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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1979
Page
1
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President Carter’s lean 1980 budget proposes 158,000 job cuts nationwide under the Comprehensive Employment and Training program and trims highway and transit funds. Texas would gain from defense and education increases and bilingual education funding, with $34 million for Baytown flood control and a $32 million Lakeview Lake project leading the Texas list among nine proposed new projects. The state ranks sixth in Corps of Engineers funding with about 6 percent of the national budget, behind Oregon, Louisiana, Arizona, Alabama and Illinois. Other Texas items include dam and wildlife projects, land acquisitions for refuges, and Amistad power facilities.
Prosecutors urge Judge Wallace Moore to instruct the Cullen Davis jury to continue deliberations and consider an Allen Charge if needed. Defense resists, noting an 8-4 deadlock after six days of deliberations, with jurors indicating a unanimous verdict seems unlikely. The judge had Moore instruct the jury to try again.
A Pecos resident told Reeves County Commissioners that patients needing care are turned away due to doctor shortages at Reeves County Hospital. Judge Pigman said efforts are underway to attract more doctors, with a general practitioner set to move March 15 and another expected soon, while stressing the hospital staff is not obliged to provide doctors.
Five of six Pecos men taken before a local justice of the peace after arrests by Reeves County Sheriff's deputies remained in Reeves County Correctional Facility in lieu of bond. Sheriff Raul Florez said the arrests, all from Pecos, target a wave of recent business and residential burglaries in Pecos and Reeves County.
Texas legislators resume sessions after a short break as Gov. Bill Clements prepares to unveil the first chapter of his program. A rally by pro life groups underscored ongoing abortion law tensions. The report also lists several arrests for unlawful weapons, burglary, theft, and drug offenses with bond details and custody status.
District Judge Larry Fuller of the 143rd District Court announced this morning that the jurors scheduled to report to the Reeves County Courthouse tomorrow have been excused from duty. The list of jurors was published in last Thursday's issue of The Enterprise. Judge Fuller says the jurors need not report until notified.
A Fort Stockton couple Pamlla 25 and Larry Brandon 27 and five other defendants were named in a sealed Pecos federal indictment for conspiracy to possess marijuana and distributing a controlled substance. Pamlla is released on $10,000 personal recognizance bond while Brandon remains in Pecos County jail on $100,000 cash or corporate surety bond.
Forecast shows partly cloudy conditions in Pecos today and Tuesday with winds increasing and a cold turn tomorrow. Sunday high reached 60 and overnight low 32. A winter storm watch remains in effect for the Panhandle with windy and warmer today then colder tonight amid blowing and drifting snow to the north. the south stays partly cloudy.
Dallas Morning News reports John Connally a former Texas governor and Navy secretary, now a Democrat turned Republican, will announce his candidacy on Wednesday. He is to speak at the National Press Club in Washington where the timing of the formal bid is anticipated. Connally, once tied to a 1976 compromise bid, served as treasury secretary under Nixon and switched parties in 1973. He faced bribery and perjury charges after Watergate but was acquitted.
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