Senate weighs DC voting rights amid highway aid vote
The Senate planned a Tuesday vote on a proposed constitutional amendment granting voting representation in Congress to the District of Columbia, already approved by the House. A two thirds majority is needed, with three fourths of states to ratify within seven years. The highway aid bill also faces action, creating a two year, 200 million dollar federal program for coal road repair and reclamation, while the House recesses until after Labor Day. Supporters frame DC representation as fair given its population and taxes, while opponents argue urban-district senators would skew representation. Majority and minority leaders signaled support for the voting rights measure over the weekend.
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House
District of Columbia
D.C
Vietnam
Huddleston
Robbert C. Byrd
D-W. Va
Howard H. Baker
R-Tenn
Byrd
Police re enact firing at Kennedy assassination reopens Dealey Plaza
Police marksmen fire from sandbags and a grassy knoll area in a pre dawn re enactment at Dealey Plaza ordered by the House select committee on assassinations The test used rifles and a .38 pistol with more than 50 microphones around the plaza to study audio evidence and gunfire timing The six hour operation traced the presidential motorcade route and examined multiple firing points including a sixth floor window and behind the knoll fence
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Texas School Book Depository
John Kennedy
House Select Committee On
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Lee Harvey Oswald
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Bob Shaw
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Richard Nixon
White House
Perfume Theft Reported In Interstate Shipment
Two boxes of perfume were reported stolen from an East Texas Motor Freight Lines trailer in Pecos Reeves County. Sheriff Raul Florez said a seal on the trailer was broken upon arrival and investigators seek to determine if the break occurred en route or locally. No value was announced for the perfume.
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East Texas Motor Freight Lines
Reeves County
Raul Florez
Pecos
Burglary Probe Into Valley Mobile Park Theft
Reeves County sheriff investigates a burglary at Valley Mobile Park Pecos where two electric guitars and two firearms were taken. Total value listed at 1500 dollars with guitars and equipment valued at 1200 dollars and firearms at 300 dollars, including a .272 caliber pistol and a 12 gauge shotgun.
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Valley Mobile Park
Pecos
Raul Florez
Two Illegal Aliens Sentenced in Pecos Court
Felix Villa Gallegos and Jesus Rico Tenorio were sentenced by U.S. Magistrate J.M. Preston in Pecos for repeated misdemeanor illegal entry. Rico Tenorio received 120 days with 30 days credited for a prior June plea while Villa Gallegos drew 179 days. Both were apprehended north of the U.S.-Mexico border near Lobo.
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Mexico
U.S
J.M. Preston
Pecos
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
U.S. District Court
Texas
Felix Villa-Gallegos
Jesus Rico-Tenorio
No voting irregularities in Reeves County elections
The Civil Rights Division reported a preliminary review found no major problems in Reeves County primary and runoff elections this year. Justice officials said observers under the Voting Rights Act were deployed after talks with local officials and minority groups. The other noted item mentions a defendant who departed to Mexico after apprehension for illegal entry, with rights acknowledged in open court.
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Civil Rights Division
Justice Department
Reeves County
John V. Wilson
Justice Department Office of Public Information
Washington, D.C
Texas
U.S
Conservationists set Pecos meet Aug 30 led by Bud Mekelburg
Milton E. Mekelburg, vice president of the National Association of Conservation Districts, will speak at the Far West Texas Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts meeting August 30 in Pecos. The program begins at 10 am at the Sunday House Motel with focus on the food agriculture and conservation relationship and future funding. Reports from Joe Antilley and Kenneth Kuykendall will cover organization activities, and officers will be elected during the business session for the Corpus Christi state meeting.
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Bud’’ Mekelburg
National Association of Conservation Districts
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Howard Collier
Pecos
Sunday House
Collier
Mekelburg
Yuma
Colorado
Soil and Water Conservation District
Far
Texas Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts
Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board
Texas
Joe Antilley
Kenneth Kuykendall
Association of Texas Soil and Water Conservation Districts
Corpus Christi
Soil and Water Conservation Districts
Far West Texas Association of Swcds
el Paso
Hudspeth
Toyah- Limpia
Highland
Upper Pecos
Big Bend
High Point
Trans-Pecos
Rio Grande-Pecos River
Wynn Hamilton, Jr
Saragosa
Southwest Microfilm Address Note for El Paso
The listing shows Southwest Microfilm at 2601 East Yandell Avenue El Paso Texas with a P O Box 10054. It appears as a postal or business snippet without additional context or connected events.
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Southwest Microfilm
E. Yandell
el Paso
Tex
CIA chief denies existence of Hunt memo on Kennedy assassination
CIA Director Stansfield Turner said there is no such memo about E. Howard Hunt and the 1963 Dallas shooting. He notes Hunt’s whereabouts have been disputed for years, with Hunt claiming he was in Washington shopping with his wife. Turner added a memo could have been removed from files but is unlikely and praised the Warren Commission.
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Warren Commission
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Davis accused of murder plot. bond to be opposed
Fort Worth district attorney plans to hold oilman T Cullen Davis without bond on charges of soliciting capital murder to kill District Judge Joe Eidson. Davis, acquitted in the 1976 mansion shootings case, faces new alleged plot details including a phony photo and a $25,000 payoff, with a pistol and silencer recovered after a police stop.
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Associated Press
Fort Worth, Texas
T. Cullen Davis
Tarrant County
Tim Curry
Fort Worth
Davis
Andrea Wilborn
Priscilla
Stan Farr
Gus Garrel Jr
Curry
Joe Eidson
Cullen
David McCrory
McCrory
McCory
Eidson
Kay
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Kidson
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