Government reviews oil lease bids in Gulf of Mexico
The federal government examined bids totaling 1.598 billion for 104 seabottom tracts in the Gulf. Bid totals lagged the December Louisiana sale, with top offers from Mesa Petroleum Occidental Quintana Burmah group for 5760 acres south of Galveston at 13,490 per acre, amid broader offshore expansion.
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New Orleans
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf
Nixon
Mississippi
Alabama
Florida
California
Louisiana
Texas
Gasprone
Galveston
Mesa Petroleum
Canadian Occidental of California
Quintana Offshore, Inc
Burmah Oil Exploration
Cities Service Oil Co
Pennzoil Louisiana & Texas Offshore
PLATO
Mobil Oil Co
Pennzoil Offshore Gas Operators, Inc
POGQ
John Rankin
Interior Department
Rankin
UFO sightings rise as Midwest hobby grows in seriousness
MUFON deputy director John Schuessler notes a shift from hoax reports to serious sightings across 26 states. The group analyzes explanations, protects reporters’ privacy, and directs calls from police and media while documenting cases near Piedmont Missouri and St Louis area.
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ST. Louis
Midwest
John F. Schuessler
O’fallon
MUFON
Schuessler
Piedmont
Missouri
South St. Louis
St. Charles
Cattle investing grows as buyers fund feeding ops
In Los Angeles a rising class of investors buys cattle shares via brokers as cattle feeding funds proliferate nationwide. California attracts buyers due to milder weather risks, with professionals such as doctors, dentists, lawyers, and entertainers among investors. Experts warn price ceilings and high grain costs cloud profits while analysts hold mixed outlooks on cattle feeding viability.
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Los Angeles
California
Stephen Burch
Investors Choice Cattle Co
Beverly Hills
Mem
Bers
Burch
Shearson-Hammil & Co., Inc
Herb Weiss
Alvarado Cattle Fund, Inc
San Diego
Missing children home again after two years
Roberta Casamiri of New Castle Pennsylvania and her children Dewey seven and Kristin five were reunited with their mother at Youngstown Ohio airport after a two year separation. Private investigator Anthony Pellicano located the children after custody battles and a Florida Texas and California search. The judge ruled the children could be returned to their mother in Pellicano custody.
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Chicago
Roberta Casamiri
New Castle
Dewey
Kristin
Youngstown
Ohio
Mesa
Ariz
Zona
Pellicano
Arkansas adopts redesigned license with donation option
Beginning July 1, Arkansas motorists will start receiving a redesigned driver's license. A spokesman for the Department of Finance and Administration says the main change is a space on the reverse side for donors to specify body or organ donation for medical purposes after death.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
State Department of Finance and Administration
Waldo physician's claim dismissed in drug seizure case
Arkansas Claims Commission rejected Dr. J Byron Grimmett Jr. claim for 7972 dollars over drugs seized in a January 27 1970 state police raid on his Waldo clinic. Attorney General Jim Guy Tucker said no entitlement to damages and the expert witness was a pharmacist who had not seen the drugs.
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Little Rock
Jim Guy Tucker
State Claims Commission
J. Byron Grimmett Jr
Waldo
Grimmett
Tucker
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