City OKs new park at Fifth and Orange
After months of urging by City Councilman Jesus Muniz a new park will be built five blocks east of Saragosa park on city property at Fifth and Orange adjacent the Union Gas border station. The $10 000 project includes playgrounds courts fencing and vandalism deterrence and will serve about 201 children in the surrounding area.
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Gene Douglas
Jesus Muniz
Saragosa Park
Fifth and Orange
Union Gas Co
Southern Union
J.J. Maxey
Sam Miller
Sunday House
Dan Peyton Oil Co
Herschell Cox
Cox
Ted Painter
Doug Fernandes
Junior Livestock Show and Sale Set in Reeves Loving County
The Reeves Loving County Junior Livestock Show and Sale runs January 28 29 at the fair barn with weigh ins Friday from 9 to 11 hogs 11 to 2 lambs and 9 to 11 steers. Judge Wallace Cox oversees hog and steer judging while Carl Menzies and other officials oversee lambs. The Pecos FFA serves barbecue and the sale auction begins at 7 30 p.m. with Wally Gillum as auctioneer.
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Reeves-Loving County
Wallace Cox
Luna County
Deming
Johnny Harrison
Ward County
Monahans
Spam
Cox
Carl Menzies
Texas Aricultural Experiment Station
Texas A&m Univerity System
San Angelo
Menzies
Starlings
Posse
Pecos Ffa Cha
Ter
Wally Gillum
Midland
Dale Toon
Balmorhea
Pecos Chamber of Commerce
Bailey Wheeless
Pecos Ffa
Dan Gary
Loving and
Reeves
Johnny Barfield
Balmorhea Ffa
Plant a Arbor Day tree kit offer from Texas Forest Service
As winter fades and Arbor Day approaches, the Texas Forest Service offers free Arbor Day Program Kits to classroom teachers and conservation groups. Each kit includes a lobally pine seed packet planting instructions and program aids with limited one per teacher or organization. Request details include sending to Texas Forest Service College Station Texas 77843.
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Texas Forest Service
College Station
Texas
Band Boosters Meeting At Zavala Junior High
Band boosters meet Monday night at Zavala Junior High School to hear a financial report on this year’s projects. Band directors will outline band needs and boosters will decide on launching further fundraising efforts. Meeting begins at 7 30 p.m.
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Zavala Junior High School
Winter Storm Fans Across Central United States
A low pressure system over Nebraska spreads frigid air and snow through the middle Mississippi and Ohio Valleys. Travel advisories cover the Midwest and South, with heavy snow in extreme southwestern Missouri and freezing rain from Texas to Tennessee.
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Associated Press
Ohio Valley
South Dakota
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Iowa
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Tennessee
Mississippi Valley
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Ohio
Rockies
Washington
Oregon
Michigan
New York
Fort Wayne
Ind
Alabama
Great Lakes
North Pacific
Plateau
Atlantic
California
Horton family civil suit moves to Pecos District Court
A civil action involving the Horton family against Wendell Taylor WB Niland Reeves County Sheriff’s office Jim Wilson and the City of Pecos was moved from Ward to Reeves County by order of District Judge JT Starley Dee. The suit seeks 193000 in damages from an accident on November 1972 four miles east of Pecos on U S 80 involving a car driven by Andy Horton fatally injured in a bus collision returning from a band contest in Odessa. The Ward County portion against Douglas Ward Eunene Varney and the Pecos Independent School District remained in Ward County.
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Andy Horton
Wendell Taylor
WB Niland
Reeves County
Horton
Douglas Ward
Euene Varney
Pecos Independent
Ward County
Sheriff launches Operation Identification to cut burglary
Reeves County Sheriff Raul Florez unveiled a year long crime prevention program called Operation Identification aimed at marking property with a tracked ID to deter theft and aid recovery. Buck Luttrell will assist agencies in implementing the effort funded by the Governor’s Criminal Justice Division with federal LEAA money and local matches. Public participation and awareness are key to the plan.
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Raul Florez
Reeves County Sheriff's Department
Florez
Buck Luttrell
Luttrell
The
Texas Crime Prevention Institute
Vention
Police
Sheriff's Department
Criminal Justice Division
Governor's Office
Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
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City Oks New Park
Sth
Orange
John Oglesby
Hershell Cox
Randy Taylor
Pecos Tire Company
Balmorhea Highway
Police Department
Manuel Orona
S.B. Hunt
Hunt
Ron Armbruster
George Fletcher
Fletcher
Armbruster
Western Avenue
Bob Bickley
Maxey
Bickley
Manual Orona
Ruben Fuentes
Bill Pigman
Manuel
Fuentes
GI Forum
Orona
Pecos Music Association
PMA
Curtis Carlton
Carlson
Pierce
Stanton
PCMA
Pecos
Brenda Virgin
Presbyterian Church
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