Texas cities ride budget surplus as others face strain
A Texas survey shows municipalities in good financial shape with surpluses and stable budgets. Houston reports a 12.7 million surplus and a 328.4 million budget. Dallas says no new taxes but tighter services. Amarillo Kilgore Beaumont Austin Lubbock Corpus Christi El Paso all note varying costs, salary pressures, and limited revenue options amid rising fuel and legislative costs.
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Texas
Houston
Leonel Castillo
Kriegel
Dallas
Jim Favour
Amarillo
John Stiff
Stiff
Kilgore
Viola Swinney
Miss Swinney
Beaumont
Howard McDaniel
Lubbock
Sterling Miller
Miller
Corpus Christi
Harold Zick
Morning Markets Mixed as Economy Signs Dim Slightly
New York stocks opened with a bounce after an early loss as signs of a slower economy offered support. The Dow rose to 873.83 by noon, while the NYSE composite slipped slightly and select issues like Polaroid and Cook Industries showed active trading.
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NEW York
New York Stock Exchange
Hoerner-Waldorf
American Stock Exchange
Polaroid
Cook Industries
Amex
NYSE
Alcoa
Arare
Borden
Es Cat Trac
Delanese
Chysier
Coca Cole O'S
Dow Chem
duPont
Es Eastman
el Paso NG
Exxonee
Fairchild
Ford
Elec
Gen Foods
Jon
Marcor
Monsanto
Penn Tent
Penney
RCA
Safeway
Sears
Sony
Stang
Sim
Texaco
Texas
Uniroyal
US Steel
Woolworth
Probes on CIA expand as secret reports surface
Washington AP report notes House to form new panel after rejecting moves to end its probe into intelligence agencies. Senate Church committee to examine Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences findings on CIA funded LSD tests via Air Force front, with efforts denied by involved researchers. Washington Post cites Army Maryland tests on mind altering drugs, 1956 to 1959, to gauge offensive use.
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Washington
House
Senate House Committee
Senate
Texas
Lane Denton
CIA
Rockefeller Commission
Senate Committee
Frank Church
D-Idaho
Texas Research Institute of Mental
Truck rules asked eased
Washington AP The Department of Transportation will ask Congress and states to ease independent trucker regulations to avert a potential strike. Secretary Coleman plans uniform state rules and allow independents to haul general freight on return trips without leasing to a regulated carrier, eliminating empty trips.
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Washington
Department of Transportation
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
A Department
William T. Coleman Jr
Millard Holden
McAllen
Tex
Department
Holden
Independent Produce Haulers Association
White House
Ford Administration
ICC
Nixon funds request for staff and office expenses faces vote
The House prepares to vote on a bill to provide former President Richard Nixon 121153 for staff office supplies and other expenses for the new fiscal year, a 40 percent cut from Ford's requested 203000. The plan excludes Nixon's 60000 annual pension and indirect security costs.
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Washington
House
Richard M. Nixon
Ford
Nixon
House Appropriations Committee
Migrant workers moved from Bradley County amid prison escape roadblock
Marvin Prather and Larry Dean Brownlee of Corpus Christi were charged in federal court with transporting 15 Mexicans who entered illegally from Bradley County toward Pine Bluff. Juan Zapata also of Corpus Christi faced charges for transporting 33 Mexicans from Ingalls area to Pine Bluff. The 48 workers were detained at a state police roadblock set to catch three inmates who escaped a state prison. All pleaded guilty with sentences ranging from 15 days to one month plus fines and probation.
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Little Rock, Ark
Marvin Prather
Larry Dean Brownlee
Corpus Christi
Tex
Bradley County
Pine Bluf
Juan R. Zapata
Ingalls
Pine Bluff
Prather
Brownlee
Zapath
U.S. Atty
Kenneth Stoll
Zapata
St. Louis
Osceola
Technicians prove worth of Apollo Soyuz liaison team
AP reports from Moscow that seven Houston Space Center technicians in the Soviet mission control back room provided critical troubleshooting for the Apollo Soyuz project. Astronaut Robert Overmyer described how his team briefed Soviet controllers with backup procedures and exact equipment layouts, enabling direct, in-person liaison that reduced reliance on lines of communication.
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Moscow
Mission Control Center
Houston Space Center
Houston
Robert Overmyer
Kaliningrad Center
Overmyer
U.S
Kaliningrad
Apollo
Dennis Williams
NASA
Moscow Press Center
Wheat sold to Soviets by Canadian Wheat Board
The Canadian Wheat Board announced a sale of two million long tons about 74.6 million bushels of No. 1 and No. 2 Canada Western red spring wheat to the Soviet Union. Shipments begin in fall with 400,000 tons from the west coast and the rest via St. Lawrence and Atlantic ports, with an option to ship part to Cuba.
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Winnipeg, Man
Canadian Wheat Board
U.S. Agriculture Department
Cook Industries Inc
Memphis, Tenn
Soviet Union
Cargill Inc
Minneapolis
USDA
Cargill
Canada
Canadian West Coast
St. Lawrence
West Coast
Atlantic
Cuba
SMU president search delays finding new leader
SMU committee chair Robert Cullum says the 24 member panel will not name a new president before September. A candidate should be chosen before the board of trustees meets in November, with the seventh SMU president to take office in January if approved. The post has been vacant since Dr. Paul Hardin resigned in June 1974.
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Board of Governors
Paul Hardin
Deaths George Walter Miller Sr Funeral set
Funeral services for George Walter Miller Sr were scheduled for tomorrow at 10 a.m. at Richardson Funeral Home chapel with Rev. R. Carl Smith officiating. The 83 year old retired farmer died yesterday in a local nursing home. Burial would be in Palacios cemetery where his home had been. Survivors include his wife Alma C. Miller of Palacios three sons N D Miller George W Miller Jr Edward J Miller of Seadrift a daughter Eileen Lightner of Port Lavaca three brothers E H Miller N T Miller of Sumner Neb and Ray Miller of Carney Neb 15 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren.
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George Walter Miller
Richardson Funeral Home
R. Carl Smith
Miller
Palacios Cemetery
Palacios
Alma C. Miller
N.D. Miller
George W. Miller
Port Lavaca
Edward J. Miller
Seadrift
Eileen Lightner
E.H. Miller
N.T. Miller
Sumner, Neb
Ray Miller
Carney
Neb
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Port Lavaca Funeral Home
Army
Chemical Center
Edgewood
MD.) Arsenal
Medical School
Psychiatric Institute
Baltimore
Soviets
Winnipeg
The
Wheat Board
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Marshall Lumber
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