He was appointed to Place 3 in January after M L Broman became mayor, following J Mark McLaughlin’s resignation. Broman also filed to run for the mayor’s remaining one year term, with Bobby McCormick and Marshall Erwin seeking re election. Deadline for city candidates to file was Saturday.
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R. C. Patton
Snyder City
Patton
M. L. Broman
Broman
J. Mark McLaughl
Bobby McCormick
Marshall Erwin
Congress OKs Appalachia aid bill for Johnson signature
Congress clears a $1.1 billion Appalachia aid bill with a 257 to 165 House vote after GOP amendments fail. Senate previously passed. Johnson expected to sign. The plan funds highways and regional development across 360 counties in 11 states with major federal and local cost sharing and a governor-led commission oversight.
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William F. Arbogast
Washington
Congress
Johnson
House
Senate
Appalachian
Alabama
Georgia
Kentucky
Maryland
North Carolina
Ohio
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
West Virginia
New York
Thy
Cushenbery Rites Set Saturday
Funeral services are planned for 2 30 p m Saturday for Wallace L Cushenbery 53 of the Lamesa highway welder who died at Cogdell Hospital after a heart attack He had been in poor health about a week Born January 1 1912 in Wann Oklahoma he lived in Scurry County 14 years coming from Hobbs New Mexico Survived by wife Claudine daughter Janice 15 son Dale a Texas Tech student and sister Agnes Frazier of Kansas City Missouri Services at Colonial Hill Baptist Church with Rev Miller Robinson officiating Arrangements by Bell Seale Funeral Home
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Cushenbery
Cogdell Hospital
Wann
Okla
Scurry County
Hobbs
N. M
Colonial Hill Baptist Church
Miller Robinson
Bell Seale Funeral Home
Claudine
Janice
Dale
Moscow Demonstrators Attack U S Embassy in Protest
About 2,000 Moscow and Lumumba University students and others pelted the U S Embassy with rocks and ink in a ten minute protest against U S air raids on North Vietnam. Police and then Moscow garrison soldiers pushed the crowd back as windows were smashed up to the seventh floor and multicolored ink stained the facade.
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Henry S. Bradsher
U.S
Moscow
Amassador
Foy D. Kohler
Lumumba
North Viet Nam
Candidates Seek Spot On School Board
The Snyder Independent School District election for three trustees drew nine candidates after two more names joined by the Wednesday deadline Jorden Brunken 39 general sales manager of Wilson Motors and Roy Mc Closkey 54 local insurance man filed for ballot spots Brunken and his wife have two children in Snyder schools while Mc Closkey and his wife are parents of two daughters The ballot also lists Ed Dickerson Kenneth Wilson Charles Hartman Gordon Dysart Bill Hardy W J Schiebel and Albert Ray Martin Schiebel and Martin seek reelection Incumbent Lee Dan Stone did not file for reelection.
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Snyder Independent
Jorden Brunken
Roy McCloskey
Brunken
Wilson Motors
Avondale Avenue
McCloskey
Snyder High School
Baylor University
Ed Dickerson
Kenneth Wilson
Charles Hartman
Gordon Dysart
Bill Hardy
W. J. Schiebel
Albert Ray Martin
Textbook Hearing Set In Cafeteria by Snyder School Board
The Snyder School Board will hold a textbook hearing tonight at 7 30 p m in the high school cafeteria replacing the planned auditorium session due to a scheduling conflict. The meeting will discuss textbook selections and related concerns from district residents and staff.
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Snyder School Board
Dr King to Lead 50 Mile Selma March Toward Capitol
Dr Martin Luther King Jr plans a mass march from Selma to Montgomery to press liberalization of Alabama voting laws during the Legislature's special session. He led a funeral service for Jimmie Lee Jackson in Marion and vowed an unending campaign for racial equality in Alabama.
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Martin Luther King
Rex Thomas
Selma
Ala
Martin Luther King Jr
Montgomery
Alabama
King
Marion
Guy. Peeves Wallace
Education King
Washington
Jimmie Lee Jackson
New York
Jackson
Perry County
Zion Methodist Church
China Urges USSR to Drop Khrushchev Policies
Peking’s People Daily accuses Khrushchev revisionism of continuing influence in the Soviet Union. It questions the virtue of successors and calls for a cleansing of Khrushchev’s line. Moscow negotiations over a final communique reflect tensions between pro Chinese and pro Western factions among Communist parties.
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N.S
Khrushchev
John Roderick
Tokyo
Peking
Shape
Moscow
Nigrave
Kita
Moscow-Peking
Australia
Brazil
India
Mariner 4 Spacecraft Faces Instrument Failures
Mars-bound Mariner 4 remains on course for a July 14 photo mission to Mars but two instruments have developed failures. Engineers are compensating and still receiving data from one instrument, while full data transmission is reduced.
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Los Angeles
Big Load Of Liquor Confiscated
Deputy Leon Ward observed a westbound vehicle approach Ira and stop with its lights out. Anderson Davis Jr faced charges of illegal transport of alcohol in a dry area with a $500 bond. he is also free on a $1,000 federal bond in Lubbock for alleged retail sales without a license. The pickup contained 20 cases of beer, 64 half pints bourbon, 72 half pints wine, 12 pints bourbon, and 24 half pints vodka.
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Ira
Leon Ward
Lake Thomas
Ward
Anderson Davis, Jr
Davis
Lubbock
Odessa hosts 30th West Texas Teachers Convention
Public School pupils enjoy a holiday as teachers and administrators travel to Odessa for the 30th annual West Texas Teachers Association District IV convention. Sessions include general meetings, luncheons, section meetings, and workshops with 160 delegates to hear reports, consider resolutions, and elect officers for next year. The general session for 4,000 members starts tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. Presiding will Mrs. LaRue Hutchinson of Andrews.
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Odessa
West Texas Teachers Association
The
Texas State Teachers Association
Andrews
Borden
Crane
Dawson
Ector
Gaines
Glasscock
Howard
Loving
Martin
Midland
Mitchell
Reagan
Scurry
Upton
Winkler
LaRue Hutchinson
Weather Snyder Temperatures Rise Across Regions
Weather report shows high Wednesday near 4 degrees with a low around 30 in Snyder. North Central and Northeast Texas warm up today and Friday with lows 23 to 32 and highs 52 to 63. Northwest Texas fair and warmer, coastal winds variable, seas 5 to 18 knots. Central and Southeast Texas warmer afternoons, with frost tonight. Southwest Texas fair today and Friday, highs 36 to 70, light winds.
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Snyder
Texas
15 Feared Dead In Gas Explosion Near Natchitoches
A high pressure natural gas pipeline exploded north of Natchitoches LA early day. At least 15 people were killed or missing, nine injured, with eight automobiles melted by heat and a 200 yard crater. Children among the dead. area spanned near a country club and several homes.
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Natchitoches
Tennes
Here
Norman Fletcher
Natchitoch
Country Club
Parish Civil Defense
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