Snyder Daily News Birth Date Recalled Twenty Five Years Later
The Snyder Daily News began May 1 1950 and covered a booming oil era in Snyder Texas. Read notes from its first issue recounting a youth center meeting a drys mass gathering and a local option vote while state leaders toured highways, census counts and Roosevelt era politics.
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Snyder
Scurry County
Wickes
Austin
Texas Highway Commission
Clairemont Road
U.S. 84
WTC Awards Honor Outstanding Students in 3rd Annual Ceremony
Western Texas College highlighted top students at Awards Day in the Fine Arts Theatre with Dr. Ben Brock presiding. Recipients span English, journalism, photography, theatre, sciences, social sciences, and athletic leadership, including D'Ann Fisher, Cindy Hanson, Mack Walker, Lynn Leavell, and Debra Collins among many others.
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Jeff Box
Benny Ellington
The
Western Texan
Western Texas College
Mike McBride
Box
Ellington
Ben Brock
WTC
Cindy Hanson
Fort Worth
D’ann Fisher
Snyder
David Posey
Post
A. Dale Peterson
Katy Bullock
Abilene
Paul Gilbert
San Angelo
Deana Hardegree
Colorado City
Mack Walker
Lynn Leavell
Bible
Emmalie Sleeper
Paula Baldwin
Julie Jones
John Wendeborn
Lovington
N.M
Steve Bratton
Rotan
Ross Trout
Carol Posey
Thelma Ross
Sue Smith
John Black
Bob Clark
Bobby Goodwin
Charles Brazil
Roscoe
Texas
May Day Through History Highlights From 1898 to Today
On this date May 1 1898 Dewey wrecked the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay. The Smithsonian cornerstone was laid in 1847. The 1931 Empire State Building was dedicated. The 1945 Nazi radio announced Hitler’s death. The 1961 first hijacking to Cuba occurred. The 1971 Marine hijacker released in Rome. The UN Security Council to meet a Soviet Cuba vote. Five years ago Cambodia incursion. One year ago Nixon transcripts rejected by House Judiciary.
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Associated Press
George Dewey
Manila Bay
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D.C
Chicago
Empire State Building
New York
Adolf Hitler
Cuba
U.S
California
Italy
Raffaele Minichiello
Rome
U.N. Security Council
Dominican Republic
Cambodia
House Judiciary Committee
Richard Nixon
Snyder Texas Weather Outlook
The report reads a temperature reading of 51 degrees at 7 am and forecasts clear to partly cloudy skies across Northwest and Southwest Texas through Friday with a warming trend. Highs reach 70s to 90s in Big Bend while north regions see highs near 74 to 83 and nights in the 40s to 50s. Texas Coast expects easterly winds 10 to 18 knots with seas two to four feet and showers and thundershowers possible in scattered activity.
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Snyder
Texas
Big Bend
HMO Bill Wins Easy House Approval in Texas
In Austin the House passed a compromise bill easing barriers to creating HMOs by 128 to 4 and sent it to the Senate for likely approval of a minor change before final signature by the governor. A second Senate bill creating a new system for updating voter registration lists passed preliminarily 102 to 30 amid debate and a party parity amendment.
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Senate
Confusion on U.S. Economy With Tax Cuts and Oil Tariff Delays
Government tax cut outlines promise higher take home pay starting today while GM warns higher 1976 model prices. Ford delays oil tariff hike to push energy program, price controls to end in two years. AP survey notes falling groceries while agriculture reports May gains. Dow rises 18.3 to 821.34 as Ford reports first quarter loss and economists warn wage pressures may rekindle inflation.
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General Motors
Ford
Associated Press
Agriculture Department
Ford Motor Co
Presi
Congress
House Rejects Ford Aid Plea
The House rejected a 227 million dollar aid bill for Indochina refugees by a 162 to 24 vote. President Ford warned that current evacuation authority is moot as the Saigon evacuation is complete. Opponents urged a quicker passage of a new bill without blank check powers.
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Washington
Ford
House
Saigon
Congress
United States
Thomas P. O’neill Jr
Massachusetts
Donald W. Riegle
Rmich
Riegle
House International Relations Committee
Thomas E. Morgan
D-Pa
Vietnam
Morgan
Scurry County School Board Discusses Superintendent Office
The Scurry County School Board elected officers and reviewed future operations of the County Superintendent's office without action. A June 9 meeting will study the office further. Voters approved abolishing the office on April 22, effective January 1, 1979. Roy Carter seeks gradual transfer of duties to the board. Marvin Hanson and Ray Fulford were re elected as chairman and vice chairman.
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Scurry County
Roy Carter
Marvin Hanson
Ray Fulford
Protestant Win Seen In Ireland
In Belfast Northern Ireland hard line Protestants faced a vote for a convention to shape a new government. The United Ulster Unionist Council led by militants aimed for a majority, with 78 seats contested and 60 of 165 candidates fielded. Direct rule from London could persist amid sectarian tension and continued security alerts.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
London
Ulster
United Ulster Unionist Council
Social Democratic and Labor Party
Alliance Party
Brian Faulkner
Unionists
Northern Ireland Labor Party
Irish Republican Army
Provisional
Snyderite Sees His Brother Evacuated From Saigon
Franklin Pruitt of Snyder reports his brother Ray Pruitt, Defense Attache in Saigon, evacuated amid the Vietnam crisis after watching television scenes. Franklin says he saw Ray on screen but waits for direct contact. Earlier, a transport plane crash killed 48 of 50 from Ray Pruitt’s office, including his secretary.
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Franklin Pruitt
Snyder
Saigon
South Vietnam
Ray Pruitt
Pruitt
Lubbock
U.S
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