History of County Schools Will Live Again This Summer
Collingsworth County Survey Committee begins a project to preserve the county's school history. The era centers on small white wooden buildings used for services, funerals, dances, debates, and politics. About 30 schools operated in the 1920s. residents are asked to loan photos and letters to the Historical Society for museum exhibits.
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Collingsworth County Survey Committee
Pleasant Point
Enterprise
Prairie View
Roundup
Fresno
Collingsworth
Aberdeen
Clifd
Buck Creek
Rolla
Automobile safety drive shows first 1970 decline in deaths
Editors note that safety efforts over four years reduce fatalities in 1970, despite more vehicles on the road. Government adoption of new cnts standards is credited with saving lives, with estimates up to a large number in Altoona.
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Altoona
Columbus Confusion Echoes in Archbold Farmland Note
Farmland News of Archbold Ohio quotes a wry remark about Christopher Columbus noting he lacked directions at every stage from voyage to return. The aphorism reflects local humor on navigation and unfamiliar ground.
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Columbus
Farmland News
Archbold, Ohio
Mexico President Echeverria visits Texas on reform drive
Mexico President Luis Echeverria Alvarez visits San Antonio to showcase his educational reform plan and discuss labor and water issues. He dedicates the San Antonio Mexican Cultural Institute at HemisFair, signaling a shift toward education as a solution to Mexico's problems. In Austin, Texas lawmakers eye a swift end to a lengthy special session after uncovering 125 million in federal welfare funds to finance 1973 state operations without new taxes. Democrats convene a tense Texas convention naming delegates amid rivalries. Republicans report no rift as Agnich and Armstrong win reelection to national posts.
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Mexico City
Mexico
United States
San Antonio
Texas
Luis Echevierria Alvarez
U.S
California
Mexicali
Colorado
Echevierria
Victor Bravo Ahuja
Secretary of Education
Echevier
University of Mexico
Austin
Tex
Preston Smith
Smith
Ben Barnes
House
Rayford Price
Robert S. Calvert
Calvert
Marathon
Wallace
McGovern
Hubert Humphrey
Democratic Executive Committee
Roy Orr
DeSoto
Eddie Bernice Johnson
Dallas
Quotations on Life and Love from Poets and Writers
A collage of lines from Riley Ward Markham Van Dyke Bunner Moore Watson Hinkson Bryan Kiplings Kipling Zangwill Bangs Wilcox. The verses reflect toil faith sorrow hope and resilience across eras and voices centering on enduring truths of human experience.
Crossroads Report Vein of Environmentalism Across U.S.
A reader letter criticizes recent environmental activism, calling it Quixotic and harmful. The writer alleges ordaining environmentalists aim to shut down power plants and farms, leaving people hungry cold and unemployed while claiming clean air as a goal.
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Descott Crossroads
U.S.A
Colleges receive over 13 million for new buildings
More than 13.2 million dollars are now available on a formula basis for 17 universities to construct buildings. Comptroller Robert Calvert announced sums allocated to each institution including the University of Texas at Arlington and Texas Southern, among others. The list also includes Texas A and I, Texas Tech, Sam Houston State, and Southwest Texas State, with amounts ranging from about 100 thousand to over 2 million.
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Robert
Calvert
University of Texas At Arlington
Texas Southern
University of Houston
Texas Woman’s University
Texas A. & I
Texas Tech
Lamar
Midwestern
Pan American
East Texas State
North Texas State
Stephen F. Austin
West Texas State
Angelo State
Sam Houston State
Southwest Texas State
Atty
Crawford C. Martin
Mustangs Island 365 Acres Linked to 54.2 Million Park Bond
A 365 acre parcel on Mustang Island valued at 54.2 million dollars forms a park bond binding obligation. Opponents on the Parks and Wildlife Commission argue the commission retains authority to revoke the contract.
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Mustang Island
Parks and Wildlife Commission
Short Takes From A Diverse World Of Facts
Oldest living things are bristlecone pines that grew in the same place long before modern empires. Spiders mostly have four eye pairs, some have six. Dickens’s Wilkins Micawber is linked to his father and mother. Baltimore was briefly the U S capital during the Revolutionary era. Scopes was found guilty and fined in the Dayton trial. Japan is densely populated in limited flat areas. The sand tiger shark bears young in the womb and cannibalizes siblings.
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David
Solomon
Hammurabi
Dickens
Wilkins Micawber
Scopes
John T. Scopes
Dayton, Tenn
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Wellington Leader
West, Avenue
Wellington
Deskins Wells
RXAS
AAS En
Panbadie Press’ Association
Texas Press Assn
Lowe
By Bill Boykin
Raymond Vowell
Joint Finance Committee
Health, Education and Welfare
Grover
Fred Agnich
Torbin Armstrong
Armstrong
GOP
James Whitcomb Riley
God
Mary Augusta (Arnold) Ward
Edwin Markham
Henry van Dyke
Arcady
Folly
Henry Cuyler Bunner
George Moore
William Watson
Katharine Tynan Hinkson
William Jennings Bryan
John Kendrick Bangs
Rudyard Kipling
Israel Zangwill
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Crossroads Report
Sweetie Pie
Texas Almanac
Baltimore
Continental Congress
Philadelphia
Japan
Frigidaire
West Texas Utilities, Now
Reddy Credit
West Texas Utilities Company
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