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Newspaper
Port Lavaca Wave
Location
Port Lavaca, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1976
Page
4
The Indianola District Cub Scouts host a Bay Front Park meet in Point Comfort with an 7 p.m. Olympic start for first place pack winners. Consolation prizes go to 8 9 and 10 year olds in events like standing broad jump softball throw and a 50 yard dash.
California will launch a full-scale audit in Dallas next week of Ross Perot's EDS unit operating Medi-Cal claims. State Auditor General John Williams said four Arthur Andersen accountants will stay in Dallas as the state scrutinizes whether payer charges are reasonable. EDS Federal, an EDS subsidiary subcontracted to California Blue Cross and Blue Shield, processes Medi-Cal claims and earned over a million dollars monthly last year, with about a third of the next year's projected 42 million dollars in processing fees.
Vacation Bible School begins at the Highway 35 bypass Church of Christ on Monday with classes for two-year-olds through teenagers from 9 to 11 a.m. through July 30. Don C. Stevens of Fordtran will direct, and all children and youths in the age range are invited.
Rep Henry B Gonzalez urged Attorney General Edward Levi to pursue federal civil rights charges against former Castroville Police Chief Frank Hayes. Hayes was convicted in San Angelo of aggravated assault in the September shooting death of Ricardo Morales while Morales was in Hayes custody. Morales was initially charged with murder and Hayes received a two to ten year sentence.
Washington AP report says growing world stockpiles of reprocessed plutonium and other nuclear material pose a clear danger of nuclear weapons proliferation. Ikle urges controls but opposes a bill to block U S technology shipments to treaty-nonparties. He favors requiring return of irradiated fuel from reactors sold abroad, noting India used American tech in its 1974 explosion. NRC reviews Tarapur uranium enrichment.
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger minimized his travel excesses during a Seattle stop. He requested a lower priced room in the Olympic Hotel and stayed in the Governor's Suite at 125 dollars per day while the Presidential Suite stayed empty. Aides gave no comment on the display of frugality. His party occupied about half of the hotel's 11th floor for the 20 staff members with him.
In a political year a campaign outreach from Gerald R. Ford aimed at Sen. Edmund S. Muskie requests contributions for several candidates including Ford's Republican challenger Robert A. G. Monks. Muskie aides say Muskie will decline to contribute, stressing fiscal responsibility.
Eleven Port Lavaca firefighters will attend the 47th annual Texas firemen training school at Texas A&M University Monday through Friday. Instructors include Port Lavaca Fire Chief C. R. Ray Stringham and Kenneth Woodall for propane gas fire fighting, J. C. Gus Farmer and Jim Treybig for communications engineering, and Kenneth Boyd Robertson for rescue operations. Students from Port Lavaca include Rocky Faris Jesse Velasquez Gene Marish Fred Loya and John Williams. About 1,600 firemen from across the country are expected. sponsored by the Texas Engineering Extension Service.
Port Lavaca Baptists formed in 1896 with Leggett as supply pastor for over two decades. A 1913 building replaced later by a larger Linnhaven church. Mission stations in Calhoun County produced many baptisms and 1900 to 1915 conversions, notably New Hope on Chocolate Bayou. By 1918 church had 97 members and prominent families in 1940 included Strait, Dierlam, Hartzog, Crain, Best, Deck, Shell, and others.
New York stocks ended mixed as traders awaited a possible prime rate cut. The Dow slid 33 points to 990.75 at noon while the NYSE composite edged up to 55.61 and the AMEX market value index rose to 104.74. Citibank kept large loan rates at 7 percent, dampening the hoped relief on rates.
Irish police report no leads in the killing of British Ambassador Christopher Ewart-Biggs and a secretary as a nationwide dragnet nets 13 suspected IRA members. A 30 ton cache of IRA weapons was found near Kilkenny, but officials doubt it supplied the 200 pounds of ammunition used. Three men were arrested. 10 questioned in Dublin including David OConnell the schoolteacher claimed to head the Provisional wing. The government offers 36 000 for information guiding killers.
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