Three prisoners charged in Huntsville prison shooting
In Huntsville Texas three inmates Bruce Behnke Don Pettit and Jodie Adair face murder and assault charges after a deputy was killed and a state trooper wounded during a diagnostic unit transport. The deputy Rayburn Shipp 61 was shot in the back as the trio accessed a pistol. Officer Gale McMullen 24 held them at gunpoint until help arrived. All three remain in Walker County jail. Behnke's serving 25 years for arson.
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Don Marshall Pettit
Greenville
Jodie Thurman Adair
Commerce
Rayburn Shipp
Hunt County Sheriff’s Department
Gale McMullen
State
Sheriff’s Department
Shipp
McMullen
Tyler
Department of Corrections
Ronnie Bryan
Sheriff's Department
Walker County
Behnke
Jobs bill eyed for 5 billion public works push
Washington AP reports a $5 billion public works bill headed for House approval despite White House opposition. Led by Rep. Wright Patman, the measure would authorize HUD to grant up to $5 billion to states and local governments for sewage plants, water facilities, and other projects with priority to distressed areas. The plan expects to create about 500,000 construction jobs and up to 500,000 additional positions through stimulus effects, with full commitment by end of 1972 and spend by June 30, 1974.
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House
Wright Patman
Dtex
Senate
Patman
Banking and Currency Committee
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Carl Albert
D-Okla
Albert
Banking Committee
Met Opera reels after death of Geeran Gentele
News of Geeran Gentele's death shocks New York as the Met's general manager died in a Sardinia car crash with his daughters. The board meets to decide future direction while Schuyler Chapin may be named acting manager. Bernstein mourns the loss.
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Metropolitan Opera
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Olbia
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Tanglewood
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Met Board
Moore
Schuyler Chapin
The
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Opera
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Lena Horne
New Jersey Symphony
Rafael Kubelik
Ingmar Bergman
Stockholm
Stockholm Royal Opera
Gov Bumpers to receive report on bribery probe
Governor Dale Bumpers is due to get a State Police report about an alleged bribery attempt involving a Southland greyhound track license. The report reportedly finds no bribe was offered to a Racing Commission member. Bumpers will review and may forward findings to prosecutors or the Racing Commission.
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Dale Bumpers
State Racing Commission
Kark-Tv
Bumpers
Sports Ilustrated Magazine
Emprise Corp
Buffalo
N. Y
Southland
West Memphis
Arkansas Racing
Racing Commission
House backs aging health push with new aging institute
The House approved a 20 million dollar authorization to create a national institute of aging within the NIH and to fund mental health facilities for the elderly. The vote was 380 to 10, sending the measure to the Senate as lawmakers voiced the need to understand aging and explore ways to slow its effects. The Nixon administration opposed a separate aging institute.
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House
America
Senate
National Institute of Aging
National Institutes of Health
Commerce Committee
Harley O. Staggers
D-W. Va
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