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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1975
Page
1
A recount of ballots in the property owner box for the Dec. 14 school bond election increased the margin to nine votes. The official tally shows 824 in favor and 815 opposed to the proposed $2.7 million school bond, with final figures certified after the recount led by Ray Golden as chairman.
Freezing rain sleet and snow blanket far West Texas and the Pecos region prompting travel advisories. DPS and Texas Highway Department crews report dangerous icing on bridges and roads with about 15 accidents on I-10 and I-20 and seven people hospitalized. Cloudy skies through Monday foretell ongoing cold, with a possible mix of freezing rain or snow across five days.
John Pitts writes Que Paso about Pecos traffic woes at Third and Cedar, urging city action on traffic lights, safer intersections, and a future Seventh and Cedar light. He praises plans for a fountain in Judge Roy Bean Park, defends it against cost concerns, and urges community involvement.
The New Year brought three newborns to Memorial Hospital Pecos after a long journey for the stork. The first, a 6 lb 9 oz boy tentatively named Joseph Robert Marshall, was born to Mr and Mrs William J Marshall Tra Park at 3 42 p.m. Wednesday. Two more babies followed, with prizes awarded to the families and the newborns.
Violence claimed more lives in Texas during the New Year holiday than expected. The toll rose to 25 deaths from 6 p.m. Tuesday to midnight Wednesday, with 21 fatalities in traffic accidents across 19 separate crashes, 10 of them in rural areas.
Snow and rain delayed harvesters over the past week and area gins reported 1,770 bales ginned, bringing the season total to 42,042. Reeves County Upland leads with 32,722 bales, Pecos 4,518, Presidio 1,045, and Area Pima 3,757. Last year at this date 47,832 bales had been ginned.
County and local officials were sworn in at a county courthouse ceremony led by District Judge J.H. Starkey. New County Judge Darrell Glover and Clerk Catherine Ashley took first full terms, joined by Justice of the Peace Phyllis Salyer and other elected officials including Wendell Faulkner Cecil Cothran Jane Ross Fred Armstrong Joe Kuhn Cliff Preslar Clayton Stallings and Eva Grammer. Salyer succeeds J.F. Hightower, Ashley fills Clerk Estell Clinton's vacancy.
Justice William O. Douglas remains in serious condition at Walter Reed Army Medical Center after a stroke on a Bahamas vacation. Doctors report left-side weakness but no mental impairment while anticoagulants prevent clots and he uses a pacemaker. a return to the bench remains uncertain.
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