Treating Alcoholics Expensive
The Amarillo Hospital District faces a costly detox program for alcoholics with 3-A averaging 3 or 4 patients daily among 15 beds and about half of admissions written off as bad debts. Officials defend limited resources while critics call the program costly and ineffective, noting the shift to recovery services at Underwood Rehabilitation Center and nearby facilities.
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Daily News
Lacy
Alcoholics Anonymous
Dewey Yeager
Eunice King
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Underwood Rehabilitation Center
3-A
Amarillo Medical Center
Department of Public Welfare
DPW
Picket of U S Cuba cruise linked to Castro dissent
In New Orleans, Juanita Castro led hundreds of Cuban exiles in a protest outside the Daphne terminal as the first U.S. cruise to Cuba in 16 years prepared to depart with 380 passengers. She urged Carter to press human rights in Cuba and warned of political gains for Castro from any thaw.
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UPI
Fidel Castro
United States
Cuba
Juanita Castro
Fidel
U.S
Carter
Miss Castro
Castro
Daphne
Vicente Lago
Abdala
Lago
Carras
Havana
Dizzy Gillespie
Earl Fatna Hines
Roberta Flack
FNB Opens Doors To New Home In Amarillo
The First National Bank dedicates its new $16 million headquarters at 8th and Taylor with a 2 p.m. ceremony featuring Gov. Dolph Briscoe. Bank president Gene Edwards calls the move courageous and a statement of local economic confidence amid inflation and market downturns.
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FNB
Amarillo
First National Bank
8Th and Taylor
Dolph Briscoe
First National Directors
8Th
Tyler
Bank
Gene Edwards
Edwards
Kuwaiti Oil Minister Denies OPEC Price Decision
Kuwait's oil minister Abdel Muttaleb al Kazem denied reports that 11 OPEC members planned a July 5 per cent price hike with a possible compromise. He said consultations to end the two level system continue and Kuwait will follow any collective OPEC decision.
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UPI
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Abdel Muttaleb al Kazem
OPEC
Middle East
Ahmed Zaki Yamani
Kazemis
Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates
Beirut
Anwar
Prin
Abdelaziz Ben Khalifa al Than
Qatar
Thani
Chaiman
al Tham
Stackhoun
Weather outlook with warm days ahead
Partly cloudy today through Tuesday with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Warmer conditions today and tonight with highs in the middle 80s and lows in the upper 50s. Tuesday will see similar warmth with highs in the middle 80s and southwest winds 15 to 25 mph. Precipitation probability remains around 20 percent today and tonight.
Deadly hotel fire in Baltimore leaves 3 dead
A four story New Sherwood Hotel blaze in Baltimore killed three and injured about 30 including thirteen firefighters. Police report 15 of 75 guests unaccounted for while investigators probe the lobby origin and cause.
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Baltimore
UPI
New Sherwood Hotel
Root
George Miller
Joseph Rosen
Margaret Pennington
Arizona
Rosen
Pennington
Michael Callahan
Professor Fights Telephone Privacy Battle With Bell
English professor William Duffy of Pittsburg State University battles Southwestern Bell over entry rights to inspect and repair his home telephones. He lost service May 3 after refusing December access, asserting tariff rights invade privacy and civil liberties.
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UPI
William Duffy
Pittsburg State University
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Duffy
Bell
General Exchange
Joe McCarthy
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Esse
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