Child support delay stories spotlight local cases
Two Lubbock women struggle to collect thousands in back support as clerical errors and delays hinder pursuit in district court. Howard Hess cites 1000 plus cases needing money with jail terms for nonpayment. one case involves a Dallas move and misdirected paperwork. See DIVORCED Page 14
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Howard Swindle
Avalanche-Journal
Lubbock County
Hess
David Hess
Ing
Dallas
Lubbock
Ford Asks Decontrol Of Oil Campus Crimes In Sharp Rise
Texas Tech campus crime has more than doubled in a year with 216 thefts 15 burglaries and 52 bicycle thefts reported from Sept 1 1974 through June 50. Officials warn unreported crimes may double the total. Campus police and the office of student affairs handle investigations with warnings and hearings.
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Texas Tech
University
Office of Student Affairs
George Scott Jr
Students For Administration
Dick Hamilton
University Police
Lubbock
Scott
Indiana Turn Lane Dispute Faces Tech Regents
The Indiana Avenue turn lane issue at 19th Street and Tech Freeway pits the City of Lubbock, Texas Tech University, and regents against a council lineup. A July August 1 El Paso session and June work meeting shaped plans lacking right turn lanes. Regents chair Clint Formby and members met Bass, Henry, and Williams to discuss the matter, with an action likely at a forthcoming regents meeting.
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Indiana
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Fort Worth
Glenn Barnett
Clint Formby
Judson F. Williams
Bill Collins
Bass
Alan Henry
Avalanche-Journal
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Henry
Police Strike Hits Albuquerque Officers Walk Off
Seventy five police officers walked off duty on Saturday with a spokesman for the Albuquerque Police Officers Association saying the remaining 500 officers were prepared to strike over a dispute with the city on a new contract.
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Albuquerque
AFS
Albuquerque Police Officers Association
U.S. Eyes Troops In Sinai Peace Plan
Secretary Kissinger and Israeli Prime Minister Rabin discussed an interim Sinai peace plan that could include a small U.S. troop presence for early warning. They met near Bonn for four hours while Egypt pushes for withdrawal from key Sinai passes. If positions align, a new settlement could be wrapped up as early as next month.
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UPI
Henry A. Kissinger
Yitzhak Rabin
U.S
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Rabin
Bonn
West Germany
James Callaghan
Washington
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Egypt
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United States
Simcha Dinitz
Middle East
Gracious Prayer Page Blesses Prisoners and Hospitals
A reader offers a daily prayer asking God's guidance for readers and for comfort to those in prisons and hospitals. The message seeks spiritual fortitude and presence in troubling times.
Cat Rescued After Nighttime Pole Rescue by Firemen
Jane Gordon thanks Lubbock Fire Department for rescuing her cat Charley. Bob Walker climbed a 50 foot tele phone pole in the dark to drop Charley into a rescue net held by two firefighters. The cat hid from dogs and later offered no comment.
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Cartoonist Crockett Johnson Dies at 68
Norwalk Connecticut AP reports Crockett Johnson creator of Barnaby died of cancer at age sixty eight. He gained fame with the Barnaby strip and influenced midcentury comic art. Johnsons death closes a noted tenure in American newspaper cartooning.
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Norwalk, Conn
Crockett Johnson
Barnaby
Grain Fraud Case Presentation Set
The first of an estimated 89 witnesses is set to testify Monday as a U S District Court grand jury considers a 7.5 million alleged scheme to defraud the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. The probe targets farmers and agribusinessmen in the Seminole Brownfield area linked to reconstitutions and transfers of cotton allotments to create illegal payments. Lonnie Chick Clark faces prior charges for false statements to the CCC.
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Seminole-Brownfield
ALCS
Amarillo
Lubbock
Brownfield
Lonnie
Chick" Clark
Clark
Commodity Credit Corp
Commerce and Trade
Plains Short On Rainfall News Note
The South Plains saw scattered showers amid heavy rains in Houston San Antonio Waco and Big Bend areas on Saturday. Levelland and Brownfield reported brief hard downpours with quick street flooding. Lubbock reached 84 degrees with highs expected in the upper 80s.
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Slaton Names Larry Williams Chief Of Police
Larry J. Williams is the new Slaton police chief, returning home to lead a strife torn department. The 31 year old former Grand Prairie patrolman and investigator vows professional law enforcement and an open door policy to boost public confidence. Williams will focus on speaking engagements, bicycle safety and drug law education in schools. He assumed duties last Monday after moving from Brownwood to Lubbock in youth and grew up in Post before settling in Slaton.
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Sheila Allee
Avalanche-Journal
Slaton
Larry J. Williams
Larry “Williams
Fred Clark
Lubbock
Williams
P.D
Grand Prairie
Brownwood
Post
Clark
City Commission
American Freed In Lebanon
U S Army Colonel Ernest R. Morgan was released in Beirut after a ransom deal backed by free food and other supplies. Morgan, 43, from Petersburg Virginia, said tell my mother I am fine and was treated well, as Moslem leaders linked to the October 24 Movement arranged release. He met Lebanese Premier Rashid Karami and later U S Embassy officials, with details of the release undisclosed.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Ernest R. Morgan
Morgan
Petersburg
Rashid Karami
U.S
Evelyn Johnson
Socialist Revolutionary Action Organization
Ford proposes gradual decontrol of domestic oil prices
President Ford announced he will propose a bill to remove price controls on domestic oil next week without triggering a sudden rise in gasoline prices. He stressed faster domestic production and a quick congressional move to avoid foreign oil vulnerability while noting his Midwest trip remains nonpolitical.
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Mackinac Island
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Somoza Arrives in Columbia for Three Day Visit
Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza arrived in Columbia South Carolina for a three day visit and was honored at a reception hosted by Governor James Edwards.
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