Dredge Plan Approved for Brazos Island Harbor Maintenance
The Corps of Engineers completed the final environmental statement on Brazos Island Harbor maintenance dredging serving Port Isabel and Brownsville. The plan calls for 21.5 miles of channel upkeep to sustain 36 foot depth, with dredged material placed in land areas and the Gulf, and includes South Bay channel maintenance to improve water circulation.
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Galveston
Brazos Island
Port Isabel
Brownsville
Corps of Engineers
Council On Environmental Quality
Washington, D
Don S$. McCoy
Gulf of Mexico
South Bay
Brownsville Channel
Gulf
Deferal
Unplugged Dialysis Not Fatal After Self-Removal
Chuck McCracken, 36, unplugged from life-sustaining kidney dialysis July 22 after doctors gave him a 30 percent chance of living a year. Three weeks later he remains alive with paralyzed legs, blindness, and diabetes, but his spirits are high. Friends note he chats on ham radio and praises the Lord.
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San Bernardino
Calif
Chuck McCracken
McCracken
Jim Conley
Jesus
Mars rocket launch delayed by valve issue
Cape Canaveral AP technicians replace a sticky valve on a Titan 3-E Centaur rocket delaying the Mars flyby of America's twin Viking spacecraft by three days. A test showed a valve the size of a silver dollar remained open, affecting the first-stage engines. The launch moved to 5:08 p.m. EDT Thursday.
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Cape Canavera
Fila
Mars
America
Army drug kills in 1953 test under Army contract
The army disclosed that a civilian psychiatric patient died after a drug injection during a 1953 test under Army contract. It marks the first death linked to decades of Army sponsored drug experiments involving about 4,000 soldiers and civilians. Pentagon spokesman Joseph Laitin announced the file at a news conference, noting the death of a 42 year old male civilian patient in the program run by the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
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Washington
Army
Pentagon
Joseph Laitin
New York State Psychiatric Institute
ransom demanded in Bronfman kidnapping case sparks payment talk
Family of missing Samuel Bronfman 2nd, heir to the Seagram fortune, agreed to pay a substantial ransom though the letter offered no proof of captivity. Edgar Bronfman received the note two days after his son reportedly told him he had been abducted by three men. A spokesman said the family assumes the letter is genuine and Sam is alive, but there is no evidence the claim is true. The ransom amount was not disclosed. The BMW found at the mother’s home and the case’s broader notes about government drug experiments are also mentioned in the report.
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Yorktown Heights
N.Y
Samuel Bronfman
Seagrams
Edgar Bronfman
Seagram Co., Ltd
Baronial
Upper Westchester
Purchase
Ann Margaret Loeb
Bronfman
Samuel
Central Intelligence Agency
Frank Olson
Kissinger eyeing new shuttle talks in Middle East
Secretary of State Kissinger says a decision within 10 days on resuming shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East rests on technical talks with a two member Israeli team in Washington. He adds a peace settlement looks more likely but warns against excessive optimism after talks begin in Washington.
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Washington
Henry A. Kissinger
Middle East
Kissinger
Montreal
American Bar Association
Sinai Peninsula
State Department
Robert L. Funseth
Houston ISD Sets Budget Record for Capital Improvements
Houston ISD trustees approved a 248.2 million dollar budget the largest non bond capital improvement fund in district history based on a 1.70 per 100 tax rate. The plan follows last year's 211 million dollar budget and marks continued use of local taxes without new bonds.
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Houston
Houston Independent
Linus Wright
Morning Markets Boosted by Butz Grain Moratorium Call
The New York market rose broadly as early buying followed Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz's call for a moratorium on grain sales to the Soviet Union. The noon Dow climbed 4.62 to 828.38 with gainers outweighing losers about 4 to 1 on the NYSE, while trading remained light and rate outlook cautious.
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New York
Earl Butz
Soviet Union
New York Stock Exchange
NYSE
Texas farmers harvest record wheat and large sorghum crop
Agriculture Commissioner John White announced a banner Texas harvest with a record 131 million bushels of wheat and 394.4 million bushels of grain sorghum, aided by improved weather. Wheat acreage rose to 5.7 million acres, with yields up to 23 bushels per acre. corn projected at 115 million bushels, rice down to 24.8 million pounds per hundredweight, and cotton up over 600,000 bales from last year’s drought.
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Austin
Texas
John White
White
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Carbide names Charles Schmidt vice president and GM
Union Carbide announces Charles D. Schmidt as vice president of its Chemicals and Plastics unit and general manager of the new Business Development Department. Schmidt, born in Chicago and a Marietta College chemist, has led latex, Cellosize and vinyl acetate operations since 1974 and will oversee plants in Texas City Seadrift Brownsville Taft Louisiana.
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Charles D. Schmidt
Union Carbide
Schmidt
Chicago
Illinois
Marietta College
Marietta
Ohio
Ridgefield
Connecticut
Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastics
Texas City
Seadrift
Brownsville
Taft
Louisiana
Fords Dance Night at Vail Nightclub Surprises Crowd
President and Mrs. Ford visited a Vail nightclub with Secret Service in tow. They danced on a crowded floor for over an hour to Ink Spots tunes, greeting diners and switching partners with Pepi Gramshammer and his wife, unnoticed until they began dancing.
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Vail
Colo
Ford
Inkspots
Fords
Pepi Gramshammer
Secret Service Detail
Blueberry Hill
John Dix
Lama
Yesteryear
Mrs. Ford
Gramshammers
Butz urges restraint on Soviet grain talks amid harvest drop
Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz said the United States should pause further grain negotiations with the Soviet Union for at least a month due to a weaker harvest outlook. He noted unloading 9.8 million metric tons already bought would take five months at Russian ports and stressed ensuring livestock feed, not exports, comes first. He expected ongoing but spaced Russian purchases and defended the policy amid criticism over potential U.S. price rises. The August crop report projected a record 5.85 billion bushels of corn, with soybeans at 1.458 billion and wheat at 2.14 billion, while rain-shortened eastern Corn Belt yields dimmed some state estimates.
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Washington
Ford Administration
Soviet Union
U.S
Agriculture
Earl L. Butz
Butz
Moscow
Agriculture Department
Department
Corn Belt
Iowa
Nebraska
Don Paarlberg
College sued in alleged rape at Lon Morris College
A Houston woman, 21, filed a $1 million suit in state district court alleging Lon Morris College failed to protect her on campus. She says the rape occurred in the early hours of January 20, 1974, and claims officials secretly transported the alleged rapist out of town after removing him from the registrar. The suit also accuses the college of denying medical attention and treating the incident as if it never happened.
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Houston
Lon Morris College of
Jacksonville
State District
Lon Morris College
Texas
Port Lavaca Man Jasper Mills Dies In Tractor Accident
Funeral services for Jasper Eugene Mills of Port Lavaca are set for 2 p.m. Thursday at Salem Lutheran Church with burial at Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Victoria. Mills, 38, a retired Air Force sergeant, was killed when the tractor he operated overturned while towing a stuck grain truck on the Willie Frederick farm near Port Lavaca. He had lived in Port Lavaca four years. Survivors include his wife Wanda Sue Mills, daughter Karen Denise Mills, three brothers Joseph Richard and Philip Mills, and his parents Mr. and Mrs. John Jasper Mills. Three grandchildren survive. Military pallbearers will serve.
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Jasper Eugene Mills
Port Lavaca
Salem Lutheran Church
George Haynes
Memorial Gardens
Victoria
Richardson Funeral Home
Mills
Air Force
Willie Frederick
Highway 35
Wanda Sue Mills
Karen Denise Mill
Joseph Richard
Philip Mills
Columbus
Ohio
John Jasper Mills
Native Green Berets train at Fort Bragg course
Army Private Scott H. Massey age 22 son of Mr and Mrs Henry J Massey Route 2 Port Lavaca completed Phase I of the Special Forces Qualification Course at the John F Kennedy Center for Military Assistance Fort Bragg NC The course provides realistic training in special forces operations and leadership.
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Army
Scott H. Massey
Henry J. Massey
Port Lavaca
John F. Kennedy Center For
Ft. Bragg
N.C
Fires hit over four hundred British churches
London AP reports more than 400 churches across Britain were struck by fire last year with fires rising yearly. The Ecclesiastical Insurance Office urges risk reduction in churches and cathedrals, publishing a campaign booklet detailing six action steps if a fire occurs and sixty preventive checks.
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London
Britain
Ecclesiastical Insurance Office
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Russia
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