Del Rio community learns of local milestones and events
Around Town notes honor for Fred Srockwell at a Monday dinner and Sunday party. Chela Crockford identifies a mystery picture at the Del Rio News Herald site. Local clubs meet for beauty readings, Iris Club, and Belle Boosters convene at the Del Rio Bank and Trust.
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Fred Srockwell
Chela Crockford
Garden Crest
del Rio News-Herald
National Weather Service
Deena Gonzalez
E. Gutierrez
Queen City Belle Boosters
The
del Rio Bank and Trust Co
Harte-Hanks Communications, Inc
del Rio
Deaths Matilde Gomez 83 Del Rio native dies in Val Verde
Matilde Gomez 83 a native of Del Rio died Monday at 6 30 p m in Val Verde Memorial Hospital Rites will be Thursday at 2 p m in the Humphreys Doran Funeral Home Chapel Burial will be in Oak Lawn Memorial Park Survivors include his wife Mrs Trinidad Gomez daughters Esperanza Chapoy Consuelo Rodriguez Dolores Uris Yvette Briones Refugio Gomez sons Frank Gomez Leo Gomez 23 grandchildren nine great grandchildren two brothers Anselmo Gomez Isidro Gomez both of Los Angeles California
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Matilde Gomez
del Rio
Val Verde Memorial Hospital
Humphreys-Doran
Gomez
Oak Lawn Memorial Park
Trinidad Gomez
Esperanza Chapoy
Consuelo Rodriguez
Dolores Uris
San Antonio
Yvette Briones
Houston
Refugio Gomez
Frank Gomez
Leo Gomez
Anselmo Gomez
Isidro Gomez
Los Angeles
Calif
Del Rio News Herald Ad Rates and Contact Info
The Del Rio News Herald lists subscription prices for in town and out of town delivery, with monthly, six month, and yearly options. It provides office addresses in Del Rio Texas and phone numbers for home delivery, missing paper, and advertising and legal notices.
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News-Herald
del Rio
Texas
Weekend Burglary Spike Reports Across City
Police logged a busy weekend with numerous thefts and vandalism incidents. Burglars hit Del Rio Food and Meat Market office stealing 150 dollars in coins and cash between Sunday noon and Monday 7 30 a.m. A small caliber rifle and a radio were stolen from a trailer on East Cortinas Street. A truck, tools, clothing, electronics and car parts were stolen from homes and a dealership with totals up to 13 074 dollars in losses. Damages included broken car windshields and vending equipment.
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Alfredo Martinez
del Rio Food and Meat Market
Dignowity St
Bill Rattay
A.C. Kyle
Park Ave
Carlos Diaz
East Cortinas Street
Kyle
del Rio
Carl McGarey
Peacepipe Trail
McGarey
Joe Bernard
Lakeway Buick-Olds Inc
U.S. Highway 90 West
Dean Sinclair
Edward Rodriguez
Brown Pontiac
Ave. F
Rodriguez
Dolores Aguirre
W. Garza St
Antonio Becerra
Joe Garcia
S. Orbit St
Garcia
John Seale D.V.M
Los Pequenos Veterinary Hospital
Gibbs St
Sinclair
Mrs Chagra Denies Pre Murder Talk and Payoff Plan
Mrs Chagra testified there was no pre murder discussion with her husband and rejected claims of a payoff scheme. She described her husband’s plan to raise money and escape from Leavenworth by helicopter as a fantasy meant to improve his mood, not a real plan. She admitted delivering a briefcase of $100 bills to Teresa Starr Jasper at the Jockey Club Hotel in Las Vegas, but said she did not know its purpose.
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Gart
John
Jimmy
Jasper
Jockey Club
Las Vegas
Wood
Mexico’s Peso Fluctuations Drive Mexican Merchants’ Worries
Reported tensions arise as Mexican merchants accuse Americans of looting shelves and denying groceries to locals. The peso, after two devaluations, sank from 27 to 150 per dollar in free trading. officials set an official rate near 70, while Texans along the border buy pesos around 127 per dollar.
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Mexico
Brownsville
el Paso
Death by own action ruled in Laughlin Airman’s death
Airman 1st Class Jay Allen, 21, stationed at Laughlin Air Force Base, died Monday afternoon from a self inflict gunshot wound. Val Verde County Sheriff J R Koog said the wound was ruled a personal safety related death after Allen, absent without leave, shot himself with a small .38 Derringer. Officials found Allen in his bedroom and turn over the body to SAFE. autopsy plans undecided per base public affairs director John Stein.
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Laughlin Air Force Base
Val Verde County
Jay Allen
Dennis Drive
Val Verde Park Estates
J.R. Koog
Justice of the Peace
Leon Best
Allen
Koog
del Rio
John Stein
Brooks first US inmate executed by lethal injection in Texas
The room showed a needle inserted through a windowed tube as Brooks received the fatal dose, overseen by Warden Jack Pursley at Huntsville Walls Unit. Reporters and witnesses watched behind a handrail while Sapp, Brooks's girlfriend, recalled vows that helped her. Brooks, convicted in 1977 for the Fort Worth hotel murder of David Gregory, was among 172 on Texas death row and the first executed after the 1976 reinstitution of capital punishment.
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Brooks
Jack Pursley
Huntsville “Walls
Pursley
Associated Press
United Press International
Texas Monthly Magazine
Huntsville Item
Sapp
Law Enorcement
Texas
U. S. Supreme Court
Joseph Johnson
Old Sparky
Johnson
David Gregory
Fort Worth
Woody Londres
Supreme Court
Rain and temperature outlook for Del Rio and Amistad area
The National Weather Service forecasts sunny to mild conditions in Del Rio with increasing cloudiness and a 20 percent rain chance today, 30 percent tonight through Wednesday. Highs in the mid 60s, lows near 50, southeast winds near 10 mph. Past records show a high of 81 and a low of 26 for December 7, with yearly rainfall at 11.15 inches, Amistad elevation about 1,112.40 feet, and Amistad Dam at 212.40 feet. Water storage near 3,093,610 acre feet and surface area 61,324 acres. Downstream flow 1,200 cfs.
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del Rio Study Club
Polly Chandler
Veda Goodyear
Vive Kershaw
Callie Ross
Flay Schueler
Justice Skinner
Martha Behr
Ma Jo Fleetwood
Cora Cottle
Marion Luke
Gladys Lovell
Iris Club
Simon Torres Sr
Wernett St
Torres
Joe Ramos
Mickey Meredith
Shannon Meredith
Gerald Meredith
Shannon
Finis Earnhardt
Batesville
Ark
Earnheardt
Merediths
Arkansas
Clifton C. Belcher
the Elks
Elks Hall
Morning Glory Garden Club
Benton Burford
N. Broadview
Burford
Allan E. Smith
Department of Defense
Carlton Moyers Base
Lbrarian
del Rio High School
National Honor Society
Dr. Skinner
Together Circle
First United Methodist Church
House of Friendship of the Church
John Prude
W.R. Whitehead
Lyster Brumley
Ray Ross
the News-Herald
Advel
Socia
Frita Wirt
Mary Jang Bode
Guer San Miguel
Terry Brown
Joe San
Maaan
J.B. McDonald
Hutchinson St
Armando Soto
Paul Abranches
Bedell
Amistad Villa
Becerra
Dwayne Cook
Soto
Plaza del Sol Mall
Cook
Rhett Tucker
Shannon Circle
Apt. D
Bob Kemper
Tucker
Cruz Hernandez
Cortinas St
Tiny’ Andrade
Joe Kubert
Chagra
United States
Gustavo Gutierrez
Olivia L. Andrade
Maria Luisa Rodriguez
Alfredo Garcia
Beatrice R. Llubar
Juanita Pena
Hilda C. Vasquez
Petra S. Castillo
Gilberto Gallegos
Jasmine Carrea
Manuel T. Castillo
Juanita Aguilar
Lucille Finney
Naomi
Earl 0
Williams
Anita G. Cruz
Maria V. Hernandez
Glen Browning
Maria V. Constaniino
Gitta Myers
Johanna M. Talamentez
Julie Eccleston
Roy Guevara
Olga Torres
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