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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1975
Page
1
Kids specify brands and prices for gifts this Christmas, Santa says. Department store Santas in ten cities report boys requesting Evel Knievel stunt cycles and G I Joe style figures, while girls seek walking and talking dolls and other gadgets including pizza ovens, ten speed bikes, Star Trek kits and walkie talkies.
The Evening Optimists hosted a large menudo contest with judges including Tumbleweed Smith and Marcus Conterras. Catalina Ybarra won with her menude, amid praise for the dish and notes about participation by the Gringos. DP: West Texas Children's Home received Christmas gifts from 87 National Guardsmen at Pyote while 142 children enjoyed the visit, with guardsmen from Pecos and nearby towns. The piece also notes a Barstow senior citizens luncheon Tuesday with Rev. Clark Ford as speaker.
A letter from the Trans Pecos Cotton Association says gas will be available to Reeves County farmers on an individual basis in 1976 though Delhi Gas Pipeline Corp lacks a ready supply. Price set at 1.85 per mcf. farmers must declare 1976 needs for delivery planning.
Pecos city court collected 1865.50 dollars in November from traffic offenses. Speeding led with 495 dollars, followed by 397 dollars for driving without a license. Police logged 108 citations and noted 30 accidents, injuring two people, in the same period.
Pecos residents organize a Tuesday benefit at First United Methodist Church 7 p.m. to aid the Janis Jester fund. The eight year old girl, injured when kicked by a horse, remains in Odessa Medical Center coma. Live entertainment, chips, dips, and a pie toss are planned with proceeds supporting medical expenses. contributions accepted at local banks.
Pecos High School sent 15 band members to region tryouts in Monahans and returned with 10. Four of the 10, Cecile Montgomery, Cookie Painter, Richard Rankin, and Randy Reynolds, will contest at Permian High School Odessa at 4 p.m. for all area spots. Also named to the all region band are April Ng, Kim Hawkins, Kim Allen, Keith Hall, Victor Montgomery, and Lorenzo Guzman.
Football booster club members will meet at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Eagle fieldhouse to decide on the type of annual banquet and fundraising projects for the next year. President Jimmy Embers will determine whether to hold a football banquet or a spring picnic, and all members are urged to attend.
Catalina Ybarra of Pecos won first place over 11 contestants in Saragosa Hall for the Que Faso Menudo Contest sponsored by the Evening Optimists and John Paul Pitts. She earned a plaque, 100 dollars, and a berth to represent Pecos at the World Champion Menudo Cookoff in San Antonio in 1976.
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