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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1976
Page
6
Erma Bombeck notes that reruns offer actors rest and viewers a chance to catch missed shows while keeping costs down. She jokes about family dinners during classics like The Maltese Falcon and The Wizard of Oz, and points to the odd confusion reruns stir in audiences who doubt what they have actually seen.
Ann Landers advises a 24 year old wife whose husband, 29, pressures daily sex after 15 months of marriage. She works full time, handles chores, and is exhausted. The columnist calls the husband inconsiderate and oversexed and suggests the wife enforce boundaries and seek shared chores rather than capitulate to constant demands before offering further reader concerns from MilIy in Michigan and Reno residents with advice on other domestic tensions.
A collection of quips on everyday phrases and social habits. The piece ribbedly notes terms like a jaw of loan sharks and the recurring idea that time and money shape romantic and social expectations. It playfully critiques anniversaries and group dining norms.
Paul S Ruiz, 16, of Big Spring and Pecos ties, won Cap Rock Electric Cooperative’s Government in Action Youth Tour and earned an all expense trip to Washington. He and 38 teens formed a National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Youth Advisory Board observed by President Ford and other officials.
New York AP describes a Mikimoto Liberty Bell replica made in Japan and exhibited at the 1939 World’s Fair. The 32 inch high sculpture weighs 110 pounds and uses 12,250 cultured pearls, 366 diamonds, and 37 pounds of silver with a seed pearl inscription. It cost 50,000 dollars when made and is insured for display in New York before future moves.
Carol Uranga invites reader comments on her Pecos column covering community activity, parks push by Gilda Vejil, PTA outreach at Austin Elementary, residents moving in and out of Pecos, birthdays for Bryan Teller and Mary Sagan, upcoming boxing plans by Fred Martin, and local families relocating or visiting, with a warm, town editor tone.
New Haven editor and Yale medical school graduate Tom Ferguson launches Medical Self Care, a quarterly magazine intended to help people act as their own health advocates. The pilot covers self care, sexuality, child health education, and handling physicians, with future issues planned to add basic paramedical skills and practical instructions.
Thomas H. Beauchamp of Pecos qualified as a member of the 1976 Top Club of New York Life Insurance. The club honors agents with significant 1975-76 sales. Gerald E. Westerbeck, CLO, Midland General Manager, Midland, announced the recognition and noted Beauchamp will attend an educational conference in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Polly Cramer offers practical tips to clean a broiler effectively by using high heat and proper scrubbing methods. The guidance aims to remove grease buildup, improve odor control, and ensure safer cooking afterward.
Polly explains plastic wrappers cling to a hot chrome broiler and seeks scratch-free removal. The reader suggests family hampers and personal chores to ease summer routines and keep meals ready for emergencies. A Dear Polly reply advises unplugging, rubbing while hot to ball the plastic, then using rubbing alcohol after cooling to restore the surface shine.
Dear Polly shares reader tips on labeling bottles for easy reading, lining crochet handbags with sewn handkerchiefs, and a sun‑heat trick to start stubborn lawn equipment. Elizabeth notes a method to avoid nagging, while Flo suggests storing cottage cheese upside down to prevent drying or souring.
Small Churches with 150 or fewer enrollments will gather Aug 23 to 27 at Glorieta Baptist Conference Center for the Sunday School Leadership Conference. Participants include age-group consultants from the Southern Board and leaders A V Washburn and Florrie Anne Lawton. Registration costs 12 dollars.
Lynn E. May Jr. of the Southern Baptist Historical Commission urged at Glorieta Baptist Conference Center that Baptist vitality lies in present practice and beliefs, not pedigree. He stressed Baptists have died for faith and used confessions to define beliefs, noting a presidential candidate is among their number this year.
Enterprise staff will take pictures of special events when booked in advance with Editorial staff. Call 445-5475 to arrange, providing event purpose time and place. We cannot guarantee attendance but will try.
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