Fromme gets life term at end of long trial
Lynette Fromme, 27, a follower of Charles Manson, was sentenced to life in federal prison for attempting to kill President Ford. She struggled with marshals, screamed at the judge, and hurled an apple at the prosecutor during sentencing. The judge said she could not be rehabilitated and noted the sentence is the maximum under the law.
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Fromme
Sacramento
Calif
Lynette
Miss Fromme
Charles Manson
U.S. District Court
Thomas MacBride
Ford
Manson
MacBride
Sandra Good
U.S
City County Work Out Hospital Road Problems
Pecos City councilmen and Reeves County commissioners tentatively cleared the way for utility service to Reeves County hospital site and for widening Cedar Street into a four lane expressway. They met in a fact finding session this morning to solve mechanics of the two major projects and will reconvene for their regular meeting on Jan. 12. the accord reached is not binding on future decisions.
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Pecos City
Reeves County
Reeves County Hospital
Cedar Street
J.J. Maxey
Cecil Cothrun
Cothrun
Texas Street
Texas Highway Department
Pecos TV show tryouts draw sixty athletes for eight-man team
Sixty husky healthy men and women athletes turned out at Pecos Valley Country Club. Reverend David Northcutt oversaw a sack race as sixty hopefuls auditioned for the eight-man varsity squad for Almost Anything Goes to be filmed in Pecos in March.
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Pecos
David Northcutt
Pecos Valley Country Club
John Pitts
Ray Powell
Pecos Rodeo Arena
Pecos junior makes all region honor band
Pecos High School junior Richard Rankin earned a seat in the all region honor band after Monday tryouts conducted by director Bill Carrico in Odessa. Rankin will be second chair trombone, with further competition for a possible all state band position.
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Pecos
Richard Rankin
Bill Carrico
Rankin
Odessa
Randy Reynolds
Cecile Montgomery
Cookie Painter
Lubbock
Eagles Day honors Pecos varsity and coaches for 11 2 season
An all school assembly at Pecos High School celebrated the Eagle varsity football team coaches and staff. Mayor Bill Pigman proclaimed the day official in Pecos as Reeves County followed with a Year of the Eagle designation. Chamber president Paul Randolph thanked the team for bringing positive publicity to the city and presented a plaque to coaches.
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Pecos
Eagle
Jim Tollett
Ronnie Jenkins
Pecos High School
Bill Pigman
Reeves County
the Eagle
Chamber OF Commerce
Paul Randolph
Randolph
Charles Clark
Clark
Cecil Lee
Linvel Mosby
Dalton Moseley
Pecos records 18 degree low as cold snap hits Texas
Temperatures plunged across the Panhandle and Plains with a hard freeze. Pecos statewide low dipped to 18 degrees after a high of 48 earlier in the day. Only the Lower Rio Grande Valley and parts of South Texas escaped the chill due to cloud cover.
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Pecos
Panhandle Plains
Rio Grande Valley
South
Texas
Earthworms as Protein Highlighted at Pomona Cookoff
In Pomona California over 200 earthworm recipes debuts with earthworm pie named first. John Paul Pitts notes public reaction and urges protein breakthroughs while pondering edible insects, snakes, and other unlikely foods as famine looms.
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Pomona
Calif
Bear Stroud
Tijuana
John Pitts
Bush approved as CIA director by Senate panel
The Senate Armed Services Committee voted 12 to 4 to approve George Bush for CIA director after President Ford ruled him out as 1976 vice presidential candidate. Bush had told the committee he was not seeking the post but might accept it if offered. Ford’s letter dated today stated he would not consider Bush as running mate if confirmed. Four Democrats opposed the nomination: McIntyre, Culver, Hart, and Leahy.
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Washington
Senate Armed Services Committee
George Bush
Central Intelligence Agency
Ford
Bush
John C. Stennis
D-Miss
CIA
Mittee
Thomas J. McIntyre
New Hampshire
John C. Culver
Iowa
Gary Hart
Colorado
Patrick J. Leahy
Vermont
Burglary Probe Targets Pecos Residence
Police investigate a daylight burglary at 127 N. Pecan St., Pecos, where about 869 dollars in cash from coin banks and a money bag plus a .22 caliber pistol were stolen while the home was empty. Investigator Butler Smith identifies the items seized and the break in between mattresses.
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Butler Smith
Felix Hignojos
N. Pecan St
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