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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1971
Page
2
Subscription rates listed: by carrier to homes 31.50 monthly. Reeves County by mail six months 39.00, one year 318.00. All other mail six months 511.00, twelve months 321.00.
Peggy Knust plans a senior year exchange to Japan with study of language and culture. She will live near Nagoya, attend tea ceremonies and flower arranging, and is told she will meet American peers and a Japanese friend Kumiko Toshiro from Carlsbad. Peggy fears homesickness but hopes to understand local courtesy despite wartime tensions.
Pecos High School Homemaking Dept offers new sewing classes in cooperation with the Cotton Crusader make it with cotton. Beginners meet 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and experienced sewers 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. through Aug. 18. Supplies info via 445-3378 on Monday.
Dallas teachers filed appeals Thursday for seven of about 2,000 reassigned under the city desegregation order. About 500 teachers have complained, with a rush of appeals anticipated. The $13 million needed to carry out the plan will largely come from a 1967 $65 million bond issue.
Non stop rains drenched Corpus Christi and Robstown as 75 residents evacuated. Downtown Corpus Christi saw 7.39 inches in a day, total 17 inches since Aug 1, with water blocking streets and street caverns appearing. Robstown tallied 20 inches since Monday. Weather Service noted statewide moisture with potential for more showers and flood alerts.
KIUN Radio will air the Pecos Pony League All Stars game tomorrow at 6 30 p m. The Pecos lads meet the Fort Worth Abilene winner from tonight's game in the broadcast.
Accompanying depositions name Sharp as the manipulator who financed politicians to borrow vast sums from his bank and invest in his life insurance firm for rapid profits. Wilson, a former Justice official, faced allegations of aiding Sharp’s financial empire while serving as general counsel and bank adviser. Gonzalez asserted Wilson’s involvement and noted Wilson’s ongoing compensation and roles during Sharpstown operations, including insider trading and self-dealing loans.
Frankie Tarango Carrasco Jr seven month old son of Mr and Mrs F T Carrasco Sr dies in pre dawn hours. Survivors include his parents grandparents Mr and Mrs Denacio Carrasco and Mr and Mrs Lorenzo Flores all of Pecos. Funeral rites pending at Pecos Funeral Home.
The All Texas Air Tour group of about 50 airplanes and 115 people will make a Howdy Stop in Pecos on October 3 at 3 45 p m. John T Rediger director and chairman of Pecos Chamber of Commerce Tourist and Convention Division says the Highway and Transportation Division under Glen Ellis will join to welcome visitors. The Pecos stop will last about one hour.
Stewart's Florist at 1306 S. Eddy St now belongs to the Chamber of Commerce after Mrs. Betty Gann took over the shop. Carl McGee of the Chamber’s Membership Development and Public Relations Team arranged the contact and onboarding.
Word has reached Mr and Mrs LeRoy Holley that their son Roger Holley a Radarman 2C in the U S Navy has been released from a base hospital in Vietnam He was wounded in action June 17 south of the DMZ suffering a shattered nose second and third degree burns on his right side and abdominal wounds He remains in Vietnam recuperating Holley attended Pecos High School and has served in the Navy two and a half years His brother Randy has served in the U S Naval Reserve for 14 months and will leave August 15 for electronics school at Mare Island Vallejo Calif
Decentralization plan allows Kentucky to shutter its major juvenile delinquency institution near Lexington by 1973. The AP report notes the move aims to spread confinement across the state as part of broader reforms.
Frank DeVito, 47, of Sayerville, a 24 year plumber and father of five, has won New Jersey's $1 million lottery. He received $50,000 now and will receive that amount annually for the next 19 years.
A youth group from First Baptist Church in Tohoka Texas directed by Bob Strait will perform in Pecos on Saturday at 3 30 pm in front of Pecos Men's Shop and again at Indian Lodge Fort Davis State Park Saturday night. They will also sing Sunday at Fifth and Hickory Streets First Baptist Church and Tuesday August 10 at the Youth Coffee House Holiday Inn. The public is invited.
Nine cartons were stolen from a downtown gun factory. Each carton contained a .25 caliber nickel plated pistol marked with the initials CDM. The pistols were intended to be shipped outside the state.
The notice explains a new bonus interest rate on all U.S. Savings Bonds issued since June 1 1970 and for older bonds, with five year maturity. The bonus is 1.9 percent payable at maturity after the first year. Start saving now as money helps while living on love.
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