East Texas attorney with Galveston County roots faces voter scrutiny
The candidate, an East Texas attorney and former prosecutor who resides in Galveston County, has not introduced or sponsored any bills in eight years as a State Representative yet supported a 800 million dollar consumer tax in 1969 and backed higher interest rates. He backed the House Speaker who blocked a utility regulation bill and opposed full ethics disclosure measures while part of the Dirty Thirty investigation group.
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Neil Caldwell
Mutscher
East
Texas
Galveston County
Texas Legion
VFW
Texas Assn
Afl-Cio
Shrine Burns Hospital
Sigma Delta Chi Journalism Society
International Association of Machinists
Citizens Environmental Coalition
Marine Biomedical Institute
Texas Municipal Police Assn
Texas Lawmen's Assn
Texas State Bar Assn
Texas Monthly Magazine
Matagorda
Matagorda Island
Austin
Calhoun County
Washington
Senate
Beulah
Celia
Carla
All Matters
Texas Coastal and Marine Council
National Organization of
Alus
Galveston
Fed
Religion in the News Church Memberships on the Rise
US church and synagogue membership rose by 1 million to 132,287,450 in 1975, about 62.3 percent of the population, with Protestants at 73 million and Catholics near 49 million. Church attendance held steady at 40 percent weekly, while giving to religious groups reached a record 11.68 billion, up 7.6 percent from 1974, though inflation outpaced gains. Clergy totals rose overall to 473,841 across 923 denominations, despite declines in Catholic nuns and certain Catholic clergy.
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George W. Cornell
New York
America
U.S
Constant Jacquet
National Council of Churches
Gallup
American Association of Fund-Raising Counsel, Inc
Five Men Indicted For Embezzlement In Dallas Case
A federal grand jury indicted five men and the collection firm Collegiate Recovery Credit Assistance Corp for conspiring to embezzle more than $200,000 from federal student loan funds. Defendants include Thomas Foley II Cecil Evans Gene Miller Arnold Tate and Charles Gent Jr. The scheme involved 63 schools and institutions in five states with funds diverted from loan programs.
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Dallas
Thomas Patrick Foley II
Department of Health Education and Welfare
Cecil Dwayne Evans
HEW
Gene Allen Miller
Arnold Gene Tate
Collegiate Recovery Credit Assistance Corp
Charles Edward Gent Jr
Collegiate Recovery
Hearing for Roloff Continued in Texas Court
Evangelist Lester Roloff tells reporters welfare workers were barred from inspecting his three South Texas child care homes claiming it violated his conscience. He faces possible jail for defying a May 27 court order and licensing rules. A Corpus Christi judge had ordered five days in jail and fines on eight counts, delayed to finish a revival meeting.
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Austin
Tex
Lester Roloff
Texas
Roloff
Corpus Christi Court
Cuba to receive Soviet nuclear reactor for power
Cuba will obtain a nuclear reactor from the Soviet Union intended for electricity production. The statement was made by Cuba's delegation head at a United Nations conference in Vancouver Canada.
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Vancouver
Canada
Cuba
Soviet Union
Solar Site Abandoned by Houston Consortium
A five university consortium in Houston has dropped its bid to host the Solar Energy Research Institute. Participating schools included the University of Houston Rice University University of Texas at Austin Texas Tech University and Texas A&M University. San Antonio and El Paso still seek the institute planned by ERDA.
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Houston
University of Houston
Rice University
University of Texas At Austin
Texas Tech University
Texas A&m University
San Antonio
el Paso
Energy Research and Development Administration
Armored Division Begins Summer Training at Ft Hood
Austin AP reports the 49th Armored Division of the Texas National Guard starts summer training at Ft Hood this Saturday. It is the first time the whole division trains together since 1961 Berlin crisis mobilization. Over 6,000 guardsmen bivouac near Gatesville June 5–11, swelling to about 13,000 the week of June 12–18.
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Babe’ Schwartz
Dean Neugent
Val
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Babe
A.R
Schwartz
Babe” Schwartz
South Shore Drive
Julie Kalnas
Los Angeles
Carl Dally
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Court of Criminal Appeals
U.S. Supreme Court
Criminal Appeals Court
Austin American-Statesman
The
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Houston Chronicle
Dally
Lubbock Corpus Christi
San Angelo
Tyler
Bryan
Beaumont
Port Arthur
Victoria
Wichita Falls
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