Texas Tech funding fight tightens as riders loom
Texas Tech supporters seek added funding for a new School of Medicine and related facilities amid a battle in Austin. Bills face floor votes with riders threatening to tie funds to hospital affiliations in Amarillo, El Paso, and Midland Odessa.
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Setae
Tors
Tech
Appropriations Committee
University
Appropriations
Bil Rennin
House
Senate
Poft
Amarillo
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Texas House Reviews Spending Bill Under New Rule
The Texas House moves to study an appropriations bill before debate, adopting a three day review rule as a response to prior practices. The measure accompanies the final state budget for the new fiscal year beginning September 2, reflecting a compromise from earlier negotiations.
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Texas
Preparation s Budget Gets Okay
The Lubbock City Council authorized budget preparation that could need at least 2.1 million dollars in additional tax revenues. A 17 cent to 9 cent rate increase is expected to cover debt service salaries and new programs, with possible higher costs for airport fire crews and transit operations.
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Vaughn
Hendriealanche
Lubbock City
Council
Lubbock
Wo Mortis Turner
Mel Ee
Jacket clue in Indiana hijacking case from torn sleeve
A torn sleeve jacket found by farmer Alvin Chalk in a 150 acre cornfield near Grissom Air Force Base offers new leads in the hijacking of a jetliner. FBI and Indiana State Police note missing pockets and a trail of items southwest to northeast toward the Missisquoi area as investigators pursue the swarthy hijacker.
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Peru
Ind
FBI
Rex Dillman
Indiana
Dilman
Dillman
Lowell F. Watt
Zac Missisinewa
Americn Cay
Income tax tops poll as fairest revenue levy
A government sponsored poll of 2 195 taxpayers found the federal income tax viewed as the fairest revenue source while local property taxes ranked least fair. Voters favored closing tax loopholes and reducing deductions to raise more money with 34 percent backing a value added tax.
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Associated Frens
Washington
Vietnamese Forces Press Toward Quang Tri City
South Vietnamese troops backed by heavy U.S. bombardment advanced toward Quang Tri city as a 20,000 man task force moved from the My Chanh River defense line. Black Panther commandos supported the push near Hai Lang, with details on casualties and personnel withheld.
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Avalanche-Journal News
Saigon
U.S
Black Panther
Quang Tri City
My Chanh River
Hue
Hai Lang District
My Chanh
Hac Bao
Hai Lang
Nixon to Field Questions in Tonight's Broadcast Conference
President Nixon will hold a nationally televised news conference at 8 p.m. CDT, his first such session with reporters in over a year. The last nationwide press conference was June 1, 1971, with a recent nonbroadcast meeting limiting questions to domestic topics.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Execution Style Slayings Spur Probe Extension in Paris
Paris authorities broadened their investigation into the execution style slaying of a dating couple, Gary McConnell and Sylvia Jean Chaney Akard, whose bodies were found near a city reservoir. Six of seven bullets recovered, suspects identified but not named, and samples to be sent to the Texas Department of Public Safety for analysis.
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United Press International
Paris
Colorado
Lubbock
Juvean
Gary
McConnell
Sylvia Jean Chaney Akard
City
Cochran
Department O Public Safety Simoreiacing
Austin
Sls
Anon
Bogota
Ree
Hanoi advances and Hue came under fresh shelling
Capital fell on May 1 to North Vietnamese forces and Marine and airborne units pushed into the northern province. In Hue western defenses, Communist attacks followed by more than 2,000 mortar rocket and artillery shells hit three lightly manned paras bases south of the My Chanh River. Spokesmen cited light casualties among troops present.
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Hue
My Chanh
Truman X Rayed After Fall In Kansas City
Former President Harry S Truman was hospitalized briefly after a fall at his Kansas City home. He complained of lower back pain. x rays were negative and he was released the following morning.
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Kansas City
UPI
Harry S Truman
Truman
Gusty Winds and Hail Hit Here on South Plains
Thunderstorms rolled across the South Plains bringing hail and heavy rains to Lubbock and surrounding areas. The heat spell eased slightly as rain fell. Lubbock Power and Light reported a record consumption rate before the showers. A tornado warning was issued for Tom Green County late evening with funnels sighted near San Angelo but no ground contact or damage reported.
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Lane Arthur Avalanche-Journal
Lub‘bock
South Plains
Mercury
Lubbock
Lubbock Power and Light
Tom Green County
San Angelo
Severe rainstorm lashes Lubbock with 1.02 inches in an hour
The National Weather Service logged 1.02 inches of rainfall in about one hour at the Lubbock airport as a powerful storm lashed the city. Torrential rain and 60 mph winds created flood conditions, with water running curb to curb and hail ranging from pea to marble size.
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Lubbock
15Th Street
Utica Avenue
Joe Don Buckner
National Weather Service
Wichita Falls
San Angelo
66Th Street
In House Demos Snarl Over Rules Overhaul
Democrats wrangled over a rules overhaul as McGovern pressed for more delegate strength toward a first ballot nomination. He said a voting rights act update might be needed while a Georgia delegation realignment added 17 new members to the convention slate.
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George McGovern
McGovern
Atlanta
Associated Press
Washington
House
Milami Beach
Georgia
Democratic Credentials Committee
California referendum on legalizing private marijuana use
California voters will decide this November on a referendum to end criminal penalties for personal marijuana use. Supporters gathered 338,187 valid signatures, above the 325,504 needed, while sales would remain illegal. Governor Reagan opposes legalization but supports the vote.
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United Freee International
Sacramento
Calif
California
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Ronald Reagan
Weather Page Forecast With High Temperatures
Partly cloudy skies across the region with temperatures reaching the mid 90s. Humidity remains high as the day progresses with a forecast maximum near 100 degrees and a low around the upper 70s to 80s in most areas.
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