Austin Attorney Blames Texas Court Backlog For Delays
Austin attorney L. Hamilton Lowe warns Texas district courts are overloaded with more than 100 000 pending cases and growing by about 5 000 annually. He notes a typical delay of 18 months to trial in Harris County unless a priority suit is filed, and expects two new Harris County districts to shorten waits to about a year.
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Austin
UPI
Jarndyce
Charles Dickens
Texas
L. Hamilton Lowe
State Civil Judicial Council
Lowe
Harris County
Houston
Dallas County
Bexar
Travis
Orange
Dallas
Harris
Milam
Williamson
Texas Bar Association
Civil Appeals Courts
Criminal Appeals Court
State Supreme Court
Corpus Christi
Tyler
Civil Appeals
Supreme Courts
Supreme Court
Three Brazoria Residents Face Federal Charges in Galveston
In Galveston federal court three Brazoria County residents face charges including conspiracy and bribery. Lavonia Fink pleads guilty to embezzlement and false ledger entries in a nine count indictment. David Stephens faces 24 counts tied to illegal rice allotment transfers. Beart Dellard appears on one count of conspiracy with Stephens and others.
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Galveston
UPD
Brazoria County
Lavonia Ellen Fink
First Capital Bank
West Columbia
Fink
James Noel
David Stephens
Brazos County Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service
Panama Envoy Resigns Over Alliance For Progress Dispute
Washington AP reports U S ambassador to Panama Joseph S Farland has resigned amid hints of a clash with Alliance for Progress officials. He plans to return to the United States at month’s end and cited specific reasons in his resignation letter but gave no details. Farland, a Republican lawyer and former banker, has a history with Kennedy and Eisenhower administrations. The alliance program in Panama is funded by 14.7 million dollars in grants and 8 million in loans supporting housing education roads and rural development.
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Joseph S. Farland
U.S
Panama
Alliance-for-Progress Agency
White House
Agency For International Development
Alliance
Farland
United States
Your Stiff
State Department
Kennedy
West Virginia Coal Company
Eisenhower
Dominican Republic
Woman killed by car in field tent kitchen tragedy
In England a woman named Lily Crickmar was killed on Friday when a sports car plowed into a tent field where she was cooking. The driver, a woman, told police she had never driven before this incident.
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Loof
England
UPI
Lily Crickmar
Future Tech Student Joins Texas Tech After World Trip
Judy Jackson a 1963 Quanah High School graduate returns from a two month world tour culminating at the Baptist Youth World Conference in Beirut Lebanon. The trip funded by her parents follows visits to Hawaii Japan Hong Kong Thailand India Pakistan Israel and Jordan with later stops in Egypt Greece Italy France and England before heading home. She will enroll as a freshman at Texas Tech in September joining Quanah alumni including football players Danny Scarborough and Danny Shelton.
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Texas Tech
Judy Jackson
Quanah High School
Beirut
Lebanon
J. Q. Jackson
Quanah
Hawaii
Japan
Hong Kong
Thailand
India
Pakistan
Israel
Jordan
Egypt
Greece
Judy
Italy
France
England
United States
Elwin L. Skiles
First Baptist Church of Abilene
Tech
Danny Scarborough
Danny Shelton
Quanah Indians
Rob Martine
Plainview
W. M. Jackson
Flovdada
Highway Patrol Seeks 160 New Recruits in Texas
The Texas Dept. of Public Safety plans 160 new highway patrol openings for patrolmen the first since 1957. Training begins November after a September 9 application deadline with pay rising to 453 dollars monthly after graduation. Prospects may be assigned within 19 miles of home and receive vacations, sick leave, travel, uniforms, and insurance.
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Maj
Harry Hutchinson
Texas Dept. of Public Safety
Hutchinson
DPS Law Enforcement Training Academy
U Livery
Lubbock
DPS
Dist St
Ave. R
Monterey Band Meetings Set
Members of Monterey High School bands will attend meetings this week in the band room to discuss schedules for August practice sessions. The junior senior band assembles from 1 to 3 p.m. Monday to check out instruments and at 6 p.m. to discuss practice sessions. Sophomore bandsmen meet at 9 a.m. Tuesday.
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Monterey High School
Governor Campbell to Address Lubbock Lions Club Lunch
New Mexico Governor Jack Campbell will speak at noon October 29 at Caprock Hotel in Lubbock. Roswell attorney and former New Mexico House speaker, a former FBI agent, visits at the invitation of J. B. Hance, October program chairman and longtime friend.
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New ‘Mexico
Lubbock Lions Club
Caprock
Roswell
New Mexico
House of Representatives
FBI
Lubbock
J. B. Hance
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