Ferries on hold as red tape foes Gulf Coast plan
Texas City developer Jack A. Farr Sr. seeks to operate three ferries from Texas City to Bolivar peninsula at $1 to $1.50 per car, claiming the project would save travel time but is stalled by required approvals from City of Texas City, Galveston County, Coast Guard, Army Corps of Engineers, and the Texas Department of Highways and Public Transportation. He notes $500,000 funding is ready, yet bureaucracy delays progress. officials see recreation value but expect no immediate implementation.
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Texas City
Tex
Jack A. Farr
Houston
Gulf Coast
Farr
Bolivar Peninsula
Galveston County
U.S. Coast Guard
US. Army Corps of Engineers
Texas Department of Highways and Public Transportation
Galveston Island
Bolivar
Beaumont
Jack Lawrence
Emmett Lowry
Trial Details Embezzlement In Student Loan Case
In Dallas federal court, Rev E W Thomas Jr testifies Butler College sought Collegiate Recovery and Assistance Inc to collect delinquent loans. He says the agency paid only a fraction of about 200000 owed, with a 300 dollar mid March payment and later checks rejected by banks. Defendants include Arnold Tate Charles Gent and Cecil Evans as government accuses three men of embezzling over 200000 owed to 63 colleges and universities.
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Dallas
East Texas
E.W. Thomas Jr
Butler College
Tyler
Collegiate Recovery and Assistance Inc. of
Thomas
Collegiate Recovery
U.S. District Court
Robert Hill
Arnold Gene Tate
Charles Edward Gent Jr
Cecil Dwayne Evans
Boy Scouts Barbecue Dinner Aims To Fund Philmont Trip
Port Lavaca's Boy Scout Troop No. 361 sponsors a barbecue beer dinner at Lions Club Park on September 5 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tickets available at the park. Parents prepare barbecue with trimmings, plus dessert cakes and pies.
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Scout Bar
Port Lavaca
Philmont
Lions Club Park
Puerto Rico meat imports curb plan targets beef flow
The Agriculture Department opened a rulemaking to curb beef imports routed through Mayaguez Puerto Rico claiming quota avoidance under trade deals with Australia and others. About 21.3 million pounds had entered by July 31 with another 36 million pounds in transit or contracted. The proposal, open to public comment until Sept 16, could trigger stiff quotas if annual imports exceed set levels.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
U.S
Mayaguez
Puerto Rico
Australia
USDA
Foreign Agricultural Service
South Building
Washington, D.C
Baylor degree honors Mrs. Reginald Schoenewolf in speech pathology
Mrs Reginald Schoenewolf daughter of Mr and Mrs John Faubion Jr of Port Lavaca received her master of science in speech pathology and audiology from Baylor University in Waco during commencement exercises She earned a BA in the same field last year at Baylor and now works as a speech pathologist at the Bell County Rehabilitation Center in Temple Also notes soybean market outlook and 1976 apple crop figures from USDA Washington.
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Reginald Schoenewolf
John Faubion Jr
Port Lavaca
Baylor University
Waco
Calhoun High School
Schoenewolf
Baylor
Bell County Rehabilitation Center
Temple
Court Overturns Atlantic Oil Lease Ban
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals cleared the way for the first Atlantic oil and gas lease sale 60 miles south of New York, with bids to be sealed by executives in a New York hotel. The Baltimore Canyon Trough acreage could hold up to 1.4 billion barrels of oil and 9.4 trillion cubic feet of gas, potentially worth billions. Hearings on environmental issues set for the week of Sept. 27. final drilling decision later.
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New York
Interior Department
Atlantic Ocean
Oil Company
Long Island
Delaware
Maryland
New Jersey
Virginia
Atlantic
Baltimore Canyon
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. District Court
Jack Weinstein
Decision on medical aid plan near for Texas Medicaid
The Texas State Board of Public Welfare eyed a joint bid from Blue Cross and H. Ross Perot's Electronic Data Systems to run Medicaid from January to August 1977. Both firms had proposed bids with EDS at 165.6 million and Blue Cross at 167.3 million, as they worked to craft a final joint proposal before an overnight deadline.
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Austin, Tex
State Board of Public Welfare
Blue Cross
H. Ross Perot
Texas
Perot’s
Electronic Data Systems
EDS
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Miss Peach
Russelmyers
By Mell Lazarus
Mew
Lazanus
Rolkes
Ford Johnson
Moon Mullins
Dennis Adams
Golden Delicious
Rome Beauty
McIntosh
Jonathan
Stayman
Weinstein
Asst
U.S. Atty. J
Christopher Jensen
Appeals
Jensen
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