Tornadoes and Hail Lash West Texas Towns
Severe storms lashed West Texas driving flash floods east of Lubbock from Crosbyton to Spur and Dickens. Eight inches of rain flooded Spur and Afton with six inches in Afton damaging homes and hindering roads on U S 82. A tornado damaged a power substation north of Spur, part of eight twisters in the Panhandle Plains. no injuries were reported.
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Associated Press
West Texas
Lubbock
Crosbyton
Dickens
Spur
Afton
Ities
Panhandle Plains
National Weather Service
Salt Fork
Brazos
Painless speeding and sunset bills pass Texas House
Texas lawmakers approve a painless speeding bill ending insurance penalties for 55 to 70 mph tickets and send it to Governor Briscoe. The House also passes a 12 year sunset measure wiping out 179 agencies unless extended, with Senate approval still needed.
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LEE Jones Associated Press
Austin, Tex
Texas
Dolph Briscoe
House
Briscoe
Jim Nugent
Cherrville
Brock Adams
Pete Laney
D-Hale Center
Texas Senate panel OKs pay raises and ADA adjustments
A Senate Education Committee panel in Austin recessed for a printout on a $820 million public school finance bill. The measure includes $335 million for teacher pay raises and raises the ADA maintenance and operation allotment to $115 in 1978 and $120 in 1979, with a total added cost of $50.8 million.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
Senate Education Committee
Oscar Mauzy
Dallas
Aikin
Senate
Annual rabies drive at First Baptist Church
The Pecos Rabies Drive will be Friday on the north parking lot of First Baptist Church at Fourth and Hickory from 4 to 8 p.m. Texas health officials urge vaccination for dogs and cats three months or older amid rabies outbreaks. Vaccinations cost $4 per animal, reduced from the regular price.
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First Baptist Church, Fourth and Hickory
Texas
Texas Department of
SALT talks in Geneva pause after day of talks
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko ended a second day of strategic arms talks in Geneva with a pause to decide next moves. They scheduled a Friday meeting amid remarks that discussions were productive and conducted in good faith.
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Barry Schweid
Associated Press
Geneva
Switzerland
Cyrus R. Vance
Andrei A. Gromyko
Middle East
Vladivostock
Kremlin
U.S
Vance
Hodding Carter
Carter
Memorial Day Postal Service Schedule and SALT Talks
The U S Postal Service will run a normal holiday schedule on Memorial Day May 30 with no deliveries or window service. Special delivery will continue. Vance and Gromyko pursue a SALT agreement, surpassing March Moscow talks with two days planned. Waldheim cites deep differences and a long path ahead. Burns calls the energy program highly complex and uncertain in outcome.
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U.S
Vance
Gromyko
Moscow
U.N
Kurt Waldheim
United States
Soviet Union
Pattillo to Speak at Pecos High Baccalaureate
Rev. L A Pattillo will deliver the baccalaureate sermon for Pecos High School seniors totaling 196. Cynthia Montgomery will play the processional at 8 p.m. in the high school auditorium.
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Ruben Salcido
Dora Arreguy
L.A. Pattillo
West Park Baptist Church
Nova Gutierrez
Pattillo
Rev. L.A. Pattillo
Pecos High School
Cynthia Montgomery
Jeff Jones
David Fierro
Linda Wein
Lon Bailey
Screwworm finds reported along Pecos Terrell County line
Maggots from two Calves in Terrell County collected by Jess Marley of Ozona reached the Screwworm Eradication Program laboratory on May 16 and identified as screwworms. Texas tally reaches 16 cases in 1977 including a Hidalgo County sheep. Meadows urges vigilance as May and June bring peak outbreaks.
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Terrell County
Jess Marley
Ozona
Texas
Hidalgo County
M.E
Cotton) Meadows Jr
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
Marley
Pecos River
Pecos-Terrell County
Line
Sheffield
Pecos
Brackettville
Kinney County
Meadows
Carter Energy Plan Faces Skepticism From Budget Chief
Congress' chief budget analyst Alice Rivlin told the Senate Energy Committee that Carter energy savings may be overstated and that the program will unevenly burden Americans. The Senate approved creating a new Department of Energy and sent the bill to the House, with broad agency powers and oversight provisions under debate.
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Associated Press
Washington
Carter
Congress
Alice Rivlin
Congressional Budget Office
Ms. Rivlin
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Senate
White House
Department of Energy
House
Sen
Abraham Ribicoff
D-Conn
Department
Department of Transportation
James R. Schlesinger
Federal Power Commission
Federal Energy Administration
Energy Research and Development Administration
FPC
FEA
ERDA
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U.S. 82
Guthrie
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John Hoestenbach
Odessa
Texas State Police
Oklahoma
A.M. Aikin
Dparis
Postal Service
Federal Reserve
Arthur F. Burns
Administration
Mexico
Mission
Energy Secretary
Defense Department
Country Club Drive
Sunday House
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