16 Dec 1975
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Newspaper
Mexia Daily News
Location
Mexia, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1975
Page
1
City of Mexia announces the arrival of Jim Hix as Director of Finances, officially on the job yesterday. A separate update notes Mexia received a third sales tax check bringing the three month total to 40,843.03 for the period ending November 30.
The proposed Child and Family Services Act would create an Office in HEW and fund up to 1 billion annually by 1978 for day care, health, education, and family services, with targeted programs for migrants and minorities. Critics warn of a Soviet style system amid charges of a massive expansion.
DPS director Col. Wilson E. Speir said statisticians project 48 deaths during Christmas period from 6 p.m. December 24 to midnight December 28 and 46 deaths during New Year period from 6 p.m. December 31 to midnight January 4. The two long weekends are not comparable to 1974. Speir added DPS will focus on drinking while driving and speeding with full manpower and resources.
Sheriff Dennis Walker reports the arrest of John Horn and Kenneth Ray Rilodeau in Limestone County for the burglary of the Dick Long home on November 14. Antique items including a crank telephone two firedogs and an antique flatiron were stolen and recovered. both suspects are in Limestone County jail on a ten thousand dollar bond.
Ensembles will perform at Mexia High auditorium tonight at 7 30 PM as part of Yale style Christmas program. The Black Cat Band will play and sections will perform pieces including Joy to The World Festivo and Ressvonic Folkmas. New uniforms will be displayed at auditorium entrance.
The excerpt contemplates generations passing while the earth endures and human effort feels wearisome. It quotes Feel 1:48 about creating one’s world through personal effort, attributed to Norman Vincent Peale, noted American clergyman.
Lubbock State School superintendent Dr. John Gladden called claims of neglect pure fabrication amid Texas House mental health hearings. Nurse Laura Nelson testified of a bruised resident and a boy locked in a cold room, later dying in hospital. Officials plan another January hearing as perjury questions loom.
Mexia trustees in a called session approved an agriculture laboratory on Mexia High campus with feed storage livestock facilities and plots for plant grass and fertilizer demos. The project will be funded and developed by the FFA agriculture advisory committee and interested citizens.
Partly cloudy tonight with a low around 29. Mostly cloudy Wednesday with a high near 45. The reader note indicates a forecast context and temperature range.
Limestone County households show stable total intake but shift to cheaper foods and home cooking. Average per capita consumption remains about 29 pounds weekly, while a typical American family spends $40.05 weekly on food, with diet comprising meat, fish, eggs, milk, potatoes and fats.
The capstone energy measure, aiming to temporarily ease wet prices, moves toward final Senate action but may meet a presidential veto from Ford. Michigan automakers Ford and Chrysler announce fresh price hikes three months into the 1976 model year. Senate debates intervention in a rising African nation amid fears it could mirror Vietnam. A separate bill would extend temporary tax cuts by six months, potentially vetoed by the president. Congress also approves emergency loan funds for New York City. Former Admiral Shigeyoshi Inoue, a wartime figure, dies in Yokosuka.
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