Blanchard blasts legislative pay and ethics reform
In Austin Senator Blanchard railed at legislators salaries arguing his $400 a month pay and $12 daily expenses do not cover living costs. He cited mortgage, rent, travel and housing woes while asserting public perception of ethical lapses. He warned reform could harm government more than help it.
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Austin
Sen. HJ
Blanchard
Lubbock
Iscrat
Bill Hobby
Bill Moore
D-Bryan
Capitol
Ess
Jack Hightower
D-Vernon
West Virginia prison riot ends with hostage standoff
At the West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville an inmate was stabbed to death and two others wounded when prisoners seized five guards. About 200 inmates, some with homemade knives, were confined inside South Hall as officials said a core group planned to keep hostages overnight. Police and state officials reported one inmate died and ten hospitalized with stab wounds and burns from a fire that swept the area. conditions described as serious to fair.
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Moundsville
W. Va
West Virginia
A. Maurent
Pana
Moore
Charleston
Ing
Norman Yost
Yost
Tages
Lloyd Miller
Parry O'Neil
Billy
Richard Anata
Mece Raley
Alfred Fei
TV Radio Comic Dictionary Optimist
A fragmented item from The AJ Today presents a jocular note on optimism when a man breaks something. The brief item hints at TV and radio culture with a light tone, preserving the period voice and quirky style of small newspaper clippings.
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Tv-Radio
Court Backs Texas In Border Dispute
Washington AP report: The U S Supreme Court ruling sets the boundary at the geographic middle of Sabine Pass Sabine Lake and Sabine River granting Texas ownership of half the water features. Louisiana disputes and an island issue are to be resolved by special master Van Pelt. a separate island ruling was withheld.
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Texas
U.S. Supreme Court
Lone Star
Sabine River
Sabine Lake
Sabine Pass
Williams
Douglas
Louisiana
Texas General Land Office
Supreme Court
Robert van Pelt
Nebraska
High Court
Sabine Lake l
Islind Jan Thee
West Side
Islands
United States
van Pelt
Tenses
Spain
Congress
Parade and Rodeo Open Season in Lubbock Evening
The 31st annual ABC Rodeo opens at 7 20 p m in Lubbock Municipal Coliseum with a 71 unit parade at 3 30 p m along Broadway to University and the arena A big parade leads past Texas Tech figures including Red Raider Walt Garrison as parade marshal Cowboys star Sonny James and the Southern Gentlemen perform All the color and pageantry of rodeo bursts onto the scene as top rodeo champions tackle over 101 000 in prizes through Saturday
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Reese Riders of
Lubbock
ABC
Lubbock Municipal Coliseum
Broadway
University
Coliseum
All-star Entertainment
Sonny James
The
Southern Gentlemen
Santa Fe
Main
Avenue F. A
Texas Tech
Walt Garrison
Dallas Cowboys
Bert Pinson
Wyatt Hester
American Business Club
Prayer Note Requests Small Good Deed Today
A reader signs off with a concise prayer asking God for help to perform a pleasing good deed today in Jesus name. The brief item echoes personal faith and daily devotion without additional context or event details.
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Jesus
Dollar shows unsettled course amid new European rates
The dollar fluctuated against major European currencies on Tuesday as Paris adopted a floating exchange system. Gold prices cooled signaling renewed monetary stability after two earlier attacks. market wait for Washington's response to U S bank rate hikes. Dr Arthur Burns set to meet bank reps Thursday to discuss a 34 percent jump to 6 1/2 percent.
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London
Paris
New York
Ton
U.S
Arthur F. Burns
Nixon Administration
Hemphill-Wells to open new Mall store in Lubbock
Hemphill-Wells announces March 29 closing of its Monterey Center store and April 11 opening of a 100000 square foot Hemphill-Wells store at South Plains Mall. The move marks a major expansion during the Golden Anniversary month, with the downtown offices remaining and the Monterey building to be leased.
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Bill Collins
Hemphill-Wells
South Plains Mall
Gerry Burton
Avalanche-Journal
Hemphill-Well
South Plains
Monterey Center
Memphill-Wells
Lubbock
Monterey
Collins
Mall
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Tion
Offi
Cial
Beegan
San Angelo
Texas
Texas Tech
Baker-Hemphill
Hemphill
Year End Slowdown Possible
Washington reports the Cost of Living Council warns food prices may keep rising through 1973 with a potential slowdown by year end. President Nixon backs Phase II to boost supplies rather than freeze farm prices, while a white paper suggests Americans eat less to ease costs.
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Washington
Cost of Living Council
Nixon
Earl L. Rutz
James Mclane
City Man Found Guilty In Shooting Death Trial
Domingo Juarez of Odessa was found guilty of murder without malice in the shooting death of Pablo Luan Salas, 38, with the district attorney's office seeking murder with malice. Judge William R. Shaver delivered the verdict after jurors weighed guilt and punishment.
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Lane Arthur
Juarez
el Paso
William R. Shaver
George Thompson II
City Man
Weather forecast for Lutcicock and vicinity
Increasing cloudiness and warmer today with a 20 percent chance of precipitation. Highs in the mid 60s. Tonight will be upper 40s, mostly cloudy through Thursday. Sunset and sunrise times are not clearly readable.
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Lutcicock
Ratanaht
Reaver
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