Reagan Launches California Bid In 1976 Primaries
Ford weighing whether to stay in Washington after June 8 primary season delegates. Reagan runs in California on a tough law and order platform while pending decisions on campaigning before California Ohio and New Jersey primaries. Udall urges Church to skip Ohio clash to hurt Carter with Carter leading in delegates. Reagan predicts first ballot win at convention. Ford trails in committed delegates. Carter leads among Democrats with Udall and Jackson challenging. Sanctions on busing and crime proposals feature in campaigns. Beame and Daley back Carter. Brown shifts to California primary focus.
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Illinois
Chicago
Richard J. Daley
Harry Lerner
Essex County
Democratic
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Yarbrough Fraud Trial Reveals Bank Investment Dispute
Houston businessmen Rex L. Cooper and Douglas Ford testified in a fraud suit against Donald B. Yarbrough. They claim they gave $117,500 in 1974 to finance bank investments and allege Yarbrough charged high prices for Victoria bank stock while buying control in Fairfield State Bank. Cooper said he trusted Yarbrough for legal work, but the pair allege no tangible evidence supported their investments.
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Court of State District
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Victoria Bank
Woman Sought After Houston Slaying Of Escapee
FBI identified the slain man as Milton Ralph Miller, a 39 year old escapee from a Norfolk Virginia prison. Miller had been convicted in 1971 for the deaths of two service station attendants and robbery. A woman, unnamed in the report, shot him with a .12 gauge shotgun as he left a Houston convenience store. Shirley Jane Dubreuil, 21, of Houston, who was with Miller at the store, was also shot and hospitalized.
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FBI
Virginia
Terry Jones
Milton Ralph Miller
Miller
Norfolk
Shirley Jane Dubreuil
Newsprint Cost Rises for U.S. Newspapers
New York AP reports publishers face another rise in newsprint costs after recent increases. Prices will hit about $300 per ton on July 1, with West Coast markets higher at $305. Two years prior, costs stood at $160 per ton amid industry price pressures.
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West Coast
Tick Control and Crop Notes for Calhoun County
Calhoun County livestock producers are urged to return a survey on using the new ear band ear tick control device called Tick Tamer. A crop report outlines a statewide and county sampling effort by USDA and Texas ag officials, plus hay and fertilizer guidance, and lawn mower blade sharpening tips for better efficiency and safety.
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Calhoun County
High Disaster Potential Seen in Galveston Area
Meteorologist Davis Benton warns the Galveston Bay region faces major hurricane disaster risk due to land subsidence. He notes eight foot lowerings in some zones and 300,000 people living below 20 foot elevations. He urges early evacuation plans as major storms strike about every decade, citing Hurricane Carla in 1961 as a past extreme.
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Freeport
Carla
United States
Singer in Court For Drug Testimony
Dallas AP Ray Price attended a federal grand jury session investigating drug trafficking though it was unclear if he testified. Willie Nelson was subpoenaed but did not appear. his appearance was postponed to June. Security was tight on the 16th floor with cameras banned. Prisoners Dale Norris and Jerry Coffman, and Jackie Norwood Kennedy and Coleman Ray Bandy, were subpoenaed. Bandy and Kennedy faced charges over more than $1 million in cocaine seized in Fort Worth.
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Jerry Coffman
Jackie Norwood Kennedy
Coleman Ray Bandy
Bandy
Kennedy
Tarrant County
Fort Worth
Former Waco banker absolved in conspiracy case
Robert A. Mann, ex CEO of First National Bank of Waco, and Bank of the Southwest of Houston, were acquitted of conspiring to misapply bank funds in a 10 day federal trial. Mann said he plans to return to banking. McNeese called the verdict a complete vindication for the Bank of the Southwest.
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Waco
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First National Bank of
Bank of the Southwest of Houston
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John Singleton Jr
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State Finance Commission
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Bank of the Southwest
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Waco Bank
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Babe” Schwartz
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