Toyah Texas to vote on 1% local sales tax in 1971 election
The Toyah City Council orders a special election for December 30 1971 on adopting a one percent local sales and use tax. The measure appears on an official ballot with FOR and AGAINST options. Polling place is City Hall with election judge Ruby Cunningham and clerk J. F. Keating. An emergency provision allows immediate effect upon passage. Publication dates are December 8 and 15 1971.
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Toyah
Texas
Vernon
City Hall
Ruby Cunningham
J. F. Keating
State of
Pecos Enterprise
Pecos City
Kenneth Scott
A. L. Gibson
Allies lift defense funds to ease U S pressure in Europe
NATO ministers prepare a modest 1972 rise in European defense spending led by West Germany and Britain in a bid to ease U S congressional demands to cut U S troops in Europe. The plan aims at about 19 billion dollars combined spending with loans and budget support likely from Germany.
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Brussels
America
U.S
Europe
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Melvin R. Laird
NATO
Defense Planning Committee
Eurogroup
Britain
West Germany
Italy
Netherlands
Belgium
Norway
Denmark
Turkey
Greece
Luxembourg
U. S
United States
Lufthansa
Helmut Schmidt
Laird
Congress
SBA workshop touts regional impact and job growth
CPS notes describe SBA backed efforts creating 1,200 new regional jobs and saving 400 more with nearly six million dollars in investment last fiscal year. Census figures project ripple effects from each 100 new factory workers including more households, school kids, retail outlets, bank deposits, cars, and personal income. Workshop co-sponsored by Pecos Industrial Foundation and local banks and chamber of commerce.
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SBA
Neumann
Pecos Industrial Foundation
Community Public Service
Security State Bank
First National Bank
Pecos Savings and Loan Association
Pecos Chamber of Commerce
Congress set to approve 1.6 billion anticancer bill compromise
Congress moves to back a 1.6 billion three year cancer program aimed at funding research and cures. Conferees resolved disputes after President Nixon urged swift action and kept the NIH within a national cancer program while preserving budgetary freedom. The measure backed by the American Cancer Society would fund 15 new clinics and speed grant approvals.
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Washington
Congress
America
Senate House Conference Committee
Nixon
Senate
House
American Cancer Society
National Institutes of Health
NIH
Cancer Society
Paul G. Rogers
D-Fla
Kennedy
City Court Records of Public Intoxication and Related Offenses
The Record lists defendants Eduardo Jiminez Hector Levario Maurice Hignojos and Marilyn Ward with charges of public intoxication and disorderly conduct or related offenses. It also notes property and land transfers between firms and individuals including Humble Oil Midland divisions and Amoco Production Company with various Sec and Block lot references.
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Eduardo Jiminez
Hector Levario
Maurice Hignojos
Marilyn Ward
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Toyah, Texas
Santa
Pecos
Juan Miriles
CPS
Ted
Sen
Edward M. Kennedy
Dmass
Ward
Winkler
Loving
Reeves
SCS
ASC
Edmund Muskie
New Hampshire
Maine
New England
Eddy Street
Humble Oil & Refining Co
Delaware Basin Properties, Inc
PSL
Ralph Lowe
Maxwell Oil Co
Fred Folk
Pecos Enterprise, Inc
Cedar J
P. O
Ivance
Ford Torino
Ford Ltd
Ford
Cam
Cedar St
Pecos Motors Inc
Pecos, Texas
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