Hope runs aground near Port Isabel Texas
Mixed AP wires report a run aground incident as the S S Hope becomes stuck on a sand bar near Port Isabel while being tugged toward Brownsville. Also covered are calls for federal aid to curb municipal tax increases, GM bond plans, indictments in a car deal case, a Cuevas capital murder trial, ERA prospects in Illinois, fuel cost projections, a tax rebate survey, union votes at Southwestern Bell in San Antonio, Texas voter registration efforts, and parole news on James Cross Jr.
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Port Isabel
Tex
Texas
Brownsville
U.S.S
Washington
Congress
U.S. Conference of Mayors
Ford
Austin
W.E. Snelson
Midland
Snelson
Oil cartel summit opens in Algiers with scattered absences
Algerian officials report progress at the OPEC three day conference as major exporters discuss future ties with consumer nations. Boumedienne opens the plenary while several leaders including King Faisal Libya’s Khadafy and presidents of Iraq Nigeria and Indonesia attend or skip.
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Algiers
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPEC
Houari Boumedienne
Faisal
Saudi
Arabia
Mohammed Khadafy
Libya
Iraq
Nigeria
Indonesia
Attorney general testifies in Hall bribery trial Oklahoma OK
Atty Gen Larry Derryberry returns to the stand for cross examination in the federal bribery trial of former Gov David Hall and Dallas financer W W Taylor. Rogers testified he reported a Dec 3 bribe offer and Hall would split a $50,000 payoff with him if Taylor's firm got state funds.
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Gov. Hall
Oklahoma City
Larry Derryberry
David Hall
Dallas
W.W
Taylor
Derryberry
John Rogers
Hall
FBI
Rogers
John M. Rogers
U.S. Atty
William R. Burkett
Guaranteed Investors Corp
Health insurance plan unlikely before 1976
Washington AP reports Congress likely will not enact a national health insurance plan before 1976. Debates center on coverage scope, service breadth, and financing methods amid stalemate among the Ford administration, medical groups, and sponsors. House sponsor Al Ullman says this could push for action this year but full House action may wait until November due to energy and tax bills.
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Washington
Congress
Ford Administration
al Ullman
D-Ore
House
Ways and Means Committee
National Health Insurance Congress
Uilman
GenTel opposes bill regulating utilities in Texas
General Telephone Co opposes parts of a proposed statewide utility regulation bill while accepting state oversight. Vice president Hubert Preston testifies that the bill has weaknesses, opposes using original equipment cost for rates, and objects to cities exempting themselves. Lawmakers counter that the section prevents inflated prices from internal firms.
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Austin, Tex
General Telephone Co
Hubert
Max
Preston
Frank Gaston
Dallas
House
Gaston
Fredericksburg
General
Roy Blake
D-Nacogdoches
Speir backs 60 mph speed for Texas drivers
HOUSTON AP The Texas DPS chief Col Wilson E Speir says Texans do not respect the 55 mph limit and raising to 60 mph would gain voluntary support. He notes 3,692 traffic deaths in 1973 and 3,042 so far this year, with January up 15 percent. He urges speed limit change and cites safer driving as key.
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Houston
Texas Department of Public Safety
Texas
Wilson E. Speir
Speir
King of Gypsies Buried in Portland Tomb
Steve Marks, 64, revered as king of America s Gypsies, was buried Monday in Rose City Cemetery Portland after a Wichita death. A wake drew thousands but a dispute over alleged racial discrimination by Portland funeral homes surfaced with the Oregon Bureau of Labor.
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Portland
Ore
Steve Marks
America
Marks
Wichita
Kaw
Rose City
Los Angeles
Oregon Bureau of Labor
James Marks II
Spokane
Wash
King
Gypsy Nation
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Detroit
General Motors
Gerald Banks
Twentieth Century Motor Car Corp
Dallas County
California
Cuevas
Ignacio Cuevas
Huntsville
Julia Standley
Illinois
Associated Press
Illinois Senate
ERA
Illinois General Assembly
Library of Congress
Library
Phillips-Sindlinger
Bell
San Antonio, Tex
Communications Workers of America
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Southwestern Bell
Bob Lee
UT Strangler
James C. Cross Jr
University of Texas
Oil and
Sponge Rubber Products Co
Shelton
Paris
Min
GenTel
James R. Arnold
Governor's Office of Traffic Safety
Pip
Russ Watson
Watson Air Conditioning
Pecos
Russ
His
Shirley
David
Richard
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