Southern Union Gas realigns districts in Texas and New Mexico
Southern Union Gas Co realigns districts placing Pecos in the El Paso district with manager Raymond Bennett now overseeing Pecos operations. Carlsbad office shifts to Eastern New Mexico district led by Jim Wyman. The change follows regulatory and rate-base differences. The parent company renamed Southern Union Company with Byron W. Cain elected president and CEO.
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Southern Union Gas
el Paso
Southern Union Gas Co
Pecos
Texas
Pecos Valley
West Texas
Raymond Bennett
Buck Renshaw
Renshaw
Carlsbad
Jim Wyman
New Mexico
Clayton
Wyman
Southern Union
Dallas
Southern Union Company
Texas Company
A.G. Prasil
New Mexico Company
Gas Co. of
W.T
Bill) Barnhouse
Byron W. Cain
N.P. Chesnutt
Mr. Cain
Social Security benefits rise 6.4 percent for July checks
The government announced a 6.4 percent cost of living increase for 36.3 million Social Security and SSI recipients, effective with July payments. SSA said the exact cost of the rise is not yet known, with 32 million Social Security and 4.3 million SSI beneficiaries benefiting from July raises. The White House previously resisted cutting last year’s increase, which cost about $5.7 billion.
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Washington
Social Security Administration
Ford Administration
Congress
Calm weather returns to Texas after storms
The Associated Press reports calm conditions across Texas with clearing skies except for light fog along the Lower Texas Coast. Forecasts call for sunny, mild weather statewide as remnants of a cold front dissipate in the Gulf. Temperatures ranged from 37 degrees in Amarillo to 70 in Corpus Christi, with 89 possible at Presidio.
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Associated Press
Texas
Pecos
Gulf of Mexico
Amarillo
Panhandle
Corpus Christi
Presidio
West Texas
Lions selling brooms in Pecos for charity sale
Downtown Lions hold annual broom sale in Pecos with proceeds to buy glasses for needy children and send crippled children to summer camps. Brooms mops and other items made by the Lighthouse for the Blind on display at Safeway parking lot 1008 S Eddy St until 7 p.m. today.
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Lions
Pecos
Safeway
S. Eddy St
Lighthouse For
Test track could feel effect of rubber strike
APG president Vic Springer said the nationwide rubber industry strike by the Big Four does not involve United Rubber Worker members at Automotive Proving Ground in Pecos. He noted Pecos workers are under a different contract, with potential impact if the strike extends and lasts a month.
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United Rubber Worker Union
Automotive Proving Ground
Pecos
APG
Vic Springer
UAW
Springer
Firestone
Goodyear
B.F. Goodrich
Uniroyal
Goodrich
Armstrong
Peter Bommarito
UAW International
Big Four
U.S
Luncheon Honors Local Secretaries in City Observance
About 50 secretaries from local businesses received a noon luncheon and entertainment as Pecos marks the second National Secretaries Week observance. Holiday Inn hosted the event with Jim and Caladin Hart providing entertainment after invitations were issued to roughly 80 secretaries.
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Pecos
Holiday Inn
Art Terry
Bonnie Northcutt
Jim
Claudia Hart
Lynn Webb
Inn
Caladin Hart
Terry
Election called to decide closing of streets and alleys
Pecos voters head to the polls Saturday for a special election on closing portions of streets and alleys in Country Club Estates to pave the way for a 100 unit Sun Day House Motel project south of IH 20. Polls open 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the community center banquet room.
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Pecos
Country Club
Community Center
Ned
Municipal Park
Palmer
Kerr
Eddy
Precht
J.J. Maxey
First swine flu shot given to volunteer
Washington AP reports the first shot of experimental vaccine was administered to a government official as part of a $135 million swine flu immunization campaign. Dr. Theodore Cooper stated the effort is a proper investment in disease prevention amid questions about the Ft Dix outbreak.
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Washington
Theodore Cooper
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Ft. Dix
N.J
United States
Cooper
Harry M. Meyer Jr
Bureau of Biologics
Food and Drug Administration
Meyer
E bond sales slow pace in Reeves county February totals
Reeves county sales of Series E and H United States Savings Bonds in February totaled 15543 dollars. For two months 1976 sales reached 22227 dollars, about 12 percent of the annual goal of 190000 dollars. Texas Savings Bonds sales for February rose to 22615095 dollars statewide.
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Treasury
Archie B. Scott
United States Savings
Reeves County
Pecos City Hears Zone Change From Residential To Commercial
Pecos city councilmen will hold a 7:30 a.m. public hearing at city hall on a Planning and Zoning Board recommendation to rezone land in the Country Club Estates from residential to commercial. The meeting also covers a report on reconstructing U.S. 285 to a four lane highway from the intersection of IH 20 to 14th Street.
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Kenneth Kothe
Sam Parker
Fredericksburg
Pecos
Planning and Zoning Board
Kothe
U.S. 285
14Th Street
Country Club Estates
Transfer deadline set for April 30 for 1976 77 year
Parents living in one school district and wishing to transfer children to another district must file by April 30 for the 1976 77 school year. In Pecos forms are available at the Pecos Barstow Toyah ISD Special Services Office and in Balmorhea from the superintendent of schools office.
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Pecos
Pecos-Barstow-Toyah
Coast Guard probes capsule deaths in Gulf tragedy
Coast Guard investigators opened a board of inquiry into the sinking of the Ocean Express drilling rig about 40 miles east of Corpus Christi. Thirteen oil workers died when a life saving capsule overturned during a gale. 22 survivors testify, focus on cause and possible negligence.
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New Orleans
Coast Guard
Gulf of Mexico
Adm
William R. Rae
Ing Only
Ocean Express
Corpus Christi
Tex
Board of Investigation
Rae
Price rise holds line in March consumer costs
Government data show consumer prices rose by two-tenths of a percent in March, a slower pace than February, as lower beef and gasoline prices offset other gains. Gasoline prices fell 1.3 percent in March after usually rising, while grocery costs dropped further led by beef declines.
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Washington
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McAlmon
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Albert Eger
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