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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1978
Page
1
August wholesale prices fell 0.1 percent led by a 1.5 percent drop in consumer foods, the first decline in two years and a sign the anti inflation drive may gain traction. Other goods rose 0.4 percent, while food costs had surged before stores.
Pecos records a 84 degree high and 59 degree low as the Associated Press notes fair to partly cloudy skies across West Texas through Saturday. Expect scattered showers and thunderstorms in most areas tonight and tomorrow with warmer temperatures in many sections. Highs today range from the 70s to 90s, with lows from the 50s to 60s and Saturday forecast in the 80s to near 90.
Washington AP reports minimal movement in talks between postal workers unions and the Postal Service. Negotiators meet today and separately with no willingness to budge before the September 16 deadline. The four unions totaling 516,000 workers push for a 19.5 percent three year raise, with average pay rising from $16,000 to about $19,100 in 1981.
A federal grand jury probe into alleged misuse of federal manpower funds continues with no indictments. Midland resident James H. Bartlett appeared to provide financial records from trade schools he owned in Midland Odessa Wichita Falls Austin and Tyler.
President Carter presses for support from bankers, steel, textile, and other industrial leaders to push a Senate vote on a plan to end price controls on newly discovered natural gas by 1985. Energy Secretary Schlesinger, Strauss, and Miller meet with executives to explain impacts on the dollar and gas supplies while some majors like General Motors resist lobbying against the measure.
Fort Worth Texas AP Millionaire industrialist Cullen Davis named in Tarrrant County indictments for soliciting murder two counts of attempted capital murder conspiracy to commit capital murder and possession of a prohibited weapon. The case stems from taped discussions with police informant David McCrory about hiring someone to kill Judge Joe Kidson during a divorce dispute.
An Odessa resident living at 705 Wilson was arrested by federal officers for unlawfully transporting illegal aliens. Navarrete-Rodriguez, 37, previously convicted on the felony charge and placed on supervised probation, was moved from Presidio County jail in Marfa to Reeves County jail and held on 35,000 bond.
Four suspects arrested in Big Bend National Park face drug charges with bonds set. Leroy Brooks 23, Kevin Patrick 22, Sean Michael Doran 18 from Walled Lake Michigan were released on 5000 bonds each. Samuel Castillo 22 of Lamesa Texas held on 35000 marijuana charge. All appeared before U.S. Magistrate Segura in Marfa. Castillo moved to Pecos.
Leaders of the State Bar of Texas said they are working on reforms to make law more accessible and expect to pay off the $6.7 million Texas Law Center debt by 1980. President Cullen Smith and Executive Director Tom Hanna said a Sunset Advisory Commission staff report response will be ready next Friday. They oppose separating the bar’s lawyer association from its regulatory duties and are exploring widening justice of the peace court jurisdiction and a cadre of volunteer lawyers to resolve minor neighborhood disputes without suits.
University of Texas System president E D Walker asked a House committee to back a 5.5 percent salary rise for state financed college professors and a 6.4 percent annual inflation adjustment. The college coordinating board opposed raising the salaries and debate centered on funding formulas and faculty development pushes.
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