Community Calendar Highlights Local Meetings and Services
A weekly schedule lists Lions Club and Optimist events at various venues on Monday and Tuesday. Alcoholics Anonymous and Al Anon meet in Pecos with contact numbers, while TOPS, PTA and Rotary activities appear through the week. Holy Week services and Pony League meetings are noted, with times at First United Methodist and Central Fire Station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federation Parlor
Pecos Alcoholics Anonymous
Al-Anon
S. Oak St
St. Community
First United Methodist Church
David Northcutt
First Presbyterian Church
Ray Powell
Rotary Club
Holiday Inn
Pheasant Count Planned for Balmorhea Area
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Soil Conservation Service will conduct several counts along a road line from Balmorhea State Park through nearby farms and Balmorhea to a point southeast of Saragosa. The surveys aim to estimate the pheasant population and reproduction levels in an experimental stocking area established three years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Balmorhea
Ringneck
Parks and Wildlife Department
Soil Conservation Service
Balmorhea State Park
Saragosa
Pheasants in Balmorhea Area Face Threats to Population
Wildlife biologist Lonnie Shelton cites hay mowing and predators as major factors slowing pheasant recovery in Balmorhea. Poachers threaten to ruin any chance of a huntable population, he warns, noting the impact of red flags from local pastures and illegal harvest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lonnie Shelton
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Shelton
Noon market uptrend tailed by blue chip strength
The New York stocks rebounded from last week’s losses as the Dow Jones average rose 7.16 to 975.44 with gains led by blue chips. NYSE composite advanced 0.24 to 53.65 and the AMEX market value index inched up 0.03 to 102 amid a cautious early session. Cotton futures also declined with May at 60.29, July 61.01, and Oct 60.00. Livestock prices in Fort Worth showed mixed to firm moves for cattle hogs and calves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Signal Cos
NYSE
American Stock Exchange
Aneeay
Fort Worth
Odessa College to offer marine ecology course in Mexico
Odessa College will offer a spring marine ecology course from May 18 to 27, including four travel days and six days in Puerto Peñasco Sonora Mexico. Students will collect specimens conduct field and lab work and visit sites in Arizona and Mexico en route. Registration April 12-16 in Baskin Hall with limited 22 students and preregistration via Ed Orton or Brent McAfee. Tuition 110 residents 119.50 nonresidents. OC supplies transport camping fees boats and lodging. students provide food and gear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odessa College
Puerto Penasco
Sonora
Mexico
Coronado National Forest
Chiracahua National Monument
Saguaro National Monument
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Kitt Peak National Observatory
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
Orton
McAfee
Beefe and Cheese Tacos Offer Lunch Plate Pleasures
A school lunch menu lists beef and cheese tacos with pinto beans lettuce and tomato salad peaches and milk. The meal also features a charburger on a bun with pickles French fries with catsup strawberry short cake ice cream cup and a dessert.
Deaths Baltazer Deanda 21 in Pecos Odessa Medical Center
Services were held for Baltazer Deanda 21 at Santa Rosa Catholic Church with burial in Santa Rosa Cemetery. Deanda died Saturday in Odessa Medical Center, born December 18, 1954 in Mexico, resident of Pecos two months, Catholic. Survivors include widow Margie, son Rodolfo, father Juan, brothers Roselio Armando Augustin, sisters Socorro Ofelia, all in Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltazer Deanda
Santa Rosa Catholic Church
Santa Rosa
Deanda
Odessa Medical Center
Mexico
Pecos
Margie
Rodolfo
Juan Deanda
Roselio Deanda
Armando Deanda
Augustin Deanda
Socorro
Ofelia Deanda
Local Pawnee History Note in Pecos Paper
The article notes that the Pawnee Indians lived in earth lodges shaped like circles, 20 to 25 feet in diameter. This brief regional excerpt reflects a factual cultural detail in the Pecos paper’s local history context.
Serviceman Drives To Answer Customer Calls
A worker proposes routing service calls to customer locations to save time and money. Reducing travel cuts energy costs and benefits bill payers like the speaker who pays a gas bill.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lions Club
American Motor Inn
Amistad Lions Club
Lions den
Pecos Optimists
Chaparral Village
Morning Tops Club
By Frankie Kingston
Yehnange
Order OF Eastern Star
Masonic Temple
Chris Gilbert
Allen Gilbert
Shirley Spence
Henry Beth Hogg
Sanderson
Sister Hogg
Elizabeth Cook
Pecos Cook
Dicky Schloemer
Frankie Kingston
Sherry Clark
Beda Larramore
Riva C
Aleeval
At&t
Ad Rich
Beth Sd
Borden
Pet
Cat Trac
Chrysler
Cities
Coca Cola
Dow Chem Tos duPont
Eastman HS
el Paso NG
Exxon
Gif
St Ut
Hous LP
IBM
Paper
Jhn-Man
John Joh
Litton
Marathon
Marcor
Mobil Oil
Monsanto
Penney
Phill Pet
Safeway
Sears
Son
Indiun Oil
Texaco
Texas
UN Carbide
Uniroyal
US Steel
Balmorhea School
Bill Kingston
Jerry Gregg
San Antonio
Office Machines
Cedar St
Tex
P.O Box
Peggy McCracken
Lynn Webb
Nova Gutierrez
Diane Osborn
Mary Shute
Ruben Back
Emily Galindo
Carlos Nichols
Mary Carpenter
Reeves, Ward, Culberson
Jeff Davis
Associated Press
Reeves County
Pecos-Barstow- Toyah Independent School District
Frank
Anita Perea
el Paso
William Christensen
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