Large Livestock Show Sets Weekend Display
Approximately 300 animals will be on display at the Ree ves Loving County Junior Livestock Show and Sale scheduled for this weekend. The event runs Friday and Saturday at the Rodeo and Fair Grounds with judging Saturday morning and a sale at 7 30 p m. Wally Gillum and Donald Leveritt will auction the prize hogs lambs capons and steers to buyers.
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Reeves- Loving County
J.T. Moore, Jr
Chamber of Commerce
Wally Gillum
Midland
Donald Leveritt
Cayanosa
F.F.A
Bailey Wheeless
Moore
West Texas Chamber seeks realistic emission standards
F W Wallace president of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce told the Texas Air Control Board that unreasonable restrictions on food fiber petroleum and consumer products could kill jobs and raise costs. He urged realistic standards to balance industry air quality with supply of goods in the 19 county Dallas Fort Worth region.
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Dallas
F.W. Wallace
West Texas
Dallas and
Fort Worth
TACB
Wallace
Faulkner and McGowen Named to Presidential Classroom
Wendell D. Faulkner Jr. and Jack L. McGowen, Pecos High School seniors, were selected for the 1971 Secondary High School Program of A Presidential Classroom for Young Americans. They join 350 students from across the country and overseas to study government in Washington, D.C. March 13 to 20.
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Charles G. Allison
Washington, D.C
Wendell D. Faulkner Jr
Jack L. McGowen
Pecos High School
United States
U.S. Territories
Department of Defense
Department of State
Wendell
Jack
W. D. Faulkner Sr
R. B. McGowen
Pecos
Defense and State Department
U.S
T.a.s
Allison
White House
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Repercussions from Houston stock fraud cases ripple outward
A major Houston bank, Sharpstown State Bank, was closed after depositor withdrawal fears sparked by SEC actions. Texas regulators placed National Bankers Life and Olympic Life Insurance under conservatorship as part of a wider fraud case. Proceedings include appeals to suppress evidence and calls for political resignations, with lawmakers proposing conflict of interest measures.
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Associated Press
Houston
Sharpstown State Bank
Texas Insurance Board
National Bankers Life Insurance Co
Securities and Exchance Commission
Olympic Life Insurance Co
Fort Worth
SEC
Dallas
Curtis Graves
Texas House
Gus Mutscher
Michael Makris
Jim Nugent
Kerrville
Charles Wilson
Lufkin
Preston Smith
Mutscher
Democratic Party
Filmer Baum
National Bankers Life
Texas
Bob Stewart
Sharpstown Bank
Frank W. Sharp
Federal Deposit Insurance Co
Pany
NBL
Sharp
Sam Stock
U. S. Dist
Sarah T. Hughes
Securities and Exchange Commission
Robert Watson
Sharp and Stock
Barbs About Gifted Politicians Prompt Study On Prospect Calls
A sales chief studies why his team’s prospects require calls in good weather at the moment. The remark reflects on political figures and their public lives, suggesting a pattern of attention to favorable conditions.
Sheriffettes Sponsor Teenage Western Dance
Reeves County Sheriff ettes reorganized at Charlene Nail home with new members mostly wives of officers. The group aims to provide activities for teens from junior high to high school and plans a February 13 dance at the Sheriffs Posse Barn with The Cheyenne Social Club as entertainers. A February 6 public dance will raise funds for club projects.
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Reeves County Sheriffettes
Charlene Nail
Sheriffettes
Sheriffs Posse Barn
Tommy Hooker
Cheyenne Social Club
Melus
Roe Rites Pending After Truck Turnover Death
J. W. Roe, 60, died of a heart attack after a truck overturned four miles north of Mentone. He was with Canal Well Service, walked after exiting, and died. funeral services are pending at Pecos Funeral Home.
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J. W. Roe
Mentone
Roe
Canal Well Service
Pecos
Rapist Given 25 Year Term
Robert Lafler, 36, of Orla, was convicted of statutory rape of his 13-year-old daughter by an all male jury after about one hour and forty minutes of deliberation. Judge J H Starley sentenced him to twenty five years in the State penitentiary in 143rd District Courts yesterday. The victim testified against her father.
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J.H. Starley
Robert Lafler
Orla
Lafler
Releasing desert bighorns to roam in Texas Black Gap Area
Biologists released 19 desert bighorn sheep from a 427 acre holding pen at the Black Gap Wildlife Management Area in Texas. The herd began with nine in 1959 and is part of a larger 68 animal herd. Bluetongue disease prompts ongoing inoculation tests at Texas A&M University and future ewe releases are planned.
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Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Black Gap
Trans- Pecos
Arizona
Texas A&m University
Rites Set For Earl Kilgore
Mr and Mrs Lou Kilgore and Mrs Hood Wise travel to Eldorado Arkansas for funeral services for Earl Kilgore who died Monday. Survivors include his widow. A defense witness George Ashby testified near the Lafler case. An incest indictment was returned by the Grand Jury and attorney Fred Chandler Sr said he would appeal within ten days.
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Lou Kilgore
Hood Wise
Eldorado, Ark
Earl Kilgore
Lafler
Fred Chandler Sr
George Ashby
Orla
California
Reeves County
Chandler
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Dallas Morning News
Wichita Falls
Smith
U.S. Treasury Department
Dale
Phoenix
Albert Dale
Industrial Communications of
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Motorola
Motorola Communications
Ramada Inn
Betty
WTCC
Wes
Faulkner
McGowen
Shoreham Hotel
Washington
Department of Commerce
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Capitol Hill
Territories
American Samoa
Argentina
Nicaragua
Mexico
Italy
Germany
Belgium
Labrador
Okinawa
Philippines
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School P
Wendell Faulkner JR
Olympic
Tom L. McFarling
McFarling
Sheriffs Posse
Gulf of Mexico
Lone Star State
Texas Panhandle
Port Arthur
Laredo
Abilene
Sweetwater
Cotulla
Austin
San Antonio
Waco
Lubbock
Dalhart
Alpine
Amarillo
Brownsville
East Pecos
East Pecos Junior High
Ray Campbell
David Terry
Roger Chavez
Bobby Leyva
Freddy Vasquez
Kenneth Williams
Maurice Bolton
Bighorns
Dist
Roddy Harrison
Kilgore
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