Reduction in Ballot Size Favored by Public
Gallup Poll findings show many voters favor reducing elective offices on ballots and using civil service exams for job qualification. The survey notes widespread ignorance of some candidates and cites ballot length as a source of confusion. The series also covers reforms to uniform residence requirements and absentee voting for those away or ill.
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Americcan Institute of Public Opinion
Princeton
N. J
Gallup
U.S
American Heritage Foundation
Jana Peden
America
Tech Business Workshop Targets School Finance and Management
An annual School Business Services Workshop at Texas Tech gathers educators and administrators to discuss future legislation for the teaching profession, planning graduate curricula, financing school expansion, and industrial management of public schools. Noted speakers include Leon Graham Morris Wallace Elmer East and John Mize, with a panel of district business managers and state education officials.
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Texas Tech
Leon Graham
Texas Education Agency
Morris Wallace
Hpead
Texas Tech Department of Education
Elmer East
Lubbock National Bank
John Mize
Nat Williams
Lubbock
George Stowe
Abilene
Frank Austin
Austin
T. J. Oconner
Charles Culbergen
Crane
Ray Schultz
Dumas
Eugene Hightower
Fort Worth
Ernest Triptett
Fort Stocktee
Harold Miller
Kerm
A. W. Eck
Pate Harold Glasscock
Sgen
Noel Johnson
Abernathy
Joey Austin
Labbeck Echools
F. Johnson
Plainview
H. B. Evane
Eminete
John Gott
Cese Menasger
Clovis
Ar Mexico Assn
Bertie J. Fallon
Tech
Ruel Mar
Dunlap Co
Jim Crews
Waco Schools
Texas Asm.c Gchesi Businese
Six Enter Pleas In Court At Law
Six defendants appeared in Judge Robert J. Allen's County Court-At-Law No 1 Saturday. Stewart Hawkins Jr pleaded innocent to aggravated assault with bond set at 400 dollars. Leroy Lipham of Fort Worth pleaded guilty to check law violation and was fined 25 dollars plus costs. Tommy Lee s Amarillo pleaded aggravated assault and fined 25 dollars and costs. Joe Dan Knight pleaded guilty to age while intoxicated, fined 75 dollars and costs. Leon Virgil Berryhill pleaded not guilty to illegal possession of uar and bond set at 500 dollars. Robert McKennon of Dallas pleaded guilty to check law violation, fined 50 dollars and costs and sentenced to 10 days in jail.
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Robert J. Allen
Stewart Hawkins Jr
Leroy Lipham
Fort Worth
Tommy Lees
Amarillo
Joe Dan Knight
Ave
Leon Virgil Berryhill
Vis Rd
Robert McKennon
Dallas
Law Vicom
Hobbs Police Chief Accepts Ranch Post
Earl Westfall, Hobbs chief of police since 193, resigns effective July 15 to become general manager of VIV Stock Ranch in the Sacramento Mountains near Cloudcroft. No successor named. Westfall is FBI Academy graduate and former Artesia police chief.
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Hobbs
Earl Westfall
VIV Stock
Sacramento Mountains
Cloudcroft
Westfall
Federal Bureau of Investigation Academy
Artesia
Alan B. Conley Ordination Set at St Pauls Episcopal Church
Alan B. Conley is to be ordained a deacon at 7 30 p m Monday at St Pauls Episcopal Church 16th and Ave X Northwest Texas Bishop George H Quarterm an will officiate He will be presented by Rev J M Washington After ordination he will serve All Saints Episcopal Church Colorado City The Conleys parents live at 4907 West 16th St He attended Texas Tech and Virginia Theological Seminary He and his wife have a one year old daughter Christen A reception will follow at the parish house
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Alan B. Conley
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
16Th
Ave. X
George H. Quarterman
Northwest
Texas
Conley
J. M. Washington
St. Paul's
W. D. Boyd
St. Mary's Episcopal Church
Big Spring
Alexandria
Christen
Court halts Gulf atomic waste dumping order
A Atomic Energy Commission stay stopped the plan by Industrial Waste Disposal Corp of Houston to unload low level radioactive waste 180 miles south east of Galveston. Protests prompted the automatic stay. In California a 13 year search ends as Jimmy Joe Shaffer adopts with his foster parents the Sullivans of Granada Hills after his mother Cleo Shore agrees to drop custody fight.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Gulf of Mexico
Industrial Waste Disposal Corp
Houston
Gulf
Galveston
Atlantic
Pacific
Los Angeles
UPI
Superior Court
John Gee Clark
Jimmy Joe Shaffer
Jack T. Sullivan
Granada
Envoy Jose Serrano Palma Dies in New York
Jose Serrano Palma 51 longtime Chilean envoy to the United Nations and former ambassador to Washington died Friday at his New York City apartment from a kidney ailment.
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New York
Jose Serrano Palma
The
United Nations
Washington
Catless Mexico Town Faces Rat Invasion Amid Cat Die-Off
In Huitzuco Mexico cats are dying in large numbers tied to a malaria control campaign. Rats are multiplying and invade fields barns and homes. With the cat shortage the price of kittens has risen to 80 cents.
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Huitzuco
Mexico
Cal lihan Named Kerrville School Superintendent in Harlingen
C M Callihan aged 47 was named Friday to lead Harlingen schools, succeeding C E Burnett as Kerrville superintendent takes the Harlingen post.
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Harlingen
C. M. Callihan
Kerr- Ville
C. E. Burnett
Escaped Convict Spotted Along Highway Near McAlester
McAlester prison night watchman Mart spotted 20 year old Jodie Worton of Electra Texas walking along U S 270 west of McAlester. Officers were alerted and Worton was returned to the penitentiary without resistance.
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Mcalester, Okla
UPI
McAlester Prison
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