Lions Sell Half of Coaches All-America Game Tickets
The Snyder Lions ticket chairman Cecil Boren said about half of the 300 tickets for the June 26 game in Lubbock have sold with demand expected to rebound before game day. Tickets are $7 and Snyder will be represented by Murry Bowden on the East team. Also noted is Wickes Corp issued its 117th annual report showing over 500 million in sales for 1971 with its Snyder mobile home plant among divisions.
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Lions Club
Lubbock
Cecil Boren
Lions Ticket
Snyder
West Texans
Murry Bowden
Dartmouth
Wickes Corp
Wickes
Senate Rejects 50 Percent Troop Cut in Europe
The Senate voted 61 to 36 against Democrat Mike Mansfield’s proposal to cut U.S. European forces by 50 percent by end of 1971. Nixon’s foreign policy authority faced further Senate challenges as three similar bills to curb presidential power abroad loom, with Mansfield vowing to try again.
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Washington
Nixon
Senate
U.S
Europe
Congress
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
White House
Indochina
Today in History highlights May 20, 1971
On this date Lindbergh began his solo New York to Paris flight in 1927. Columbus died in 1506. Lincoln signed the Homestead Act in 1862. Cuba became a republic in 1902 as American occupation ended. Parachute troops landed on Crete in 1941. China extraterritorial rights treaty abolished in 1943. Desegregation order in Alabama followed in 196?
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Associated Press
Charles A. Lindbergh
New York
Paris
Christopher Columbus
Spain
Abraham Lincoln
Cuba
Crete
United States
Britain
China
Alabama
Montgomery
Cambodia
Weather snapshot across Texas with warm trend and storms
Snyder area reports a high of 76 and low of 52 with 7 am reading of 55. Northern Texas sees fair conditions, south faces scattered thunderstorms and warmer tonight with temps 54 to 64. Friday brings partly cloudy skies, warmer temps in the 80s, and widely scattered thunderstorms mainly in the south.
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Snyder
Texas
Pecos
Brownsville
Port O’connor
History Teacher James Palmer Joins Western Texas College
Dr. Ben Brock announces the appointment of James O Palmer as instructor in history and geography at Western Texas College. Palmer will move to Snyder in August to begin duties after completing his PhD coursework at University of Oklahoma. He holds a 1967 B S from Oklahoma and taught in Sundown and at Sul Ross State University.
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James 0. Palmer
Western Texas College
Ben Brock
Palmer
Snyder
University of Oklahoma
Sundown
Texas
Sul Ross State University
Alpine
Norman
Oklahoma
Phi Alpha Theta
Gamma Theta Upsilon
WTSU
Panhandle-Plains Historical Review
Married
Nine Jews Sentenced in Leningrad Hijack Plot Trial
The nine Jews on trial in Leningrad were convicted on hijack plotting charges and anti-Soviet slander and sentenced to labor camp terms. The trial began May 11, Soviet sources reported.
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Moscow
Leningrad
Snyder High Choir Final Concert and Banquet Tonight
The Snyder High School Choir presents its final concert at 7 pm in the SHS auditorium, lasting about an hour. Admission is 50 cents for school age and older. after the concert, the choir holds its annual banquet.
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Snyder High School
SHS
Nixon and Soviet agree to pursue arms limit talks this year
President Nixon announced that the United States and the Soviet Union will work this year toward an agreement limiting antiballistic missiles and offensive nuclear weapons. He said the move could break the stalemate in SALT talks begun in 1969. The White House noted no specific breakthrough details.
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Nixon
United States
Soviet Union
Moscow
U. S
Finland
Pompidou Heath Meet Aims To Revive Anglo French Alliance
In Paris, President Pompidou and Prime Minister Heath held long talks to revive their alliance and ease Britain’s bid to join the European Common Market. They weighed Europe’s Western defense, Brussels negotiations, and effects of enlarging the market on currencies and trade.
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Arthur L. Gavshon
Associated Press
Paris (Ap
Georges Pompidou
Edward Heath
France
Britain
United States
West Germany
Pompidou
Heath
Europe
Brussels
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Middle East
Asia
Africa
Independence Day Plans Take Shape at Towle Memorial Park
Cochairmen Bentley Baize and Jimmy McFarland met with Chamber Manager Mickey Nunley to outline plans for the Independence Day event in Towle Memorial Park. Committees will handle arrangements as the July 5 celebration draws thousands to town.
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Towle Memorial Park
Cochairmen Bentley Baize
Jimmy McFarland
Chamber of Commerce
Mickey Nunley
Waters Rites Here Today
Funeral service for James Waters age 43 held at Bell Seale Chapel after a fatal accident at Winston Field. Waters, an aircraft maintenance engineer at the county airport, was killed when he fell into a moving propeller while helping to start the engine. Burial in Hillside Memorial Gardens guided by Bell Seale Funeral Home. May Godfrey officiated. ministers M D Methvin Vester Clanton and Louise Sutton assisted.
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Bell-Seale
James Waters
Winston Field
M. D. Methvin
Follette
Vester Clanton
Louise Sutton
Snyder
Hillside Memorial Gardens
Bell Seale Funeral Home
Waters
Nixon orders drought aid moves for Southwest farmers
President Nixon announced emergency measures to aid drought hit farmers and ranchers in Texas Eastern New Mexico and Western Oklahoma. The plan includes 50 million in farm ownership loans at 5 percent, 75 million in feed grain price support, and another 75 million in operating loans. A hay bank was created for set aside lands. Also mentioned were talks with Senators Tower and Bellmon and a request for 65 million from the Farmers Home Administration. In Houston a second item reports the death of Delores Pullard Johnson 24 of DeQuincy Louisiana from brain tumor surgery complications.
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Washington
Southwest
Nixon
Texas
New Mexico
Oklahoma
John Tower
R-Tex
Henry Bellman
R-Okla
Clifford M. Hardin
Senate Action House
Congress
Farmers Home Administration
Hardin
Houston
Louisiana
Ben Taub
Delores Pullard Johnson
DeQuincy
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