Farmers Union Chief Criticizes Ceiling
National Farmers Union President Tony Dechant told about 300 District 11 members and guests at a banquet that meat price ceilings will not cause long term harm to the industry. He urged a broader production freeze and higher loan rates to offset rising costs and blamed food chains for shifting blame to farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nancy Arthur
Avalanche-Journal
Tony Dechant
National Farmers Union
District 11
Dechant
Denver
Lier
Kansas
Nixon
Brothers Get 5 005 Years For Kidnaping Dallas Socialite
Franklin and Woodrow Ransonette were sentenced to 5 005 years each for the December kidnaping of Dallas socialite Amanda May Dealey. The jury deliberated 20 minutes before the penalty, after 28 minutes for the guilty verdict. Parole eligibility begins after 20 years with possible time off for good behavior, though the board weighs community attitude. The case drew tears from Mrs. Reata Ransonette as lawyers plan appeals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Franklin
Woodrow Ransonette
Amanda Mayhew Dealey
Texas
Ransonettes
Reata Ransonette
Dist. Atty
Henry Wade
Washington
Thelit
Strang
Ture
Senate approves mass transit authority and rider fee fights
The Texas Senate cleared a mass transit authority bill 23 to 4 for Houston and San Antonio with amendments expanding the board to nine members and adding rapid transit plan review. Sen. Schwartz plans a talkathon against a title fee hike, aiming to kill or delay the measure. The House meanwhile passed a separate bill 107 to 14 establishing prison terms for habitual traffic violators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
API
Houston
San Antonio
Sen
A.R. Schwartz
Galveston
Schwartz
Jack Ogg
Wallace
Interagency Transportation Council
House
Frank Lombardino
Weather and Tax Debate Highlight Texas Legislature
Lubbock area forecasts show mostly cloudy skies with a slight chance of showers and temperatures in the mid sixties. Meanwhile discussions in the Texas Senate on a three million dollar tax bill include a tied vote on revenue from a highway fee hike and a partial stand on Creighton’s transit bill, with Lt. Gov Hobby breaking a tie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lubbock
Bun Sets ' Fay
Chet Brooks
Pasadena
Tom Creighton
Mineral Wells
Creighton
Highway Department
Texas
Jim Wallace
Houston
Senators
Schwartz-Creighton
D-Pasade
Mississippi Flood Threat Reaches 30 Year High Across Delta
The Mississippi River nears its 30 year high threatening 10 000 Mississippi residents with evacuation as levees near New Orleans brace for heavy rains. Flood waters recede slowly at the Illinois Missouri line and in Memphis while Louisiana plans inmate evacuations at Angola prison. Governor William Waller reports 120 million in damages and 3 000 more families may flee across five counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press International
Mississippi
Delta
New Orleans
Louisiana
National Guard
Ilinois-Missouri
Memphis
Tenn
William Waller
Angola
Mississippi River
Baton Rouge
Vicksburg
Yazoo
Sunflower
French Quarter
Edwin Edwards
U.S
Meat Boycott Effects Ebb as Grand Union Cuts Prices
The Associated Press reports a weakening boycott with buyers and merchants noting similar prices across chains. Grand Union announces meat price cuts of at least 10 cents per pound for beef pork lamb and veal for the rest of the month as it surveys early reactions in the Washington DC area and nationwide markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Grand Union
Portland
Maine
Bronx
N.Y
Washington, D.C
Nixon
Washington
Plainview Meat Buy More Becomes Town Event
Plainview residents join a meat buying drive to counter an anti boycott. Gary Fletcher vice president of First National Bank of Plainview helped sign the effort with more than 2 000 participants from the town of 21 000 buying meat between 4 and 6 pm Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First National Bank of Plainview
Gary Fletcher
Plainview
City Stages Anti Boycott Across Plainview Markets
In Plainview with 21000 residents the anti boycott movement drew about 2000 shoppers from 4 to 6 pm Friday. Retailers reported over 50000 dollars in meat sales as the boycott followed the closure of two Missouri Beef Packers plants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worth Wren
Avalanche-Journal
Plainview
Missouri Beef Packers Inc
Prayer Meditation Encourages Helping Others
A reader shares a devotional line urging that aiding others benefits the helper as well as the aided, expressing a communal prayer for compassion and service.
Farm Editors Testify Before House Panel
Farm editors from The Lubbock Avalanche Journal and Farm Journal testified before a House agriculture subcommittee that rising meat prices were already correcting through increased production before Nixon meat price ceilings, warning ceilings could slow beef expansion in West Texas. The National Agricultural Institute witnesses, including Terence Day and Bill Mason, supported the point as Congress reviewed food price policy.
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A-J
Washington
Nixon
Texas
House Agriculture
West
Duane Howell
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Lane Palmer
Philadelphia
Farm Journal
General Farm
Howell
Palmer
National Agricultural Institute
J. S. Francis
Peoria
Ariz
Terence Day
Senate
Treasury Sec
George Shultz
Cost of Living Council
John Dunlop
Mason
Farm Editors
Short-Term POWs Tell Of Treatment At Sheppard
Four short term former prisoners spoke at Sheppard Air Force Base about mistreatment by North Vietnamese captors. Maj. Paul K. Robinson Jr and Capt. William Schwertfeger, Capt. William Bean Jr, and Tech. Set. Gary Morgan described torture, isolation, and survival, noting varied experiences among prisoners and attributing most abuse to isolated incidents.
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Wichita Falls
Tex
Sheppard Air Force Base
Paul K. Robinson Jr
Robinson
Aurora, Cole
William Schwertfeger
William Bean Jr
Gary Morgan
Schwertfeger
Caldwell
Kan
Southeast Asia
Sheppard Afb
Morgan
Fort Worth
Bean
Ft. Collins
Colo
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Farmers Union
Labor Department
Herbert Stein
Reta
Joe M. Dealey Sr
Amanda
See Dealey
West Alton
Missouri
State Senate
Gary L. Morgan
Mionala M. Ferrer
Miami
Cuba
Altus
Okla
West Texas
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