Chicanos charge police harassment in Pecos meeting
A Pecos city council session heard 10 speakers led by Benito Orona condemn local police after a Sunday raid on the Orona home amid accusations of harassment of the Chicano community. The group cited marijuana findings and questioned the legality and motive of the raid. The mayor and city attorney urged no response while pending court actions continued.
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Lynn Webb
Pecos
Speak
Benito Orona
Manuel Orona
Orona
Oak Street
Cliff Preslar
Department of Public Safety
Green Lantern Bar
Jimmy Gomez
Lawrence Barber
Monahans
Manuel Osuna
Manual Trujillo
Police Department
Bill Pigman
Pigman
Ted Painter
Painter
Council of Chief of Police
Charles Smith
Construction debate on blockbond walls and progress
Gene Douglas recounts a reader’s alarm over a new hospital’s blockbond construction. He investigates and finds dovetailed concrete blocks, steel rods every ten feet, and strong fiberglass impregnated plaster that holds walls. He questions progress versus quality while noting his own blunt earlier remarks.
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Gene Douglas
August Heat Eases as Showers Hit Texas Panhandle
Weather update notes August heat fading in most of Texas with only scattered showers in the north Panhandle and humid conditions persisting elsewhere. Forecasts call for partly cloudy skies in West Texas through Saturday with scattered thunderstorms in the east and south tonight and Saturday southeast. Temperatures reached near 99 to 101 in several cities while morning readings varied from 66 to 79 across the state.
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Texas
Texas Panhandle
Pecos
West Texas
Rubber workers pact to cost the consumer
In Cleveland AP report, more than half of about 70 000 rubber workers on a four month strike are expected back by next week. Firestone and Goodyear reached tentative agreements, signaling higher tire prices 12 to 17 percent as inflationary costs. Summer tire output was wiped out and snow tire shortages loom.
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Cleveland
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co
United Rubber Workers
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
Mario A. DiFederico
Firestone
Pecos Art Association Displays Works By Margie Williamson
The Pecos Art Association is showing paintings by Margie Williamson at Pecos Savings and Loan this month. The display will be refreshed in about a week with new paintings to be given away at the fall fair.
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Pecos Art Association
Margie Williamson
Pecos Savings and Loan
Dentist on wheels brings dental care to Saragosa students
The Texas Department of Health and the Southwestern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists mounted a mobile dental clinic outside Saragosa Adventist School to treat local children. Dr. Jim Mitchell and staff performed extractions fillings cleanings and oral cancer checks for dozens of screened youngsters before the van moved on to serve other underserved communities in Texas and nearby states.
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Delores Gonzales
Juana Melendez
Saragosa
Saragosa Adventist School
Jim Mitchell
Ercilia Castillo
Lubbock
Billie Burns
Pecos
State Department of Health Resources
Bennie Garcia
Mercy
O’ferrall Pauly
Texas State Department of Health Resources
Southwestern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
Dallas
New Saragosa Adventist School
Texas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Arkansas
Louisiana
Delane Ford
Department
Regior II
Midland
Mitchell
Vnn
Emcilia Castillo
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Waco
Presidio
Wichita Falls
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New Jersey
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Great Lakes Region
Rockies
Rubber Workers
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