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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1976
Page
2
A digest of local weekly events lists Pine Car Derby at Pyote gym at 1 p.m. Saturday, Lions Club meetings at Am erican Motor Inn and Lions Den, Pecos Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon at Oak Street, TOPS Club gatherings, and Rotary and RCACLD meetings. Friday menu includes BBQ Wieners, turkey, hamburgers, and desserts. closing line warns about careless driving.
Deaths services set for Josephine Joy Fortune 61 with 10 a.m. Saturday service at First United Methodist Church and burial at Evergreen Cemetery Reeves Memorial Hospital reported her passing at 7 45 a m Thursday. Fortune born November 12 1914 in May lived in Pecos since 1929 and was a Methodist. Survivors include widower Clyde two sons Charles Collie of Duncanville and Bill Collie of Round Rock a sister Delia McDowell Kerrville a brother Harley Williams Reno Nevada and four grandchildren.
The Dow fell 2.84 to 999.29 as traders weighed Citibank’s quarter point prime rate cut to 60 percent against rising Treasury bill yields. GM led NYSE volume with a 1/4 point rise to 71 3/8. NYSE composite slipped 0.12 to 54.22. AMEX up 0.13 to 102.63. Cotton futures gained as speculators pushed prices higher. Dow Jones midday averages show small shifts across indices.
Bits of news from Alpine Balmorhea and Sanderson report William A Sprinkle Jr of Balmorhea and Robie L Golden of Sanderson honored as Sul Ross State University Man and Woman of the Year during recent ceremonies. Sprinkle is an Industrial Arts major, Balmorhea city councilman, and treasurer of the Big Bend Baptist Association.
Kamal Jumblatt, a leftist Moslem leader, warns of war if a presidential election proceeds. In the same filing, Joe E. DeLeon of Pecos remains jailed on a $5,000 bond after a Balmorhea arrest tied to a burglary at a Peace geophysical office. Syrian President Hafez Assad backs a power-sharing shift between Christian and Moslem groups, with all presidential candidates being Christians.
The McKinneys of Las Cruces New Mexico visited Balmorhea this week. George McKinney and family, former Balmorhea residents, return often to see old friends. His sister Frances lives in the northern states. Marvin Stichler of Houston stayed with Mr and Mrs J M Harbour, flew from Midland by plane to Balmorhea. Christine Poe in Pecos hospital is improving and hopes to go home soon. Johnnie Kingston is gathering and shipping cattle from the Madera Ranch to market.
In Ames the Balmorhea Federal Credit Union schedules its monthly meeting for Tuesday. The Balmorhea hunters who lease the W E McElroy ranch are building cabins on the ranch for thief convenience.
The Enterprise Beckner News Alliance lists staff roles including Peggy McCracken as Managing Editor Lynn Webb City Editor Nova Gutierrez Family Editor and Mary Carpenter Office Manager. It notes publication schedule seven evenings a week and pricing for print and mail subscriptions with local and out of county rates.
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