Mitchell says Nixon will defend his own good name
Former Attorney General John N. Mitchell testifies before the Watergate committee that President Nixon would defend his good name and that Mitchell would have fired those implicated if the President had known the full truth. He cites fears of harming Nixon’s reelection and suggests the White House face the issue directly with investigators.
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Mitchell
Nixon
Jeb Stuart Magruder
John W. Dean
White House
Washington
John N. Mitchell
Howard H. Baker Jr
Rtenn
Baker
Woodrow Wilson
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N. C
Richard Nixon
Daniel Elisberg
Kennedy
Pecos Police Monthly Report Sees High Patrol and Arrest Totals
Police patrolled 13 066 miles and responded to 371 calls in June while making 46 jail arrests. The department logged 36 property offenses and 3 offenses against persons, with 19 cleared and 20 pending. Drunks led jail arrests with 21. vandalism topped property offenses with nine cases. Officers investigated 25 wrecks injuring 11 people. Humane officer handled 195 calls, including five dog bite incidents. cats were impounded 48 times.
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Pecos
Perty
Pecos Band Students Head to West Texas Music Camp
About 35 Pecos high school band students will leave Pecos for Canyon at 6 a.m. Sunday with the bus departing from the band hall. The trip includes band, sectionals, ensembles, orchestra, choir and other activities. They return to Pecos early Saturday, July 28, then depart for Camp Musquiz August 13 returning August 17.
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Pecos Band
West Texas Music
Canyon
Pecos
Camp Musquiz
Grizzly Bears Move Into Kemano Golf Course
Seven grizzly bears descend from the mountains to Kemano's golf course feeding at a nearby dump. They rattle players and have caused property damage while golf scores rise as players fear encounters.
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Kitimat
B,c
Kemano
Pecos-Barstow school board to consider lighting bids
The Pecos Barstow school board meets at 5 30 p m Thursday to open bids for football field lighting and the school bus service contract for the 1973 74 year. They will also review the tax report set the public hearing budget rate and discuss other items.
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Pecos-Barstow
Sisters fare well at Pecos parish reception
St Catherine's Altar Society hosts a reception in Pecos to honor Ursuline Sisters before their departure to San Angelo. The informal gathering in the parish hall Wednesday evening runs 7:30 to 9 and includes refreshments as friends bid them farewell after nearly 40 years in Pecos.
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St. Catherine’s
Plane crash near Orly claims many aboard Varig Boeing 707
A Varig Airlines Boeing 707 with engine trouble crashed three miles south of Orly Airport as it approached for an emergency landing. Officials said only a few of the 117 passengers and 17 crew survived. three survivors were pulled from the wreckage. The flight was Sao Paulo to Paris via Rio de Janeiro with a stopover in Brazil.
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Mitchell
White House
Paris
Orly
Varig Airlines
Sao Paulo
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
Pecos City Council Set to Open Bids for Pickup Purchase
Pecos city council members meet in regular session in council chambers on Thursday at 7 30 a m to open bids for a new pickup for water and sewer departments and review regular monthly reports.
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Pecos
Water and Sewer
Grover Addresses Downtown Lions at Texas Policy Talk
Hank Grover, former Houston Republican gubernatorial candidate, was guest of honor at a morning reception and coffee at the community center banquet room. He spoke before the Downtown Lions Club about Texas issues including constitutional revision and judiciary changes to an appointive system.
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Hank Grover
Houston
Community Center
Grover
Lions Club
Lions
Texas
Houston Baptist College
Pecos Chamber Directors Discuss Advertising and Growth
Pecos Chamber of Commerce board heard committee reports outlining yearly objectives and progress. Clay Osborn received a certificate for expanding his television and appliance firm now with Firestone tires. no action on advertising budget. A note on Grover, former Texas legislator, and a separate hit and run incident involving Jackie Johnson’s legally parked car on West Fifth Street July 7.
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Clay Osborn
Terry Burns
Cedar
Third Streets
Firestone
Osborn
Chamber
Pecos Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Board of Directors
Third
Cedar Streets
Pecos
Holiday Inn
Jackie Johnson
Sierra Blanca
Johnson
West Fifth Street
Barstow Lions Celebrate 25th Anniversary Dinner
Barstow Lions Club marks 25 years with a dinner meeting at Ben's Spanish Inn on a Saturday. Pecos Lions assist in the program. The Barstow club began in 1948 with charter members, 15 remaining local. It sponsors civic events and Lionist programs including Little League baseball, Thanksgiving turkey shoots, Christmas candy bags, and boom and light bulb sales funding the eyeglasses program.
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Barstow
Lions Clubs
State lawmaker urges moving retarded care to mental health dept
State Rep. Emmett H. Whitehead and Rep. John Whitmire visited the Dyer Vocational Training Center near Madisonville to argue transferring supervision of homes for mentally retarded children from the Welfare Department to the Mental Health and Mental Retardation Department. The center, licensed since 1970, houses 98 residents from Louisiana with various education and vocational programs, while some children are too severely retarded to teach.
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Leona
Tex
Emmett H. Whitehead
Rusk
State Department of Public Welfare
Department of Mental Health and
Whitehead
Mental Health Department
State Welfare Department
Dyer Vocational Training Center
Madisonville
Centerville
Houston
John Whitmire
House Human Resources Committee
Dyer Center
Louisiana
Texas Department of Public Welfare
Dyer
Ralph Schoter
Schoter
Moyer denies stamp thefts in 1970 case
Former Rep. Hudson Moyer told a Texas court he did not steal state postage stamps in 1970. He said he reimbursed himself from personal stamps used for 1969 legislative mailings due to a lack of funds in his contingent expense account.
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Committee
Nixon
Austin
Hudson Moyer
Moyer
Charles Burton
New member welcomes C and G Electric signed up
John T. Rediger signs up C and G Electric as new members in a welcome notice. The item records a business membership expansion and notes the sponsor.
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Pecos
Pecos Chapter 3 Meets Tonight at Oak Street Center
The Pecos Chapter 3 will hold a bi monthly meeting tonight at the Image center located at 212 S Oak St. The meeting starts at 8 40 p m and all members are urged to attend.
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Image of Pecos
Image Center
S. Oak St
Rainfall and heat wave sweep across Texas and beyond
Widespread cooling rains eased the heat with Pecos at .46 inches and highs near 99. The trough of low pressure sparked showers and thunderstorms from San Angelo to Fort Stockton, with warnings for flash flooding in several counties. Tornadoes were reported near Sayre and Parkersburg or near Mobile, Galveston coastal readings showed wide temperature contrasts.
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Balmorhea
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Associated Press
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Wilbarger
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Ala
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Mont
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Utah
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Grizzlys
Honors Sisters
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Texas Republican
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