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Newspaper
Port Lavaca Wave
Location
Port Lavaca, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1975
Page
6
Washington AP reports a two-year minority recruitment drive added 19 black agents to the FBI, leaving blacks at just over one percent of the 8,500 agent force. By contrast blacks and other minorities make up 20 percent of federal government workers and 13 percent of Justice Department professional and technical jobs.
The Last Generation, a six ton steel raft, reached Port of Spain Trinidad on Thursday after 81 days at sea. Three men Alfons Oerlemans Raoul de Boel and Hassan Cribatou left the Moroccan coast to drift across the Atlantic.
Government troops clashed with Khmer Rouge insurgents all day near Tuol Leap 13 miles west of Phnom Penh.50 insurgents were reported killed as forces sought to repel massing attackers aiming at the capital airport or nearby ammunition dump, observers said.
New York AP reports forty years after the WPA era Americans again scramble for federally funded public jobs. The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act provides about $1.8 billion in two parts over roughly a year and a half to help those hardest hit by the recession.
Rep. F Edward Hebert vows a floor battle to keep his chairmanship of the House Armed Services Committee after a Democratic revolt ousted him in caucus. Fellow chairmen also toppled include Rep. W R Poage who lost his post as Agriculture Committee chair.
A bomb blast and gunfire in Northern Ireland end the IRA Provisional wing Christmas truce after 25 days without violence. The group said it would not extend the truce beyond midnight due to the British government not meeting demands for troop withdrawals amnesty and end to internment without trial.
White House advisers push for a Simon replacement amid a growing Cabinet shake up. President Ford has not acted but is open to discussions on a change in the key post, sources say.
Florence Ballard once sang with the Supremes and shared gold records with Diana Ross and Mary Wilson. Now 31, she lives on welfare in Detroit with three children, recalling sudden career decline after Cindy Birdsong replaced her at the Hollywood Bowl.
Washington AP report says while Ford and Congress back a large tax cut, an advisory panel nearly recommends higher Social Security payroll taxes to keep the system solvent. Rep. James A. Burke calls the plan outrageous.
Former CIA Director Richard Helms testified that in the 1960s the CIA analyzed information on American radical groups at the express request of President Lyndon B. Johnson. The disclosures come as he described the administration’s concern about foreign influence behind domestic unrest.
A Los Angeles psychiatrist describes the 50,000 Tarahumara Indians in remote Mexico as living with unusually low homicide and strong family bonds. He cites their childrearing as pivotal, noting they are loving, affectionate, and punitive measures are absent. Ford offers rebates up to 500 dollars to spur car sales.
Puzzle clues read like a newspaper crossword. THOMAS JOSEPH supplies an across list with several missing letters and partial words to solve. Answers relate to naval terms and basic vocabulary, inviting duel clues and wordplay.
Experts warn the Catholic Church faces a looming priest shortage as seminary enrollments plunge 60 percent since 1965 from 48 892 to 19 348 students and resignations rise. The study presented in St Louis urges reinstating married priests to keep ministries active.
Daily cryptoquote puzzle text presents a substitution cipher and an example mapping. It mentions Longfellow and a sample encoded line ALASO GHWWFTI FB ISAHM ZWAT ISAHMWO QPSBPAJ. It also cites yesterday's quote by W Howells about early risers and fame.
The State Banking Board refused applications for Chase Bank Houston Park Central Bank Dallas East Park Bank Dallas and Regional Center Bank Irving citing no public necessity and insufficient business volume. It approved Allied Bank Dallas for a charter and Burnet Road State Bank Austin for an interim charter.
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