Six Texas counties declared flood disaster area after Claudette
Floods from tropical storm Claudette damaged about 750 million dollars across ten Texas counties. Gov. Bill Clements toured the region as federal one stop offices opened to aid victims with housing and grants. Red Cross reports thousands of homes hit, with hundreds of major damages and phone service limited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Claudette
Bill Clements
Clements
Carter
Hardin
Ray Martin
Hardin County
Texas
Bill Barron
Red Cross
Barron
Hoston
Harris County
Jim Douglas
Alvin
Bill McAda
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Internal Revenue Service
Flood Insurance Administration
Social Security Office
Veterans Administration
Southwestern Bell
Dallas
Fort Worth
Brazoria County
Galveston County
Chambers County
Liberty
Fort Bend County
Pecos City to join PUC rate hike hearing in Austin
Pecos represented at a Public Utility Commission session in Austin as the Texas Municipal League opposes Texas Electric Service Company seeking an $88 million rate increase across 48 counties. TESCO projects about $5 more per month per customer if approved. last October it secured a $40.4 million increase after seeking $110 million more annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pecos City
Public Utility Commission
Austin
Texas Municipal League
Texas Electric Service Company
Texas
Associated Press
TESCO
Fort Worth
Hurst
Burkburnett
Texas Mun
Icipal League
Commissioners Courts
Midland
Tarrant
Association — of Community Organizations For Reform
Texas Utilities
Ted Painter
Pecos
Woody Ivy
Community Public Service Company
Ivy
CPS
West Texas Electric Co
Vance Defends SALT II Before Senate Critics
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the SALT II treaty would sustain nuclear balance with the Soviet Union at lower cost and with greater certainty. He warned that rejecting the treaty would signal a reversal of American leadership in strategic stability and could hinder needed improvements to U S nuclear forces as critics say the pact would act as a tranquilizer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington (Ap
Cyrus Vance
Soviet Union
Vance
U.S
Seven hospitalized in weekend accidents near Pecos
DPS records detail two highway crashes over the weekend west of Pecos on Interstate 20. At 11:25 p.m. Friday a Nobis car struck a parked sedan, starting a fire and sending Nobis driver Aaron Nobis and passenger Daniel Elliott to Reeves County Hospital along with Clarence Douglas and Scott Bracewell. A second accident 1.4 miles east caused three occupants of a van to be hospitalized after an overturn near Pecos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reeves County Hospital
Pecos
Department of Public Safety
Interstate 20
Aaron Franklin Nobis
Gail Rt
Big Spring
Clarence Freeman Douglas
Cactus
Nobis
Douglas
Daniel Eugene Elliott
Scott Ruben Bracewell
Vallejo
Toyah
Junius
Apt. A
Dallas
DPS
Bonnie Stuart
Robert Banks
Manchester
Weather outlook for Pecos region and West Texas
Pecos and vicinity expect mostly clear to partly cloudy skies with scattered evening thunderstorms. Sunday high near 102, morning low around 72, no weekend rainfall. West Texas trends show clear to partly cloudy in the southeast with scattered evening storms elsewhere, highs mostly in the 90s to near 100 in Big Bend, 80s in mountains. lows upper 50s in mountains, mid 60s Panhandle, 70s elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pecos
West Texas
Big Bend
Panhandle
Pecos men arrested for drug possession
Reeves County Sheriff Raul Florez announced the arrest of Jose Hernandez Muniz 35 of Pecos for felony possession of marijuana after a search of his apartment in Pecos yielded one pound of marijuana. Muniz and three other occupants were found with five pounds of marijuana in a late model sedan in Monahans by police at 2 a.m. Sunday. Two other Pecos residents Alfredo Chavez Lopez 26 and Rosario Sanchez Lopez 26 were arrested for misdemeanor drug offenses in a 1957 model car at State Highway 17 and FM 64.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pecos
Jose Hernandez Muniz
Tix KE
Apt. 6
Reeves County
Raul Florez
Ward
Reeves Counties
Hans
Florez
Muniz
Alfredo Chavez Lopez
S. Walnut
Rosario Sanchez Lopez
Walnut
Pecos welcome visit from Holland family and kin
Dirk Torsy and his Holland relatives visited Pecos from Riddertkerk and Hoogvliet near Rotterdam, staying with family, sightseeing the Pecos River Carlsbad Caverns and Dallas layovers. They noted heat, learned U.S. schooling, and described Dutch customs and Holland’s soccer culture. They left Pecos by air after a 24 hour journey from Amsterdam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dirk Torsy
Johnson
Holland
Truus
Hank Pikaar
Michel
Riddertkerk
Rotterdam
Dirk Torsys
John
Emmy
Hoogvliet
Pikaars
Pecos
Amsterdam
Carlsbad
Pecos River
Red Bluff
Six Flags
Dallas
Torsys
United States
Southern Union Gas
Jack
Also Mentioned on This Page
Jefferson County
Port Arthur
Beaumont
Benjamin Civiletti
Washington, D.C
Senate Judiciary Committee
Pablo Sedillo, Jr
League of United Latin American Citizens
Ruben Sandoval
Center
Civiletti
Larry Lozano
Betor County
Sandoval
Lozano
Pecos Family
de Donck School
IBM
New York City
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!