Balmorhea Enrollment Rises to 390 at Balmorhea School
Balmorhea School enrollment climbs to 390 this week with 92 students in high school and more entries planned. Staff members toured Pecos to sell annual ads while Balmorhea girls schedule first FHA meet for Monday September 1. Freshman Day slated for August 28 with a school parade.
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Pecos
Pecos Enterprise
Balmorhea
FHA
Diana Compton
Mary Ellen Pax
Betty Conner
Chris Gilbert
Lee Compton
Fort Worth
West Texas
Democrats eyeing conventing site
Washington Democrats seek a 1976 convention venue and expect New York to be chosen despite New York City’s financial troubles. Los Angeles also competes, with better facilities but cooler support from Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. The national committee meets to decide, with party sources saying Strauss leans toward New York.
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Washington
New York
Los Angeles
Edmund G. Brown Jr
National Party
Robert S. Strauss
Uni
New York Bid Faces Financial Strains for 1976 Conventions
City officials frantically seek labor cooperation and large subsidies as New York weighs hosting a Democratic or Republican convention next summer. Los Angeles offers 1.7 million in free services while New York hints at up to 2 million, yet state of finances casts doubt. Legislative limits on public aid loom as the date lines approach. Other items note hunting licenses and a Balmorhea property interest, plus a Balmorhea public budget hearing and Sul Ross University student activity.
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Stanley Friedman
New York
Strauss
Los Angeles
Tom Bradley
Brown
Balmorhea
Jesse Brijalba
Nora Brijalba
Alpine
Sul Ross University
Balmorhea State Park
Women shifts DPS duties via hotline and LIDR system
Ms. Redman demonstrates power by feeding license data into the LIDR computer and quickly confirming a Texas commercial operator license is valid with no restrictions while noting one Reeves County speeding arrest in 1974. She also has direct access to 33 DPS offices and the National Weather Service.
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Ms. Redman
LIDR
Texas
Reeves County
DPS
National Weather Service
Ef] Paso
Big Bend
Brewster County
Death of Gustafson in Pecos area remembered
Services were held for David Gustafson 22 at 2 p.m. in Pecos after injuries from a Denver auto crash. Born January 27 1953 in Casa Grande Arizona he was a veteran and First Christian Church member with survivors including parents two brothers a sister and a grandmother. Burglars pried open a rear window at Dan s Record Shop taking about 150 in change and damaged pinball machines and a pool table.
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Denver
Colo
Gustafson
Saint Anthony Hospital
Casa Grande
Ariz
Pecos
First Christian Church
Harold Gustafson
Johnson St
Roger
Edwin Gustafson
Mountain View
Wyo
Sandra Keen
Alamogordo
N.M
Nancy Randall
Dan
S. Cedar St
Ron Ethridge Named Service Manager in Pecos Office
Continental Telephone of Texas announces Ron Ethridge as Pecos service manager effective Aug 4. He arrives from Dallas after two years with Continental, with prior stints in Andrews and Dallas. Formerly with Southern California Edison, he moves with his wife and one son to the Hackberry and Lincoln streets residence. He notes the street name confusion with other Rons in Pecos.
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Continental Telephone of Texas
Ron Ethridge
Pecos
Ron McReynolds
Continental Ofice
Fairfield
Ethridge
Dallas
Continental
Andrews
Southern California Edison Power Company
Los Angeles
Calif
Hackberry
Lincoln Streets
Ron
Pecos calendar lists clubs and services for Thursday
Morning Optimists meet at 6 30 a m at the Ramada Inn Rotary Club gathers at the Holiday Inn at noon Pecos Neighborhood Council and a Girl Scout leaders conference at 1 p m at the Girl Scout Hut 715 S Park St Alcoholics Anonymous meets at 8 p m at 125 S Oak St upstairs Lions Club and Amistad Lions Club hold meetings at 7 30 p m TOPS Club at the senior center 6 p m Social Security rep at Community Action office 902 E 10th St 11 a m to 12 noon comments discuss Pecos office problems and toll stations out of order at 80 of 120 sites owned by Southwestern Bell with no major staffing changes planned and hopes for improved service
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Ramada Inn
Rotary Club
Holiday Inn
Pecos
Girl Scout Leaders Conference
Girl Scout
S. Park St
Tops Club
E. 10Th St
Senior Citizen's Center
Social Security
Ethridge
Southwestern Bell
Payroll Savings Plan ad invites men to save with colleagues
An old fashioned recruitment style ad appeals to men to join a payroll savings plan. It promises social bonding with coworkers and a “nice, strong shoulder to lean on,” claiming mothers would approve the scheme and citing savings set aside from paychecks.
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George
U.S
Payroll Savings
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