UT Scientist To Head Group
AUSTIN The Botanical Society of America elected University of Texas botanist Professor Theodore Delevoryas as its 1974 president. A paleobotany specialist, he becomes the third UT Austin Botany Department head to lead the society in the last decade after C. J. Alexopoulos in 1963 and Harold C. Bold in 1966.
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Austin
Botanical Society of America
University of Texas
Theodore Delevoryas
Delevoryas
UT Austin
C. J. Alexopoulos
Harold C. Bold
Efren Gonzalez Named to Dean’s Honor List at Missouri Valley
Efren Castillo Gonzalez a senior at Missouri Valley College in Marshall Missouri has been named to the Dean's Honor list. Efren, son of Mrs Lydia Gonzalez of Port Isabel Texas, majors in Human Relations and was announced by Academic Dean Dr George F Brock.
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Efren Castillo Gonzalez
Missouri Valley College
Marshall
Missouri
George F. Brock
Efren
Lydia Gonzalez
Port Isabel
Texas
Rural Development Loans Expand Help for Small Communities
Kika de la Garza reports on proposed rules for Rural Development Act community facility loans. Administered by the Farmers Home Administration, the program funds water sewerage solid waste and other public facilities and supports nonprofit and public bodies with up to 40 year loan terms at five percent interest. It targets municipalities counties and similar entities, prioritizing state approval and local need to boost South Texas rural development. The piece also notes a Lyndon B. Johnson stamp issuance and a personal anecdote about the title Ms in a feminist movement context.
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Washington, DC
Congress
Farmers Home Administration
South Texas
Texas
Kika de la Garza
County Health Administrator Takes over Post
Tom Ryan becomes the Cameron County Health Department’s first administrator, moving from the Cameron County Board of Health. Dr. John R. Copenhaver remains as acting health director while a medical doctor directs clinical activities. Ryan, an Army veteran with Minnesota origins, and his wife Sandra reside at 488 N. Reagan in San Benito.
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Tom Ryan
Cameron County Health Department
J. R. Copenhaver
Cameron County Board of Health
Ryan
Sam Houston and Stenger
San Benito
John R. Copenhaver
Copenhaver
Minnesota
Board of Health
David Flory
Harlingen
Bill Moreno
Army Medical Corps
Japan
Sandra
Reagan
Census Bureau to Survey Disability in Local Area
The Census Bureau will collect disability information from a sample of area households during July 16 to 20. Percy R. Millard, director of the Data Collection Center in Dallas, notes the disability questions supplement the monthly employment survey for the Social Security Administration. May employment remains at 84 million with a 5 percent unemployment rate. Thomas Church Brownell, founder and first president of Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., was Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut.
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Bureau of the Census
Percy R. Millard
Bureau
Dallas
Census Bureau
U.S. Department of Labor
Social Security Administration
Trinity College
Hartford, Conn
Thomas Church Brownell
Episcopal
Connecticut
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