Peso Devaluation Sparks Wait and See by Border Businesses
Border merchants across Laredo and El Paso adopt a cautious stance as Mexico devalues the peso for a second time this year. Banks suspend peso trading. local executives expect rate changes as Mexican banks float the currency, with fear and prudence shaping daily dealings.
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Associated Press
Mexico
San Antonio
Alamo City
Laredo
Robert Mendez
Mendez
Roque Vela
el Paso
Texas
Rio Grande
Javier Garza
Laredo National Bank
Ray Keck Jr
Union National Bank of Laredo
Salary increases discussed for county officials
Private committee meetings approved a 12 percent salary raise for next year for county officials including the judge, court-at-law judge, county engineer and offices. A 7 percent raise takes effect Oct 1 and 5 percent on Jan 1. Commissioner comments urged basing pay on responsibility and staff size.
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Sioners
FBI wiretap evidence questioned in Wood murder case
In San Antonio defense lawyers for Judge John H. Wood Jr. murder case question FBI agents who tapped inmate conversations at a federal prison as cross examination proceeds. Other dispatches note New Jersey lawmakers signing a bill at about 1 am, with sponsor Sen. John Russo linked to a past death.
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San Antonio
John H. Wood Jr
FBI
Trenton
N.J
New Jersey
Kean
John Russo
D-Ocean
Police shoot man in hospital hallway in New Orleans
A man with slashed wrists was shot and killed by police in Charity Hospital's accident room. Officers Vera Harris and Richard Hunter opened fire after he attacked them while being handcuffed following a doctor’s treatment. Hospital staff and patients fled as the incident unfolded early today.
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New Orleans
Roger R. Betz
Ruth i
Vera Harris
Richard Hunter
Betz
Charity Hospital
Sue Ellen Lewis
Branham
The Odessa American newspaper names change details
Fragmented OCR text shows references to The Odessa American and delivery details, with unclear date lines and garbled names. The passage mentions Sunday editions, postmaster, and postal delivery changes. No coherent events or figures are verifiable from the readable content.
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Ana Odevse
Tenas
Enon
Ender Tee
Weather Summary for Texas and Odessa Region
Weather outlook shows fair tonight with warm nights and 5 to 10 mph winds. A 30 percent chance of thunderstorms Saturday near Odessa. Texas expects hot conditions with highs mainly in the 90s and some 100s across North and West Texas and 105 in the Big Bend. Lows mostly in the 70s. readings from Midland airport show Monday high of 100 and overnight low 69 with no precipitation in past 24 hours.
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Texas
Big Bend
South
West
Two shames in Shipman bombing case
McLeaish urged jurors that Shipman a junior high and high school football player was the victim of violence and threats by Daniel during 13 months before the bombing. He said Daniel a white athlete disliked Shipman and they were in an ethnic confrontation. Both testified they clashed over a spilled snowcone at Bowie Junior High.
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Shipman
Jeanette Daniel
Unman
McLeaish
Daniel
Bowie Junior High
Shipman described confrontations before car wash threat
Shipman testified of a series of clashes culminating in a Golder Avenue car wash two nights before the bombing, where a cocked gun was aimed and a warning to leave town. Witnesses later testified Daniel provoked encounters and stabbed Shipman, while prosecutors questioned bias of witnesses and argued no unbiased person corroborated all incidents.
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Shipman
Golder Avenue
Daniel
David Rosada
Ken Cowling
Gowling
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