Stop Sign Vandalism Prompts Police Warning In Pecos
Police warn street sign vandals after a stop sign is turned at Veterans and Nebraska Streets near South Pecos Elementary School. City officials note annual losses of 2000 to 5000 dollars for replacements and emphasize the danger and potential felony charges for tampering with public property.
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Nebraska Street
Veterans Blvd
South Pecos Elementary School
Veterans and
Nebraska
South Pecos
Gene Martin
J. J. Maxey
Maxey
Martin
Lions to sell mops for blind Monday
Pecos Evening Lions will hold a door to door sale in the Safeway parking lot on Monday featuring broom and mop sets from Lighthouse Industries for the Blind of Texas. Proceeds aid blind workers and local charitable projects including glasses for children and the crippled children's camp.
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Lions
Pecos Evening Lions
Safeway
Lions Club
Lighthouse Industries
Texas
Lions Clubs
Fred Dominguez
Doug Ward
Tanks push Communist offensive to new high
The five and a half month Viet Cong and North Vietnamese drive reached a peak with a tank led assault on Tien Phuoc district town and a sapper attack on a Mekong Delta divisional HQ near Highway 4. In the sapper strike near Vinh Nhi base camp 22 South Vietnamese soldiers were killed and 77 wounded. Over at Tien Phuoc battles raged in the streets as enemy units reportedly included more than five battalions with tanks. The town lies close to Highway 1 and Da Nang with reinforcements sent to defend it, though some troops have yet to link with others.
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Saigon
Que Son
Mekong
Vinh Nhi
Highway 4
Delta
Tien Phuoc
Thang Binh
Baldy
Haiphong
North Vietnam
North
United States
Hanoi
15 Arab accomplices sought in game killings
Munich reports two Israelis killed and nine hostages held after a dramatic airfield confrontation. Bavarian authorities hunt 15 suspected Arab accomplices connected to the planning and execution of the terrorist attack. Several terrorists and a German officer died, with others captured or wounded. The episode follows threats against Jews in West Germany amid rising tensions over the Olympic crisis.
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Bavarian
Torahim Badian
Abd el Kadir el Daawy
Samer Mohamed Abdulah
Jordan
Syria
West Germany
Olympic Village
Fuerstenfeldbruck
Middle East
Israel
Interior Ministry
Curstain
Bonn
Germany
Willy Brandt
Central Council of Jews
Bentsen seeks faster aid for 17 Texas counties
Senator Lloyd Bentsen moved to designate Reeves and 16 other Texas counties as redevelopment areas under the Public Works and Economic Development Act to speed grants loans and loan guarantees. He urged Planning Region directors to arrange meetings with county officials and Economic Development Administration reps and offered his office assistance to accelerate the designation process.
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Lloyd Bentsen
Reeves
Texas
Bentsen
Reeves County
Dallas Morning News
Armstrong, Bailey
Cochran
Dawson
Edwards
Fischer
Floyd
Foard
Hansford
Hudspeth
Lipscomb
Lynn
Menard
Motley
Presidio
Stephens
Terrell
Federal
Economic Development Administration
Midland College extension typing course planning meeting
Local residents are urged to attend a planning meeting at 7 p.m. today at Pecos High School to discuss advanced typing extension classes. Dr Don Hunt and Dean C Dakil will discuss possible subjects with minimum enrollment of 15. Football fans traveling to El Paso Irvin High School should follow interstate 10 north to Copia Street then Hwy 54 to the 9400 block near Ft. Bliss, then east on Wren and Roanoak to the school.
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Midland College
Pecos High School
Don Hunt
Dean C. Dakil
el Paso
Irvin High School
Copia St
Dyer St
Ft. Bliss
Irvin High
Wren Ave
Roanoak
West Texas heat sparks severe storms and tornado sightings
Warm fronts pushed temperatures to 100 degrees in Pecos and over 100 in Presidio as storms roared across the High Plains. Tornado sightings were reported near Lubbock and five miles west of Plainview with hail the size of peas and heavy rains causing flash flood warnings in Amarillo Hereford Deaf Smith Castro and Randall counties.
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High Plains
West Texas
Associated Press
National Weather Service
Plainview
Levelland
Whitharral
Lorenzo
Texas
Earth
Seminole
New Mexico Line
Morton
Littlefield
Hereford
Amarillo
Deaf Smith
Palmer
Castro
Randall
Presidio
Big Bend
Army appoints Sgt Garry Biller Pecos recruiter
Sgt Garry Biller becomes the Army Recruiter for the Pecos office succeeding Sgt Alvin Lawrence who moves to Bramburg Germany as a career counselor. Biller 25 from West Virginia served seven years and comes from Ft. Bliss after roles as career counselor and NIKE Hercules fire control operator. He and wife Tom with two children Tenia ll and Jerry 7 reside at TraPark Space 12. Also in the Pecos recruiting office at 3248S Cypress St Sp4 Arturo Hernandez of the 82nd Airborne will answer enlistment questions for about six months.
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Garry Biller
Pecos
Biller
Alvin Lawrence
Bramburg
Germany
Ft. Bliss
West Virginia
Tom
TraPark Space #12
Teniall
Jerry
Texas
Cypress St
Arturo Hernandez
82Nd Airborne
Hernandez
Ques
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