White House ends farm diesel priority amid trucker strike
President Carter ordered an end to the federal rule giving farmers diesel priority to aid independent truckers. Agriculture Secretary Bergland said the move follows the worst violence day in strikes by about 100,000 independent drivers. Bullet damage to rigs spurred fuel shortages and highway obstructions across multiple states as officials reported across the country.
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Peter Mackler
Associated Press
White House
Agriculture
Bob Bergland
Carter
Western Week Begins in Pecos With Prizes and Festivities
Pecos merchants start Western Week on Monday June 25 offering coupons for customers who dress in Western attire. The best dressed store employees win gift certificates while shoppers compete for top prizes. Events include Night in Old Pecos with a pioneer family and a melodrama at the Roy Bean Saloon, plus a June 30 Pecos Rodeo countdown with the Golden Girl Pageant.
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Pecos
Roy Bean
Pecos Optimist Club
Sheriff’s Posse
Pecos Lions Club
Pecos Rotary Club
Pecos Jaycees
Merchants Committee
Pecos Chamber of Commerce
Old Pecos
Chamber of Commerce
S. Cedar
Plainview Man Fined on Drug Charge in Pecos District
Jaime Adalberto Garces twenty one Plainview Texas was fined four hundred dollars and placed on three years supervised probation after six months imprisonment was suspended for misdemeanor possession of marijuana obtained without a prescription in Big Bend National Park. He pled guilty in the Pecos Division US Magistrate Court and must pay the fine on a court set schedule and serve four months at Permian Place Community Program Center in Odessa.
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Big Bend National Park
Jaime Adalberto Garces
United States
Plainview
Texas
Federal Grand Jury
Pecos
Adalberto Garces
U.S
J.M. Preston
Garces
Permian Place
Odessa
Weather and regional forecast for Pecos and West Texas
Pecos and vicinity stay partly cloudy to clear through Saturday with hot afternoons and cooler nights. Thursday high reached 105 in Pecos with a 72 degree low. Southwest Texas shows isolated thunderstorms in the mountains tonight and continued heat into Saturday with highs 93 to 105 and lows 60 to 76, warmer in the central and southern areas.
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Pecos
West Texas
Middle 50S
Estes trial focuses on $30,000 loss in steam cleaner scheme
In Dallas federal court, Western Lease Banc president Jerry Fowler testified that his firm lost about $30,000 on eight steam cleaners bought from Atomic Enterprises and leased to Wallace Oil. Invoices claimed delivery, but cleaners were missing a year later and no serial numbers could identify them. Prosecutors tie Estes and Horton to the non-existent machines and related fraud.
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Dallas
Billie Sol Estes
Jerry Fowler
Western Lease Banc, Inc
Fowler
Estes
Raymond K. Horton
Horton
U.S
Jim Rolfe
Frank Fuell
M.L. Copenhaver
Fuell
Copenhaver
Atomic Enterprises Inc
San Antonio
Wallace Oil Co
Midland
Horton and Estes
Bill Stanton
Lubbock
Borg Warner Leasing Co
Chicago
Stanton
Borg Warner
Wallace Oil
Atomic Enterprises
Golden Girl vies for Miss West Texas crown in Pecos
Leslie Woodard daughter of Mr and Mrs Lessie Woodard will compete in the Miss West Texas Pageant June 28 29 30 at Permian High School Auditorium. Contestants rehearse for nightly production numbers the theme If They Could See Me Now. A luncheon Tuesday June 26 precedes swimsuit evening gown and talent events with Woodard performing a fiddle Bob Wells medley. Coronation Saturday night with Odessa Jaycees parade downtown June 30 at 11 am.
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Old Pecos
Prairie Dog Park
Pecos
Pecos High School
Leslie Woodard
Odessa
Lessie Woodard
Country Club Dr
Permian High School
Miss Woodard
Donna Woodard
Bob Wells
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Mount Vernon
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Florissant
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St. Louis
Tennessee Highway Patrol
Don Col
Plainview Man
Liis
Citizens Band
Georgia
Tennessee
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Louisiana
Rotary
Harvey L. Ramsey
I-20
Shell Station
Highway 285
Robert Hinojos
Ray Barrett
Barrett
Golden Girl
Miss West Texas
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