Mesquite Board to Hear Variance Request for Home Addition
The Mesquite Board of Adjustments will meet at 6 30 p m on Wednesday June 14 in the Municipal Building city council chamber. One agenda item: Herb Drumm of 4407 Marigold Trail seeks a variance to Ordinance 560 Article VII Section 3 Paragraph 3 to add an extension within nine feet of the rear property line.
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Mesquite Board of Adjustments
City Council
Herb
Drumm
Marigold Trail
Mesquite
Merger Talk Clouds CWA and APWU Agenda
At the 34th CWA convention in Los Angeles delegates plan to authorize officials to negotiate a merger with the American Postal Workers Union, a move likely to win approval this week. In Atlanta Evel Knievel performed three wheelies at Lakewood Park before returning to Piedmont Hospital for a broken back injury from a prior practice jump. In Arkansas voters face a choice between Senator John L. McClellan and a young populist challenger amid a party scramble.
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UPI
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American Postal Workers Union
CWA
Atlanta
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Evel” Knievel
Lakewood Park
Knievel
Piedmont Hospital
McClellan
Little Rock, Ark
Arkansas
John L. McClellan
Kissinger extends Nixon invitation to Emperor Hirohito
President Nixon’s adviser Henry Kissinger said an invitation to Emperor Hirohito was delivered through Prime Minister Eisaku Sato for a Washington visit. If accepted, the trip would mark the first ever visit by a Japanese emperor to the United States.
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Eisaku Sato
Stolen 1967 Ford Van Recovered Wrecked in River Bottom
Mesquite police recovered a stolen 1967 Ford one ton van loaded with candy cigarettes and small goods. The vehicle vanished from Howard G. Jones's Cumberland address between 1:30 and 6:15 am Friday and was found wrecked in the Trinity River bottom at Riverwood Cantura by officers at 12:10 pm Friday.
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Riverwood
Cantura
Cookie Sale Fine Levied
Mesquite man Eugene Johnson pleaded guilty in Houston to contributing to the delinquency of a minor over a scheme using 10 teenage boys to sell cookies and candies door to door. He was fined 150 dollars and assessed 27 dollars in court costs by Justice of the Peace Jack Treadway.
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Houston
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Justice of the Peace
Jack Treadway
Harris County
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Zindler
Quintuplets Born in West Germany Survive First Days
Frankfurter University Clinic reports five babies born to German wife of an American radio technician are progressing well after a Caesarean delivery by a nine member team. The four girls and a boy from West Hartford Connecticut survived infancy milestones with no foreseen complications, according to the hospital spokesman.
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Germany
UPD
Radio Technican
University Clinic
Harry Bean
West Hartford
Conn
West Germany
Hans-Georg Siedentopf
House Blaze Damages Home on Rosewood Street
Firefighters extinguished a Friday night blaze at 2603 Rosewood in Mesquite. The unoccupied residence of M. D. Huckabee suffered damage confined to a bedroom with smoke affecting other areas. Estimated losses: 2500 on the house and 500 on contents.
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M. D. Huckabee
Explo 72 Draws Youth as Billy Graham Plans Major Rally
UPI reports Explo 72 begins in Dallas a week of evangelism training and street witnessing aimed at youths. Billy Graham predicts the event will be the largest of its kind in U S history with 250 000 from 100 countries at the Cotton Bowl final rally. Campus Crusade for Christ International founder Bill Bright notes schedules include training sessions seminars and group discussions. Separately a 42 year old man was arrested for car theft after a 1960 Chevrolet Impala vanished from Shiloh Manor and was recovered on Samuels Blvd.
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UPI
Billy Graham
Graham
United States
Bill Bright
Campus Crusade For Christ International
Shiloh Manor Apartments
Brant T. McCoy
U. S. Highway 80
Samuels Blvd
Three Burglary Reports In Mesquite This Weekend
Mesquite police investigated three residential burglaries over the weekend. Wallace Williams reported entry through a kitchen window with 10 T-bone steaks worth 25 dollars and 120 25 cent coins missing, totaling 55 dollars. Jim Ainsworth said 23 dollars in cash vanished from a dresser. Luther Nix saw a daytime break in with a five dollar bill taken. Ruby Lyons reported two Doberman dogs valued at 150 dollars disappeared from a fenced yard while at work.
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Wallace L. Williams
Gus Thomasson
Jim Curtis Ainsworth
Eastern Heights
Ruby Allison Lyons
Susan
Water usage climbs as dry spell hits Mesquite area
Hot dry weather drives NTMWD data showing Mesquite using 900.6 million gallons in January–May 1972, a 77 million rise from 1971. Ten NTMWD cities together consumed 3.968 billion gallons, up 14.6 percent from 1971 and 20.7 percent from 1970, with total deliveries to member cities and others at 5.637 billion gallons.
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North Texas
NTMWD
Rockwall
Royce City
Wylie
Dallas
Fairview
Fate
Lucas, Richardson, Rowlett, Sachse
Sunnyvale
Water Supply Corp
General Lavelle admits ordering North Vietnam bomb raids
General John D. Lavelle testified before a House subcommittee that he ordered bombing raids on military targets in North Vietnam as protective reaction strikes. He said his actions, justified by perceived enemy buildup, likely exceeded prewar engagement rules and led to his relief and retirement.
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API
John D. Lavelle
North Vietnam
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Lavelle
Air Force
Vietnam
7Th U.S. Air Force
John D. Ryan
U. S
United States
U.S
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