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Newspaper
Port Lavaca Wave
Location
Port Lavaca, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1975
Page
4
At a global women's conference in Mexico City more than half the delegates, many from Arab, African, and Communist states, walked out during Leah Rabin's keynote. She urged listening beyond conflicts to achieve convention goals.
Environmentalists warn reopening of the Suez Canal will boost oil tanker and sewage discharge into the Mediterranean, threatening wildlife and human health. UN specialists call pollution at a critical level, with 300,000 tons of oil dumped yearly and contamination spread from Gibraltar to Turkey.
Judge Ruel C. Walker will retire as associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court effective September 30. Gov. Dolph Briscoe appointed Ross E. Doughty of Uvalde to succeed him, with Doughty serving at least until the November 1976 general election and eligible for a full six-year term. Doughty, 64, a former district judge and county attorney, is a Texas A&M and UT Law School graduate and a Navy veteran. Walker, 65, said he retired after receiving a Medicare card on his 65th birthday. Briscoe also named Jack Woodley to replace Doughty as district judge. Woodley, former Uvalde County judge, is a Schreiner graduate.
In McPherson, Kansas, a former mental patient terrorized relatives with a shotgun and abducted two teenage nieces and Probate Judge H Dean Cotton who had ordered his commitment. The girls were released unharmed around 8:15 p.m. Tuesday. Judge Cotton called police at 2:45 a.m. Wednesday and said he was returning without his captor.
A family canoe expedition down the Buffalo River from Boxley to Ponca proves novices can learn fast under pressure. The writer recalls dumps, bruises, and the pull of wild water, but highlights scenery and the thrill of a river journey.
Jefferson City, Mo. attorney Mark M. Hennelly, now 59 and out of criminal law, continues a decades long defense of J. W. Stidham, a life term inmate once tied to a riot murder. Hennelly has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, the 8th Circuit, Missouri Supreme Court, and others, funding the case himself at an estimated cost around 150,000 dollars.
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