Spotlight roundups across the nation unfold in brief
The Associated Press file reports on diverse federal and local matters. Texas Comptroller Bob Bullock loses a bid to obtain delinquent tax case files. San Augustine ISD denied state funds. space program hopeful B Tracey Sutherland seeks spaceflight via interviews. Dallas teen Lucinda Stout to stand trial as an adult for murder. FBI probes an unlicensed rest home near Wharton. Summa Corp ousts Chester C. Davis as general counsel. Madalyn Murray O Hair comments on debates. Bailor contemplates possible reductions in Saturday mail. Lady Bird Johnson dedicates the Johnson Center at Southwest Texas State University. a Los Angeles case involves a baby’s father shot before birth. a Houston teen faces an adult-try in a clerk’s shooting.
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San Marcos
Tex
Lady Bird Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Southwest Texas State University
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lignite gas experiment at A&M aims to cut energy costs
On the Texas A&M campus engineers produced gas from a 380 foot lignite seam in a novel gasification experiment. They see potential to heat boilers and generate electricity at lower costs, though fuel quality is below natural gas. The pilot uses two wells and staged burning to gasify coal, with a 275000 dollar project funded by the university engineering station and an industry consortium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College Station
Texas A&m
James Jennings
Austin
Waco
Texarkana
Conroe
Jennings
Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Poultry prices edge up on government forecast
AP Farm Writer Don Kendall reports that holiday turkeys may cost about a nickel more per pound this year as the Agriculture Department forecasts higher wholesale prices for turkeys and broiler-fryers in the fourth quarter. Egg prices are expected to fall from last year while beef and pork rise slightly. output trends and feed costs could influence 1978 levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Kendall
Washington
Agriculture Department
Turkey
Lance used same stock dividends as collateral for two loans
The case centers on Bert Lance, then loaned $2.625 million by Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. and later backed by the same stock dividends for a second bank loan. Officials say he may have breached contracts by pledging identical collateral to both banks. no federal law violation is established, yet questions remain about adequacy of collateral and whether the second loan violated the written agreement. Dietsch confirmed the record shows the dual pledge and noted the loan was not called.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael J. Sniffen
Richard E. Meyer
Associated Press Writers
Washington
Bert Lance
New York
Lance
Office of Management and Budget
Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co
Robert A. Baer Jr
U.S. Comptroller of the Currency
Hanover
Federal Reserve
House
Robert W. Dietsch
Dietsch
Barbs By Phil Pastoret
A fractured exchange reveals a bank sought stock dividends from Lance between June and November 1976 while a loan was paid off in January 1977. Manufacturers vice president James Hamblenton says the bank never worried about collectability, noting the shares were not a critical item in the loan’s total picture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manufacturers
Lance
James Hambelton
Hambelton
Pony badly deformed by four years in manure filled stall
King the 10 year old Shetland pony is being treated after four years confined in a nailed shut stall piled with manure near Plaistow. Veterinarians described extreme laminitis and leg damage from hoof distortion and a hay only diet. SPCA investigator Peter Saunders called the case shocking.
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Andrew Schneider
Associated Press
Durham
N.H
Peter Saunders
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
SPCA
Plaistow
Massachusetts
Saunders
King
LULAC seeks Mexican American judgeship in Texas district
The Justice Department is asked to study creating a new Western District of Texas federal judgeship. LULAC, via Corpus Christi attorney Ruben Bonilla, met with Deputy Atty Gen Michael Egan and others in Washington. The district would span El Paso to Waco and include Austin San Antonio and Del Rio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Justice Department
Texas
Texas League of United Latin American Citizens
Lulac
Corpus Christi
Ruben Bonilla
Ruben Sandoval
San Antonio
el Paso
Waco
Austin
del Rio
U.S. District Court
Reynaldo Garza
Brownsville
John F. Kennedy
Tony Canales
U.S
Bonilla
Atty
Michael Egan
Priscilla Davis Admits Relation With Runner In Murder Trial
In Amarillo Texas Priscilla Davis admitted a romantic link with W.T. Runner as Cullen Davis defense cross examines state witness. The high profile Fort Worth murder case centers on the 1974 shootings at the Davis mansion that killed two and wounded two including Mrs. Davis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mike Cochran
Associated Press
Amarillo
Tex
Fort Worth
Cullen Davis
Priscilla
Davis
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Bullock
Bob Bullock
Texas Supreme Court
John Hill
High Court
San Augustine Independent
M.L. Brockette
Brockette
Lucinda
Dallas
Lucinda Stout
Craig Penfold
Miss Stout
Penfold
Harry Stout
FBI
Houston
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Wharton
Spanish Camp
Hughes
Los Angeles
Chester C. Davis
Howard Hughes
Summa Corp
Summa
Hughes’ Empire
Madalyn
Rockford
Ill
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Bob Harrington
Harrington
Benjamin F. Bailor
LBJ Center
Isis Sarai
Whild
Ronald Burkholder
Maria Herbst
Sxggm
Peutiont
Beverly K. Saltsgaver
A&m
N.Y
Kakwirakerou
Brooklyn
Vermont
Phil Pastoret
Shetland
Runner
Andrea Wilborn
Richard
Haynes
Mrs. Davis
W.T. Runner
Rufner
Arlington
State District Court
George Dowlen
W.T Runner
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