UT seeks parking garage on historic Maxey house site
UT plans a parking garage on the former Thomas S. Maxey house, built in 1908 for the federal judge who presided over O Henry's 1897 bank embezzlement trial. Preservationists urge saving the residence, with relocation costs estimated between 50,000 and 100,000 dollars, while UT weighs options and seeks a buyer to relocate the structure.
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University
Thomas S. Maxey
Frances Campbell Maxey
Maxey
O. Henry
William Sidney Porter
Austin American-Statesman
Maxey House
Steely
Texas Historical Commission
Austin Gleeson
Gleeson
Ed Sharpe
Leslie Lawson
Center For the Study of Human Resources
Trashy Ladies of Winter Haven Start curbside recycling push
Irene Underwood leads 17 other Winter Texans in Winter Haven Brownsville as trashy ladies go door to door collecting recyclables. They wear gray shirts and start around 10 a.m. to sort cans bottles and paper while praising curbside recycling as easy and effective. The group credits leadership and local support for higher haul than other areas.
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Brownsville
Irene Underwood
Winter Haven
Underwood
Washington
Esser
Georgianna
Nelson Alea
Curt Nading
Nading
Compaq joins Texas Clean Industries 2000 program
Compaq Computer Corp and 15 other Texas firms joined the Clean Industries 2000 program, pledging to cut hazardous waste and toxic emissions by at least 50 percent by 2000. The effort, begun in 1991, now includes 180 companies, spanning chemical makers to bases and refineries, with notable reductions during 1994 to 1996.
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Houston
Compaq Computer Corp
Texas
Ralph Marquez
Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission
Clean Industries
Power and manipulation in priest sex abuse case outlined
In Dallas, a psychiatrist described how a suspended priest groomed three former altar boys for years, luring them to overnight stays, then used multiple molestation acts from 1987 to 1991 at St Luke's in Irving and St John's in Ennis. He testified the victims suffered PTSD and memory gaps, with one abuse incident reaching 400 times.
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Dallas
Rudolph
Rudy
Kos
Michael Pawlik
Gilbert Kliman
St. Luke’s Catholic Church
Irving
St. John’s Catholic Church
Ennis
Eli
Brad Lollar
Kliman
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