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Newspaper
Port Lavaca Wave
Location
Port Lavaca, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1975
Page
5
Calhoun County Soil and Water Conservation District will elect state board officers at Tuesday 2 p.m. meeting in the First National Bank. They will hear reports on shoreline erosion projects, the Two Mile Creek conservation and reclamation district, and the SCS state meeting.
Copenhagen AP reports the Soviet government plans to expel Andrei Sakharov soon. Berlingske Tidende, citing an unidentified source at the International Sakharov Hearing, linked the move to his Nobel Prize and support for the Copenhagen event, noting prior Solzhenitsyn exile.
Calhoun County Historical Commission will meet Tuesday at 7 30 pm in the Court House Annex Auditorium Mrs W C Marshall will present her portrait of John C Calhoun to be placed at the Jail House Museum entrance Mrs Lillian Childress local composer will sing her composition Port Lavaca
UT regent Ed Clark sought guidance from the Texas Railroad Commission on leasing 22 million acres in West Texas for oil and gas as state officials noted industry uncertainty. The UT system owns the lands since 1876 and while royalties from natural gas recently surpassed crude oil, regulators set November oil allowable at 100 percent amid ongoing production declines and shifting federal outlooks.
Alabama Governor George C Wallace on a European tour said he is about 95 percent likely to declare as a US presidential candidate. He declined to state a final decision, noting he would decide soon while meeting Alfons Kubel in Bonn. Wallace heads to West Berlin for a two day visit.
A maximum security prisoner Donald Leonard along with two jail trustees escaped Brown County Jail in Brownwood Texas after cutting through two steel bars on a second floor window and lowering a rope of blankets Leonard 28 of Dallas had threatened to escape and kill his wife also of Dallas The other escapees were Dale Reynolds 18 of Brownwood and Gary Don Benson 17 of Rising Star Authorities learned of the escape around 8 am after one inmate knocked on the jailer’s apartment door Leonard facing theft by check charges Benson held on theft charges and probation revocation Reynolds on burglary and probation revocation The search stretched to Rising Star and Sipe Springs in Comanche County with eastward movement suspected Lefty Sublett Eastland County sheriff said units were involved with no sightings at press time
Hadassah University Hospital on Mt Scopus in Jerusalem reopens after 27 years closed since the 1948 war. The project, backed by the Hadassah women’s group with $40 million, preserves the old exterior while adding underground wards and a new concept of continuous community health care and integrated services.
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