Ground to Break for $45 Million San Antonio Hotel
Ground will be broken May 5 in downtown San Antonio for Stouffer's San Antonio Plaza Hotel a $45 million 700 room convention hotel due to open January 1980 The project led by Stouffer Hotels Collins Tuttle and Company and First San Antonio Hotel Corp includes a three story main lobby a 20 000 square foot ballroom and an 18 story tower with 700 guest rooms 50 suites and river side terraces The complex will feature three level dining with atrium skylight glass roof indoor ice skating rink and a rooftop lounge with panoramic river Alamo and Hemisfair views.
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Stouffer
San Antonio Plaza Hotel
Stouffer Hotels of
Cleveland
Collins, Tuttle and Company of
New York
First San Antonio Hotel Corp
The
Joseph Thomas Company of
Presa, Commerce
Navarro
Koetter Thorp Cowell & Bartlett
Houston
San Antonio Plaza
Texas
San Antonio River
Hemisfair Grounds
Alamo
Balmorhea Community News Highlights And Events
Mary Markham hosted the night bridge club with Mil dred Stroade high and Nan Cate low scores while Sadie Kingston won bingo. Catholic Women plan a Mexican dinner with date to be announced. BHS teams head to Grandfalls tournament. district games start Jan 24. 24 Balmorhea students in college. Chamber of Commerce meeting Jan 9 at 7 30 p m. town hall meeting reviewed city bond issues for waterworks and a $99 000 sewage project with public questions welcomed.
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Mary Markham
Mildred Stroade
Nan Cate
Sadie Kingston
Catholic Women’s Club
Balmorhea High School
Grandfalls
Wes — Elliott
Elliott
Humphries
Market Downturn Deepens as Dow Falls Under 800
The New York market slid again as concerns over the dollar's foreign exchange stability and a higher prime lending rate weighed on sentiment. The Dow dropped 7.10 to 797.82, first below 800 since October, with decliners outnumbering advancers 4 to 1 and Citibank lifting its prime rate to 8 percent.
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U.S
Citibank
Chicago
New York Cotton Exchange
DOW Jones New York
Dow Jones II A.m
Indus
Fort Davis Site Sees Record 1977 Visitors
A total of 70 018 travelers visited Fort Davis National Historic Site in 1977, up 10.1 percent from 1976 and the highest since 1972. The gain followed milder weather and a broad Texas Tourist Development Agency advertising push, with visitors arriving from as far as Michigan.
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Fort Davis National Historic Site
West Texas
Texas
Texas Tourist Development Agency
Michigan
Geology masters course offered by Permian Basin center
The Permian Basin Graduate Center announces a two week intensive Geology 5362 Analytical Techniques and Instrumentation course for the spring 1978 at UT Arlington. Three hours credit with tuition 83.50 resident 153.50 non resident plus fees. Registration by Jan 11. Includes X ray diffraction and fluorescence analysis.
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Permian Basin
University of Texas At Arlington
UT Arlington
PBGC
UT At Arlington
Permian
Odessa College announces housing deadline for spring Jan. 12
Odessa College sets January 12 as the deadline to apply for on campus spring housing. Parker Downs Hall offers men and women wings with professional staff in residence. Rooms host two per suite with study features and access to campus cafeteria health services and recreational programs for dorm residents.
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Odessa
Odessa College
Dave Tarver
Parker-Downs Hall
Tarver
Ant
Crystal City faces heating fuel crisis amid slow aid rollout
Crystal City Texas faces a winter without fuel for heating or cooking for more than a third of its residents as only one contractor installs propane tanks under a $310000 federal emergency program. About 300 tanks installed, 500 families awaiting. many have exhausted free fuel and lack funds for restock. Local gas service was shut after disputed charges, a move approved by the Railroad Commission.
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Crystal City, Texas
Crystal City
Raul Flores
Federal Community Services Administration
San Antonio
La-Vaca Gathering Co
Texas Railroad Commission
Texaco announces $500 million petrochemical expansion plan
Texaco Inc unveiled a $500 million expansion program at its Port Arthur Port Neches and Conroe plants. The package includes a $300 million Port Arthur ethylene plant due mid 1978 with 2 billion lb per year capacity and cyclohexane capacity up 40 percent. It also covers Port Neches ethylene oxide unit upgrades ethanolamines unit and a Conroe Jeffamine amines unit due by 1979 along with a completed specialty amines expansion and a morpholine unit at Port Neches brought on stream in 1977.
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Houston
Texaco Inc
Port Arthur
Port Neches
Conroe
Texaco
Monday to Friday School Menu Highlights
School menus list Monday Ham and potato casserole with black-eyed peas cornbread and fruit cocktail followed by milk. Tuesday offers chicken with rice dressing buttered peas rolls gelatin snickerdoodle and milk. Wednesday features chili and beans cheese stick fried okra crackers peaches a cinnamon roll Western burger fries lettuce tomato and peanut butter cake with milk. Friday serves chicken fried steak with gravy mashed potatoes green beans hot roll cherry cobbler and milk. All menus subject to last minute change.
Grand jury resumes probe of West Texas nursing home
A special grand jury in Ector County resumes inquiry into alleged neglect and abuse at Western Hills Manor in Odessa. Former administrator Floyd Joyner was charged with third degree felony theft for allegedly cashing a Veterans Administration check after forging a signature. Bond set at 4000 dollars. patients relocated to VA hospital in Big Spring.
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Veterans Administration
Justice of the Peace
Jimmy Harris
Joyner
Big Spring
Disorderly conduct and mischief reports from police
The report lists a disorderly conduct complaint against Eladio Saucedo for breaking ten ashtrays at the Rainbow Bar early today. A FELONY WARRANT was placed for his arrest. Rogelio Levario was arrested and booked on criminal mischief from Dec 26 with a $5000 bond, committed by Judge Cliff Preslar. Malicious mischief at 1616 W Fifth St involved broken windows and ransacked interiors. Ambulance calls logged for hospital transfers and a man pinned under a truck on Hwy 285.
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Ezequiel Mendoza
Eladio Saucedo
Saucedo
Rainbow Bar
Rogelio Levario
Cliff Preslar
Levario
S.L. Falcon
Cowan St
Fifth St
Calendar of Pecos events with clubs and study group
Calendar notes Pecos area events at Pecos High School Library and various venues. Special program on financial aid for college students starts 7 30 p m and invites all. Listings include Lions Club meetings at American Motor Inn and Lions Den, Bible study at Senior Citizens Center, Optimist Club at Saragosa Hall, Pecos Art Association painting demo, Downtown Lions Club at Holiday Inn, Modern Study Club, game day bingo, Pecos Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, and a note on Hawaii and Japan drift.
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Pecos High School
Lions Club
American Motor Inn
Amistad Lions Club
Lions den
Senior Citizens Center
S. Cedar
Saragosa Hall
Pecos
West Texas extended forecast with variable temperatures
The forecast covers West Texas from Sunday to Tuesday with partly cloudy skies and warmer conditions. North areas see 40s to 50s, south reaches 60s to 70s, nights 20s to 40s. North Texas stays mostly cloudy Sunday with showers east, clears to partly cloudy by Tuesday, highs 50s to 60s, lows 30s to 40s. South Texas expects a slight shower risk east early Sunday, otherwise clear to partly cloudy and warmer with highs near 60 north to upper 60s south, overnights mid 30s to low 40s north and near 50 south.
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Texas
North
Violence on teens rises in schools in new survey
A three year study by the National Institute of Education finds teenagers face more personal violence in schools than streets, with hallways and restrooms as high risk areas. It notes 40 of urban robberies and 36 of assaults occur in schools, especially for ages 12 to 15, and 5000 teachers are attacked monthly.
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Washington
National Institute of Education
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American Stock Exchange
Pecos Enterprise
Pecos Enterprise. Inc
South Cedar Street
Ken Dulaney
Lewis Barrett
Diane Osborn
Doris Welch
Ruben Baca
Emily Galindo
Carlos Nichols
Mary Carpenter
Reeves County
Reeves
Ward
Loving
Culberson
Jett Counties
Ft. Davis
Graduate Center
Practical Joker
Hwy. 285
Duval Hwy
Pecos Alcoholics Anonymous
S. Oak St
State of
Hawaii
Japan
Johnson & Walthall
Airlawn
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