Trial testimony details hostage claim in Trull kidnapping case
Tyler Texas Associated Press writer reports Bill Mays vice president of Pyron Investments testified that Don Trull splashed gasoline in Billy Pyron’s Tyler office and held him captive for about four hours on August 9 1977 threatening to ignite the office unless Estes and Pyron paid 1.6 million. Mays said Trull demanded contact with Pyron and forced him to stay in the office using a coffee urn. Defense suggested blufing but Mays affirmed the death threat claim as he described repeated orders and the countdown to doomsday. Estes a parolee linked to the case has been subpoenaed amid parole violation probes while Pyron denied involvement in Trull’s allegations.
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Don Harrison
Associated Press
Tyler
Texas
Don Trull
Trull
Mississippi
Bill Mays
Billie Sol Estes
Estes
Billy Pyron
Mays
Pyron
SSTES
Pyron Investments
Carter urban plan seeks parks clinics and jobs nationwide
President Carter unveils an $8.3 billion urban policy aiming to spur investment in distressed cities. It fronts new parks health clinics and basketball courts plus job programs for youths and the hard core unemployed. Congress must approve funding and a national development bank proposal is discussed. Local Liveable Cities grants fund neighborhood arts programs including mural painting in Atlanta.
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Washington
Carter
Congress
Capitol Hill
House
Senate
National Development Bank
Senate Banking Committee
White House
Stuart Eizenstat
Eizenstat
National Endowment For the Arts
Atlanta
Pecos OfficialsTo Oppose Continental Telephone Rate Increase
Mayor W R Bob Bickley and City Attorney Ted Painter left Pecos for Austin to attend a Public Utilities Commission hearing on Continental Telephone Company's rate increase request. Texas Municipal League will represent Pecos while the mayor appears as private citizen and as a representative of West Texas Cooperative Oil Mill. Oppose due to unaddressed deficiencies noted during prior rate approval.
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W.R
Bob’’ Bickley
Ted Painter
Pecos
Public Utilities Commission
Austin
Continental Telephone Company
Texas Municipal League
Bickley
West Texas Cooperative Oil Mill
February food costs push up consumer prices 0.6 percent
Food prices rose 1.2 percent in February led by beef up 4.1 percent with groceries up 1.3 percent. Overall CPI climbed 0.6 percent as fuel medical care and vehicle costs rose while clothing fell. Real earnings fell slightly but remain higher than a year earlier.
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R. Gregory Nokes
Associated Press
Washington
Carter
Labor Department
Three Houston ex officers sentenced to one year in civil rights case
Three former Houston policemen were sentenced to one year in federal prison for violating the civil rights of Joe Campos Torres, whose body was found in Buffalo Bayou after his May 1977 custody death. A 10 year suspended sentence with five years probation was imposed on the felony count.
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Houston
U.S
Ross Sterling
Terry Denson
Stephen Orlando
Joseph Janisch
Joe Campos Torres
Buffalo Bayou
Sterling
Big Spring jury begins deliberations in fatal 19 year old shooting
A Howard County grand jury began deliberations into the December death of Juan Galaviz after Sgt. Leroy Spires fired as he moved toward his pocket. The panel is to issue a report later this week as Texas Rangers investigate and Spires faces resignation fallout from the case.
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Big Spring
Texas
Howard County
Leroy Spires
Juan Galaviz
Midland College
Howard College
Munity
Spires
Galaviz
Texas Rangers
Grand Jury
Stanley Bogard
Helicopter firm pleads guilty in golden eagle killings
South Texas Helicopter Services and manager Alva Dale Barnes pleaded guilty to taking and killing golden eagles during airborne hunts over West Texas Beal County in December 1975. Jurors had earlier convicted Andrew Allen and two others of conspiring to hunt eagles from a helicopter.
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Midland, Texas
West Texas
Beal County
South Texas
Alva Dale Barnes
Eagles
Barnes
South Texas Helicopter Services
U.S
Andrew Allen
Allen
San Antonio
John H. Wood
Midland
Gerald Heintzelman
Heintzelman
Public invited to Alpine Marine training detachment event
Marine detachment 1 from Truck Company 6th Transport Battalion 4th Marine Division plans a firing exercise at Gage Stradley Ranch near Alpine from April 7 to 9 with public observing starting April 8 at 2 p.m. Directions, transport, and safety measures provided as spectators tour the site and view weapons demonstrations.
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6Th Transport Battalion
4Th Marine Division
Gage- Stradley Ranch
Alpine
John C. Stradely
Permian Basin
Gage-Stradley Ranch
Midland-Odessa
Pecos Weather: 87 High After 40 Low With W Tx Outlook
The Associated Press reports Pecos reached 87 degrees yesterday with an early low of 40. West Texas will be partly cloudy and warm, with mild nights through Wednesday. A system brings scattered showers and thunderstorms, ending from west to east by Wednesday. highs span from the lower 70s in the north to near 90 in the Big Bend, and lows from the mid 40s to the 50s, with 30s noted in the mountains.
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Pecos
Associated Press
West Texas
Big Bend
Jeremiah’s Woe and Enduring Burden
A concise biblical reflection on suffering frames Jeremiah’s lament as a personal affliction from which the speaker resolves to endure. The verse emphasizes recognizing hardship as a tested burden and the resolve to bear it with faith.
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West of the Pecos
Denson
Orlando
Janisch
Big Spring Investigation
Jeremiah
Bob
Bob Bickley
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