Romantic Notation Cited As Cause Of Slaying
In Houston a high school dropouts confession tied to a notebook note sparked jealousy and a fatal shooting. Edward Wieczyk 17 faces murder and false imprisonment charges after a gun fatality targeting George Wortman Jr. 15 and an auto chase ending with Debra Kennedy 17 unharmed.
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Odessa
Edward Wayne Wieczyk
George F. Wortman Jr
Terry Lynn Calkins
Wieczyk
Debra Lee Kennedy
Rye
Tex
Liberty County
Wleczyk
Miss Kennedy
Budget Overhaul Urged By Briscoe For Texas
In Austin AP Briscoe Democratic nominee for governor asserts Texas fiscal problems require a total budgeting overhaul. He cites an attorney general opinion challenging gubernatorial transfer power and backs creation of a State Budget Commission to prepare budgets for legislative action. Police killed an unidentified man during an attempted burglary of a service station in Houston.
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Austin
Tex
Dolph Briscoe
Texas
Briscoe
Legislative Budget Board
State Budget Commission
Martin
Houston
Police Department
Harvest activities slowed by rain across Texas fields
Rain from two fronts slowed harvests across Texas with showers aiding Northeast conditions but delaying coastal crop work. Cotton bolls opened in McLennan and crops in the Rio Grande Valley and Plains showed generally good yields. Grain sorghum and soybeans progressed, rice crop nearing harvest, and vegetable picking active in High Plains and Rio Grande Valley. Screwworm cases remained heavy with no relief expected until cooler weather arrives.
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College Station
Tex
Texas
John F. Hutchinson
Texas Agriculture Extension Service
Asa
McLennan
Rio Grande Valley
Hutchinson
High Plains
East Texas
San Antonio Winter Garden
Uganda to seize European and Asian owned firms
President Idi Amin announced that Uganda will extend the takeover of foreign owned businesses to European as well as Asian firms. In a speech at a police training college he said the initial phase of the economic war began with expelling about 60,000 Asians of British, Indian, Bangladeshi, and Pakistani descent.
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Kampala
Idi Amin
Uganda
Bangladesh
UNM Drug Problems To Be Tackled
Santa Fe New Mexico AP reports the Legislative University Study Committee will partner with University of New Mexico officials and Albuquerque police to address drug problems on campus. UNM regents chairman Calvin Horn criticized testimony by Metro Squad officers at an earlier session, saying UNM officials should have testified too. The committee chair, Sen. I M Smalley, said there was uncertainty over what the officers would say and urged refuting the charges now, while Horn argued the university’s image was tarnished by the story and noted possible procedural error.
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Debra Kennedy
Terry Gaskins
Debra
Odessa Reproduction Co
Hiway Temple
Assembly OF God
Christian Fellowship
Jesus
Che
C.L. Gillock
UTI Fabric
Cobb
Murphy's Brand
Skein Skein
Cone Sports
Skein
Moscow
Izmailovo Park
UNM
Lales
Elgin
Baytor
Zalvs
ZALFS
Great Oil Basin Center
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