Oil Workers Strike Averted as Gulf Oil Signs Two Year Pact
Denver AP reports oil workers union reaches a two year contract with Gulf Oil Corp averting a potential strike by about 60,000 refinery workers. The tentative deal sets wage increases of 73 cents first year and 5 percent second year with a reopeners clause and a potential strike right on Jan 8, 1980. Amoco pattern offer identical to Gulf’s is approved for a broader industry pattern. Grospiron indicates pattern settlement could guide rest of U.S. oil industry.
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Oil Workers Union
Gulf Oil Corp
Carter
Gulf
A.F. Grospiron
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union
Grospiron
OCAW
Amoco Oi! Co
Amoco
U.S
Council On
Jerry Archuleta
Weather outlook for Pecos Texas and surrounding area
Partly cloudy and warmer today in Pecos and vicinity with a colder night and Saturday. Thursday high reached 62 degrees with a 50 degree low. forecast shows partly cloudy to colder conditions tonight and Saturday with snow flurries in the Panhandle. Highs range from the mid 50s to upper 60s Panhandle to extreme south. Lows span from the mid teens Panhandle to the mid 30s southwest. Saturday highs fall into the 30s Panhandle to the 50s extreme south.
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Pecos
West Texas
Fort Worth restaurant linked to Davis case in trial notes
In Fort Worth, a restaurant manager testifies about a 1979 meeting at Sambo’s on East Lancaster where FBI informant David McCrory allegedly offered money for someone to impersonate a police officer to Cullen Davis. Harold Sexton, a golfer, testified he declined the offer. The trial nears its end as prosecutors and defense prepare final arguments and potential jury deliberations.
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Houston
Fort Worth
Cullen Davis
Harold Sexton
Sambo’s
East Lancaster
FBI
David McCrory
Keith Kantor
Davis
Dallas Times Herald
Kantor
Associated Press
Sexton
McCrory
Bo’s
Cullen
Priscilla
Wallace Moore
Moore
District board approves sale of Pecos school property
Pecos-Barstow-Toyah Independent School District votes to place the Karl Bell School property for sale after a report that Texas Constitution prohibits use of public funds or property for private groups. The board also approves bids on two pickups and disposes of four buses, raises retirement age to 70, and swears in David Hess to fill a vacancy.
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Board of Education
Pecos - Barstow - Toyah Independent School District
Karl Bell
Ray Whitley
Texas
Bers
Whitley
Bell
Ben Meek
Bob Miller
Pecos Motors, Inc
Pecos Ford
San Antonio
Ford Northline
Houston
Midland
David Hess
Paul Williams Hess
C.J. Kesey
Jobless at 5.9 percent in 1978 unemployment rise
The unemployment rate rose from 5.8 to 5.9 percent last month with 104000 more people employed. The Labor Department notes strong gains for blacks and whites and for adult men and women in 1978 while December growth slowed from November’s 510000.
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Michael Doan
Associated Press
Washington
Labor Department
Carter
Two college students held on drug charge in Pecos case
Francisco Galindo III and Hershel Ground Jr., both students at Angelo State University, were held in Reeves County Correctional Facility in Pecos on $10,000 bond each after appearing before U.S. Magistrate J M Preston. They were charged with unlawful possession of marijuana found in Big Bend National Park on January 10. Each was informed of rights to a preliminary hearing and attorney. unable to hire counsel, the court will appoint one. Both were remanded to U.S. Marshal custody pending further proceedings.
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Angelo State University
San Angelo
Reeves County
Pecos
U.S
J. M. Preston
Francisco Galindo III
Hershel Gene Ground Jr
Big Bend National Park
ACCF
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Town of
Pecos City
Reeves County Commissioners Court
Calvary Baptist Church
John A. Griffiths
Northline Bus Center
Church Buses
First Assembly of God Church
Church Buses of
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Arthur Okun
Alan Greenspan
Greenspan
Gerald Ford
Okun
Lyndon Johnson
Isabel Contreras
Ricky Dominguez
Zavala Junior High School
Robert Hinojos
Drug Enforcement Administration
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