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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1976
Page
2
Bells rang Tuesday morning for Balmorhea School opening at 8 30. Buses operated to collect out of town students and staff prepared to register pupils in their rooms. Final enrollment will be counted next week due to late registrations from farm work.
Week end visitors Patsy McIntire and Melissa Kelly with Patsy’s parents. Patsy begins teaching at Christoval as PE and sixth grade history and spelling. Dove season opens Sept 1 to Oct 14. resumes Jan 1-16 with bag limit ten. Balmorhea news covers band booster meeting, sports scrimmages, soccer, school updates, and a plaque at Zavala Junior High.
The noon market report shows a mixed New York stock market with the Dow up 1.25 to 964.18 as bargain hunting follows a sharp decline. AT&T active, Deere & Co. up after higher earnings. NYSE composite dips slightly and AMEX up. Livestock bids in Fort Worth show cattle, calves steady to weak. hogs and cows posted lowered quotes amid moderate demand. Cash grain in Chicago lists wheat, corn, oats and soybeans with slight shifts. cotton futures slide on speculative selling, with nearby prices lower and futures quotes noted.
The Zavala Junior High introduces the B B Reed Memorial Award for English Scholarship funded by Mrs Christina Anderson and her children Virginia Cheri and John. Steve Rayes is named the first plaque honoree and will receive a trophy. the award honors English mastery and good citizenship inspired by Mr Reed and Mrs Reed.
A hot August day in Pecos peaked at 99 with a 65 low as West Texas forecasts show partly cloudy skies and widely scattered showers through Thursday. The National Weather Service notes scattered thundershowers from the South Carolina coast to Florida and into the Northwest with hot to very hot conditions for the upper Great Lakes and northern Plains.
Eddy County Commissioners discussed plans for a future Eddy County Juvenile Detention Center to be built in Artesia along with a new Artesia Law Enforcement Center. The project is mandated by the New Mexico Legislature and Dept of Corrections with a two year extension granted. Artesia is the probable site.
Death notices for Hilda Pau line Davis age 82 list services at Pecos Funeral Home Chapel Thursday at 10 a.m. with burial in Balmorhea Cemetery. The Rev. Rube Pattillo officiates. Davis died Tuesday night at 8 58 p.m. Born March 12 1894 she leaves three daughters Lois Ward Irene Priebe and Iane Perkins a sister Ella Moore 13 grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Also, services for William Buck Lindsey 83 were at 10 a.m. today at Pecos Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Fairview Cemetery. The Rev. Earl Ball officiates. He died Sunday morning at Lakeview Christian Home Carlsbad New Mexico. Born June 5 1893 in Mason he was a retired railroad worker and member of the Methodist Church. Survivors include wife Hallie four sons W B Lindsey Jr. Cariz070 Y C Lindsey American Falls L O Lindsey American Falls E C Lindsey Las Vegas New Mexico two daughters Inez Waldrop Tacoma Washington Larree Austin San Francisco four brothers Lewis Lindsey Carlsbad Lester Lindsey John Lindsey A J Lindsey Pecos 18 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren.
Calendar of Pecos area events lists a free health testing clinic at 1010 W Third with appointment line 5 221. Swine flu vaccine slide presentation at the community center banquet room at 8 p.m. Mt Evergreen Cemetery Association annual meeting at 1 30 p.m. for lot owners to run the cemetery. Lions Club Amistad Lions Optimists and other meetings follow through the week with times and locations.
State District Court Judge I D McMaster ordered bond for Vernon Eugene McManus 33 charged with capital murder in the Baytown killings of Paul and Dorothy Cantrell on July 24. Paula Cantrell Derese held without bond for capital murder. two other suspects said to be involved. Prosecutor says crime heinous and security of witnesses requires high bond. witnesses and leads could be jeopardized if evidence aired.
AP report details deposition testimony by Steven Clyde Valentine, 19, in a $5 million suit against Dallas County Sheriff Clarence Jones and probation officer Waylon Vernon. He recalls the Kenneth Nile Coppinger Jr death as a planned murder that started as a joke and involved hanging, stabbing, and a homemade knife in a Dallas jail cell after a mistaken probation arrest. Additional snippets note a tornado near Rio Hondo and a historical aside about Boston’s Old State House and James Otis.
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