POWs Arrive at Clark Air Base after Hanoi release
The Viet Cong freed 34 more prisoners of war in Hanoi, including the lone foreign woman, and an Air Force hospital plane brought them to Clark Air Base. President Marcos welcomed them as two VOA Filipino staff, 27 American civilians, and two West German medical workers were freed. Notably nurse Monika Schwinn, 30, was seized near Da Nang in 1969.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clark Air Base
Philippines
Hanoi
U.S. Air Force
Ferdinand E. Marecos
The
Voice of America
Marcos
Noel Gaylor
U.S
Pacific
Henry A. Byroade
13Th Air Force
William G. Moore Jr
Frank E. Cius Jr
Gayler
Armed Forces Radio Television Network
Hue
James V. Cibernardo
Mission Viejo
Calif
Army
Jose M. Astorga
San Diego
Army S
John A. Deering
Durham
N. C
Harry L. Ettmueller
Pleasantville
N. J
Donat Joseph Gouin
Lima
Ohio
Clodeon Adkins
Homeland
Michael Dennis Benge
Heppner
Ore
Lawrence J. Stark
Chicago
Ill
Saigon
Military
United States
Red Cross
America
Navy
Eugene B. McDaniel
Virginia Beach
McDaniel
Deadline Looms For City Council School Board Filings
Two days remain for candidates to file for city council and school board offices while voters must register by 5 p m Wednesday to be eligible for the April 7 elections. Re election bids include Manuel Trujillo Clem Crowley and George Ross Henry Blackwell. Bickley fills post left by Glen Ellis. Also noted are Balmorhea Toyah school board filings and military release updates from Vietnam war era figures and POWs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manuel Trujillo
Clem Crowley
Bob Bickley
Glen Ellis
Bickley
Ellis
George Ross
Henry
Four tour San Diego naval base by U S Navy invites
Four residents from Pecos were chosen to visit the U S Naval Base in San Diego last weekend. Harold Meyer Bill Hubbs Bobby Knox and Joe Segalia flew from El Paso to San Diego aboard a Navy plane after a drive there, as part of the Navy introductory program to acquaint area people with training and facilities. The trip carried no enlistment obligation, serving only as a get acquainted tour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pecos
U.S. Navy
U. S. Naval Base
San Diego
Harold Meyer
Bill Hubbs
Bobby Knox
Joe Segalia
Navy
el Paso
Navy Information Team
Chamber to install five new Pecos directors
New Pecos Chamber of Commerce directors will be special guests at a noon meeting at Ben's Spanish Inn Tuesday. Dr. B. H. Amstead UT PB president will speak. Five new directors are A. B. Foster Jr. Walter Holcomb Bill Hubbs Mike Starkey and Richard Naylor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Ben’s Spanish Inn
Terry Burns
Pecos Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
B. H. Amstead
UTPB
J. T. Moore Jr
Jimmy Dingler
A. B. Foster Jr
Walter Holcomb
Bill Hubbs
Mike Starkey
Richard Naylor
Barbecue kickoff for local Boys Club at county barn
Directors plan a Sunday 5 30 p m barbecue at the sheriff s posse barn to launch the spring fundraising drive for the new Boys Club. Tickets cost 2 and are sold by directors or at the Pecos Enterprise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheriff’s Posse
Pecos Enterprise
Cyclist Injured In Weekend Collision At City Intersections
A 20 year old cyclist Donny George Leek of Orla suffered a leg and foot injury when his motorcycle hit a car driven by Manuel Prieto at Fourth and Oak streets at 10 09 p m Friday. He was taken to Reeves County Memorial Hospital then Parkview Hospital in Midland. He was cited for failure to yield right of way. Also a Mentone youth Jim Calvin Clayton escaped injury Friday night when his car collided with a vehicle driven by Ynez Navarette Patino of Pecos at North Hickory and F stress intersections. A second crash near the high school at 8 50 a m Friday involved Horace Leo Cox and Danny Joe Dowdy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donny George Leek
Orla
Manuel Prieto
Jim Wilson
Mentone
Jim Calvin Clayton
Ynez Navarette
Danny Joe Dowdy
Eighth St
Butler Smith
Common Market closes FX markets amid dollar crisis talks
Brussels nine nation finance ministers extend week long market closure to curb dollar volatility. Paris conference planned with United States Japan and other major trading nations. Debate over whether currencies should float individually or jointly against the dollar persists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Common Market
Brussels
United States
Japan
U.S. Treasury
U.S
Valery Giscard D’estaing
Home Addition Permits Issued In February 1972
February 1972 building permits show one new brick house at 1601 Missouri St by Noel Construction Co. for $15,000 with Jim Ed Miller listed as owner. A 7 by 12 foot dining room expansion at Ropers Motel adds to living quarters for $400. Total February permits reach $43,500, driven by a school building trades project, a brick dwelling, and a miniature golf course concession stand and office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noel Construction Co
Missouri St
Jim Ed Miller
Roper
Weekend Fishing Warmth Gives Way to Cooling Front
Cooler days return as a cold north wind drops Pecos temperatures from 67 to 36 at dawn. Showers and thunderstorms move inland across Texas while a weak front shifts east. Firefighters in Dixie land extinguish a brush fire. New Mexico faces fresh snowfall warnings and a broad western cool-down with gusty winds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pecos
Pecos Valley
Associated Press
Gulf of Mexico
Galveston
Corpus Christi
Texas
Alice
San Antonio
Cotulla
Kilgore
Marshall
New Mexico
el Paso
Mexico
Marfa
West Texas
Dalhart
Panhandle
Brownnsville
Mercury
Vic
Toria
Amarillo
Rockies
Plains States
Nevada
Utah
Arizona
Colorado
Austin
Nev
Mississippi Valley
Ohio Valley
South Atlantic
Tennessee
Georgia
South Carolina
Gulf States
Lander
Wyo
Key West
Fla
Girl Scout cookie deliveries reach Pecos customers
Scout troops canvassed Pecos in January to take cookie orders and now deliver. Each family size box yields 10 cents to the troop. rest funds support Permian Basin council camps and properties and provide camperships. Fort Worth dairy and cattle market data follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pecos
Permian Basin
Cancer Society to host March film showings
The American Cancer Society unit announces a March schedule of film viewings. The Freddy Steinmark Story will be shown tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the American Inn with Mrs. Precit leading, and more screenings follow for Kiwanis TOPS DAR AAUW Merry Home and Garden Club and First Baptist Fellowship Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Precit
American Cancer Society
ASC
Lions Club
Freddy Steinmark
Texas University
American Inn
Joe Clark
AAUW
First Baptist Fellowship Hall
Precht
Merry Home and Garden Club
Mike Harrison
Precit
First Christian Church
Winnie Jameson
Communists boycott four party Joint Military Commission meetings
North Vietnam and the Viet Cong announce a boycott of Joint Military Commission sessions until Saigon increases the second phase prisoner of war releases. Officials say the schedule is already a week behind. Hanoi and the Viet Cong demand 7,000 POWs while South Vietnam offers 3,000. A theft report from Mrs. Jimmy McNeil notes a stolen well pump and 20 feet of pipe.
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Saigon
Joint Military Commission
North Vietnam
Vietnam
Hanoi
Jimmy McNeil
Nebraska St
Pope elevates 30 prelates to cardinal in surprise move
Pope Paul VI named 30 new cardinals including three Americans Archbishops Manning Medeiros and Martines. He noted future cardinals could include bishops in conclave and revealed two secret pontiffs from 1969, Trochta and Hossu. The College now totals 145, the largest in history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vatican City
Paul VI
Timothy Manning
Los Angeles
Humberto Medeiros
Boston
Aponte Martines
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Stepan Trochta
Litomerice
Czechoslovakia
Juliu Hossu
Cluj-Gherla
Romania
Hossu
College of Cardinals
Papers Returned After Years To Sender In Chad
George H Suhre in West Central Africa did not receive three Pecos Enterprise copies in June 1971. The papers were mailed back today with Retour a L Envoyeur. Damaged yet wrapped, they were addressed to Suhre c O Rogers Advanced Prospecting Fort Lamy Chad. Three copies remain available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George H. Suhre
West Central Africa
Pecos Enterprise
Enterprise
c/O Rogers Advanced Prospecting
Boite Postale
Fort Lamy
Chad
Suhre
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Monika Schwinn
da Nang
P. Clifton
Stephen R. Leopold
Milwaukee
Wis
Naval Base
San Diego Naval Base
C of C
Paris
Dixieland
Paula Yvone Peters
S. Elm St
Romeo Ybarra
Veterans Blvd
Green Lantern
Boys’ Club
Ed Sullivan
Janet Windham
Lee Joiner
E.W. Schmidt
Sullivan
Fort Worth
Tex
Cancer Society
Pun
Africa
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