Crane High wins PHS Speech Tournament crown with 111 points
Kathy Favor of Pecos High School presents the Sweepstakes trophy to Meta Johnson of Crane. Crane High School scored 111 points to win the PHS Speech Tournament on Saturday. Monahans took second with 87 points. Ivan Sandlin coaches Monahans.
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Kathy Favor
Pecos High School
Meta Johnson
Crane
Crane High School
Monahans
Ivan Sandlin
Robert Hinejos
Texas cities press revenue sharing in renewed federal program
Texas cities fight to preserve federal revenue sharing funds slated for renewal. A Texas Municipal League survey of 283 cities finds revenue sharing vital, with 144 million yearly flowing to city governments and potential cuts risking layoffs, tax hikes, and reduced services.
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Austin
Texas
Congress
Texas Town & City
Texas Municipal League
TML
Sheriff: protesters not to face charges at Comanche Peak
Somervell County Sheriff Frank Laramore will not file charges against 103 protesters arrested during November at the Comanche Peak power plant citing taxpayer costs. The demonstrators, from Comanche Peak Life Force, scaled the fence and were charged with trespass. Some cases have delayed trials, with limited outcomes reported.
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Glen Rose
Texas
Comanche Peak
Somervell County
Frank Laramore
North Central
Texas Power Plant
Here
Ple
Dallas
Tom Mills
Mills
Comanche Peak Life Force
Texas Utilities Generating Co
Somerville
Charles Jordan
Jordan
Ray Ward
Dallas Power & Light
Brownsville man held after shipmates taken hostage at sea
Robin Alexander Stansbury, 21, of Brownsville, is jailed in Houston awaiting arraignment on charges of crimes on the high seas kidnapping after FBI agents boarded the shrimp boat Easy Rider off Freeport, Texas. The crew said Stansbury held them at gunpoint over the weekend claiming an emergency and wanting to go home. The incident began near Intercoastal City, Louisiana, with Coast Guard support and a bond recommendation of $100,000.
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Michael A. Lutz
Associated Press
Freeport, Texas
Brownsville
Houston
Robin Alexander Stansbury
FBI
Gulf of Mexico
Freeport
Texas
Easy Rider
Intercoastal City
Newsmen to be expelled soon in Iran
Oil Minister Ali Akbar Moinfar said in Tehran that all American reporters would be expelled from Iran in the very near future due to biased reporting. He spoke after a Revolutionary Council meeting and said the measure would take effect soon.
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Tehran
Iran
Ali Akbar Moinfar
Moinfar
Revolutionary Council
Jury selection opens for Bert Lance bank fraud trial
Former federal budget chief Bert Lance arrives at federal court with his wife and family as more than 125 jurors fill the panel for the bank fraud trial. Judge Moye aims for a 12 member jury and six alternates by Tuesday. Lance and three co-defendants deny the 33 counts accusing them of misusing $20 million in bank funds.
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Atlanta
Federal Budget
Bert Lance
Lance
LaBelle
U.S
Charles A. Moye Jr
Carter
Office of Management and Budget
Georgia
Richard Carr
Thomas Mitchell
Jack Mullins
University financial probe begins at North Texas State University
The House General Investigating Committee met behind closed doors in Austin to draft a plan for examining allegations of financial mishandling at North Texas State University. Twenty witnesses including NTSU officials and faculty were subpoenaed as the panel probes transfers from the general fund to a private foundation.
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Austin
NTSU
Slack
Jim Wollers
C.C. Nolen
John Weeks
John Carter
Carter
Nolen
Weeks
Denton University
Winfree Brown
Midland
Ntsu Board of Regents
Brown
Reeves County Commissioners OK 5 000 advance for tax district
Reeves County Commission ers Court voted to advance 5000 to the Reeves County Tax Appraisal District to assist its establishment. County Judge W O Pig man said initial financing until the district adopts a budget for 1980. The amount to be recovered from future district allotments.
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Reeves County Commissioners Court
Reeves County Tax Appraisal District
W.O
Bill
Reeves County
Pecos
Bernardo Martinez
Mike Mallet
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Jack Brooks
D-Texas
Brooks
Jack Waller Jr
Jack Waller Sr
Waller
Morgan City
Ronald Bushh
Bush
Coast Guard
Joe Gibson
Gibson
Point Nowell
Marcos Martinez, Jr
Louise Jones
Reddy
Robert Hinojos
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