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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1978
Page
1
Southwest Microfilm lists its El Paso address at 2601 E Yandell P20 with ZIP 79994 and a box 10054. The terse entry provides basic location data for correspondence or inquiries.
District Attorney Walter Holcombe outlines Texas Speedy Trial Act procedures following a Pecos briefing. He stresses timing starts at arrest, complaint, or indictment, and lists steps for officers, judges, and prosecutors to expedite cases, including lab reports, case filing, and use of a control card to track progress.
The Supreme Court set aside a ruling that a 4 billion public works law to fight unemployment was unconstitutional for dedicating 10 percent of funds to minority businesses. The case goes back to a Los Angeles federal three judge panel to decide mootness, with no new light on affirmative action. The Bakke decision remains the anchor, allowing race to be a factor but not the sole criterion in admissions.
A United States citizen from Arkansas was fined and a Mexican national was given a prison term after guilty pleas in Pecos before U S Magistrate J M Preston for violating Immigration and Naturalization Service law. Jack T Shinn 42 of London paid 250 dollars for aiding and abetting an illegal alien. Guadalupe Mendez Contreras 32 was sentenced to 120 days and it noted this was his ninth arrest for illegal entry. He had eight voluntary returns to Mexico previously with no prosecution. Both defendants waived trial in federal district court before a magistrate on Border Patrol complaints.
First National Bank Security State Bank and Pecos Savings and Loan will be closed Tuesday for the Fourth of July. City offices close Tuesday, county offices shut today and Tuesday. Community Public Service and Southern Union Gas open today, closed tomorrow. Post Office windows shut with no city deliveries on the holiday.
Temperatures in Pecos topped 105 degrees yesterday with a 71 degree low reported today. The AP forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy skies and hot afternoons through Tuesday with widely scattered storms, highs 95 to 100 and near 106 in Big Bend, lows 58 to 73 in the mountains.
The Enterprise will not publish tomorrow or Tuesday to permit employees and newspaper boys to observe the holiday with their families. The offices at 324 S. Cedar will be closed all day. Regular publication resumes Wednesday with offices opening at 8 a.m.
An examiner for the Texas Aeronautics Commission recommends denying Big Bend Airways inc's application to provide Air service between Alpine and Midland and between Midland and Lubbock. Exceptions must be filed by July 14. The case cites financial instability and lack of market support as reasons against certification.
Gov Dolph Briscoe Lt Gov Bill Hobby and Speaker Bill Clayton announce a noon July 10 special session to seek tax relief measures with a two thirds vote rule as the limit. Hearings begin Wednesday on possible legislation. Briscoe expects a two week session and vows to veto new tax bills unless overruled by two thirds.
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