Inflation Drives Higher Costs as Dollar Slump Looms
The government warned Americans to brace for the largest consumer price increase in four years, 7.2 percent, driven by higher food costs and a weakening dollar. Forecasts for 1978 and 1979 remain higher than earlier predictions, with groceries and overall living costs rising and recession fears voiced by economists. The administration projects slower growth but improving unemployment by late 1979, from 6.1 percent to about 5.6 percent.
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R. Gregory Nokes
Associated Press
Washington
Agriculture Department
Federal Reserve
G. William Miller
Southwest Microfilm Archive Item
Southwest Microfilm at 2601 E Yandell El Paso Texas lists processing location P20 Dox 10054.
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Southwest Microfilm
E. Yandell
Dox
el Paso
Tex
Texas lawmakers hear Prop 13 not fit for Texas tax plan
Texas lawmakers told California style tax relief would fail in Texas. Committees debated Prop 13’s effects, noting Texas has far more taxing units and that residents would lose billions in federal deductions if a Texas version passed. Speaker urged focus on a meaningful tax limitation plan.
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Austin
Texas
California
House
Dolph Briscoe
McGrew
Walter Lilie
Brad Wright
Houston
Texas supreme court overturns 87000 dollar verdict in tire case
The Texas Supreme Court reversed a lower ruling awarding 87,000 to the widow and son of Clemente Urquidez after a tire blowout killed a test driver at Automotive Proving Grounds. The court ruled the tire never entered commerce and thus Armstrong Rubber is not liable.
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Austin
Armstrong
Odessa
el Paso Court of Civil Appeals
Supreme Court
Guilty pleas nine get jail terms in immigration cases
Nine men convicted of misdemeanor INS violations were sentenced by U S Magistrate J M Preston of Pecos after pled guilty. A tenth defendant, Israel Luna Luna of Kermit, faced felony charges and was jailed after an admitted right to counsel and bond set at 15000. Other defendants received 179 day terms for illegal entry or presence.
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U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
U.S
J.M. Preston
Pecos
Israel Luna-Luna
Kermit
Preston
Extradited suspect held on felony theft in Saragosa
Reeves County Sheriff Raul Florez said Andres Rodriguez 28 was extradited from Nebraska and returned to Pecos on a residential burglary charge tied to a Saragosa May incident. Bond set at 10000. Rodriguez waived extradition in Ordon and appeared before a justice of the peace before remand to sheriff custody.
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Nebraska
Pecos
Saragosa
Reeves County
Raul Florez
Andres Rodriguez
Ordon
Sheriff's Department
Rodriguez
Justice of the Peace
Weather Watch West Texas Heat and Storms Forecast
Yesterday Pecos reached 106 degrees and today’s low was 72. The AP forecast calls for partly cloudy days and fair nights through Friday with widely scattered afternoon and nighttime thunderstorms in the northwest and mountains. Continued hot afternoons across most areas with highs in the 90s to around 105 and lows in the 70s. Six other illegal entrants were sentenced to 90 days each in custody of the U.S. Border Patrol. They are Ramon Gonzalez Prado Jose Antonio Ortega Cabral Guillermo Rodriguez Gaytan Guadalupe Leyva Carrasco Jose Manuel Arrenivas Guerrero and Juan Puentes Alarcon. Those convicted of misdemeanor offenses acknowledged their rights in magistrate court.
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Pecos
Associated Press
West Texas
U.S. Border Patrol
U.S
Ramon Gonzalez-Prado
Jose Antonio Ortega- Cabral
Guillermo Rodriguez-Gaytan
Guadalupe Leyva-Carrasco
Jose Manuel Arrenivas- Guerrero
Juan Puentes-Alarcon
Reeves County Attorney Sworn In Kent to Succeed Green
Pecos resident Robert S. Kent was sworn in as Reeves County Attorney on July 5 in a ceremony led by County Judge H D Glover with County Judge Bill Pigman and the County Commissioners Court present. Kent, a Washington and Lee University law graduate who studied pre-law at the University of West Virginia, succeeds Lee Green.
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Pecos
Robert S. Kent
Nebraska
Reeves County
H.D. Glover
Bill Pigman
County Commissioners Court
Kent
Lee Green
Washington and Lee University
University of West Virginia
Grayson County taxes in limbo as suit proceeds
Grayson County tax structure is in limbo after a court injunction blocked certification of tax rolls until intangible personal property is included. The suit, led by the Grayson County Taxpayers Association, argues the current system omits stocks, bonds and bank accounts from taxation, while officials insist the ruling will not alter tax policy outside Grayson County.
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Terry Leonard
Associated Press
Sherman
Texas
Grayson County
Roger Sanders
Grayson County Taxpayers Association
W.C. Boyd
Sanders
Bill Sullivant
Gainesville
Sullivant
Boyd
Gible
Dee Brown Walker
Dallas
Walker
Bob Bush
D-Sherman
Bush
Les Tribble
Fine paid in service theft case for Don Fox
A Fort Worth resident, Don Fox, 56, arrested May 24 for theft of services from a local motel, paid a fine and court costs and was released from custody after a Reeves County court appearance. He faced a $2,500 bond earlier and received 14 days in jail with credit for time served, including $77.10 in costs.
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Forth Worth
Don Fox
Fox
Midland Air Terminal
Reeves County
Pecos
H.D. Glover
Insurance board to consider hikes in Texas homeowners rates
The State Insurance Board will meet to review proposed statewide increases in homeowners insurance of about 13.1 percent and 9.4 percent for fire policies. Industry groups seek higher averages while chairman Hugh Yantis opposes a statewide rise, aiming for restrained changes and possible selective hikes.
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Austin
Texas
State
Texas Insurance Advisory Association
Joe Christie
State Insurance Board
U.S. Senate
Hugh Yantis
Yantis
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Ignacio Travino-Martinez
Ruben Muniz-Tarango
Carlos Escontrias-Hernandez
Texas Department of Public Safety
Limbo
Emma Case
Grayson County Organization
East Texas
South Texas
Tyler
Brownwood
McKinney
Andy Hannah
Pecos Jaycees
Ernest H. Cook
Rodeo Grounds
Robert Hinojos
Insurance Board
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