Zavala Junior High gets new principal Talamantez replaces Moss after resignation
The Pecos-Toyah-Barstow Independent School District board in regular session elected Tally Talamantez as Zavala Junior High principal, replacing Bill Moss who resigned to start private business. The board also filled multiple teaching and coaching positions, approved budget-related items, cafeteria rates, and a 1977-78 school year plan.
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Pecos-Toyah-Barstow
Zavala
Bill Moss
Ray Whitley
Moss
Tally Talamantez
Talamantez
Bessie Haynes
Zavala Junior High
Sul Ross State University
Barbara Cross
Austin
Hector Esquivel
Kathleen Grimes
van Grimes
Crockett Junior High
Jane Bale
Pecos
Jimmie Kelly
Hay
Wein
Whitley
Cleveland
Ohio
Ham
Chevron
H.L. Ramsey
Ben Meek
Paul Williams
Texas Employment Commission
Joe Carpenter
Depository Securities
Texas House trims school year to 175 days
The Texas House, voting 85 to 59, moved to shorten the school year from 180 to 175 days amid a near $1 billion school finance bill. The body rejected forcing districts to start after Sept 1 after 1977. Debate highlighted urban rural divides over funding and property values in distributing aid.
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Austin
Tex
Texas House
Senate
House
Dan Kubiak
D Rockdale
Ben T. Reyes
Dhouston
Luther Jones
D-E] Paso
Tom Massey
Dsan Angelo
Reyes
Dockdale
Marijuana smuggling trial expected to yield verdict
Dallas AP report says a federal jury will begin deliberations today in the conspiracy trial of 10 defendants accused of smuggling millions in marijuana from Mexico. Defense lawyers branded the case as built on liars while prosecutors noted multi‑million dollar sums and a $500000 transaction cited by Asst. U.S. Attorney Jay Ethington.
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Dallas
United States
Mexico
Gary Jackson
Robert Joseph Belmares
Asst
U.S. Atty
Jay Ethington
Allege
Weather and court notes blend in a single report
The forecast calls for a Thursday high near 105 and overnight lows in the 60s to 70s with fair weather through Saturday and scattered storms in extreme west and the Panhandle Tonight. In court, prosecutors showed more than two tons of marijuana as evidence in a lengthy trial before Judge Leo Brewster. Parce testified of renting airplanes to co defendants and said he never profited from marijuana sales.
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West
Panhandle
Mexico
U.S. District Court
Leo Brewster
Claude Carter
Harlingen
Charles Walter Parce
Dallas
Parce
Rio Grande Valley
Federal Drug Enforcement Agency
WWI veterans' main problem is age
W Bruce Bennett 78, commander of the WWI section of the VFW, says age creates frustrations and fatigue for older veterans. He cites cases of veterans starving on dog food and inability to pay medical costs, urging a guaranteed $150 monthly pension for all veterans or widows. Bennett, a France World War I veteran with the First Division, lives in Washington, D.C., and lobbies for WWI veteran benefits.
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Houston
The
Veteran of Foreign Wars
VFW
Bennett
France
Army
Washington, D.C
Women's conference planned in Houston clash looms
Former congresswoman Bella Abzug and Judy Carter discussed aims of a national women's conference in November while about 100 women protested the event. Carter cited support for the ERA and family roles. Abzug said the IWW convention would let women speak freely and influence the president, Congress, and state legislatures.
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Houston
Bella Abzug
Judy Carter
Carter
Jack
Abzug
New
Carter plans no change after Korean incident
President Carter will not alter the plan to withdraw 33,000 U.S. ground troops from South Korea despite North Korea downing a CH47 helicopter. The incident killed three crew members and wounded a fourth, with names listed as Sgt. Robert C. Haynes, Sgt. Ron Wells, CWO Glenn M. Schwanke, and CWO Joseph A. Miles.
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Washington
Carter
U.S
South Korea
White House
Jody Powell
U.N. Command
Seoul
Powell
USS
Spring Green
Wis
CWO
Joseph A. Miles
Washington, Ind
Pearl Brewing settles antitrust suit with Schlitz
Pearl Brewing Co of San Antonio agrees to a 2.6 million dollar settlement with Jos Schlitz Brewing Co of Milwaukee to end an antitrust suit over alleged beer market restraint in Texas. Schlitz will pay 2.08 million to Pearl and 520 thousand to Pearl distributors. Pearl and seven distributors may pursue action against Anheuser-Busch.
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Houston, Tex
Pearl Brewing Co
San Antonio
Tex
Jos
Schlitz
Pearl
Southdown, Inc
Anheuser-Busch
Father Hopes Son Survives Army Helicopter Downing
EL PASO AP A retired Army sergeant, Melvin Wells, awaits word on his son, Sgt. Ron Wells, 22, missing after the Chinook helicopter he crewed strayed into North Korea near the DMZ. Four aboard. two killed, one captured, one missing. The elder Wells recalls Korea service and notes his son’s wish for a family life alongside a military career. Wells enlisted in 1973 after El Paso high school.
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EL Paso
Tex
North Korea
Melvin Wells
Sgt
Ron Wells
Young Wells
38Th Parallel
United Nations Command
Seoul
Wells
Dmz
North
South Korea
Korea
Europe
Army
Ft. Ord
Calif
Virginia
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