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Newspaper
Port Lavaca Wave
Location
Port Lavaca, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1976
Page
4
Gov Dolph Briscoe told Texas judges that reducing crime is the generation’s biggest challenge and outlined anticrime measures for the 1977 legislature. He praised leadership at the Texas Criminal Justice Conference and highlighted a Dallas pilot using computerized trial transcripts to speed justice.
ORANGE PARK Florida AP Admiral Jackson R Tate and his wife Hazel hosted a two hour visit from Zoya Fyodorova the Russian actress and wartime lover. Tate recalled the meeting as beautiful and surprising. The affair angered Soviet officials and Fyodorova was imprisoned. Their daughter Victoria later came to the United States in 1975 to meet her father and married in Connecticut. The couple’s grandson was born after Fyodorova joined them for the birth in Greenwich Connecticut. The reunion details were disclosed by Polly.
Customs agents seized 5200 pounds of semirefined marijuana in the Dolores Creek area about 30 miles southeast of Laredo. One man arrested. marijuana packed in 78 burlap bags with a 1969 van and eight man rubber life raft found. Retail value estimated at 1.674 million dollars, marking a major Southwest seizure in years.
Calhoun High School invites all 18 and under students to the annual rodeo at the Calhoun arena May 4 at 7 30 p.m. More than 150 contestants are expected in events such as bareback riding bull riding and calf roping with goat sacking relay and scoop races. Trophies awarded. Horses and stock supplied by local clubs and Hartman Ranch Seadrift. Ray Taley to announce Mary Ruth Cannon secretary.
A retired master sergeant who recruited Lynn Mc Clure says he has no regrets about the Lufkin youth's death from a head injury during boot camp. Faulkner described Mc Clure as an average normal guy and said he only processed the application before sending him to San Antonio.
Ford advisers grow pessimistic about securing 1130 votes on the first ballot at Kansas City. Reagan leads with 360 committed delegates to Ford's 292, with 329 uncommitted and 1278 to be chosen. Michigan, Texas, Indiana, Nebraska, and Oklahoma loom large as crossovers and states weighing on Ford's path.
Secretary Kissinger at the Nairobi U N conference promoted an international resources bank to stabilize commodity prices, a technology corps to train the third world, and energy industrialization institutes. He offered buffer stock schemes to damp price swings funded by a $1 billion guarantee fund with US and OPEC contributions.
The Dow gained 2.76 to 989.22 amid a mixed NYSE session as gainers led losers 7 to 6. Government data showed the wholesale price index rising at a 9.6 percent annual rate in April from 2.4 percent in March, easing fears of a larger jump. McGraw-Hill traded heavily at 1345, while the NYSE composite rose to 53.82 and the AMEX market value index increased to 102.30.
Sheriff’s office records a theft of a radio valued at $350 from Alcoa in Point Comfort. Employee Bob Sheppard filed the report, noting the radio disappeared between April 31 and the following Wednesday.
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