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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1969
Page
10
Sen Edward M Kennedy faces a nation divided as he voices a possible exit from the U S Senate after a fatal car crash involving his young passenger Miss Kopechne. He recounts a night of tragedy and his struggle to explain nine hours of confusion and near drowning.
Police continued inquiries into the fatal bedroom stabbing of Caroline Louise Harte, 14, daughter of San Antonio Express Publishing Co. president Houston Harte. Nueces County Sheriff Johnnie Mitchell asked DPS polygraph experts to assist in the investigation at Corpus Christi while no arrests had been made. Miss Harte was found killed in a summer cottage at Port Aransas. May Duncan, 14, slept nearby. both girls were in San Antonio briefly before visiting.
Clyde Durbin Jr. 21, described as an average guy, faces trial Monday in Austin for the deaths of University of Texas student John Albert White and his companion Keitha Mortis. White was killed on a country picnic date. Mortis’ body was found at Inks Lake. Durbin pleads innocent. The case, prosecuted by Bob Smith, is moved to Austin for trial by order of Frank Maloney. The victims were connected to University of Texas and Dallas and Corpus Christi families. The trial opens with jury selection from a pool of 400 prospects in Judge Tom Blackwell's court.
In Edinburg Hidalgo County authorities chase a suspect after a second bank robbery in 17 days. Juan Jesus Mireles 22 of Pharr had just started a 25 year term after pleading guilty in 92nd District Court to armed robbery. Mireles Garcia was accused of taking 63000 from Security State Bank of Pharr while Tatar Bounque District Judge Tom Hartley sentenced Mireles Garcia at the Hidalgo County Courthouse near the First National Bank of Edinburg where five hours earlier a man escaped with about 14000 from a drive in aviva.
Texas labor leaders urge governor and lawmakers to back a state corporation profits tax, proposing 15 percent of corporate income to fund state needs. They argue it would reduce inequities, tie to federal practice for easier enforcement, and help close the deficit.
London sources report Communist China is restoring normal diplomatic work worldwide after two years of limited engagement. Ambassadors are being reappointed, restrictions on foreign diplomats eased, and a new London charge d affaires is expected. Britain remains concerned about 13 citizens detained in China as progress and potential releases surface.
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