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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1971
Page
2
The new law allows unlimited brands per county as long as recording rules are met. Minors may hold distinct marks, and county clerks must ensure no duplicate brands at the same location. Recording must specify the animal area to brand, with fines for noncompliance. An attorney is briefing clerks to reduce confusion.
Weekend events left Victoria victim Raymond Sierra 18 dead after a two car collision at a street intersection. Houston resident Jimmy Millsap 38 died in a head on crash five miles north of Crosby on Farm 2100. Waco resident C W Latham Sr killed in a Loop 340 collision. Pamela Oldham 21 injured. San Antonio teen Joe Armando de Leon 19 drowned at Medina Lake. Fort Worth fight left Robert Lacy 35 and Willie McCunin 25 dead. three others wounded from gunfire and knife injuries.
A humorous item riffs on a modern electric bill, portraying the bill as a character in a playful dialogue about electricity usage and charges. The piece lampoons the costs and routines of daily energy consumption with lighthearted tone.
In Dallas, Dr. R. Lofton Hudson of the Midwest Christian Counseling Center said a marriage that is dead should not be forced to continue. He warned that counselors and lawyers with fixed ideas about marriage can harm couples. He urged that divorce may be the funeral for a dead marriage.
Reeves County Feeders Inc seeks a initial waste control order from the Texas Water Quality Board for rainfall runoff containing wastes from a feedlot 21 miles south of Pecos on State Highway 17. Public hearing set for August 30 1971 in Austin. Public data and further details available from the board.
Texas ports handled 193 451 615 tons of cargo in 1970, a record surpassing 1969 and the prior high of 191 886 303 tons in 1966. Gulf Intracoastal Waterway Texas tonnage dipped to 65 404 280 due to Hurricane Celia, while coast jetty channel traffic rose by about 14 million to exceed 118 million tons.
A windshield was broken when a foreign object hit a car near Bessie Haynes Elementary School. Thefts include an 18 inch black and white TV from a home, a 1951 Willys Jeep from behind Western Tire, and a black eight track stereo from a car at the Greyhound terminal. Found property includes diamond rings found near Hills Grocery. Probated sentences were assigned to David Ball and Michael Brombach after guilty pleas, with Judge Starley issuing four year probations.
Graveside rites were held today for Frankie Tarango Carrasco Jr., seven months old, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Carrasco Sr. in Arkansas. Funeral services were planned for George W. Cook Sr., 74, brother of a Mentone resident, with burial at Pine Crest Memorial Park in Mena. Cook, born September 18, 1897 in Childress, Texas, is survived by Fern his widow, three sons Willis of Riverton Wyoming GW Jr. of Pittsburgh Kansas Rev. Dan Cook of Kosciusko Mississippi, three daughters Georgia Ward San Angelo G M Martin Mena and Mrs Johnny Johnson Kerrville, two brothers Al Springfield Oregon and Calvin Borvina Texas, two sisters Dolly Ivey Seminole Texas and Grady Harding Mentone, along with 12 grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
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