Secret Service Warns of worsening risk for Reagan bid
Miami Secret Service chief says the agency is over extended with 12 announced candidates, protecting six besides Reagan and Ford as the 1976 race heats up. A 20 year old Pompano Beach man with a toy gun attacked Reagan, facing intimidation and assault charges, as Reagan vows to press on.
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Miami
Secret Service
Ford
Ronald Reagan
Bob Newbrand
Reagan
Warner
Reagan Warner
Newbrand
Calvin
University of Denver
University of Tampa
Pompano Beach
Denver
Michael
Nelson Rockefeller
Lynette Fromme
Pupil Transfer Issue Postponed for Study
Calhoun County ISD board postponed a plan to place ninth graders at Calhoun High and younger grades at Crockett and Travis Junior Highs next year. Supt. Kirkman cited space limits and TEA rules, with no decision yet. The gathering also approved policies on child abuse reporting, handicapped hiring, and oath of office. The board raised substitute pay, adopted the 1976-77 calendar, and named a textbook committee for grades 1-6.
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Port Lavaca
Calhoun High School
Crockett and Travis
Calhoun County Independent School District Board of Trustees
A. Whelton
Marvin Kirkman
High School For Athletics and Building Trades
Texas Education Agency
Kirkman
Dolph Briscoe
R. E. Pereira
Governor's Office
Texas
Sylvester Walleck
Ann Sikes
Gloria Rubio
Assassination Plots Prosecution Under Review in DC
Justice Department officials weigh whether to indict those tied to U.S. assassination plots against foreign leaders. A 346 page Senate report cites eight plots against Fidel Castro and a scheme against Patrice Lumumba, with no foreign leader killed by U.S. officials. The panel urges a new law criminalizing assassinations abroad and prosecutors weigh cover up charges.
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Washington
Justice Department
Senate Intelligence Committee Department
Atty
Edward H. Levi
U.S
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Patrice Lumumba
Rafael Trujillo
Raul
United States
Ford
CIA
Congress
Midwest storm traps motorists in blizzard toll climbs
Storm across the upper Midwest snarled travel with up to 16 inches of snow in Minnesota and blizzard conditions sweeping through Nebraska Kansas Iowa and the Dakotas. Rescue and closures followed as deaths and missing persons were reported while crews plowed and cleared highways amid frigid winds.
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Associated Press
Upper Midwest
Central Plains
Minnesota
Nebraska
Iowa
Dakotas
Michigan
Wisconsin
Kansas Highway Patrol
Minneapolis-St. Paul
South Dakota
Ethan
S.D
Joyce Negebauer
U.S
Colorado
National Weather Service
Midwest
Upper
Weather Service
Arkansas
Lake Erie
Kansas
Denver
Port Lavaca Rebate Hits October At 18 386 07
Port Lavaca receives its October city sales tax rebate of 18 386 07 from the State Comptroller bringing its 1975 total to 971 839 10. The October rebate is not a direct sales surge indicator as reports vary monthly or quarterly and changes in payment timing affect totals. Seadrift's October rebate drops to 2 255 85 from 2 787 52 in September while Point Comfort awaits December quarter payments.
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Port Lavaca
State Comptroller
David Swenson
Bob Bullock
Point Comfort
Weather Outlook With Coastal Details Through Saturday
Fair through Saturday with a cold night inland near freezing and coastal temps around 40. Northerly winds 15 to 20 mph tonight, easing to 10 to 15 mph. Saturday high near 60. Boating outlook: northerly winds 15 to 22 knots, gusty today and tonight, gradually easing. Seas 5 to 6 feet, diminishing Saturday. Tides and sun data included.
Seadrift Scouts Sell House Numbers for Streets
Seadrift residents will receive house numbers as the Chamber of Commerce and Boy Scouts team up. Patrick Henley leads the Eagle Scout project to sell and install shiny silver numbers at 50 cents each with free installation. The Scouts will visit homes using street addresses provided by the Chamber. A city map project is also underway by the chamber, per Mayor Billy Wilson.
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Seadrift
Area Chamber of Commerce
Boy Scouts
Patrick Henley
Chamber of Commerce
Billy Wilson
Missiles Reported Near Eastern Jet Over Virginia
FAA investigates two airline pilots who saw missiles about two thousand feet above Eastern Airlines flight 8&2 en route to Washington. The sighting, 60 miles south of Richmond near Emporia, prompts checks of air traffic tapes and military firing restrictions in civilian air corridors. Captain C. S. Wilson of Hollywood, Fla., led the crew.
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Washington
Federal Aviation Administration
Richmond
FAA
Raymond G. Belanger
Eastern Airlines
Angelo Viselli
Washington Air Traffic Control Center
Leesburg
Viselli
C. S. Wilson
Hollywood
Fla
West Palm Beach
National Airport
Emporia
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U.S. Customs
Jack Warner
Alabama
George C. Wallace
R. Sargent Shriver
Indiana
Birch Bayh
Georgia
Jimmy Carter
Arizona
Morris Udall
Tex
Lloyd M. Bentsen
Michael Lance Carvin
Miss Fromme
Sacramento
Calif
Sara Jane Moore
West Point
Jane Thacker
U.S. Military Academy
Lumumba
District of Columbia
Richard Bissell
Wilson
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