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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1979
Page
2
Extension Homemakers on Parade runs April 27 28 at Winwood Mall Odessa featuring local club demos on child safety communication and energy conservation with live teaching centers. Exhibits include toyah and rio pecos clubs, demonstrations on pork drying storm windows and budget planning with a free computer program.
Monday's meal offering lists pizza buttered corn a combination salad peanut cluster and milk providing a wholesome school lunch option for students and staff on April 30.
The Toyah Club will present Child Safety in the Automobile at Odessa Winwood Mall on Saturday April 28 from 1 to 2 p.m. Virginia Gibson and Charlotte Waight join a 2 30 p.m. style show as part of a two day exhibit by District Extension Homemakers Clubs at the Mall.
Stocks retreat with the Dow down 4.07 to 856.90 at noon amid a $4.1 billion jump in the money supply. Oil shares ease after gains. Texaco and Mobil slip. NYSE composite falls to 57.30, AMEX at 183.37. Cotton futures rise with No. 2 grade at 59.70 cents.
Tuesday to Friday menus list daily meals with items such as chili fries cheese stick pinto beans cornbread fruit cup milk chicken salad potatoes green beans hot roll rolled wheat cake burrito and more. Regular line options include chili bowl cabbage salad crackers cake milk and charburgers with fries snickerdoodles milk all menus subject to change.
A letter from a Big Knob Elementary School fourth grader in Freedom Pa. prompted area residents to send postcards and information. Julius Gassett and Alton Hughes sent items, and the students thanked them after receiving 496 replies 701 postcards 1678 pieces of information and 55 newspapers from across the United States for a permanent school exhibit.
Word has been received in Pecos of the death of Mrs Bill Ellene Penney who died Monday April 23 in Los Angeles. Mrs Penney was a former Pecos resident and will be remembered by many Pecos friends. She is the niece of Ted Gardner of Pecos.
Participants from Pecos include Larry Mosby Eddie Matta and Gary Rogers for the Boys Track and Field meet at W T Barrett Stadium Odessa College This weekend events run Friday preliminaries with multiple running and hurdle races top placers qualify for finals Saturday finals cover running events both Conferences A and AAA and field events including pole vault discus and shot put with times starting in the afternoon and concluding late in the day
The Athletic Banquet and Junior-Senior Banquet are scheduled at the Balmorhea school cafeteria with a dance after the May 5 event. Senior Citizens bus trips to Pecos May 2 for a hearing aid clinic. Community fundraising by Balmorhea Seniors for their trip. Bike-A-Thon covered 24 miles from the city park to Boy Scout Ranch with T-shirts for participants. Cystic Fibrosis drive chaired by Mrs. Becky Lofton. Chamber planning Fall Festival Sept 1 includes Bean Cook-Off. planning meeting May 7 at 7 p.m. at the Community Center.
Internationally known artist Dorothy Archer of El Paso will teach a five day oil and acrylic workshop for Sul Ross State University Division of Adult and Continuing Education starting May 21. The sign up deadline is May 7. Tuition is 50 dollars per student with supplies provided by each attendee.
James D. Lasater son of Mr and Mrs W D Lasater of Pecos has been named a winner of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company Outstanding Agency Award for 1978. Lasater led the San Antonio branch to its first such honor, rising from Fort Worth to San Antonio since joining in 1965, with degrees from Texas Christian University and a 1975 appointment as agency head.
A Hearing Clinic is scheduled in Pecos at the Community Public Service Reddy Room, 1127 Stafford Blvd., May 1-2 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on both days. The Morning Optimist Club of Pecos sponsors. Tests include a written report, an evaluation, and a fluid in the inner ear test.
Schedule of weekly events in Pecos area clubs and centers including Lions, Optimist, AA and Al-Non, TOPS, hearing clinic and civic groups. Activities span Monday through Friday with meeting times, locations and special notes for each group.
Pecos Police report eight incidents of criminal mischief at locations including Airbase apartments Mulberry street and S Oak. Damages range from under five dollars to three hundred dollars with several tires and windows affected. No charges in one case involving Apartment 45B. Citations and arrests noted for Fernando Vela and Hector Rodriguez Montano.
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