Pecos City Elections Set for Mayor and Two Council Seats
The Pecos election will include the mayor and two city council seats. Bill Pigman serves as mayor with a two year term and a monthly salary of 175 dollars plus 100 dollars for expenses. Don Doan Carl McGee and others hold council posts with two year terms and 80 dollars monthly pay. The city adopts a place system pending federal approval and the filing deadline is 30 days before the election.
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Bill Pigman
Don Dean
Carl McGee
Pecos
Don Doan
Bob Bickley
Manuel Trujillo
Sani
Doug Fernandes
Ford budget plan sparks Democratic fire in election year
President Ford proposes a 394.2 billion budget with income tax cut, Social Security levies rise, and new health, housing, and incentive measures. Democrats denounce the plan as an arbitrary ceiling while planning veto battles and warning of unemployment risks as Congress weighs a 112 billion defense bill and Angola funding ban.
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Associated Press
Washington
Ford
Congress
State of the Union
House
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr
D-Mass
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Rules for Revolution echo in modern political clashes
A reader outlines alleged 1919 Rules for Revolution found by Allied forces and compares them to current leftist tactics and a YMCA half-day program. The piece cites corruption aims, propaganda control, firearm registration, and government licensing, then laments legislative overreach during a state session.
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Dusseldorf
Germany
Communist Party
Examiner-Enterprise
Bartlesville
Oklo
Odessa Ymca
The
Raymond Vowell
Texas Department of Public Welfare
Austin
Vowell
YMCA
Winter Weather Impacts Across West Texas and South
National Weather Service in El Paso reports up to three inches of snow in Presidio Brewster Jeff Davis and Culberson counties with cooler winds and 54 34 degree swings in Pecos. Rains and freezing conditions also spread from the Gulf coast through the Mississippi Valley while drought plagues Southern California and warmth returns to the Los Angeles basin.
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Oldman
West Texas
National Weather Service
el Paso
Presidio
Brewster
Jeff Davis
Culberson
Pecos
Associated Press
Texas
Texas Panhandle
San Angelo
Davis Mountains
Gulf of Mexico
California
Great Lakes
Mississippi Valley
Arkansas
Missouri
Ohio Valley
Indiana
Ohio
Kentucky
Pennsylvania
Maryland
New England
Los Angeles Basin
Urquidi Named Chief Deputy In Reeves County Sheriff
Reeves County Sheriff A B Nail announces Antonio Tony Urquidi as chief deputy elevating from captain to replace Gary Ingram who resigned. Urquidi has nine years in Pecos law enforcement including six years as a city officer and three years with Reeves County. He holds advanced and instructors certificates and is FBI Academy graduate. He and his wife Emma and three children live at 214 Daggett.
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Reeves County
A.B. Nail
Antonio “Tony
Urquidi
Gary Ingram
Pecos
Texas Commission For Law Enforcement Officer
FBI
Odessa College
Emma
Daggett
Cotton Trailer Fires Strain Pecos Fire Crews
Pecos firemen battled a trailer loaded with about three bales of cotton burning across from Toone's Grocery west of town. While tackling that blaze they responded to two more grass fires and another cotton trailer on Duval road, all within about an hour. Heavy damage and total loss of the cotton owned by B V Shaw.
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Lynn Owens
Duval Road
Lynn Webb
Pecos
Toone’s
B.V. Shaw
Reeves Loving County Junior Livestock Show Plans Big
Reeves and Loving County 4 H and FFA members prepare for the annual Junior Livestock Show and Sale scheduled January 30 31 at the City county fair barn. Steers and swine start Friday with lambs shown Saturday. Sale follows a barbecue and hospitality hour as buyers commit to a larger event.
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Reeves-Loving County
Bill Calloway
Reeves and Loving County 4-H
FFA
Calloway
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Ronald Reagan
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U.S
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Paso
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