Tarzan Texas: naming tale blends myth and history
In Tarzan Texas residents explain the town’s name origin tied to a postmaster who loved Tarzan books and a widow who helped name it. The unincorporated community along Route 176 has a post office serving about 500 customers, with a store, cafe, cotton gin, churches, beauty shops, and a crop sprayer, amid a few houses and trees.
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Tarzan
Texas
Stockton
Calif
Mike Gray
Chamber of Commerce
U.S
Odessa
Doris McMorries
McMorries
Martin County
MacMorries
Tani Lindsay
Lindsay
South Plains
Stanton
Lindsays
Oil tanker Castillo de Bellver splits in two off Cape Town
A Spanish supertanker carrying 73 million gallons of crude oil burst into flames and split in half about 80 miles northwest of Cape Town. Thirty three rescued, three missing, oil valued at $60 million. Cause unclear as seas churned. pollution threat to beaches and a bird sanctuary.
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Associated Press
Cape Town
South Africa
Madrid
Pedro Sancho
Persian Gulf
Abusers of public trust face tougher penalties
A 1983 Texas law targets local officials who use office for personal gain or that of relatives. It defines conflict of interest for county commissioners and city council members, requires disclosure and abstention, and imposes a Class A misdemeanor with up to $2,000 fine or one year in jail.
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Austin
Donna Mobley
Public Servant Standards of Conduct Advisory Committee
Texas Municipal League
Texas Town and City
The
Municipal League
Planning
Zoning Boards
Development Corporation
Local Boards of Health
Bull market lures cautious investors as stocks surge
The US stock rally now in its first anniversary has boosted gains to about 700 billion dollars in value since last August. Marie Dresser, 91, of a Washington area suburb, reports about 25000 dollars earned in 1983 by trading lower priced stocks, defying traditional caution. Prominent brokers note astonishment at the market's persistence and uncertainty ahead.
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Wall Street
Marie Dresser
Santa Claus
Dresser
Washington, D.C
Julius Westheimer
Baker
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By Bennett Segal
Atlantic Ocean
Burns
Saidanha Port
Cape Elizabeth
Dow Jones
AP/News
Chet Carrier
AP Business Writer
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