Barstow weighs disaster plan with city officials
Barstow fire department and city council members attended a community center briefing where Robert Schnatterly outlined a tentative disaster control plan. The plan covers alert, warning, and coordinated response with a chief pool of operations at a central site and a joint task force including the mayor, fire chief, deputy sheriff, school principal, water superintendent, and county commissioners. A public information effort will follow approval by councils and the school district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barstow
Nrends
Schnatterly
Special Ed resources meeting set
The Pecos Barstow CISD Special Education Department hosts its second parent meeting for resource and speech therapy students. In North Pecos Elementary School library the session covers steps to enter resource class and demonstrates remediation techniques with visuals and academics for elementary and kindergarten.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Special Education Department
Pecos-Barstow
Elizabeth Dennison
Daraliene Smith
North Pecos
Sara Easley
Earl Bell Kingergarten
Sharon McCarroll
Plaque and Portrait Honor Pecos Principal
A plaque memorializing the late LA Hudson, longtime principal at South Pecos Elementary, was presented to Mrs. Hudson during a PPA program. A large portrait was unveiled to hang in the school. Hudson led Pecos schools for 30 years, including Pecos Junior High and Pecos High, until his death on October 13, 1972.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. 2. Hudson
Ray Whitley
Pecos
South Pecos Elementary
LA. Hudson
South Pecos
Hudson
Iis
Car Fire Sparks From Dropped Item in Trash Sack
Mary Bradley told police she accidentally dropped a match in a trash sack inside her car Tuesday. The sack caught fire and set the seat ablaze before Patrolman Tommy Box arrived to extinguish the flames. no injuries were reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Bradley
Tommy Box
Three Vehicle Crash Injures Teen at City Intersection
One person, Bobby Joe Calloway 17, was injured in a three vehicle crash at 4 40 p m Tuesday at W Third and Alberta. Calloway was taken to Memorial Hospital by Pecos Ambulance and released after treatment. The others involved were Billy Kilcrease 719 W 8th St and William Sparks 21 1725 W Fifth St as vehicles traveled east on Third Street.
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Third
Alberta
Bobby Joe Calloway
Third St
Memorial Hospital
Pecos
Jim Wilson
Third Street
Billie Kilcrease
8Th St
William Charles Sparks
Fifth St
Calloway
Directors to be installed at Pecos Chamber dinner
Nine new directors will join five elected directors at the Pecos Chamber of Commerce banquet at Pecos Valley Country Club Thursday night. Appointees are George Vasquez Thomas W Robinson Ron Kil lion and Charles Weinacht. Elected earlier were Bill Hubbs A B Foster Jr Walter Holcombe Richard D Naylor and Mike Starkey. George Vasquez owns Terez tras Furniture Cory 133.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pecos
George Vasquez
Thomas W. Robinson
Ron Killion
Charles Weinacht
Bill
Oak St
West Texas Telephone Co
Duval Corp
Frank Harper
J.T. Moore Jr
Woody Ivy
Don Doan
T.C. Slack
John T. Rediger
Paul Randolph
Ray Whitley
Mike Burkholder
Jim Ed Miller
Mike Starkey
Sandra Dingler
Jean Burkholder
Margie Mayfield
Pam Harrison
Charlotte Starkey
Isaura Teal
Linda Lundgren
Ernestine Beauchamp
Connie Gomez
Judy Oliver
Cindy Robinson
Jackie Thomas
Pecos High School
Bh, Amstead
UTPB
Permian Basin
Pecos Art Association
Women’s Division
Chamber
POWs Free as Fourth Release From Hanoi Arrives at Clark
The fourth POW release began with 107 military men and one civilian freed by North Vietnam. A C141 flying hospital landed 40 POWs at Clark Air Base, followed by two more flights for the remaining 68. Chiefs and captains led services and cheered as McCain and others stepped ashore. Morale among remaining POWs in North Vietnam remained high amid ongoing release hopes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clark Air Base
Philippines
Air Force
Hanoi
Navy
Charles R. Gillespie Jr
Miramar
Calif
Leo T. Profiler
Palo Alto
Clark Base
United States of America
John P. Flynn
Cmdr
John S. McCain III
U. S
Pacific
Flynn
United States
Ers
McCain
Orange Park
Fla
Adm
Noel Gaylor
Pacific Command
North Vietnam
Tornadoes Linger Across Texas As Storm Front Passes
Across Texas the latest cool front moved through East Texas into Arkansas and Louisiana ending a rash of tornadoes and thunderstorms. Two people were injured in Big Spring and Wichita Falls areas while a Chapel Hill bus carrying 83 children toppled after a car skimmed on a rain slick road seven miles east of Tyler.
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Texas
Arkansas
Loui
Siana
Thomas Cooper
Air Force
Big Spring
Debbie Smith
Wichita Falls
Chapel Hill
Tyler
Ronald Brown
Kilgore
Guadalupe Pass
West Texas
Texas Panhandle
Missouri
Illinois
Oklahoma
Kansas
Minit Mart Opens Pecos Store With All Day Service
Minit Mart opens a Pecos store at 2232 S. Eddy St offering groceries sundries and a short order barbecue sandwich section. The Pecos shop operates 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily year round with grand opening planned for Thursday manager Charles Trainer and his wife Daisy reside at 1504 S. Eddy St. Trainer is a former 7 Eleven assistant manager and ex Minit Mart manager in Carlsbad.
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Pecos Tow
Mint Mart
S. Eddy St
Charles Trainer
Trainer
Daisy
Pecos
Minit Mart
Missouri
Artesia
College of Artesia
University of New Mexico
7 Eleven
Carlsbad
Fea
Tures
Sparkman tops Reeves County spelling bee at East Pecos Junior High
Rodney Sparkman son of Mr and Mrs Rodney Sparkman won the Reeves County spelling bee held at East Pecos Junior High School on Tuesday afternoon. Olya Contreras was runner up with eighth graders from Pecos Barstow Balmorhea and Toyah schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rodney Sparkman
Reeves County
East Pecos Junior High School
Olya Contreras
Mary Contreras
East Pecos
Olya
Rodney
Yolanda Madrid
North Pecos
Jana Tudor
South Pecos
Pecos-Barstow
Balmorhea
Toyah
Angie Shoemaker
Steve Loftis
Consuela Chavez
Mickey Madrid
Joyce Svoboda
Dean Wein
Tommy Kilcrease
Pecos
Rachel Gomez
Debra Diaz
Tommy Matta
Bessie Haynes
Anna Marie Jasso
Cynthia Flores
Pamela Tuerck
Bruce Bryan
Suzy Flores
Mike Goode
Barstow
Gary Compton
William Perryman
Veronica Pagan
Olga Contreras
Harold Elder
Mary Elizabeth Brownlee
Debra Ford
Richard San Roman
C. E. Wein
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Lehnatterly
Barstow Perene
Robert Schnatterly
Lynn Webb
Elias Franco
Box
Hickory St
Maria Ramirez
Fernando Dominguez
Dominguez
Pecos Junior High
13Th and
Elm Streets
Portland, Ore
Edward Rooney
Edward
Portland Oregonian
Associated Press
Eddy and
Stafford
Sparkman
the Champ
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