Texas lawmakers push new bills on beef imports and balanced budget
On day one of the 96th Congress, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen and Rep. Jack Hightower introduced reforms to meat imports and farm price supports. Freshman Rep. Tom Loeffler joined 100 House members backing L. A. Bafalis's balanced budget amendment. Senator Tower did not unveil specific bills but signaled early action on inflation, productivity, and spending.
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Miller Bonner
Associated Press
Washington
Lloyd Bentsen
Jack Hightower
Texas
Tom Loeffler
House
Florida
L.A. Bafalis
John Tower
Senate
Republican Policy Committee
GOP
Tower
Bentsen
Hightower
AAM
Robert Dole
R-Kan
Two Pecos men held after high speed auto theft chase
Enrique Rodriguez 20 and Pedro L Gochicoa 23 of Pecos were charged with auto theft and evading arrest after a chase that reached 105 mph, beginning in Pecos and spanning Reeves Ward Loving counties. They were jailed in Reeves County, bond set at 25000 each for auto theft and 1500 each for evading arrest, with further proceedings pending.
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Pecos
Reeves County
Enrique Rodriguez
Plum
Pedro L. Gochicoa
Ranch Country
Loving Country
Ward
Loving
Fifth
Magnolia
Alameda
el Paso
Rodriguez
Godhicoa
Justice of the Peace
W.H. Brewer
Mentone
Phyllis Salyer
Reeves County Sheriff's Department
RCCF
Clements sworn in as Texas first Republican governor
Bill Clements becomes Texas 41st governor pledging to run government like a business with less government, more efficiency, and safeguards for taxpayers. He praises outgoing Gov Briscoe and vows to persist on tax relief, education improvements, and reducing bureaucracy while working with Lt. Gov. Hobby and Speaker Clayton. He starts with a steak and eggs breakfast.
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Garth Jones
Associated Press
Austin, Texas
Bill Clements
Texas
Bill Hobby
Clements
Hobby
Bill Clayton
Briscoe
Oil unions approve nine contract offers as ratification proceeds
Five new offers approved by the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union raise total ratified contracts to nine since last expiry. Spokesman Jerry Archuleta says about 24,750 of the union’s 60,000 refinery workers are covered. Ten companies are involved including Texaco, Sohio, Atlantic Richfield, ARCO, Energy Cooperative, Cenex, Gulf, Amoco, Marathon, and Lion Oil. A Gulf contract includes 73 cents per hour first-year raise and 5 percent second-year boost with a second-year reopener. Port Arthur Texa s saw Texaco avert a strike by removing two local issues from bargaining.
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Denver
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union
A.F. Grospiron
Gulf Oil Corp
Jerry Archuleta
OCAW
Archuleta
Texaco
Sohio Standard Oil
Ohio
Atlantic Richfield
Energy Cooperative Inc
East Chicago
Ind
Cenex
Laurel, Mont
Sohio
Energy Cooperative
Ership
Amoco Standard Oil
Indiana
Marathon Oil
Lion Oil
Gulf
Port Arthur
Texas
Two Odessans Given Probation After Marijuana Convictions
James Howard Haney Jr. and Jimmy Hal Haney, both of Odessa, received five years supervised probation in the Western District of Texas Pecos Division after pleading guilty to misdemeanor possession of marijuana. Judge William Sessions suspended one year in prison for each brother. Richard Dewey Brown, 23, of Fort Stockton, received an indeterminate Youth Corrections Act sentence for felony marijuana possession. his wife Nora Lisa Brown, 21, had charges dropped.
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Odessa
James Howard Haney, Jr
Jimmy Hal Haney
Pecos
U.S. District Court For
Western District of Texas
U.S. Dist
William Sessions
Haneys
Richard Dewey Brown
Fort Stockton
Youth Corrections Act
Nora Lisa Brown
Weather Outlook for Pecos and West Texas
Mostly cloudy conditions prevail through Wednesday with a slight chance of rain as scattered showers in the extreme west move eastward across southern sections. In Pecos the high reached 49 and the low 37. Highs range from 42 in the northeast to 65 in the extreme south, with lows from 18 to 42.
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Pecos
West Texas
Closing arguments in Davis murder plot trial begin
Prosecutor Terry Wilson told the jury that Cullen Davis aimed to kill people and coerced David McCrory to help mass murder. He challenged Davis's testimony about funds from McCrory and pressed the jury on Davis’s alleged cold intent over weeks of testimony. The trial, packed court, will hear four hours of defense argument. Davis faces possible life imprisonment if convicted of plotting to kill Fort Worth Judge Joe Eidson.
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Rob Wood
Associated Press
Houston
Terry Wilson
Jury Today
Cullen Davis
Wilson
Fort Worth
David McCrory
McCrory
Davis
Las Vegas
Joe Eidson
Eidson
Moore
FBI
Priscilla
Edison
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