Snyder ISD bond bids come in under funds for major projects
The Snyder Independent School District faced a $2.9 million bond vote and learned bids total about $2.2 million for air conditioning in all elementary schools plus high school and Lamar Junior High remodels and construction. Extra costs remain for equipment and architect fees, but plans appear funded. The column recalls a 1930s oil-field tale and gas-saving car reasoning.
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Snyder Independent
Lamar Junior High
Character shines as Snyder seniors hear call to integrity
Snyder High School’s 1973 graduates heard speaker Pat Abbananto urge growth of character guided by God. Scholarships and honors were announced for top students, with awards from local churches, the Texas Legislature, and foundations.
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Snyder High School
Scurry County Coliseum
Pat Abbananto
Thirty-seventh Street
Lincoln
Roy Carter
Dillard Teal
Texas Council of Church Related Colleges
First Baptist Church of
Snyder
Howard Payne College
Andrea Falls
Texas Council of Church- Related Colleges
Teresa Bigham
Dallas Baptist College
Pam Block
Western Texas College
NATO Pressures Loom In Nixon Pompidou Summit
In Reykjavik Pompidou warned Nixon against unilateral U S troop cuts in Europe signaling France would resist bargaining defense concessions for economic favors The two leaders reviewed NATO issues as ministers tackled Middle East Vietnam and economic ties while Kissinger proposed linking political defense and economic talks
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Iceland
Georges Pompidou
France
Nixon
America
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Pompidou
United States
William P. Rogers
Michel Jobert
Mideast
Vietnam
Cambodia
Treasury
George P. Shultz
Valery Giscard d'Estaing
Ronald L. Ziegler
White House
Henry A. Kissinger
U.S
Europe
Ropean
Kissinger
Vienna
Texas Electric Service Co Promotes Diversified Power Plans
A Texas pamphlet notes Snyder area power supplier diversifying generation beyond gas and fuel oil. New plants will use lignite while a joint project targets a nuclear powered plant 45 miles southwest of Fort Worth. Lignite supplies, once considered useless, are poised for broader use amid energy pinch.
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Texas Electric Service Co
Henry Clark
Snyder
Fort Worth
Alba
Rains-Wood County
Grand Saline
Wacil Menair
Today In History May 31 Highlights Across Centuries
May 31 marks notable events: 1910 Union of South Africa founded. 1793 Reign of Terror begins. 1889 Johnstown flood kills 2000. 1916 Battle of Jutland. 1943 French naval squadron joins Allies. 1951 Radio Moscow claims invention of TV by Boris Rosing. 1962 Eichmann executed. 2013 Pope ill in St Peter’s Square. 2018 Vatican prayer and Nixon meeting Poland.
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Johnstown
Jutland
Denmark
Alexandria
Egypt
Radio Moscow
Boris Rosing
Adolf Eichmann
Israel
Weather Outlook for Texas Regions This Week
The forecast covers Snyder and Northwest through Southeast Texas with highs from 87 to 105 degrees and lows 50 to 75. Partly cloudy conditions persist across all regions with scattered thunderstorms in the north and extreme west tonight. Coastal winds tonight into Friday rise to 18 knots with gusts in the afternoon.
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Snyder
Texas
Panhandle
North Central
South Central
Walters Blamed In CIA Coverup
In Washington AP Ehrlichman accuses CIA officials of involvement in the Watergate coverup and contradicts accounts on the Ellsberg burglary. He cites Vernon Walters equivocal remarks about possible CIA harm and recalls no clear memory of a critical call to Robert Cushman. May 11 affidavit places Ehrlichman as the source of a Hunt visit seeking assistance.
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Washington
John K. Ehrlichman
Central Intelligence Agency
White House
CIA
I. Howard Hunt
Ellsberg
Ehrlichman
Senate Appropriations Subcommittee On Intelligence Today
H.R. Haldemann
Mexico
Walters
Haldeman
Richard Helms
Robert Cushman
Cushman
House
Howard Hunt
Hunt
Lewis Fielding
Beverly Hills
Calif
Daniel Ellsberg
Towle Park Pool to Open for Splash Day Friday
The Towle Memorial Park pool will mark the season opening with Splash Day this Friday at 2 p.m. County park superintendent J C Dyess confirms the schedule.
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Towle Memorial Park
J.C. Dyess
Medicare Premiums Increased and Costs Face Congress
Medicare premium rises take effect July 1 as Part B goes from 5.80 to 6.30 monthly with a $60 deductible since January. The Nixon plan to add 700 million annually faces Congress resistance and is unlikely to pass. New coverage expands for 1.7 million disabled under 65 and kidney disease patients starting Friday. Part A hospital insurance remains automatic with Social Security eligibility.
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Nixon
Congress
Office of Management and Budget
Senate
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
House
Ways and Means Committee
Skylabers Lose 12% of Power in Space Lab
Skylab's crew and mission control battled a new power loss as six more percent drained from the orbiting lab. Commander Conrad proposed a space walk to free a stuck solar panel, while two other stars, Kerwin and Weitz, shifted to lower power experiments and monitored battery failures.
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Conrad
Joseph P. Kerwin
Paul J. Weitz
United States
Mission Control
Net] Hutchinson
Kerwin
Hijackers Up Ransom Demand In Colombian Air Hijack
In Aruba the Electra jet carrying 33 hostages to Lima was forced back as fuel ran low. Hijackers raised ransom to 400000 dollars while 96 people remain aboard and the government negotiations continue.
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Colombia
Aruba
Caribbean
Venezuela
Lima
Peru
Princess Beatriz
Jorge Lucena
Zepeda Receives 12 Year Prison Term in Teens Deaths
Antonio Rios Zepeda Jr. was sentenced to 12 years for each murder charge in the strangulation deaths of Maria Delgado and Patricia Segura, both 15, to be served concurrently after a no contest plea. The pleas followed a nine hour jury deliberation with an 8 to 4 split in favor of acquittal.
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Edinburg
Tex
J. R. Alamia
Antonio Rios Zepeda Jr
Rios Zepeda
San Benito
Maria Norma Delgado
Patricia Segura
Delgardo
Miss Delgado
Alamia
Ireland elects Erskine Childers as president in upset
Ireland's voters chose Erskine Childers a 68 year old Protestant with English roots to succeed Eamon de Valera. Childers defeated Tom O Hignins of the governing coalition and will retire to a Dublin suburb home in late June after a long era of de Valera influence.
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Ireland
Erskine Childers
Eamon de Valera
Republic
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