Reeves County Grand Jury Plans Investigation
The Reeves County Grand Jury will meet in special session to probe police brutality claims against a Texas Highway Patrolman stationed in Pecos. District Attorney A R Archer has subpoenaed over a dozen witnesses as the panel weighs aggravated assault indictments in five separate cases.
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Reeves County
Texas
A. R. Archer
Monahans
South
Archer
Memorial Hospital
Fred Roquemore
Pecos
Grand Jury
School Board Sets Budget Hearing and Bond Sale
The School Board of the district fixed August 8 at 8 p.m. for a public hearing on the fiscal 1968 69 budget. It called for bids on school bus gasoline by 5 p.m. August 8 and approved purchasing 28 standard typewriters for Hubbs Office Supply. The board sold $2 million in school bonds to First National Bank of Dallas and Security State Bank of Pecos at an average interest rate of 4.9649, approved by voters at the April 27 special election.
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Pecos Independent School District
Bessie Haynes
Ray Whitley
Eleventh Street
Mesquite
Twelfth
Locust
East Pecos Junior High
First National Bank of Dallas
Security State Bank of
PISD Mandates New Immunization for First Graders
Pecos Independent School District requires first grade entrants to show an authorized doctor’s statement proving vaccination against smallpox polio and DPT. Birth certificate needed. Ray H. Whitley announced the rule this Thursday. Title I Summer School students are exempt due to already completed immunizations.
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Pecos Independent School District
PISD
Ray H. Whitley
Park Money Given Okay for Guadalupe National Park
A Senate House conference panel approved 200000 to start purchasing land from J C Hunter Jr, owner of most of the 77000 acres proposed for Guadalupe National Park. The deal follows earlier Senate inclusion and House support, with funding tied to a final bill to be sent to the White House. Options on the Hunter land expire December 31.
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Guadalupe National Park
Senate
House
Abilene
J. C. Hunter Jr
Richard C. White
Carl Hayden
Appropriations Committee
Ralph Yarborough
West Texas
Johnson
Congress
White House
Yarborough
White
Hunter
Elcor Chemical Expansion Gains Approval at Midland Meeting
Elcor Chemical Corp, with sulfur holdings in Culberson County near Van Horn, won shareholder approval to double common stock from three to six million shares and to issue one million preferred shares. The Rock House sulfur project in Culberson proceeds with pre mining facilities finished, gypsum mining underway, a 28 mile spur railroad, a 76 mile gas line, and a 15 mile water line slated for summer service. completion and sulfur recovery could occur as early as November.
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Elcor Chemical Corporation
Culberson County
van Horn
Midland
Elcor
Ject
Rock House
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Reeves County Grand Jury
Sheila Sapere
Erie
Cette
Taefesett
Whitley
Earl Bell
Carver Elementary
Carver
Duval
Houston
Duval Corporation
Rustler Springs
Fort Stockton
School Board
Park
Roy Campbell
Cement
Indus
Try
Texas and Pacific
Pioneer Natural Gas Company
Campbell
Kim
Pecos Beauty
Becky Foster
A.B. Foster
Pecos Produce Co
Cayanosa
Blue Ridge
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