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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1978
Page
1
The Pecos City Council instructed City Manager J J Maxey and Police Chief Don Carlile to coordinate with the city attorney to draft an ordinance to curb vandalism. The police chief cited a high rate of vandalism and noted a proposed reward for tips leading to arrests and convictions.
Balmorhea schedules a Labor Day weekend Fall Festival with craft booths, games including a turkey shoot and liar's contest, a street dance featuring Heart of Texas Aythum Boys, and chili bean judging by Sam Penergrass Tumbleweed Smith and Judge Roy Bean. Mayor Bickley urges ordinance action for restitution and city policy updates accompany council actions on taxes golf fees and center use.
Defense lawyers finished questioning FBI Special Agent Ron Jannings as bond hearings drag toward Thursday. Davis faces charges of solicitation of capital murder and illegal firearm possession amid claims of a plot to kill several people including Judge Joe Kidson. Federal authorities began involvement after Davis discussed a plan to kidnap and kill his brother, with a scuba diving death staged in Virginia.
A twin engine Las Vegas Airlines Navajo crashed shortly after takeoff from North Las Vegas Air Terminal killing all ten aboard. Chief Deputy Coroner Dick Mayne said the group included a pilot and nine passengers with no survivors. The flight was bound for Santa Ana California. No action on a special ballot.
A pathologist attributed Blas Lopez’s March death to a .22 caliber rifle shot entering the chest near the heart and severing the windpipe, read into evidence in the Juan Jurado trial in Pecos. Judge Lawrence Fuller warned spectators to maintain decorum as prosecutors build their case in Reeves County.
Washington AP Henry C Wallich of the Federal Reserve warned inflation may rise above 8 percent next year as it accelerates from the 6 percent range. He urged a tough tax incentive plan to align price and wage behavior with anti inflation goals, saying current spending and rate policies aren’t working. He spoke in Chicago to the Allied Social Science Association. The July CPI rose 0.5 percent led by grocery declines, with nonfood prices up 0.7 percent. The dollar fell while the July trade deficit widened to 2.99 billion dollars, the fourth largest gap on record.
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