City council outlines growth framework and fire contract issues
City Council meeting sets growth framework for future city changes while tackling a costly fire contract with Reeves County. Officials note 52 percent of fire calls occur outside city limits and the current $69,747 fire budget is largely city funded. The April 25 contract expiry pressures a solution ahead of renewal. An extra police patrolman was debated, with authorization asked for by Police Chief Gene Martin.
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Lynn Webb
J.J. Maxey
Reeves County
Maxey
Gene Martin
Cigar box money trail in Connally bribery case advances
Washington AP prosecutors continue tracing the cigar box money in the Connally bribery trial as witnesses from Federal Reserve banks FBI and Treasury testify. They seek to show 280 bills could be circulating on Oct 29 1973 the date Jacobsen says Connally handed him the cash to cover up a $10 000 bribe. Jacobsen says he returned it in 1974 and later stored a second batch in a Texas safe deposit box.
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Washington (Ap
John B. Connally
Federal Reserve
Jake Jacobsen
Treasury
Connally
Jacobsen
Frank M. Tuerkheimer
FBI
Treasury Department
Austin
Tex
IRS Offices Extend Service On Tax Assistance Saturday
The IRS announced ten southern Texas offices and the toll free information line will open Saturday from 9 am to 2 pm to help taxpayers file 1974 federal income tax returns. Rio Texas offices listed include Austin Beaumont Corpus Christi El Paso Galveston Harlingen Houston McAllen San Antonio and Waco. In other city business council members debated staffing costs and approved a low bid for a 1975 patrol car, while considering an ordinance to elect council members by specific places rather than at large.
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Austin
Texas
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Howard C. Longley
Beaumont
Corpus Christi
el Paso
Galveston
Harlingen
Houston
Rush Avenue
McAllen
San Antonio
Waco
Fred Leigh
New City Council Sworn In After Election
Newly elected councilman Doug Fernandes joins re-elected Manuel Trujillo and Bob Bickley as city council members following a canvass of votes. Mayor Bill Pigman administered the oath. Carl McGee will serve as mayor pro tem. The body approved hires in health and sanitation and police, terminated Ben Cloud in parks, paid monthly bills of 27143.58, and set three unmetered street light placements. The council also debated pursuing a home rule charter again, with Leigh to draft the ordinance for later consideration.
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Doug Fernandes
Manuel Trujillo
Bob Bickley
Bill
Bill Pigman
City Hall
Ben Cloud
Parks Department
Cloud
Walnut
Fourth
Cowan
Washington
Oak
Ford warns higher pay can hurt economy
Ford administration cautions wage hikes may reduce jobs and lift inflation if unions push for larger raises beyond what the downturned economy can bear. Dunlop warns of strikes in volatile construction without wage restraint as Ways and Means kills health insurance expansion for laid off workers. A proposed 1 percent tax on group health premiums funds a special unemployed claims trust, with further committee action expected next Monday.
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Washington
Ford Administration
Council On Wage and Price Stability
John T. Dunlop
Dunlop
House
Ways and Means
Duval judge and associates indicted on tax charges
Corpus Christi AP A federal grand jury indicted District Court Judge O P Carrillo and his brother Duval County commissioner Ramiro Carrillo along with Arturo D Zertuche on 12 counts of filing false tax returns and conspiracy. Returns dated January 1 1967 and May 31 1974. All three posted 10000 bonds and were released.
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Corpus Christi
O.P. Carrillo
Duval County
Ramiro
Arturo D. Zertuche
Carrillos
Archer Parr
George B
Parr
Carrillo
Zertuche
Sonic Drive Inn to Open With Car Service Model
Work has begun on two new restaurants in recent weeks. Sonic Drive In across from Foster's on Third Street will open in four weeks with no dining room and microphones beside 24 parking stalls for car orders. Owners are Danny Winters and Marvin Jareous of Oklahoma City. Casey's Fried Chicken at 508 S Cedar, owned by Casey Pritchard of Midland, will open in six weeks. Groundbreaking ceremonies are tentatively set for Monday.
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Foster's Restaurant
Third St
James Shook
Sonic
Danny Winters
Marvin Jareous
Oklahoma City
Casey's Fried Chicken
S. Cedar
Casey Pritchard
Midland
Lonnie Young
Pizza Hut
Radical sports figure to talk in Hearst case
Phillip K. Shinnick, a radical sports figure, will refuse to answer questions before the federal grand jury in the Patricia Hearst case, following guidance from his attorney and allies Jack Scott and Bill Walton. Scott and his wife Micki had emerged from hiding and endorsed noncooperation as a moral stance, while Walton expressed regret for FBI contact.
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Linda Deutsch
Associated Press
SAN Francisco
Phillip K. Shinnick
Patricia Hearst
Jack Scott
Bill Walton
Shinnick
Grand Jury
Scott
Micki
Walton
Hearst
U.S
Portland Trailblazers
National Basketball Association
FBI
James Larson
Randolph A. Hearst
The
San Francisco Examiner
Symbionese Liberation Army
War waif adoptions point up other needs
Government officials estimate 100000 to 120000 American children remain in foster care or institutions. Many are neglected, require complex states, or have siblings, handicaps, or emotional issues. Ursula Gallagher of HEW warns against viewing Vietnamese orphans as the sole solution.
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Washington
Ursula M. Gallagher
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Miss Gallagher
Cool dry spell persists over far West Texas amid scattered showers
Weather across the southern Plains shows a split pattern with Pecos and nearby areas staying dry as a cool high of 69 F Wednesday and a pre-dawn 40 F set temperatures. Meanwhile moisture belts bring showers and thunderstorms from the Texas coast to West Central Texas, plus fog in the Lower Rio Grande Valley and light rain from Eagle Pass to Lufkin. Heavy rain caused flooding in Alabama and Mississippi, with high winds and tornado watches in the Deep South. Snow blanketed parts of the northern plains, Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, as emergency airlifts and flood advisories announced coexist with frigid temperatures.
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Texas
Associated Press
Pecos
Rio Grande Valley
Eagle Pass
Austin
Lufkin
Sweetwater
Wichita Falls
Childress
Texas Panhandle
Lubbock
Roswell
N.M
Dalhart
Panhandle
Brownsville
Vicksburg
Miss
Yazoo
Rockies
South Dakota
Mitchell
Plankinton
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Central
Clark to be sworn as U S Attorney for Western District
John E. Clark will take the oath of office as United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas in a public ceremony in San Antonio Friday. Chief U S District Judge Adrian Spears will preside at the ceremony at 10 30 in U S District courtroom Number 1.
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John E. Clark
United States
Western District of Texas
San Antonio
U.S
Adrian Spears
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