Pecos City seeks bids to lease 1600 acres airport land
Pecos City Council votes to advertise for bids to lease 1600 acres at Pecos Municipal Airport for mineral rights. Mayor Bickley notes mandatory bidding and discusses current gas rate issues and a prior rate dispute settlement. The panel also approves bids for a 1980 police car and three city pickups and contemplates a United States Steel suit over city sales tax legality.
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Pecos
W.R
Bob’’ Bickley
Pecos Motors, Inc
Ford Ltd
Hess- Chevrolet Buick
HESS
Pecos Motors
Council
Royce Cassell
Maxey
United States Steel Corporation
Travis County
Texas
Texas Municipal League
Fulbright and Jaworski
United States Steel
Pecos City
Wholesale prices surge 1.1 percent in July energy drives jump
Energy costs push wholesale prices higher with a 1.1 percent July rise. Home heating oil climbs 9 percent from June to July and gasoline up 3.9 percent. Finished goods index at 215.8, 10.1 percent above July 1978, signaling continued inflation risk.
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Eileen Alt Powell
Associated Press
Washington
Labor Department
Carly
Judge Warns Inmate Refuses Testimony in Chagra Trial
A Connecticut prison inmate related by marriage to Jimmy Chagra refused to testify on alleged marijuana smuggling. Judge William Sessions warned of contempt and possible six months added to sentence if immunity granted and he still refused to testify. The witness cited the 5th Amendment while answering about residence, relation to Chagra, and the 1000 pounds of marijuana. He lamented family losses and claimed mistreatment by authorities. Two men testified they were jailed with Chagra in Colombia in 1977 after a mercy mission was cut short.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Connecticut
Jimmy Chagra
James FE. Runkles Jr
Chagra
Runkles
U.S
Iam
el Paso
Colombia
Balmorhea man pleads guilty in assault case
Robert William Ortega, 31, of Balmorhea, pleaded guilty in Reeves County Court at Law before Judge H D Glover to resisting arrest and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He received $250 fines on each count totaling over $500 in costs. The April 21 Balmorhea bar incident involved a knife drawn on a bystander. County Attorney Jack McGowen represented the county.
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Balmorhea
Reeves County
H.D. Glover
Robert William Ortega
Weekend gas report shows more service stations open
The AAA Texas Division reports an optimistic weekend with more stations open than since May. Surveyed markets include Amarillo 36 stations 58 percent closing by weeknights 36 percent by 6 p.m. Saturday 6 percent Sunday. Austin 15 stations 87 percent closing weeknights 80 percent by 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Dallas Fort Worth 78 stations 94 percent weeknights 79 percent Saturday night 67 percent Sunday.
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Associated Press
Texas
American Automobile Association
AAA
Amarillo
Austin
Dallas-Fort Worth
EL Paso
Waco
Houston
Mcallen
Midland-Odessa
San Antonio
Carter plan offers energy aid to poor amid rising bills
A tentative Carter administration proposal would provide 1.6 billion dollars next year to aid the poor coping with higher energy costs, with a second-year figure of 2.4 billion for up to 15 million Americans, according to an unnamed administration source.
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Sally Jacobsen
Associated Press
Washington
America
Carter
Congress
Christopher Edley Jr
White House
House
Senate Finance Committee
Edley
Jury to finish selection today in Cullen Davis case
In Fort Worth Texas jurors may be chosen today to complete the 12 member panel for the murder solicitation retrial of millionaire Cullen Davis Judge Gordon Gray said the defense must approve two more jurors before prosecutors begin testimony Monday A panel of 32 was reduced by strikes to reach 12 jurors for the trial linked to an alleged contract murder plot against Judge Joe Eidson during Davis divorce proceedings.
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Davis
Joe Eidson
Davis’ Lengtty
Priscilla Davis
Eidson
Weather outlook for Pecos and West Texas
Partly cloudy skies with scattered thunder storms tonight and tomorrow in Pecos area. Wednesday high 100 degrees, low 70 this morning. West Texas: partly cloudy through tonight and Friday with widely scattered showers and storms southwest today and tonight into Friday. Highs mid 90s to 100s, cooler 80s in mountains, lows 50s to 70s.
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Pecos
West Texas
Big Bend
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James Nicholson
SAG Company
Monahans
Nicholson
J.J. Maxey
John Early
Divi
Mrs. Estes
Walter Tedford
Fred McCalls
Patsy Estes
Federal Building
Dallas
Billie Sol Estes
Internal Revenue Service
Sessions
God
Rankles
Beaumont - Port Arthur
Corpus Christi
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