Steel firms push price hikes amid cost squeeze
Washington AP report notes top steel executives blaming government for price restraint while seeking about 4.8 percent increases on flat rolled products used in autos and appliances. Bethlehem Steel's Stewart Cort says costs rose faster than prices since early 1972. Public hearings set to review Phase 4 anti inflation justification. Ten firms including U S Steel seek hikes. any approved increases cannot take effect before Sept. 13 due to a three day delay.
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Bethlehem Steep Corp
Cost of Living Council
U.S. Steel
Cort
Bethlehem
Wallace to head Railroad Commission DPS patrolman moves to auto theft division
DPS patrolman Fred Parrott named auto theft investigator moving from Pecos to Houston. He leaves Pecos this week and will start Sept. 1 after seven years on patrol and three years in traffic law enforcement. He looks forward to the transition into criminal state police work.
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van Horn
Athens
Wallace
Henderson County Junior College
Baylor University School of Law
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3Rd Judicial District of Texas
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Tunnell
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Jim Langdon
Ben Ramsey
Price Daniel
Connally
Ben Barnes
Fred Parruit
Gentle Rain Spares Texas As Heat Presses Nation
A rugged pattern of showers and thunderstorms spread across Texas and the central U.S. with two inch cloudbursts reported in McCook and Charlotte and a 2.51 inch total in Galveston. Tornado sightings were made near Nuces Bay and Kingsville as Pecos police investigated a noninjury two-vehicle crash at IH 20 U.S. 285.
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Pecos families face school supply shortage week
Isarrised parents search vainly for school needs as Pecos stores show bare shelves on first day of school. Supplies like beef gasoline and baling wire appear on shortage list while over 4 000 students respond to the return to classes.
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Pecos
Downtowner Package Store joins Pecos Chamber
The Pecos Chamber of Commerce welcomes Downtowner Package Store as a new member after chamber manager Terry Burns enlisted the firm. Shoppers flocked between stores chasing last-minute school items while clerks stocked shelves, exhausted from trips to stockrooms as parents finally sent children back to school.
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Downtowner Package Store
Pecos Chamber of Commerce
Terry Burns
Chinese Communists adopt collective leadership plan
Mao Tse tung remains chairman as the 10th Central Committee political bureau of 21 members is announced by Xinhua. The order of names follows Chinese character strokes, signaling a move toward collective leadership and a transition away from a single strongman.
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China
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Mao
Wang Hung-wen
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Shanghai Municipal Revolutionary Committee
Stalin
Soviet Union
Skylab 2 Crew Cleared for Week-Long Extension
Space agency officials approve Skylab 2 astronauts Alan Bean Owen Garriott and Jack Lousma to stay in orbit at least until Sept 7 for a 42nd day of a planned 59 day mission. They continue telescope sun studies and Earth photography focusing on drought stricken Africa.
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Lousma
Africa
Minor Wreck No Citations in Cedar Street Collision
No citations issued after a minor car pickup collision in the 300 block of S Cedar St. Annie Oakes and Guadalupe Anella were involved. Anella allegedly tried to park when the crash occurred. Officer Charles Smith noted conflicting statements and no witnesses.
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Annie Oakes
Space 16
Walthall Trailer Park
Guadalupe
Anella
Oak St
Charles Smith
Cafeterias Face Higher Lunch Costs Across States
An Associated Press survey shows school districts raising hot lunch prices by five to ten cents and cutting back on beef and other pricier items as subsidies fall away and milk costs rise. The changes affect districts from Austin to San Francisco and Connecticut, with enrollments and participation expected to dip as prices climb.
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Associated Press
Johnny
Agriculture Department
Congressional Conference Committee
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George Hockenberry
James Thigpen
Harlingen
Tex
Austin System
Connecticut
Nancy Perry
Washington, D. C
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