Happiness lives despite killer fire
Pedro Barraza Jr. and his family slowly rebuild after a August 23 blaze caused by a faulty floor furnace destroyed their home and killed the 22-year-old son. Barraza and his wife Maria plus daughters Korina and Gina suffered severe burns and remain in recovery, with children returning to school and parents receiving ongoing burn treatments as they cope with insurance shortfalls.
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Pedro Barraza Jr
Pedro Sr
Barraza
Maria
Korina
Gina
Shriner’s Hospital
Galveston
Alamo
Permian Basin Rehabilitation Center
Jobless rate sinks to 8.4 percent in November
U S unemployment fell to 8.4 percent in November, the lowest in two years, as a record 102,671,000 Americans held jobs. About 743,000 people found work while 520,000 fewer were unemployed, bringing the nation’s jobless total to 9.4 million. In Texas, the rate dropped to 6.7 percent, the lowest since August 1982.
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Washington
U.S
Texas
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Tober
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Nic Santangelo
Elves Workshop at St Johns Episcopal School Opens
The Elves Workshop 83 hosted at St Johns Episcopal School on 401 West County Road enabled 123 students to participate in a festive program.
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St. John’s Episcopal School
West County Road
Gulf Oil faces Mesa proxy fight over reincorporation
Gulf Oil Corp and Mesa Petroleum led by T Boone Pickens clash at a Pittsburgh stockholders meeting to decide moving Gulf from Pennsylvania to Delaware and to approve or reject a royal trust proposal. About 1,000 of Gulf's 165 million shares are represented as final tallies expected after independent auditing in Delaware.
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Pittsburgh
Gulf Oil Corp
Mesa Petroleum Co
T. Boone Pickens
Pickens
Gulf Management
Texas Oil Man
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Gulf
David L. Lawrence Convention Center
James E. Lee
Gulf and Mesa
Gulf and Pickens
Estes seeks immunity over 1961 Bryan death claim
Paroled swindler Billie Sol Estes says he has information about the 1961 death of Henry Marshall, a U S Agriculture Department employee described as a key figure in a federal probe. Marshal’s death was ruled self-inflicted, but Estes calls it murder and seeks immunity from prosecution for any revelations.
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Abilene
Billie Sol Estes
Henry Marshall
U.S. Agriculture Department
Estes
U.S
Clint Peoples
Peoples
Marshall
Bryan
Secretary of Agriculture
Orville Freeman
Estes’ Affairs
Sweden says its taken bite out of smugglers
Swedish customs say they have disrupted a major route for smuggling high technology to the Soviet Union after impounding tons of U.S. made computer equipment. Deputy director Karl E. Rydberg announced intensified searches in Malmo and Stockholm and said results will show next week if the shipments held strategic value. The gear is secured at Helsingborg and could be returned to the United States if classified as war material.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Soviet Union
Malmo
Karl E. Rydberg
Rydberg
U.S
Helsingborg Customs
United States
Helsingborg
Hamburg
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Dept. of Labor
Little Helper
Kimberly Weddel
Marsha
Terry Weddel
24Th St
Gloria Stafford
Bainbridge Drive
Steve Castleberry
Lee
Mesa Group
The
Odessa
Bright Harman
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