Public Awareness Crime Prevention Series on Auto Theft
The second in a Texas series explains organized auto theft rings, their methods, and the impact on Texans. It cites figures from the Texas Organized Crime Prevention Council and DPS showing millions in losses, with 48,323 vehicles stolen in 1971 and 80 to 85 percent recovered later. It highlights salvage titles, counterfeit papers, fences, and the need for public education and tougher laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Texas Organized Crime Prevention Council
Texas Department of Public Safety
John Hill
Wilson E. Speir
DPS
Texas Criminal Justice Council
The
Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
Office of the Attorney General of Texas
Bill Jones
Beth
Bill
Seventh Heaven
Department of Public Safety
Dallas
Speir
U.S
John Mitchell
DPS Criminal Law Enforcement Division
North
Colonel Speir
Beth Jones
FBI
National Auto Theft Bureau
NATB
Pennsylvania
Houston
Alabama
Tennessee
Abilene
New Mexico
West Texas
Texas Panhandle
Rio Grande Valley
Valley
Mexico
Library Fund Donors Honor Dan Davis Memory
Donations honor Dan Davis and his mother with memorial checks to libraries in Palestine Texas Altola Mississippi McLean Virginia and Stillwater Oklahoma. Messages from Etta Holt Brown Odessa Dorsey Childress Deoiece Miller Parmelee and Ben and Ann Simmers express gratitude and hope for reaching the library funding goal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernice
Dan
Dan Davis
Odessa Dorsey Childress
Childress Library
Henry Clark Black
Ernestine Wade Black
Altola County
Mississippi
McLean
Virginia
Stillwater
Oklahoma
Ernestine
Deoiece Miller Parmelee
Childress New Library Fund
Diplomatic Immunity Protects Ambassadors and Household
The rule states no state, country, private or public person may use force or violence against an ambassador, their property, household or servants, even during wartime between the ambassador’s nation and the country of assignment.
4-H Horse Club Elects Officers in Childress County
The Childress County 4-H Horse Club elected Melinda Weatherbee as president Davy Moyers as vice president Rhonda Leach as secretary Brenda Blackwell as reporter and Kimbra Dorsett as Council Delegate Three new members Mary Hardison Melanie Bennett and Susan Eddings were voted in A Horse Shortcourse was planned for May A committee of seven organized details for the event and three point playday dates were set for June 4 11 and 18 Members split into novice and open groups for county competition They will attend Paducah 4-H Horse Playday for out of county activities
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Childress County
4-H Horse Club
Melinda Weatherbee
Davy Moyers
Rhonda Leach
Brenda Blackwell
Kimbra Dorsett
Mary Hardison
Melanie Bennett
Susan Eddings
Monte Bradley
Pam Leach
Bill Bradley
Ronny Leach
Fred Cordell
Paducah
Kelley visit and courthouse pruning talk in High Point
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Kelley spent the weekend in Athens with their daughter and family, the Roy Marions. Mrs. J. E. Kelley and Mrs. Clyde Hackler attended a March 14 assembly room meeting at the Courthouse to hear a landscape horticulturist discuss pruning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. E. Biddy
Bill Kelley
Athens
Roy Marions
J. E. Kelley
Clyde Hackler
Coastal Water Study Launched Off Florida Carolinas
NOAA begins a two year environmental study of 105000 square miles of coastal waters off Florida Georgia and the Carolinas. Four ships a plane a hydrographic field party and land support units will carry out SCOPE with similar studies planned for other east coast areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Florida
Georgia
Carolinas
National Drug Abuse Recommendations
Washington AP summary of major National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse proposals. Create a new federal antidrug agency with five year limit, similar state agencies, shift from punishment to treatment, treat simple heroin possession by counseling rather than jail, improve law enforcement training and coordination, fund statewide treatment mainly by federal funds, stop distributing inaccurate drug information, screen future material for accuracy, consider halting classroom drug instruction, restrain overuse of prescription barbiturates, tone down mood altering drug advertising, and require media to assess drug promotion impact on youth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Commission On Marijuana and Drug Abuse
Congress
Commission
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Library Fund
Sincerely, Etta Holt Brown
J. H. Jernigan
Palestine, Tex
Ben and
Ann
Leftwich
Simmers
Childress
Texas Shopper Survey
Childress Stores
Chamber OF Commerce
Childress Chamber OF Commerce
Childress Index
Texas Highway Department
Floyd W. Richards
Amarillo
LaNeal Castleberry
W. W. Holmans
Tom Hubbler
R. C. Boyd
Woodrow Boyd
W. W. Holman
Colorado City
Colo
B. B. Cox
Cee Wee
Fred Ballard
van Bearden
Donald Bearden
Temple
Scott and White
High Point News
Jcpenney
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