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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1971
Page
2
In Washington Alan B. Shepard is named rear admiral and will remain head of NASA's astronaut program in Houston for now while also working part time with the Navy in Washington. The report notes his pioneering space roles and future civilian duties.
The Record lists a burglary at 706 Hackberry St where items including a purse with about 50 dollars a coin box with 30 in Kennedy halves and a Baby Ben clock were taken. a Caterpillar motor grader battery valued at 20 was stolen from City Shop. The 143rd District Court filed divorces child support and workers compensation appeals and noted a man reconsidering dropping an appeal in a marijuana possession case. Marriage licenses issued include Harold May Cynthia Cook and Steven Nowlin Frances Key Frank Bradley Mary Precit.
An independent Pecos Enterprise edition published each weekday from 324 S Cedar St Pecos Texas 79772 with P O Box 1131 serves Pecos residents and surrounding area.
A mother describes the chaos and humor of hosting friends for sleepovers. Children test boundaries with playful bravado while the household copes with extra toothbrushes and the cost of 89 cent brushes. The piece ends with a light note on preferring blue brushes to match wallpaper.
Charles Rusty Deriso 19 formerly of Pecos died in a California wreck last week. He was a United States Marine military policeman and attended Pecos High School in 1967 68 as a freshman. Funeral rites were held in Cleburne with burial at Rio Vista Texas. His parents Mr and Mrs Nolan Trammell of Cleburne survive.
The Pecos Optimist Club hosted the Pony League All Stars and coaches at a Thursday breakfast. Coaches thanked the club for $350 toward trip expenses during the playoff season as the Pony Leaguers, who had won 14 straight games, were eliminated from the World Series in Washington, Pa.
A brief reflection notes that people resist accepting situations and prefer making changes even when things are satisfactory. It signals a common urge to intervene rather than leave outcomes to themselves.
Principal Frank Kelley announced Pecos High School will hold a schoolwide assembly at 8:30 Monday in the auditorium. He urged punctual attendance and said students will receive applications and information about the upcoming academic year’s insurance policy plan.
Mrs. Ernestine Beauchamp of 1406 West 6th Street has qualified as a member of the 1971 Star Club of New York Life Insurance Co. The Star Club honors agents with top sales in 1970 71 and she is invited to an educational conference in Phoenix Arizona.
Two men, Wayne Charles Cook Jr. and Wilton Lee Brassfield, were arrested at 4:33 AM in Pecos on Ward County theft charges after allegedly stealing a First National Bank money bag containing 400 in checks and 100 in cash from a Wickett pickup.
Sister Lola Martinez from Mexico advertises healing by touch claiming God given power to call friends and enemies by name. She opens seven days a week at N Canal St Carlsbad with holy water for all, promising solutions to sickness troubles and relationship issues.
Toyah seeks to halt consolidation with Pecos Barstow Schools claiming the 1971 annexation action was arbitrary and not based on fact. This is a second suit after a 1969 filing and an appellate ruling in April that the annexation meeting violated open meeting law. No injunction has been issued in the current case.
The nomination by Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary and Donald Thompson names Dr Amegin for the honor. Dr Amegin, a lay preacher, is the son of Baptist missionaries born in China, fled Siberia during communism, and came to the United States in 1948 with parents Lubov and the late Rev. Peter Amegin. The family settled in Sacramento with wife Edith Porter and two children Natasha and Daniel.
The Kentucky Turnpike, the state’s most prosperous toll road, may remain a toll road for twenty years though its bonds will be paid off within two years. Funds would finance a southward toll road extension using continuing revenue.
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