City faces holiday personal crisis surge in San Francisco
San Francisco officials report rising personal crisis calls amid national tragedies including Guyana violence and City Hall killings. Officials note emotional overload, but coroner says no direct link yet to suicide. past year recorded 194 crisis reports with 233 the prior year.
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San Francisco
Guyana
Valerie Waidler
Peoples Temple
Bay Area
George Moscone
Harvey Milk
Boyd Stephens
Golden Gate Bridge
Evening Optimists Honor Pecos Youth Banquet
Pecos Evening Optimist Club to honor 35 to 40 youths from all schools at the Youth Appreciation Banquet on Saturday December 2 at 8 p.m. in Saragosa Hall. Manuel Galindo chairs the event and invites the public. Tickets are 3 50 per plate, available from club members or at the door.
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Pecos
Saragosa Hall
Manuel Galindo
Growth of economy predicted by administration despite deficits
The Carter administration sees continued growth avoiding a 1979 recession as the index of leading indicators rises 0.5 percent. Yet inflation, a $2.1 billion October foreign trade deficit, and a weak dollar weighed on markets with the Dow dipping 14 points to 790.11.
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R. Gregory Nokes
Associated Press
Washington
Carter
U.S
Pecos Area Forecast Calls For Mostly Fair Weather
Weather forecast for Pecos and vicinity through tomorrow predicts mostly fair skies. High Wednesday reached 63, with a 41 degree low in Pecos this morning. West Texas outlook remains mostly fair through Friday with warmer conditions today and Friday, highs in the 60s, and lows in the 30s to 40s. Friday highs range from the upper 50s in the Panhandle to the mid 70s in the south.
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Pecos
West Texas
Panhandle
Raoul theory link to James Earl Ray brothers raised
The House assassinations committee explored the Raoul theory suggesting the mysterious accomplice in Martin Luther King Jr. s assassination might be one of James Earl Ray s brothers Jerry or John or a composite. Witnesses testified that Ray spoke of meeting a Raoul and of business with his brother. The panel also reviewed a claimed $50 000 bounty and heard Stanislav Byers and others dispute or confirm the tale with conflicting statements.
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Jim Adams
Associated Press
Washington
House
Raoul
James Ear] Ray
Martin Luther King Jr
Ray
Jerry Ray
King
Martin Luther King
Mark Speiser
Flo Kennedy
Speiser
Rep
Louis Stokes
D-Ohio
Ray Brothers
Robert Blakey
John
Blakey
Jerry
James
James Earl Ray
Los Angeles
Birmingham
Memphis
Tenn
Canada
St. Louis
Randall
Russell George Byers
Byers
John Sutherland
Sutherland
John Kauffmann
Blood money shown jurors at Cullen Davis trial
Prosecutors in the murder conspiracy case showed jurors a $25,000 cash payoff allegedly earmarked for a phantom hitman. FBI informant David McCrory testified Davis handed him the money at an Aug. 20 meeting, with a silencer pistol and night scope later found in Davis Cadillac. The trial ties Davis to the weapon and the aborted killing in the Fort Worth divorce court case. Davis was later acquitted in the 12-year-old stepdaughter’s slaying.
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Davis
Fort Worth
Joe Eidson
FBI
David McCrory
Cadillac
Rodney Hinson
McCrory
Hinson
Howeth
Utilities commission postpones investigation in Texas case
The Texas Public Utility Commission postponed a hearing into affiliate dealings among Texas Electric Service, Texas Power & Light, and Dallas Power & Light to February 19. The probe, sparked by alleged sweetheart deals in a TESCO rate case, could force refunds to customers and involves Irving, Dallas, and Austin entities.
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Austin, Texas
Texas Public Utility Commission
Philip Ricketts
Texas Electric Service Co
Texas Power & Light Co
Dallas Power & Light Co
TESCO
Tp&l
John Bell
Commission
Bell
Irving
Don Rorschach
Ricketts
Herman Jones
Austin
Texas
Martin Lake
Jail terms for four Mexicans on immigration violations
Four Mexican citizens including Artemio Ramirez Perches of Odessa and Ojinaga were sentenced by U S Magistrate J M Preston in Pecos after pleading guilty to misdemeanor immigration violations. Ramirez Perches received 358 days total 179 days on two counts. others Humberto Garcia Gallegos Federico Delira Padilla and Adolfo Flores Perea each got 179 days. All had been caught at least three times previously and were allowed voluntary return to Mexico without punishment.
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Mexico
Odessa
U.S
J. M. Preston
Pecos
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
U.S. Border Patrol
Artemio Ramirez-Perches
S. Alleghaney
Ojinaga
Humberto Garcia- Gallegos
Federico Delira-Padilla
Jose Martinez-Torres
Adolfo Flores-Perea
Balmorhea Receives Federal Grant and Loan Package
A senator announced a loan and grant package for Balmorhea to build a sewage collection system with stabilization ponds and effluent irrigation. The project will serve 215 residential and commercial establishments, with terms set at 38 years and five percent interest. In 1977, Balmorhea also received a $51,000 Farmers Home Administration loan and a $49,000 grant for a water system.
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Farmers Home Administration
Balmorhea
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Pace
Houston
Cullen Davis
Morris Howeth
Jack Strickland
Wallace Moore
Cullen
Utilities Commission
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