Snyder Plant Develops New Brick Process
The Snyder plant introduces a shuttle type brick making method with about 6 percent breakage vs 15 percent for traditional methods. Ray Martin outlines a patent secured with foreign filings as Southwestern Brick and Tile experiments with kilns and pre fabricated smaller units. Inquiries arrive from Wales Switzerland and Australia as local employment may rise from 14 workers.
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Producers Club
Snyder Chamber of Commerce
Southwestelt, Brick and Tile Co
Snyder
Ray Martin
A. L. Martin
Bill Martin
Wuanita Strayhorn
Henry Bunch
Chilicothe
Clan Bunch
Martin
Wales
Switzerland
Australia
Southwestern
Cisco
Market Moves Up After Gemini Failure News
New York AP reports the stock market rose early afternoon as a livery rally paused on news the Agena satellite failed to reach orbit, derailing the Gem ini 9 mission. By noon the Dow stood at 871.43, up 3.90, with trading slowing and aerospace issues weakening yet the trend remained higher.
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New York
Agena
Wall Street
UFOs Reported Over Memphis Texas District
Rural residents described cigar shaped objects seen overhead near Memphis with reports of one bursting into flames after landing. Witnesses included J W Hatley and Glen Callahan who described objects 20 feet long and four to eight feet wide carrying radios and batteries, and a parachute like object seen earlier.
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Memphis
Tex
David Duncan
Radio 1
KGBH
Ernest Lee
Here
Duncan
Salisbury
J. W. Hatley
Brice
Hatfield
Hatley
Glen Callahan
Gemini 9 Flight Scrubbed After Agena Target Fails
The Gemini 9 rendezvous mission was postponed for at least three weeks after the Agena target satellite failed to reach orbit. Astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cerneck were to practice space maneuvers for Apollo era Moon missions.
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Howard Benedict
AP Aerospace
Cape Kennedy
Thomas P. Stafford
Eugene A. Cernan
Stafford
Cernan
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
George E. Mueller
Atlantic Ocean
Mission Control
Houston
Ky Alerts Military For Buddhist Riots
Premier Ky orders elite 7th Infantry Division to stand by in Saigon as Buddhist protests raise political tensions. Monks plan a 48 hour hunger strike while dissident troops resist the regime amid clashes in Hue and Da Nang.
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Andrew Borowiec
Saigon
Nguyen Cao Ky
Hue
U.S
Huynh van Cao
Viet Nam
Jonas M. Platt
Lewis W. Walt
da Nang
Tthe
Thien Minh
Thich Tri
Fate of 262 Aboard Pioneer Cebu Remains Uncertain
Manila AP report says 262 aboard the 740 ton Pioneer Cebu are unaccounted after rescue boats failed to locate her. Typhoon Irma drove her aground near Malapascua Tepilon islands. sister ship Pioneer Tacloban found no sign and sighted a possibly abandoned coastal steamer off Tepilon.
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Pioneer Cebu
Pioneer Tacloban
Filipinas Pioneer Lines
Few Senior Citizens Take Free Schooling
In Connecticut senior citizens can study free as senior scholars but only one person uses the program across the University of Connecticut and seven state colleges.
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New Haven, Conn
Connecticut
University of Connecticut
Sudden Summer Brings Heat to Snyder Area
The Snyder area saw temperatures near the century mark after a cool spring. Official high reached 99 degrees while unofficial readings topped 100, recalling a 100 degree day on April 21, 1965.
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Snyder
Weather report for Texas regions with variable conditions
Weather update for Snyder and various Texas regions noting high temperatures around 99 degrees in Snyder with 7 am reading of 76. Northwest to southeast areas show cooler conditions tonight and Wednesday with lows from 45 to 76 and highs from 78 to 92. Scattered showers possible in South Central and Southeast Texas with cloudy spells elsewhere.
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Snyder
Texas
Northwest
Antelope Valley to Host Sonic Boom Study
Edwards Air Force Base and NASA plan a three month experiment starting June 1 using the XB70A bomber and other aircraft to study sonic booms and jet noise. Structures including two instrumented houses will be used along with base personnel and nearby residents.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Antelope Valley
Air Force and
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Moyers Hospitalized After Fall at White House
Bill Moyers, President Johnson's press secretary, was admitted to Bethesda Naval Hospital after a fall at the White House. A hospital spokesman said the condition was not serious and he was expected to be released later.
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Bethesda, Md
Bill D. Moyers
Johnson
Bethesda Naval Hospital
White House
Moyers
Oilmen Seek Restored Crude Price to 1957 Level
Malcolm D. Able of Midland urged restoring crude prices to the 1957 level at the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association meeting. A floor motion requested Crude buyers to raise prices to Suez Crisis era levels, with Able noting a return to 1957 would imply about 20 cents per barrel.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Texas Independent Oil Operators
Malcolm D. Able
Midland
Able
Texas Indepen
Herrmann
Senate Panel Moves to Oversee CIA Operations
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved 14 to 5 a plan to create a 10 member intelligence watchdog to supervise CIA operations. The measure would place three Foreign Relations members on the existing seven member CIA oversight panel, facing opposition from Sen. Richard B. Russell who chairs the CIA panel and the Armed Services Committee.
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Jack Bell Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Eugene J. McCarthy
D. Minn
U.S
McCarthy
CIA
Armed Services and Appropriations
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Armed Services Committee
FBI agent slain during search for kidnapped woman in Shade Gap
An FBI agent searching for Peggy Ann Brodnick and her kidnapper was fatally shot by an unknown gunman hiding in the woods of Shade Gap Pennsylvania. The incident occurred amid the effort to rescue Brodnick and apprehend the suspect.
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Shade Gap
Peggy Ann Brodnick
Pennsylvania
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