Pecos Mayor protests Continental Telephone rate increase
Mayor W R Bickley urged Pecos City Council to block Continental Telephone rate hikes and seek a chance to appear before the Public Utilities Commission. He cited Chicago firm complaints about missed calls and dropped conversations and said the city may appeal personally if denied a separate hearing.
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W.R. ‘Bob’’ Bickley
Pecos
Continental Telephone Company
J.J. Maxey
Public Utilities Commission
Bickley
PUC
Chicago
Farmers use charter planes for Washington rally plans
Striking farmers from Quanah Texas and El Dorado Oklahoma aimed to fly to a Washington rally using a charter flight. The Civil Aeronautics Board noted only affinity charter rules apply if the group exists six months. Officials said the group must file contracts and a surety bond and may still be airborne by January 18.
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Hereford
Texas
Washington
Civil Aeronautics Board
Quanah
el Dorado
Okla
Greg Rystadt
The
American Agriculture Movement
Rystadt
George Wellington
Wellington
Migrant Affairs Probe Probes CETA Funds Role in GOMA
Acting GOMA director Don Adams disclosed that 42 workers employed by a contractor perform agency duties, raising questions about staffing. The 49 Counterpoint employees are paid from a $900,000 Texas Migrant Council contract, with TDCA auditors noting GOMA's seven staff. Adams has placed guards on GOMA records amid FBI interest in CETA funds and state property custody.
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Austin, Texas
Don Adams
Governor’s Office of Migrant Affairs
GOMA
Texas Migrant Council
Counterpoint, Inc
Adams
Counterpoint
FBI
CETA
Dolph Briscoe
Texas
Carter predicts energy compromise early in 1978 session
President Carter forecast Congress will reach a compromise on energy legislation soon after the 1978 session begins, saying there is resolve and national will to tackle the energy problem. He warned that delay harms other priorities and noted foreign leaders seek U.S. will to act. He pressed for tax cuts later in 1978 to spur growth.
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Washington
Carter
Congress
Soviet Union
Anwar Sadat
Middle East
Ex-Texan claim surfaces as Hughes witness testifies
In Houston AP report Pat DeCicco, a former Hughes associate, testifies Hughes often called himself an ex-Texan. He said Hughes was born in Houston and left in the mid-1920s. Hearst Jr. also spoke of a long but not close relationship, mostly in California, not Texas. If Texas wins the residency case, millions in inheritance taxes may be at stake.
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HEW
Joseph A. Califano Jr
Califano
Houston
Howard Hughes
Pat DeCicco
Madrid
Spain
Texas
Hughes
DeCicco
California
Jean Peters
Las Vegas
New York
Henry Ford
William Randolph Hearst Jr
Hearst
Dense fog blankets parts of Texas state today
Dense fog reduced visibility to under one mile in the Low Rio Grande Valley with light drizzle in the Hill Country. Fog also covered a wide area of the eastern half while West Texas stayed clear. morning temperatures ranged from the 20s to the 40s сoastward.
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Associated Press
Rio Grande Valley
Texas
West Texas
Wichita Falls
Brownsville
Amarillo
Texarkana
Dallas-Fort Worth
Austin
Lufkin
Houston
Corpus Christi
McAllen
del Rio
San Angelo
el Paso
Lubbock
Cotulla
Former Texas officer faces Manhattan grand jury probe
Richard Norton, 44, formerly with Texas law enforcement, testified before a Manhattan grand jury weighing possible indictment over his shooting of a mugger at the New York Hilton. Norton shot the taller assailant with a pistol lacking a New York permit. Police made no charges initially. Lt. James Roberts praised Norton’s actions, suggesting a weapons charge might not be just.
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New York
Manhattan
Richard Norton
New York Hilton
Norton
Grand Jury
James Roberts
Music jamboree cancelled after fire at Community Center
A Country Music Association spokesman said the monthly jamboree is cancelled for tomorrow after the Community Center venue was destroyed by fire. The piece links gun law talk in New York, a Dallas security chief Norton, and a hotel assault tied to a separate case. Norton, a former Dallas officer, fought two attackers on the 26th floor with a .38 pistol, wounding one and prompting a hospital transfer for Norton. Edward Campbell, 37, died hours later at St Clare's hospital.
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Country Music Association
New York
Norton
Sanger- Harris Federated
Dallas
Edward Campbell
District Attorney's
Mesquite
Texas
Irving Police Department
Irving
Campbell
St. Clare's Hospital
Eagles Open District Play at Ft Stockton
The Pecos Eagles basketball team begins district competition tonight in Ft. Stockton. The junior varsity game starts at 6 15 followed by the varsity at 8. Monday edition will carry reports of both games.
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Pecos Eagles
Ft. Stockton
Farm Bureau condemns grant to teach English to migrants
The American Farm Bureau Federation condemned a $500 000 federal grant to teach English to migrant workers and rejected pleas to back the farmers' strike. The action came at the federation's final meeting session as it urged higher prices through expanded markets rather than government action. Delegates reelected Alan Grant as president and named Robert B. Delano as vice president.
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Houston
American Farm Bureau Federation
Cesar Chavez
United Farm Workers
Alan Grant
Visalia
Calif
Robert B. Delano
Richmond
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Robert Hinojos
Weatherwatch
U.S
Philadelphia
Justice Department
David Marston
Pennsylvania
Griffin Bell
Bell
Marston
Eagles
Farm Bureau
Secretary of Labor
Ray Marshall
Federation
Chavez
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