Flores new head of El Paso Diocese as Metzger retires
Patrick Flores of San Antonio will replace Bishop Sydney Metzger, who retires after 36 years leading the El Paso Diocese. Metzger, 75, resisted being labeled a social activist and has not drawn a salary since 1942. Flores, Mexican American rights ally, was held at gunpoint in Ecuador in 1976 and is the first Mexican American named bishop in the United States. The diocese serves about 267,000 Catholics in 17 counties across roughly 57,000 square miles.
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San Antonio
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Metzger
Flores
Ecuador
United States
Mex
Southwest
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Castroville
Hayes
Farah Manufacturing Co
West Texas
Associated Press
Ganado
Texas Coastal Bend
Frances J. Furey
Bastilio Pomplily
Rome
St. John Lateran
Archdiocese of Santa Fe
Subpoenas Set for Inquest in Pecos Man Death
About 35 people have been subpoenaed for an inquest into Larry Lozano of Pecos who was found dead in his Ector County Jail cell twelve days after arrest on charges of assault on a peace officer. Jurors will hear testimony from medical examiners Dr. Joseph Jachimczyk and two others about whether Lozano died by own action or from beatings.
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Texas
Larry Lozano
Pecos
Ector
Justice of the Peace
Virgil Lumpee
Joseph Jachimczyk
Harris County
Lumpee
Jachimczyk
Lozano
Elton Faught
Ector County
Kris Challipally
Fredrick Bronstein
el Paso
Supreme Court hearing on Texas Bell rate hike case
In Austin, Southwestern Bell argues the Public Utility Commission underpriced rates by 38 million by year end 1976, asking the Texas Supreme Court to stay the order and temporarily adopt higher rates that would boost Bell revenues by 58 million annually, while the case proceeds. The court weighs Bell’s challenge to the rate base and whether review should be new or based on the commission record, with the AG defending the existing base. Bell has also filed a new rate case seeking a 216 million annual increase.
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Bell Common Equity
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Jurors acquit Don Trull after 18 hour deliberation
In Tyler Texas jurors convict no one in the Aug. 9 1977 aggravated kidnapping case. Judge Glenn Phillips pressured the panel to reach a unanimous verdict as Don Trull 40 faced accusations tied to a standoff at Billy Pyron's Tyler office. The defense claimed Estes and Pyron swindled him.
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Texas
Glenn Phillips
Don Trull
G. Brockett Irwin
Hilmar Kuhlman
Phillips
Trull
Billy Pyron
Bill May
Pyron
Estes
Farm aid package viewed as election hoax by congressman
Washington AP reports the emergency farm aid bill, approved by conferees, heads to a Senate vote then the House with a presidential veto threatened. Rep. Frederick W. Richmond denounces it as a hoax on farmers while Sen. Bob Dole hopes for a meeting with Carter. If enacted, section on guaranteed returns may raise grocery bills for a three-person city family by up to 2.60 weekly, amid inflation.
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Dn.y
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Bob Dole
R-Kan
Dole
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Frank Kelley
Don Weinacht
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Robert Hinojos
Barstow
Kenneth and
Nita Wright
Pecos Country Music Association
Pecos Community Center
Faught
Panhandle
Big Bend
Thomas Phillips
Houston
Billie Sol Estes
May
Irwin
Abilene
Clark
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