Debakey Says Heart Transplants Not a General Cure
Renowned surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey told National Academy of Sciences members in Houston that heart transplantation remains limited by high mortality and tissue rejection. He urged focus on disease prevention and warned of donor scarcity and declining research funding.
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Paul Recer
Associated Press
Houston, Tex
Michael DeBakey
National Academy of Science
DeBakey
Water and sewer aid spread across eight counties
Congressman Richard C. White reports Farmers Home Administration assistance for rural water and sewer systems in his district. Projects include loans and grants for towns in Brewster El Paso Hudspeth Jeff Davis Pecos Presidio Reeves Ward counties, now under construction or in operation, with planning grants approved for thousands of families.
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Richard C. White
16Th Congressional District
Farmers Home Administration
White
J. Lyan Futch
Brewster County
Brewster and Presidio County Planning
EL Paso
Tornillo
Madera Valley Water Service Corporation
Reeves County Planning Commission
State Insurance Board weighs profits beyond auto rates
The Texas State Insurance Board continues hearings on whether to consider overall profits of insurers in setting car rates. Testimony argued investment income sustains profits while blocking rate reductions, with 1967-69 data showing large losses from underwriting and profits from investments. The board may hold further hearings as auto rates are expected to rise.
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Lee Jones
Associated Press
Austin
State Insurance Board
Texas
Irving Plotkin
Arthur D. Little, Inc
Cambridge, Mass
Plotkin
N.E. Masterson
TWA Hit By Strike Produces Nationwide Picket Lines
Striking stewardesses and pursers manned picket lines at major U.S. airports as federal mediators arranged a new TWA TWU meeting to settle a contract dispute. About 425 daily domestic flights were grounded while international service was planned to continue.
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Washington
Trans World Airlines
Transportation Workers Union
TWA
Francis A. O'Neill
F.C. Wiser Jr
Pan American Airlines
Testimony Given In Mitchell Court Martial
Two former soldiers testified they saw Sgt. David Mitchell and Lt. William Calley fire into a ditch crowded with South Vietnamese civilians at My Lai. Dennis Conti and Charles Sledge described bursts from M16 rifles and a head wound that allegedly killed a woman. Calley faces murder charges, Mitchell assault with intent to murder.
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Ft, Hood
Tex
David Mitchell
William Calley Jr
My Lai
Dennis Conti
Providence
R.L
Conti
Charles Sledge
Sardis
Miss
Mitchell
Calley
Ft. Benning
St. Francisville
Sledge
Dowdy Rests At Home After Hospital Discharge
Rep. John Dowdy, 58, rests at home in Athens Texas after being discharged from a Beaumont hospital where he had spinal surgery. He is to return for a four week checkup. Dowdy faces trial in Baltimore on a $25000 bribe-related charge tied to halting a federal probe.
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Athens
Tex
John Dowdy
Beaumont
Dowdy
Jasper
Baltimore
Slayings in California Scene Shock Sheriff
Dozens of law enforcement officials cordoned off a California area as the sheriff described the killings as the most gruesome sight he had seen. Investigators speculated the murders occurred between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. Neighbors reported no shots. Outta, a Santa Cruz ophthalmology practitioner since 1960, was of Japanese descent and served three years in the Air Force, leading Wright- Patterson’s ophthalmology department. He earned his medical degree at Northwestern University.
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Outta
Santa Cruz
Air Force
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton
Ohio
Northwestern University
Nine Year-Old Gunman Foiled In Gas Station Heist
In Hollywood Florida a nine year old and a knife armed partner attempted a gas station robbery. A jammed pistol prevented the boy from firing at the station manager James Anderson who chased the pair. The knife wielder fled and the boy described as liking to kill people was to be examined psychiatrically.
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Hollywood
Fla
Manter
James Anderson
Anderson
Woman Charged in Midland Cafe Killing
In Midland, Alberta Myrtle Tate, 35, widow of Curtis C. Tate, 44, was charged with murder after he was shot dead in the cafe he owned Sunday. Bond set at $5,000.
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Midland, Tex
Midland
Curtis C. Tate
Alberta Myrtle Tate
Nixon Campaign Stops Rally for Election Bids Nationwide
Nixon spoke in Columbus Grand Forks and Kansas City backing GOP candidates while denouncing campus violence. He claimed 100000 at Columbus and 8000 at Grand Forks with 11000 in Kansas City, urging a stand against disruption and terror and praising peaceful dissent where present.
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Indiana
Richard L. Roudebush
Vance Hartke
Law and Order
Nixon
Columbus
Robert Taft Jr
Senate
Roger Cloud
Grand Forks
Thomas Kleppe
Quentin N. Burdick
Kansas City
John C. Danforth
Missouri
Stuart Symington
White House
Statehouse Plaza
Municipal Auditorium
America
Ohio State University
Britons Nearing Ten Million Homeowners
The Building Society Association reports about 9.1 million people own homes in Britain and projects rising to over 10.5 million within the next decade. Currently more than half of the 55 million population lives in owner-occupied housing.
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Oxford
England
Building Society Association
Britain
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Ossie Brown
Army
Rep. Dowdy
Democratic Party
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