Collision on landing kills 135 in San Diego crash
A Pacific Southwest Airlines jet colliding with a small plane during landing plunged into a residential area in San Diego. FAA officials say 135 people on both aircraft are dead, with 126 passengers and seven crew aboard the jet, all apparently fatalities, as flames engulf five homes.
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San Diego
Bob Rast
Associated Press
Pacific Southwest Airlines
Federal Aviation Administration
Bruce Chambers
FAA
Los Angeles
PSA Flight 182
Sacramento
Lindbergh Field
PSA
John Edgington
Mission Valley
Pecos Enterprise Football Contest Winner and Plans
Belinda Chabarria of Pecos won $15 in this week’s Pecos Enterprise football contest with 157 entrants. Her only miss was the Monahans-Canutillo game, and her tie breaker score of 36 for the Pecos Eagles at El Paso River side game led to the win.
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Belinda Chabarria
10Th Street
Pecos
Pecos Enterprise
Monahans-Canutillo
Pecos Eagles
el Paso
Trojans
USC
Crimson Tide
Alabama
First National Bank of Chicago Signals Rate Hike
The eighth largest bank boosted the rate for preferred corporate customers to 9 percent from 9.12 percent, following a series of Fed hikes. It marks the third increase in less than a month and the eighth this year, with the prime rate at 7.4 percent at year start. The bank notes the rate move affects investor sentiment though not directly consumer loans.
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New York
First National Bank of Chicago
First National of
Chicago
Federal Reserve
Oil Fire at Hackberry Strips $1 Million Worth Crude
Firefighters battle a strenuous oil well blaze in Hackberry Louisiana at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. In four days the fire has consumed about 70 000 barrels of crude worth roughly $1 million as crews work to plug and seal the well. Senior firefighters Asgar Boots Hansen and Edgar Coots Matthews attempted salt water injection to momentarily suppress the fire and allow stopping procedures.
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Hackberry
Weil
Asgar ‘‘Boots
Hansen
Edgar ‘‘Coots
Matthews
Gene Campbell
U.S. Department of Energy
Campbell
Gulf Coast
Handwriting Evidence Rejects Oswald Imposter Theory
Handwriting experts told the House assassinations committee that 43 samples attributed to Lee Harvey Oswald largely match a single individual. An exception letter to H. L. Hunt could be forged, as the original copy is missing and photocopy quality is poor. The analysts also linked Oswald’s signature to visa applications filed at the Cuban consulate in Mexico City weeks before Kennedy’s death.
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Washington
Lee Harvey Oswald
John F. Kennedy
House
Joseph P. McNally
New York City
Oswald
McNally
Texas
H.L. Hunt
Kennedy
Harvey
Mexico City
Briscoe vows continued support for Migrant Affairs Office
Gov. Dolph Briscoe stated that the Governor's Office of Migrant Affairs will continue to operate with full support. He said the division was created to deliver more effective service to migrants and their children and that this purpose remains the continuing mission of the office.
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Austin
Texas
Dolph Briscoe
Migrant Affairs
GOMA
Briscoe
Weather Watch Pecos Sees Cool Wet Autumn Day
Wet and cool autumn weather prevailed in Pecos Sunday with a high of 71 and a morning low of 64. Forecast for today and Tuesday calls for more rain and clouds, with a high near 72 today, 75 Tuesday, and a low around 62 on Tuesday.
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Pecos
Pecos Flood Rains Exceed Six Inches With Cedar Street Closure
Heavy rainfall in Pecos tops six inches as of 8 30 a m with 6 35 inches at one gauge. Cedar Street U S 285 between Third and 14th Streets is closed indefinitely. Eddy Street remains passable but motorists urged to avoid it. Walthall Jackson Lincoln and Veterans intersections with Eddy require caution. Detours set on Oak Street and along Eddy Street. Reeves County farm roads show high water but no blockages reported. Officials urge staying home if travel isn’t necessary and warn of deep water at intersections.
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Airlawn
Eddy Street
Weather Service
Pecos
Robert Hinojos
Cedar Street
U.S. 285
14Th
Bill Burnett
Texas Highway Department
Walthall
Jackson
Lincoln
Veterans
Eddy
Don Carlile
Oak Street
Cedar
Reeves County
Red Bluff
Highway Department
Last of the escapees captured in Texas manhunt
Palo Pinto County authorities captured the last two escapees from the jail break after a routine patrol spotted them near a phone booth in Fort Worth. Dan Taggart, 16, and Michael Bender, 23, were among three fugitives who stabbed a guard and assaulted a dispatcher during their breakout. The stolen truck used in a motel robbery was found abandoned in Fort Worth.
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Fort Worth
Bill Kirkpatrick
Palo Pinto
Palo Pinto County
Department of Public Safety
Dan Taggart
Dallas
Michael Bender
Karol McAtee
Mineral Wells
Patcher
McAfee
Taggart and
Bender
Rob
Bers
Legislators Seek Patty Hearst Release
California lawmakers urge President Carter to commute Patty Hearst's federal prison term to the time served. Rep. Leo Ryan and Sen. S I Hayakawa present the plea asserting she has suffered enough and faces threats while confined at Pleasan ton CA. Hearst was sentenced in 1976 for bank robbery and began serving May 15 1978.
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Washington
California
Congress
Patty Hearst
Carter
Miss Hearst
Pleasanton
Calif
Leo Ryan
San Francisco Bay
Hearst
Hillsborough
Reublican
S.I. Hayakawa
State highway 54 closed north of Van Horn due to rains
The state highway department announced that Texas 54 is closed 26 miles north of Van Horn in Culberson County because of heavy rains. There was no indication of when the highway might reopen.
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Austin
Texas
State Highway Department
van Horn
Culberson County
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