Hijacker quits on runway at Oakland International
A PSA hijacker surrendered on the Oakland runway after receiving 450000 dollars in ransom and a parachute. He had forced the jet to fly about a thousand miles, held hostage five others, and later turned over two weapons to a California Highway Patrol officer as a helicopter waited in a well lit area.
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Oakland
Calif
Pacific Southwest Airlines
Oakland International Airport
Phil Mumma
San Diego
California Highway Patrol
PSA
Esman
Lloyd Turner
White urges early requests for Washington tours this summer
Congressman Richard C. White reports a surge of summer visitors to Washington. He urges residents of Texas 16th District to submit tour pass requests two to four weeks in advance for White House Capitol and FBI tours. Notify change of plans from El Paso or Washington offices to reallocate passes.
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Richard C. White
Washington
16Th
Texas
Capitol
White House
FBI
White
el Paso
Pecos housing project street closures on July vote
A special election July 25 in Pecos will decide closing Orange Street from Tenth to Eleventh and Sage Street from Meadowbrook to Starley Park to make land for 130 public housing units. The measure involves city streets, with Judge Buddy Withers and Ben Matta overseeing paper ballots. contract valued over 1.5 million dollars is awarded to Bruce Campbell of Temple.
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Pecos
Vorhes
Pest
Asplrtion
Buddy
Withers
Ben Matta
Orange Street
Tenth Street
Eleventh Street
Sage Street
Meadowbrook Street
Starley Park
Space center hosts Soviet space experts for Apollo Soyuz talks
A 25 member Soviet space team arrives in Houston to work with an American team on the Apollo Soyuz Test Project. They meet at 4 p.m. EDT to exchange proposals and hold formal sessions planned for the coming two weeks to finalize mission details led by Glynn S. Lunney.
Group plans elder needs survey in Reeves County
Mariah Kimberly of the Permian Basin Regional Planning Commission met in Pecos with Reeves County leaders to form an aging committee and conduct a county wide survey in the last two weeks of July to uncover senior citizens needs. A Barstow gas well by Adobe Oil Co promises 104 million cubic feet, with pipeline links planned to Nor thern Propane and Intratex to move gas to the Midwest and Houston.
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Mariah Kimberly
Permian Basin Regional Planning Commission
Pecos
Harold Meser
Chamber of Commerce
Ray Whitley
Rev. A. Olmos
Rachel Kirkwood
Community Council
Reeves County
Miss Kimberly
Commission
Adobe Oil Co
Barstow
Paul Williams
Fusselman
Pyote
Midwest
Northern Propane Gas Co
Houston
Intratex
Houston Natural Gas Co
Kimberly
Sister's Quick Thinking Ends Tick Disease Ordeal
Nine year old Cynthia Frame fell ill with a mysterious paralysis and speech trouble after a wood tick bite. Her brother John and mother remembered a past news story about similar illness. A doctor removed the tick and Cynthia recovered within minutes, the health official noting tick borne toxins can halt nerve impulses but are reversible if the tick is removed.
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Miami
Cynthia Frame
David Frame
Cynthia
John Frame
Dade County Health Department
Cotton insect short course set Wednesday
A cotton insect evaluation short course sponsored by Reeves and Pecos counties entomologist Bill Bagley will be held Wednesday at 7 30 a m in the Reddy Room of the Community Public Service area office on Stafford Boulevard. The session covers egg counts and current insect populations, aimed at cotton producers insect scouts and industry personnel open to all interested in local cotton production. It includes a one hour formal program with coffee and doughnuts followed by a field trip to practice field evaluation.
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Bill Bagley
Reeves and
Pecos
Reddy
Community Public Service Area
Stafford Boulevard
Cantaloupe outlook for Pecos area remains favorable
Local sources say 1972 Pecos cantaloupe crops should match typical sizes. Distributor A B Foster plans to harvest about 550 irrigated acres with one hail-affected field excluded. Sandra Dingler notes orders from her husband Jimmy for 800 to 1,000 crates, possibly 1,500, while Reeves County totals of 1200 to 1500 acres are expected to produce mainly in mid to late July, with minor insect and disease issues and bees a potential factor.
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Lester Cole
Pecos
A. B. Foster
Foster
Sandra Dingler
Jimmy
Paul Tapp
Reeves County
Tapp
Warm trend continues through Pecos area forecast
The Pecos region is set for a warming trend through Saturday with cloudy to partly cloudy skies and a risk of thunder showers. Daytime highs will range from the high 90s down to the 70s, following a Thursday start with a high of 96 and a low of 70. The Midland terminal registered 71 degrees with southerly and southeasterly winds at 14 mph. Elsewhere a broad line of thundershowers sweeps much of the plains and Panhandle with unseasonably cool air. Amarillo dipped to 62 while Corpus Christi reached 74 and Galveston 76. El Paso and McAllen peaked at 93 and 93 respectively, while Amarillo was the state's coolest at 79.
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Pecos
U.S. Weather Service
Midland Air Terminal
Plains
Panhandle
Amarillo
Dalhart
Corpus Christi
Galveston
el Paso
McAllen
El Paso Gas seeks approval to raise wholesale rates
El Paso Natural Gas asked the Federal Power Commission for authority to raise rates for wholesale customers in California the Southwest and the Pacific Northwest to offset higher costs from borrowed capital labor materials and taxes. The plan would boost Southern Division rates across Arizona California southern Nevada New Mexico and west Texas by about 0.47 cents per thousand cubic feet, yielding roughly $6 million more yearly and a nine percent return on invested capital. A public hearing may be requested under FPC rules.
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Washington
el Paso
Northwest
FPC
Southern Division
Arizona
California
Nevada
New Mexico
West Texas
Zoners deny Foodway plea in Pecos zoning case
The Pecos Zoning Board of Adjustment denied Foodway Store at 1800 S. Eddy St. a zoning change to sell beer and wine for off premises consumption. Opponents argued such sales would hurt the surrounding residential area. The decision, made after adjournment, can be appealed to a higher court rather than overturned by the City Council.
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Pecos Zoning Board of Adjustment
Foodway
S. Eddy St
Bob Scoggins
Kimbell Company
Pecos
Ernest Ballard
Jimmie Morrison
Bill Huckabee
Homer Nowell
W. W. Stokes
Leland Casey
Bill Holub
Casey
J. J. Maxey
Buddies Supermarkets
Zoning Board of Adjustment
Record Carlsbad Caverns visit surge breaks daily high
Park Superintendent Donald Dayton reported a new single day record at Carlsbad Caverns with 12,573 visitors on Sunday, surpassing the 9,308 figure from July 3, 1966. Over the Friday to Sunday period, 26,038 visitors were counted as cave trips shifted to continuous tours.
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Carlsbad Caverns
Donald Dayton
Caevern
Dayton
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Assailants Out for Joy in Haweiian Gardens Killing
In Ha waiian Gardens a 4 year old girl Joyce Huff was killed by a shotgun from a passing car. Three Norwalk men Donald Antel Michael Ramirez and Oscar Hernandez aged 21 17 and 22 were arrested Tuesday and booked on murder suspicion. Deputies say motive is unclear and the case is close to being wrapped up.
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Los Angeles
Joyce Ann Huff
Hawaiian Gardens
Bernice Huff
David Walker
Robert Wood
Donald Paul Antel
Michael Ramirez
Oscar Hernandez
Norwalk
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Commu ‘E Public Service
Bruce Campbell
Temple
Secret Service
Theodore Roosevelt
McKinley
Encyclopaedia Britannica
el Paso Gas
Okay
Harkey
A. E. Harkey
Continental Oil Company
Abbott, Ark
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Continental Oil Co
Aspermont
S. Alamo
Mike Harrison
Carlsbad
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