Groundbreaking for American Magnesium plant draws wide attention
The SDN Column notes a groundbreaking event for the American Magnesium Company plant drawing interest from far away. Salt Lake City Tribune requested full coverage, and Miss Classified read the account aloud at this paper. Chester Simons, ex police chief now Muskogee assistant city manager, seeks a new police chief there. Nixon criticizes riot blame theory as calls grow for a new approach.
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American Magnesium Company
Daily News
Salt Lake City
Chester Simons
Snyder
Muskogee
Okla
Simons
This Day In History March 10 Highlights Through Time
On March 10 historical events include Bell’s first intelligible telephone sentence in 1876, Jefferson named minister to France in 1785, the Mexican War treaty ratified in 1848, the Blizzard of 1888, California earthquakes in 1933, bombings of Tokyo in 1945, Italian women voting in 1946, Sumatra conflict reports, Bidault detained in 1956, a North Vietnamese steel mill bombing in 1969, and more.
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Alexander Graham Bell
Boston
Watson
Thomas Jefferson
U. S
France
Franklin
U. S. Senate
California
Tokyo
Sumatra
Georges Bidault
Charles de Gaulle
West Germany
Weather forecast for Snyder and Texas regions
The forecast calls for highs around 65 Friday in Snyder with a low near 46 and early Saturday reading at 47 with trace precipitation. Northwest Texas mostly partly cloudy to clear through Sunday with scattered thunderstorms Sunday afternoon and cooler in the far north.
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Snyder
Texas
Lower Coast
Los Angeles High Schools See Prolonged Punitive Walkout
About 1,000 Negro and Mexican American students skip classes for a fourth day protesting second class conditions and language issues at six Los Angeles high schools. Teachers at Jefferson High walk out. 19 juveniles and one young adult arrested amid disturbances. A mass meeting drew Rep. Edward Roybal and Board of Education members. the district plans a Monday meeting to resolve the boycott and ensure attendance.
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Los Angeles
Jefferson High
Edward Roybal
D-Calif
Lincoln
Garfield
Roosevelt
Wilson
Jack Crowther
Board of Education
Battle intensifies around Da Nang and Tam Ky front
U S infantrymen burst from armor and artillery in a major clash nine miles northwest of Tam Ky with initial reports of 85 enemy killed. Casualties include one American dead and 25 wounded as mortars hit Saigon defense areas and five 군 posts near the DMZ endure heavy fighting.
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George Esper
Associated Press
Saigon
U.S
da Nang
Tam Ky
U.S. Americal
Pope Paul Deplores African Hangings
Pope Paul VI criticized the execution of three black Africans in Rhodesia and urged that Ian Smith's regime stop future hangings. He voiced his deepest hope in a letter to Archbishop Francis William Markall of Salisbury.
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Vatican City
Paul VI
Rhodesia
Ian Smith
Salisbury
Francis William Markall
Treasury Nip Rumors On Gold Price Hold
A Treasury official says the price of gold will stay at 35 dollars an ounce despite devaluation jitters after Britain’s pound change. European speculation and a Turkey bus crash with many dead accompany the market nerves and risk of further declines in currency confidence.
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Joseph R. Coyne
Associated Press
Washington
Britain
Europe
Treasury Department
Frederick L. Deming
The
Treasury
United States
United Kingdom
London
Deming
U.S
Brussels
Channel Dam Bids Will Be Sought
The Texas Water Development Board granted a permit for a 2500 acre foot off channel reservoir by the Colorado River Municipal Water District. Directors meet in Odessa to authorize construction of a low water channel dam two miles northwest of Colorado City with a storage lake off the channel. Project cost may exceed 750000 dollars including saline water disposal pipelines. Bids are set for high volume lift pumps in Big Spring and for a water treatment plant serving the Humble IAB field in Coke County near the Robert Lee reservoir.
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Texas Water Development Board
Colorado River
Odessa
Colorado City
Big Spring
Humble
IAB
Coke County
Robert Lee
Water Development Board
CRMWD
O. H. Ivie
S. W. Freese
Freese
Seek Cause Of Fatal Mine Fire
21 miners perished in a salt mine fire at Calumet Louisiana as a four day search ended. Bodies found in a tunnel 3,000 feet from the shaft and nearby as officials review ventilation and fire safety recommendations. Raymond Ashby said the men likely died of carbon monoxide poisoning, treated by mine rescue teams on site.
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Vernon A Guidry JR
Associated Press
Calumet, la
Cargill, Inc
Minneapolis
W. R. Pearch
Cargill
Jim Bowe
Raymond R. Ashby
Kentucky
Ashby
Snyder Hosts Largest Gathering For Texas Teachers
District IV of the Texas State Teachers Association ended its session with about 4,500 members and announced district realignments. Scurry and Mitchell counties join District XIV, which will hold its annual meeting in Sweetwater. Miss Virginia Grove of Snyder High is elected president elect for 1969-70, giving Snyder three district presidents in four years.
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Snyder
Texas State Teachers Association
Scurry County
Mitchell County
Oil Belt
Sweetwater
Miss Virginia Grove
Barbara Bigham
Bill J. Hood
Miss Grove
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Nixon
Wacil McNair
Sparkle
James Jones
West Texas
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Hue
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Istanbul
Afyon
Turkey
Navy
Khe Sgph
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