Texas weekend violence toll swells with pleasant weather
The Associated Press reports 24 deaths in Texas from Friday 6 p m to Monday midnight, 11 in traffic. Fatalities include four killed near Edinburg, a spectator fatally struck by debris at a Dallas drag race, and multiple homicides and crashes across the state.
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Associated Press
Texas
Edinburg
Rio Grande Valley
Roy Thompson
Dallas
George Harris
Mineral Wells
William H. Holloway
Palo
General Hospital
Justice of the Peace
Mario Alberto Llanas
Laredo
Llanas
Theodore Jackson Jr
Pampa
Texas 273
FM 749
Dusting of warmth as fronts bumper Texas weather cools
A cold front swept across Texas bringing gusty north winds and scattered drizzle. Temperatures rose to 82 in Cotulla and San Angelo while Galveston logged 69. Flood-stage rivers Navasota, Trinity, Neches and Sabine remain near crests with Liberty area's Trinity forecast to hit 23 feet. Two juveniles were questioned after a burglary at CPS Warehouse with three cutting tips stolen worth about 150 dollars.
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Associated Press
Texas
Gulf of Mexico
Charlie Smit
John Lewis
CPS
Sam Dudley
Smith
West
Trinity
Lower Neches
Sabine
Buffalo
Hearne
Trinity River
Liberty
Cotulla
San Angelo
Galveston
Texas Water Quality Board Public Hearing Planned for Pecos
The Texas Water Quality Board schedules a public hearing in Pecos on March 22 to consider two waste control orders for feedlot operations. Pecos Feed Yard seeks expansion to 20 000 animals, while Kesey Bros. Feed Pens proposes a 20 000 head lot nearby. Wastewaters will be retained for irrigation.
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Texas Water Quality Board
Pecos
Pecos Feed Yard, Inc
C. J
Ray Kesey
Kesey Bros. Feed Pens
TWQB
U.S. says arms flow continues into South Vietnam
U.S. intelligence reports indicate North Vietnam has kept moving military equipment into South Vietnam since Nixon warned Hanoi. Analysts estimate 400 to 450 armored vehicles including tanks sent into the south in under two months, seen as violations of the cease-fire.
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Washington
U. S
North Vietnam
Nixon
Hanoi
South Vietnam
U.S
Vietnam
Pentagon
China
Laos
Cancer education film screening planned at State Theater
A educational feature is set for Friday March 23 at 10 a m at the State Theater. Sponsored by the Reeves County Unit of the American Cancer Society the event invites public attendance.
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State Theater
Reeves County Unit
The
American Cancer Society
Carr defense testimony links Sharp and Novotny to loan payoff
Former Texas attorney general Waggoner Carr tells jurors he expects proof that Houston financier Frank Sharp and Joe Novotny took over and paid a $550,000 note tied to his name. He says Osorio and he entered a SAC and RIC stock purchase with losses and a civil suit followed. The report also notes unrelated film showings and a separate obituary notice for Lauritz Melchior.
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Dallas
Texas Atty
Waggoner Carr
Houston
Frank Sharp
Joe Novotny
Carr
Possibl
Novotny
Osorio
John Beaird
South Atlantic Co
SAC
RIC
Texas Insurance
John Osorio
Sharp
Austin
NBL
Dick Slack Improving After Heart Attack Hospital Stay
Representative Dick Slack of Pecos is reported improving after a heart attack on March 9. Slack remains in Brackenridge Hospital in Austin for about 10 days to two weeks, with visitors allowed as he regains his health. Charlene Platt, Slack's secretary, says he is "sounding like himself again."
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Dick Slack
Pecos
Charlene Platt
Slack
Brackenridge Hospital
Austin
The
Enterprise
FBI Seizes 6000 Pounds Hijacked Beef in Indianapolis
FBI agents recovered 6000 pounds of stolen beef in a southside Indianapolis parking lot. The meat, en route from Kansas City to Charlotte, had been offered at 1 dollar per pound. The haul is linked to a 25000 pound hijacking reported March 9. A tip led investigators to a 40 foot semi-trailer pickup.
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Indianapolis
FBI
Kansas City
A&p
Charlotte
N.C
Stereo theft from Maldonado car at Baseside apartments
Police report a stereo and tape valued at 52.50 were taken from Pedro Maldonado’s car parked in front of Apartment 8-D at Air Base Saturday night. No injuries are reported.
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Dan Rasberry
Texas Driven-In
Pedro Maldonado
Mattox Joins Pecos Chamber of Commerce
The Pecos Chamber announces Bill Mattox as its newest member. He will attend the board of directors luncheon on April 10 to commemorate the occasion.
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Chamber of Commerce
Bill Mattox
Pecos
Bill
Chamber
Board of Directors
Gay Thigpen Earns State Finalist Plaque in Display Contest
PHS senior Gay Thigpen daughter of Eugene and Mrs Thigpen won a plaque as first in the area contest and placed among 12 state finalists in a display advertising competition at the Astro World Hotel Houston. She competed against 68 area winners, judged three windows at Joske's, and entered through DE in Mike Hartman’s class.
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Caller-Times
Houston Chronicle
Corsicana Daily Sun
Chronicle
The
Sun
Morning
Afternoon
Star Telegram
Murray Judson
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
Gay Thigpen
PHS
Eugene Thigpen
S. Alamo Sr
Astro World Hotel
Houston
Distributive Education Club
Mike Hartman
Joske’s
Robinson's
Skibelle
Austen
Gay
Stuent
UIL
Tri K Klub
McMurray College
Odessa
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Glenda Mallory
San Antonio
Jesus Sanchez
Donald Ray Faught
Loop 410
Andrew Pipkin
Roy Lee Davis
West Dallas
Pipkin
Davis
Beth Clem
Irving
Lawrence D. Wood
John D. Knight
Garland
Fort Worth
Carl Timmons
el Paso
Nacogdoches
Timmons
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Holly
Thomas Alan Benson
Benson
Dickinson
Manuel J. Robeldo
Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Association
Kermit
Sadler
Nichols
Salder
O’ferrall Pauly
Park Service
Brad Messer
Galveston Daily News
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Corpus Christi
Texas Apme
Quality Board Hearing
U.S. Says
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Cancer Film
National Bankers Life Insurance
Bill Prewit
E. W. Schmidt
Santa Monica
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St. John’s Hospital
Melchoir
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Richard Wagner
New York
Metropolitan Opera
Rudolph Bing
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