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Newspaper
Port Lavaca Wave
Location
Port Lavaca, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1976
Page
5
Washington hosts the 61st annual Weights and Measures Conference where about 500 state and local officials draft model laws to curb consumer confusion during metric adoption. They push standard meat identifications, serving counts on frozen dinners, and metric education ahead of a mid 1980s U.S. switch with a future Metric Board.
Ronald Reagan moved to win delegates in New Jersey and Pennsylvania in a bid to cut President Ford's lead. He planned speeches and private meetings with uncommitted delegates and those open to switching from Ford.
Testimony shows deep draft ships drag bottom despite four foot depth reduction. Depth of deep channel now 29 feet though design is 36. Shallow barge channel cut to seven feet. Alcoa seeks revenue free dredging. lab chemists say silt not marl sand gravel shell or shell mud under TPWD rules.
The Pentagon assigns aging B52 bombers to Atlantic sea surveillance to aid the Navy against Soviet warships. A few eight engine jets will fly high altitude missions with cameras and radar, while P3 planes cover lanes below. This marks a shift toward a maritime strategy amid budget cutbacks.
Wet weather blanket spread across Texas with heavy rains and thunderstorms from the Coastal Bend to Matagorda Bay. A flash flood watch persisted overnight for Edwards Plateau and Hill Country as a broad rainfall belt stretched 100 miles along the coast from College Station to South Texas. Early temperatures ranged from 81 at Galveston to 66 at Dalhart with highs around 92 in Houston and Longview.
Jacques Cousteau said he recovered scores of gold bronze and clay antiquities in a three month dive of the Aegean seabed. The Greek government financed expedition found shipwrecks dating from first century B C to a World War I Brittanic liner. Gold bars a ring a jewel studded necklace and clay vases were among the items. A sunken harbor near Dias off Crete yielded remarkable remains.
Rusty Jackson of Port Lavaca was released on $600 bonds from Calhoun County Jail after being charged with drunkenness in public disorderly conduct and using abusive language toward a peace officer. Arrested by Calhoun County deputies, bond was $200 per count with fines of $20.50, $25 and $55.50 respectively.
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