Nixon to Visit Peking Within Ten Months
President Nixon announced a planned trip to Peking within ten months at the invitation of Premier Chou En-lai to seek normalizing relations. The telecast sparked protest from Taipei as U S China policy faces upcoming 1972 campaigns and UN seat considerations. Kissinger’s secret world tour and a gastric illness delayed plans.
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Associated Press
San Clemente
Calif
Nixon
Peking
China
Chou En-lai
U.S
Mainland China
Viser
National Broadcasting Co
Burbank
People’s Republic of China
Washington
Kissinger
Health officials meet in Austin over Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis
State health leaders convene in Austin to address an outbreak of VEE affecting Texas horses and humans. Reports indicate 34 people in the Lower Rio Grande Valley hospitalized with VEE symptoms and over 300 horses stricken. The imperial vaccine trial is used on horses. no human vaccine exists. The Senate approves a further $1 million for the response.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
Rio Valley
South
Central America
Mexico
U.S. Army
U.S. Senate
Dallas plainclothes officers told to wear badges
Plainclothes officers in the Dallas Police Department must wear badges on their coat pockets and be accompanied by uniformed officers when executing arrest or search warrants in the Mexican American areas. The rule expanded from the criminal investigation division to include all plainclothes units amid the Tomas Rodriguez case.
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Dallas
Dallas Police Department
Criminal Investigation Division
Vice Control
Walter Fannin
Tomas Rodriguez
Rodrguiez
Rodriguez
Optimists donate 427 to Santa Rosa Church
The Evening Optimist Club of Pecos presented a check for 427.25 to Santa Rosa Catholic Church. The funds came from a dance held in Santa Rosa Hall on July 11 with Sunny and the Sunliners performing. The club supports numerous community projects.
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Mingo Anay
Father Lemus
Santa" Rosa Catholic Church
Santa Rosa Catholic Church
Evening Optimist Club of
Pecos
The
Santa Rosa Hall
Sunny
Sunliners
Pecos City Backing Sand Lake Project Endorsed
A quorum of Pecos city officials and Mayor E W Schmidt express willingness to underwrite part of the Sand Lake Development Program subject to a favorable vote by voters. The plan aims to provide recreation flood control and additional water for Red Bluff with funding hoped in the 1973 federal budget and local shares estimated at 500000 to 1000600.
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Pecos
E. W. Schmidt
Sand Lake
Richard White
Army Engineers
County Commissioners Court
Pecos Toyah school district talks delay annexation fate
Toyah residents urged preservation of their 12 grade school as Reeves County Trustees granted a four week postponement on Pecos Barstow and Toyah annexation plans. A land swap offer to Pecos would add tax base while Toyah fears loss of school and community. The Aug 13 vote will decide whether Toyah joins Pecos Barstow or remains independent.
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Toyah
Reeves County School Trustees
Toyah Independent School District
Pecos -Barstow Independent
John R. Dorr
Country Trustees Group
Pecos- Barstow
Pecos
A.R. Archer
Monahans
Mexican official warns of African swine fever risk after Cuba case
Dr. Gustavo Reta Petterson of Mexico's Health Ministry warned that reports of African pig disease in Cuba pose a new threat to livestock in Mexico and the United States. He said the illness is one of the most devastating to strike animals and noted the first North American case appeared in Cuba less than a month ago.
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Mexico City
Gustavo Reta Petterson
Mexican Health Ministry
Cuba
Mexico
United States
Reta
North America
B52 Bombers Step Up Raids in North Vietnam War Zone
In Saigon the United States used about a dozen B52 bombers in the heaviest raids in five days targeting North Vietnamese positions north of Saigon. The action seeks to deter a new offensive below the demilitarized zone as ground fighting remains largely quiet with minor patrols.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Nixon China trip stirs Soviet suspicions in Moscow
The Kremlin’s suspicions rise as Nixon proposes a Washington Beijing overture. No immediate public Soviet reaction followed. Tass released its first comment more than seven hours after Nixon’s broadcast.
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Moscow
Nixon
China
Kremlin
Washington
MAST marks first anniversary with first patient return
Ft. Sam Houston celebrants note MAST the Military Assistance to Traffic and Safety unit reaches one year of operation. David J. Gomez, 17, of Dilley, returned to Baptist Memorial Hospital for an appendectomy a year after he was first flown there by military helicopter. Pope Paul VI greeted crowds at Castel Gandolfo as he began a summer stay saying his vacation would be more nominal than real due to ongoing duties.
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San Antonio
Ft. Sam Houston
David J. Gomez
Dilley
Baptist Memorial Hospital
Castel Gandolfo
Italy
Paul VI
Reeves County Tax Board to reconvene meeting
Reeves County residents may meet with the Reeves County Board of Equalization at 9 30 a m Monday in the courthouse. Residents can question the board on the 32 percent appraisal value for tax purposes passed for 1971 and the increase from 25 to 32 percent in a recent Commissioners Court session.
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Reeves County Board of Equalization
County Commissioners Court
Body identified in Amarillo field as Linda Kay Simmons
The body found in a field north of Amarillo is tentatively identified as Linda Kay Simmons 24 daughter of Mr and Mrs Houston White of Amarillo The parents had reported her missing June 26 and questioned ex husbands In a prior turn authorities had mistaken the remains for Odessa missing woman Gloria Sue Green 26 while the search for Green continued
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Amarillo
Tex
Linda Kay Simmons
Zoo Welcomes Births of Deer and Peacocks
Two baby black tail mule deer arrived July 9 increasing City Park Zoo deer to 16. Two baby peacocks were born Sunday but one drowned Wednesday after slipping into a water container.
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Angela ‘Cox
Don W. Cox
S. Eddy Cuddles
Pecos City Zoo
Peacock
Jo Ann Ferguson in Pecos Miss Cotton Pageant 1971
Jo Ann Ferguson, 17, Pecos High School senior, is a contestant in the Miss Cotton of Pecos 1971 pageant. Fifteen other entrants join a cotton themed evening August 5 at Pecos Valley Country Club, with two fashion appearances and a dance.
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Jo Ann Ferguson
Cotton
Pecos
Pecos Valley Country Club
R. S
Dick) Ferguson
Jo Ann
Pecos High School
Pecos Eagle Band
Future Teachers of America
First United Methodist Church
The
Cotton Crusaders
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Henry A. Kissinger
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James Wei
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Mohammed Agha Yahya Khan
Pecos-Barstow
Tovah
Bryan H. Boatman
Torah
Pope
Tax Board
Miss Cotton
Marsha Miller
Howard
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