Oil firms flex clout in Texas refinery tax debate
In the Texas House hearing, Conoco Exxon Texaco and other refiners mobilized about fifty executives to oppose a proposed refinery tax. They warned of revenue losses and industry displacement, while Rep Budd Temple pressed for hard cost data to prove or disprove the potential shutdown impact.
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Petro-Chemical
Senate
House Revenue and Taxation
Texas
Conoco
Exxon
Texaco
General Revenue Fund
Buddy Temple
Billy Blythe
Chris Miller
Senate Chamber
Miller
Rep. Miller
Buddy
Blythe
Bill Abington
Dallas
Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association
Joe Wyatt
Wyatt
United States
Gulf Oil CO
U.S
Z.D. Bonner
Ut-Austin
Bonner
Ringmaster Abington
Rice University
Charles McLure
Allyn R
Gulf Coast
Atlantic States
Louisiana
John Bigham
Wayne Peveto
Ron Waters
McLure
Houston
Peveto
Abington
Georgia
North Carolina
South Carolina
OPEC
Caribbean
Federal Energy Administration
Temple
Editorial: Britain Faces Higher Postage Amid Inflation
The piece argues Britain clings to democratic institutions while postal rates rise. First class mail jumps to 17 cents, parcel post 50 percent higher, and April 28 brings a 29 percent telephone charge increase. Inflation, wage costs for 420,000 postal workers drive the hikes.
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Big Ben
Isles
Britain
Senate panel weighs federal price setting for intrastate gas
Washington AP Senate Commerce Committee moves toward a bill to let the federal government set prices for natural gas produced and used within the same state. The panel plans another session and likely votes next week to send the measure to the full Senate.
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Washington
Senate Commerce Committee
Bly
Senate
Ford Administration
Adlai E. Stevenson III
D-Ill
Federal Power Commission
Letter of thanks and subscription payment from T A Jennens
Editor receives a thank you note praising the paper and congratulating Pecos on the hospital bond passage. Jennens encloses a 2 75 subscription payment for 30 days, stating he will notify if more time is desired. The message is signed T A Jennens from El Paso.
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Pecos
T.A. Jennens
Today in History Highlights From April 16
On this date 1917 Lenin returned to Russia to assume leadership of the revolution. Luther arrived in Worms in 1521 to face the Diet. Washington left Mount Vernon in 1789 for his inauguration. Napoleon III declared war on Juarez in 1862. The Pacific cable was completed in 1906 between the U S and China. The Texas City disaster occurred in 1947 when a nitrate laden freighter exploded. A 1967 U S bombing mis strike killed 14 in South Vietnam. Congressional sources in 1975 discussed an atomic submarine plan. An Alpine avalanche killed 72 at a French sanitarium in 1980. A 1981 Pentagon briefing noted $266 million in extra military aid for South Vietnam.
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Vladimir Lenin
Russia
Martin Luther
Worms
Germany
Diet
George Washington
Mount Vernon
United States
Napoleon III
Juarez
China
Texas City
Texas
South Vietnam
U.S
Lallanches
France
Pentagon
Senate
Women not yet qualified for presidency, editor notes
Washington columnist argues no woman in 200 years has the full mix of prestige power influence and public acceptance for the presidency. He cites Constance Motley Ella Grasso Dorothy Day and others as influential yet lacking traditional qualifications. He critiques lists of 250 influential women as mostly entertainers or marginal figures.
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Washington
NEA
Redbook Magazine
United States
Constance Baker Motley
U.S
New York
Dorothy Day
Ella Grasso
Connecticut
Janet Gray Hayes
San Jose
Clare Booth Luce
Elanor Holmes Norton
Anne Armstrong
America
Bella Abzug
D-N.y
Margaret Bush Wilson
NAACP
Marya Mannes
Mae West
Ms. West
Barbara Jordan
D-Tex
Martha Peterson
Exxon
Virginia Masters
Masters and Johnson
Penny Tweedy
Ronda Barrett
God
Hollywood
Julia Child
Julia Nixon Eisenhower
Martha Mitchell
John
Eleanor Roosevelt
Refugees Grow From Vietnam War Drive and U.S. Policy
Ray Cromley argues that refugees from South Vietnam number in the millions, driven by North Vietnamese advances and VC decline. He credits a viable South Vietnamese government and economy, less corruption than Hanoi, and criticizes Kissinger for flawed 1973 negotiations. He cites past treaties and enforcement failures in North Korea and Laos as lessons.
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Washington
NEA
South Vietnam
Saigon
Senate
Hanoi
North
North Vietnam
Henry Kissinger
Kissinger
U.S
Russia
China
North Korea
Laos
Mao Tse-tung
Ho Chi Minh
South Korea
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Texas Press
Wemain
Association
Tom Tiede
Women and the Presidency
Ray Cromley
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