U S Steel Raises Prices On Auto Steel Cuts Construction Rates
U S Steel Corp the nation’s largest steelmaker announced price increases on some products including automobile steel while cutting prices on construction steel. The changes are expected to lift overall earnings by about 3.8 percent. Hours later Armco Steel Corp said it would table a response.
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Pittsburgh, Pa
U.S. Steel Corp
Armco Steel Corp
Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp
Armco
Wheeling-Pittsburgh
U.S. Steel
Council On
Edgar B. Speer
Speer
Summertime Sunshine Prevails Across Texas With Showers
The South Plains saw sunny to partly cloudy skies with scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms in South and Southeast Texas. Lubbock reached 89 with a near 90 predicted under fair conditions as a broad dry regime persisted in the Northeast. In steel news U S Steel and rivals moved on price hikes and adjustments amid competitive pressure.
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A-J
South Plains
Texas
South Texas
Corpus Christi
National Weather Service
Mercury
Lubbock
NWS
Vermont
Florida
Great Lakes
United States
Repression Threatened Opponents in Portugal Crisis
Premier Vasco Goncalves formed a stopgap government backed by the Communist party and warned of severity against opponents while promising further austerity. Refugees from Angola march on Lisbon as instability grows and the economy strains under new spending limits and import duties. President Costa Gomes calls for moderation in a transitional government aimed at stabilizing a fractious political-military situation.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Vasco Goncalves
Madeira
Goncalves
Wartorn
Angola
Liberty Avenue
Socialists
Popular Democrats
Francisco da Costa ‘Gomes
Costa Gomes
Democracy axed by tax choice whim
A brief note explains a form of democracy where citizens freely decide how to pay taxes by check or money order, highlighting the concept's emphasis on individual choice in public financing.
Exhaust blast shatters window at Salt Lake City airport
An exhaust from a Texas International Airlines DC9 during preflight preparations blew out a window in a passenger waiting area at Salt Lake City. Three people suffered minor injuries as the engine exhaust shattered the glass and pushed it into the seating area.
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Salt Lake City
Texas International Airlines
Denver
Prayer for faith and righteousness in daily life
A reader offers a short prayer asking for Father’s guidance to live with faith that makes all actions righteous in Thy sight. The petition closes with Amen.
Widow Wins Malpractice Award in Dimmitt Trial
A 64th District Court jury awarded Brenda Andrews and her two children nearly half a million dollars for the death of Joe Bert Andrews in June 1974. The eight men and four women found Dr. B H Lee negligent in postoperative care in a verdict of 102 to 0, while Plains Memorial Hospital was exonerated.
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A-J
Dimmitt
Andrews
Bert Andrews
61Th District Court
Dr. Lee
Plains ‘Memorial Hospital
Griffin Wins Round At Murder Hearing In Texas
In a Friday pretrial hearing in the capital murder case of Raymond Sanders Judge Robert C Wright denied defense moves to disqualify prosecutor Alton R Griffin and to suppress a defendant statement Sanders 30 of Rt 2 Lubbock is among three men charged in the January 12 shotgun slayings of Warren McKay 64 and Odessa McKay 33 near New Deal. Bond set at 100000 each for Sanders Leroy Green 18 and Robert Lee White 26 were also addressed. The judge overruled a motion to suppress Sanders statement and restricted jury qualification for the death penalty. Trial date set for August.
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Raymond Sanders
Robert C. Wright
Alton R. Griffin
Sanders
Leroy Green
Robert Lee White
Weber Drive
137Th District Court
Griffin
Mike Worley
Worley
Wright
McKay
Phony Bills Found Here In Lubbock Police Report
A counterfeit $20 bill appeared in Lub bock Friday night marking the second consecutive day of fake money. The note passed at a service station in the 2100 block of 50th Street. Police said at least four fakes were in circulation Thursday at the Lasso Club on Amarillo Highway. The U S Secret Service was notified by Lubbock police.
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Lubbock
50Th Street
Lasson Club
Amarillo Highway
U.S. Secret Service
Nixon Marks Quiet Year in Silent San Clemente
Former President Nixon marks a year since announcing his resignation living in isolation at his San Clemente home. He works on a memoir, hosts a Cave Man Camp gathering, and may sell an exclusive TV interview while maintaining limited public appearances and health concerns.
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San Clemente
Calif
UPI
Richard Nixon
Nixon
Bohemian Grove
San Francisco
New York
Watergate
NBC
Irving Lazar
Lazar
California
Washington
Palm Springs
Long Beach
Secret Service
Ford
Henry Nissinger
Barry Goldwater
Ronald Reagan
Jack Brennan
Rose Mary Woods
Agreement Reached Qn Hikes Agreement Reached Qn Hikes
Atty Gen John Hill announced that Southwestern Bell will cut its intrastate long distance rate increase by 50 million over two years. The settlement blocks a 45 million yearly rise and sets a 40 million increase through March 1977 with no further rises until a full review by the state utilities commission. Bell and Hill described the accord as revenue relief versus extended litigation.
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Austin, Tex
John Hill
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Hill
Bell
Tom Blackwell
Blackwell
Texas Supreme Court
State Utilities Commission
Dallas
Texas
Charles Marshall
Plague Fought at Moraine Park Campground Near Rocky Mountain
A federal health official said all traces of bubonic plague should be removed from Moraine Park campground by Tuesday, enabling the popular Rocky Mountain National Park area to reopen to the public.
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Fort Collins
Colo
UPDA
Moraine Park
Rocky Mountain National Park
Beef Firms Named In Indictment
A federal grand jury handed down a 105 count indictment charging American Beef Packers ABP Omaha and its Beefland International unit with conspiring to defraud about 900 livestock feeders of more than 20 million dollars before filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last January. West and Lee are named. Carlson is named in a second indictment alleging bribes to federal meat graders.
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Omaha
Neb.ap
American Beef Packers Inc
ABP
Beefland International Inc
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Frank R. West
Beef Packers
Robert E. Lee
West
Donald Carlson
Tax Board Hears Protests as Hearings Extend
The City School tax equalization board extended two weeks of hearings after protests from Town and Country Shopping Center and Skaggs-Albertsons. Dallas agent James Colvin argued the 30th Street Indiana Avenue property should be valued at about 822 411 instead of 1 million, which would cut the assessment to about 500 000. Louis Pendergrass urged against compromising with the South Plains Mall, which offered 8.3 million instead of 14.6 million.
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W. Eugene Smith
Avalanche-Journal
Scalf
Town and Country Shopping Center
Skaggs-Albertsons
James Colvin
Dallas
Gerald Stringer
30Th Street
Indiana Avenue
Colvin
Stringer
Best Products Co
Equitable Savings
Louis Pendergrass
South Plains
Pendergrass
Arizona
Weather map page notes fair day with near 90 high
Lubbock and vicinity expect mostly fair weather with a high near 90 and a low in the mid 60s. Southwest winds 19 to 31 miles per hour followed by periods of lighter flow late. Temperature trends show 63 to 74 degrees and humidities around 124 percent in a southwestern regional summary.
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Soltuwest
City
Athlene
Denver
Albuquerque
Paso
Amarillo
Houston
Hobbs
Okla
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