Federal Judges Order Texas School Financing Restructuring
A three judge panel ruled the Texas public school financing system unconstitutional and ordered restructuring within two years to uphold equal protection. The Edgewood ISD class action, filed July 30, 1968 by 15 parents and children, represented Mexican American students and others in low property value districts. If lawmakers fail to act, the court will take further steps to implement the order.
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San Antonio, Tex
Texas
Edgewood Independent School District
Edgewood
Odessans face mild Yule as court upholds school funding norms
The Texas judicial panel led by Irving L. Goldberg and Adr ian Spears ruled the Texas school financing system violates neither federal nor state constitutions. The panel upheld fiscal neutrality over wealth-based segregation, rejecting the Illinois precedent as binding. Odessa forecasters predicted mid 70s through Christmas with light northerly winds and no white Christmas.
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Circuit Court
Irving L. Goldberg
Dallas
District Court
Adrian Spears
San Antonio
U.S. District Court
Jack Roberts
Austin
Texas
J.W. Edgar
Texas Board of Education
U.s.supreme Court
Hoffa Freed In Nixon Commutation Reunion With Wife
James R. Hoffa, former Teamsters president, leaves Lewisburg prison after President Nixon commutes his 13 year sentence. Hoffa reunites with ailing wife Josephine and family at their Glendale home as labor leaders praise the action. The commute bars Hoffa from direct or indirect management of any labor organization until March 6, 1980.
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ST. Louis
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters’ Union
Nixon
Josephine
Hoffa
Glendale
Big Law
Federal
Lewisburg
Nnl
Detroit
Teamsters Union
United Auto Workers
Leonard Woodcock
No Controls Needed Says Council on Interest Rates
Washington AP reports the Cost of Living Council will not impose controls on interest rates now, using voluntary restraints later. The decision drew swift criticism from House Banking Chair Patman, who called it a holiday greeting to customers and accused Nixon of violating the Economic Stabilization Act by exempting exemptions without rationale. The Postal Service announced a 23.9 percent increase in third class mail rates, delayed from Sept. 1970 due to the wage-price freeze. The Price Commission trimmed a proposed federal employee Blue Cross Blue Shield rise from 34.1 to 22 percent, while the council noted mortgage and consumer loan rates had fallen since 1970 and that mandatory stabilization actions are not currently necessary. The council said the Committee on Interest and Dividends is preparing to implement a program. Patman criticized the action as favoring banks over the public amid ongoing wage controls.
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Cost of Living Council
House Banking and Currency Committee
Wright’ Patman
D-Tex
Watman
Nixon
Postal Service
Price Commission
Jerome R. Waldie
D-Calif
U.S. Postal Service
Ibetween
Committee On
Leftist Pakistan Cabinet Shaped By Bhutto Political Move
President Bhutto named an 11 member left leaning cabinet drawn mainly from the Pakistan Peoples Party to tighten his grip on power. In India, Indira Gandhi warned against meddling by world powers in the India Pakistan dispute. The piece notes shifts in defense, foreign affairs, interior and provincial affairs as the Teamsters’ influence is mentioned in the broader political context.
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Associated Press
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Pakistan
Pakistan Peoples Party
India
Indira Gandhi
India-Pakistan
Jimmy Hotta
Ars
United States
Walett T
Frisko
Agha Mohammed
Tianya Khan
Teamsters
Detroit
Just
Man picked by Nixon cautions no short term miracles
The article profiles the man chosen to head the government’s cancer crusade under President Nixon. He warns against expecting rapid cures, emphasizing long-term research, sustained funding, and coordinated national strategy. He outlines goals and the challenges ahead for fighting cancer nationwide.
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Nixon
No Paper Christmas in Odessa American on Saturday
The Odessa American will not publish on Christmas Day to allow employees time with family. Regular publication resumes with the Sunday December 26 edition.
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Odessa American
Christmas Eve Fog Shrouds East Texas While Warm Ridge Lingers
A broad fog covered East Texas and much of South Central Texas on Christmas Eve morning, with warmer air trapped by a southeastern ridge. Readings ranged from 32 at Marfa to 63 at Galveston, as a frontal system weakens and a temporary calm returns tonight and Saturday with clearing skies forecast.
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Texas
del Rio
Panhandle Plains
el Paso
Dawk
Marfa
Wink
West Texas
Galveston
Childress
Lubbock
Austin
World Pauses For Christmas Amid War and Hope
Christmas stories from around the world show soldiers at peace for the holiday. U S troops in Vietnam receive turkey dinners and entertainment while 100 Belfast children fly to London for a safe Christmas in a city lit with lights and charity. Bethlehem braces for 35600 pilgrims as extra police mingle with crowds and a midnight mass draws hopeful worshipers. President Nixon and Pope Paul VI issue messages of peace and unity urging aid to the needy and collaboration across nations. A Brazilian Parents and Children issue offers Bethlehem earth and a world leaders phone directory urging calls for peace.
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Belfast
London
Bethlehem
Christ
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Long Binh
Saigon
Bob, Hope
Johnny Grant
Martha Raye
Chicago
Aj 3Owie
Gary Allen
Northern Ireland
Shankill Road
Ardoyne
Santa Claus
Israel
Church of the Naivity
Jesus
Nixon
Paul VI
Vatican
Indian Subcontinent
Leonid J. Brezhnev
Golda Meir
Mao Tse-tung
North Vietnam
Pham van Dong
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