Pecos High Students Excel in Area I DE Contest
Two Pecos High School students placed at the Area I Distributive Education event in Odessa. Bill Painter earned runner up in Job Interview and Denise Royal took second alternate in Window Display. Their DE teacher Mike Hartman will accompany them to the state contest in San Antonio on March 25 as voting delegates. Eleven Pecos students attended the Area I contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pecos High School
Odessa
Bill Painter
Denise Royal
Pecos High
Bill
Denise
San Antonio
Mike Hartman
Pecos
Cookie Sale by Girl Scouts Sets February Dates
Girl Scouts across the 16 county Permian Basin Council will start selling five cookie varieties on February 11, labeled Cookie Day, with sales running through February 18. Troops earn a 10 cent commission per box with proceeds funding council properties, camps, equipment, and camperships. Cookies are baked by Southern Biscuit Company of Richmond Virginia and sold in family sized boxes for $1 each.
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Permian Basin Council
Southern Biscuit Company
Richmond
Virginia
Council
Family Dinner Skillet Meat Patties and Turnipotato Veggies
Mrs Louise Lauda shares a skillet meal using turnips potatoes bacon and bacon drippings. Turnip and potato boil until tender then mash with food mill. Stir in drippings and crumbled bacon for 3 cups yielding 4 to 6 servings.
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Louise Lauda
Family Page Photo Appointments Taken In Evening
Appointments are available starting at 3 30 p m for family page photographs. To schedule call Peggy Mc Cracken at 4455475 and leave name time place and subject for the picture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tip Chesney
Peggy McCracken
Long Beach Injects Water to Halt Land Sinking
Water is poured on troubled oil at Long Beach California to curb land subsidence from offshore wells. By replacing oil with water the sinking can be stopped and additional oil recovered to justify the operation financially.
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Long Beach
Calif
Clayton Cagle wedding in West Park Baptist Church
Cheryl Lynn Clayton and Michael Lynn Cagle wed in a family ceremony at the West Park Baptist Church Parsonage with Rev. L A Pattillo officiating. The couple will reside at 405 South Willow in Pecos after a wedding trip to Odessa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheryl Lynn Clayton
Michael Lynn Cagle
Cheryl Clayton
West Park Baptist Church Parsonage
George Clayton
Mentone
George Clay
Will Ed Cagle
Monahans
L.A. Pattillo
Jim Clayton
Odessa
South Willow
Pecos
Billy Blair
Steve
Karen
Jack London
Fort Stockton
Ricky Cagle
Cotton Crusaders Meet In Pecos To Plan Extravaganza
The Cotton Crusaders in Pecos Texas announce a first meeting of the year on Thursday February 10 at 10 am in the Reddy Room of Community Public Service Company on Stafford Blvd. Topics include a Pecos Cotton Extravaganza in early March and promotion of cotton products with a film from COTTON INC. sponsors urge attendance and discuss the Cotton Wives network across the Cotton Belt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cotton Crusaders
Reddy
Community Public Service Company
Stafford Blvd
The
Crusaders
Cotton, Inc
Dallas
Cotton Belt
Tips for cleaning oak furniture and attic moisture issue
Kerosene can remove heavy soil from oak furniture with caution due to flammability. Alternative washes include hot water with boiled linseed oil and turpentine or green soap solution. Attic ice forms from outdoor temperature drops. ensure proper vent area and insulation, close attic door, and seal surfaces. Also paint guidance for concrete showers and notes on Texas A&M and North Texas State graduates.
Vicki Woods Finalist in Voice of Democracy Contest
Vicki Kay Woods of Pecos High School is named a finalist in the State VFW Voice of Democracy Script-writing contest. Finalists include Veronica Prochazka El Campo High, Don Jackson Lubbock Roosevelt, Jane Elizabeth Cigarroa Laredo Nixon, and Gerald Wayne Krenek Houston Milby. The event accompanies the Mid-Winter Round Up in San Antonio February 11 to 13 with a banquet on February 12 awarding $2,500 in scholarships.
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Austin
Wilson E. Speir
Texas Department of Public Safety
Department of Texas
Veterans of Foreign Wars of
U.S
San Antonio
VFW
San Antonio Sheraton Motor Inn
Voice of Democracy
Vicki Kay Woods
Pecos High
Pecos
Veronica Prochazka
el Campo
Don Jackson
Roosevelt High School
Lubbock
Jane Elizabeth Cigarroa
J.W. Nixon
Laredo
Ger
Polly's Pointers Homemaking Tips and Household Fixes
A collage of reader questions and tips from the Polly column. Ideas include a tarpaulin sled for yard debris, jewelry cleaning queries, soap residue etiquette, cat odor remedies for rugs, a Styrofoam wig head to organize spools, and sewing elastic updates for shorts.
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Polly
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Bill Calloway
Forrest Bowers
S. L. Hourigan
Bobby Bell
Webb Armstrong
Chester White
Floyd White
Susie Clayton
Jerry Don Cagle
Zaragosa Enlists
Marine Corps
Ruben Zaragosa
Julio Zaragosa
S. Pecan St
U. S. Marine Corps
Zaragosa
Marine Corps Recruit Depot
San Diego
Ruben
Dora Muniz
Orange St
Family News
Roger Holley
Leroy Holley
Veterans Blvd
Walter F. Zortman
USS
Newport News
Roger
Navy
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Vietnam
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Pecos Texas
Rejen
Hingel
By Kathleen Robertson
Cotton
USA
Crusader
Cotton Inc
Cotton Wives
Copley News Service
P. O. Box
Charles H. Lee
Texas A&m University
Robert A. Lacey
Texas A&m
Lee
Cecil J. Lee
S. Palm
Denton
Mary Cravens
North Texas State University
NTSU
Cravens
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Ald Wayne Krenek
Milby High School
Houston
James W. Cothran
Bishopville
S.C
Frances Harmey
Omaha
Nebraska
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Kansas City
Missouri
Ted C. Connell
Killeen
Texas
Mel Stanley
San Angelo
Ylovia Williams
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