Not much for a dime anymore
LEW SCARR surveys six dime or five-and-ten stores to show how little costs have held, noting items and prices from 10 cent copiers and 10 cent postcards to 19 cent fake produce and a $24.50 1950-D Jefferson, while recounting humorous anecdotes about old-time nickel and dime purchases.
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Lew Scarr
Copley
F.W. Woolworth Co
S.S. Kresge Co
Cornet
J & P Coats
Coats
Japan
Whistler
Sakia
Rembrandt
Tax suit notices allege delinquent property liens Pecos County
Multiple Texas tax foreclosure filings state Pecos Independent School District Pecos City Reeves County and state suit to collect delinquent ad valorem taxes on Pecos City tracts including Tract One Lots 20 21 Block 11 Bankhead Addition and Tract Two Lot 9 Block 20 College Addition with total taxes listed and notices to appear before the Reeves County District Court.
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State of Texas
Octavia Gutierrez
Juan Gutierrez
District Court
143Rd Judicial District
Reeves County
Texas
Pecos Independent
Bankhead
Pecos City
College
Pecos Independent School District
County of Reeves
A.D
Pecos
County of
Reeves
Jet Jabber As 747s Reach 29th Month in Service
As 747s reached their 29th month in commercial airline service on June 21, the total number of passengers carried surpassed 25 million and was increasing at about 1.3 million per month.
Legal notices of tax and property suits in Reeves County Pecos
Public records list two cases, one filed June 26 1969 with file No 882 F seeking collection of interest and costs on Lots 1 2 3 Block 12 North Pecos Addition Pecos City Reeves County Texas and involving Proto Sosa Ramos. The second case filed August 5 1968 file No 729 F seeks delinquent ad valorem taxes on Lots 7 8 Block 22 College Addition Pecos City Reeves County Texas with totals for Pecos Barstow Consolidated Independent School District Town of Pecos City and State of Texas.
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State OF Texas
Reeves
Pedro Ornelas
Guadalupe G. Ornelas
143Rd Judicial District
Reeves County
Texas
Pecos-Barstow-Toyah Consolidated Independent
Pecos City
Lupe Cortez
North Pecos
Pecos Independent School District
County of
Monce
Monclova
Pecos-Barstow-Toyah Consolidated Independent School District
Toribio Rodriguez
Paula M. Rodriguez
Iva Wadley
Monceis Monclova
Sosa Ramos
Pecos-Barstow-Toyah
State of
Rudolph Natividad
Eulalia Natividad
Pecos Independent
College
Pecos-Barstow
Indep
Tex
District Court
Pecos
A.D
Town of Pecos tax suits seek ad valorem payment
Manuel Orona Anita Orona and other adverse claimants are defendants in a suit filed June 26, 1969 for ad valorem taxes on Tract One Lot 8 Block 1 Martinez Addition Town of Pecos City Reeves County Texas. Taxes total 413.16 including District 191.75 Texas 91.27 State 130.14. Tax notices list August 14 and 21, 1972 deadlines.
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A.D
District Court
Reeves County
Texas
Pecos
Reeves
State of Texas
Manuel Orona
Anita Orona
143Rd Judicial District
Pecos-Barstow-Toyah Consolidated Independent
Pecos City
Martinez
Pecos Independent School District
County of
Women Army Corps director sworn in 1942 headline note
In 1942 Mrs Oveta Culp Hobby was sworn in as director of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps. The text also mentions a 1968 suit by plaintiffs okayed to collect delinquent ad valorem taxes on Lots 13 and 14, Block 86, in the Consolidated Independent School District area, with parties including Gregoria Mora and Raymond G Lara among defendants. The Birth of a Nation (1915) by D W Griffith and star Lillian Gish is cited as marking the start of modern feature films.
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Oveta Culp Hobby
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
U.S. Women's Army Corps
D. W. Griffith
Lillian Gish
Correspondent Oatis Freed After Two Years in Czech Prison
On May 16 1953 Associated Press correspondent William Oatis was released after spending two years jailed in Czechoslovakia on spy charges.
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Associated Press
William Oatis
Texas Tower Shooting Fatality and Injuries at UT Austin
On August 1, 1966, Texas University student Charles Whitman opened fire from the campus tower, killing 12 people and wounding 33. The incident disrupted campus life and prompted investigations into campus safety and authority responses.
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Charles Whitman
Texas University
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Jane Ross
Pecos Enterprise
U.S
Seer Ndos
Women’s Army Corps
Gregoria P. Mora
Valenti C. Mora
Raymond G. Lara
Ysidoro H. Lara
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