Goals Achieved in Texas Child Development Plan 1971
Smith outlines strides in Texas for child development and welfare with Wilbur Cohen as adviser. Office of Early Childhood Development started. first community program to operate in Corpus Christi. Vocational education funding rose. new state universities and medical schools approved. housing survey conducted and advisory council formed to address Texas housing needs.
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Wilbur Cohen
Lyndon B. Johnson
Corpus Christi
Texas
Snyder
Vernon
Dallas County Junior College
Governor's plane near crash in run from San Angelo
Governor Preston Smith revealed a near crash in Austin after his executive plane failed to retract its front wheel on takeoff. The craft circled for hours to burn fuel, then landed safely at a San Antonio airbase after an emergency system deployed. Smith joked about journalists writing his obituary as he displayed the broken bolt that caused the malfunction.
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Austin
UPI
Preston Smith
Smith
San Angelo
San Antonio
Area Day at Texas Tech Opens To 20 South Plains Towns
Texas Tech hosts Area Day inviting about 24 visitors from some 20 South Plains towns to tour the campus. Dr Grover Fo Murray welcomes guests in the Museum, followed by a Q and A session and lunch in a residence hall. A campus tour ends mid afternoon as the university pursues educational aims.
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Texas Tech
Meyers
South Plains
No O
Grover Fo Murray
Trek
Murray
Lem
Texas Tech University
Senate action urged on civil rights under the Health Amendment
Senate sponsors say Congress must act under the Health Amendment to prohibit state actions denying equal protection. A key bill would empower the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to issue cease and desist orders to private employers. For state and local workers, unresolved cases would go to the Justice Department for possible court action to avoid friction.
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Congress
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Justices Department
Men use lariat to rob in Redwood City
Thomas Williams, 34, told San Mateo County deputies he was walking home from a party when two men used a lariat to entangle him and drag him 75 feet. They took his money and fled. Williams could not describe the assailants.
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Redwood City
Calif
API
Thomas Willams
San Mateo County
Williams
Robbers Net S110 From Tulia Man
A Tulia man, John Reeves, reported to Lubbock police that he was robbed of more than $110 by two slender, young Black men Sunday night. He was ordered to walk toward a garage after exiting a vehicle near Triblock Avenue A. One robber carried a shotgun. Reeves dropped his wallet, then ran and flagged a police car. The suspects were described as 18 to 20 years old.
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John Reeves
Lubbock
Reeves
Tuuch
Triblock Avenue
Pendleton Announces Bid for Texas Comptroller Nomination
Randy Pendleton of Andrews launched a Democratic challenge to 79 year old incumbent Robert S. Calvert for Texas state comptroller. Pendleton, 34, spoke at an Austin news conference Monday morning. He previously chaired the House Rules Committee and holds degrees from Texas Tech and UT Law.
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Texas
Randy Pendleton
Andrews
Kristy
Austin
Robert S. Calvert
Randy Pendelton
Pendleton
House Rules Committee
Rendliston
Texas Tech University
University of Texas School of Law
Waggoner Carr
Crawford Martin
Wayland Homecoming Week slated Feb 14 19
Wayland Baptist College announces homecoming events for February 14 to 19. Highlights include a downtown parade a doubleheader basketball game a Wayland theatre production and a 1952 class reunion with banquet bonfire pep rally and the crowning of a Homecoming Queen candidate list includes Muriel Amano Lorene Gunter and Nida Parker Peck. The schedule also features a baby parade alumni coffee and a dinner meeting culminating with battles between Wayland Flying Queens and Phillips Junior College.
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Plainview
Wayland Baptist College
Muriel ‘Okamoto Amano
Pearl City
Hawaii
Lorene Gunter
Amarillo
Nida Parker Peck
Wayland Flying Queens
Phillips Junior College
Wayland Pioneers
Midwestern University
Israel Eyes U.S. Role in Middle East Talks
Israeli Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin returns to Washington for talks with U S official Joseph Sisco on U S mediation. Jerusalem reports press for Israel to approve proposals if deadlock with Egypt occurs as cabinet weighs joining negotiations and Suez reopening. News from Cairo notes Sadat visited troops and met Khadafy.
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United Press International
Yitzhak Rabin
Washington
Joseph J. Sisco
United States
Middle East
Jerusalem
Rabin
Israel
Egypt
Suez Canal
Davar
Defense
Moshe Dayan
Sisco
Melvin R. Laird
William P. Rogers
U.S
Cairo
Anwar Sadat
Red Sea
Sadat
Aswan
Moamimar Khadafy
Selective Service Prepares Draft Lottery Draw
Selective Service officials prepared for the 1973 draft lottery by loading 365 red capsules with birth dates and 365 blue capsules with numbers. The process will determine call order for men born in 1953, with about 2 million affected and 94 thousand drafted in 1971 guiding expectations.
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Washington
UPI
Selective Service
United States
Southeast Asia
Nixon
Melvin R. Laird
Defense Secreta
Board Will Take Bond Bids Today
The Texas Water Development Board will accept bids Tuesday on 25 million dollars in bonds. A previous 25 million offering in April drew no bids, but after voters removed the 4 percent interest limit in May 1971 the board sold 25 million dollars in August at an effective rate around 4.95 percent.
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Austin
Texas Water Development Board
Texas
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Honolulu
Continental Airlines
Koko Convention Center
Pearl Harbor
Linn Favel Agency
Roger Loter
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Southwest
North OF Lubbock Country Club
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