Koreans Shoot Down U.S. Chinook Helicopter Over North Korea
President Carter, citing a navigational error, says a routine west-to-east coast flight strayed into North Korean airspace. Three crewmen were killed, one captured, and a fourth missing as North Korea fired on the downed Chinook. U.N. in Seoul notes the craft entered territory unintentionally after missing its southern landing site. Panmunjom talks were requested to proceed immediately to resolve the incident.
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Washington
North Korea
U.S
Carter
United Nations Command
Seoul
Panmunjom
Korea
Dmz
Pyond-Taek
Pangnung
Pecos High School band gets new truck for instruments
Pecos Eagle Band Booster Club raises half of a 6600 dollar GMC aluminum truck fund to haul heavy instruments. The school district matches the other half with public donations already arriving from civic groups like the Evening Optimist Club. About 2800 more is needed for painting and shelving as band members progress with the project.
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Pecos
Pecos Eagle Band Booster Club
David Dutchover
Dutchover
Canyon
West Texas
Pecos Eagle Band
Pat Midkiff
Mary Ann Weinacht
Nina Abila
Yarbrough seeks delay as hearing set on motions
Yarbrough’s attorney seeks to halt Friday’s trial as lawyers push pre hearing motions. The dispute includes quashing subpoenas for 181 legislators and challenging discovery timing. The address resolution accuses him of perjury forgery and soliciting murder. A grand jury has indicted him and a bar association seeks disbarment.
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Austin
Tex
Supreme Court
Don Yarbrough
House
Senate
Yarbrough
Waggoner Carr
U.S. District Court
U.S. 5Th Circuit Court
Tom Gee
Carr
Travis County
Harris County Bar Association
Superburglar robs 600 San Antonio homes for millions
A San Antonio police briefing reveals a 24 year old Huntsville convict confessed to 648 burglaries over three years, targeting homes and businesses and taking millions in loot with a partner. The man, held on other terms, guided detectives to crime sites in the last 20 days.
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San Antonio, Tex
San Antonio
Huntsville
Bill Weilbacher
Weilbacher
Weilbacker
Imposter frees his brother from Dallas juvenile home
A 15 year old in a wig and fur coat posed as his mother to secure the release of his 13 year old brother from the Dallas County juvenile detention home. Officials said the 13 year old is back at the home and the impersonator has previously performed female impersonations in other settings and sounds like his mother.
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Dallas (Ap
Dallas County
Don Smith
Pecos City Council hires officers and rejects others
The Pecos City Council in regular session hired three patrolmen William Ira Gist William Ted Bowden and Charles Edwin LaFever and accepted the termination of three officers. James Wilson was promoted from patrolman to patrol sergeant with pay raise. The council extended the term of S.B. Hunt Water and Sewer Supervisor and accepted the resignation of Alvaro M Estrada catapult operator. Bids for a pickup and a patrol car were awarded to Pecos Motors. An airport insurance policy from Western Insurance Agency was approved. Beulah Fleming proposed Oasis Putting Course additions including vending machines a game room and rest rooms. no action taken. The city also has four donkeys for sale.
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Beulah Fleming
Paul Briones
Pecos
William Ira Gist
William Ted Bowden
Charles Edwin LaFever
Gist
Crane
Bowden
Ector County
Sheriff's Office
LaFever
Dallas
Daniel Sidney Newsom
Jerry Layne Capers
Robert Charles Rains
Bill Moss
Jesus Muniz
James Wilson
S.B. Hunt
Alvaro M. Estrada
Sanitation
Humane Department
Pecos Motors
Police Department
Western Insurance Agency
Pigman
Texan seeks payment for land seized by Mexico in 1960s
In Austin, elderly C. J. Brannan claims two ranches he owned in Zacatecas were taken by Mexico in 1963 and 1967 without compensation. His suit seeks about 874000 dollars as Mexico appeals a Wichita Falls judge's ruling asserting U S jurisdiction. Brannan's lawyers urge abroad law should permit redress while Mexico counters sovereign immunity. The case prompts discussion of congressional intent on expropriation and international law.
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Austin, Tex
Texas Supreme Court
Texas
C.J. Brannan
Wichita Falls County Bar Association
Mexico
Ashley’s
Zacate
Cas
Brannan
Eggene Sherrod
Wichita Fall
Sherrod
Michael Schattman
Fort Worth
Congress
Dallas police seize over $2 million in stolen goods
Dallas Police Chief Don Byrd calls a six month operation a message to hoodlums that arrest is certain for those dealing in hot merchandise. Police and federal agents recovered more than $2 million in auto parts jewelry and a 250 pound lion from a Southwest Dallas warehouse. Twenty arrests and 113 sealed indictments have been issued with more expected as charges of burglary theft robbery and receiving stolen property are filed.
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Dallas
Don Byrd
Byrd
Grand Prai
U.S
FBI
Houston
Odessa Woman Dies in Tanker Crash Fire
An Odessa woman died in a gasoline tanker crash and fire at the Dixie and 42nd Street intersection. The tanker rammed an automobile, flames shot 100 feet high and smoke spread over the city as six other people escaped injury. Police blamed loss of braking power on the tanker driver, Dewayne Lovell of Sterling City, 38. EMS and firefighters battled the blaze in one of the area’s most spectacular accidents.
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Odessa
Dixie
42Nd St
Midland
Dewayne Lovell
Sterling City
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Bill Hopper
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Dolph Briscoe
Bill Clayton
DeWitt Hale
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Bill Hobby
Ray Farabee
Dwichita Falls
Council
Thority
State Dist
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Wichita Falls
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Mountains
Big Bend
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