Eligibility Rules For Pecos City Office Declared
Marilea Parsons Pecos city secretary announces eligibility requirements for city office under city ordinance sections 27 and 223 and Texas law. Candidates must clear debt, be 12 months resident, US citizen 18+, Texas resident 12 months, mental competence, no felony unpardoned, and be a qualified voter. Filing deadline March 1 at city hall office. mayor decides eligibility in General Law cities.
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Marilea Parsons
Pecos
Texas
United States
Miners win leverage as coal stockpiles shrink
The United Mine Workers strike gains power after a 30 6 vote against the tentative contract. Emergency energy measures spread as President Carter orders a task force to ease shortages. Ohio faces an energy emergency with policy suspensions, while West Virginia Maryland and Kentucky announce or prepare reductions and plant curtailments.
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United Mine Workers
Washington
UMW
Carter
Canton
Ohio
East Central Area Reliability Council
White House
West Virginia
Steel
Aluminum
Kentucky
Energy Department
Tennessee
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Texans fear violence and armed guard demand in crime survey
More than half of Texas respondents expect to be crime victims in the next year and fear walking at night. Three of four have bought security devices. 56 percent fear walking alone within a mile of home. The Texas Crime Poll, led by Dr. Raymond Teske Jr. at Sam Houston State University, also shows calls for stricter sentencing and probation denial for violent offenders.
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Associated Press
Raymond Teske Jr
Sam Houston State University
Criminal Justice Center
Texas
Teske
Federal water limit may be raised under Carter plan
The Interior Department weighs raising the 160 acre per family federal water limit to 1280 acres and allows residency up to 50 miles from land, with a 640 acre ownership plus 640 acre lease model. The move, still formative, could shift Carter administration policy and is to be presented to Congress this week.
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Sacramento
Calif
Sacramento Bee
U.S. Department of Interior
Congress
Interior
Cecil D. Andrus
Edmund Brown Jr
Pecos Weather: Rainfall, Temperatures Forecast
Pecos records a 35 degree low after a 457 high on Sunday. Saturday 63, Sunday 23 low. rainfall .25 inch. Cloudy with scattered showers Tuesday in extreme southwest. Panhandle teens tonight, 30s north, 60s south Tuesday. Snow possible in Panhandle, showers elsewhere later week. Highs 30s–40s north, 50s–60s south. lows 20s–40s.
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Pecos
West Texas
Panhandle
Big Bend
Reeves County seeks more jailers and deputies
Reeves County commissioners considered Sheriff Raul Florez’s request for eight additional personnel for the sheriff's criminal division and county jail. They discussed raising federal per diem housing rates from $8 to $14 and await federal decision. Florez also fought a 2,000 mile mileage cap and asked to fund college course fees. the board moved to remove the cap, approve fees, and drop the holiday wording for sheriff personnel. The meeting covered economic development plans, hospital bids, recreation funding with Pecos and two other entities, county funeral policy, tax exemptions for Pecos, and roof bids, with no action on some items pending charter copies.
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Reeves County
Raul Florez
Florez
Cecil
Cothrun
Texas
Sheriff's Department
Manuel J. Orona
Southwest Council On Economic Development
Orona
W.O. Pigman
Commissioner's
Old County
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