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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1973
Page
1
The Pecos Rotary Rodeo Revue opens with the Golden Girl selection at the high school auditorium and a street dance on Oak Street. Rodeo events run through the week with parades, trail riders arriving, and noon barbeques featuring the sheriff s posse. Local residents will sing the national anthem at each performance.
Three wrecks with no injuries were investigated by Pecos police Friday and Saturday. One crash at the W Third Street and Bois D Arc intersection involved Kitty Ann Gunn of Pecos and Hubert Dan Bryan of Concord California. Bryan was eastbound on Third trying to pull into a drive in when he was struck by Gunn who was westbound after leaving the Bois D Arc intersection.
Mark Vermeer of Grand Rapids thrives with King a red tailed hawk bird learned to hunt and fly since finding her at nine weeks old He plans to release King when she can fend for herself though he calls her a superduper pet In a separate note two accidents near the Greyhound station and a Third Street garage led to minor injuries and police citations for improper start in one case and no citations in the other.
Wally Gonzales is to be installed as president of the Evening Lions Club at 7 36 p m today. Chet Conners, former district governor, will install the new officer slate at the American Motor Inn.
Ruperto Prieto Contreras 46 of Balmorhea died after being struck by a vehicle on U S 290 about 0.8 mile east of Balmorhea. The crash occurred about 10 p m Saturday as he walked in front of an automobile driven by Jimmy R Carrasco Jr of Odessa.
DPS says all Texas Highway Patrol personnel will work from July 3 through July 4 with days off cancelled. Traffic patrols will cover duties in motor vehicle inspection and weight divisions to ensure safe travel. DPS estimates 19 deaths over the period, noting the midweek holiday limits travel.
Weekend temperatures stayed extreme across Texas with 112 in Pecos on Friday and highs of 107 in Dallas and 106 in Amarillo. Showers offered only brief relief along the coast from Beaumont to Corpus Christi as heat and humidity persisted. tornadoes spanned the Midwest with multiple states reporting damage and injuries. Police investigated the removal of rodeo decorations from a downtown Austin insurance office during the night of June 30.
A two hour gun battle at a piney woods farm near San Augustine Texas left Mat tie Mae Clark dead and five others wounded including Ambu lance driver Lonnell Garner Deputy Richard Davis and Sheriff John Hoyt among the injured. Victor Van Lacy surrendered after the standoff at 10 a.m. and a 16 gauge bolt action shotgun and a .22 rifle were found at the scene.
The Chamber of Commerce announces the addition of Warner Aviation as its newest member. Terry Burns signs the welcome on behalf of the chamber.
Police arrested 17 year old Gilberto Quintero after a Sunday shoplifting incident at Nik Nak. Billie Kilcrease notified authorities at 2 48 p m that a subject took sunglasses without paying. Quintero was jailed on theft under five dollar charges.
William E. Colby, Nixon nominee to head the CIA, told the Senate panel he will keep the agency out of domestic investigations and would talk to the President if given questionable instructions. He urged keeping military influence separate from CIA judgments and emphasized peacetime needs for accurate intelligence on actual enemy plans.
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