Downtown parking changes delayed by council action
City council postponed major downtown parking changes while approving engineering work on Eddy Street and part of Cedar Street. Spokesman Bob Dean urged the plan to preserve parking with added left and right turn lanes. An ordinance limited parking on Cedar Street south to I 20 and on Eddy Street south to Stafford Boulevard. The panel tabled further changes after merchants promised a state highway hearing, citing impact on business and employees.
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Eddy Street
Cedar Street
Bob Dean
Downtown Merchants Committee
Highway Department
Marshall Huffman
Dean
Fifth Street
First Street
Fourth
Fifth Streets
Seventh Street
Stafford Boulevard
Huffman
Bill Pigman
Popularity as a teen status and its pressures
Gene Douglas analyzes the social fixation on being popular among teens. He notes popularity signals status tied to wealth and public image, yet the system enforces inclusion and exclusion, drives bizarre behaviors, and segments peers into groups. Parents and schools often reinforce the chase, but the obsession fades as youth face adulthood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gene Douglas
U S envoys leave Quemoy and Matsu amid policy shift
The last American military advisers on Quemoy and Matsu are being removed as part of a worldwide drawdown of U S forces. The move follows the 1972 Shanghai communique and aims to ease tensions while pursuing relations with Peking.
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Washington
U.S
Quemoy
Matsu
China
State Department
Shanghai
Richard M. Nixon
United States
Far East
Ronald Reagan
Taiwan
Peking
Chiang Kai-shek
House
Mammoth grass fire burns 90 square miles in California
A 50 square mile grass fire near Plymouth California grew into the year’s largest blaze as 50 mph winds fanned flames. Fire officials, hopeful wind would hold, expected containment by early evening. Multiple fires burned across Ventura and Tehama counties as crews fought to protect homes and grazing land amid ongoing investigations into origins.
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Mammoth
California
Plymouth
Calif
Sierra Foothills
Jim Turner
California Division of Forestry
Ventura County
Los Angeles
Val Verde
Tehama County
Rancho Tehama
Clear Lake
San Francisco
Turner
Amador County
West Texas cool front eases heat with storms across state
A new cool front brings relief from record heat in West Texas with showers and thunderstorms extending eastward across the state. A tornado warning is issued as gusty winds topple mobile homes near Big Spring, while Brice near Memphis reports minor injuries. Cooler night and lower daytime highs forecast from Wichita Falls to Lubbock and along the coast.
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Pecos
Texas
Big Spring
Brice
Memphis
Panhandle
Wichita Falls
Lubock
Big Bend
San Angelo
Abilene
Red River Valley
Austin
San Antonio
Port Arthur
South
East
Corpus Christi
Galveston
Dalhart
Realistic budget gets council okay
Pecos city council approved a 1976 budget of 1 749 674 with total balances and revenues of 1 968 641. The meeting outlined hiring notes for city attorney TED PAINTER at 250 monthly, dispatcher John Elliott at 450, patrolman Raul Flores at 735 plus 52 clothing, and a chamber budget of 18 450. They transferred 5 000 revenue sharing funds to the Rodeo and Fair Association and approved unmetered street lights at two intersections. The council, with Trujillo Bickley and Fernandes present, set July 9 for a Parkhill meeting with FAA and Texas Aeronautics officials, and finalized downtown parking plans.
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Pecos
J.J. Maxey
Manuel Trujillo
Bob Bickley
Doug Fernandes
Bill Moss
Jesus Muniz
Rodeo and Fair Association
Reeves County
15Th
Ash Streets
14Th
Walnut Streets
Terry Burns
Oma Fallis
Chamber of Commerce
Ted Painter
Bickley
Painter
John Elliott
Raul Flores
Police Department
Wreck injures Barstow man in U S 80 crash
A Barstow resident, Kenneth Boynton, was injured in a one vehicle crash 1 mile east of Barstow on U S 80 at about 9 45 p m Wednesday. His car left the north side of the road and landed in a six foot deep drainage ditch. He was freed from the wreckage by ambulance attendants and taken to Pecos for emergency care before transfer to Odessa Medical Center with a broken leg, bruises and abrasions.
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Barstow
Odessa Medical Center
Kenneth Boynton
U.S. 80
DPS
Rusty Hill
Boynton
Pecos
Odessa
Rodeo Entries Open This Weekend In Pecos
Pecos residents may enter the annual rodeo this weekend with registration by Chamber of Commerce manager Terry Burns. Registration runs 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, aligned with Rodeo Cowboys Association hours. Entrants may also call 800-525-2900. late entries will not be accepted.
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Pecos
Chamber of Commerce
Terry Burns
Burns
Rodeo Cowboys Association
RCA
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Austin Firm
Council
Pigman
John Charles Fonville
State Highway Department
Stephen Bates
Bill Hopper
Clement J. Zablocki
D-Wis
House International Relations Committee
Ford
Islands
Sandi Shumard
Forestries Division
Shingle Springs
el Dorado County
James Glaser
Parkhill, Smith and Cooper
FAA
Texas Aeronautics
Commission
Carltons
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