Air Force to declare Matagorda Range excess
The Air Force will designate Matagorda Range as excess, triggering a 60 day period for federal agencies to file a certificate of need. Congress committees have approved the declaration, with Interior expected to monitor for potential refuge expansion at the north end for whooping cranes.
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Air Force
Matagorda
Armed Forces Committees
House of Congress
Texas
Calhoun County
Department of the Interior
Matagorda Island
Aransan National Wildlife Refuge
Hull
Hawes
Null
Interior
Aransas Refuge
Interior Department
Apollo Soyuz dock seals space detente milestone
In Houston NASA and Soviet mission crews linked the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft at 12 09 p m EDT 140 miles above Europe marking the first international space docking. Commanders Alexei Leonov and Thomas Stafford led crews through five engine firings and a planned handshaking exchange while cosmonauts prepared to transfer between ships and display flags including a United Nations banner.
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Space Center
Houston
Europe
Thomas P. Stafford
Vance D. Eriand
Donald K. Slayton
Apollo
Moscow
Soyuz
Earth
Alexei Leonov
Leoney
Stafford
Lenonov
United Nations
Slayton
Valeri Kubasov
Kubasov
Valeri
Vance D. Brand
Brand
West Germany
Calhoun County Youth Rodeo Set for Aug 8 9
Plans for the 25th annual Calhoun County Youth Rodeo are nearing completion. Don Meeks, president of the Calhoun Youth Rodeo Association, announced the event scheduled for August 8 9 features nine contests and expects more than 300 participants from across South Texas.
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Calhoun County
Don Meeks
Calhoun Youth Rodeo Association
South
Texas
Rodeo Arena
Meeks
Handshake a symbol of peace spans space mission
Anthropologists note the handshake signals no weapons and friendship. Apollo and Soyuz astronauts seal goodwill 140 miles above Earth, viewed as a joint achievement with no winner. Rodeo events, queen contest, and prize details mirror a local pageant and fair plans with entries, directors, and schedule.
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Space Center
Houston
Earth
Space
United States
Soviet Union
Oil execs deny creating gas shortages to boost prices
Washington AP reports executives from Shell Amoco Mobil Exxon Chevron Gulf and Texaco testified to Senate subcommittees that major oil firms are supplying more gasoline than last year and deny orchestrating shortages. They said higher costs are being absorbed temporarily as markets were feared to bear price increases.
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Washington
Senate
Frank Zarb
Federal Energy Administration
Henry M. Jackson
Dash
Adlai Stevenson
Dill
Congress
Jackson
Stevenson
Annon M. Card
Texaco Inc
Shell
Amoco
Mobil
Exxon
Chevron
Gulf
Ford
USS
Senate Finance Committee
Oil and Gas Industries
House
Donald Macdonald
United States
FBI used computers to probe individuals
Sen. John V. Tunney said the FBI briefly used the NCIC computer network to gather derogatory data on individuals, a misuse of the system not meant for intelligence. He cited halted activity on March 4, 1974, amid hearings on restricting FBI computer use, asserting the Watergate era likely stopped the abuse.
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Washington
FBI
John V. Tunney
Tunney
National Crime Information Center
NCIC
Sam J. Ervin Jr
Constitutional Rights Subcommittee
California
Atty
Harold R. Tyler
Tyler
California Democrat
City Bodies in Meetings Study Budget in July
The Port Lavaca City Council will meet in a workshop session at City Hall at 7 p.m. on July 21 and 25 to study the 1975-76 budget. The Recreation and Parks Board holds a 7:30 p.m. budget session at Be 8 of Annex to review its 1975-76 budget.
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Fair Grounds
Rodeo
Meeks
Melbourn Shillings
Joyce Shillings
Tommy Sup
David Gaskamp
Neilsen
Ray Raley
Port Lavaca
Jackie Parks
Victoria
City Hall
City Recreation and Parks Board
Texas firm ordered to pay $2.16 million in Vietnam shell accident
A federal court jury awarded Doris Burns and her son Stacey $2.16 million for the death of Corporal Wendell Burns in a Vietnam War howitzer shell accident. Day & Zimmerman, Lone Star Arsenal operators, were found liable with a $600,000 separate award to a wounded soldier. Burns died Sept. 6, 1969, at age 21 serving with the Americal Division from Wapato Washington.
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New York
Texas
Washington State
Vietnam
Doris Burns
Yakima
Wash
Wendell Burns
Wapato
Stacey
Day & Zimmerman, Inc
Lone Star Arsenal
Texarkana
Burns
Americal
Weather Outlook With Warm, Partly Cloudy Skies
Partly cloudy and warm through tomorrow with a high near 90 today and tomorrow. Low tonight near 70. Chance of daytime showers and thunderstorms about 20 percent today rising to 30 percent tomorrow. Winds easterly 6 to 14 mph, Gulf winds southeast 10 to 20 knots. Seas 3 to 5 feet. Sunset 8:28, sunrise 6:41. Tides: low 6:57, high 3:45 a.m.. next low 7:52 tomorrow, next high 4:37 Saturday morning. Barometer 30.05 and steady at noon.
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Gulf
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Apollo-Soyuz
Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife
Joe Wyatt, Jr
Bloomington
M.L. Null
Charles H. Percy
Rtl
Zarb
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