1971 Texas Stock Scandal Turmoil Shapes the Era
The year began with Len Yarborough’s retirement and ended with a sprawling Texas stock fraud case centered on National Bankers Life Insurance. Gov. Preston Smith and House Speaker Gus Mutscher faced indictments as corruption allegations stretched through Democrat and Republican ranks. Leaders like Ben Barnes shifted toward higher office, shaping Texas politics for the decade.
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Austin
Len Ralph W. Yarborough
D-Tex
Gus F. Mutscher
P Democrats
Yarborough
Washington
So Senate
Houston
lord M_ Bentsen Jr
Texas
T' §. Securities and Exchange Commission
National Bankers Life Insurance
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Democratic Executive Committee
Elmer Baum
NBI
SEC
Frank W. Sharp
Cor
Turco
Cene Mastele
Ers
Smith
Mutscher
Barnes
John G. Tower
Rtex
Dolph Briscoe
U. S. Senate
Tower
Dallas
Barefoot Sanders
Lyndon B. Johnson
State Senate
Ralph Hall
Rockwall
Wayne Connally
Floresville
Joe Christie
el Paso
William P. Hobby Jr
Bull Jones
Odessa
Robert McCord
Corpus Christi
NBL
House
Senate
Sharp
Tommy Shannon
D-Fort Worth
Rush McGinty
Retirement test misunderstood by many, SSA official says
Sherman Social Security local office manager Gus Jones explains to residents that working while receiving benefits is allowed. Earnings up to 1680 a year fully count, with reductions above that, while non work income does not count. The rule changes at 2870 and exemptions apply after age 72.
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Gus Jones
Sherman Social Security Office
Jones
Sherman Social Security
North Traiis
Bonham
Enterprise
Sam Rayburn
Safe Yale Homefront Holiday Tips
New York advisory urges home safety during holidays from the Consumers Information Bureau. Tips include child supervision, keeping medicines sharp tools paints and solvents out of sight, clearing kitchen grease, banning kitchen work area access for kids, spreading electrical loads, not leaving appliances unattended, and encouraging guests to lock cars. A neighborhood walk is suggested for safe post feast activities.
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New York
UPL
Consumers Information Bureau
Oruests
Bell Labs builds telephone robot for the deaf
Report from the September issue of the Journal of the New York Academy of Sciences describes integrated circuitry that converts spoken words into electrical pulses to operate electro mechanical switches enabling dial tone and call termination.
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New York
Bell Labs At
New York Academy of Sciences
Ecology coupons aim to fund Bay Area conservation effort
In San Francisco, 500 000 households will receive Quality Living coupons directing a seven to ten cent donation to ecology projects via the San Francisco Foundation. The program, supported by ten major Bay Area businesses including Lucky Breweries, seeks to expand nationally to 50 million homes and promotes recycling and environmental improvement through corporate action.
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UPI
San Francisco Bay Area
Ecology
Quality Living
San Francisco Foundation
Bayren
Ron Hagen
Duality Living
Hagen
Hagen Manta That
Ord
Vens and Corporation A
Projectos Lucky Breweries
Rations First Brewer
Wishing2 Well Daily Fortune Number Puzzle
A short game explains a daily fortune puzzle. It instructs counting letters in a name, adjusting by small rules to obtain a key number, then scanning a rectangle from the upper left and reading the message from checked figures. The sample shows numbers 12 and 22.
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Allen Chemical
Caudle & McGuire
Yale
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Crittenden
Allied Chemical
Penn
Big Brother
By Gordon Bess
Beetle Bailey
Mort Walker
Sarge
Sawyer
Rene
Leon
By Roy Crane
C.E
Barney Google
Snuffy Smith
Fred Lasswell
Zee
Cadburn
Nou Haven
Blondie
Chic Young
Tor
Peter Widdrington
Munllion
Beer Company
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American Wood Council
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