Pecos-Barstow-Toyah Trustees Set Busy Agenda Meeting
Pecos Barstow Toyah school trustees prepare for regular session at 5 30 p m Thursday with items including leasing part of the old West Pecos Elementary to Christian Learning Center approving new contracts and salary scale changes and evaluating unemployment tax options. They will hear from Toyah mothers and Texas State Teachers Association President James Hill and review policy changes for agenda submissions seven days prior. Also on the docket are an appraisal contract with Thomas Y Pickett Co Inc for 1978 79 resignations and personnel actions tax and depository securities reports and minutes from the prior meeting.
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Pecos - Barstow - Toyah
Christian Learning Center
Old West
Pecos
Toyah
Texas State Teachers Association
James Hill
Unemployment Commission
Thomas Y. Pickett & Co. Inc
City Council to Hear Requests for Use of Park and Leases
Pecos City Council meets at 7 30 a m Monday to discuss Park usage requests from Paul Briones and Hector Roman and a Saragosa Hall matter. G I Forum will discuss Saragosa Park while a Navy recruiting station may occupy the old chamber of commerce. A Women's Informative Group seeks a concession stand in the park Saturday. They plan to hire Daniel Newson as patrolman at 800 dollars monthly plus 52 dollars clothing and terminate Robert Turner on June 22 after his resignation for Permian Mud Co. Also on the agenda is bringing 100 square feet of land into corporation limits and a stop sign at the post office parking lot. A portable tent skating rink proposal and routine city business, including minutes and bills, are on the docket.
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Pecos
Paul Briones
Hector Roman
Saragosa Hall
G.I. Forum
Saragosa Park
Chamber of Commerce
Navy
Daniel Newson
Robert Turner
Turner
Permian Mud Co
Allen Jones
J.E. Travland
Corporation Court
Veteran Congressman Burleson to retire at term end
Abilene Texas AP veteran congressman Omar Burleson plans to leave office when his 1979 term ends. A 71 year old Democrat first elected in 1947 he has won 16 elections in West Central Texas 17th district. He says he aims to return to Idaho home with wife Ruth and stay active.
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Tex
Omar Burleson
John F. Kennedy
Richard Nixon
Carl Albert
Texas
Burleson
George Mahon
W.R. Poage
Olin Teague
Bob Krueger
U.S. Senate
Congress
West Texas
Consolidating agencies eyed to fix border woes
A preliminary White House planning document urges merging the Immigration and Naturalization Service and Customs Service into a single border management agency. The plan, reported by the Los Angeles Times, envisions later adding agencies like Fish and Wildlife and Plant Health Inspection Service, to curb interagency competition and overlapping controls. The memo notes similar methods and equipment across border agencies and cites unresolved conflicts despite written interagency agreements.
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Los Angeles Times
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Border Management Agency
Fish and Wildlife Service
Plant Health Inspection Service
Gravitt’s death note kept from family in suit
The elder son of former Southwestern Bell executive T O Gravitt testified he concealed his father’s death by self inflicted action to spare his mother and family embarrassment. At a Dallas trial, Michael Gravitt described finding the note and papers but not handing them to the medical examiner, who ruled the death a self inflicted act in a $29 million suit against Southwestern Bell.
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San Antonio, Tex
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
T. O. Gravitt
Michael Gravitt
Dallas
Southwestern Bell
Gravitt
James Ashley
San Antonio
Telephone Company
Gravitts
Texas
Ashley
Watergate
Bell System
Legion pledges donation to band instrument truck
Eagle Band Boosters President David Dutchover announced that the American Legion pledged a donation to fund a new band instrument truck. It was the third pledge, bringing total donations to nine. Dutchover urged further donations via the high school.
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David Dutchover
American Legion
the Legion
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Hith
Weather watch forecast for Tuesday and beyond
A high of 108 Tuesday with an overnight low of 74. Slight chance of scattered thunderstorms through Friday. Lows mid 60s to mid 70s, some low 60s in the mountains. Highs mid 90s to about 104.
Tower to visit Pecos for Monday town hall meeting
Senator John Tower will stop in Pecos Monday morning for a Town Hall at the Senior Center 119 S Cedar St with a 10 am coffee sponsored by the chamber of commerce. He plans a 50 community tour over 18 days before Labor Day to hear citizens views on pending legislation.
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John Tower
Pecos
S. Cedar St
Chamber of Commerce
Tower
Assassination tab adds another name
Mobile Alabama reporter notes that Thomas E Beckham was questioned by House Assassinations investigators about Kennedy’s death. Beckham claimed Oswald connections and a conspiracy but gave no names. He produced a 300 page manuscript, owned by his wife in Louisville, while awaiting transfer on pending fraud charges. Beckham previously faced fraud acquittal in Mobile. He claimed CIA ties and displayed a country record. Arkansas authorities say he posed as a medical doctor and naturopath, ran a Pine Bluff area chamber of commerce, raffles, and a fake bishop marriage.
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Ala
Thomas E. Beckham
Kennedy
House Committee On Assassinations
Beckham
House
Pine Bluff
Ark
Jeff Stein
Stein
Lee Harvey Oswald
New Orleans
Gloria
Louisville
Eggleston Zimmerman
CIA
Arkansas
Chamber of Commerce
White Hall
Queen Elizabeth Visits War-Torn Northern Ireland Jubilee Tour
Queen Elizabeth II arrives aboard Britannia in Belfast for a Jubilee visit as IRA Provisional wing threats loom. Police and troops guard in a tense province with sporadic violence and prior rioting. The monarch, with Prince Philip and two sons, begins a carefully screened tour amid flags and protests.
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Northern Ireland
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Irish Republican Army
West Belfast
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Hillsborough Castle
Prince Philip
Prince Albert
Prince Edward
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Royal Party
Britannia
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