Commissioners tackle courthouse and hospital landscape contracts
The Commissioners Court held a regular session to debate remodeling bids for the County Courthouse and landscaping plans for Reeves County Memorial Hospital. Architects Turner and Wardroup proposed changes. after discussion the court trimmed grass areas, added gravel, and increased fruitless mulberry trees while deferring some costs. The courthouse bid was lowered to 237 000 with the county performing concrete removal and electrical work. The court also approved rent support for District Attorney Walter Holcombe and a parking lease contingent on city and Duval Corporation agreements. Commissioner Ywendell Faulkner was absent.
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Commissioners Court
County Court House
Reeves County Memorial Hospital
Commissioner's Court
Jack Turner
Turner, Rome
Boulting House and Associates
Corpus Christ
Wallace C. Wardroup
Wardroup and Associates
Lubbock
Cecil Cothrun
Dale Toone
Marcos Martinez Jr
Darrell Glover
Turner
Cothrun
Waldroup
Wardroup
Ward
Trical
Glover
Court House
Martinez
Ters
Walter Holcombe
Monahans
Hol
Court sentences five promoters in million dollar land swindle
Five land promoters linked to a $5.2 million nationwide swindle by Western Land Sales Co. were sentenced in federal court. Ringleader Jacob Hood Jr. received 11 years and $7,000 fine. Allan Besbris five years and $5,100. Marcus Baumann 10 years and $4,000. Henry McDonald seven years and $1,000. Hayes Stewart two years and $1,000. All but Hood may stay free on appeal. others face prior indictments in a $40 million scheme.
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Phoenix, Ariz
Western Land Sales Co
U.S. District Court
Carl Muecke
Phoenix Company
Muecke
Jacob Hood Jr
el Paso
Henry James McDonald
McDonald Investment Co
Rush City
Mann
McDonald
Hayes G. Stewart
Payson
Stewart
All
Hood
Baumann
Cochise College Park Corp
Arizona
Midwest
Ronald L. Kiewier
Waterloo
Iowa
Iowa Financial Services, Inc
Cedar Falls
Iiowa
Murray Summer
Melrose Park
Ill
McDonald Investment
Watergate leader Liddy eligible for parole today
Washington AP says G Gordon Liddy, Watergate producer and director, faced parole by the U S Parole Commission after Carter commuted his sentence to a maximum eight years allowing release after July 9 He had served 50 months by last Saturday with 32 months for the burglary and 18 months for grand jury testimony refusal His term began January 30 1973 and he was convicted with James W McCord Jr for conspiracy burglary and wire tapping
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Washington
G. Gordon Liddy
U.S. Parole Commission
Carter
Liddy
Allenwood
Watergate
James W. McCord Jr
U.S
John J. Sirica
Sirica
Grand Jury
Committee of
the House
White House
John D. Ehrlichman
Beverly Hills
Lewis Fielding
Postal service approves a citizen rate stamp plan
The U S Postal Service approved President Carter's two tier rate plan setting 13 cent first class to individuals and 16 cent to businesses. The citizen rate would reflect current first class letters. Other mail rates rise. rates go to the Postal Rate Commission for up to ten months of hearings and cannot take effect before next May.
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Postal Service
Washington
U.S. Postal Service
President Carter
The
Ser
Vice’s Board of Governors
Postal Rate Commission
Benjamin F. Bailor
Woman grows largest opium field in country
Tecumseh Oklahoma. Ouida Parsons a 77 year old widow faced police action after officers destroyed what was described as one of the nation's largest Turkish opium poppy crops. Police chief Lloyd Rogers said Parsons grew the flowers for years for beautification and personal seed use. Authorities took and burned the poppies and seed, declining to file charges. Parsons had ties to horticulture publishing and seed sales.
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Tecumseh
Okla
Ouida Parsons
Oklahoma City
Lloyd Rogers
United States
Kinard
Georgia
Carter signs tentative approval for neutron weapons
President Carter reportedly gives tentative approval to produce neutron weapons and informs Sen. Stennis while planning a mid-August interagency study. White House declined comment as Congress weighs funding under the ERDA section of the 1978 public works bill and votes loom.
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Washington
Carter
John C. Stennis
D-Miss
Senate Armed Services Committee
Washington Post
White House
Senate
Energy Research and Development Administration
ERDA
Top court ousts Dist. Judge Bates in bribery case
The Texas Supreme Court removed Houston State District Court Judge Garth C. Bates after an indictment for bribery, conviction and appeal. The court cited willful misconduct and discredit, noting Bates did not respond to the commission or appear during a master’s evidentiary period in Houston. The master found Bates allegedly took a bribe from Nukie Fontenot to avoid prison for theft and robbery in his court.
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Austin
Tex
Texas Supreme Court
State District Court
Garth C. Bates
Houston
Bates
State Judicial Qualifications Commission
Harris County
Texas
Administration of Justice
Supreme Court
Commission
Nukie Fontenot
Fontenot
Medal of Freedom to Drs King and Salk
President Carter awarded the Medal of Freedom to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Dr. Jonas Salk. King was honored posthumously with Coretta King accepting for the family, while Salk attended to receive the vaccine legacy that ended widespread polio. Carter cited racial discrimination as a national threat and praised King as the conscience of his generation.
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Washington
Carter
Martin Luther King Jr
Jonas Salk
King
Coretta King
Martin Luther King Sr
Salk
Dr. King
Laetrile Not Effective Against Mice Tumors Says Research
COLUMBUS Ohio AP Battelle Laboratories researchers report Laetrile showed no effect on transplanted human breast and colon tumors in mice. They found no toxicity and neither positive nor negative results under standard testing procedures. Enzyme beta glucosidase was used in a second test to release Laetrile’s active component.
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Columbus, Ohio
Battelle Laboratories
David Houchens
Artemio Ovejera
Houchens
American Cancer Institute
Hitchens
Overera
Weather Watch Forecast for Texas Panhandle and West Texas
The forecast calls for mostly fair and very warm afternoons through Wednesday with scattered thunderstorms mainly in the Panhandle and far West Texas. Tonight's low 65 to 75, near 60 in the mountains. Daytime highs 92 to 105, Monday reaching 105 and overnight low around 73.
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Panhandle
Texas
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Texas Tech University
Tech
Phi Kappa Phi
Paul Briones
Medal of Freedom
Doctors
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