Historical Encounter honors Assembly of God pioneers
At a Rosenberg meeting the Bethel Assembly of God honored 10 area pioneers including Rev. Eusebio Rubio 85 of Port Lavaca and Rev. R C Orozco of Monterrey with trophies and a reading of a Gov. Dolph Briscoe citation for Rev Ball a Texas goodwill ambassador. First place in a musical contest went to Singers of Zion Matamoros and second to the Gethsamane Group Rosenberg. About 500 attended the Calhoun High School event with speakers Jose Cruz R D Morelock and Roy De La Garza among others.
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Assembly of God
Dolph Briscoe
H.C. Ball
Bethel Assembly of God, Rosenberg
Marya Alderete
Port Lavaca
Rosenberg
Mary Elizabeth Rubio
Singers of Zion
Matamoros
Mexico
Gethsamane Group
Ball
San Antonio
Assemblies of God In
Latin America
Gov. Briscoe
Texas
W. R. Zwerschke
Sunshine Ball
Eusebio Rubio
R. C. Orozco
Monterrey
Orozco
Juan Romero
Ben Florez
el Templo Christiano
Elena Fernandez
Eagle Lake
Guadalupe Garcia
Rosenburg
Hilaria Castellanos
Victoria
Librado Ybanez
el Campo
Ignacio Pedraza
Pharr
Moises Gonzales
Houston
Romero
Jose Cruz
R. D. Morelock
Mexico City
Roy de la Garza
Phoeniz
Ariz
Showers Break Heat Across Texas After Holiday
The Associated Press reports a post holiday system brought widespread showers and thunderstorms over Texas, from the Panhandle to East Texas, with Gulf coastal rains moving ashore from the Coastal Bend to the Sabine River mouth. Coastal storms prompted short lived small craft warnings, while temps stayed hot elsewhere. Early readings ranged 62 to 78 across the state, with highs reaching 95 in Presidio and Wink.
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Panhandle Plains
West Texas
East Texas
Gulf of Mexico
Sabine River
Corpus Christi
Galveston
Amarillo
Panhandle
Presidio
Wink
Soviet Puts 2 in Orbit
The Soviet Union launched a two-man Soyuz to join the Salyut 5 space lab in orbit. Cosmonauts Col. Boris Volynov and Vitali Zholobov reported normal systems as they began the near-earth flight from Baikonur 1,400 miles southeast of Moscow.
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Soviet Union
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Brazilian Southerners Mark Bicentennial at Church
About 200 Brazilians descendants of Civil War Southerners gather at a red brick church near Americana to honor the U.S. Bicentennial. The Stars and Bars will hang with the Stars and Stripes as they celebrate heritage and faith in Brazil.
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Americana
Brazil
U.S
United States
Judith McKnight Jones
Weather Review and Confederate Descendant Notes in Americana
Considerable cloudiness and warmth with a shower and thundershowers chance through Wednesday. Winds mainly east and southeast 6 to 14 mph with gusts near storms. Highs in the upper 80s, lows near 70. Rain chances 50, 30, and 40 percent respectively. Boating winds SE 6 to 12 knots, seas 1 to 3 feet. Tides and sun data listed. In front of the church stands a Confederate Memorial obelisk listing settling families. A nearby cemetery holds early immigrants. Mrs. Jones says about 3,500 Southerners came to Brazil after the Civil War, with 300 Confederate descendants in Brazil today, gathering for quarterly meetings. descendants notable in medicine, farming, law, and education.
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Americana
Carter Wins Near Unanimous Governors Endorsement
At the National Governors Conference in Hersey Pennsylvania Carter won near unanimous support from about 30 Democratic governors pledging to back his White House bid. He disclosed plans to interview Mondale as a prospective running mate and outlined welfare reform aims with state collaboration and a phased federal funding reduction.
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Jimmy Carter
White House
Georgia
Edmund G. Brown Jr
California
Carter
Edwin Edwards
Louisiana
Brown
Marvin Mandel
Maryland
Mandel
Briscoe backs Glenn as Carter running mate
Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe at the National Governors Conference said he would support any vice presidential choice Carter endorses. He named Sen. John Glenn of Ohio as a possibility and added that Sen. Henry Jackson, a critic of the oil and gas industry, could also be considered. Briscoe warned that a vice president often mirrors the president.
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Dolph Briscoe
Texas
Jimmy Carter
John Glenn
Ohio
Briscoe
Carter
Henry Jackson
D-Wash
Jackson
Hijacker Surrenders Airliner in Majorca
A Libyan airliner hijacked within Libya landed in Palma de Majorca with 86 aboard. The hijacker surrendered to airport police, turning over two toy pistols and two knives. No one injured. passengers cared for by authorities. The plane had earlier stopped at Boufarik base near Algiers after being denied landings in Tunis and Algiers. The hijack was linked to a Libyan underground group opposed to Khadafy.
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Balearic Islands
Libya
Muammar Khadafy
Algiers
Boufarik
Tunis
Air Force
Algeria
Tripoli
Benghazi
Vigilant Youth
Khadafy
Guerrillas Hit Monterrey Bank in Record Heist
In Monterrey five members of the September 23rd Communist League robbed Bank of London and Mexico, seizing about $423,200 from two Pan American guards in under a minute. Police say the raid was the largest on record in Mexico, aided by rain and minimal alarms as two gunmen fled in a green 1971 pickup and a white sedan.
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Mexico
Javier Garcia Montes
Communist League
Bank of London
Pan American
Garcia Montes
Nation's 200th Birthday Skyrocket Sparks American Pride
The Bicentennial weekend brought grand fireworks and a surge of national unity from sea to shining sea. President Ford praised America’s best dreams while crowds across Boston Lexington Lexington Concord Philadelphia and Washington celebrated with fireworks parades reenactments and singing.
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Hudson River
Republic
Boston
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