Intratex To Build Gas Plant In West Gomez Field
Intratex Gas Company will construct and operate a gas purification plant in Gomez Field, Pecos County near Fort Stockton. The plant, 12 miles from Fort Stockton on Highway 285, is due to start by year end 1970 with a design capacity of 140 million cu ft per day and about six permanent employees.
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Intratex Gas Company
Houston Natural Gas Corporation
West Gomez
West Texas
Gomez
Pecos County
Fort Stockton
Texas Gulf Coast
Texas Panhandle cool front sparks thundery weather
A cool front drifted into the Texas Panhandle bringing scattered thunderstorms. A small tornado touched down in the Lower Rio Grande Valley damaging a garage and a house trailer in Lyford and a home in Raymondville with no injuries reported. Another tornado sighted near Longview ripped a barn before dissipating as hot air rose. Temperatures ranged 95 in Wichita Falls and Wink to 83 in Marfa.
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Texas Panhandle
Rio Grande Valley
Texas
Lyford
Raymondville
Longview
Wichita Falls
Marfa
Big Bend
Texas October draft quota set at 674 with selection limits
Colonel M Duncan said the October draft quota for Texas is 674, with no man selected beyond random sequence number 195. The state share of a 12,000 man national quota, for the army, drops from September. Pre induction exams total 4,285, down from 7,171, limited to specific sequence numbers from December 1969 and July 1970 drawings. Approximately 4,100 age 21 and 185 older men will be examined. I-A and related groups with 1970 random numbers precede those born in 1951. Volunteers inducted before non volunteers by sequence. Local board quotas to be mailed September 9.
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Texas
M. Duncan
Duncan
Barbs by Phil Pastoret on Neighborhood Life
Humor piece reflects on a neighborhood where trash is gift wrapped for pickup and sellers push thrifted items. The tone satirizes cluttered life and relationships tied to material gains with playful riffs.
Town Turmoil Flares In Thibodaux Racial Clash
In Thibodaux Louisiana deputy sheriffs and troopers were sent to quell weekend racial unrest after a Friday night fight at the College Inn. Gunfire pepper fog and arrests followed as crowds gathered around fire trucks and a curfew was imposed. Police say several dozen state police arrived from Raceland and 36 people were detained on charges from disturbing the peace to resisting arrest.
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Thibodauz
Earl Melencon
College Inn
Meloncon
Neaby Raceland
Melencon
Invasion Claims Split Over Jordan Irbid Battle
Syrian tanks reportedly captured Irbid in heavy fighting with Jordanian forces as Amman reported 50 Syrian tanks facing double that number. Western officials condemned the alleged intervention while Syria denied any direct role and warned of U S troop plans.
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Associated Press
Tel Aviv
Jordan
Irbid
Hussein
Beirut
Syria
Amman
Ramtha
Washington
William P. Rogers
Soviet Union
Danger in Jordan Highlights Nasser Mediation Efforts
Cairo pressed Hussein to comply with a cease fire plan worked out by Egyptian President Nasser. Hussein reported shelling of his residence after ordering troops to hold fire, while Nasser warned of dangerous consequences if the royalist forces continued. Arafat and Sadek were involved in talks as Libyan and Algerian officials urged calm.
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Soviet Union
Syria
Cairo
Hussein
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Iraq
Baath Party
Nasser
Amman
Mohamed Sadek
Sadek
Yasir Arafat
al Fatah
Palestinian Central Committee
al Ahram
Israel
Arafat
Tripoli
Libya
Algeria
Sudan
Egypt
Jordan
Notable figures in brief political and arts news
Bernadette Devlin, 22, a young MP in Northern Ireland, studies crochet in Armagh Prison amid riot charges. Ulster MP van Cooper notes she has no prison life complaints. Leroi Jones and seven others are elected to the Black Academy of Arts and Letters. banquet guests include Sidney Pointer, Harry Belafonte, and Gary mayor Richard G. Hatcher. James Morrison of The Doors is convicted of indecent exposure at a 1969 Miami concert. faces up to eight months and a $525 fine. Spiro Agnew to become honorary member of the International Union of Operating Engineers in Memphis with a bulldozer debut at a new IRS computer center ceremony.
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London
Bernadette Devlin
Northern Ireland
Armagh
van Cooper
Ulster
Cooper
Sunday Express
Academy
New York
Jones
J. Saunders Redding
Paule Marshall
Ernest Crichlow
Lucille D. Roberts
Ernest Dunbar
Elma Lewis
Dorothy Louise Porter
Sidney Pointer
Harry Belafonte
Richard G. Hatcher
Gary
Ind
Miami
James Morrison
The
Doors
Morrison
Memphis, Tenn
Spiro Agnew
International Union of Operating Engineers
Internal Revenue
Memphis International Airport
Anitin
Hospital News Snapshot from Pecos Texas 1970
Admits and discharges span September 13 to 19. Entries note patients by name with several newborns and many mothers, plus addresses in Pecos Balmorhea and nearby towns. A planned motorcade and benefit dinner rally at Mid-South Coliseum are noted for event coverage.
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Pecos Enterprise
Intratex
Aegis Enterprise
Reeves County
Pecos
Pecos Enterprise, Inc
South
Cedar Street
Ford Love
Joyce Miller
Tom Lewis
Hong Kong
Mark Well Clothiers
Giant Savings
Super Savings
Terlene
Jnc
Ferryone
K. Prem
BY Phil Pastoret
Mideast
Flance
Damascus
Nureddin Atassi
U. S
United States
Intercontinental
Cellar
ACE High Technol OR & Paramount
Rae Py
Ture Agp
John Wayne
Leroi Jones
Black Academy of Arts and Letters
Hospital News
Otis Sweatman
John Dennis Hayes
Prentice Hayes
E. D. Wooldridge
Grace Sarabia
Baby
Margaret Jones
Aurora Dominguez
Eva Reyes
Jane Taylor
Barbara Peer
Lydia Contreras
Carolyn Sue Johnson
Raylene Brown
W. D. Lasater
Myrtle Shelton
Betty Thorp
Patricia Darlene Orman
Isidra Rodriguez
Patsy Gutierrez
Eva N. Reyes
Myra Ann Lawrance
Calvin Worthington
J.T. Meadows
Ila Mae Taylor
Berta Rountree
Carmen Pena
Patsy Gutierez
Baby Girl
Evelyn Smalley
Patricia Ormand
Mrs
Antonio Dominguez
Roy Taylor
Roper Motel
Jerry L. Johnson
Park, Pecos
Burl L. Brown
Box
Speedy Rodriguez
Balmorhea
Edward Gutierrez
Reymundo Pena
Lloyd’s Barber Shop
Lazy L
Brandon Barber Shop
Eagle Barber Shop
Razors Edge Barber Shop
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