27 Workers Arrested Picketing Farm Field in Pecos
About 27 farm laborers and United Farm Workers organizers were arrested Wednesday near Verhalen, Pecos County, as cantaloupe fields were being harvested. Most were held on bail for 400 dollars, eight were juveniles released to guardians, and a number of workers returned to picking. The incident follows ongoing UFW organizing in the Pecos area with calls to protect workers rights and speed enforcement measures.
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Reeves County
Verhalen
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Loring Box
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Odessa Chamber of Commerce
Paula Cruz
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Texas
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el Paso
Dolph Briscoe
Pecos
Briscoe
Moreno
Antonio Orendain
Texas Ufw
Union de Campesinos
Lewis
Sheriff's Department
Santa Rosa Catholic Church
UFW sympathizer arrested during Pecos County picket
Francisca Castillo, 23 year old United Farm Worker sympathizer, was arrested by Pecos County deputies at 10 25 a m on a criminal trespass charge after crossing into a cantaloup field near Coyanosa while talking to a worker during a picket. Demonstrations near Verhalen were ineffective as workers did not appear.
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Pecos County
Francisca Castillo
United Farm Worker
Cayanosa
Wendell Taylor
M. G. Singh
Fort Stockton
Coyanosa
Verhalen
UFW
Antonio Orendain
Pecos
C.S. Ten Eyck
Parkland quintuplets progress. babies off respirators
Five Davis Quintuplets born July 18 at Parkland Hospital in Dallas are in the low birthweight nursery, off respirators and bottle feeding. The smallest, Chelsa, weighs 1 pound 14 ounces and still receives IV feedings. Parents Jerry and Mrs. Davis of Lewisville expect to go home this weekend. Davis, 21, is a mechanic.
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Parkland Hospital
Casey Clifton
Christa Lajune
Chanda Jannne
Charla Rae Ann
Chelsa Lynnae
Jerry Davis
Lewisville
Davis
Final Apollo mission returns to Pacific after 9 days
Apollo astronauts Thomas Stafford Vance Brand and Donald Slayton splash down in the Pacific 200 miles west of Hawaii at 5 20 p m EDT ending a nine day spaceflight. The mission marked a historic joint venture with the Soviet Union and laid groundwork for future Space Shuttle missions.
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Donald K. Slayton
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Mission Control
Spacemen
New Orleans
Stafford
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Space Shuttle
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Soviet Union
Alexei Leonov
Valeri Kubasov
Earth
Moscow
Pecos City Council votes to raise water and sewer charges
The Pecos City Council unanimously approved drafting an amendatory ordinance to raise water rates about 12 percent and add 50 cents each for sanitation and sewer charges, effective for October bills. The plan targets $75,000 yearly to fund major improvements, including a larger ground water supply.
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Pecos
J. J. Maxey
Maxey
Bob Bickley
New York City
Always before but no longer the Apollo era ends
A reflective history of the U S space program recounting Mercury Gemini and Apollo missions from Mercury’s hesitant start to Apollo 17 the last moon landing and the end of manned lunar exploration with twelve Americans walking on the moon and the era ending as missions cease for years to come
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Space
Slayton
Space Center
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Space Shuttle
Apollo
Gemini
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