Hobby Praises 70 Million Texas Health Bill Enacted
Lt Gov Hobby hails $70 million indigent health care bill as a step toward modern times. Senate approval sends plan to Gov White who pledges to sign. The measure funds care for indigent pregnant women and infants, expands emergency treatment, and requires rural counties to spend up to 10 percent of their budgets on poor care. The special session followed the bill’s earlier death in regular session and White’s veto threat on cigarette tax funding.
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Austin
Bill Hobby
Texas
Hobby
Senate
Mark White
Gib Lewis
Lewis
Ray Farabee
Wichita Falls
Helen
Farabee
Ammonia Tank Explosion Kills Four in San Antonio Plant
Consultants from Argon spent days testing possible human error or equipment failure as the 1.5 ton ammonia tank at Southern Henke Co. ice plant blasted, creating a 40‑foot wall breach and injuring 21 people including four workers and several firefighters. Names of the four dead are listed by the medical examiner. one firefighter remains in intensive care.
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San Antonio
Southern-Henke Co
Argon
Raymond Trevino
Santiago Garcia
Garcia
Southern-Henke
Charles Lander
Lander
Southern Henke
Bexar County Medical Examiner
Macario Martinez
Jesus Rios Acosta
Ascencion Ortiz Rodriguez
Rito Cazares
Delfino Munoz
Downtown Baptist Hospital
Weinberger decries defense budget cuts and Star Wars risk
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger criticized Congress for cutting the Pentagon budget and urged protection of Reagan's Star Wars research. He warned that a $1.3 billion House cut could slow space-based defense work and cited Soviet opposition. He noted security losses from a Navy spy-ring case and said the Pentagon already changed some procedures.
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Washington
Caspar W. Weinberger
Pentagon
Congress
Department
Weinberger
Reagan
Soviet Union
Defense
Navy
Capitol Hill
House
Unemployed man returns found money cited for good citizenship
Donald Yeager 19, supporting a wife and infant, found a $950 cash drawer by the road after a May 23 hunt for cans. He reported it to police and received a citizenship citation from Marshall Police Chief Chuck Williams. Pyle Lumber Co. awarded him a $100 reward.
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Marshall
Donald Yeager
Pyle Lumber Co
Yeager
Peso fluctuations puzzle border exchange houses in west Texas
EL PASO AP reports border bankers from Texas to California puzzled by sudden peso drops against the dollar. In El Paso the peso weakened as much as 15 from Wednesday, while Brownsville owners cite oil price rumors as triggering sales and broader spillover. Banks in San Diego and Laredo report no solid explanation, calling it a US phenomenon.
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EL Paso
Texas
California
Brownsville
Mexico
Houston
Intercontinental
el Paso Times
Don Shuffstall
Mbank
FE Paso
Enrique Garcia
Casa Latino Exchange House
Shuffstall
Mexico City
U.S
San Diego
Laredo
Chili cookoffs clash with Houston health rules
Houston health officials face grilling from chili cookoff organizers at a city council meeting over permit and booth requirements. Proponents say rules would kill tailgate events. health director says permits apply to any feeding of people and three sided booths are not required.
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Houston
Kasey Kirby
Health Department
Kirby
James Haughton
Jo Ann Horton
The
Chili Appreciation Society International
Jim Greenwood
Haughton
Sanctuary worker pleads guilty in Valley border case
Sanctuary shelter worker Larry Thomas 41 pleads guilty to hiding a Nicaraguan in a car trunk and attempting to cross a Border Patrol checkpoint. She faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, with sentencing set for June 20.
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Brownsville
Larry Thomas
U.S
Central America
Ms. Thomas
Nicaragua
Casa Oscar
Ricardo Hinojosa
Border Patrol
Sarita
Corpus Christi
Raul Domingues Cardoza
John Fitzpatrick
Casa Oscar Romero
Elder
Cameron County
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Geneva
Switzerland
Williams
Marshall News Messenger
Cleveland
Hidalgo
Reynosa
Jorge Alberto Gonzales
Casa de Cambio FE Valle
Nancy Enzaldua
Jim Westmoreland
New Braunfels National Bank
Victoria Bank Shares, Inc
FDIC
Comal County
KGNB
Erwin Kohlenberg
North
Walnut
Federal Deposit Insurance Corpor
Valley
Eye Openers
Henry Hull
Fredricksburg
New Braunfels, Tx
Public Library
Henry T. Martin
Southwestern
Henry
Grand Council
Southwestern Life
Braunfels
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