Heavy Work Load In District Court
Judge J H Starley and staff handle a large docket in the 143rd District Court. The piece details filings and dispositions for 1970 to 1976 across personal injury, workmen compensation, divorces, dependent and neglected children, tax suits, other civil actions, and criminal cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fran
143Ra District Court
J.H. Starley
Jane Ross
Roddy Harrison
John Swanson
143Rd District Court
Miss Ross
Texas
Crawford Martin
Starley
Carrasco Rites Held for Pecos Resident Francisco Carrasco
Funeral arrangements are pending at Pecos Funeral Home for Francisco Carrasco of Bal Morhea. He died this morning about 4 o clock at his home.
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Pecos
Francisco Carrasco
Balmorhea
Carrasco
General Merchants Meet Called for Pecos
A general meeting of all members of the Merchant's Committee is set for Friday February 12 at 10 a.m. in the Banquet Room of the Community Center. Merchants committee chairman Paul Randolph says the Pecos meeting is one of the year’s most important with decisions and policies to be discussed and urges broad merchant representation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merchant’s Committee
Merchants Committee
Paul Randolph
Pecos
Randolph
Hearing Requested for Pharr Riot Case
Dist Atty Oscar McInnis asked the Texas DPS to probe the Pharr riot after a peaceful protest devolved into rock and bottle throwing. A JP postponed 31 disorderly conduct hearings to Feb 26 while a Hidalgo Grand Jury will hear testimony on Feb 18. Police used tear gas shotguns pistols and water hoses to disperse about 400 demonstrators at Pharr police station.
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Edinburg
Tex
Oscar McInnis
Texas Department of Public Safety
Pharr
McInnis
Justice of the Peace
Jim Wilson
Wilson
Hidalgo County
Grand Jury
Rio Grande Valley
Knights Templar to Hold Annual Inspection in Pecos
Pecos Commandery No. 108, Knights Templar, will hold its Annual Inspection on Thursday February 11 at 7 30 p m with dinner at 6 30 p m served by Pecos Assembly No 185 Social Order of Beauceant Charley W Wesbrooks Eminent Grand Captain of the Guard Grand Commandery of Texas will conduct the inspection He is a Civil Engineer with the Highway Dept a 1938 Hardin Simmons University alumnus and a WWII and Korean War veteran who later led Abilene Commandery No 27 and served on Templar Eye Foundation and Templar Instruction Committees.
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Pecos
Knights Templar
Social Order of Beauceant
Charley W. Wesbrooks
Guard
Texas
Knight Wesbrooks
Highway Dept
Hardin Simmons University
U.S. Navy
Abilene Commandery No. 27
Knight Templar Eye Foundation
Templar Instruction Committee
Commissioners Designate Depositories In County Session
Reeves County commissioners designate First National Bank and Security State Bank as depositories for county funds with equal deposits. The reg ular meeting handled routine matters and other business.
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Reeves County
First National Bank and Security State Bank
Learning Research Key To Agriculture Conference
A one day Trans-Pecos Agriculture Conference is set for Friday February 19 at 8 45 a m in Pecos with sessions on cotton farming insect control harvesting and production. Dr D E Longenecker T A E S El Paso and others will speak on survival reducing costs and efficiency with a noon barbecue and an afternoon program covering cattle swine grain sorghum forage sorghum and small grains production. Local sponsors include Security State Bank First National Bank and the Pecos Chamber of Commerce with advance reservations urged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trans-Pecos
Teddy
Community Public Service Company
Stafford Boulevard
Pecos
David Davis
D.E. Longenecker
Texas Agriculture Experiment Station
el Paso
T. L. Pate
B. G. Reeves
Texas Agriculture Extension Service
College Station
Trans- Pecos
R. Roberts
Jim Bruce
A. B. Foster, Jr
L. S. Pope
Texas A&m Uni
W. C. Bacon
Glover Packing Company
Roswell
New Mexico
Jack King
Grain Sorghums Board
Lubbock
Paul Revier
Funk Brothers Seed Company
Kenneth E. Lindsey
Chamber of Commerce
Oil Geologists Warn Reserves Must Grow to Sustain Industry
In Abilene Texas the Southwest Section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists was told that the oil industry cannot continue as is without increased reserves. The briefing highlighted the need for new discoveries and enhanced production to meet future demand.
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Abilene, Tex
American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Michael Halboury
Houston
Abilene
U. S
William H. Curry
AAPG
TSTA To Meet Tonight Panel Discusses Prejudices
Members of the Texas State Teachers Association are reminded of a local meeting tonight at 7 30 at Pecos Junior High School. A Panel of American Women will present the program on prejudices.
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Texas State Teachers Association
Pecos Junior High School
Reeves County Reaches 100 Percent Trained Officers Milestone
Reeves County becomes the first Texan county with a fully trained and certified sheriff s department as the latest officer earns certification. The department now holds one advanced, three intermediate, and six basic certificates, with no grandfathered credentials.
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Reeves County
State of
Texas
A.B. Nail
Gary Ingram
Sheriff Nail
Raul Flores
John Lewis
Taylor
Herman Hamilton
School Menu Wednesday Bar-B-Q Beef on Bun
Wednesday menu lists Bar-B-Q beef on a bun with baked beans Spanish rice stuffed celery and yellow and mixed fruit for the meal period.
Rainmaker in Texas Faces Jail Over Weather Permit
Homer Berry of Little Rock says he will continue attempts to rain in Stonewall County for 40 ranchers despite a state permit requirement. The State Water Development Board warned of arrest if he begins weather modification, while Berry says he feels like a prince obliged to act.
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Aspermont
Tex
Stonewall County
Homer Berry
Little Rock
Ark
West
Texas
Berry
State Water Development Board
The
Water Development Board
Rainmaking project faces permit delay after snow
Police report Thelma Savage, 319 Walthall, had two hub caps stolen from her car on Feb 7. Charles Abernathy leads a rainmaking group seeking a temporary Weather Development Board permit for Berry to continue weather modification while permanent approval takes about three weeks. Berry halted operations due to cold weather and snow.
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Thelma Savage
Walthall
Charles Abernathy
Berry
Stonewell County
Water Development Board
Independent Basketball League Meet Wednesday
A meeting of the Independent Basketball League will be held at 7 30 Wednesday evening in the Reddy Room of Community Public Service's Division office on Stafford Blvd. Players interested in joining are urged to attend.
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Independent Basketball League
Reddy Room
Community Public Service
Stafford Blvd
Legislators Move To Save 110 Million In Bonds
Texas representatives planned a vote on issuing tui tion backed bonds to finance eight state funded schools including Texas Tech Medical School UT Medical School at Houston and UT campuses in Dallas and San Antonio. The measure aims to cut tax bills by about 110 million while the Senate considers an emergency welfare funding shift and a constitutional change to voters registration and voting age.
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Lee Jones
Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Senate
Texas Tech Medical School
University of Texas Medical School
Houston
UT Dental School
San Antonio
UT Nursing Schools
el Paso
UT General
Odessa
Dallas
Preston Smith
Smith
House
Congress
Senate State Affairs Committee
Application for New Sharpstown Bank in Houston
State Banking Commissioner Robert Stewart announced an application for a new state bank in Sharpstown Houston. The Community Bank of Houston would hold capital of 1 250 000 surplus 1 250 000 and reserves 750 000 with Dee S Osborne as chairman and other proposed directors all from Houston. No hearing dates were set.
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Morgan J. Davis
Gastone E. Heffington
Houston
Matthews in Japan a Navy air crew chief details
Robert A. Drew Matthews son of Mr and Mrs Garland Matthews serves with the U S Navy Air Corps in Atzugi Japan as crew chief on an AT 3 reconnaissance plane. He trained in San Diego and served at Millington and Whidbey Island before deployment to Atzugi in 1969. He plans a return to Da Nang for a fourth tour. enlistment ends Oct 1972. He holds National Defense Viet Nam Service Viet Nam Campaign Naval Unit Citation and Air Medal. Address: ADR-3 VQ1 PO Box 700 FPO San Francisco 96601.
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Robert A
Drew) Matthews
Garland Matthews
U. S. Navy Air Corp
Atzugi
Japan
Matthews
Pecos High School
Sul Ross State University
San Diego Calif
Millington
Tenn
Widby Island
Washington
da Nang
Viet Nam
Navy
Drew
Robert A. Matthews
San Francisco
Calif
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Pharr Riot
Marguerite C. Plunkett
Mobile
Ala
Memorial Hospital
Pecos Ambulance Service
Cotton News
Consumer and Marketing Service
USDA
India
Korea
European
Fresno
Fresno Cotton Exchange
Phoenix
Phoenix Cotton Exchange
TSTA
Reeves
Kenneth Stroud
H. B. Purvis
L. C. Talley
Johnnie Stark
Commission On Law Enforcement Officer
Wallace D. Beasley
Nail
Carl C. Williams
Commission
Rio Grande City
Bayview
Port Isabel
Weather Service
McCook
McAllen
Brownsville
Harlingen
Rio Hondo
Panhandle
Central
Upper Panhandle
Dalhart
Galveston
Oklahoma
Basketball League
New Sharpstown Bank
Drew Matthews
Boy Scouts
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