Thousands Celebrate Mexican Independence Fiesta Parade
Thousands attended the Diez y Seis celebration despite rain last weekend with a parade featuring 12 floats, 30 equestrian groups, the PHS Band, and contingents from Boy Scouts Girl Scouts and Catholic War Veterans. First place went to the Queen's Float, Holy Name Society second, Santa Rosa Youth third. A flag ceremony at Santa Rosa Church followed with the Catholic War Veterans and scouts assisting, then nearly 1,000 visited 10 booths at Santa Rosa Church. Mariachis de Santa Rosa provided strolling music until midnight and Father Jose Valadez praised the event as a great success.
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PHS
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
Santa Rosa Youth
UMAC
Holy Name Society
Alter Society
LULAC
Youth of the
Barstow Catholic Church
Mariachi de
Santa Rosa Church
Mexico
Mariachis de
Santa Rosa
Jose Valadez
Santa Rosa Catholic Church
Sidewalk Sale Adventures Turn Bargains Into Fun
A Downtown sidewalk sale tour features bargain hunting and quirky merchant antics. The narrator interacts with George Vasquez, Fonville Jewelers, Woolworth, Williams Dept. Store, and Hubbs Office Supply, trading pins for goods, guessing games for refunds, and a brisk buy of a tan size 17 shirt, all amid playful street commerce and lighthearted banter.
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George Vasquez
John Charles Fonville
Fonville Jewelers
John Charles
John
Gus Harrell
Woolworth
Gus
William’s Dept
Carlton Williams
Williams
Hubbs Office
Beulah Fleming
Cattle mutilations alarm Colorado detectivels and ranchers
Denver AP reports Carl Whiteside of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation tracks a wave of cattle mutilations across eastern Colorado and neighboring states. 128 animals mutilated since April, many were dead or dying, with no clear profit motive and possible organized involvement. Sheriff George Yarnell notes some carcasses were dead before mutilation. faith quotes appear alongside.
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Denver
Carl Whiteside
Colorado
Whiteside
Colorado Bureau of Investigations
CBI
Richard Lamm
Elbert
Colorado Springs
Plains
Minnesota
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Wyoming
Montana
New Mexico
Idaho
George Yarnell
Elbert County
Yarnell
Ford proposes Energy Independence Authority to finance energy projects
President Ford urged Congress to create a $100 billion Energy Independence Authority to supplement private capital in developing oil, nuclear, coal and other energy sources. The independent agency would borrow and lend, aiming to spur $600 billion in investments and create millions of jobs over the next decade. Ford spoke to AFL-CIO unions in San Francisco and heads back to Washington tonight after a California-Oklahoma trip. He signaled a possible one year extension of expiring anti recession tax cuts if economic needs justify it.
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San Francisco
Ford
Afl-Cio Constructions Trades and Unions
Energy Independence Authority
America
Washington
Oklahoma
California
Monterey Peninsula
Los Angeles Times
Nixon denies personal responsibility for 18 minute gap
Former President Richard Nixon testified under oath that he did not assume personal responsibility for the 18 minute gap in a White House tape. His lawyers said government officials questioned Nixon’s character while seeking to retain control of tapes and millions of Watergate-era documents during a court hearing.
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Washington
Richard M. Nixon
White House
Nixon
Herbert J. Miller Jr
Pecos Fall Fair Rules for Women’s Division Announced
The Women’s Division of Pecos Fall Fair reveals rules for the October 9 to 11 event. Entries are judged on merit with an acceptance authority by the Inspection Committee. No entry fee. placements by 9 a.m. Oct 9. categories include canned foods clothing and textiles handicraft and prepared foods. entries stay until 8 p.m. Oct 11. judges use a 1 2 3 ribbon system. Youth defined as 18 or under. adults 19 or older. division not responsible for loss or damage by fire theft or other causes.
Pecos Records Autumn Chill Amid Cool Texas Weekend
Temperatures fell across Pecos with a Saturday low of 61 and high of 79, Sunday 50 and 63, and a Monday morning 47 as weekend rainfall of .15 inch helped usher in autumn. Coastal areas watched Tropical Storm Eloise regain hurricane strength farther toward the Gulf, with landfall feared between Mobile and Pensacola after broad showers and storms swept East and South Texas.
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Associated Press
Texas
Pecos
Mercury
Gulf of Mexico
Eloise
Yucatan Peninsula
Mobile
Ala
Pensacola
Fla
East
South
Gulf
Coast Plains
Revived Eloise Aims At Florida Alabama Coast
Tropical Storm Eloise, a hurricane again with 85 mph winds, heads toward the Mobile Pensacola coast. Warnings cover Grand Island Louisiana to Apalachicola Florida as Eloise nears the Gulf with tides five to eight feet above normal near the landfall area.
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Miami
Eloise
Florida - Alabama Gulf Coast
Mobile
Ala
Pensacola
Fla
Neil Frank
National Hurricane Center
New Orleans
Grand Island
Apalachicola
Mobile-Pensacola
Frank
Pension payments in Reeves County Compared with Nation
The Social Security Administration reports Reeves County pension recipients receive about 1618 dollars per year, up from 1102 three years earlier. The automatic CPI linkage has boosted payments, which rose 8 percent in July, making local checks larger than many other areas of the country.
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Washington
Reeves County
Social Security Administration
Reeve County
Saragosa man killed in late model car pedestrian crash
A Saragosa farm laborer Manuel Lujan Casias, 30, died at the scene after being struck by a northbound car driven by Robert Barnett of Sierra Blanca on SH 17. Trooper Hugh Lillie said the driver swerved but could not avoid the victim. Casias, born April 29, 1944 in Mexico, left survivors including his parents and siblings.
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Robert Lee Barnett
Sierra Blanca
Manuel Lujan Casias
Saragosa
Casias
Clayton Stallings
Balmorhea
Department of Public Safety
Hugh Lillie
Pecos
Barnett
SH 17
Lillie
Mexico
Ysidro Casias
Ysidro Casias Jr
Suzana Falcon
Obituary: Jack E. Slay 51 of Tucson
Services for Jack E. Slay will be held in Amarillo with burial there after his death in Tucson following a long illness. Slay was born November 7, 1923 and graduated UT in 1947. He spent 23 years with Duval Sulphur Company, managing water resources for Culberson County and Fort Stockton plants before moving to Tucson in 1974. He is survived by his wife Carol two daughters Nancy and Kathy a son Robert and his mother Ee Alva Slay. Memorial donations go to favored charities.
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Jack E. Slay
Tucson
Ariz
San Jacinto Methodist Church
Amarillo
Mr. Slay
Pecos
Duval Sulphur Company
Culberson County
University of Texas
Duval
Fort Stockton
Tuscon
Duval's Water Resources
Carol
Nancy Slay
Kathy Leeson
Robert Slay
Ee Alva Slay
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Terri Salcido
Norma Jean
Paso
John Paul Pitts
U.S
Gap
Green Valley Community Church of
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