Pecos River crossing tour hosted by Pecos River Museum crowd exceeds expectations
Captain Marcy era trek organized by Pecos River Museum drew over 100 visitors from Odessa Midland Monahans Grand Falls Pyote Fort Stockton Mentone Van Horn and Pecos with even a foreign exchange student. Alton Hughes and Barney Hubbs led talks on Emigrants Crossing and historic crossings as the group visited Emigrants Crossing Imperial and Horsehead Crossing with a missing marker shock at Horsehead.
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Pecos
Texas
California
The
Institute
W.O. Pigman
Odessa
Midland
Monahans
Grand Falls
Pyote
Fort Stockton
Mentone
van Horn
Iran
Alton Hughes
Just Musin
Enterprise
Barney Hubbs
Hughes
R.B. Marcy
Pecos River
Imperial
Horsehead Crossing
Dians
Clayton Williams
Permian Basin
Resolutions Back Mexican American Unit For Open Border
In San Antonio over the weekend 2600 delegates at the national Chicano-Latino Conference urged unconditional amnesty for all illegal aliens and an open U S Mexican border while opposing Carter immigration plans. They defined civil rights as social services and jobs for undocumented workers, and heard remarks from figures including Mario Compean and Dick Gregory. Local figures downplayed border patrols by the Ku Klux Klan, urging confidence in law enforcement amid reports of patrols. Mostly sunny and warm with fair, cooler tonight and Tuesday.
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San Antonio
Tex
U.s.-Mexico
Carter
Joe Calderon
Denver
Colo
Socialist Workers Party
Mario Compean
Gregory
U.S
Henry B. Gonzales
D-Texas
Ku Klux Klan
KKK
Mexico
Gonzales
Texas
Albert Withey
Consumer group attacks electronic banking plan in Texas
James Boyle of the Texas Consumer Association charged at a Capitol news conference that Proposition No. 6 would aid big bank holding companies by expanding their reach through electronic funds transfer cards. He dismissed bank claims that the change saves costs as baloney and warned of consumer losses in November.
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Texas Consumer Association
James Boyle
Capitol
Texas
Boyle
Texas laws course set by Permian Basin Graduate Center
The Permian Basin Graduate Center announces two courses to begin this week in Midland. Attorney Michael D. Cropper and Turpin Smith Dyer and Saxe will present Reducing Taxes on Thursday November 3, 1977 from 7 to 9 30 p.m. The one session course costs 15 dollars, spouse 10. Topics include planning advantages, tax shelters, minimum and maximum tax, capital gains, and client information/accountant understanding. For more information contact the Graduate Center Office at 104 Gulf Building, Midland, 683-2832.
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Permian Basin Graduate Center
BGC
Metro
N. Colorado
Midland
Michael D. Cropper
Turpin, Smith, Dyer and Saxe
Graduate Center
Gulf Building
Off to markets Bell peppers flow to Pecos packing sheds
Packing sheds B H Produce A B Foster Griffin and Brand ship peppers mostly from Balmorhea and Cayanosa as Griffin and Brand operates a large new shed on Second Street. They harvest with nine crews of 20 to 30 hands across four locations aiming to beat the freeze, shipping to northern markets and storing in a 42 degree cold room before loading 7 to 8 refrigerated trucks daily.
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Peggy McCracken
Pecos
B&h
A.B. Foster
Griffin and
Brand
Balmorhea
Cayanosa
Griffin and Brand
Second Street
McAllen
Griffin
Spring Box
Chuck Hill
Hill
Enrique Chapa
Presidio
Hereford
Plainview
Bovina
Las Cruces
N.M
Chapa
Agriculture Commissioner to visit Pecos Thursday coffee stop
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Reagan V. Brown will visit Pecos at the Holiday Inn Thursday from 9 a.m. to 9 a.m. for a public coffee. Born in Henderson in 1921, Brown spent his boyhood on a farm and began a long Texas Agricultural Service career in 1948. He served as county agent in Hunt, Kaufman, and Caldwell Counties, with a year as agricultural consultant for International Harvester in 1952. He helped install 750 water systems, upgrade 1,000 small towns, and revitalize rural churches.
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Reagan V. Brown
Texas Department of Agriculture
Pecos
Henderson
Texas
Texas Agricultural Service
Hunt County
Kaufman
Caldwell
International Harvester
Extension Service
Rural Com
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Marcy
Lew Barrett
Sam Fonville
Nebraska
Fonville
Robert Hinojos
Consumer Group
Austin, Tex
E.F.T
Lubbock
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