Plane search halted for missing Scottsdale couple
Arizona Civil Air Patrol suspended the hunt for a light twin engine Cessna missing since October 29 aboard Mr and Mrs William Carson on a Corpus Christi to Phoenix flight. A large weekend search with 20 aircraft and ground crews yielded no solid leads. Anyone with information is urged to contact the local CAP unit.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Arizona
Civil Air Patrol
Scottsdale
William Carson
Corpus Christi
Tex
CAP
Earl Jolly
Jolly
New Mexico
Texas and
Three Minor Collisions Reported With No Injuries
City police investigated three minor crashes with no injuries. Zacaras Villa 51 hit a Frito Lay van driven by Elmer Monroe Ford 26 at Eighth and Locust at 2 26 p m Thursday. Bonnie Foster 30 collided with Irma Herrera 19 in Dairy Mart lot about noon Sunday. Jose Gonzales 18 and H B Evaro 41 involved in a car pickup crash at Alberta and Second streets at 5 15 p m Sunday.
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Zacaras Villa
Peach St
Elmer Monroe Ford
Hobbs
N. M
Eighth
Locust Streets
Charles Smith
Bonnie Garrett Foster
Willow St
Irma Rose Herrera
Sixth St
Dairy Mart
Jose M. Gonzales
H. B. Evaro
N. Oak
Alberta and
Second Streets
Dollar Day Tuesday in Pecos at four downtown stores
On Dollar Day Tuesday Pecos shoppers can save at four participating merchants Anthony's Penney's Williams and Reeda's. The event is sponsored by the Pecos Chamber of Commerce.
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Pecos
Anthony’s
Penney’s
Williams and
Reeda’s
The
Pecos Chamber of Commerce
Sunny Pecos farmers benefit from warm weekend weather
The weekend brought sunny skies and warm conditions for cotton farmers as temperatures peaked at 83 degrees Sunday and dropped to 53 overnight. A weak cold front moved slowly across Texas with minimal impact on the Indian Summer pattern, bringing scattered showers mainly in North Central Texas and mild early November temperatures across the state.
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Associated Press
Texas
Texas Panhandle
New Mexico
Big Bend
Amendment 10 and 11 Proposals on Constitution and Salaries
The article explains Amendment No. 10 changes to how amendments are proposed and published, allowing biennial sessions to propose amendments and reducing newspaper publication to two times plus posting full text at county courthouses for 30 days before elections. Amendment No. 11 would raise lieutenant governor and speaker of the house salaries from 4800 to 22500 per year while preserving living quarters and office space in Austin.
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H. D. Glover
Stitute
Austin
Reeves County Nominates Local Races Amid New Party
Reeves County voters head to polls Tuesday to elect a county judge sheriff and precinct officials along with district state and national seats. Absentee ballots totaled 280 with polling places listed across towns including Pecos Balmorhea Saragosa and Orla. In 1968 Humphrey carried Reeves County by a narrow margin over Nixon with Wallace accounting for a sizable share.
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Reeves County
Darrell Glover
Bill Youngblood
Ismael Carrasco
Charles Hoefs
Dick Gutierrez
Pecos
M. P. Withers
Ronny Bowles
Toyah
Edith Miller
Balmorhea
Garland Rowe
Saragosa
Floyd Brownfield
Old West Pecos
Bob Dean
North Pecos
J. E. Counch
Orla
Jimmie Cooksey
Pecos Housting
Barbara Cooper
East Pecos Jr
Rev. Lon Bailey
Community Public Service Co
Stafford Blvd
Jacque Renshaw
Humbert Humphrey
Nixon
George Wallace
Campaigns Enter Final Day as Campaign Trail Winds Down
As the presidential race heads to the last day, Mc Govern tours the nation while Nixon preps a windup speech at San Clemente. Agnew urges law and order in Philadelphia, Shriver calls for peace and a repaired U.S. image abroad. Polls show Nixon ahead but Mc Govern gains noted by Harris and Yankelovich amid Vietnam peace talks uncertainty.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
George S. McGovern
Los Angeles
Nixon
San Clemente
Calif
Spiro T. Agnew
Fraternal Order of Police
Philadelphia
Agnew
Pont
Sargent Shriver
Pittsburgh
U. S
Richard N‘von
McGovern
Shriver
Louis Harris
Harris
Rig Count Drops In Permian Basin Summary
Reed Drilling Equipment reports a weekly decline in active rigs in the Permian Basin Empire. West Texas and Southeast New Mexico total 170 rigs, down from 181 two weeks prior, with Pecos County leading at 20 units and Ward County at 17. Lea County in SE New Mexico shows 16 rigs operating.
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Permian Basin
Reed Drilling Equipment
West
Texas
New Mexico
Pecos County
Texas Railroad Commission District 8
Midland
Ward County
Lea County
Eddy County
Chaves County
Roosevelt County
Andrews
Borden
Chaves
Cochran
Concho
Crane Crockett Dawson
Dickens
Dona Ana
Ector Eddy
Edwards Fisher Gaines
Garza Hale Hockley Howard Irion Kimble Lea
Loving Lynn Martin Midland Nolan Pecos
Reagan Reeves Roosevelt Runnels
Schleicher Scurry
Stonewall Sutton Upton Val Verde Ward
Winkler Yoakum
Polls show Nixon leading on eve of election
National polls give Nixon about 59 percent to 34 or 36 for McGovern. Analysts caution on accuracy and note some movement toward McGovern amid Vietnam war uncertainty. Gallup Harris and Yankelovich weigh in on likely outcomes and methods.
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Nixon
George McGovern
McGovern
Gallup
Chicago
Louis Cheskin
Cheskin
Danilo Yankelovich
Louis Harris
Harris
Yankelovich
Gannett News Service
Belden Associates
Uallas
Hijacker Seized After Tokyo to Cuba Flight Standoff
A masked man carrying a .38 revolver hijacked a JAL Boeing 727 with 128 aboard seeking a Cuba run and $2 million. Police concealed on the plane rushed the hijacker as the crew and passengers remained aboard until he was overpowered. The pilot returned to Tokyo and the plane landed for police action with no injuries reported.
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Cuba
San Francisco
Tatsuji Nakaoka
Los Angeles
Japan Air Lines
Fukuoka
Japan
Nagoya
Toyo
JAL
Vancouver
Mexico
Robert Faulkner
Manistique, Mich
Weekend vandalism and thefts disrupt city police
Over the weekend city police investigated vandalism and thefts from cars and a pickup, plus a damaged truck. Incidents included hubcaps stolen from a car at the high school, a stereo and tapes taken from another vehicle, a lost or stolen billfold, broken car windows, a tool box theft, vending machine snacks stolen, and dented pickup fender. Authorities noted total losses and damages across multiple addresses.
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Delfina Ramos
S. Hickory St
Pastrolman
Charles Smith
Jimmy Davis
E. Second St
Carol McKean
Jim Wilson
Lawson Goodrich
Veterans Blvd
Pat Armendarez
S. Elm St
Santa Rosa
Robert Diaz
Adelle Guevara
S. Oak St
All-Starsedge Cowboys in Peewee Championship Thriller
The Peewee All-Stars defeated the Cowboys 22 to 18 in a parade infused city championship game. Each side scored the same number of touchdowns but Cowboys failed to convert extra points. The victors, formed from four players from each defeated Peewee team, celebrated at a Holiday Inn banquet while the Cowboys held a season ending feast at Ben's Spanish Inn.
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Cowboys
Holiday Inn
Ben’s
Spanish Inn
Train Fire Kills 29 in Eight-Mile Tunnel
Fire aboard an express train through a tunnel in Fukui Japan killed 29 passengers and injured 679 as smoke filled the cars. The Osaka to Aomori service was mostly full from weekend travelers with the dining car stove suspected.
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Fukui
Japan
Osaka
Tokyo
Aomori
Cutcher Assumes Woolworth Post In Pecos Texas
Bill Cutcher, 25, begins his duties as Woolworth manager in Pecos replacing Ron Wheeler who resigned to open a gift shop in Beaumont. A native Texan and Perryton High School graduate, Cutcher has worked in Bryan College Station Corpus Christi and earlier stores. He and his wife Bette and son Donald 3 1/2 reside at 2411 Teague St. He enjoys fishing golf bridge and music played on alto sax.
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Bill Cutcher
Woolsworth
Pecos
Corpus Christi
Cutcher
Southwest Texas State University
Bryan
College Station
Perryton High School
Bette
Donald
Teague St
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Rosalina Rodriguez
Pecos- Andrews
Tammy Pattillo
Charles Pattillo
Kenneth Thomasson
Miss Rodriguez
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Dalhart
Galveston
Raza Unida
Carl P. Leabscort
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Eldridge
Iowa
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Ill
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White House
John B. Connally
John Schmitz
Escondido
Schmitz
Senate
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California
Illinois
GOP
George Gallup Sr
Angly
Maurice Angly
Pecos-Monahans
Woolworth
Ron Wheeler
Beaumont
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