Harris County approves five cent tax increase
Harris County Commissioners Court raised the 1975 tax rate to 1.96 per 100 valuation, absorbing a state ad valorem tax reduction. Other items: guards jailed for payroll theft, Forest Service bans off road vehicles on Texas forests, and various state actions from dam safety to school operations.
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Houston
Harris County Commissioners Court
State of Texas
U.S. Forest Service
Texas
Postal strike nears as Ford aide targets settlement
President Ford's labor troubleshooter W J Usery Jr focuses on averting a postal workers strike after a one week postponement of a rail strike deadline. The Postal Service seeks more flexible work standards and layoffs while unions push for higher cost of living adjustments.
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Washington
Ford
W.J. Usery Jr
Postal Service
Usery
Brotherhood of
Railway Clerks
William Dempsey
C.L. Dennis
Bernard Cushman
Hospital insurers hike Malpractice rates in Texas case
Austin AP reports Executive Asst. Atty. Gen. John Odam argues Argonaut Insurance Co bumped malpractice premiums steeply, while Argonaut fights a state notice requirement tied to a 90 day advance on rate changes. Hospital clients cite per bed charges jumping from 108 to 215, 667, then 2,341. authorities seek new coverage as renewals skyrocket. Names: Argonaut Insurance Co. Floyd West & Co. Bill Warren Rudy Gonzales. Places: Austin Houston Uvalde San Antonio. Dates: July, November, March. Actions: lawsuit, rate increases, insurance notices, seeking injunction.
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Austin, Tex
John Odam
Argonaut Insurance Co
Odam
Argonaut
State Insurance Board
Bill Warren
Houston’s Memorial Hospital Complex
Warren
Rudy V. Gonzales
Uvalde County Hospital Authority
Gonzales
Floyd West & Co
San Antonio
Families of Apollo Astronauts Break With Typical Space Center Circles
Houston AP report says Joan Brand and her daughter Stephanie 19, wife and daughter of astronaut Vance D Brand, stand apart from space family circles as they react to the critical linkup of a Soviet and a U.S. spaceship with Brand aboard. The piece notes their unique stance and emotional response to the historical linkup.
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Mrs. Brand
Stephanie
Thomas Stafford
Faye Stafford
Dionne
Retired Ford executive sues over alcohol fueled rise
John Brennan, 56, a former board chairman and managing director for Ford in Switzerland, files a $1.3 million suit claiming alcoholism caused his early retirement and that Ford breached contracts by not aiding his drink problem. He says long lunches and diplomatic functions fueled his liquor habit and cites a midnight Zurich hotel bar talk with two Ford VPs. Brennan alleges loss of earnings from 1970 to 1984 and describes personal declines including a lost house and multiple job losses.
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Wayne County
John R. Brennan
Brennan
Ford
Switzerland
Zurich
Dream House
Oil Allowable at Peak Again in Texas for August
The Texas oil production allowable was set Thursday at 100 percent of potential for August, the 41st straight month at the maximum figure. Commission member Jim Langdon said many oil firms might seek more Texas oil if feasible, noting bids reflect what companies realistically expect. Langdon warned that oil supplies will drop even further.
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Austin, Tex
Texas
Commission
Jim Langdon
Langdon
Congress
Canada
Landon
Dejected depositor doubts fate of sperm bank deposit
Eric Bloom and his wife Linda recount receiving a letter from Chartered International Cryo Bank in San Francisco stating that all semen stored for their family had been destroyed due to a possible vacuum failure and a simultaneous thermal monitoring malfunction. Bloom, 28, and Linda, 27, have three children and had planned to rely on the deposit in case of loss.
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Bloom
Linda
Sacramento
Chartered International Cryo Bank
San Francisco
Ford to meet with exiled author Solzhenitsyn sparks policy clash
President Ford wants a meeting with exiled Soviet writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn during his Washington visit while Secretary of State Kissinger opposes. The quarrel followed Solzhenitsyn's June Washington visit and hour long AFL CIO address in which he warned Americans against detente and condemned Western concessions as shortsighted.
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Washington
Russia
Ural Mountains
Solskamsk
Serov
Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn
Ford
Solzhenitsyn
Henry A. Kissinger
AFLIO
Stalin
CIA faces probe over 20 year mail interception
Postmaster General Bailar reveals 110 opened letters and postcards intercepted by the CIA in 1972. Justice Department probes potential prosecutions for opening and delaying mail. Former CIA head Richard Helms faces perjury questions as he testifies to Senate panel about assassination plots.
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CIA
Justice Department
Intellingence Agency
Benjamin F. Bailar
Bailar
William E. Colby
Postal Service
Department
Criminal Division
Colby
Atty
Laurence H. Silberman
Rockefeller Commission
United States
Richard M. Helms
Helms
Iran
Senate Intelligence Panel
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