Interior plans for Matagorda Island baffle Texas officials
Austin officials weigh Interior Department plan to designate 4500 acres of Matagorda Island as a national wildlife refuge in exchange for a state leasing of 18 miles of high ground. The plan triggers questions on hunting fishing access and joint management with critics urging state ownership. Rep. Joe Wyatt questions the land closing motives and crane protection claims.
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Austin
Clayton T. Garrison
State Parks and Wildlife Commission
Matagorda Island
Interior Department
Commission
Garrison
Bill Nelson
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Albuquerque
General Services Administration
Joe Wyatt
D-Bloomington
Texas
Wyatt
Interior
World leaders gather for historic European summit in Helsinki
Leaders from 32 nations plus the United States and Canada convene in Helsinki for the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Finnish President Kekkonen calls it a day of joy and hope as Wilson stresses human rights in a polarized race between detente and bloc control. Caramanlis accuses Turkey of occupying Cyprus, warning damage to summit principles. Brezhnev and Ford slated to discuss curbs on nuclear arms with no immediate breakthroughs expected.
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Helsinki
Finland
Urho Kekkonen
Europe
Harold Wilson
Constantine Caramanlis
Cyprus
Kekkonen
United States
Canada
Wilson
Ford
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Port Lavaca urged to revive downtown area
Dick Fisher argues Port Lavaca can restore its downtown by painting exteriors, repairing awnings, and attracting tourism. He cites vacant historic buildings, neglect, and the need for collective action led by the Chamber of Commerce to spur growth and raise tax revenue.
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Port Lavaca
Chamber of Commerce
State seeks tax data as school districts contest value figures
AUSTIN panel hears protests from Calhoun County ISD and about 140 districts over state market value figures used to calculate state aid and local input. F.E. Pereira objects to a blanket 20 percent increase applied by Management Services Associates, insisting district figures are more realistic as hearings continue through August.
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Austin
Calhoun County Independent School
Pereira
Management Services Associates
Governor's Office
MSA
4-H Scuba Diving Class Scheduled for Thursday
Port O Connor reports 4-H Scuba Diving class led by County Marine Agents Surovik Russell and Forrest will train about 30 4-H members from Houston starting at 9 a.m. Activities include scuba diving skeet shooting and deep sea fishing techniques to be filmed for nationwide publicity. The event shows 4-H offering broader activities beyond traditional farming.
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Port O'Connor
Joe Surovik
Port Lavaca
Mel Russell
Galveston
Doug Forrest
Houston
Surovik
Victoria
Texas
Texas A&m University Extension Service
EPA blasted on pesticide ban policies
Agriculture Commissioner John White criticized the EPA for a piecemeal approach to banning pesticides. The agency ordered an immediate ban on chlordane and heptachlor, a move White says surprised USDA and most EPA officials. He warns against shifting from DDT to harmful organophosphates.
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New York
EPA
White
Calhoun 4-H Members Win District Ribbons in Houston
Carol Ramirez and Patti Maguire of Calhoun County 4 H Club won blue ribbons in the district record book judging contest in Houston on Monday. Ramirez focused on child care in her record book while Maguire presented a collection on home environment, qualifying for state competition.
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Carol Ramirez
Patti Maguire
Calhoun County
Houston
Miss Ramirez
Miss Maguire
Girl Driver Involved in Collision With County Fire Truck
Rose Marie Thomas 16, of Port Lavaca, daughter of Mr and Mrs Hennesey Thomas, remains in guarded condition with a cerebral concussion lacerations a broken collar bone and injured ribs after the car she was driving collided with a county fire truck at the Highway 35 By-pass intersection.
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Rose Marie Thomas
Hennesey Thomas
Port Lavaca
Highway 35
Half League Road
Rose Marie
Weather notes and Port Lavaca traffic accident report
Partly cloudy and warm with a 30 percent chance of rain through tomorrow. Highs mid eighties to mid nineties and tonight in the mid seventies. Gulf seas two to four feet with scattered showers and thundershowers. Two tides listed with times and a noon barometer reading. An accident on the Highway 35 By-pass in Port Lavaca involved a grass fire truck driven by Earl Samuel Pattillo and an oncoming Thomas car. Pattillo not injured, extensive vehicle damage reported. This followed another truck car crash on the same bypass a week earlier near Broadway and Highway 35 By-pass, with fatalities and injuries noted. A separate wreck on Highway 87 near New Camney involved a grain truck and a pickup with no serious injuries.
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Gulf
Earl Samuel Pattillo
Port Lavaca
Highway 35
Robert Creglow
Broadway
Highway 87
New Camney
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Calhoun County United Way
Vernon Damstrom
Fred Knipling
Jack Peacock
Robert Peterschmidt
Rudy Rendon
Ralph Hearn
Bennie Garcia
E.S. Ramsey
Nelson
Caramanlis
Turkey
Mediterranean
Soviet Union
C.R. Solomon
Texas A&m University
Solomon
Dick Fisher
F.E. Pereira
A.m
Thomas
Pattillo
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