Parks Week and Reunion Notes Mix With Local Civic Events
Texas bids accepted for Limestone County road work with 25 miles of grading and surfacing awarded to Fred Hall Jr of Waco for 588 457. Mexia hosts a July 23 reunion at Blacklands Production Credit Assoc Mexia district students named Distinguished at Texas A&M and church events feature a Life Gift film at Calvary Baptist and a VFW dance with Bill Miller and the Outlaws at LanCaster Post 4694.
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Limestone County
Texas Department of Highways and Public Transportation
Fred Hall, Jr
Waco
Jane Fife Wilson
Dallas
Forest Glade
Jane
George Young
Blacklands Production Credit Association
Mexia
Mexia Ministerial Alliance
Orders of Oddfellows and Rebekahs
Calvary Baptist Church
National Kidney Foundation
J.C. Duncan
Wendell Gustafson
Waco Lodge 241
Bill Miller
The
Outlaws
Lancaster Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall
Colson disputes prison image as country club for Watergate figures
Former White House counsel Charles Colson told Winchester High School juniors prison life is harsh and inmate dorms filthy as John Mitchell H R Haldeman and John Ehrlichman begin serving five to eight year terms. The interview followed Mitchell's March 20 arrival at Maxwell AFB and was recorded for a Watergate class project.
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White House
Charles Colson
Colson
Boston
John Mitchell
Maxwell Air Force Base
Alabama
U.S
Mitchell
Democratic National Committee
Watergate Building
Washington
H.R. Haldeman
Federal
Lompoc
Calif
John Ehrlichman
Safford
Ariz
Richard M. Nixon
Winchester High School
Watergate
Police arrest Mexicoite in local hotel holdup
Mexia police charged David Lewis with holdup and knife assault at the Roller Hotel and took him into custody on a 2500 dollar bond. Randall Chenault reported the robbery and $28 stolen. Roger Keeling was jailed on a two thousand dollar bond for automobile burglary. An accident in the 300 block of East Commerce involved a 1971 Chevrolet and a 1973 Oldsmobile.
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Roller Hotel
David Lewis
Lewis
Randall Chenault
Chenault
Roger Kelling
Swann
Keeling
East Commerce
John Henry Newsom
Mexia
Jami Elizabeth Curry
Dow Jones Averages Dip Early Trading Indices
Dow Jones at 1 a.m. shows 30 Industrial 929.27 down 3.90, 20 Transport 238.75 down 0.78, 15 Utilities 115.61 down 0.16, and 65 Stocks 315.23 down 1.08 indicating broad declines in early trading.
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New York
Dow Jones
A.m
Stocks report shows varied percentage moves across firms
AT and T slides 54 percent, Ad Rich climbs 59 percent, Coca Cola up 37 percent, Exxon up 52 percent, General Electric up 561 percent with 44 reading, Penney up 34 to 4, RCA up 32 to 3, Safeway up 48 to 4, Sears up 595 percent.
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At&t
Ad Rich
Coca Cola
duPont
Exxon
Gen Elec
Penney
RCA
Safeway
Sears
Posse hunts suspect in Girl Scout murders in Oklahoma
A 250 man posse including state police sharpshooters and volunteers seeks Gene Leroy Hart in a 10 mile area near Skunk Mountain after three Girl Scouts aged 8 to 10 were killed at Camp Scott. Officials linked two wedding photographs to Hart and noted his 1973 escape.
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Oklahoma
Locust Grove
Okla
Tulsa
Skunk Mountain
Mayes County
Glen
Pete’’ Weaver
Gene Leroy Hart
Weaver
Hart
Pryor
Camp Scott
Lewis Lindsey
Granite State Reformatory
Limestone County among top ten peach producers in 1976
Limestone County ranked among Texas top ten peach counties for 1976 with about 13 000 bushels produced. The state wide peach crop reached 3.6 million dollars in value despite lower yields due to hail and a March freeze. Gillespie County leads tree counts with 126 000. Gaines 86 300. Duval 37 000.
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Austin
Limestone County
Texas Department of Agriculture
Texas
High
Low Plains
Reagan V. Brown
Texas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Gillespie County
Gaines County
Duval
Atascosa
Smith
Water deaths forecast for July fourth holiday
Texas Parks and Wildlife officials predicted 25 water related deaths during the three day Fourth of July holiday period. The forecast cites higher recent totals and notes most violations involve lack of life jackets. Children 12 and under must wear preservers on motorboats up to 26 feet.
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Austin, Tex
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
P&w
Mexia State School Named TEA Demonstration School
Mexia State School's education department has been chosen as one of 78 Texas demonstration schools for individualized instruction in reading and mathematics. The program uses slide and tape lessons to teach self paced skills, job information, and community living. About 40 students participate in 30 to 60 minute sessions, guided by a diverse staff including a diagnostician, teacher, secretary, and graphic artist.
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Mexia State School
Texas Education Agency
Education
Marjorie Hawkins
Limestone Farm Bureau sponsors students for Citizenship Seminar
Three Limestone County students Michael Dale Schuster of Mexia Donna Sims and Diane Johansen of Groesbeck will attend the 15th annual High School Students Citizenship Seminar July 11 to 15 in Waco. The seminar at Baylor University, run by the Texas Farm Bureau, features lectures films and discussions on government economics and competing ideologies with notable speakers from Harding College FBI and U S State Department among others.
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Limestone County Farm Bureau
Waco
Billy Waldrop
Prairie Hill
Texas Farm Bureau
Michael Dale Schuster
Mexia
Donna Sims
Diane Johansen
Groesbeck
Texas
Baylor University
Clifton L. Ganus
Harding College
Searcy
Ark
United States
Supreme Court Limits Parochial School Aid in Books and Services
States may fund books and certain educational services for parochial school pupils but cannot finance field trips or lend equipment like maps and audio visual aids, the court ruled. In Amarillo, Cullen Davis murder trial moves forward with 650 jurors considered for the second trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Supreme Court
Amarillo
Tex
Fort Worth
Cullen Davis
Limestone REACT aids Juneteenth traffic and safety efforts
Limestone REACT 3802 held a monthly meeting at Gibbs Memorial Library to review operations during Juneteenth at Booker T. Washington Park. They assisted with traffic flow and parking alongside Texas Community Alert Patrol, aiding sheriff deputies and the highway patrol. A separate incident involved eight stitches for a girl cut by a broken bottle at Lake Mexia, treated at Mexia Memorial Hospital.
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Limestone County
React 3802
Gibbs Memorial Library
Booker T. Washington Park
Buddy Taylor
Sherrif Dennis Walker
REACT
Texas Community Alert Patrol
Marlin
Sherrif
Lake Mexia
Mexia Memorial Hospital
Echols
Jackson
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Bob Wright
David Pratt
First Baptist Church
Southwestern Seminary
Pam
Wayland College
Lynn Low
First Baptist
First Baptist Church of
Cisco
Bellview Baptist Church
Midland
Texas A&m University
Benny Reese
James Reese
Route 1
John T. Sanders IV
Brian O. Sanders
John T. Sanders
South McKinney
Marcus Sheffield
Horace Sheffields
Route 3
Fire Department
Ceara
Richard Buck
Associated Press
Winchester, Mass
Pris
Haldeman
Washington, D.C
By Dennis A. Eckert
Lindsey
McAlester
Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation
Ross Avenue
Dean Loper
TEA
Limestone React
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