Dozens of Texas doctors linked to alleged amphetamine sales
Several hundred Texas doctors are accused of pushing millions of dollars worth of amphetamines into the illicit market. Police say prescriptions are written under weight loss pretenses, with doctors operating lik e assembly lines for paying patients. Officials note court rulings hinder enforcement and cite a weak medical board.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Cers
Houston
Lelan Alsup
Dallas
H.A. Amos
Pecos City to Receive June Local Option Tax Check
State Comptroller Bob Bullock announced Pecos City will get 56 412.85 for June local option one percent tax, period ending May 25, up from 39 753.54 last year. Omega totals show 1978 city receipts rising across Balmorhea Toyah and others, with Houston leading state gains at 12 356 904 for the year.
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Bob Bullock
Pecos City
Comptroller
Balmorhea
Toyah
Bullock
Texas
Houston
Dallas
Fort Worth
San Antonio
Austin
60 Day Sentence For Illegal Entry In Pecos Court
In Pecos U S Magistrate Court last week Severo Frias-Salvidres 21 pleaded guilty to illegal entry and received a 60 day sentence for a misdemeanor offense. Jacinto Baeza-Carrasco 27 pleaded not guilty to illegally re entering the US and awaits further action. Frias-Salvidres entered the U.S under a false claim to citizenship. An attorney will be appointed for Baeza-Carrasco after his plea. The case involved border patrol charges.
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Jacinto Baeza-Carrasco
Pecos Rodeo Entries Open for July Fourth Weekend
Registration continues today and tomorrow for Pecos Rodeo events. PRCA events run until 5 p.m. today with another session tomorrow from 8:30 a.m. to noon at Pecos Saddle Shop. Local events wild cow milking and wild mare race close at 5 p.m. June 29.
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Pecos
Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association
Saddle Shop
S. Oak
PRCA
Economists Debate Electric Rates Subsidies in Texas
An economist for the Texas Retailers Association told the Public Utility Commission that residential electric rates are heavily subsidized at the expense of commercial and industrial customers. Charles King said subsidies flow from political power and urged charging each customer class the cost of energy consumed. Weitzman of Texas ACORN argued higher rates won’t push the poor to cut usage much. The nine day hearing ends June 28 with public sessions June 26 28. staff report due Aug 31 and final recommendations to the Legislature by Dec 31.
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Austin, Texas
Texas Retailers Association
Charles King
Washington
Public Utility Commission
King
Texas
Phillip Weitzman
Texas Acorn Association of Community Organizations For
Weitzman
Commission
Supreme Court to rule on minority hiring in LA fire dept
The Supreme Court agreed to review a Los Angeles County fire department order to boost minority hiring, weighing what proof of bias is needed in job discrimination suits. Blacks and Mexican-Americans had claimed written tests caused disproportionate adverse effects. the judge ordered 20 percent black and 20 percent Mexican-American hires.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Los Angeles
U.S
William P. Gray
Fire Department
Georgia
Gray
Los Angeles County
Appeals Court
California tax revolt rattles Capitol as Rhodes warns
House Republican leader John Rhodes links California Proposition 13 to shifts in federal budgeting. He cites 5 percent cuts to HEW and 2 percent cuts to public works, and predicts California will seek aid but likely be refused. Rhodes calls for new tax and inflation priorities. Temperatures in Pecos reached 103 with 71 in the morning. Forecasts predict partly cloudy Texas with thunderstorms and high temps in the 80s to 105.
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Peggy Simpson
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
House
John Rhodes
California
Washington
Potomac
Rhodes
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Sacramento
Congress
Pecos
West Texas
Panhandle
Big Bend
Petition filed to remove fatal auto crash suit to federal court
A defense in Pecos Division of the Western District of Texas seeks removal of a 1978 Fort Stockton auto collision case from state court to federal court. Librado Ramirez seeks at least 50,000 in damages after his son Andrea Acosta Ramirez died in a crash on U S 285 north of Fort Stockton on March 20. The suit names Clarence Jackson Jr and the United States Army Air Force Exchange Service as defendants. The removal notes a dispute under U S law and can occur before trial without bond.
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Fort Worth
Corsicana
State Court of Appeals
Batchelor
State Board of Medical Examiners
Pecos
U.S. District Court
Western District of Texas
Fort Stockton
U.S. 285
Andrea Acosta Ramirez
83Rd Judicial District Court
Pecos County
Librado Ramirez
Clarence Jackson, Jr
United States Army Air Force Exchange Service of
San Antonio
Ramirez
U.S
Golden Girl Revue selects Leslie Woodard as contestant
Leslie Woodard daughter of Mr and Mrs Lessie Woodard of 2405 Country Club Drive has been chosen to represent Young Homemakers in the Golden Girl Revue. She has four years of cheerleading including sophomore and junior varsity roles and served as freshman head cheerleader. Woodard has been a student council representative joined Future Farmers of America and shown lambs in Reeves County Livestock Shows. She attends Baptist church sings at churches plays the fiddle in Pecos Jamboree Association and enjoys fiddle swimming and animal care.
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Leslie Woodard
Lessie Woodard
Country Club Drive
Miss Woodard
Future Farmers of America
Reeves County
The
Baptist Church
Pecos
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