Council OKs plan to upgrade airport
City moves ahead with an FAA aided airport master plan amid questions on hangar rentals and a $607000 upgrade. Mayor Pigman assigns hangar duties to John Warner as pilots press for clearer access while Ed Robinson voices concern over a fence separating his Piper sales office from airport property.
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Gene Douglas
FAA
Bill Pigman
John Warner
Bob Bickley
Ed Robinson
Piper
Jim Glazier
Mr. Pigman
Robinson
Pigman
Glazier
Bickley
Ray Hampton
Woody Ivy
Ford cleared of charge in campaign fund probe
President Ford is cleared by Special Watergate Prosecutor Charles Ruff of converting campaign funds to personal use during his Michigan tenure. The matter is closed and a televised address is planned.
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Ford
Washington
Charles Ruff
Michigan
Pecos Barstow Toyah hold homecoming week events
Suspense grows over which girl will be queen as Pecos Barstow Toyah students vote for homecoming queen and freshman princess Pat Perea. The week features exes tea, pep rally, Mother Goose parade, enchilada fundraiser, and a 8 p.m. homecoming game with queen crowning at halftime. Queen candidates include Lisa Dominguez Susan Dennison and Terry Salcido. Perea is freshman princess and Kathy Salcido is sophomore representative.
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Pat Perea
Pecos
Barstow
Toyah
Sixth
Oak Streets
Queen's
Perea
Kathy Salcido
Lisa Dominguez
President Ford Vaccinated in Swine Flu Push
President Ford, 63, received a bivalent swine and Victoria flu shot from White House physician Dr. William Lukash to boost the mass inoculation program. Officials noted no proven vaccine link to several elderly deaths and said many deaths in the period reflect preexisting illness. The program faced suspension in several states as about three dozen deaths were reported nationwide among vaccinated individuals.
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Associated Press
Ford
White House
William Lukash
David Kennerly
Pittsburgh
Pecos fair talk reveals old families and charity drive
In Pecos a writer notes locals debate community roots and public meeting roles while visiting the fair. He cites Pepito Hernandez and Pancho Garcia as long-standing neighbors and mentions the B P W calendar booth near the entrance run by Mrs. Cecil Cothrun Hallee Cooksey and Cathey Ashley. Proceeds totaling over $60 000 have been donated to M D Anderson Cancer Center in Houston by the B P W and Texas friends in the past two years.
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Pecos
Pepito Hernandez
Exemplo
Canada
Pancho Garcia
Pepito
UMAC
B&pw Club
Cecil Cothrun
Hallee Cooksey
Cathey Ashley
B&pw
Cathey
Texas
M.D. Anderson
Houston
Americans win Nobel Prizes in medicine and economics
Nobel prizes in medicine and economics awarded to Baruch Blumberg and D Charleton Gajdusek of the US for infectious disease research and Milton Friedman of the University of Chicago for economics. The economics prize, created in 1968, marks American wins in six of eight awards. Each prize carries 681,000 kronor.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Royal Academy of Science
Milton Friedman
University of Chicago
Tive
Brooklyn
Newsweek Magazine
Royal Caroline Institute
Baruch S. Blumberg
University of Pennsylvania Medical School
D. Charleton Gajdusek
National Institute For Neurological Diseases
Bethesda
Alfred Nobel
Absentee Voting Open to Oct 29 in County
County Clerk Cathy Ashley announced absentee voting by personal appearance runs through 5 p.m. Oct 29. Mail in ballots accepted if postmarked by election day at 1 p.m. and ready since Sept 1. Reasons include absence from county, age 65 plus, confinement for childbirth, religious belief, or jail without felony conviction, with doctor’s note for illness.
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Cathy Ashley
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House
Alan Hoefs
John Adams
Barbara Anderson
Hoef
Brooke Medical Center
Anderson
Ward
Ft. Sam Houston
San Roman
Amigo de Ford
Richard San Roman
Amigos de Ford
Dallas
Lynn Webb
Robert Dominguez
N. Elm St
Susan Dennison
Elizabeth Dennison
Plum St
Terry Salcido
Juan Salcido
S. Ash
Jean-Claude Bouis
Illinois
Louisiana
Vermont
United Nations
Ashley
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