Williams gains 25 Flores loses two votes in recount
A school board election recount confirms incumbents Dr. Elvis Reynolds and Paul Williams as victors. The recount found no reversible errors but shifted totals, with Flores dropping by two votes from 922 in the original tally to 920, while Williams gained 25 votes.
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Flores
Elvis Reynolds
Paul Williams
Ber
Isabel Flores
Reynolds
Williams
Hughes
Pecos
Pro punter Jerrel Wilson to address Pecos civic clubs
Jerrel Wilson, Kansas City Chiefs punter, will speak at the Downtown Lions and Pecos Rotary luncheon at noon in the Holiday Inn banquet room. He will also address Pecos High School athletes at 2:30 p.m., show a 30-minute film, and demonstrate punting skills. Wilson, a 12-year pro, has AFL and NFL honors and works as a Kansas City Life pension consultant.
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Jerrel Wilson
Kansas City
Downtown Lions
Pecos Rotary Club
Wilson
Civic Club
Holiday Inn
Pecos
Eddie Daniels
Doug Mires
Kansas City Life
AFL
Chiefs
City Council to vote on place system and land transfer
Pecos council meets at 7:30 a.m. to discuss transferring Dean Park land to the Pecos Barstow Toyah district for a $1.2 million kindergarten and to consider an ordinance adopting a place system election. School board recount clears 100 missing ballots, confirming Reynolds as president and Williams as vice president.
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City Hall
Dean Park
Pecos-Barstow-Toyah
Roy Bean
Texans UK pay raise and retirement benefits
The Texas electorate approved two constitutional amendments in a special election led by Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby. Voters backed a $1.4 million pay raise for state legislators and about $124 million in enhanced retirement benefits for teachers and public employees over two years. About 540,000 voters (roughly 10 percent) turned out. The retirement plan raises employee contributions to at least six percent and state contributions to ten percent, with local programs optional. Approximately 45,000 retired teachers would gain 5-8 percent, and about 9,600 state retirees receive 12 percent boosts.
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Associated Press
Bill Hobby
Hobby
Texas Election Bureau
Callie Smith
Sec
Pecos
Stolen Music Gear From Bar Parking Unlocked Car
Police reports state about 177 in musical equipment was stolen from Andrew Brock living at 503 South Maple Street. Brock said his unlocked auto was at a local bar when a guitar eight stereo tapes and a speaker were taken by an unknown thief.
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Andrew Brock
S. Maple St
Brock
Wrecks Prompt Residents to Heed Emergency Vehicles
A Pecos local column recounts two late Thursday wrecks near the Bell Motel that halted ambulances due to curious bystanders and cites DPS troopers enforcing penalties for rubbernecking and failing to move for emergency responders. The piece also notes a ticket issued to a city employee and ends with Lions Magazine quotes on banking and wealth.
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Lynn Webb
Missouri
Pecos
DPS
Justice of the Peace
Bell Motel
Glen Vandiver
County to pick memorial hospital architects at special meeting
Reeves County Commissioners Court will meet Thursday at 3 p.m. to choose the architect for the new Memorial Hospital from three finalists Turner Rome Cotton Page Southerland Page. The hospital medical staff and hospital board backed Turner. interview may proceed before final selection. All three firms estimate construction and equipment under 3 million dollars. a $3.5 million bond election has been approved.
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Reeves County Commissioners Court
New Memorial Hospital
Darrell Glover
Hospital Board
Hospital Architect Committee
Commissioners Court
Turner, Rome, Cotton & Associates, Inc
Corpus Christi
Goleman and Rolfe
Houston
Page Southerland Page Architects of
Austin
Turner
Weather outlook keeps warm Texas after noons and storms
Forecasters expect continued warm afternoons across Texas with a 93 degree high and a 59 degree low. A weak cold front barely dented the pattern as it moved through the Panhandle toward the east, with scattered showers and thunderstorms in central and southern areas. Temperatures ranged from 58 in Amarillo to 76 in Brownsville as a broader mild trend spread from the Rockies eastward. A tornado touched near Norfolk Nebraska with no injuries, and high winds caused damage at Cozad, Nebraska.
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Texas
Pecos
Mother Nature
Associated Press
Panhandle
Amarillo
Marfa
Norfolk
Neb
Cozad
Ford associate pushes to avert farm bill veto
A close Ford ally leads a bid to stop President Ford’s veto of a bill raising farm price supports for key grains, cotton, and dairy. Representative Albert H. Quie and Representative Charles Thone gathered House signatures urging Ford to reject Butz’s veto advice. Butz warned of a veto, signaling plans to raise production loan rates on wheat if the veto happens.
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Washington
Ford
Albert H. Quie
R-Minn
House
Charles Thone
Rneb
Agriculture
Earl L. Butz
Butz
Peter A. Peyser
R-N.y
Peyser
Junior high bands compete at UIL contest in Odessa
Crockett Junior High earned Division I in both concert and sight reading at Permian High School with Monahans the only band to reach Division I overall. Zavala placed Division III in concert and II in sight reading under Doug Garman, while Darle Roundtree directed Crockett and Charles Nail led the event.
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Crockett Junior High
Permian High School
Odessa
Zavala
Monahans
Charles Nail
Doug Garman
la Banda Nascente
Sbrachia
Aire
Erickson
Fanfarona
Starer
Crockett
United Nations
King
la Nuit
Cacavas
Jubilo
McBeth
Darle Roundtree
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Richard Lynch
Alton Hughes
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Chamber of Commerce
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Lonnie Young
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Pritchett
Bill Moss
Cedar Street
Lions Magazine
Paso
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Rio Grande Valley
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