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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1971
Page
1
Sen James O Eastland introduced six bills to boost the Subversive Activities Control Board and bar Communist employment in defense plants. The Mississippi Democrat heads the Senate Judiciary Committee and emphasized urgency in tightening internal security.
President Nixon plans talks with top Hollywood figures on unemployment and empty stages as Los Angeles officials warn the industry could collapse without incentives. In New York Hosea Williams, aide to Martin Luther King Jr., is arrested in St Patrick’s Cathedral for disrupting Palm Sunday services.
Sen Adlai Stevenson urges a hands off approach to South Vietnam, arguing U S military involvement supports the Thieu Khi regime and could influence August elections. In New Haven Sen J W Fulbright criticizes Israeli warnings of a Soviet threat as Communist baiting used to manipulate the United States.
The Associated Press reports fair and warm conditions dominated most of the nation. Rain and scattered showers hit the Southeast, snow fell in the Ozarks and eastern Rockies, and temperatures ranged from 11 at Marquette County Airport to 93 in Los Angeles with 76 in Miami before dawn.
Incumbents Charles Nail’s Pecos Junior High Band returned from the Andrews Festival with Outstanding in sightreading and a Div. I in concert. The event served as a warm-up for UIL competition set for April 24 at Odessa Permian. Mary Bird Dean earns cum laude honors at the University of Texas Austin for the fall semester, daughter of Bob and Mary Dean of 523 South Hackberry.
The Pecos Archery Club hosted its annual invitational on Sunday in windy dust, lasting about six hours. Wayne Grable presented trophies as Joe Butts of Ft Worth and his wife Nelle attended as honored guests. special awards went to Bill Box and Bill Oden.
Maj Olin K Everett a 34 year old senior pilot with 131 F105 missions in Southeast Asia becomes commander of the newly formed AFROTC unit at Sul Ross State University. He was commissioned in 1958 through AFROTC at East Texas State University and will help set up aerospace studies and cadet programs this semester with Capt Jack Royster.
Local Masons and their wives are invited to a Monahans Masonic Lodge banquet tomorrow night April 6 at 7 30 PM at the Colonial Inn Monahans. The event honors twenty five year members with Hal Brunett Alpine Past Grand Master as speaker.
Five indictments were returned with several no-bills. Elosio Rubio faces a fondling charge with $5,000 bond. Juan Ruiz Jasso on burglary of Balmorhea school with $2,500 bond. George Clennon Sneed charged with theft over $50 for a Valley Motors auto with $1,500 bond. Also named were Ronald Brunson and Raymundo Waxahachie, with murder charges filed in Ennis slaying of Johnny Colvin. Three men held on $56,000 bonds each. Colvin shot after car trouble and ordered to strip. No-bills included five youths on statutory rape and Mary Luz Hernandez on murder with malice. Marijuana cases produced no-bills for Michael Lewis and Charles Johnson. In Dallas, about 50 Mexican Americans protested Frito Lay Bandito ad campaigns seeking a nationwide boycott.
Scott Lewis of Pecos, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Lewis, was notified by wire of his appointment to the U.S. Military Academy after Sen. John Tower nominated him. He is set to graduate Pecos High School on June 1.
The Pecos varsity track squad placed second at the Sandhills Relays in Mona this weekend as Big Green captured first with 154 points. Pecos totaled 14 points with Kermit 74 and Alpine 42 among other team results.
Pecos Eagles fall 5-0 in District 244A action Friday night as Jimmy White yields 10 hits. Larry Logan allows three hits in victory. Pecos offense collects three hits and makes two errors. B team wins 12-9. next game vs Ft. Stockton at 4:15. District II track results list Pecos sixth with 26.5 points. Weather outlook: fair, cool, nights near freezing, highs 60 to 78 Tuesday.
In Pecos, incumbents retain office as write-in Ysabel Flores earns 216 votes. City results show Manuel Trujillo leading with 420 votes while Clem Crowley and Glen Ellis trail. total city votes 492 from 3,158 qualified voters. County trustee race flags George Ross 129 and Flores 21 write-ins. Flores also net 7 write-ins in other precincts.
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