Oil folks gather as Snyder hosts Diamond M event
The Snyder community hosts a large oil industry gathering at the coliseum sponsored by the Diamond M Foundation Snyder National Bank and the Roscoe Snyder and Pacific Railroad. The event highlights petroleum as a key energy source and local dominance in oil production. The column also criticizes redistricting plans affecting Scurry County and notes Sun Oil Co moving corporate staff from Philadelphia to Radnor, Pa as part of a merger driven restructuring.
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Snyder
Diamond M Foundation
Snyder National Bank
Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific Railroad
Sun Oil Co
Philadelphia
Radnor
Sun
H. Robert Sharbaugh
Sunray DX Oil Co
Wacil McNair
Today in History May 28 1971 highlights
Events spanning 1940 Dunkerque evacuation start. 1864 Maximilian lands in Vera Cruz to become emperor. 1905 Russian naval defeat. 1934 Dionne quintuplets birth. Baldwin resigns as UK PM. Able and Baker space monkeys reach 300 mile trip. 1982 stock market drop. 1960s to 1970s political notes including Stevenson tour and Hue siege. Nixon remarks on economy.
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Associated Press
Dunkerque
France
Archduke Ferdinand Maximillian
Austria-Hungary
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Russia
Oliva Dionne
Callender
Ontario
Stanley Baldwin
Neville Chamberlain
Able
Baker
Cape Canaveral
Fla
New York
John F. Kennedy
U. N
Adlai E. Stevenson
Western Hemisphere
Hue
Nixon
U. S
Weather snapshot for Texas regions with scattered storms and highs
The report notes highs from the 80s to 90s across regions. Overnight lows range from the upper 50s to mid 70s with isolated to scattered thunderstorm activity through Saturday. Southeast and South Central show coastal showers and inland thundershowers varying by area.
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Snyder
Texas
Laird warns Mansfield Europe force cuts may resurface
In Brussels defense secretary Laird told NATO ministers that Mansfield's proposed cuts could reappear during upcoming budget talks. He urged allies to maintain strength for realistic deterrence and possible Moscow negotiations, amid mixed European commitment and calls for greater French participation.
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Brussels
U.S
Melvin R. Laird
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Europe
Congress
Laird
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Salt
Soviet Union
Moscow
West
America
Lord Carrington
Helmut Schmidt
United States
Schmidt
NATO
Oil Industry Banquet Aims to Honor Region Leaders
Oil personnel from across the region converge on Snyder for an appreciation banquet at Scurry County Coliseum. Frank N. Ikard of the American Petroleum Institute will be guest speaker. Hosts include C. T. McLaughlin E. W. Schrader and Roger B. Mize.
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Snyder
Frank N. Ikard
American Petroleum Institute
Scurry County Coliseum
C. T. McLaughlin
E. W. Schrader
Roger B. Mize
Diamond M Foundation
Snyder National Bank
Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific Railroad
Odessa Chuck Wagon Gang
Thunderstorms Drench Scurry County With Varied Rainfall
Thursday storms brought up to three inches of rain in parts of Scurry County, with Snyder measuring 1.50 inches and Hermleigh around 2.40 inches. Heavy bursts clipped areas west of Snyder and Brownwood endured near hurricane strength winds and a funnel cloud sighting near Champion.
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Scurry County
Snyder
Lake
J. B. Thomas
Ira
City
Fluvanna
Dermott
Higginbotham-Bartlett
Hermleigh
Dunn-China Grove
Inadale
Texas
Brownwood
West Texas
Sweetwater
Champion
Trains Crash in Germany Kills 45 Students and Adults
A head on collision between a passenger two coach train and a freight near Wuppertal kills 45 people including 40 schoolchildren aged 15 and 16 and five adults. At least 24 are seriously injured as an investigation targets a possibly misread signal at Dahlerau station.
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Wuppertal
Germany
Oberbarmen
Radevormwald
An In
Radevormwalder Junior School
Bremen
Kenard Uses Tag Rule to Pause Redistricting Bill
Senate moves to bind public hearing on new legislative and congressional districts as 84 hours remain in the session. Kennard invoked the tag rule to delay action while Lt. Gov. Barnes seeks a two thirds vote to suspend it amid a looming special session risk.
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Lee Jones
Associated Press
Austin
Don Kennard
Fort Worth
Senate
House
Gus Mutscher
Ing
Kennard
Ben Barnes
Ralph Hall
Rockwall
University of Texas At Dallas
Hall
Barnes
Grave near Fort Worth probed for missing Oklahoma City women
Investigators probing a shallow secluded grave near Fort Worth sought remains of Mrs. Margery Elston and her daughter Melinda who vanished in Warr Acres Oklahoma on November 21 1963. An anthropologist was summoned as authorities consider a third body at the site.
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Fort Worth
Oklahoma City
Lon Evans
Margery Elston
Melinda
Kennedy
Dallas
Oklahoma
Sheriff's Departments
Dallas and
Oklahoma Crime Commission
Record Number Of ScholarshipsHere
Snyder High School awarded a record number of scholarships totaling over 60 000 for the class of about 250 seniors at Scurry County Coliseum. Diplomas were distributed as the largest senior class in history.
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Western Texas College
Snyder High School
Scurry County Coliseum
Cooper
State of Texas
Texas Council of Church- Related
Rice University
N. C. Smith
Texas Council of Church-Related Colleges
Western Texas
Snyder Rotary Club
Jenny Mullins
Texas Council of Church-Related
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Twenty-eighth
Twenty-sixth Street
Dahlerau
Snyder Country Club
Wendell Autry
Ft. Worth
Yuba City
Calif
Juan Corona
Abilene Christian College
Bruce Almond
Boren
Star Gazer
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VIRGO
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Scorpio
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Aquarius
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