Drownings and wrecks claim 17 Texas lives over weekend
The Associated Press counts 17 deaths in Texas from May the Mother's Day weekend due to drownings and motor vehicle crashes. Victims include teenagers Clay Miller 16 and Mark Becker 19 in Harris County two car crash and 15 year old Vickie Elkins of Houston from Friday’s crash. Other fatalities involve shootings, an oil explosion at Hearne, and multiple drowning incidents across Houston and Dallas areas. Names include Roger Pye 4 and Matthew Garber 3 among youths. The report notes several victims under 20 and lists numerous locations such as Harris County Dallas Lake Houston Lake Cherokee and Interstate 35 corridors.
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Fred Martin
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Haris
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Harris County
Roger Todd Pye
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Henderson
James Edward Margeson
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Dallas
David Johnson
West
Wanda Burns Logan
Lake Dallas
Willis Logan
Lewisville
Logan
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Nettle
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Rig count dips 13 in two-week period
W S Murphy Industries weekly survey of active rotaries in the Permian Basin Empire notes a 13 rig drop in West Texas and Southeast New Mexico. Total 145 rigs last week, down from 158 two weeks earlier. a year ago 163 rigs were in operation. Southeast New Mexico leads with Eddy 11, Lea 24, Chaves 2, Roosevelt 1. Pecos County in District 8 Midland reports 11, down nine from the prior week.
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19th Century Imperial City in South Vietnam Shrinks After Tet
The city’s deep history and the Perfume River valley sit amid heavy fighting from the Tet Offensive era. Artillery scars crater the road to the Tombs and the Ming Mang tomb garden offers a fleeting escape for troops and officers. The piece notes the tension between destruction and preservation in a landscape of war.
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Sunday Morning Silence Amid Narrow News Tides
A terse Sunday morning brief offers scant details from the city’s desk with little context or names to anchor the event. Officials provide minimal updates, leaving readers awaiting fuller coverage later in the day.
Weather Outlook West Texas Northeast Mexico
Fair and mild conditions prevail in the north through Tuesday. South areas remain partly cloudy and mild tonight with a slight chance of thundershowers, then clear to partly cloudy and mild Tuesday. Tonight’s low 48 to 60. Tuesday’s high 80 to 96.
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Dan Blocker to be buried in De Kalb Texas
Dan Blocker, famed for playing Hoss Cartwright on Bonanza, will be buried privately in De Kalb, Texas, near his mother. Funeral timing is uncertain. body arrives in Dallas Tuesday afternoon and is transported to De Kalb. Blocker died at 43 from blood clots after gall bladder surgery.
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Hoss Cartwright
America
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Blocker
O’donnell
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Dolphin
School Menu For Tuesday To Friday
The menu lists meals for Tuesday through Friday including burritos tamales Spanish rice and applesauce cake on Tuesday. Wednesday features fried chicken whipped potatoes broccoli cherry cobbler hot rolls and buttered milk. Thursday offers Bar-B-Q pork on bun French fries sweet relish cottage cheese salad chocolate pudding and milk. Friday serves tuna salad on lettuce creamed potatoes candied carrots chocolate peanut butter bar and ice cream with chuck wagon bread and milk.
Pecos Enterprise Details Subscriptions and Mailing Policy
The Pecos Enterprise publishes daily except weekends from 324 S Cedar St Pecos Texas 79772. Subscription rates by mail in Reeves County are 6 months 9 dollars and 1 year 18 dollars all other mail 6 months 11 dollars 12 months 21 dollars.
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S. Cedar St
Pecos
Texas
P.O
Reeves County
Eto Texas
Nixon's Moscow visit framed by Yalta shadows ahead
The article previews President Nixon’s May trip to the Soviet Union and others, tracing how postwar Yalta outcomes haunt US Russian diplomacy. It contrasts Nixon’s aims with Cold War tensions, arms talks, and the evolving Soviet policy amid global crises.
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Vietnam
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TV Schedule Chaos Hints at Dense Day of Classic Sitcoms
A dense listing shows KMID channel 2 and CBS and ABC blocks with daytime soap operas, game shows, talk shows, and primetime features. Programs include Days of Our Lives Jeopardy The Tonight Show Laugh-Ins and movies such as Seven Faces of Dr Lao and Fantastic Voyage.
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ABC
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Jack Warden
Carol Burnett
Jack Lemmon
NBC
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Edward Asner
Jenny Agutter
NBC Hall of Fame
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Henry VIII
Peyton Place
Dr. Lao
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