Babe Ruth competition date clarified and meeting notice
Posters advertising a Babe Ruth event carried a moved date now corrected to the 31st. FEW will install officers at Monday’s 7 pm meeting in the Del Rio Bank and Trust Co directors room with D Levermann as evening speaker. Volunteers gather church history data for Val Verde County Historical Commission. An Amistad water release was boosted to 1519 cfs from 1236 cfs. Junior Miss rehearsals set for Sunday at 2:30 pm in the Little Schoolhouse. senior girls may attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
del Rio Bank and Trust Co
Planet Branch
D. Levermann
Lake Amistad
International Boundary and Water Commission
North Main
East Sixth Street
Kathy Lehmann
Police probe minor incidents near railroad tracks
A man sleeping overnight outside the railroad tracks reported a theft of $5 from his trouser pockets after a male subject entered his area at about 11 p.m. Dave Lee Martin failed to stop the theft. Police also looked into theft and burglary reports from Del Rivans and Jeanette Perry of 107 Marshall Smith, with details incomplete.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dave Lee Martin
del Rivans
Jeanette Perry
Marshall Smith
Redistricting debate reshapes districts in Texas
The article details proposed congressional district changes affecting Democrats including Bill Patman and Mickey Leland, with discussion of votes and potential political vulnerability. It mentions Ragsdale and Von Dohlen proposing shifts that could place Mattox in Republican territory and notes wider party strategy and implications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ragsdale
von Dohlen
Mat- 4Ox
Mrs Harrelson Appears Before Federal Grand Jury
Mrs. Harrelson wife of convicted killer Charles V Harrelson testified again before a federal grand jury probing the ambush killing of U S District Judge John H Wood on May 29 1979 outside the judges townhouse. She and attorney Gerald Goldstein declined comment while two jurors questioned her for over two hours. Both are listed as targets in the probe.
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San Antonio
Worley to Attend Hispanic Health Meet in San Diego
Zina Worley among 10 Texans at a three day conference on Health Status and Health Care of Hispanic Mothers and Children in San Diego California co sponsored by San Diego State University and the U S Health and Human Services. Worley is Texas Department of Health Region 9 program manager for Family Planning and Public Health.
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Zina K. Worley
San Diego
Calif
Graduate School of Public Health
San Diego State University
Office of Maternal and Child Health Service
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Worley
Texas Department of Health
Texas
California
Arizona
New Mexico
John Bradley
el Paso
Patricia de Rhieck
Edinburg
C.E. Gibbs
Boxer County
Sally Arroyo
Brownsville
Department of Health
Walter Peter
Cliff Price
Roberta Pursley
All
Austin
Hector Urbie
Laughlin hosts Pecos Promenade Day salute for new airmen
Saturday at Laughlin Air Force Base Pecos Promenade Days honors first term U S Air Force personnel with SAFE sponsored events on the football field features include western bands armadillo races staged gun fights pole competitions mud wrestling mariachi a Miss Laughlin pageant and a dunking tank First term Laughlin personnel admitted free while others pay one dollar crowds will hear Col Chris Divich announce contestants and see performances by Queen City Belles Laughlin McGill brothers drum duo Next Exit and Alamo Village fighters through the night.
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Laughlin Air Force Base
U.S. Air Force
Pecos
SAFE
Armadillo Express
San Antonio
Chris C. Divich
Alamo Village
Laughlin Grapplers
Safe Public Information Office
Laughlin
Clements falls short of goal on payroll cuts in Texas
Gov. Bill Clements acknowledged failing to meet his 25,000 job reduction pledge, noting only 1,100 positions cut so far. He forecast 1982 gains from federal cuts and block grant shifts, discussed tax changes, university funding, and veterans land program tweaks amid a special session. He dodged announcing another term plan.
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Austin
Texas
Bill Clements
Clements
Bill Hobby
Bill Clayton
Perae
Matagorda Island
Jane Fonda
Matagorda
Realty World rally to be held in Del Rio area
Merle Kemper Realtor announces Realty World three annual sales rally in Del Rio area starting at 5 p.m. today. The two day event features an awards meeting, bus arrivals at Amistad Lodge, a 6 30 p m trip to Ciudad Acuna Mexico, a 7 p.m botanas service, and evening dining and dancing. Saturday includes a 10 a.m. Mexican brunch at Black Brush Point on Lake Amistad, with swimming boating and a 2 p.m. departure for San Antonio.
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Merle Kemper
Black Brush Point
Lake Amistad
San Antonio
Hot Del Rio forecast with highs near 100 this week
National Weather Service reports hot temperatures for Del Rio through Saturday with partly cloudy skies. Overnight lows in the mid 70s and today’s high near 100, southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Thursday’s high 98 and morning low 73. July 24 all time high 104 and low 68. Rainfall to date 16.63 inches, 7.43 inches above normal. Extended outlook shows warm afternoons with scattered showers along the upper coast, inland lows mid to upper 70s, coast upper 70s to low 80s, highs mid to upper 90s inland and 100 to 105 near the Rio Grande. West Texas forecast calls for partly cloudy skies, scattered thunderstorms in Panhandle, highs 90s to 105, lows 60s to 70s.
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del Rio
National Weather Service
NWS
South Texas
Rio Grande
West Texas
Panhandle
Big Bend
Salvadoran smuggling rings tied to travel through Guatemala
Salvadoran counsel describes a network moving migrants and gear through Guatemala and Mexico into the United States. He notes counterfeit passports, profits from smuggling, and the dangerous environment amid El Salvador’s war while detailing a recent seizure of Salvadoran passports found with machineguns in a truck.
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Lordsburg
N.M
Maria Antonia Hollman- Melendez
Guatemala
Mexico
California
Greyhound
Washington, D.C
Ricard Alas-Mendez
United States
el Paso
INS
Ascarate Park
Bergmann
el Salvador
Jean Meloin
Massachusetts
Cuba
Nicaragua
Bastille
FBI
Police
U.S
Eel Salvador
Del Rioan Held on $100,000 Bond in Drug Bust
Del Rio resident Hector Ozuna Galan, 40, was jailed in Val Verde County on $100,000 bond after Border Patrol found 93 pounds of marijuana worth about 14880 dollars in his trunk during a Tuesday night stop five miles east of Del Rio on Highway 90. The car and drugs were turned over to the DEA in Del Rio after arraignment before U.S. Magistrate Durwood Edwards.
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del Rioan
Val Verde County
U.S. Border Patrol
Hector Ozuna Galan
Arbor Ave
del Rio
Border Patrol
Jack L. Richardson
Galan
U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency
Richardson
U.S
Durwood Edwards
Border Patrol in Del Rio Sector Sees High Daily Apprehensions
Del Rio Sector reports a daily average of 135 undocumented aliens from Mexico and Central and South America. In July 3,.24 illegal entrants were recorded across 41 counties spanning 205 miles from Langtry to Carrizo Springs. Sector Chief Jack Richardson noted 65 suspected smugglers were apprehended, transporting 214 aliens, with 31 additional illegals from Central and South America.
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del Rio
U.S
Mexico
Central
South America
Langtry
Carrizo Springs
Jack 1
Richardson
Border Patrol
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