Reeves County records nine traffic fatalities this year
A 73-year-old Florida man and his 77-year-old wife, Stanley A. Nelson and Susie C. Nelson, died in a single-vehicle crash 15.3 miles east of Balmorhea on U.S. 290 at 9:50 a.m. Monday. The right rear tire blew, the car hit a drainage box wing, and the vehicle plunged six feet. Justice of the peace Clayton Stallings pronounced them dead at the scene. bodies were sent to Muskegon, Michigan. The Reeves County death toll now stands at nine for the year, with two other fatalities in Pecos.
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Vennice
Flaman
Reeves County
Stanley A. Nelson
Susie C. Nelson
Balmorhea
U.S. 290
Department of Public Safety
H. D. Welch
Welch
Justice of the Peace
Clayton
Pecos
Muskegon
Mich
Growth talk on The Limits to Growth in Odessa
The Permian Basin Section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers meets at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Bonanza Sirloin Pit in Odessa. George S. Price will discuss a MIT based computer model predicting trends in industry food population resources and pollution. Reservations with Phil Collier at Perry Gas Processors by Wednesday.
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Permian Basin
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Bonanza Sirloin Pit
Odessa
George S. Price
MIT
Phil Collier
Perry Gas Processors
Six Scouts Earn Eagle at Troop 68 Court of Honor
Six Boy Scouts of Troop 68 Post 75 received Eagle badges at a Pecos Junior High School Court of Honor. Recipients Rodney Grable Kent Holiday Clay Slack John Spence Robert Van Wickle and Mark Williamson join ranks with diverse badges and community service feats.
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Boy Scouts
Post 75
Pecos
Rodney Grable
Kent Holiday
Clay Slack
John Spence
Robert van Wickle
Mark Williamson
Pecos High School
Tantanka Lodge Brotherhood
Kent
Richard C. Slack
Jefferson
Order of the Arrow
Clay
January
Barstow
John
Robert van Vickle
David van Vickle
Arthur
Ill
Readers Digest Association
Boy Scouts of America
Tommy Williamson
Mark
Carol Corbin
Buffalo Trail Council
Darren Owens
Corbin
Allen Barber
Boy Scouts of America of
North Brunswick
N.J
Nixon
Benjamin Meek
Mathew Williamson
Charlie Weinacht
Steve Hefner
Dying man plans rites before his death in Florida
James Cogan, 51, who died Saturday after a July surgery found a malignant gastric tumor. He left his Tallahassee appliance store job before Labor Day to arrange his funeral and spoke of death as freedom from care and pain. He spent his final days on a 90 acre cattle ranch five miles east of Tallahassee.
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Tallahassee
Fla
James Cogan
Cogan
Toy VW stolen from Morris Street driveway
A child's toy Volkswagen valued about 25 dollars was reported taken from 1515 Morris Street the Richard Thorpe residence. Officers were told the toy was likely removed between 10:30 and 11:30 p.m. Monday.
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Richard Thorpe
Morris St
Thorpe
Beef price falls as Texas cattle market reopens
In Amarillo and across Texas, a flood of cattle released from a price freeze pushed live cattle prices downward while stockyards volume rose. Retail prices begin to ease with wholesalers and packers set to reflect lower costs, and some stores already cutting beef by ten cents a pound.
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Amarillo
Tex
Texas
George John
Affiliated Foods, Inc
Charlie Ball
Louis Gibson
Glover Packing Co
John
Texdas
Continued hot days favor cotton crops in Pecos area
Weather trends keep cotton farmers hopeful as temperatures hit 100 in Pecos region with 57 dawn low and increasing clouds. Gulf air brings showers coastwise while West Texas sees clear skies. Tornado watches fade as scattered storms, heavy rains, and flooding affect Dallas to Kansas City corridors and Oklahoma vicinity.
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Pecos
Associated Press
Texas
Gulf of Mexico
Galveston
Palacios
Orange
Louisiana
Panhandle Plains
Lubbock
Ardmore
Okla
North Texas
Collin
Cooke, Denton
Fannin
Grayston
Montage
Dalhart
Amarillo
Panhandle
Alacios
Austin
Mineral Wells
Wink
East Texas
Plains
Midwest
UTPB Enrolment Reaches 1110 As Semester Begins
The University of Texas of the Permian Basin reports 1110 students enrolled as the 12th class day approaches. Full-time equivalents total 751, with eight foreign nations represented and India contributing the largest foreign group. Most students come from the Midland Odessa area. 858 men and 52 women are enrolled in junior, senior and graduate programs. American Literature leads with 91 students, followed by Behavior Modification at 82.
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University of Texas
Permian Basin
Texas
B.H. Amstead
UT Permian
UIT Permian
India
Egypt
Japan
Mexico
Nigeria
Pakistan
Republic of
China
Thailand
Midland-Odessa
Ector County
Midland County
New School
Amstead
Bed tax on council agenda and tractor request
City council meets at 7 30 a m with a light agenda. Items include an FFA request for an abandoned golf course tractor for agricultural mechanics classes, a retirement proposal by 30 year employee Augustine Zuniga, water storage tank cleaning and repair estimates, and a second reading of a bed tax ordinance with an effective date of September 30 if passed.
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FFA
Augustine Zuniga
Zuniga
Services planned for Maria Garcia
Maria Garcia 86 dies at home and services are set for 10 a.m. Wednesday at Santa Rosa Catholic Church with burial in Santa Rosa Cemetery. Born March 12 1887 in Mexico she moved to Pecos from El Paso in 1927 and is survived by son Manuel Garcia Bakersfield California daughter Catalina Garcia ecos and four grandchildren.
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Maria Ortega Garcia
Santa Rosa Catholic Church
Santa Rosa
S. Locust
Mexico
Pecos
el Paso
Manuel Garcia
Bakersfield
Calif
Catalina Garcia
Ecos
Reeves County Illiteracy Figures Highlight Education Gap
In Reeves County 2,602 adults have not surpassed seven years of schooling while 684 failed to complete a year, 902 had one to four years, and 1,061 had five to seven. National illiteracy affects nearly 19 million adults, with grants from HEW and the Cooperative Research Act aiming to boost reading and arithmetic skills.
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Reeves County
Department of Health, Educa
Department of Commerce
HEW
Office of Education
Cooperative Research Act
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Wayne Grable
Grable
Owens
AICE
Troop 68
Court of Honor
S. Alamo
Rodney
Brotherhood
Wayne
Spence January
Tive
Gordon Holiday
Nebraska
Maria Garcia
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