Big Thicket debate is hard to define
Ray Sasser journeys into Southwest Texas to explore the Big Thicket around Saratoga Silsbee and Neches River, describing virgin forests swampy baygalls and wildlife including red pileated woodpeckers and rare sightings. He notes undefined boundaries and a tentative national park plan as oil wells and a guiding challenge frame the expedition.
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Ray Sasser
The
Lufkin News
Sillbee
Tex
Texas
Saratoga
Woodville
Sour Lake
Evadale
Moss Hill
Big Thicket Association
Pete Gunter
Jack Gore Baygall
Neches River
Silsbee
State
Baygall
Botany
Beaumont
Oldtimers
East Texas
Educational satellites aim to fight global illiteracy
NASA plans direct broadcast satellite systems in India Brazil Canada and Australia to extend education and communications. India targets 5000 villages with programs beamed from space. Brazil eyes 86 percent population coverage for 1976 at 160 million dollars. Canada tests tech for remote villages. Australia weighs interior-link satellites with coastally based lines and NASA support.
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Frank Macomber
Copley News Service
Globe
United States
Federal Space Agency
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
India
NASA
Brazil
U.S. Space Agency
Canada
Alaska
Secret Service Eyes Women For Chief Investigative Job
The Secret Service considers seven women under 30 for its chief investigative agent role, the first time the agency reviews female candidates for this post. The seven, all college graduates, would join 1,111 male staff and could receive expanded training if hired.
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Washington
Secret Service
Eugene T. Rassides
Treasury Department
Laurie Beth Anderson
Watchung
N.J
Kathryn I. Clark
Colorado
Phyllis F. Shantz
Rome
N.Y
Denise M. Ferrenz
Washington Area
Sue Ann Baker
Ohio University
Holly A. Hufshmidt
University of Wisconsin
Judith T. Michelsen
Brigham Young University
Executive Protective Service
EPA
White House
John W. Warner Jr
Warner
UT Southwestern Professor Honored by Residents With European Ski Trip
Dr. Bruce D. Fallis, pathology professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, received a skiing vacation in Europe from about 60 residents and friends at a Lakewood Country Club appreciation dinner. Dr. T. H. McConnell praised his long lecture prep and skill in reconstructing clinical histories. Fallis has previously won Distinguished Teaching Awards and authored textbooks.
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Dallas
Europe
Bruce D. Fallis
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Lakewood Country Club
T. H. McConnell
Fallis
McConnell
UT Plans Criminal Library at Law School
A computerized crime fighting library is being created at the University of Texas School of Law to speed up information for law enforcement and justice agencies. The system will instantly assemble tailored bibliographies for agencies such as police departments correctional bodies and district attorneys, reducing a process that previously took days to minutes.
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Mersky
Criminal Justice Council
Thailand's military regime pledges law and order
Thailand's ruling military council emphasizes strict law after abolishing parties and parliament. Gen Phrapas Charusathein leads the National Executive Council while Thanom Kittikachorn assures foreign policy stability as 32,000 American servicemen remain in the country amid the upheaval.
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Peter Cloughlin
Associated Press
Bangkok
Thailand
Thanom Kittikachorn
Thamon
Praphas Charusathein
National Executive Council
Praphus
Thanom
Laos
Cambodia
Johnsons Dominate Jarvis College Popularity Contests
At Jarvis Christian College Hawkins Texas three Johnsons were named favorites in student body and class polls. Gwendolyn Johnson a senior from Littlefield won Miss Jarvis by a landslide amid six contestants. Linda and Brenda Johnson of Jacksonville claim senior and sophomore class queen titles.
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Hawkins, Tex
Smiths
Joneses
Jarvis Christian College
Hawkins
Johnsons
Gwendolyn Johnson
Littlefield
Tex
Jarvis
Linda
Brenda Johnson
Jacksonville
Linda Johnsons
Hoffman to retire amid sense of failure
New York AP says Paul G Hoffman 80 who built and rebuilt economies including leading the Marshall Plan and UN development work plans to retire soon with a felt failure to convince others of links between development and peace. He cites misconceptions about foreign aid and stresses aid as American and global interest.
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New York
Paul G. Hoffman
Studebaker Corp
Ford Foundation
Hoffman
America
Arthur Lewis
United Nations
Europe
United States
Congress
Executives Boost Disabled in Private Employment Drive
Forty two Fort Worth area business executives on loan from their firms joined the National Alliance of Businessmen in a private program to hire the disadvantaged and under employed. The NAB project, started under Johnson and renewed by Nixon, also runs a youth placement effort. In eight months, the group contacted 865 firms and secured job pledges for 1,783 disadvantaged individuals and 879 veterans.
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Fort Worth
National Alliance of Businessmen
Johnson
Nixon
Alliance
Canada U S relations sour as Nixon policy stirs distrust
A Canadian AP report from Toronto analyzes how U S economic moves strain bilateral ties. Canadians feel neglected yet acknowledge dependence on the United States, while Ontario plans a Washington office to push for understanding and protect domestic industry.
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Canada
United States
William L. Ryan
Toronto
U.S
Nixon
Japan
Lan Grossman
Ontario
America
Washington
Lemma
Social Credit
New Democratic Party
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el Paso
Jim Hemsworth
Brad Cooper
el Paso Herald-Post
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North Atlantic
Peter C.newman
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