Balmorhea City Council Approves 1976 Budget and Water Diversion Plan
Balmorhea Texas council heard an audit by Billy R Turner CPA of Childers and Turner detailing 1975 76 city records matched with bank balances. Wes Elliott recommended a new point of diversion from Texas Water Rights Commission which the council accepted. The 1976 tax rate was set at 1 per 100 valuation. Mayor Humphries announced a town survey and a free news sheet of council actions.
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Balmorhea
Billy R. Turner
CPA
Childers and Turner
Odessa
Wes Elliott
Texas Water Rights Commission
Humphries
Noon market report as Republican convention opens
Wall Street inched higher at noon with Dow up 2.41 to 992.60 as traders await Kansas City convention news. Utilities rose while transportation dipped. NYSE issues slight gain, odd activity in Westinghouse, 34 000 share block at 17, and 20 000 at 17 1/8. Cotton futures mixed after crop estimate. grains and livestock futures logged varied moves with cattle and hogs showing mixed shifts in Fort Worth. Dow Jones midmorning averages posted modest gains across indices.
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New York
Wall Street
Kansas City
Westinghouse Electric
NYSE
American Stock Exchange
New York Cotton Exchange
Chicago
Fort Worth
Choice
Barrows & Gilts
Dow Jones
A.m
Indus
Ambulance and Fire Calls From Weekend Wrecks
Saturday morning wrecks on U S 285 near SH 20 and at Fifth and Walnut streets prompted ambulance calls. A Sunday truck fire occurred 18 miles southwest of town and a report logged at Davidson Feed Pens.
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SH 20
U.S 285
Davidson
Buckner News Alliance Attends Patsy Buckner Graduation
Buckner News Alliance staff and relatives attended Patsy Buckner’s college graduation Friday night in San Angelo. Patsy plans to teach and coach basketball at Christoval next term. The group includes Mr and Mrs Buck Towler Louis Patrick and Mr and Mrs Bob Moore. The Balmorhea teachers begin in service today with a district conference in Marfa this week. School starts August 24. Parents urged to ensure polio measles and other vaccines are up to date for enrollment.
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Marfa
Balmorhea Tales: School Board Actions and Local News
The Balmorhea school board met with President C T Gray and kept the tax rate at 1.80 for 1977. An extension on school bonds was approved and staff for the coming year was adopted, with two teaching positions still open. Mrs Leona Brannon Rhodes, 61, of Odessa died last Sunday and was buried there. The AARP urges members to attend Tuesday’s meeting at the housing center with Hazel Humphries in charge and a surprise planned. Contractors finished reroofing gym buildings, painted exteriors, and repaired furniture in preparation for a new school term starting Aug 24.
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C.T. Gray
Leona (Brannon) Rhodes
Odessa
Johnnie Brannon
H.R. Brannon
Balmorhea
AARP
Hazel Humphries
Deaths and funeral notices from Pecos area
Obituaries list Manuel Jaso aged 80 of Pecos with survivors including wife Maria and four daughters and three sons. Also noted are McIntire family fatalities in a Brady area two car collision, Francis Hubert Ryan Pecos judge and Lions member, Jose Galindo Rodriguez funeral at Santa Rosa, Ruth Ross former Pecos resident.
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Manuel Jaso
Santa Rosa Catholic Church
Santa Rosa
S. Willow
Pecos Funeral Home
Evergreen Cemetery
Brady
Alfred McIntire
American National Insurance Co
Frances Gene McIntire
Ray Charles McIntire
Sandie McIntire
Uss
Highway 87
Justice of the Peace
Joe B. Barekman
Alfred McIitire
Ear
Lene Cofton
Debbie McIntire
Pecos
Eugene McIntire
Ronnie McIntire
Josh McIntire
Oklahoma City
Okla
Earl Monroe Moore
Ray
Earlene Cotton
Earl C. Moore
Francis Hubert Ryan
First Presbyterian Church
Fairview
National Association of Probate Judges
Texas Association of County Judges
International Association of Lions Clubs
F.H
Pat) Ryan
Marfa
John R. Ryan
Bellville
C.W. Lewis
Carlsbad
N.M
Jose Rodriguez
Jose Galindo Rodriguez
Barstow
Rodriguez
Kermit Hospital
Mexico
Pecos Valley Southern Railroad
Manuella Rodriguez
Aurelio Rodriguez
Migul Rodriguez
Kermit
Juan Rodriguez
Levelland
Francisco Rodriguez
Arizona
Sebation Rodriguez
Big Spring
Isabelle Rosa
Manuella Orona
California
Peco
Ross
Odessa Medical Center
Uvalde
Odessa
Magazine
Ark
Calvary Baptist Church
A.B. Ross
Betty Gene Garman
Mammie Nell Grayhouse
Brackettville
Sara Peters
Leroy Ross
Minnie Young
Drain, Ore
Ethlene Pounders
Houston
Nona Placky
Obituary Notice for Herbert Carter at Mount Zion Baptist Church
The Carter family gratefully recalls condolences after the loss of Herbert Carter. Words cannot express gratitude for food flowers and comfort from Mount Zion Baptist Church neighbor churches and friends. Survivors include Virginia Carter wife seven children twelve grandchildren Melvin Carter El Paso Roberta Gardener Muskogee OK Pearl Adkins Kansas City Dorothy Houston Wichita.
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MR. Herbert Carter
Mount Zion Baptist Church
Virginia Carter
Melvin Carter
el Paso
Roberta Gardener
Muskogee
Oklahoma
Pearl Adkins
Kansas City
Missouri
Dorothy Houston
Wichita
Kansas
Calendar of Pecos area events for Monday
Calendar of coming events in Pecos lists Lions Club meetings at Motors Inn and Lions Den at 7 30 p m Amistad Lions Pecos Optimists at Chaparral Village Steak House and Band Booster Club at Pecos High School Library all with 7 30 p m start plus an important business note for the booster club on the 16th
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Pecos
Lions Club
On Motors Inn
Amistad Lions Club
Lions den
Chaparral Village
Pecos High School
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Bill McIntire
C. Towery
Alcoa
Ad Rich
Beth Stl
Borden
Brit
Pet
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el Paso NG
Exxon
Fairchild Cam
Ford
Elec
Foods
Tire
Goodrich
Great A&p
Gulf Oil
Glf Stat
Hous LP
IBM
Int Paper
Jhn-Man
John Joh
Litton
Marathon
Mobil Oil
Monsanto
Penney
RCA
Safeway
Sears
Son
Sun Oil
Texaco
Texas
UN Carbide
Uniroyal
US Steel
Woolworth
Xerox
Buckner News Alliance
Cedar St
Tex
P.O. Box
Peggy McCracken Lynn Webb
Nova Gutierrez Famil
Diane Osborn
Doris Welch
Ruben Baca
Emily Galindo
Carlos Nichols
Oreman
Mary Carpenter
Reeves County
Reeves
Ward
Loving
Jeff Devis
Cnshuately
Balymobile
By Frankie Kingston
Albert Pask
Jenny
Keren
Dallas
Gladys Schmucker
Brannon
Louise Adams
Hubert Honaker
F.H. Ryan
Ruth Ross
Pecos Savings and Loan Association
Pecos Savings & Loan
Oth & Cypress
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