Country Club Plaza Flood Devastates Missouri, 18 Dead
Floods across the Kansas City area leave 18 dead and 1,200 homeless as 12 inches of rain in 24 hours causes millions in damage. The Plaza shopping district, Brush Creek and Blue River areas suffer extensive losses with 65 businesses and hundreds of homes damaged. Govs Teasdale and Bennett tour the scene as federal disaster aid is sought. Recovery includes shelters and utility restorations for thousands.
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Harry F. Rosenthal
Associated Press
Kansas City, Mo
Country Club Plaza
Brush Creek
Blue River
Missouri
Kansas
Joseph Teasdale
Kansas City
Robert F. Bennett
Mission
Salvation Army Center
Johnstown
County Club Plaza
Midwest
Space Shuttle Enterprise completes second glide test
At Edwards Air Force Base California two astronauts steered the Space Shuttle Enterprise through a five minute glide in a second free flight test aimed at weekly space commuting in the 1980s. Joe Engle and Richard Truly directed the delta wing craft during a precise approach rollout and touchdown following piggyback separation, with flight controls tested by a series of automated and manual maneuvers as Houston controllers monitored.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Houston
Chase
Joe Engle
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
Richard Truly
Engle
Plane use dispute swirls in Lance Percy clash
Powell says Percy used Bell & Howell plane facilities while Percy denies flying on any Bell & Howell aircraft and asserts the firm never owned a plane. Senate Governmental Affairs probes Lance ethics as Percy faces bank and campaign flight questions. Lance meets with the president. he will testify later in the week.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Powell
Washington
Percy
Bell & Howell
Senator
Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
Lance
Carter
Georgia
Powell-Percy
Senate
John P. Sherry
Comptroller of the Currency
Chicago
First National Bank of Chicago
Donald Frey
Sun- Times
UT Austin engineering grant tied to CIA in 1961 62
UT Austin officials said a private foundation funded a two year covert research grant of about 35000 dollars to the engineering mechanics department for a microscopic thermocoupler to measure heat in human cells. The CIA reportedly showed interest in 1961 for potential uses in body antennas tagging polygraphy and related areas.
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Austin
CIA
Governor bid sparks GOP leader resignation in Texas
State Republican Chairman Ray Hutchison said today he is resigning as party leader to seek the Texas governor’s race. He stressed the move is not an official gubernatorial announcement, but signals intent to pursue the governor’s office.
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Austin, Tex
Ray Hutchison
Texas
Damages not part of rate says counsel in Bell case
Texas Public Utility Commission counsel argued Southwestern Bell cannot include the $3 million damages awarded to a former Bell executive and the widow of a Bell Texas officer in its rate base. The San Antonio jury verdict related to James Ashley and the late T.O. Gravitt. Zane Barnes said trial costs could be operating expenses. Hutchison discusses Texas GOP leadership plans for 1978 and reelecting Senator Tower.
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Austin, Tex
Texas Public Utility Commission
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Bell
Southwestern Bell
John Bell
San Antonio
James Ashley
T.O. Gravitt
Texas
Zane Barnes
Chamber sets parade date for Pecos Christmas parade
The Pecos Chamber of Commerce Merchants Committee announced the annual Christmas Parade will be Monday December 12 at 5 pm with the theme Twelve Days of Christmas. Pecos merchants sponsor 12 floats. prizes are 100, 75, and 50 dollars. Don Walsh of C R Anthonys is parade chairman.
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Pecos Chamber of Commerce Merchants Committee
Pecos Merchants
Don Walsh
C.R. Anthonys
Weather watch for Tuesday high and overnight low
Tuesday forecast calls for a high of 92 degrees and an overnight low of 63. Mostly fair skies with a slight warming trend expected across the region.
Court reverses murder conviction for lack of counsel
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reversed Will Rains Jr.’s 1961 murder conviction due to the absence of a lawyer at sentencing before Dallas County Judge J Frank Wilson. Rains, on parole since 1975, faces retrial. He has since been convicted of burglary, prompting parole revocation concerns by the State Board of Pardons and Paroles. The court held the right to counsel extends to sentencing and criticized the unnamed Dallas judge for assertingOtherwise.
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Austin
Tex
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
State District Court
J. Frank Wilson
Dallas
Will Rains Jr
Rains
State Board of Pardons and Paroles
Welfare reform hearings to start Monday in Congress
Washington AP reports the first congressional hearings on President Carter's welfare reform package will begin Monday. The hearings will scrutinize reform legislation drafted by the Carter administration and introduced by Rep. James Corman and Sen. Daniel Patrick Monahan. Corman chairs the House subcommittee examining welfare reform. On Monday the subcommittee will hear administration witnesses detail the plan.
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Washington
President Carter
James C. Corman
D-Calif
Daniel Patrick Monahan
D-N.y
Corman
House
Bomb attacks hit three Mexican cities injuring several
A score of dynamite and incendiary bombs exploded within three hours in Mexico City Guadalajara and Oaxaca injuring at least three people and triggering widespread damage to government offices stores and an American company site. Police said a pamphlet blamed a terrorist group called the Union of the People.
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Mexico City
Guadalajara
Oaxaca
Union of the People
Federal Justice Tribunal
General Motors
Conseration of Chambers of Commerce
Guadalarra
Government Palace
Bank
American Motors
Agrarain Reform Ministry
Institutional Revolutionary Party
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