Two Hundred Years of U S Cotton Spotlighted
The SDN Column notes rising American interest in history and highlights a Nor Am Agricultural booklet titled Two Hundred Years of U S Cotton. It claims cotton influenced Columbus’s recognition of the Bahamas as India in 1942 and traces cotton cultivation from Jamestown’s early garden plots to widespread growth over 175 years.
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U.S
Nor-Am Agricultural Products, Inc
Christopher Columbus
Bahamas
India
Jamestown
Ford to Outline Energy Plan With Tax on Imported Oil
President Ford will outline an energy program including at least a second dollar tariff per barrel of imported oil. Kissinger indicated the plan aims to cut imports by about 1.2 million barrels daily by 1977 and reduce overall foreign petroleum dependence by the 1980s.
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Ford
Henry A. Kissinger
Ternational Energy Association
Paris
U.S
Oval Office
White House
Courage
United States
Congress
Senate School Finance Bill Delayed By Redistricting Conflict
In Austin, Senator A R Schwartz blocks public school finance debate over a House plan that splits Galveston County into three districts. Senate sponsor Oscar Mauzy previews a 602.6 million bill aimed at correcting Rodriguez era inequities with state aid rules and teacher pay raises, while districts may need higher local taxes to fund promised increases.
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Austin
Tex
A.R. Schwartz
Galveston County
Schwartz
Galveston
Ed Harris
Senate
House
Bill Meier
D-Fort Worth
Oscar Mauzy
D-Dallas
Mauzy
Rodriguez
Rabies Outbreak Reported in Howard and Scurry Counties
Scurry County Sanitarian Louie Vaughan reports rabies in Howard and Scurry Counties with confirmed rabid dog and skunk cases. Health officials urge dog vaccination, note possible transmission by breath, and advise reporting animals acting strangely to authorities.
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Howard
Scurry
Louie Vaughan
Scurry County
State Health Department
Region 4
Abilene
Vaughan
Health Department
Howard County
Cotton production rise from eight sacks to 3000 bales by 1790
A Norfolk to Liverpool shipment of eight sacks in 1774 faced a Liverpool clerk who doubted any more cotton existed in America. By 1790 American farmers produced 3000 bales, deemed the national limit until Eli Whitney altered production.
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America
Norfolk
Liverpool
Eli Whitney
Wacil McNair
Today in History highlights from May 27 events
On this date in history 1941 the British Navy sank the German battleship Bismarck off France with 2300 lives lost. Other events include Garibaldi's Palermo capture in 1860 and the Queen Mary maiden voyage in 1936.
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Associated Press
Bismarck
France
Hood
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Sicily
Palermo
Golden Gate Bridge
San Francisco Bay
U.S
Bennington
Rhode Island
Jawaharlal Nehru
New Delhi
U.S. Navy
South Vietnam
New York
Valery Giscard d’Estaing
Jacques Chirac
Weather forecast for Snyder and Texas regions
Snyder Texas reports highs in the 83 for Monday and 90s in valleys of Big Bend. Partly cloudy conditions prevail across Northwest Southwest Central Northeast and Southeast Texas with scattered thunderstorms through Wednesday. Night lows range from near 50 in the north to mid 60s in the southeast and highs from upper 70s to upper 90s. Coast winds southeast 12 to 16 knots with seas 2 to 4 feet and higher during showers.
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Snyder
Texas
Big Bend
South
Standards On Gas Upheld
The Supreme Court declined to review vinyl chloride exposure limits for the plastics industry, upholding a New York circuit court ruling. The standard restricts workroom air to one part per million, down from 90 ppm, affecting about 6 000 workers in production and 350 000 to 700 000 in downstream plants. It was challenged by plastics firms with support from the U S Chamber of Commerce and National Association of Manufacturers.
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Washington
Supreme Court
U.S. Circuit Court
New York
Department of Labor
Secretary of Labor
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
National Association of Manufacturers
Circuit Court
White House
John W. Dean I
Kissinger Proposes Commissions to Reopen World Energy Talks
Secretary Kissinger outlines producer consumer commissions on raw materials to revive the preparatory world energy conference. He says the plan signals a shift in U.S. policy toward curbing price volatility, while denying support for oil price indexing. He aims to resume talks within a month, with months-long French caveats, and notes potential U.S. oil import reductions by 1977 and a June decision on nuclear fuel supply to EEC nations.
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Barry Schweid
Associated Press
Paris (Ap
Henry A. Kissinger
U.S
Kissinger
International Energy Association
Ford Administration
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi
United States
Algeria
International Energy Agency
IEA
Holiday Traffic Toll Reaches 425
The death toll on U S highways rose to 425 as Memorial Day weekend end approached. The National Safety Council had estimated 400 to 500 fatalities over the long weekend with counts tallied from 6 p m Friday to midnight Monday local time.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Laos Agreement Ends AID Compound Standoff
The United States and Laos reach an eight point pact to dissolve the U S AID mission in Laos by June 30 and remove all U S and third country staff. U S Charge d Affaires Chap man and Path et Lao leaders signed the plan as students and local AID workers observed.
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Vientiane
Laos
United States
U.S
Steven Johnson
Pathet Lao
Seth Pethrasy
Big Aid
Foreign Ministry
Economics and Plans Ministry
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