Auto and steel price surge signals broad cost pressures
Higher costs ripple through GM and rival automakers as 1976 model prices rise and steel charges climb. GM increases average by 4.7 percent with base up 4.4 percent, while American Motors Ford and Chrysler hint similar hikes. Steel producers Bethlehem and U S Steel lift prices, and plastics packaging costs rise with DuPont and Union Carbide boosting polyethylene prices. Bread, flour and onion costs also edge higher.
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Associated Press
General Motors Corp
U.S
American Motors Corp
Ford Motor Co
Chrysler Corp
Bethlehem Steel Corp
U.S. Steel Corp
National Steel Corp
Pillsbury Co
General Mills
International Multifoods
Pillsbury
DuPont Co
Union Carbide Corp
U.S. Industrial Chemicals Co
National Distillers and Chemical Corp
Brookhollow Developers Lose Permit Appeal In Calhoun County
Brookhollow Village Apartments developers lose an appeal of a county permit ruling. County Building Inspector Don Ragin requires a separate county permit alongside the city permit. The Board of Appeals upholds the ruling and suggests reviewing the flood control order to remove permit duplication.
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Brookhollow Village Apartments
Don Ragin
Jim Straus
Washburn
Associaters
Bill Duke
Port Lavaca Investments, Inc
Calhoun County Commissioners Court
Strause
Ragin
Board of Appeals
Commissioners Court
Straus
Duke and Stears
David Roberts
Final environmental statement filed on Matagorda Ship Channel dredging
The final environmental statement reports maintenance dredging to 38 ft in the channel entrance and 36 ft to Point Comfort for the Matagorda Ship Channel. It notes impacts on marine life and turbidity, but aims to reduce vessel groundings and collisions. Copies available from the U.S. Army Engineer District Galveston office.
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Matagorda
Point Comfort
Council On Envionmental Quality
Washington, D.C
Celhoun
Lavaca
Don S. McCoy
Red Bluff
Navidad
Port
Harbor of Refuge
Council On Environmental Quality
Environmental Resources Branch
U.S. Army Engineer District
P.O. Box
Galveston
Texas
Point Comfort Aldermen Set 1976 Budget Draft Schedule
The Point Comfort Board of Aldermen will meet at 7 p.m. to begin drafting the 1976 budget. Officers will review department spending plans as a rough draft is prepared by August 22 with final hearings in September.
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Point Comfort
Board of Aldermen
Union Carbide Builds Two New Ethylene Pipelines
Union Carbide announces two 150 and 138 mile ethylene pipelines adding almost 300 miles to Gulf Coast network. The 60 million project links Napoleonville to Lake Charles and Seadrift to Texas City, with service expected by end of 1976 and booster stations at Markham and Taft facilities to support expanded polyethylene production.
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Union Carbide Corporation
Gulf Coast
Napoleonville
Lake Charles
Louisiana
Union Carbide
Seadrift
Texas City
Texas
Taft
Corporation
Markham
New teacher coffee set at Calhoun High School
The Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors sponsor the annual New Teacher Coffee starting at 9 a.m. Monday in Calhoun High School study hall. Mrs. Jay Thielen serves as hostess for the event welcoming 27 new teachers to Calhoun County this semester.
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Calhoun County
Calhoun High School
Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors
Jay Thielen
Blood donors help hospital amid ongoing shortage
Thirty five people donated blood yesterday during the 26th Blood Service Day at the local hospital by the Blood Service of Victoria. Eight were rejected from 43 registrants, and total local donations reach 827 pints as the hospital faces a blood shortage. the Pink Ladies auxiliary sponsors the service.
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Blood Service of Victoria
Revisions for Southwest Bell rates deemed fair by consultant
In Dallas AP report consultant argues revisions to intrastate long distance rates proposed to Atty. Gen. John Hill are fair to Southwestern Bell Telephone Co and consumers. The ruling addresses a fair settlement stance amid regulatory review.
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Dallas
John Hill
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Pat Loconto
Touche Ross & Co
Charles Marshall
Bell
Texas
Hill
Loconto
State Commission
Marshall
Loco
Optimism Thin As Fall Shrimping Season Opens
Calhoun County docks face guarded optimism on the eve of the fall shrimping season. Shrimp prices, costs, and competition shape expectations as local boats start up and water conditions, imports, and tariffs loom over potential profits. Noting international markets and local processing chains, speakers cite high fuel costs and the five hands between catch and plate.
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Calhoun County
Paul Hornung
Phil Dardar
Galveston
Brownsville
Louisiana
Gulf States
Joe Surovik
Port O’connor
Lee Kalisek
Anton Kalisek
Surovik
Weather outlook with warm temperatures and variable winds
Partly cloudy with warm conditions tomorrow. Southerly winds 8-18 mph, gusty in afternoons. Afternoon highs near 95, tonight’s low around 77. Gulf winds 6-16 knots with seas 2-4 ft. Tides: low 5:29 pm, high 2:44 am. next lows 6:36 pm tomorrow and high 3:43 am Saturday. Barometer 30.06 and falling at noon.
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Gulf
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