Snowfall disrupts late season events and coaching costs rise
The column notes unusual late season snowfall with no high school games that day. It discusses rising college and professional coaching staff counts, cites Texas wreck statistics for 1971, and contrasts drunk driving penalties in Australia, Turkey, and Russia with a grim anecdote from Big Spring Herald.
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Dallas Cowboys
Gene Stallings
Texas A&m
Sid Gillman
San Diego Chargers
Tom Landry
National Collegiate Athletic Association
Turkey
Russia
Hart
Today in History highlights through a 1972 lens
On March 31 events shaped U S Japan relations with the 1854 treaty opening two ports. Births include Joseph Haydn in Austria in 1732 and the Eiffel Tower opening in 1889. Other items note the 1917 Virgin Islands transfer, 1931 Managua quake, 1943 Rotterdam raids, 1949 Newfoundland province status, and 1962 steel strike near-miss, plus recent court and death notes.
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United States
Japan
Joseph Haydn
Austria
Paris
American Virgin Islands
Denmark
Managua
Nicaragua
Rotterdam
Newfoundland
Canada
Rodian Y. Malinovsky
Army of the
Fort Benning, Ga
William Calley Jr
My Lai
Weather updates for Texas regions extend through Saturday
Snyder Texas reports 7 am reading 27 degrees with a high of 53 and low of 27. Northwest Texas will be fair and warmer tonight and Saturday with highs 64 to 74 and lows 28 to 38. East regions show cooler nights, warmer Saturdays, and coastal winds easing from 8 to 18 knots to 5 to 15 knots by Saturday.
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Snyder
Northwest
Texas
North Central
Southwest
Pecos
Sagittarius
Capricorn
SRL
Cody
Nice
Aquarius
Nixon names emergency boards to avert rail strikes
President Nixon blocked nationwide rail strikes for 60 days by appointing emergency boards under the National Railway Labor Act. One panel handles the 6,000 Sheet Metal Workers in repair shops. the other covers the Penn Central and the United Transportation Union amid planned layoffs.
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Washington
Nixon
National Railway Labor Act
Railway Labor Act
UTU
Penn Central Railroad
Sheet Metal Workers
Association of American Railroads
Voters set for public, junior college elections Saturday
Snyder and Scurry County voters head to polls Saturday to elect trustees for public schools and the Scurry County Junior College District. Incumbents Bill Wilson and George Patterson seek re election to the junior college board. Snyder Independent School District features three candidates for two places Ted Crenwelge Dillard Teal and Otis J Archie. Fluvanna Independent School District offers two seats with James Beaver incumbent Ramon M Fuentes and Royce Summers. Helmleigh Independent School District lists Terry J Nachlinger and Jim Bridges as candidates with retiring Jimmy Beck and W H Coonrod. Ira Independent School District terms of J J Hall Buford Sterling Billy Calley expire Hall and Calley seek reelection. Voters will use multiple polling sites including West and East Elementary Schools Snyder City Hall and various county boxes for junior college ballots. County board posts also on ballot with incumbents Blake Walker Ray Fulford Cecil Boren. Senate activity notes Penn Central strike threat rejected by union Sheet Metal Workers and mediation talks stall with no new meetings scheduled.
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Snyder
Scurry County
Bill Wilson
George Patterson
Snyder Independent School District
Ted Crenwelge
Dillard Teal
Otis J. Archie
Fluvanna Ind
Jimmy Beck
W.H. Coonrod
Ira Independent
J.J. Hall
Buford Sterling
Billy Calley
Hall
Calley
Leon Sterling
Weldon Wiggins
Donnie Dunn
Snyder Independent School
West
East
Snyder City Hall
Junior College
Fluvanna
Ira
Helmleigh
West Elementary
Blake Walker
Ray Fulford
Cecil Boren
Boren
Walker
Charlie Bley
Easter crowds flood Padre Island despite delays and heat
Thousands of college students gathered on South Padre Island for Easter weekend. Traffic jams and limited restrooms marred the scene as Cameron County park officials anticipate a crowd likely to exceed last year’s 65 000. A $100 000 restrooms and showers project nears completion, but some facilities closed during construction. Complaints include the presence of "Jesus Freaks."
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Port Isabel
Tex
South Padre Island
Cameron County
Larry Allen
Texas
Isla Blanca Park
Allen
B52 Crashes Into Homes Near McCoy AFB
A U S Air Force B52 bomber crashed in flames near McCoy Air Force Base in Orlando. The aircraft struck about eight houses in a northern residential area around 11 a m, with casualties taken to McCoy Base Hospital and other area hospitals.
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Orlando
Fla
McCoy Air Force Base
Charles Goulder
Freeze Expected After Warm Spell Hits Texas
A spring freeze hit West and North Texas with Snyder recording 27 degrees after recent heavy snowfall. Fruit trees and vegetation waking from winter dormancy faced potential damage, though moisture from Thursday could lessen losses. Temperatures dipped to 15 degrees in Marfa and stayed in the low twenties elsewhere with a warming trend possible later.
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Snyder
Texas
Marfa
Panhandle
Plains
U.S. Weather Service
Boyle Convicted In UMW Campaign Conspiracy Case
United Mine Workers President W. A. Boyle was convicted in U S District Court on 13 counts related to campaign contributions channeled through the union from 1966 to 1969.
Pilgrims Flock To Jerusalem For Good Friday Walk
Christian pilgrims from abroad gathered in Jerusalem for the annual Good Friday procession retracing Christ's steps to Calvary. Thousands moved through narrow lanes carrying wooden crosses as warm spring winds swept the city. In Berlin West Germans crossed into East Berlin amid border crowds while flagellants in the Philippines enacted their ritual penitence.
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Associated Press
Jerusalem
Via Dolorosa
Calvary
Israel
Old City
Jordan
Berlin
Wall
East Berlin
East Germany
West Berlin
Philippines
Texas ends reform driven special session after billboard law
The Texas legislature结束 a brief special session led by Governor Preston Smith. Lawmakers approved a billboard and junkyard control act to satisfy federal highway beautification rules and approved funding for May and June primaries. They ratified the 27th amendment, and passed reform rules limiting conference committee power. Speaker Rayford Price was elected amid former speaker Gus Mutscher’s resignation.
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Austin
Tex
Preston Smith
Texas
U.S
Senate
House
Rayford Price
Price
Gus Mutscher
Abilene
Houston
Frank Sharp
Mutscher
Rep
Don Adams
Jasper
Smith
Ben Barnes
Food Chains Cut Prices On Meat
Three major chains moved to ease food costs after a White House meeting. Safeway cut beef prices in 246 stores and Grand Union and Winn-Dixie froze meat and other groceries for 30 days, aiming to curb rising prices as cattle prices eased.
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Washington
Treasury
John B. Connally
Grand Union
Winn-Dixie
Safeway Stores, Inc
Maryland
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Delaware
District of Columbia
Daceanec
Safeway
Basil Winstead
Connally
Agriculture
Earl L. Butz
National Public Affairs Center For Television
Butz
AFS Local Chapter Delays April Meeting to April 8
The American Field Service local chapter shifts its April meeting to April 8 due to Easter holidays. Frank Taylor, president, says AFS sponsors the foreign exchange student program at Snyder High School.
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American Field Service
Frank Taylor
AFS
Snyder High School
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