Job prospects across Texas cities vary by trade
The Texas Employment Commission notes a shortage of general office help typists secretaries stenographers and counter attendants in El Paso while Laredo needs vocational instructors bootmakers diesel mechanics and illustrators. Dallas and Houston offer broad options for skilled workers including nurses car mechanics secretaries cooks waitresses and welders. Newspaper reporters are scarce with few hiring hopes beyond a politician.
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Texas Employment Commission
Paso
Laredo
Dallas
Houston
The
Employment Commission
Parole bid for Hunt delayed amid publicity
The U S Parole Commission rejected a Christmas release for Watergate figure E Howard Hunt delaying his first parole bid to January 25 due to his high profile. It also denied 24 year old David Sylvan Fine in a seven year sentence for the 1970 UW Madison building bombing with a new hearing set for November 1978.
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Washington
U.S. Parole Commission
Watergate
E. Howard Hunt
David Sylvan Fine
University of Wisconsin
Fine
Hunt
Opium poppy fields to be eradicated in joint effort
Atty Gen John Hill announced a Mexico United States pledge to eradicate opium poppy fields, aiming to curb heroin trafficking. DEA chief Besinger and Mexican Atty Gen Flores Sanchez joint statement underlines coordinated crackdown amid rising narcotics trafficking in Texas.
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Austin, Tex
John Hill
United States
Mexico
Oscar Flores Sanchez
Peter B. Besinger
U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency
Texas
Hill
DEA
Concertgoers urged to be seated by 7 30 p m at Gilmore event
High school assistant principal David Dutchover urged attendees to reach the auditorium early for the Christmas concert. Ushers will be stationed at both doors and inside to seat latecomers quietly between numbers. Band and choir will use side doors to reduce disruption.
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David Dutchover
Dutchover
Pecos High School
Lions Club
Rotary Club
John Ivy
Convicted killer Gary Gilmore rushed to hospital in coma
Gary Gilmore, sentenced to die, was taken to University Medical Center in a coma from an apparent drug overdose. Hospital spokesman John Keahey said ingestion of drugs left his condition critical, marking a second overdose after a prior suicide attempt.
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Salt Lake City
Gary Gilmore
Gilmore
University Medical Center
John Keahey
Utah State Prison
Nicole Barrett
PTA Boost From Foodway Bonus Coupons
Austin Elementary students and friends can aid the merry go round project by saving bonus coupons in the Foodway ad on pages 9. Coupons may be dropped in depositories for box tops. No need to attach box tops, says Austin PTA President Margie Williamson.
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Austin
Foodway
Austin Pta
Margie Williamson
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Postal Service Plans
The U S Postal Service will run a normal mail schedule on December 24 and observe a holiday schedule on December 25. Delivery to homes and businesses continues on the 24th with potential adjustments to collection and multi trip service. Window and lockbox hours remain, but staffing is reduced in the afternoon. On Christmas Day no delivery or window service occurs, and lockbox service depends on local conditions.
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U.S. Postal Service
Albuquerque man sentenced in federal drug trial here
Conrado Carillo, 28, was sentenced to two four year terms followed by three years of special parole for illegal importation of 112 grams of heroin. He and Ernest Montoya were arrested at Presidio bridge on June 28 with a pistol found in Carillo’s boot and 112 grams of heroin under a car console. Montoya faces a potential double sentence due to a prior narcotics conviction.
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Conrado Carillo
Albuquerque
Ernest Montoya
Presidio Bridge
Montoya
Carillo
Pecos Enterprise
D.W. Suttle
N.M
Republic of Mexico
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el Paso
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State Board of Vocational Nurse Examiners
Pecos
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Memorial Hospital
Anita Perea
Pecos Nursing Home
Mary Rutledge
Ortega
F.M. Ortega
E. 5Th St
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PTA
Anthony’s
White’s
Safeway
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Bank Americard & Master
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