Organized crime program opens in Texas first study
The Texas Organized Crime Prevention Council launches a public education program on organized crime. Co chaired by Attorney General John Hill and DPS Director Wilson E Speir, the council targets gambling narcotics auto theft prostitution loan sharking credit card fraud and business infiltration. Officials note modern syndicates lack Mafia style central control but show cartel connections.
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Texas Organized Crime Prevention Council
John Hill
Wilson E. Speir
Department of Public Safety
Texas Criminal Justice Council
National Crime Cartel
Escalating Cost of Living Shocks American Households
The orbital cost of living index has risen sharply in recent months, threatening access to food and art. Agencies announce weekly increases, leaving Americans numb and wandering through a blue funk as they face mounting financial strain.
Hospital Showed Me How To Survive And Stay Honest
A former patient recounts hospital stays with humor and grit. She praises the staff led by Bill Wagner, notes sprinkler upgrades and diet rules, and laments high costs and coffee limits. The piece ends with a satirical tale of security checks to buy a T bone steak.
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Bill Wagner
Mirror
National Library Week Observed in Texas April 8 14
National Library Week runs April 8 to 14 across Texas highlighting library services. Governor Dolph Briscoe urged Texans to visit local libraries, with themes Widen Your World Read and Get Ahead Read, noting libraries’ educational and community roles and special events nationwide and at public school college and university libraries.
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Texas
Dolph Briscoe
Why beef costs stay high and how supply responds
Experts explain beef prices reflect complex costs from seed to steak. Despite efficiency gains, two years and thousands of pounds of feed and labor are required before a steer reaches market weight. Demand signals prompt herd expansion, with prices rising until more beef reaches stores in about three years.
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David H. Stroud
National Livestock and Meat Board
Stroud
America
U. S
Frugal Housewife offers 1829 glimpse of daily life and thrift
The 1829 American Frugal Housewife by Lydia Maria Child shows meat prices as low as one to two cents per pound and practical tips for preserving food without refrigeration. The 1836 facsimile reprint includes a supplement with household hints, slanted toward self reliance, frugality, and enduring poverty if needed.
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Lydia Maria Child
Harper & Row
Alice Geffen
Improvements tighten security at court house
Gregg County strengthens after hours access with a new northwest door and bullet proof glass for the sheriff radio dispatcher. Locked entrances, basement loitering ends, and prisoner safety upgrades accompany moved criminal intelligence offices to the third floor. Federal revenue sharing funds cover most costs, totaling about $555,000 in 1972.
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Ft. Knox
Hanoi
Washington
Gregg County Court House
Tom Welch
Sheriff's Department
Court House
Criminal Intelligence Division
Jim Cochran
Glenn Elliott
Gregg County
New Library Gift Promotes Outdoor Craft And Career Reads
Gladewater Public Library receives Wildwood Wisdom by Ellsworth Jaeger as a memorial gift offering practical camping and woodsmanship guidance. Flying High by Elizabeth Rich helps readers explore a stewardess career, while Ellen Douglas’s Apostles of Light portrays life in Homochitto Mississippi. Norah Lofts Net hergate returns to English country house dreams.
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Ellsworth Jaeger
Gladewater Public Library
Elizabeth Rich
Ellen Douglas
Houghton Mifflin
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