City Looks to Study Future Capital Needs and Water Wells
Mayor W R Bickley has asked City Manager J J Maxey to study all future capital improvements and report by April 24. A plan may seek revenue and general obligation bonds, tied to two new water wells costing about 75000 dollars. The city also approved a 20900 dollar ambulance bid from Summers Ambulances and Coaches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lew Barrett
W.R
Bob’’ Bickley
J.J. Maxey
S.B. Hunt
Ward County
Hunt
Maxey
Bickley
Calm Gulf Coast refineries report normal output amid strike
Oil refinery officials say Gulf Coast operations remain calm and production at normal levels despite an OCAW walkout. Supervisors manned plants in Texas coast refineries, including Arco and Shell facilities, with no interruptions expected. A Texaco Port Arthur disturbance involved rock throwing at catering trucks but caused no injuries and no arrests. Health care benefits dispute fuels the strike, though energy reserves and gasoline supply remain unaffected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Gulf Coast
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union
Houston Area
Arco Pipeline
Baxter
Arco
Bill Gibson
Shell Oil
OCAW
Jerry Archule
Larry Bingaman
Texaco
Jefferson County
Texas
Bingaman
Port Arthur
OACW
Gulf Oil
Archuleta
Robert Goss
Seven weeks to cap Ixtoc I spill risk near Texas
Mexican crews face seven weeks to stop the Ixtoc I well blowout or risk renewed oil contamination along the Texas coast. NOAA officials warn that if uncapped by spring the oil could wash ashore through mid September, threatening beaches from Brownsville to Corpus Christi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corpus Christi
Texas
U.S. Coast Guard
Reeves County Assessor-Collector seeks reelection
Reeves County Tax Assessor-Collector Jimmie C. Preslar announces candidacy for a second term. A Pecos native, she was appointed in 1975 to fill an unexpired term, ran unopposed in 1976, and later won a four year term. She served as Pecos City Secretary eighteen years before taking the tax post. She thanks Reeves County voters and asks for continued support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reeves County
Jimmie C. Preslar
James Clifford, Jr
Union
Randy
Pecos
Kris
Monahans
Preslar
Pecos City
Inflation hits five year high in wholesale prices 1979
Wholesale prices rose 12.5 percent in 1979, the sharpest increase in five years, with December up 0.8 percent and energy costs driving much of the rise. Labor Department economist John Early cited OPEC price dynamics as a key factor. Partly cloudy and windy with dust in the South Plains, thunderstorms elsewhere, temperatures in the 30s to 60s by Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Labor Department
Middle East
John Early
South Plains
Former officer wins appeal for back pay
Pecos Police Sergeant Rodney Williams won an appeal to the city council for back pay from the period after his dismissal on November 30 until his reinstatement as Patrolmen II on December 27. He testified he resigned the day after returning and denied acting to gain back pay. The council voted unanimously to grant the back pay despite city concerns about precedent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pecos
Rodney Williams
Williams
W.R
Bob”’ Bickley
Don Carlile
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Summers Ambulances
Duncanville
Summers
Leo Elliott
Summers Company
Transwestern Pipeline
C-6
Cayanosa Highway
Transwestern
Paul R. Gaillardet
Bozeman Drug
Reeves County Commission
Gaillardet
Won Jon Bang
Reynaldo Ortiz
Oak
Ortiz
N. Cedar
Dick Wadley
Patricia Lujan
FE. 13Th St
Jack Hopper
Thorntonville
Wickett
Barstow
Wink
Pyote
Robert Hinojos
Sylvestre Ramirez
Morris
John Robinson
The
National
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPEC
West Texas
Matta
Police Department
Cp Dla
Gon
James Kenrob
Koret
MR. Beau
Nardis Loubella
W. Thir
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