Ivory-billed Woodpecker Likely Extinct Says Officials
Washington UP reports the ivory-billed woodpecker, once widespread, may be extinct after last confirmed sightings in 1967 and 1950. Officials voice deep doubt on recovery despite occasional calls and late reports, noting habitat loss from lumbering and a vanishing food supply as the bird’s decline continues. The species, noted for its size and striking crest, faced historic habitat destruction in the South.
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Washington
Richard Banks
U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Harry Goodwin
Office of Endangered Species
John V. Dennis
Big
Texas
Dennis
Chipola
Florida
Robert Manns
Audubon Society
Santee
Columbia
S. C
Manns
Neches River
Santee Swamp
Big Thicket
North America
AMA offers medicredit plan for private health care
The American Medical Association outlined a private medicredit program to Congress. It would use a sliding federal contribution based on income and keep operations in private medicine, with an estimated 14.5 billion dollar first year cost and 122 congressional supporters. The plan competes with Nixon and Kennedy Griffith proposals, which favor expanded private care or universal coverage respectively.
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Washington
American Medical Association
Congress
Max H. Parrott
Board of
The
AMA
Russell B. Roth
House of Delegates
Senate Health Subcommittee
Roth
Subcommittee
Nixon
Edward Kennedy
D-Mass
Martha W. Griffith
D-Mich
Kennedy
Medicredit
Today In History highlights March 15 events across centuries
On this date 44 B C Julius Caesar was assassinated. Samuel de Champlain sailed for the New World in 1603. Andrew Jackson was born in 1767. Maine joined the Union in 1820. Darwin raids hit Darwin Australia in 1943. My Fair Lady opened in 1956. The U S joined a UN call for Angola investigation in 1966. Johnson signed Vietnam funding in 1965. Columbia Eagle seized by mutinous crew in 1970.
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Associated Press
B. C
Julius Caesar
Samuel de Champlain
New World
Andrew Jackson
Waxhaw
S. C
Maine
Union
Darwin
Australia
Italy
Cassine
United States
Soviet Union
United Nations
Portugal
Angola
Lyndon B. Johnson
Vietnam
Thailand
Weather summary for Texas regions bright with temperatures
Snyder highs near 87 Saturday and 66 Sunday. lows from 27 to 37 tonight. Panhandle warms to 60s today and 76 in south Tuesday. Northwest Texas partly cloudy tonight, clear Tuesday. North Central Texas fair. Northeast fair. Southeast mild. South Central fair with 72 to 85 Tuesday highs. Coastal winds 10 to 20 knots easing this afternoon.
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Snyder
Texas
Panhandle
Gandhi Is Victorious in Indian Election Victory
Indira Gandhi’s Congress wins a two thirds majority in Parliament. She pledges focus on unemployment and boosting agriculture and industry. The victory eliminates a formal opposition as Marxists gain only 19 seats while a four party alliance collapses.
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New Delhi
India
Indira Gandhi
Gandhi
New
Congress Party
Mrs. Gandhi
The
Marxists
Dust Clouds Darken Texas Skies Over State
Dry front swept into Texas pushing West Texas dust into a brown haze that dimmed skies from Dalhart to the coast. Panhandle temperatures fell to the 30s while McAllen recorded 101 degrees in the Lower Rio Grande Valley as the dust drifted east and storms remained absent.
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Associated Press
Texas
Gulf of Mexico
Panhandle
SST Financing Clears House Step for SST Prototypes
The House Appropriations Committee approved 289.9 million for two SST prototype development and sent the bill to the House floor for debate. Projections show 50,000 jobs at peak production and potential up to 150,000 more as output grows, with private financing cited at 403 million and total federal outlays around 1.3 billion.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
House
Senate
Congress
Senate House
Jack McFall
D-Calif
Appropriations Committee
Soviet Union
Britain
France
United States
Sidney R. Yates
D-Nl
Yates
Snyder High selects six for Boys and Girls State sessions
Three boys and one girl from Snyder High School will attend the 1971 American Legion Boys State and Auxiliary Girls State in Austin. Delegates include Art Kidd Butch Buchanan Bob Jackson and Jacque Stehley with alternates Hamp Yearwood Joe Bullard Delores Lewallen Darlene Abbott and Jan Shelburne. Fifty-one Boys State attendees will be chosen, with two from each school going to the national Boys State in Washington, D C. The programs simulate state government with parties campaigns elections and lawmaking.
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Snyder High School
American Legion
American Legion Auxiliary
Austin
SHS
Frank D. Stephenson
Americanism
Layne-Kite Post
Art Kidd
Robert J. Kidd
Irving
Butch Buchanan
Harold Buchanan
Bob Jackson
Neil A. Jackson
Jacque Stehley
James M. Stehley
Hamp Yearwood
H. H. Yearwood
Sunset
Joe Bullard
James C. Bullard
Delores Lewallen
Maydell Lewaallen
Darlene Abbott
Chester Abbott
Avondale
Jan Shelburne
L. B. Shelburne
Washington, D. C
Rockwall Ethics Vote Hinted For Senate Test
Sen. Ralph Hall of Rockwall plans a Senate vote on his legislative ethics bill. He expects 26 of 31 senators to back it. The measure requires public disclosure of income and investments and confidential filing of federal tax returns with the state Supreme Court clerk. It also bars legislators or their partners from hiring to represent clients before state agencies.
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State Supreme Court
Senate Elections Committee
Senate Insurance Committee
Eban Eyes Suez Canal Return Amid Middle East Talks
Foreign Minister Abba Eban flew to the United States to press for reopening the Suez Canal under an interim accord to break the stalemate in Arab Israeli talks. He aims to urge Washington that Israel will not yield Arab Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, or Sharm el Sheik and to meet with Secretary Rogers and UN envoy Jarrett. He said both sides hint at canal opening before a general agreement while Meir faces domestic criticism over a proposed demilitarized Sinai and a mixed peace force.
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Associated Press
TEL Aviv
Abba Eban
United States
Suez Canal
Middle East
Washington
Israel
Jerusalem
Golan Heights
Sharm el Sheik
Eban
William P. Rogers
Gunnar V. Jarring
U.N
New York
Golda Meir
Times of London
Sinai Desert
Meir
Canada Pipeline Route Proposed
Nixon administration environment chief urges rerouting the Alaska oil pipeline through Canada to curb environmental degradation and tanker traffic. William D. Ruckelshaus cites pollution risks and calls for further study before Interior Department action, noting possible Canadian routes via Mackenzie Valley and criticism of the draft statement by Defense and Army officials.
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Washington
Nixon Administration
Alaska
Canada
Interior Department
William D. Ruckelshaus
Environmental Protection Agency
Interior
Rogers C.B. Morton
Ruckelshaus
Department of the Interior
North Slope
Mackenzie Valley
Valdez
Defense Department
Army Corps of Engineers
Morton
Khan Arrives In Dacca in Crisis Meeting
President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan arrived in Dacca for talks with Sheik Mujibur Rahman as Rahman eases the general strike but tightens provincial control. Refugees clash with troops near the airport while civilian defense workers ignore orders to return to work and a man is shot.
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Arnold Zeitlin
Associated Press
Dacca
East Pakistan
Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan
Sheik Mujibur Rahman
Sheik Mujib
Rahman
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