Pecos High School starts licensed vocational nursing class
The first class of Pecos High School adult education’s LVN program begins Aug. 25 led by instructor Mary Rutledge. Eight students will complete 1,800 hours of training over a year, including 550 classroom hours and 1,250 hours of hospital work, with state licensure testing at year end.
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Lynn Webb
Pecos High School
Mary Rutledge
Sored
West Pecos
W. Third St
Rutledge
Steelman weighs run for Bentsen Senate seat in Texas
AP WASHINGTON Republican Congressman Alan Steelman of Dallas may decide by November whether to seek Lloyd Bentsen’s Senate seat in Texas or seek re election to the House or no office. Aide Marvin Collins said Steelman will tour Texas this summer and fall and may fund a poll after travel. Bentsen, up for re election in 1976, is pursuing the Democratic presidential nomination possibly leaving the Senate open.
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Washington
Alan Steelman
Dallas
Senate
Lloyd Bentsen
D-Tex
Steelman
House
Texas
Administration
Marvin
Collins
Laurie Buchanan
Bentsen
Houston
Austin
el Paso
San Antonio
Corpus Christi
Amarillo
City Accepts Payment Plan to Clear Tax Parcel
City council tentatively approved an offer by Jesus Galindo of 300 dollars down and 50 dollars monthly until a 780 dollar tax judgment is paid on a lot in College Addition. County and school taxing agents must approve the plan before final sale, with the land returning to the tax rolls.
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Jesus Galindo
Presley surprises Memphis woman with car gift
Mennie Person, a bank teller from Memphis, met Elvis Presley at a car lot and was surprised when he offered to buy her a Cadillac. Presley gave her the keys to a gold and white model valued at about 11,500 dollars after learning her birthday, and urged her to pick an outfit to go with the car. He told her to keep the gift or give it to her husband, and noted other recent gifts including a turboprop airplane valued at 1.2 million for his longtime manager Col. Tom Parker.
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Tenn
Mennie Person
Elvis Presley
Presley
Person
Persons
Troy
Shelby County
William Morris Jr
Las Vegas
Col
Tom Parker
Tia Leads 4-H Horse Club Race to October Saddle
In Reeves County four-H horse club playday action after five shows Tia Lewis leads the eight and under group with 154 points while Sabrina Wilcoxson of Odess a tops the nine to 13 year division with 230 points and the overall race for the 450 saddle. Gina Shipman of Fort Stockton leads the 14 to 19 year group with 205 points as contenders push for top prizes through three remaining shows.
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Reeves County
Tia Lewis
John Lewis
Sabrina Wilcoxson
Odessa
Wilcoxson
Fort Stockton
Gina Shipman
Lewis
de de
Verna Jean Dawson
Teresa Sherrill
Cindy Sherrill
Debbie Ezell
Luann Mitchell
Oil price plan may get vote in House debate
Washington AP The House Rules Committee weighs clearing Ford oil price plan for a floor vote as tax specialists study windfall profit rebates. Energy chief Zarb testifies as Staggers and Dingell urge action for quick floor consideration and potential combination with a Democratic windfall profits proposal.
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Senate
House
Ford
House Rules Committee
Frank G. Zarb
Harley O. Staggers
D-W. Va
Commerce Committee
Rules Committee
John D. Dingell
Dmich
Commerce
Energy
Senate pay raise proposal targets top federal officials
The Senate is debating a bill to raise salaries for Vice President Rockefeller, Cabinet members, federal judges, top executives, and Congress members. The pay hikes would match a proposed general cost of living adjustment and could be vetoed if Congress is exempted, with objections about inflation and government talent retention. Sen. James B. Allen proposed excluding members of Congress to curb support for the measure.
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Senate
Congress
Postal Service
Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee
House
Nelson A. Rocke
Feller
Ford
James B. Allen
Ala
Ford visits Auschwitz wreath ceremony in Poland amid talk of arms talks
President Ford and Polish leader Edward Gierek attend a somber wreath ceremony at Auschwitz to honor the victims of Nazi gas chambers. Ford's 27 hour Poland trip includes a speech in Krakow and a Vienna negotiations backdrop, with a mixed reception on substantive gains. Mrs Ford misses events citing jet lag and recent breast cancer surgery. a separate case reports a 60 year old woman charged with murder and held on bond in Big Spring.
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Poland
Ford
Nazi Germany
Auschwitz
Edward Gierek
Auschwitz Camp
Market Square
U.S
Gierek
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Europe
North America
Richard Davies
Ford- Gierek
Washington
White House
Ron Nessen
West Germany
Nessen
Big Spring State Hospital
Sally I. Wooldridge
Big Spring Hospital
Emiel D. Wooldridge
Cliff Preslar
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