Forty four die on Texas highways during Christmas holidays
The 78 hour Christmas holiday period ends with 44 deaths on Texas roads. The toll rose with auto train and pedestrian crashes across the state including a head on collision on U S 54 near Dalhart killing Harold Hawk and Charles McConnell, and incidents in Queen City, Seagoville, Waco, and Galveston Bay area among others.
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Associated Press
Texas
Texas Department of Public Safety
Headon
U.S
Dalhart
Texas Panhandle
Harold Dean Hawk
Liberal
Kan
Charles David McConnell
Louisiana
Queen City
Cecil Thomas Grinage
Oil City
Kelly Marine Colby
Shreveport
James Cappe
Kemp
Seagoville
Dallas County
Frank Belcher
Waco
Arthur Sliger
Gregory
Corpus Christi
Anna Belle Elkins
la Porte
Galveston
Pasadena
Gene Owens
Mount Belvieu
Baytown
Owens
Fires and Fatalities Across Texas and Nearby Cities
Christmas Eve fires damaged Western Package Store and a storehouse in the 700 block of East 8th. A cab burned on Mulberry. A fatal car crash near Progreso killed Bionicio Casarez. McNeese, Reynolds, Theodore, Lopez, Brooks, Ogden and others died in several crashes across Houston Dallas and West Texas. A judge’s wife died in a car crash near Woodville. Justice Smith was injured. Warm, humid air brought unseasonable warmth and clouds with light rain across parts of the state.
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Western Package
E. 8Th
Mulberry
Houston
Owens
Bionicio P. Casarez
Mercedes
U.S. 281
Progreso
Rio Grande Valley
Casarez
Gary Gene McNeese
Richardson
Dallas
McNeese
Kenneth Glenn Reynolds
Stanton
Texas
Reynolds
Big Spring
Nicholas Theodore
James Ogden
Benigno Lopez
Corpus Christi
John W. Swenson
San Antonio
Waco
Charlies W. Brooks
Jim Thornton
Jefferson
Clyde Smith
Texas Supreme Court
Woodville
Justice Smith
High Bench
Associated Press
East Texas
Panhandle
McAllen
Wichita Falls
Abilene
Bowie
Cameron
Russell T. Jenkins
Austin
Drake Harris
Lorenzo David Walker
Fort Worth
Lubbock
U.S
Lorenzo
Fannie Flora Boone
Caldwell
Brenham
Bolinger Enrolled in Naval Postgraduate School Program
Navy Lieutenant Commander Donald J. Bolinger, husband of Sondra Watts of Pecos, is enrolled in the Management Program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey California. He is slated to earn a Master of Science degree in December 1971 after serving as Staff Civil Engineer at the Naval Training Center Great Lakes Illinois.
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Navy
Donald J. Bolinger
Sondra S. Watts
Johnson St
Pecos
Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey
Calif
Naval Training Center
Great Lakes
Miss Foster Heads To Sun Carnival Festivities
Becky Foster accompanied by Mrs. A B Foster Jr. leaves for El Paso to take part in the 1970 71 Sun Carnival as Pecos Sun Princess among 25 princesses in the 36th Southwestern Sun Carnival. Registration at Plaza Hotel provided official packets with schedules and guidelines for Sun Court events.
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Becky Foster
A. B. Foster Jr
el Paso
Becky
Pecos
Plaza Hotel
Sun Court
Ing
John Walkmeyer
Jim Christensen
Disneyland
Clinton Vincent
Sear’s
San Antonio
George Kaeber
Eastman Kodak Company
Vikki Carr
Georgia Tech
Texas Tech
Carr
Marshall
Work continues on giant Dallas airport project
The Dallas Fort Worth region airport program will reach about 200 million dollars in 1971. Ernest Dean deputy executive director notes contracts for Braniff Delta Ozark and Texas International terminals. Foundations for Braniff near completion and a 1.5 million administration building will be let in January.
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Dallas
Dallas-Fort Worth
Ernest Dean
Dean
Braniff International
Delta Air Lines Inc
Ozark Air Lines Inc
Texas International Airlines
Braniff
Western Cotton Market Shows Activity Amid Steady Prices
Trading gains appeared in Far Western markets with demand strongest for Low Middling and lower grades. European spinners bought for export while domestic mills pursued San Joaquin Valley Middling and Fresno Strict Low Middling. Prices held near week-ago levels as harvest advanced and offer volumes declined.
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USDA
San Joaquin Valley
Fresno
Phoenix
el Paso
India
Lab Director Dies In Austin
Dr. Edwin Hindsman 47 head of the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory died Sunday after a two week illness Services will be Tuesday in Austin He led the lab since 1966 growing from five to 218 employees The U S Office of Education has funded a permanent downtown Austin headquarters He was a UT education psychology professor and former staff member at the U S Office of Education and a University of Indiana faculty member
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Austin
Edwin Hindsman
The
Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
Hindsman
U.S. Office of Education
University of Texas
University of Indiana
No Rotary Downtown Lions Meetings This Week
The Downtown Lions Club and Pecos Rotary Clubs will not meet this week. Meetings resume next week with Lions at Holiday Inn on Wednesday January 6 and Rotary on Thursday January 7, also at the Holiday Inn.
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Lions Club
Pecos
Lions
Holiday Inn
Rotary
Lunar laser project at UT McDonald Observatory hailed success
The lunar laser experiment at The University of Texas McDonald Observatory Ft Davis is called a complete success by the project scientist. Sponsored by UT Austin and NASA the daily test bounces a laser off a moon reflector placed by Apollo 11 to measure earth moon distance. Data helps study polar motion continental drift daily length and gravity relativity.
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University of Texas McDonald Observatory
Ft. Davis
UT Austin
NASA
Moon
Earth
Vandals and Thefts Hit Pecos Christmas Weekend
Pecos police reported multiple vandalism and theft cases during the Christmas weekend. Valley Motors was burglarized with a 1962 Dodge stereo deck and a 1968 Pontiac Grand Prix taken, plus damaged machines and an item valued at about 50 dollars. Other incidents include windshields damaged, a blue snap billfold stolen, tool box and tools removed, a BB gun injury, and a number of break ins and entries across businesses and residences with assorted sums taken.
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Pecos
Valley Motors
Tony Urquidi
C. W. Winterrowd
W. E. Hamilton Trucking Co
Teresa Gilmer
Rex
Canal Well Service
Joe D. Armstrong
8Th
Hickory
Tommy Talamantez
South Ash
Tunson
South Locust
Ray Odell
Delco
Trend Construction Co
School Executives To Meet In Austin Jan. 6
More than 2,500 public school executives from across Texas will gather in Austin January 6 8 for the 22nd Administrators Advisory Conference on Education at Municipal Auditorium. UT Austin education dean Dr. Lorrin Kennamer will keynote the opening session.
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Austin
Texas
Municipal Auditorium
Lorrin Kennamer
University of Texas At Austin
State Board of Education
Sixty-Second
Texas Education Agency
Texas Association of School Personnel Administrators
Austin Public Schools
North Guadalupe
Texas Association of School Administrators
Commodore Perry
Texas Council For Public Education
Terrace Motor Hotel
Antelope Hunters Report Strong Texas Season
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department reports a 1970 antelope harvest across Trans-Pecos Permian Basin and Panhandle totaling 896 bucks. Trans-Pecos yielded 610 with 97 percent success. Panhandle 209 at 89 percent. Permian Basin 77 of 80 hunters. Rains improved body weights and all antelope were in good shape at harvest.
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Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Trans- Pecos
Permain Basin
Panhandle
Trans-Pecos
Barbs by Phil Pastoret in the Holiday Humour Run
A humorous column by Phil Pastoret on moderation in serving holiday drinks and the quirks of self styled leaders. The piece notes executives overeat and carry lines buckets and laments repeated trips to the druggist and electrician supplies.
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Big Count
Reed Drilling Tool
Permian
West Texas
New Mexico
District 8
Midland
Martin County
Lea County
San Angelo
Hockley County
Schleicher County
Andrews
Borden Chaves
Cochran Coke Crane Crockett Dawson
Ector
Eddy
Fisher Gaines Garza Glasscock Hale
Hockley
8Th St
Bolinger
Naval School
Miss Foster
W. Hwy. 80
Weldon Brookshire
J.T. Prewit
Giant
Downtown Lions
Julia Dyer
Ruby Patino
South Oak
Freddy Ornelas
Mesquite
BY Phil Pastoret
Newspaper Enterprise
Assa
Ron French
London
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