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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1978
Page
1
Celebration continues with Fest IV at Prairie Dog Park off Interstate 20. Activities include a wide variety of events and the program begins at 6 p.m. Civic groups and local sponsors organized the city event expecting a large turnout.
Ramon Matta Jr and Ruben O Hernandez both from Alpine are jailed in Pecos County Fort Stockton facing two counts of capital murder. Extradited from Arizona, they were charged June 26 by Justice of the Peace Fred Capers who ordered no bond. A 16 year old female co‑defendant was also extradited. Victims were Felix Rodriguez and Guadalupe Jiminez.
The City Council meets tomorrow at 7 30 a m at City Hall 110 E 6th for a public hearing on the budget for the year ending June 30 1979 The Revenue Sharing allotment is expected at 135 927 with 35 000 uncommitted funds from 1977 1978 Agenda items include approving June 12 minutes placing 175 watt mercury vapor un metered street lights at Ash and F Streets amending the 1977 78 budget property tax adjustments and wastewater plant step two under public law 92 500 plus a vote on related matters.
A catalog entry for Southwest Microfilm located at 2601 East Yandell, El Paso, with reference numbers Dox 10054 and a postal code 79994. The note identifies the business address and identifiers for contact or filing purposes.
Jorge Flores-Gomez 29 of Kermit and Emilio Valenzuela Diaz 27 of Anthony New Mexico were sentenced to six months in jail on two counts each with time to serve suspended for one year probation and fines of $100. The cases in the Pecos Division of the Western District of Texas involved aiding and abetting aliens to illegally enter the United States. Nicolas Natividad-Lara also known as George Basaldua 28 and Aurelio Lopez-Santiano 27 received 179 days imprisonment.
The Pecos Division of the U S District Court in Texas scheduled a commission to hear and recommend rulings on 15 Condemnation land cases in Presidio County. Chief Judge Adrian Spears will appoint U S Magistrate J M Preston as chairman, with counsel due to file suggested instructions within 10 days and objections 5 days later. The government withdrew its jury trial request.
Rep. Jim Collins of Texas says the Bakke decision advances the issue but leaves affirmative action rules intact. He argues quotas and goals harm whites and affirmatives fail to fix discrimination, urging an amendment to the 1964 Civil Rights Act to end affirmative action programs.
Justice Thurgood Marshall, a civil rights veteran, sharply criticized the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in Bakke that admissions may consider race. He warned the ruling ignores centuries of discrimination against Negroes and noted his own role in the landmark 1954 school desegregation decision. Marshall spoke with unusual vigor, turning to the microphone as he delivered his dissent.
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