Pecos Yearbook Staff Attends Texas Tech Workshop
Five Pecos High School yearbook staff members Sally Meek Becky Hopper Susie Hagar Jimmy Ater and Charles Meek spent five days at the 13th annual Texas Tech Summer High School Publications Workshop in Lubbock. They studied camera basics and yearbook layout attended lectures by Harold Humes, and produced portions of their 1971 Eagle. The trip included evenings of entertainment and social events.
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Pecos High School
Pecos
Texas Tech
Sally Meek
Becky Hopper
Susie Hagar
Jimmy Ater
Charles Meek
Ater
Ralph Sellemeyer
Miss Meek
Miss Hagar
Miss Hopper
Harold Humes
Taylor Publishing
Pecos Junior High football players must obtain physicals
Pecos Junior High coach Gene Waits announces all 7th and 8th grade boys planning to play football must pick up a physical fitness form at the school office. Principal Don Howard is available to issue the forms and no participant may play without a current physical as workouts begin when school opens August 31.
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Gene Waits
Pecos
Don Howard
Waits
Women's Division Revises Golden Girl Pageant Rules
The Chamber of Commerce Women’s Division board met with Mrs. Joann Wein presiding to discuss the Golden Girl activities amid growing participation. They examined financing and sponsoring challenges as the main topic of the meeting.
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Women’s Division
The
Chamber of Commerce
Joann Wein
Mike Harrison
Pecos
Former San Marcos Police Chief Charged With Burglary
A former San Marcos Texas police chief Wayman Dial 35 pleaded guilty to burglary in Beverly Hills involving a gang. He was arrested after a silent alarm tripped in a Beverly Hills mansion and charged on six counts in San Marcos. Dial led a six year tenure as chief before dismissal.
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San Marcos
Santa Monica
Calif
Texas
Wayman Dial
Tex
Beverly Hills
Joseph Kimble
Dial
Kimble
Attila the Hun
Europe
August Oil Allowable Boosted To High By Texas Recovey
The Texas Railroad Commission raised August oil production to 70 percent allowable, an 88 750 barrel a day rise retroactive to Aug 1. Chairman Ramsey cited tanker rate pressures and reduced Libyan output as drivers. Murray warned against depleting reserves.
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Jack Keever
Associated Press
Austin, Tex
Texas Railroad Commission
Texas
Ben Ramsey
William J. Murray Jr
Ramsey
Persian Gulf
Africa
Middle East
Mediterranean
Mrs. Bush Campaigns Here For Her Husband
Mrs. George Bush of Houston wife of the Republican Senate candidate campaigned in Pecos Tuesday August 11 from 3 to 6 p.m. She attended a coffee and slide presentation at Mrs. Glen Ellis home with co host Mrs. Jabe Sears. She earlier campaigned in Monahans and planned visits to Andrews and Kermit.
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George Bush
Houston
U.S. Senate
Pecos
Glen Ellis
Jefferson
Jabe Sears
Monahans
Andrews
Kermit
Barbara) Bush
U.S
House of Representatives
Bush
Washington, D.C
Sheriff Investigates Five Felony Offenses
Sheriff A B Nail and deputies investigated five felonies involving four men. Johnny Quick was captured in New Orleans on a Reeves County warrant for passing two forged instruments valued at 150 and 50 dollars. A $680 theft occurred at the Dairy Mart. a squeeze-shoot theft is also under sheriff inquiry on Highway 80. Nick Padillo waives extradition in Artesia after Reeves County theft warrant for cantaloupe.
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A. B. Nail
Johnny Quick
New Orleans
Reeves County
Quick
Webb Truck Brokers
Hwy. 80
American Motor Ten
Tom Erskine
Dairy Mart
Sheriff's Office
Nick Padillo
Artesia
N.M
Ingram Improves After Lightning Strike at Reeves County Roadblock
Deputy Gary Ingram, knocked down by a bolt of lightning near a Van Horn roadblock, reportedly improves at Memorial Hospital. He regained speech and underwent X rays. no burns besides boot soles. Deputy Wendell Taylor suffered a bruised arm and back from the same strike. other officers were uninjured as the bolt struck the ground ahead of them. The roadblock aimed to recapture three jailbreakers captured later.
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Gary Ingram
Memorial Hospital
van Horn
Wendell Taylor
Reeves County
Advertising Important To Nation s Prosperity
S S Talbert argues advertising is essential to national prosperity as automation raises production. He notes tax policies and sales effort prevent surpluses and unemployment, claiming new wealth flows from selling. He cites Ford and mass production, asserting selling and advertising drive job creation and consumer access to goods.
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Nixon
United States
America
Henry Ford
Missing Odessa teen Leslie Hamrick sought near Bonito Lake
More than 150 military personnel from Holloman Air Force Base joined a search near Ruidoso for 16 year old Leslie Hamrick of Odessa Texas last seen Friday near the South Fork Camp at Bonito Lake. Hamrick wore a red shirt and blue jeans and may have walked out of the rugged Lincoln National Forest.
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Ruidoso
N. M
Holloman Air Force Base
Leslie Hamrick
Odessa
Tex
Young Hamrick
Walter Hamrick
South Fork
Bonito Lake
Lincoln National Forest
Hamrick
West Park Baptist Church
Forest Service
Determined Lampasas Family Hitches to Burn Institute for Son
Odell Shirley of Lampasas and his five member family hitchhiked 280 miles to the Shriners Burn Institute in Galveston for Ronald Shirley's neck surgery to regain flexibility. The six year old suffers extensive burns from a gasoline accident and the operation will cost about 12000 dollars, covered by the institute. The family faced a wreck and license plate seizure earlier and planned to return home today with Ronald possibly absent.
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Galveston, Tex
Odell Shirley
Lampasas
Gal
Ronald
Galveston
Shirley
la Marque
Houston
Safety Conference Set In San Angelo
About 200 government employees will attend a two day safety conference in San Angelo on August 20 and 21. Topics include a discussion of the Lubbock tornado and the Texas Tort Claims Act as it applies to public safety. Douglas B. Clark handles advance registrations. There are 12 major topics and the event is at the El Patio Motor Hotel.
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San Angelo
Lubbock
Robert M. Shannon
Public Employees
Texas Safety Association
Thomas FE. Baxter
Port Arthur
T.S.A
San Antonio
Clinton W. Breeding
el Patio Motor Hotel
Douglas B. Clark
City of
P. O. Box
Texas
Rainfall varys across Texas panhandle region
Rain from Monday's storm varied from heavy in the southwest farming area to none north of Pecos. The Texas A&M Experiment Station logged 1.2 inches while Pecos downtown recorded 0.07 inches. Some Reeves County extreme southwest sections reported up to four inches, but official confirmation was lacking.
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Pecos
Texas A&m
Reeves County
Cotton Crop Forecast Shows 11 Percent Gain Expected
The Agriculture Department on Monday projected an 11 percent rise in the 1970 cotton crop to 11,078,900 bales from 10,000,000 plus last year. Texas is pegged at 349 pounds per acre on 3,653,000 acres. national yield estimated at 467 pounds per acre with 11,324,500 acres harvested versus 11,075,000 in 1969. States listed include North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Missouri, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and California with respective yields and production figures.
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Washington
Texas
Agriculture Department
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Alabama
Missouri
Mississippi
Arkansas
Louisana
Oklahoma
New Mexico
California
IRS Examination Notice Reveals 1970 Testing Dates
Final notice warns tax practitioners other than lawyers and CPAs of the August 31 1970 deadline to apply for the Internal Revenue Service exam to practice before the Treasury Department. The annual test will be conducted September 28 and 29 1970 in all IRS district offices. Applicants may request forms and instructions from the Chief Administration Division IRS 300.
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CPAS
Internal Revenue Service
Treasury Department
IRS
Internal Revenue
R. L. Phinney
Austin
Ground Breaking Ceremonies Set at Texas Indian Reservation
Governor Preston Smith attends the August 14 ground breaking for a dam lake and camping facilities at Texas only Indian Reservation 17 miles east of Livingston. The $470000 project funds come from Federal State and Tribal sources.
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Preston Smith
Texas
Big Thicket
Livingston
Smith
Millard Neptune
Economic Development Administration
Fulton Battise
Schoolteacher killer sought by officers
Kaufman Texas AP lawmen hunted for the killer of Linda Phillips 26 a Kaufman County schoolteacher daughter of the district superintendent Her mutilated body was found near Post Oak after she disappeared from her car on the way to her parents home from a Dallas party Blood stained clothing and a broken driver side window were found The search drew 200 volunteers and officials believe she was killed shortly after leaving the Dallas party Police theorized she was followed from the Cedar Springs Road gathering
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Kaufman, Tex
Pretty Linda Phillips
Kaufman Schools
Miss Phillips
Post Oak
Kaufman County
Dallas
Justice of the Peace
Joe W. Fowler
Kaufman
Forney
Talty
Phillips
Forest Ridge
Richardson
Cedar Springs Road
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