Tail wheel not locked linked to Pecos crash findings
Federal investigators concluded the Lockheed twin engine craft had its tail wheel unlocked during takeoff, contributing to a ground loop and explosion at the Pecos airport. Three Tulsa residents were killed. identification of bodies was incomplete as dental records and other sources were checked, with hours of flight time and instruments remaining uncertain due to the fire.
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Lynn Webe
Frank Roth
National Transportation Safety Board
Fort Worth
Pecos
George Robinson
Tulsa
Okla
Robinson
Coy Hobbs
Tulsa Daily World
Roth
Harold Wright
Federal Aviation Agency
el Paso
Wright
Public speech ban ordered for Watergate figures
Federal Judge Sirica ends day to day public talks by James W McCord Jr and Jeb Stuart Magruder after finding it disgraceful they could profit from wrongdoing. McCord had received 2000 for an Illinois university speech while Magruder faced similar tour plans and financial need.
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Washington
James W. McCord Jr
Jeb Stuart Magruder
McCord
Ilinois
Magruder
Sirica
Indictments Filed by Reeves County Grand Jury
Reeves County grand jurors issued four indictments against three men on Tuesday. Simon Rodriguez faces theft by false pretense involving U S currency from Pecos banks and was arrested after an attempted fraud at Security State Bank. John Harkins, a former Pecos resident, is indicted for forgery and passing a $3500 worthless check at Security State Bank around July 18, 1973. Michael Brooks of Orla is indicted for theft of about 190 joints of oilfield pipe from Texas Oil and Gas Company. Brooks posted $2,000 bond. Harkins and Rodriguez remain jailed in Reeves County with bonds of $2,500 and $2,500 respectively.
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Reeves County
Simon Rodriguez
U.S
Rodriguez
Pecos
Security State Bank
John Harkins
I al
Michael Brooks
Orla
Texas
Onl Ang Gas Company
Brooks
Harkins
Twister and Delia sweep Texas coast and inland
The Associated Press reports Tropical Storm Delia lingered near Port O Connor with possible tornadoes and flash floods across East and Southeast Texas while Delia weakened offshore. In West Texas a separate tornado near Big Spring killed two children and injured about 20, causing heavy property losses near $4 million.
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Associated Press
Delia
Texas
Port O’connor
National Weather Service
Austin
Port O'Connor
Galveston
Corpus Christi
Weather Service
Palacios
Port Lavaca
Andhuac
Houston
Danny K. Lester
Cedar Park
Timothy O’connor
Lafayette
West
Wernd Stevens
Lisa Andrews
Hoagy Stevens
Pecos
Toyah
Balmierton
Barstow
August building permits decline in Pecos city records
Permits issued for 8150 in new construction in Pecos during August show a sharp drop from last year’s 43000 total. Major permits include 2000 to Gene Owen for a loading pit at Coca Cola Bottling Co plant 1101 Pinehurst St and 2000 to Paul Coody for remodeling at Airlawn Shopping Center. The rest cover minor residential additions and renovations across the city.
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Pecos
Gene Owen
Coca Cola Bottling Co
Pinehurst St
Paul Coody
Airlawn
Nixon to face press in televised White House event
President Nixon scheduled a televised news conference for 3 p.m. EDT in the East Room, his second in two weeks, following a prior San Clemente session that centered on Watergate. Dick Chambers of Midland Memorial Hospital is reported admitted last week.
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Washington
Nixon
White House
Gerald L. Warren
San Clemente
Calif
P. M
Dick) Chambers
Midland Memorial Hospital
Chambers
Gunmen invade Saudi Embassy in Paris demanding flight
Three Arab gunmen stormed the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Paris taking at least five hostages and threatening to blow up the building unless flown to a named Arab capital. They claimed ties to a Palestinian splinter group and demanded the release of Abou Daoud. A journalist reported their insistence on a bus to evacuate with the hostages if not met.
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Paris
Polices Ad
Abou Daoud
King Hussein
Jordi
Nawal Adwan
Raghdad
al Ttawra
Adnan
Legislature Seeks to Rewrite Marijuana Sentences
Travis County Dist Atty Bob Smith challenged a resentencing provision that lets old marijuana offenses be reconsidered under lighter penalties. He argued only the governor can commute sentences, while defense counsel Clinton contends it preserves gubernatorial power and is supported by precedent and good time credits. The case parallels a 1930 ruling on legislative limits to impeachment and other punitive orders.
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Austin, Tex
Travis County
Bob Smith
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Texas
Smith
State District Court
Tom Blackwell
Frank Demolli
Sam Houston Clinton Jr
Demolli
Chinton
Pwer
U.S. Supreme Court
John Hill
Clinton
Meet Eagles night Thursday in gym at Pecos HS
Pecos High School hosts a Meet the Eagles night in the school gym Thursday at 7:30 p.m. to introduce the 1973 football teams including varsity junior varsity and freshman squads and their coaches. Eagles booster club members will also meet in the cafeteria after the rally to elect officers.
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Eagles
Pecos High School
Pecos
Ter Club
Dyer funeral set for Irbie Dyer at Barstow church
Services for Irbie Dyer 86 longtime Barstow resident will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the First Presbyterian Church of Barstow with Dr Gage Lloyd of Big Spring officiating. Burial will be in Barstow Cemetery. Dyer died Tuesday at 9:22 a.m. in Midland after a long illness. He was born December 30 1886 in Sardis Mississippi and moved to Barstow in 1897. He was a former president of Citizens State Bank of Barstow co founder and director of First State Bank of Monahans rancher west of Monahans and sheriff of Ward County 1927 1947. He lived in Barstow 1947 to 1958. Survived by his widow Katie Dyer and son Irbie Dyer both of Midland one granddaughter and two great grandchildren.
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Irbie Dyer
Barstow
First Presbyterian Church of
Gage Lloyd
Big Spring
Ellis Funeral Home
Midland
Sardis
Miss
Citizens State Bank of
First State Bank of
Abitibi Reopens Three Ontario Mills Amid Newsprint Shortage
Abitibi Paper Co reopens three northern Ontario mills after rail resumption while a fourth Manitoba mill stays closed. The company cites ongoing difficulties at Canadian paper mills as a cause of a growing newsprint shortage.
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Toronto
Abitibi Paper Co. Ltd
Northern
Ontario
Manitoba
Canadian Paper Mills
Mother begins funeral plans for Army Captain Castro
Mrs. Castro seeks certainty on whether a body from a helicopter crash near Nha Trang is her son Alphonso Castro Jr. She will review dental charts with Army officers and arrange a military funeral when identification is confirmed. Capt. Castro, 26, was in Vietnam on a search and rescue mission when contact was lost.
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Los Angeles
Army
Alphonso R. Castro Jr
Vietnam
Castro
Nha Trang
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AARP
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Trans-Pecos
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Thelma A. Newman
AALP
Gromlett
Harold Meyer
Wesley Hart
Jessie Fitzgerald
Edna Kirkbride
Bernard Festerwald
Raedius
Fensterwald
Sadit
Joe Nunez
S. Mesquite St
Bernado Martinez
Augustine Tarango
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John Moore
Jackson St
Nicasio Nunez
Santa Rosa Bar
Joe Tercero
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Paul Becker
Jose A. Contreras
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