Oil and Gas Appreciation Day Set in Pecos Event
Pecos hosts the first Oil and Gas Appreciation Day with a barbecue and golf tournament at Pecos Valley Country Club. More than 1,200 guests and about 125 golfers are expected, with food provided by local merchants and a 1000 pounds beef barbecue. Door prizes, a special oil and gas edition of the Pecos Enterprise, and media coverage are planned as the community salutes the oil industry.
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Pecos
Pete Armbruster
Oil and Gas Appreciation Committee
Pecos Valley Country Club
Bill Moss
Jack Casimir
Bill Wilson
Rio Pecos Sales
Dan Peyton Oil Co
Sheriff's Posse Barn
Bear Stroud
Jaycees
Bear
Stroud
Ernest Ballard
Safeway
Bob Hopper
Bob’s Thriftway
Sheriff's Department
Margie Mayfield
Chamber
Kosa-Tv
Drill Bit Maga
Charley Tabor
Bob Nebel
Dan Peyton
Roger Neilson
CPS rebuffed on tax waiver for Pecos electric meters
CPS officials asked the Pecos city council for a waiver of a 10 percent increase in the assessed valuations of electric meters for next year. The appraising firm Pritchard and Abbott cited inflationary reasons, a move Ivy called a stiff tax hike that could push higher base rates. Council to convene as board of equalization in July to decide.
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Community Public Service Company
Pecos
CPS
Woody Ivy
Jesse Stephens
Pritchard and Abbott
Ivy
Board of Equalization
Adair fights Texas gas leak near Palestine
In Palestine Texas experts rush to stop natural gas leaking from a ruptured pipeline feeding an underground storage cave near Bethel. Fire crews stand by as residents may be evacuated and Red Adair flies in from Houston to direct operations. Roads nearby are shut, a 500 yard area sealed, while officials assess the cause at the salt dome storage facility operated by Bi Stone Fuel Co within Texas Utilities.
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Palestine
Tex
Red Adair
Houston
Bi-Stone Fuel Co
Texas Utilities Fuel Co
Texas Power & Light
Texas Electrics Services Co
Dallas Power & Light
Texas Utilities
Odessa Scout Hurt At Camp
A 10 year old Odessa youth remained in guarded condition in Odessa Medical Center Hospital today after a fall at the Buffalo Trails Scout Ranch near Balmorhea on Wednesday afternoon. Walter Jones II suffered severe head wounds from a rock slide while on a ranch trail with other troop members during their annual camping expedition. He was brought to Memorial Hospital by Pecos ambulance around 3 p.m. and later transferred to Odessa hospital at 8:43 p.m.
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Odessa
Odessa Medical Center
Buffalo Trails
Balmorhea
Walter Jones II
Walter Jones
Young Jones
Memorial Hospital
Pecos
Jones
Scout Ranch
Two Accidents Reported With No Injuries
Two minor accidents occurred Wednesday with no injuries. Officers responded to 1000 S. Cedar St. where P Q Abner of Sylacauga Alabama and A L Rockwell of Bellevue Iowa collided as one vehicle turned. A second crash involved Johnny Davis and a parked auto owned by Anastacio Natividad in the 1700 block of Jefferson Street.
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S. Cedar St
P.Q. Abner
Sylacagga
Ala
A.L. Rockwell
Bellevue
Iowa
Cedar St
Johnny Davis
Fifth St
Anastacio Natividad
S. Peach St
Davis
Jefferson St
Natividad Auto
Wallace delays 1976 presidential bid announcement
Alabama Governor George C. Wallace says it may be several months before he formally announces his 1976 presidential bid. He plans to run but will likely wait until late in the year after the Alabama Legislature adjourns, possibly not speaking this summer.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Wallace
Washington
Chrysler to kill Imperial ends half century luxury model
Detroit AP reports Chrysler will phase out the Imperial, its flagship luxury car since 1926, as sales dwindle and the firm shifts away from U S luxury to GM Cadillac and Ford Lincoln. Industry sources say the 1976 Imperial will be dropped this fall with no further production at the Jefferson Avenue plant.
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Detroit
Chrysler Corp
Chrysler
U.S
General Motors
Cadillac
Ford
Lincoln
United Auto Workers
Jefferson Avenue
Lions honor seismographers during oil celebration week
Downtown Lions hosted seismographic chiefs and permit men from Pecos for Oil and Gas Appreciation Day. Gary Huxhel described tech advances in seismography while Gary Hancock answered questions on a potential drilling boom, right of way costs averaging 400 dollars per mile, and Pecos as a hub for crews.
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Lions
Gary Huxhel
Huxhel
Gary Hancock
Hancock
House panel prepares CIA activities probe
Washington AP the new House sub committee on the CIA opens an investigation into the agency s secret probe of its mis deeds The panel part of the House intelligence inquiry Colby set to testify Mahon notes CIA possibly involved in killing at least one foreign leader Church calls Rockefeller report only the tip of the iceberg urging criminal penalties for future abuse
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House
CIA
Special House
U.S
Senate
James R. Schlesinger
White House
William E. Colby
James V. Stanton
Ohio
Stanton
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Colby
Rockefeller Commission
Commission
Congress
House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee
George H. Mahon
D-Tex
Frank Church
Senate Intelligence Panel
Rockefeller
Church
Nessen
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George Gonzales
Gonzales
Adair
Texas
Bethel
Here
East
Imperial
GSI
Jay Dycus
Carl Huxhel
Dudley Montgomery
Roger Neilsen
T.C. Slack
Jess Buch
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