Bidding Opens for Courtyard Plants and Bingo Prize Reaches 100
Bids are taken for courtyard plants as Bingo jackpot rises to 100 this week after no winner last week. If unclaimed, the 50 treasure rolls into next week. The Pecos Enterprise notes prizes are paid weekly until a winner, with a Monday start and Saturday finish for this cycle. Players may buy multiple cards at participating merchants including Anthony's and Reeves County stores. Absentee voting for the May 6 primaries begins next Monday with 6,625 registered voters and about 600 under 21. Newspaper Bingo continues its 13 week run with 100 of 650 prize already won and all 650 to be awarded by week 13.
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Pecos Enterprise
O’ferrall Pauly
Anthony’s
Reeves County Chevron
Four Seasons Flower Shop
Fuentes Furniture
Gibson’s Discount
Goodyear
Grogan Motors
Hill’s Thriftway
Hopper’s Thriftway
J&w Discount Furniture
Jack’s Westside Texaco
Joe’s Supermarket
Leader Hardware
Lewis Shoe Store
Ma Wilson’s Donut
Pecos Furniture Co
Pecos Men’s Shop
Pecos Motors Inc
Pecos Supreme Beef
Pearl C. Barker
Reeda’s Fashions
J. C. Penney’s
Popular
Thriftway
Terrazas Furniture
Window Box
Woolworth’ S
Enterprise
Public
Reeves County
Reeves County Court House
Darrell Glover
Tatum Elsenwine
Cecil Cothrun
Wendell Faulkner
Isabel Carrasco
Marguerite Kent
Estelle Clinton
Pear C. Barker
San Antonio
Ham Truck and Tractor Co
Precinct 2
Crow Motor Co
Glover
Eisenwine
Faulkner
Kent
Gordon Holiday
Reeves County Memorial Hospital
Cothrun
Richard K. Buckland
Texas Department of Public Safety Division of Defense and Disaster Relief
Reeves
Buckland
Pecos
S. B. Hunt
DPS
White’s Auto Stores
Noel Construction Co
Collie
Wendell
Jack Slay
Duval Co
Counsry
Duval
Melton Rasberry
Texas State Department of Health
Ft. Bliss
Pritchard and Abbott
Pecos Council on Drug Abuse elects Dr Kent Cotton president
Dr Kent Cotton a Pecos dentist was elected president of the Pecos Council on Drug Abuse a new community wide information group sponsored by the city at the request of the Young Homemakers. Officers named include Billie Sadler vice president and Della Bryant secretary treasurer with Garland Matthews serving as chairman until the vote.
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Kent Cotton
Pecos
John Rediger
J.B. Hudson
Fernando Hernandez
Gary Ingram
Homemakers
J.L. Smith
Martha Carr
Odessa
Pecos High student wins state Conservation Essay Contest
Mike Cravens of Pecos High School is named the state winner in the Conservation Essay Contest. James Waddell, chair of the Upper Pecos Soil and Water Conservation District, says Cravens will receive the award at the Texas Conservation Awards Banquet in Fort Worth on May 13. The winning essay titled Conservation-The Key to Survival was chosen from district and regional entries supported by local banks and chambers of commerce.
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Mike Cravens
Pecos High School
James Waddell
Upper Pecos
Cravens
Fort Worth
Upper
Pecos
Harold Elder
First National Bank
First National
Pecos trustees adopt get-tough tax policy
Pecos-Barstow Consolidated Independent School District trustees form a three-member committee to accelerate delinquent tax collections. They aim to recover about 256000 in overdue taxes, with 43904.29 collected through March, the lowest in five years. Attorney Leigh has filed 184 lawsuits totaling 66393.96 set for May court.
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Pecos-Barstow Consolidated Independent School
Jimmie Toone
Paul Williams
Dick Naylor
Fred Leigh
Reynolds
Naylor
Leigh
Lewis Cowart
Apollo 16 Crew Undergo Final Physical Ahead of Moon Flight
Apollo 16 astronauts John W. Young Charles M. Duke Jr and Thomas K. Mattingly II passed a four hour medical exam at Cape Kennedy Florida as technicians fixed a nitrogen gas leak on the spacecraft. The countdown to liftoff at 12 54 p.m. Sunday continued smoothly and Mattingly recalled a prior exposure to German measles that cost him a seat on Apollo 13 prompting isolation three weeks before launch.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
John W. Young
Charles M. Duke Jr
Thomas K. Mattingly II
Mattingly
Oil Jobbers Elect New Officers at Texas Convention
Dan Peyton and Jim Wafer of the Peyton Oil Company return from the Texas Oil Jobbers Association convention in Houston where about 1260 attendees heard talks by Paul Hicks Jr. and Joe Harkey. Alton Barker of McAllen elected 1972 president with regional vice presidents named. delegates vote to rename the group The Texas Oil Marketers Association to better reflect members.
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Dan Peyton
Jim Wafer
Peyton Oil Company
Pecos
Texas Oil Jobbers Association
Houston
Paul B. Hicks Jr
New York City
Texaco
Joe B. Harkey
Lubbock
National Oil Jobbers Council
U.S
East Coast
West Coast
Midwest
Rio Grande Valley
Alton Barker
McAllen
W. H. Quartrup
Carrollton
Jack Robertson
Corpus Christi
JL B. Hicks
Harlingen
Maxey Grossenbacher
Perry N. Bolin
McKinney
Paul McGinnis
Arlington
Kenneth Peeler
Midland
Texas Oil Marketers Association
Millipedes Display Distinct Mating Behaviors
In Manchester, AP reports German zoologist Dr. Ulrich Haacker described recordings of millipede courtship. The South African male rubs 21 leg pairs against its shell producing a sawlike sound while the British male taps its head on the ground. females respond by licking kneecaps or fleeing.
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Manchester
England
Ulrich Haacker
Hamburg University
Haacker
Pecos High School Lifts Ban on Married Students
The Pecos School Board voted Thursday to remove a 1955 rule barring married students from most activities. Married students may now join student offices, social events, band, choir, and class trips, with no change to commencement or regular school work honors. Superintendent Ray Whitley said the deletion stems from no observed problems. 14 married students currently attend Pecos High School.
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Pecos
Ray Whitley
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Don Weinacht
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