Jury Chosen in Hunt Wiretap Case in Lubbock
Nine men and three women were selected to hear the government wiretap case against two sons of late oil baron H L Hunt. The panel includes a farmer, truck driver, bookkeeper, painter, housewife, insurance agent, service worker, banker, and former teletype operator. The day also carried reports from Beirut, New Delhi, Austin, and Washington on politics, law, pay raises, grain shipping rates, and local school board conflicts.
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Lubbock
Tex
H.L. Hunt
Hearst Family Reunites With Patty Hearst In Jail
Catherine and Randolph Hearst visit their 21 year old daughter Patty in Redwood City jail after 19 months. They say she wants to come home and share loving words as they hug and promise support. Patty was kidnapped 19 months ago and joined the Symbionese Liberation Army.
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San Francisco
Catherine
Randolph Hearst
Patty
Miss Hearst
Mrs. Hearst
San Mateo County
Redwood City
Hearst
Hearsts
New York
Border trade hearings open in Laredo Texas
A Texas State Senate border problems committee opened hearings in Laredo to seek ways to improve federal handling of international relations and trade with Mexico. Chairman Raul Longoria said four border states will be studied over 16 months while senators heard complaints about federal red tape hindering trade.
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Laredo, Tex
Senate
Mexico
Raul Longoria
Dedinburg
John Traeger
Seguin
Texas
Bill Hobby
Longoria
Traeger
Tati Santiesteban
el Paso
Mike McKinnon
Corpus Christi
Oil wildcats drill in Texas first half September, 383 total
Texas oil and gas wildcat activity rose in early September with 20 oil and 30 gas wells drilled. The year totals climbed to 283 oil and 384 gas wells, with completions and plugbacks reported across multiple districts and an oil allowable average near 3.916 million barrels per day.
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Austin, Tex
Texas
Railroad Commission
San Antonio No. 2
Abilene
Houston
Corpus Christi
San Antonio No. 1
Kilgore No. 6
San Angelo
Wichita Falls
Pampa
Oil Wildcats
Midland
Houston Corpus Christi
Lubbock
Cattle prices rise as market steadies in Omaha
Washington AP reports cattle prices are leveling after a summer dip. The Agriculture Department says choice grade steers and heifers at Omaha averaged 50.25 dollars per 100 pounds last week, up slightly from the prior week, with gains tied to grass pasture trends expected to continue into fall.
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Washington
Agricuture Department
Omaha
Midwest
Earl L. Butz
House Agriculture Committee
Buzz
Shivers Mauzy oppose parts of constitution
Former Gov Allan Shivers and State Sen Oscar Maury oppose portions of the new constitution. Shivers favors the executive article but warns against unlimited annual sessions. Maury supports specialized criminal law licenses and argues judges should be specialists too. Hog prices edge up while cattle market improves as fall production rises.
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Austin
Tex
Allan Shivers
Oscar Mauzy
Dallas
Shivers
Oscar Maury
Supreme Court
Court of Criminal Appeals
Sents
State Bar of Texas
Supreme Court of Texas
Maury
Gallow’s Gallows Quietly Haunts a Texas Jail
In Hemphill Texas Sheriff Alan Greer defends a 1908 gallows as a deterrent for drunks. The four cell jail sits near the Louisiana border with a noose that once hung many. now unused, it still quiets inmates. The death sentence is carried out at Huntsville in the electric chair Old Sparky.
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Hemphill
Tex
Alan Greer
Greer
Texas
Hunstville
Sabine County
Ed Harper
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Patty Hearst
THE
Associated Press
Lebanon
Beirut
Central
Gandhi
New Delhi
India
Indian Supreme Court
Indira Gandhi
A.N. Ray
Mrs. Gandhi
Texas Board of Law Examiners
Joe Greenhill
Texas Supreme Court
Beverly Tarpley
Mark McDonald
House
Congress
Ford
House Post Office and Civil Service Committee
U.S
U.S. Maritime Administration
Crystal City
Amancio Cantu
Cantu
Zavala
Rice University
Roy Hofheinz
Hofheinz
Rice
Rice University of Houston
Astrodome
Hope
Vicki
Anne
Mauzy
Bettmann Archive
Concord
Paul Revere
William Dawes
Lexington
Pecos
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