Top Texas IRS Figure Quits To Become Tax Reformer
James C. Hodges former chief of the IRS Dallas district retires to form a national nonprofit aimed at educating taxpayers and cutting overpayments by about 25 billion dollars annually. He cites missed collections and faulty practitioner performance as core problems and plans a July 1 formation with initial 25 million in contributions.
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Texas
IRS
Dallas
UPI
Internal Revenue Service
James C. Hodges
Hodges
Tax Information and Education Corporation
Indictments in Amarillo Air Force Base Credit Union collapse
Potter County grand jury returned six sets of indictments linking Retired Air Force Col. Robert N. Wilkinson and former AAFB Credit Union manager Gene Welna to three 1972 transactions involving loans totaling 581 000. Wilkinson faces six indictments with charges of theft embezzlement fraud and conspiracy. Welna is charged in two indictments. Both posted bonds and await trials the week of August 27.
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Potter County
Grand Jury
Amarillo Air Force Base
Wilkinson
AAFB
Welna
International Airline, Inc
Nineteen Corp
Corp
Robinson
Credit Union
Priday
Gene Welna
Charles Fairweather
Air Force
Robert N Wilkinson
James H. Doores
Mac Hancock
Raw Farm Prices Jump Amid Food Freeze Strains
Washington reports a 6 percent June 1 5 rise in raw farm product prices driving a new record 38 percent above last year. Soybeans and cattle hit fresh records as grains advance, highlighting cost pressures versus controlled food prices and potential poultry shortages if the freeze remains.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Siberian Gas to Atlantic Coast Pact Signed by 3 U.S. Firms
Three American companies Tenneco Texas Eastern Transmission Brown and Root signed a protocol of intentions with the Soviet Union to study delivering western Siberian natural gas to U.S. Atlantic coast ports. The plan could exceed earlier $10 billion or more over 25 years with U.S. credits repaid by gas deliveries.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
U.S
Tenneco
Texas _ Eastern Transmission Corp
Brown and Root
Nikolai G. Osipov
Tass
Harry Austin
el Paso Natural Co
Occidental Petroleum Co
Siberian
el Paso
Occidental
Texas Eastern
el Paso Occidental Group
Yakutsk
Vladivostok
United States
Tenneco Group
Urengoi
Murmansk
Atlantic
Weather outlook for today through Sunday
Clear to partly cloudy and continued warm today through Sunday with highs in the mid 90s. Low tonight near 70. Winds west at 5 to 15 mph.
AAA Warns NM Drivers to Fuel Up Before Weekend Travel
The American Automobile Association urges New Mexico motorists to keep tanks above half in areas without 24 hour gas service. The survey covers Alamogordo Aztec Cuba Las Vegas Taos and Chama coin operated. 24 hour stations found in Albuquerque Carlsbad Carrizozo Clayton Clovis Farmington Fort Sumner Gallup Grants Hobbs Las Cruces Lordsburg Raton Roswell Santa Fe Santa Rosa Socorro Silver City Truth or Consequences Tucumcari Vaughn. They discourage carrying spare cans in trunks.
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Albuquerque
Nam
American Automobile Association
New Mexico
AAA
Alamogordo
Aztec
Cuba
Las Vegas
Taos
Chama
Carlsbad
Carrizozo
Clayton
Clovis
Farmington
Fort Sumner
Gallup
Grants
Hobbs
Las Cruces
Lordsburg
Raton
Roswell
Santa Fe
Santa Rosa
Socorro
Silver City
Truth Or Consequences
Tucumcari
Vaughn
Nixon Urges 5 Percent Energy Cutback Nationally
President Nixon appealed for a five percent reduction in personal energy use within 12 months. He urged drivers to slow down and families to curb air conditioning and other consumption as part of a broader energy conservation plan.
Nixon pushes energy conservation plan with cabinet post
President Nixon urges national energy conservation as a necessity and proposes a 10 billion dollar five year research program. He seeks a new Cabinet level Energy and Natural Resources Department and names Gov. John A. Love as White House energy adviser heading a new Energy Office.
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Congress
Nixon
America
Department of Energy and Natural Resources
John A. Love
Colorado
White House
Love
John Vanderhoof
House Accepts White House Compromise on War Funds
The House passed a White House backed $3.4 billion supplemental bill to cut off all Indochina military operations by August 15. The measure, once vetoed by Nixon, moves to the Senate and ties Cambodia bombing and war funding limits to a debt ceiling and continuing resolution.
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Washington
House
White House
Indochina
Congress
Nixon
Senate
Cambodia
U.S
Laos
North
South Vietnam
Republican
Gerald R. Ford
Ford
Southeast Asia
Robert N. Giaimo
D-Conn
John E. Moss
Calif
John J. Flynt Jr
D-Ga
House Appropriations Committee
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Hal Marsh
Globe-News
Robert N. Wilkinson
Amarillo
James H. Dorres
Mae Hancock
Hancock
Ron Wells
Claudio Cardiel
Los Angeles
Gloria Goggin
Continental Airlines
Claudio
Inside News
San Clemente
Louis Zahn
Chicago
Melvyn
Judith
Zahn
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