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Newspaper
Port Lavaca Wave
Location
Port Lavaca, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1975
Page
7
New York AP reports the Employment Act of 1946 aims to promote maximum employment production and purchasing power but current results show over eight million jobless and production under use. Analysts fault conditions, policy limits, and the difficulty of balancing inflation with full employment amid a shifting world economy.
A quiet doctor and polio fighter, Dr James E. Peavy retires as Texas health commissioner after 36 years with the State Health Department. He leaves as the department shifts to a director under the Texas Department of Human Resources, with Dr Fratie E. Duff acting. Peavy, 65, recalls his work during statewide polio outbreaks and his long service.
Sabine Pass native Tommy Welch freed on bond after jurors deadlocked on punishment for beating 9 month old Tanya Romero to death. Convicted of murder last week, Welch faced a possible life sentence. mistrial granted, retrial set for December. Additional notes touch on 1955 Texas polio deaths and a Port Lavaca Fire Department Bar B Que appeal. Also a lost cat notice from Olivia area.
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