No relief seen More oil arrives on Texas beaches
Miles of Texas coast face spreading oil from a long running Mexican spill as winds shift. Patches and globs wash ashore along Padre and Mustang islands with 30 to 80 percent beach coverage in places. Officials warn of large, consolidating slicks and say no relief is visible in the near term.
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L.B. Meaders
Ixtoc I
Bay of Campeche
Associated Press
Masquite Beach
National Sheashore Park
Padre Island
Greg Thompson
Corpus Christi
Tex
Texas
Padre
Mustang
Malaquite Beach
National Seashore Park
John Robinson
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Robinson
Navy
Louisiana
Terrebonne Bay
New Orleans
Coast Guard
Jim McGranahan
Federal judge blocks coal rate hike for West Texas rail lines
U.S. District Judge Robert Parker issued an injunction on behalf of Southwestern Electric Power Co. preventing three railroads Burlington Northern Kansas City Southern Railway and Louisiana Arkansas Railway from raising rates on coal shipments from Wyoming to a West Texas power plant. The railroads had earlier announced plans to raise rates.
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Swepco
Amax Coal Co
Gillette
Wyo
Welch
Texas
Wyoming Company
Burlington Northern
Phantom tape center of Davis murder trial heats Fort Worth court
Testimony centers on a phantom Norelco tape recorder in Cullen Davis murder conspiracy case. FBI agent Jannings testified he found no recorder or tapes on a key August encounter with Davis via FBI informant McCrory. Davis testified McCrory taped their talk. The defense argues Davis knew of the recording while the state contends he did not.
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Fort Worth
Davis
Norelco
John Bankston
Jannings
McCrory
NOW rep decries sexism in Texas textbooks
Linda O Connell of NOW urged that U S government history texts fairly critique all officials, not just men, at a Texas State Textbook Committee hearing. She pointed to a 12 to 1 male to female image ratio in Addison Wesley’s American Citizenship: The Way We Govern and urged balanced portrayal.
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Austin
Texas
Linda O'Connell
National Organization For Women
State
O'Connell
NOW
White House reopens review of energy report
White House officials say they are reassessing the Department of Energy report on gasoline hoarding after questions about its validity and methodology. President Carter ordered the probe, with Powell noting possible corrections in the final report and acknowledging Carter’s ultimate responsibility.
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Washington
White House
Department of Energy
Jody Powell
Powell
Carter
DOE
Energy Department
Washington Post
Department
The
Post
Weather Outlook For Pecos Region With Thunderstorms
Cloudy skies and scattered thunderstorms expected across Pecos and vicinity today and tonight. Cooler temperatures forecast after yesterday’s high of 88 and a low of 67 this morning. No rainfall in the past 24 hours. West Texas outlook calls for further cloudiness and showers in the west and north, with storms extending southeast tonight.
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Pecos
West Texas
Chamber president resigns to pursue private business
At the regular chamber board meeting, Jerry Swaim's resignation as chamber president was accepted. Swaim and his wife Connie will move to Florence, South Carolina, to start a private business. David Hinz was named president elect and a new president elect will be selected. Swaim said Pecos offered many friends and an excellent opportunity prompted the move.
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Chamber of Commerce
Jerry Swaim
Swaim
Connie
Florence
S.C
David Hinz
Pecos
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Eloy Serrano
Eddie Martinez
Tony Gonzales
Derrick White
Larry
State Board of Education
Robert Kelley
Southwest
Addison Wesley
California
Jose Dias
Michael Dias
Concord
Reeves County
Justice of the Peace
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Reeves County Sheriff's Department
RCCF
West Third
Interstate 20
Toyah
Department of Public Safety
ACCF
Norma Gabler
Longview
Chamber
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