Ten year old Anthony Portillo earns Enterprise Carrier honor
Ten year old Anthony Portillo, Pecos Elementary fifth grader, is named Enterprise Carrier of the Month after starting a route on New Year’s Day last year. Lupe Villena praises his reliability and courtesy with customers on Hickory to Oleander streets. He handles weather by planning with family support and enjoys drawing and summer baseball.
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Anthony Portillo
Enterprise
Lupe Villela
Pecos
Hickory
Oleander
S. Plum
Gene Douglas
Livestock Show Opens With Barbecue And Auction
The 1977 livestock show begins with a 5 p.m. barbecue at 2.50 per plate, then an auction at 7:30 p.m. in the fair barn. Hog show starts by 5 p.m. with capon displays, followed by steers and lambs to be shown by 9 a.m. Saturday. Reeves and Loving counties 4 H and FFA chapters participate. Arson squad warns against torching homes.
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FFA
Reeves
Loving
Congress urged to pass emergency energy bill during gas shortages
White House energy adviser James R. Schlesinger urged Congress to enact Carter's emergency energy proposals as a temporary safety net amid severe natural gas shortages caused by a cold winter. He warned some homes may face gas cutoffs while regional supplies vary and called for authority to shift gas. Senate debate opened with leaders pressing rapid action and long term planning to follow.
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Associated Press
Washington
White House
James R. Schlesinger
Congress
Carter
Schlesinger
House Energy and Power
Senate
Subcommittee
John Dingell
D-Mich
Dingell
Robert Byrd
D-W
Byrd
Briscoe Pushes Deregulation as Gas Crisis Remedy
Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe urged Congress to deregulate the price of new natural gas rather than rely on Carter administration emergency legislation. He argued federal controls have harmed Texas consumers paying up to four times more for intrastate gas and warned that price controls fail long term while Carter supports deregulation in principle. He stressed rapid federal action is needed to avert future gas shortages.
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Associated Press
Washington
Dolph Briscoe
Texas
Congress
Carter
House Energy Subcommittee
Briscoe
Grand jury indicts nine in Reeves County cases
Reeves County grand jury returned nine indictments. Charles W. Curtis faces charges of taking encumbered bank property between 200 and 10 000 dollars from First Coman Bank and City National Bank Wichita Falls on April 10 1976. Others include Marty Howard for allegedly stealing a car in January, Ector Juarez for burglary December 13, Little John Eagle for theft of a Chevrolet truck, Jaime Lynn Wade for methamphetamine possession, Jimmy and Linda Sykes over Lindy Sykes’s death on January 2 1976, Enrique Castillo Arriola for jewelery store burglary September 10, Ronnie Lee for head injury in theft incident January 16, and Michael Paul Reeves for injury during theft at a service station.
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Reeves County Grand Jury
Charles W. Curtis
First Comanche Bank of
Comanche
City National Bank of
Wichita Falls
Marty Howard
Rodney Sparkman
Howard
Ector Juarez
Charles D. Gilchrist
Juarez
Little John Eagle
John Cravey
Jaime Lynn Wade
Lindy Michell Sykes
Enrique Castillo Arriola
Fonville
Arriola
Ronnie Lee
Paul Budlong
U.S
Lee
Michael Paul Reeves
Reeves
Granado Home Fire Damages Oscar Granado Residence
Fire at 925 E. 4th St Thursday afternoon caused heavy smoke damage to most of the Granado home. Fire marshal Dick Wadley says an electrical short in a bedroom stereo sparked the blaze, which destroyed one bedroom and many furnishings. The incident was extinguished in about 30 minutes.
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Th St
Oscar Granado
Dick Wadley
Hackberry
Boyle Granted New Trial By Pennsylvania Supreme Court
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered a new trial for former United Mine Workers president W. A. Tony Boyle. He was convicted in the killings of UMW insurgent Joseph Yablonski and his wife and daughter.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Supreme Court
Bitter cold blast grips Midwest with snow and wind
The Associated Press reports another Arctic air surge across the Midwest bringing bitter cold, wind, and snow. By morning the front stretched from eastern Montana to western Minnesota and aimed toward the southeast with temperatures plummeting to 20 degrees below zero.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Great Lakes
Central Plains
Montana
Minnesota
Cold front drives snow and wind across central regions
Frigid air and gusty winds sweep the plains and Great Lakes creating travel advisories. Snow totals include five inches at Muskegon Minnesota and scattered flurries from the Rockies to the Great Lakes. Visibility drops with blowing snow while Texas faces dense fog along with a sharp cold front advancing toward evening.
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Mason City
Iowa
Rockies
Great Lakes
Muskegon
Minn
Peoria
Ill
Rapid City
S.D
Moline
Milwaukee
Central Plains
Great Lakes Region
Texas Panhandle
East
Texas
Midland
Houston
Panhandle
North Texas
South Tex
Pecos Division gains new court deputy clerk Stella Guerrero McAnally
Stella Guerrero McAnally succeeds Mary Jane Gray as Pecos Division deputy clerk after taking the oath on Jan 20 under Clerk Dan Benedict. The Pecos court, dormant since 1973, was reactivated in 1976 by Judge D W Suttle, with nine preliminary hearings upcoming for Monday.
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Stella Guerrero McAnally
Mary Jane Gray
Pecos
United States District Court
Alpine
McAnally
Pecos Abstract Co
Reeves County
Dan Benedict
Jim McAnally
James Crane
Midland
D.W. Suttle
J.M. Preston
Fire Sweeps Stratford Hotel in Breckenridge
A blaze destroyed the four story Stratford Hotel in Breckenridge Minnesota before dawn. Twenty two people were unaccounted for as blizzard like conditions and a wind chill of 85 below zero hampered rescue efforts. Mayor Hugh Mikkelson said a death count would take hours to verify once debris could be cleared by a crane.
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Breckenridge, Minn
Hugh Mikkelson
Minnesota-North Dakota
Stratford
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Bigcorn
Dallas
Sen
Lowell Weicker
R-Conn
Weicker
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Linda R. Sykes
Big Spring
Lindy Michelle Sykes
Granado
Tony Boyle
New England
New York
Middle Atlantic States
Plateau
Oregon
Idaho
California
Key West
Fla
Minot Air Force Base
N.C
Winter
Dalhart
Amarillo
McAllen
Stella McAnally
Stella McAnally District
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