State agency urged to improve police minority relations
The Human Relations Committee urged the Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education Commission to require departments to show fair treatment of minorities, award strong community relations, act promptly on abuse cases, and hold local conferences with lawyers, district attorneys, and community leaders. Other recommendations included open housing, replacement value payments for urban renewal displacements, a higher minimum wage, free school lunches, expanded guidance counseling, a state fair employment practices commission, juror studies, regular police evaluations, and establishing the panel as a permanent independent state agency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Preston Smith
Education Commission
Whittier College and Hall of Fame Quiz Facts
A brief trivia card noting Whittier College as a Quaker institution linked to Nixon’s alma mater. It also explains Timothy means God fearing, and that Hall of Fame nominees must be retired and have 10 major league seasons. It adds selenography as the study of the moon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whittier College
Nixon
Timothy
National Baseball Hall of Fame
Mrs Schloemer Joins Geological Field Trip
Balmorhea Mrs Kenneth Schloemer of Balmorhea joined 140 Southwestern teachers on a week long field trip to and around Cedar City Utah sponsored by the National Association of Geology and National Science Foundation. The New Mexico group of 28 met Albuquerque June 8 and traveled by chartered bus via Grand Canyon to Cedar City with Dr Clay Smith directing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Schloemer
Cedar City
Utah
National Association of Geology and
National Science Foundation
Schloemer
New Mexico
Albusquerque
Grand Canyon
Clay Smith
N.M.M.1
Ramblin Round notes love of family and events
Bonnie Cearley shares a Father’s Day story at home with son and daughter in law calling to wish a nice day. She mentions lunches from a friend, a Pecos golf tourney rainout, Life magazine coverage, Needlework Market in Dallas events, Rotary Revue nominees, and plans to visit Marfa’s International Soaring Meet with political jokes and holiday wishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marfa
Nixon
Ford Love
Railroads Talk Versus Action Amid Longstanding Crises
AP analyst notes a decade of promises and debate over railroads still failing to deliver improved service or profits. Penn Central bankruptcy symbolized stalled progress as labor disputes, commuter woes, and industry rhetoric persist while calls to let railroads own trucks airlines and barges remain contested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Interstate Commerce Commission
Penn Central
Association of American Railroads
Railroads Unlimited
America
Thomas Goodfellow
AAR
Daniel Loomis
Equity Research Associates
Stuart Saunders
Congress
Balmorhea News Highlights Local Visits and Church Picnic
Balmorhea hosts visitors from Robert Lee Lockhart Fort Stockton and El Paso as Catholic Church members hold a Father’s Day picnic. Families travel to Port Aransas and Mor gan while Father Viramontez prepares for a Spain trip. Local rain brings relief, Bible School enrollment hits 44 as Arlington visitors join Balmorhea events.
Reeves County Courthouse Records Summary of Leases
A compiled list of land leases and transfers in Reeves County with grantor grantee tract locations including sections and blocks, acreages mainly PSL and H&GN land, terms five years, rental amounts ranging from 35 to 640 dollars, and assorted royalty notes. Notable parties include Texaco, Humble Oil, Gulf Oil, Atlantic Richfield, United States Smelting Co., Ford Chapman, and First National Bank Jacksonville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lilliam Winkler
J.A. Matthews
Mary Fiers Ramsey
Texaco
Jane Everest Gregory
John R. Honaker
H&gn
First National Bank
Jacksonville
Tex
Byron Williams
T&p
Louise Flack Young
Jack E. Blake
Jesse W. Bush
Atlantic Richfield
Cora Kitses
Charles J. Garvey
Ediy Miller
John R. Dorr
Arvin D
Eady
Jack E
Blake
Roy
W.J. Weaver
W.V. Gardenhire
Humble Oil
Edna Longino Alexander
Humble Oil Co
W.A. Traylor
Bess Humphries
Gertrude H. Everest
United States Smelting Co
U.S. Smelting Co
Undl
PSL
Humble
Superior Oil
Lela Mae Wynne
Ford Chapman
Sallie Wynne Reynaud
Ruth G. Ross
Fl Paso
Earnest L
Harp
Sam Davis
Paul S. Armstrong
Also Mentioned on This Page
Committee
Roy D. Prewit
W.D. Prewit
Jack Moody
Mrs. Schloemer
Arizona
Colorado
N.M
Albuquerque
Moab
Colorado, Plateau
San Juan Basin
Bonnie Cearley
Pecos
Liz Carpenter
Mrs. L. B. J
Odessa
Lady Bird
Salado
Life Magazine
Ralph Graves
Jane Hay
Zadora Black
Dallas
Professional Needlecrafters Association
Statler-Hilton
Jane
Zadora
Israel
Business Mirror
John Cunniff
AP Business Analyst
By Kate Osann
Tizzy
Renfrew
Balmorhea
Lee Roy McDaniels
Robert Lee
McDaniels
Jiggs Walker
Mathew and
Elizabeth
Lockhart
Clayton
Karyn and
Garry
Ft. Stockton
Jim Harbour
Sadie Draper
Dannie Moody
Rodgers Moody
Patricia
Waco
Port Aransas
Mr. Draper
E.F. Campbell
Morgan
Mr. Moody
Mrs. Draper
Danny
David Viramontez
Catholic Church of
Spain
John Patrick
Germany
Tudie Patrick
Karlsruhe
Martha Moore
Donna Moore
Peggy
Joe
Christy
San
Rodgers Sessom
Dwayn
Franklin
Olene Sessoms
Rodgers
Georgia
California
Toyahvale
Cecil Kingston
Liz Bettle
el Paso
San Francisco
Anna Bettle
Dick Bettle
Viet- Nam
Anna
Nora Boyd
Mrs
Charles Boyd
Harry Knapp
First Baptist Church
Kenneth Dicky
Pat
Arlington
Man
Philip
Pegus Entelmiise
Reeves County
Frank Cannon
Joe Cannon
Jack Harris
Chalfant, Magee & Hansen, Inc
Joe Bob Kelton Et al
Chalfant
Magee & Hansen
Tap
Kenneth Lindemann
Chalefant
J.J. Muirhead
Virginia T. Ashaefer
Ratl
W. Ray Moss
Fred O. Pierce
J.M. Preston
Gulf Oil
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