Reeves County approves 1980 budget with lower tax rate
Reeves County Commissioners Court adopted a 1980 budget totaling an estimated 3.14 million dollars. The tax rate drops from 95 to 82 cents as the assessment ratio rises to 50 percent, down from 43 percent in 1979. Commissioner Toone opposed the budget, opposing a flat across the board raise. Budget includes 40 thousand for a precinct pool and discounts for early tax payments, with 135,749.08 per precinct and 702,959.08 for the Reeves County Sheriff.
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Reeves County Commissioners Court
Dale Toone
Ees
Toone
Bernardo Martinez
Marcos Martinez, Jr
Wendell Faulkner
Reeves County
Coast Guard battles large oil slicks off Padre Island
Coast Guard crews fought two major patches of runaway Mexican oil off the Texas coast near Brownsville and Port Mansfield. Lt Cmdr Jim Paskewich called the slicks the biggest challenge to the Lagoon Madre inlets as extra booms, skimmers, and open water containment efforts were deployed to prevent a hazard near the Padre Island jetties and Port Mansfield cut.
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Corpus Christi
Texas
Coast Guard
Laguna Madre
Brownsville
Padre Island
Port Mansfield
Cmdr
Jim Paskewich
Paskewich
Task Force
John Robinson
Pecos Airport Funding Increases From Federal State Aid
Pecos receives additional money for its municipal airport renovation. The Department of Transportation adds 175 660 to the project costs. A separate federal grant of 306 562 is awarded to the project. Texas Aeronautics Commission may provide 75 000 with the city adding about 75 000. The plan includes lit wind cones rotating beacons rehab and marking runways. An engineering firm has been retained to prepare bid specs.
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Richard White
Texas Aeronautics Commission
Recession seen as profits fall in second quarter
The Commerce Department reported corporate profits after tax sank 2.4 percent in Q2, lowering the GNP decline to 2.4 percent from 3.3 percent. Inflation eased slightly to 9.2 percent while housing starts dropped 7 percent and industrial output slid marginally, signaling a recession with higher unemployment ahead.
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Glenn Ritt
Associated Press
Washington
Commerce Department
Ing
Federal Reserve Board
Parole revoked Estes taken into federal custody
Billy Sol Estes, once dubbed the most notorious swindler in modern U.S. history, was taken into federal custody after Judge Hill overruled a new trial motion. A parole revocation hearing will occur within 90 days as Estes awaits transfer to a federal facility.
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Sharon Herbaugh
Associated Press
Dallas
Freedom
Billy Sol Estes
Estes
U.S
Robert Hill
Patsy
Clint Peoples
U.S. Parole Commission
Peoples
Wayne Allgood
Commission
West Texas
Internal Revenue Service
Hill
Der
Abilene
Pecos-Barstow-Toyah ISD reports year under budget and tax cut
The Pecos Barstow Toyah Independent School District ended the 1978 79 year about 214 310 under budget and the board cut the coming tax rate from 1 83 to 1 80 per 100 dollars of valuation. Oil officials at the public budget hearing praised the district while ARCO Gulf and Superior Oil reps noted the budget appeared sound amid inflation. Total expenditures for 78 79 were 6 234 984 against a 6 449 294 appropriation with payroll costs slated to rise in 79 80 and revenue projected at 6 653 826. Bonded indebtedness stands at 5 102 000.
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Pecos-Barstow-Toyah Independent
Matt Tomlinson
Gulf Oil Company
Ray) Whitley
Pecos- Barstow-Toyah Independent
Tomlinson
S. Park
Bill Long
ARCO
Bill Hoffman
Superior Oil Company
Long
Whitley
Weather Outlook for Pecos Area Through Saturday
Weather forecast calls for showers, thunderstorms, and cloudy skies in Pecos and surrounding region through tomorrow with temperatures near current levels. Thursday high reached 87, low 67 this morning, and 0.12 inches of rainfall in the last 24 hours. Partly cloudy through Saturday with widely scattered storms, some possibly heavy in the southwest tonight. Highs near 80 in mountains and extreme west to upper 90s in Big Bend, with tonight’s lows around mid 50s in the mountains.
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Pecos
Big Bend
FBI agent defends Davis murder for hire case on stand
FBI special agent Ron Jannings faced sharp cross examination as the murder for hire trial of Cullen Davis nears week’s end in Fort Worth. Prosecutors say Davis plotted murder. defense argues Jannings gave inconsistent testimony and altered methods after new witnesses emerged.
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Fort Worth
Haynes
Janning
Jack Strickland
Davis
Jannings
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N.M
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Lloyd Bentsen
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Federal Reserve
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Sumichrast
Billie Sol Estes
G. Brockett Irwin
Ray Loggins
Loggins
Raymond K. Horton
FBI
John Bankston
David McCrory
McCrory
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