20 Mar 1972
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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1972
Page
1
Pecos Enterprise sponsors a 13 week Newspaper Bingo with 23 merchant locations. Players who collect blue cards may win cash prizes totaling 650 dollars by circling all 24 numbers on a card and submitting it by 5 p.m. Monday. Cards are free, and more visits increase winning chances while colors change weekly.
A weekend of fair weather spurred more traffic fatalities across Texas raising the toll to 37 deaths and 564 motor-vehicle deaths for the year so far. Multiple crashes killed or injured dozens, including five Tyler residents in a head on crash, and six members of a Lubbock dance band in a rollover near Hale Center.
Service stations reported thefts over the weekend including Taylor Shell on West Third Street with hoses and a bucket valued at 15.50 and Harold Simpson Texaco on West Third Street where a car worth 3100 was taken and later recovered by police. Also noted are citizenship class registrations for Balmorhea Saragosa area at Saragosa Community Center and local police incidents including a hit and run and a drunk driving arrest. Belfast bomb blast kills six and wounds 97, with casualties including a child and two policemen.
City police checked two unrelated stabbings Saturday night. Raul Sotelo was cut in the back during a bar fight and treated at Memorial Hospital before being released. Socorro Lopez Rodriguez sustained deep leg and hand wounds, transported to Medical Center after transfer.
Illinois voters prepare for a crucial Democratic primary where Ed Muskie McCarthy and McGovern vie for delegates. Muskie seeks big wins in a day of campaigns ahead of a decisive Illinois vote that could shape the national convention landscape.
The Merry Wives Club will meet Wednesday at 3 30 p m in the home of Mrs Craig Hess 1901 Adams St Rev David North Cutt pastor of First Presbyterian Church will present the program
The Reeves County tax office will operate during the noon hour and Saturday mornings for the next two weeks to sell license plates. Pearl C. Barker, county tax assessor-collector, urges vehicle owners to bring the mailed title card and 1971 registration.
U S war planes pushed the year’s air raids past 100 with a Sunday attack on a radar site 35 miles north of the DMZ and other strikes near the Laotian border. Ground action in Cambodia and the Saigon region yielded large stockpiles of rice and weapons while an airlift mission rescued three downed airmen. The Richard Briscoe Post 91 American Legion meets at 7:30 tonight at Ninth and Cedar Streets.
Swallows reappear at Mission San Juan Capistrano for St. Joseph’s Day with about 15 percent arriving early while most guests wait until March 19. Mission spokesmen note the annual return varies each year.
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