Community Notices and Local Programs Highlight San Antonio Area
Officials invite 18 to 28 year old single women to apply for Miss Texas Universe 1977 at 130 Texas Avenue El Paso. San Antonio Parks runs boxing for ages 6-18 across city centers. The Mission Belles perform in Travis Park in a free concert. St Marys Univ. lecturer Vincent Taylor discusses heritage at the American Legion Home. The Salvation Army hosts day camps for 4 to 14 year olds at Peacock Center 0.50 daily, 10am to 3pm. Social Security leaflets available via Gilbert Gonsalez 308 Dyer Ave San Antonio 78285 ext 4788. Lydia Rodriguez elected international VP of Credit Women International. Ridgeview Elementary coaches start jogging team meeting daily at 9am for one-half to two miles.
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Texas Avenue
el Paso
Tex
Social Security
Social Security Administration
Cifisen
Gilbert G. Gonsalez
Dyer Ave
San Antonio
Negotiations Resume Over Coastal States Gas Suit
Coastal States and LeVaca Gathering Co. dispute a multi million dollar damage claim as talks continue to settle out of court. Judge Peter Michael Curry set August 23 to hear privilege pleas amid ongoing discussions and obstacles including 40 to 50 million dollars in dividend obligations.
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Coagral
Light
Coastal States
Harry L. Blomquist
Peter Michael Curry
Blomquikt
LeVaca Gathering Co
Coastal States Gas Producing Co
Coastal States Gas Corp
San Antonio
Curry
City OKs CPS fuel adjustment despite nickel payments
City Council approves monthly CPS fuel adjustment rates amid citizen groups threat to pay bills in nickels and dimes. Six members vote yes while Claude Black and Glen Hartman abstain. Reverend Clifton Byrd calls for halting gas payments above contract price amid a $200 million damage suit against suppliers.
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Broups
City Public Service
CPS
Claude Black
Glen Hartman
Clifton Byrd
Ecouncil
Possible prisoner exchange urged to ease U S Mexico tensions
Attorney Montemayor proposes voluntary prisoner swaps as a first step to improve border relations. He cites a Rio Grande Valley case where a Mexican national was jailed in Mexico for a U S shooting, suggesting Mexican prisoners in U S jails might exchange time served, with cooperation from U S authorities and both countries’ reps to negotiate.
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U.S
Mexico
Montemayor
Rio Grande Valley
Washington
William H. Luers
Kissinger
Pearl Container Co. union workers ratify three year contract
Teamsters Local 110 workers at Pearl Container Co. ratify a three year deal covering 93 employees with a $1.30 hourly raise. Pearl president Sue Birdsong announced the accord on Wednesday as talks continue with brewery workers and IAMAW members on a two week strike. Machinists also reach a contract with Lone Star Brewing Co. after workers return to work.
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Pearl Brewing Co
Pearl Container Co
Teamsters Local 110
Pearl
Sue Birdsong
Birdsong
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
Untan
Lone Star Brewing Co
Enterprising couple copies masters to celebrate the Bicentennial
Dan and Rose La Motte, both 76, of 124 Copwood, have spent over 40 years creating masterwork reproductions in their home gallery, including a 13 by 7 foot mural of John Trumbull’s The Declaration of Independence. They moved to San Antonio in 1956, have traveled the world twice, and painted hundreds of pieces together. Rose fell ill two weeks after completing the mural.
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Dan
Rose la Motte
John Trumbull
Rose
la Mottes
Aisit
Washington, D.C
Danial
Danid
Butt William
Adolphe Rouguereau
Hoffman
San Antonio
Kansas
July 1 milestones across San Antonio history
On July 1 events range from Medicare enactment and opal discovery to price control easing and local infrastructure. Notable items include a 1968 Medicare start with little notice, a $30 000 to $40 000 opal claim in 1966, 1846 price relief, 1838 flood spillway levels, 1838 fashion shifts, 1816 Fort Sam housing plans, 1906 Western Union wire debut in the editorial room, and a 1806 city lighting contract with the San Antonio Gas Co.
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San Antonio Gas Co
Prisoner exchange proposal gains support from Texas officials
San Antonio attorney Ruber Montemayor and another board of corrections member say a Mexican American prisoner swap can work. They note Kissinger's openness to the idea and recall discussions with U.S. officials, Texans, and Mexican authorities about inmates serving time in the other country.
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ED Castillo
San Antonio
Texas Board of Corrections
Ruber Montemayor
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Board of Corrections
U.s.-Mexico
Montemayor
Washington
Henry Kissinger
U.S
Bentsen
Mexico City
W. J. Estelle Jr
Texas Department of Corrections
Henry Sanchez
Texas Good Neighbor Commission
Secutmberri Prisor
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Young
Mission Belles
Travis Park
Travis Park Committee
Department of Parks and Recreation
St. Mary's University
Vincent Taylor
America
American Legion
Flalouis
Salvation Army Peacock Community Center
Lydia Rodriguez
Lombard's
Credit Women International
Ridgeview Elementary
McCullough
Jay Dlone
Tracy Spoor
Texas Agriculture Extension
Bexar Service
Underwood Stables
Teamsters
D.A. la Motte
Copwood
Boxar
Billy Graham
Boyd
Potonsky
Light Files
San
Medina Lake
Suly
Ft. Sam Houston
Lean Springs’ Military Reservation
Western Union
Ruben Montemayor
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