Doves and Health Studies Highlight Local News
Glen Polk notes a rule on hunting doves from vehicles tied to migratory bird status after a study costing 27.50. Texas Tech professors Burford and Coleman find activity delays aging effects, using 78 sedentary faculty as subjects and six hours weekly activity as a reference. Western Texas College opens tours for new buildings with an open house planned around late September or October.
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Glen Polk
KSNY
Polk
Northland
Texas Tech University
Charles L. Burford
A. Eugene Coleman
Texas Tech
Tech
Robert L. Clinton
Western Texas College
Wacil Neonair
Two Booths Share Top Honors At Scurry Fair
At the Scurry County Fair two exhibits tied for grand championship in educational booths. Snyder FFA won high school boys agriculture with an artificial insemination exhibit while Good Neighbor Home Demonstration Club topped the Ladies Home and Agriculture group with a Love Is exhibit.
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Good Neighbor Home
Ladies Home
Snyder Ffa
Scurry County
Good Neighbor Home Demonstration Club
Ladies Home and Agriculture Division
F.J. McCaulley
Welch
Janice Choate
Retired Teachers Association
American Field Service
Ira Ffa
Fluvanna Ffa
Hermleigh Ffa
Snyder High
Snyder High School
Ira Fha
Snyder Fha
Travis Fha
Travis Arts and Crafts
This Day in History September 13 Highlights
Highlights include 1788 Congress authorized the first national election to be held in January 1789. Other notes cover Plains of Abraham victory in 1759, Francis Scott Key drafting The Star Spangled Banner in 1814, Chiang Kai shek becoming China’s president in 1943, and Attica prison siege ending in 1971.
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Plains of Abraham
Quebec
Francis Scott Key
Fort McHenry
Baltimore
Chiang Kai-shek
China
Soviet Union
West Germany
Richard M. Nixon
John Kennedy
New York
Attica
Russia
Czechoslovakia
Henry A. Kissinger
Kremlin
Weather summary for Texas regions and Oklahoma
Snyder area shows a high of 89 and low of 63 today with .18 inch precipitation. Northwest to Southwest Texas enjoy clear to partly cloudy skies through Friday with highs 83 to 98 and lows 56 to 71, near 50 in mountains. North Central to Northeast Texas sees partly cloudy nights and Friday a bit cooler with highs 80 to 88. South Central to Southeast Texas remains partly cloudy and warm with possible morning clouds and scattered thundershowers. lows 68 to 79, highs 89 to 100. Coast winds 6 to 16 knots southerly tonight and Friday. Oklahoma reports partly cloudy, mild with patchy fog overnight and highs in the 80s.
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Snyder
Texas
North
Oklahoma
Panhandle
Israel Downs 13 Syrian Planes In Dogfight
Israel says its air force shot down 13 Syrian Mig21 fighters in a Mediterranean dogfight. One Israeli plane was damaged but the pilot was rescued unharmed. a Syrian pilot bailed out and was picked up by an Israeli helicopter. The clash is described as the largest air battle in the Middle East since 1967, with claims of no ground targets hit inside Syria.
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Tel Aviv
Mediterranean
Middle East
Syria
Beirut
Damascus
Tartous
Soviet Union
Israel
Pinochet Named Chile’s President Amid Coup
Chile’s military junta formed a four member government led by Gen Augusto Pinochet, swearing in a 104 member cabinet. Relations with Cuba were severed, a curfew limited civilians from leaving homes, and gunfights continued as Allende’s forces resisted. Pinochet was reported to have taken power after Allende’s death.
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Santiago
Chile
Cuba
Salvador Allende
Allende
Augusto Pinochet Marambio
Ismael Huerta
Mario Garcia Inchaustegui
Havana
Organization of American States
Pinochet
Electrical Storm Rakes Texas Panhandle and Big Spring Damage
A Texas storm spree brought hail up to golf ball size in Big Spring, damaging windows and cars while rain totals varied from .18 inch in Snyder to over an inch on several farms. The weather system stretched from North Central Texas into Oklahoma with extensive lightning and gusts up to 63 mph in Childress. No severe damage reports followed as skies cleared statewide. meanwhile Roby mourns death of 62 year old Roscoe Smith. funeral plans set in First Baptist Church with burial in Sweetwater.
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Snyder
Big Spring
Helmleigh
Ira
Lake Thomas
Texas
Oklahoma
Midland
Andrews
Mineral Wells
Brady
del Rio
Rio Grande
Laredo
Cotulla
Corpus Christi
Gulf of Mexico
Childress
Texas Panhandle
Roscoe Smith
Roby
Cogdell Memorial Hospital
First Baptist Church
Charles Whitlock
Glenn Border
Garden of Memories
Sweetwater
Weathersbee Funeral Home
Rotan
Eastland
Smith
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SDN
Lulac Organization
Mexico
LULAC
Snyder Sound Center
Dunn
Hermleigh
Jerry Baird
Watergate
Scurry County Sheriff's Office
Snyder Police Dept
C. Warren Cullar
Jean Watson
Texas Department of Agriculture
Snyder Garden Clubs
Katherine Berry
Furr's, Inc
THE
Associated Press
Jim Wright
Bell-Seale
Wright
Root Memorial Hospital
Colorado City
Bob Creswell
Lone Wolf Cemetery
Bell Seale Funeral Home
Little Rock
Ark
Stigler
Okla
Effie Calhoun
Fred Davis
Mary Ann Reeves
Danbury
Ray Wright
Frank Wright
Texas City
Calvin Wright
Odessa
W.E. Wright
SI Tai
Aries Mar
R Gazer
R. Pollan
EE Capricorn
Aquarius
Taurus
Gemini
Leo
LIBRA
Scorpio
Ted
Louisiana
Wichita Falls
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