City’s New Miss Cotton To Be Chosen Tonight
A Pecos Miss Cotton pageant selects the 1971 titleholder at the Pecos Valley Country Club after a dinner and 16 contestant introductions. Nominees include Donna Beauchamp and Carolyn Clark among 16, with escorts listed. winner will promote cotton industry and campaigns in forthcoming events.
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Bonnie Dearley
Bie Smith
Debbie Turnbaugh
Becky Weatherby
Vickie Woods
Mike Wilson
Stanley Woods
Mike Passmore
van Perkins
Bill Straughn
Russell Lewis
Doug Hathorn
Carl Smith
Ray Lewis
Carroll Faulkner
Brett Barrett
Victor Ashley
Dan Painter
Tom Passmore
Graham Hoefs
Mark Ferguson
The
Cotton Crusaders
Mar
Cotton
Odessa
Miss Cotton
Pecos
Billie Moore
Richard Williams
Jim Young
Nixon opponents cite mass busing for Austin desegregation
Will Davis, Austin school board president and former state Democratic leader, accuses President Nixon and Attorney General Mitchell of backing a massive cross town busing plan. He says the only alternative to the board's plan is mass busing and criticizes HEW and Justice Department actions to appeal a judge's ruling supporting racially integrated classes. The piece notes Nixon repudiated HEW's plan but argues the board's plan falls short of Supreme Court standards.
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Austin
Nixon
Will Davis
Democratic Party
Davis
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Justice Department
Federal
HEW
U.S. Supreme Court
5Th Circuit of Court of Appeals
New Orleans
Chamber of Commerce group to meet Friday at Foster's
The Membership and Public Relations Team of the Chamber of Commerce will hold a 7:01 a.m. breakfast meeting at Foster's Restaurant on Friday. The session focuses on orientation and organizing with notices sent to members. The team is led by Tommy Beauchamp, personnel director at Pecos Automotive Proving Grounds.
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Chamber of Commerce
Foster’s
Tommy Beauchamp
Pecos Automotive Proving Grounds
Del Rio Desegregation Seen as Federal Intransigence
Howard A. Glickstein of the Civil Rights Commission told a House subcommittee that Del Rio’s desegregation effort illustrates federal agencies’ stubbornness. The commission accused the Air Force and Defense Department of backing segregation while Del Rio’s San Felipe schools are about 95 percent Mexican American.
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Washington
del Rio
Civil Rights Commission
Howard A. Glickstein
Air Force and Defense Department
Commission
Glickstein
House
Judicial Civil Rights Oversight Subcommittee
San Felipe
Ex-Mexican police chief Suarez Dominguez dies by own hand
Manuel Suarez Dominguez, 60, former chief of the Mexican national police and later Vera Cruz police chief, was found dead in a solitary cell at La Tuna Federal Prison near El Paso. He had been convicted in San Antonio of involvement in a major heroin seizure.
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Fred Semaan
Suarez
San Antonio
la Tuna Federal Correctional Institution
el Paso
Eral
Alfredo Montemayor
Salvador M. Mazatini
Federal Judicial Police
Republic of Mexico
State of
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Lisa Peyton to Study in Capetown South Africa
Pecos High School senior Lisa Peyton prepares to join an exchange program and fly to Capetown via London in about two weeks. She plans to live with hosts Mr. and Mrs. Louise Peacock and will spend Christmas abroad. Her decision follows letters from friends and Rotary exchange mentors guiding her abroad.
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Gail Slack
Kenneth Slack
Pecos
Miss Miller
Dallas
Lisa Peyton
Pecos High School
Capetown
Republic Africa
Lisa
London
England
South Africa
Peytons
Louise Peacock
David Charlaff
Diana Clarke
Midland
Hobbs
N.M
Mike Swanson
Denmark
Pecos Rotary
Mary
Pecos Junior High appoints new band director John McGee
John McGee named band director at Pecos Junior High School. He holds a BA from Eastern New Mexico University and an MA from West Texas State University, previously directing bands in Littlefield Marfa Alameda Junior High Las Cruces and Burgess High School. First practice for the A band set for Monday August 16 from 9 am to 12 pm daily. McGee and wife Lynda reside at 2036 South Alamo with daughters Susan and Sharon.
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John McGee
Littlefield
Pecos
McGee
Eastern New Mexico University
West Texas State University
Marfa
Alameda Junior High School
Las Cruces
N.M
el Paso Burgess High School
PHJS
Lynda
South Alamo St
Susan
Sharon
Thom G Steph posted bond in wife's drowning case
Thom G Steph, 48, was released on a $50,000 bond after being charged with murder with malice in the drowning of his wife Patricia Steph, 43. The body was found in English Bay near their home. death ruled a drowning. Steph, an investment counselor and former editor, appeared with two deputies at the Trinity Episcopal Church funeral.
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Galveston
Thomas G. Steph
Patricia
Steph
Galveston County
Ralph B. Gustafson
Trinity Episcopal Church
Oklahoma
Galveston Daily News
San Angelo
Odessa
Borger
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Marsha Miller
Marsha
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Jackson Blvd
Miss Cotton of
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Westwind Arts
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Pecos All-Stars
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Yolanda Yazez-Schmidt
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