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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1970
Page
7
A state health department bulletin warns holiday decorating can pose serious risks. Mistletoe tea fatality cited, holly berries toxic, tree fluids and gas propellants dangerous, toys banned by FDA list, cedar allergies and fire hazards loom. Plan in advance for a safe Christmas season.
The Cash-Box Magazine nationwide survey lists the top ten records with hits from The Tears Of A Clown by Robinson & Miracles to To Be There by Jackson Five. Other entries include I Think I Love You by the Partridge Family and My Sweet Lord by Harrison.
Fiction titles include Love Story Segal Island In The Stream Hemingway Rich Man Poor Man Shaw God Is An Englishman Delderfield The Crystal Cave Stewart. Nonfiction lists The Sensuous Woman J Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex Reuben Inside The Third Reich Speer A White House Diary Johnson The Greening of America Reich.
The Museum of the Southwest in Midland Texas hosts Contemporary Ceramics and Lithographs featuring Texas Tech students under Steve Reynolds and lithographs by Bruce Lowney. The exhibit runs through December 30 with public hours Tuesday to Saturday 10 am to 5 pm and Sundays 2 to 5 pm, admission free.
Reader asks how to handle children who won t clean bedrooms amid conflicting tips. The writer suggests a mix of tactics from closing doors and ultimatums to humor and direct involvement, favoring a “closed-door” approach and occasional self-cleaning when needed. Betty Canary promotes practical methods and notes her new book Surviving as a Woman available by mail order.
Barstow enjoys Christmas lights donated from Pecos last year and installed by Ward County official H A Cob lins. The Senior 4 H Club held its December meeting led by President Pablo Navarette with eight members present. Guest speaker Ward County Treasurer Goldie Childs explained tax money use. Members noted upcoming Food Show Riflery sessions and monthly Public Speaking. Officers will meet soon as demonstrations for the County Meet were discussed. Attendees included Pablo Navarette Adolpho Muniz Mary Lou Palomino Higinio Garcia Robert Palomino Daniel Hughes Armando Rivas and leader Mrs Barney Lu Ryan. The closing prayer was by Adolph Muniz.
New York AP notes threefold higher risk of night driving than day driving with a fatality rate of 6.3 per 100 million vehicle miles versus 2.3. The Street and Highway Safety Lighting Bureau urges careful driving on well lighted roads and supports community street lighting improvements during the dark winter nights.
The Agriculture Department pegs the 1970 cotton crop at 10,270,100 bales, up 2.6 percent from 1969 but 1.5 percent below November forecast. Texas is listed at 3,247,000 bales. Yield per acre is 411 pounds, down from prior months.
Dear Polly offers tips to wrap gifts with spray paint on boxes in gold silver or white and finished with ribbons. A Christmas quickie suggests a felt green tree on a plastic pie keeper lid with a taped removable lid and a spray painted thread spool as a trunk filled with candies or cookies for a thoughtful remembrance.
Readers share home improvement notes and money saving ideas. Polly answers on refinishing floor registers and cleaning a smoky fireplace front while others describe kid saving boxes and a sister crafted Christmas gift album for grandmother.
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