Pecos Chamber Proposes $650,000 Revenue Bonds
Richard Naylor, for the Pecos Chamber of Commerce Advertising Committee, urged the Pecos City Council to authorize a $650,000 revenue bond issue to finance the convention center project and related facilities. The plan involves backing by anticipated revenues from the facility and associated programs.
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Richard Naylor
Pecos Chamber of Commerce
Town of Pecos
Naylor
Chamber
Council
Chamber of Commerce
Pecos
J.T. Moore, Jr
First National Bank of
W.R
Bob’’ Bickley
Ben Matta
First Reeves County traffic death near Pecos on SH 17
Reeves County logged its first traffic fatality of the year after a head on crash 22 miles south of Pecos on State Highway 17 killed Leonardo Juno Gonzales, 37, of Ojínaga Mexico, and injured Christopher Guy Lanman, 21, of Oklahoma City. Gonzales died at the scene. Lanman was hospitalized in Big Spring.
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Reeves County
Pecos
Big Spring
Leonardo Juno Gonzales
Ojinaga
Mexico
Christopher Guy Lanman
Oklahoma City
Okla
Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol
Lanman
Gonzalez
Headon
Pecos Funeral Home
Naylor
Pecos City
Washington battered by worst wind storm in 17 years
The Associated Press reports power outages and scattered flooding across Washington as the state faced its strongest wind storm in 17 years. Floodwaters threaten Idaho and Utah areas. Armstrong urged drainage under Highway 17 and rails, citing September floods from Cottonwood Draw in Culberson County within a 750 square mile drainage. Bill Burnett of the Texas Highway Department outlined a flooding study due April and planned water diversion measures after determining western inflow.
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Bickley
Naylor
Fred P. Armstrong
Armstrong and Associates
Armstrong
Texas Highway Department
Associated Press
Washington
Idaho
Utah
Culberson County
Bill Burnett
Department
Pecos Man Held After Armed Robbery at Nik Nak Grocery
Charles Edward Smith 28 of 120 S Sycamore Pecos was jailed in Reeves County after allegedly robbing Nik Nak Grocery 1318 S Eddy of 200 at 1053 p.m. Tuesday. He awaits appearance before a local justice of the peace on aggravated robbery charges.
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Pecos
Charles Edward Smith
S. Sycamore
Reeves County
Nik-Nak
S. Eddy
Smith
Justice of the Peace
Kathryn Hagar
Reeves County Sheriff's Department
Sheriff's Department
Pecos Police Department
Agenda announced Merchants committee schedules meet Thursday
The Pecos Merchants Committee will hold its first 1979 monthly meeting at 6 p.m. tomorrow at the Pecos Chamber of Commerce Office. The Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors has scheduled its regular monthly meeting for noon Friday at the Senior Citizens Building, 120 S. Cedar. Door on West Second Street. Jay Dycus says the full agenda aims to address downtown cleanup and shopping center issues and develop new ideas for projects and long range planning.
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Pecos Merchants Committee
Pecos Chamber of Commerce
S. Cedar St
Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
Senior Citizens
S. Cedar
West Second Street
Jay Dycus
Merchants Committee
Pecos
Dub
Clements
Dallas
Greater Dallas Crime Commission
Texas
Border crossing boosts El Paso as Juarez lures visitors
El Paso and Juarez form a cross border magnet for jobs and tourists with dining gambling and entertainment. Juarez racetrack handles about 10 million annually as El Paso grows while populations shift and demand rises. Mexico peso devaluation and cross border trade shape the flow of dollars and visitors between the two cities.
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Juarez
el Paso
Kansas City
Cus
New Mexico
Sunland Park
Mexico
U.S
Ray Salazar
Clements Declares War on Texas Drug Trade
Governor Bill Clements announced an all out war on illegal drug trafficking, naming H. Ross Perot to head a 10 member Texans War Against Drugs panel. The committee will report to the governor and share findings with state and federal agencies.
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Tom Decola
Associated Press
Dallas
Bill Clements
H. Ross Perot
Texas
Clements
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Lew Barrett
Oklahoman
Burnett
Pecos Band Boosters
Hamilton Beach
Corpus Christi
Robert Hinojos
EL Paso, Texas
Rio Grande
Toms
Dan Ponder
United States
Operation Intercept
West Texas
Panhandle
Big Bend
Jose Lopez Portillo
United States- Mexico
Carter
Farnum Jewelry
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