Fur trapping upswing in Texas boosts licenses and earnings
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department reports a boom in fur trapping with about 12,000 trapping licenses sold in 1975 76 an increase of 2000 from the prior year. In 1976 77 West Central Texas counties recorded 481 387 furs sold for over 2 million with raccoons leading the list though value rose from about 1 2 million the previous year.
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Texas
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
P&wd
Bill Brownlee
Brownlee
Texas 1976 Rural Hero Honored for Rescue near Johnson City
Bobby Wilson received the Texas Farm and Ranch Safety Council award at the 38th Texas Safety Association meeting for helping three helicopter crew members after a Fort Hood copter crashed near the Perdenales River. The rescue occurred June 28 1976 when the helicopter fell 160 feet and exploded risked by fuel. Wilson led the effort to extricate the men and move them to safety with help from his family and local responders.
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Aemote Ranch
Johnson City
Texas
Bobby Wilson
Texas Farm and Ranch Safety Council
Texas Safety Association
Shamrock - Hilton Hotel
Millard Shivers
Dallas
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
Council
Fort Hood
Perdenales
Wilson
Clifton Wilson
San Antonio
Odessa Poole Seeks City Council Woman Seat
Odessa Poole outlines fifteen years in business at Odessa's Barber Shop in Tyler Texas links education at O J Thomas High School Paul Quinn College and Tyler Barber College and appeals for strong voter support for her city council bid highlighting civic roles with Cameron Civic Organization and the Chamber of Commerce.
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Odessa Poole
D. S. Poole
O. J. Thomas
Paul Quinn College
Waco
Tyler Barber College
Tyler
Odessa
10Th St. Church of Christ
Cameron Civic Organization
Chamber of Commerce
Ogg Bill Denies Bail For Repeats Offenders
Sen Jack Ogg announced Senate Joint Resolution 3 to amend Texas Constitution allowing judges to deny bail for repeat offenders under safeguards. If House passage and voter approval occur, the change would apply to Article 1 Section 1la and could prompt early bail denial within seven days of first arrest.
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Jack Ogg
Senate
Texas
Sen. Ogg
Bentsen Raps Complex Federal Tax Forms
Senator Lloyd Bentsen criticizes complex federal tax forms for causing millions to err when filing income tax returns this year in Washington D C remarks.
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Bentsen
Washington, D.C
Lloyd Bentsen
Callahan Named Texas Beef District Chairman in Austin
Callahan of Austin was named a district chairman of the Texas Beef Development Taskforce. He is one of 14 district chairs appointed by J D Sartwelle to educate cattlemen about the upcoming Beef Referendum to decide on a national self help program.
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Verlin Callahan
Austin
Texas Beef Development Taskforce
BDT
Callahan
Texas
J. D. Sartwelle
Houston
Texas Bdt
Beef Research and Information Act
Congress
Texan Dr John R Hubbard to deliver UT Austin commencement
Hubbard returns to his alma mater to speak at UT Austin graduation exercises May 21 at 8 p.m. on the terrace south of the Main Building. The University of Southern California president and historian earned three UT degrees and is son of L H Hubbard, early UT administrator and later head of Texas State College for Women in Denton.
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Austin
Texas
University of Texas
John R. Hubbard
University of Southern California
UT Austin
Hubbard
L.H. Hubbard
Texas State College For Women
Denton
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Andrew Garner
Leslie Adams
Frank Ditmore
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Jack Stiles
Lonnie Cleveland
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Linda Barak
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Hugh McMillan
Mary Lee Spilman
James McMillan
Harlingen
Jack Johnson
Johns Community Hospital
Buck Garner
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Temple
Erwin Fusse
Richard
Gracie Heights
Buddy Limmer
W. McDaniel
William Mewis
Navy
William J. Mewis
M. H. Wimberly
Milano
Naval Training Center
Great Lakes
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Ford Lawn and Garden Equipment
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Rockdale
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William Blake
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House of Representatives
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