House advances 75 cent minimum wage rise plan
The House sends Senate a bill to lift the federal minimum wage by 75 cents an hour over three years, from 2.30 to 2.65 in January and to 3.05 by 1980, affecting about 3.1 million workers. Amendments fail include youth 85 percent rate and expanding wage exemptions. debates highlight inflation worries and youth unemployment concerns.
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Peggy Simpson
Associated Press
Washington
House of Representatives
Senate
House
Congress
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr
O'Neill
Restaurant Workers Union
MexFair 77 opens in San Antonio with 5 000 buyers
Mexican Secretary of Commerce Fernando Solana will preside at MexFair 77 opening ceremonies in the San Antonio Convention Center. The expo runs through Tuesday with about 400 exhibits and an expected record of sales, highlighting industrial iron and steel products.
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San Antonio
Tex
Fernando Solana
United States
North America
San Antonio Convention Center
Hibit Hall
Foreign Trade Institute
IMCE
MexFair
U.S
Mexico
Fiesta parade marks Mexican Independence weekend
The Gran Fiesta parade heads from Roper's Motel on Highway 80 to the museum and Saragosa Park Saturday starting at 10 30 a m with floats displays queen candidates and costumes. Activities include a Jamaica at Saragosa Park today from 4 to 11 p m and dances at Saragosa Park Saturday noon to 6 p m coronation at Saragosa Hall 7 p m a Pan American Mass Sunday noon at Santa Rosa Church followed by a buffet at Santa Rosa Hall
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Mexico
Roper
United States
Miguel Hildalgo
Dolores
Spain
Jamaica
Saragosa Park
Santa Rosa Catholic Church
Santa Rosa Hall
Last call for Pecos city directory on sale Sept 30
Pecos city directory will be on sale until Sept 30 for 2.50 per copy, says Deborah Whitlow, Johnson Publishing. If you ordered a directory and didn’t receive it, call 445-3017. Extra copies are available first come, first served.
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Pecos
Deborah Whitlow
Johnson Publishing
Protests swell over Biko death in South Africa
White and black South Africans protest in major cities over the death of Steve Biko, with calls to oust Prisons Minister James Kruger. Demonstrations occur at universities, with posters reading Kruger murderer and Biko, while officials face renewed calls for an inquest into the death during detention.
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Maureen Johnson
Associated Press
Johannesburg
So. Africa
Steve Biko
James T. Kruger
Kruger
Biko
Cape Town
Cape Times
Fort Hare University
Cape Province
Pietermaritzburg
Natal University
Witwateresrand University
South Africa
King Williams Town
National Party
Ray Swart
Liberal Progressive Federal Party
Transvaler
Texan Receives Twin-Heart Implant At Groote Schuur
Lindell Hill, 37, of Denison Texas, became the first foreign recipient of the twinheart procedure. During a five hour operation on August 5, a second heart from an 18 year old South African farm laborer was attached to his own, boosting circulation. Hill was discharged after weeks of special care, with his wife noting he is recovering well in the rain.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Lindell Hill
Groote Schuur Hospital
Christian Barnard
Hill
Denison
Lily
Groote Schuur
Fiesta Calendar schedule of events and pageant dates
Fiesta Calendar lists a weekend of events at Saragosa Park and downtown Pecos featuring Jamaica performances, MARC band, Mexican dances, queen presentations for Sept 16 1977, talent contests, and a Grito de Independencia cry. Saturday includes parade, Machismo music, Tribuna Libre, national anthems, coronation dances, and queen crowning. Sunday offers a Pan American Mass with luncheon. includes Ecclesiastes and Nehru quotes.
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Sra
Pecos
Judge denies bid to drop perjury forgery charges against Yarborough
In Austin former Supreme Court Justice Don Yarborough faced a pretrial hearing as prosecutors pressed to keep perjury and forgery charges alive. Judge Mace Thurman rejected motions to dismiss and to suppress testimony from a Travis County grand jury. Yarborough set to stand trial Oct. 10.
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Associated Press
Austin, Tex
Supreme Court
Don Yarbrough
Mace Thurman
Yarbrough
Thurman
Harris County
Travis County
Charles Hi
Band boosters sell enchiladas at high school
Band boosters will sell enchiladas in the high school cafeteria today from 5 to 8 p.m. Proceeds fund a new equipment truck now in Odessa and lettered Pecos Eagle Band in purple. Boosters president David Dutch said donations help cover the truck cost while weather forecasts note partly cloudy skies and cooler nights.
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Odessa
Pecos Eagle Band
David Dutchover
Boosters
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