Water Board studies curb pollution in Clear Lake Sabine River areas
The Texas Water Quality Board authorized hearings and an intensive staff study to control pollution in the Clear Lake watershed and Sabine River. Plans include possible interceptor sewage lines, a regional plant for northeast Bexar County, and limiting ALCOA’s 6.9 million gallon daily thermal discharge into Lavaca Bay to protect marine life.
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Longview
Toledo Bend
Panola County
Vault Stands Burglars Hit At Bank Elgin Tex
Burglars broke into a bank in Elgin Texas on Wednesday night but left the main vault untouched. Officers report limited losses including coins from a vending area about 150 dollars in cash and two pistols. Police say the night deposit safe was not opened and the main vault not breached. Investigators from state and local agencies pursued leads Thursday.
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Austin
Oil Debentures Sold Speedily
Continental Oil Co sold 100 million dollars of 7 1 2 percent 30 year debentures in quick advance orders from major institutions. Morgan Stanley & Co led the underwriting group with an offering price at 99 percent yielding 7.52 percent. Proceeds to be used for general corporate purposes including oil and gas exploration and development.
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New York
Continental Oil Co
Morgan Stanley & Co
Continental
Indian leaders fear policy may cause cultural genocide
Walter Dicter of Regina, president of the National Indian Brotherhood, warned at a news conference that the plan announced by Indian Affairs Minister Jean Chretien could destroy a nation by legislation and culture. The policy would end Indians as wards of Ottawa, shift services to provinces, and grant Indians ownership of six million acres of reservation land with development potential.
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Walter Dicter
Regina
Saskatchewan
National Indian Brotherhood
Indian Affairs
Canada
Jean Chretien
Chretien
Jordan seeks urgent U.N. meeting on Jerusalem Old City actions
Jordanian Ambassador El Farra asked the Security Council to act after the evacuation of 88 Arabs near the Western Wall. He charged Israel with arbitrary arrests demolitions and torture in Jerusalem's Old City seized in 1967. An explosion near the Wall wounded three Arabs two American tourists and an Israeli soldier.
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Jordan
U.N. Security Council
Old City
Jerusalem
Muhammad H. El-Farra
Walling Wall
El-Farra
Israel
Newark Riots Liability Ruling Sets City On the Hook
Superior Court Judge Samuel Larner ruled Newark liable for property damage during the July 12 to 17 riots. The decision rejects the city’s claim the violence was an insurrection not covered by state law, a ruling that could lead to further appeals and ongoing suits totaling about seven million dollars.
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Philip E. Gordon
Negro Central
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Samuel Larner
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