Telephone pickets hit Texas towns
Pickets began at 5 a.m. in Texas as part of a nationwide strike by telephone employees. Southwestern Bell and the Communications Workers of America reported orderly picketing and the use of supervisors to maintain service. The walkout could affect about five million phones in Texas and some locals’ contracts expire Friday midnight.
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Associated Press
Texas
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Communications Workers of America
Robert Hutchison
Southwestern Bell
Dallas
Hutchison
Western Electric
Bell System
Bell
Pecos Toll Calls Hindered by Operator Delays
A Pecos spokesman for West Texas Telephone Co. said a few long distance calls could not be completed due to trouble reaching operators. She urged callers to use numbers when dialing long distance, but overall conditions in Pecos were quiet.
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Pecos
West Texas Telephone Company
Enterprise
Airman Culver Fined $1000 for London Antiwar Demonstration
US Air Force court martial fined Capt. Thomas Culver $1000 and issued a reprimand for participating in an antiwar demonstration at the US Embassy in London on Memorial Day. He faced up to four years in prison loss of pay and a dishonorable discharge but avoided jail.
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Lakeneath
England
Air Force
Thomas Culver
London
Culver
Women march in Bastille Day parade for first time since WWII
PARIS AP reports on Bastille Day celebrations with more than 9,000 French servicemen marching along the Champs Elysees. The highlight was 180 women of the auxiliary forces stepping out, marking the first inclusion of women since World War II. The feminine detachments, formed by Gen. Charles de Gaulle in 1940, total 6,900 women today.
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Paris
Champs Elysees
Charles de Gaulle
Britain
Navy and Marine Corps grant one-time drug user exemptions
Secretary of the Navy John H. Chafee orders a one-time exemption from punishment for drug users who cooperate with their own rehabilitation. The policy covers both the Navy and the Marine Corps, which has opposed blanket amnesty for abusers.
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Washington
Secretary of the Navy
John H. Chafee
Chafee
Navy
Marine Corps
Teen protesters wear gas masks at busy San Diego intersection
Two teenagers camp out at a busy San Diego intersection to protest air pollution and government and industry inaction. Gary Stoefen says they feel small against the auto industry and government but must start somewhere.
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San Diego
Calif
Gary Stoefen
Talitha Getty, British Actress, Dies in Rome Clinic
Talitha Pol Getty, 31, former British actress and wife of Paul Getty Sr, died Sunday in a Rome clinic. She was found unconscious in her apartment last night, apparently from an overdose of sleeping pills, police said. She married Getty, son of the American oil billionaire, in 1966.
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Rome
Talitha Pol Getty
Paul Getty
Getty
Labor leaders warn of cheap labor threat to U.S. economy
At an AFL-CIO conference Jacob S. Potofsky of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers says U.S. industry faces a surge of foreign labor paid as little as 9 cents an hour. He argues American workers cannot, and will not, compete with such wages.
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Washington
U.S
Jacob S. Potofsky
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Afl-Cio
Potofsky
Texas imposes farm quarantine to curb sleeping sickness spread
Texas horses on farms and ranches face a strict quarantine by the Texas Animal Health Commission to stamp out Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis. Only individually identified horses vaccinated with TC83 for at least 14 days may move. the USDA earlier released the experimental vaccine.
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Harlingen
Tex
Texas
Texas Animal Health Commission
U.S. Department of Agriculture
No sleeping sickness cases in Pecos Reeves County
Veterinarian B. J. Gross of Gross Animal Clinic in Pecos reports no cases of sleeping sickness in Pecos or Reeves County and says vaccine availability is uncertain and limited to infected counties. He urges horse owners to keep horses in place until further notice and cannot estimate total horse numbers.
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Pecos
Reeves County
B. J. Gross
Gross Animal Clinic
Enterprise
Oilmen oppose Reeves County tax increase discussion
Oil industry representatives pressed Reeves County Board of Equalization over a 32 percent assessment rise for tax purposes. County Judge F. H. Ryan cited inflation while other officials warned of possible deficit spending and $1.5 million needed for courthouse and jail repairs as the meeting began at the Reeves County Courthouse.
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Reeves County Board of Equalization
Reeves County Court House
F. H. Ryan
Cecil Cothran
Cothrun
Darrell Glover
Texas Horses Hit Quarantine As VEE Spreads
The Texas Animal Health Commission imposes an emergency quarantine halting horse movement across counties and out of state amid an outbreak of Venezuelan equine encephalitis. The task force reports over 100 horses showing clinically observed symptoms in multiple counties, with possible cases near Harris County.
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New Mexico
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Texas
H. Q. Sibley
Texas Animal Health Commission
Matagorda
Refugio
Calhoun
San Patricio
Aransas
Nueces
Cameron
Hidalgo
Starr
Harris County
Houston
Task Force
Central
South America
Mexico
Thomas Fashviell
U.S. Public Health Service Center For Disease Control
Atlanta
James Peavy
Texas Health Department
Brownsville
Body found in Amarillo not Ector woman
Officials in Ector County continued searching pasture lands near Odessa for Gloria Sue Green, 26, after a decomposed body found northeast of Amarillo in Potter County proved not to be hers. The Amarillo body, discovered by a girl on horseback, likely died two to three weeks earlier. no clothing was recovered. Green disappeared June 17 after leaving her job, with shoes, purse, and car left behind.
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Ector County
Odessa
Gloria Sue Green
Amarillo
Potter County
Green
O&l Well Servicing Company
Hughes resigns as Reeves County official and Toyah annex on agenda
The Reeves County School Board met to accept secretary Alton Hughes resignation citing legal complications. Henry Blackwell was nominated and sworn in as new secretary. Tomorrow at 3 p.m. the board will discuss Toyah Independent School District's annexation into Pecos Barstow Consolidated School District at the court.
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Reeves County School Board
Alton Hughes
Hughes
Henry Blackwell
Toyah Independent School
Pecos Barstow Consolidated
Court House
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Pecos Industrial Foundation
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SWIG
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