Market Slump Weighs on Wall Street Amid Oil and Middle East Blues
The stock market closed lower as investors fretted over an oil shortage and Middle East tensions. Dow Jones Industrial Average slid to 832.71, with declines leading advances on the NYSE. Amex value index and NYSE index also fell, while traders cited Brezhnev’s warning of possible war. In Chicago wheat and corn prices were quoted, and Fort Worth cattle and hogs markets showed varied moves.
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Soviet Communist Party
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Walt Disney Productions
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Brausch & Lamb
Caverns visitors rise during four day Thanksgiving period
Park Superintendent Donald Dayton reported 7,690 visitors to Carlsbad Caverns National Park over the four day Thanksgiving period, Thursday through Sunday, up from 6,847 last year. The annual total reached 813,140, slightly under last year’s level. Dayton also noted Guadalupe Mountains National Park attendance at 44,272 for 1973, up from 35,857 at the same point last year.
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Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Donald Dayton
Dayton
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Bids sought to replace Carlsbad Caverns lighting system
Park Superintendent Donald Dayton announces bids for a major portion of the underground lighting retrofit at Carlsbad Caverns. Drawings and bid forms will be available after Dec 6 with bids due Jan 8. Project costs are estimated at 80 to 120 thousand dollars and focus on safety and efficiency without increasing total energy output.
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Carlsbad Caverns
National Park Service
National Parks Highway
Carlsbad
Two men charged after marijuana and weapon found
Manuel Parra Lopez and Enrique Carrasco were arrested Tuesday by Patrolman Jimmy Roundtree and charged with possession of about three pounds of marijuana. Carrasco turned in two pistols, leading to Wednesday charges of carrying a prohibited weapon. Bonds were set at 5000 dollars each for the marijuana charge and 750 dollars each for the weapons charge after appearance before County Judge H D Glover.
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Manuel Parra Lopez
Enrique Carrasco
Jimmy Roundtree
Carrasco
Roundtree
H.D. Glover
Five Ton Weekly Marijuana Seizures Reported in Texas Mexico
Federal officials say Texas and Mexico are facing up to five tons of marijuana seized weekly as a peak harvest passes. DEA Dallas deputy director Arthur J. Fluhr notes intensified drives, October seizures in Texas totaling two and a half tons and four and a half tons in Mexico, with a November 21 Reynosa seizure of 5,600 pounds and three Austin men arrested. He cites ongoing Mexican cooperation and a recent 25 ton Mexican seizure based on Dallas tips. The drug’s wholesale value runs about $100,000 per ton.
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Austin
Nixon proposes 12 areas added to National Wilderness System
President Nixon recommends including 12 areas in the National Wilderness Preservation System to keep them wild and unspoiled. Regions named span White River in Arkansas, Sequuste and Bande lier monuments, Valentine and Crescent Lake refuges in Nebraska, Joshua Tree area in California, Big Bend Park in Texas, and others in Colorado Oregon and California. Also notes new West Texas archival appointment Miss Ann Miller to manage Regional Historical Resources Depository system in Odessa and affiliation with UT Permian Basin.
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Nixon
White River National Wildlife Refuge
Arkansas
Seguste National Monument
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Bandelier National Monument
New Mexico
Valentine National Wildlife Refuge
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Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge
Joshua Tree Monument
Point Reyes National Seashore
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Big Bend National Park
Texas
Imperial National Wildlife Refuge
Meas Verde National Park
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Missouri
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Oregon
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West Texas
Texas State Library
University of Texas
Permian Basin
Odessa
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Angelo State University
University of Texas At el Paso
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University of Texas At Austin
UT Austin
Edge Edge promoted to district sales manager at Electro-Chem
Electro-Chem promotes Rodger Edge to district sales manager effective December 1. Edge, educated at Ranger Junior College and Odessa College, has worked in oilfields since 1966 with major oil firms in Midland Andrews and Goldsmith and with oilfield chemical companies in Odessa. He is a member of API and NACE and lives with his wife and three children at 4046 East Everglade, Odessa.
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Electro-Chem
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Ranger Junior College
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Edge
Midland
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Odessa
American Petroleum Institute
National Association of Corrosion Engineers
East Everglade In
Community and club meeting schedule bulletin
Thursday Pecos Riding Club organizes an organizational meeting at 7 p.m. in the Community Center Teen Room. Monday Evening Lions meet at 7:30 p.m. at the American Motor Inn. Amistad Lions gather at 7:30 p.m. in Lions Den 102 S. Pecan. Tuesday United Methodist Women's Christmas party at 9:30 a.m. at Mrs. Henry Blackwell’s home 618 W. Fourth. B.P.C.E. meets 8 p.m. Elks Lodge. TOPS Club 6:30 p.m. at the drivers licence bureau. Amistad Lions bingo 8 p.m. Evening Optimist 8 p.m. Saragosa Hall Sixth and Peach. Wednesday Downtown Lions Club at noon at the Holiday Inn.
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Lions
American Motor Inn
Amistad Lions
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United Methodist Women's
Henry Blackwell
Fourth
B.P.C.E
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Holiday Inn
Cotton futures rise on tight supplies and no limit
New York early trading shows No 2 cotton futures, with the nearby December contract strongest and up 15.25 per bale as it faces no trading limit after first notice day. Other months lifted the 10 per bale limit amid firm demand while middling 11 markets averaged 71.17 cents per pound.
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