Youth volunteers aid Pecos elderly via new project
Mary Mitchell, a worker representative with the Texas Department of Human Resources, announces a Pecos youth project where about 70 high school students will help the elderly. They will run errands, transport to stores, tutor disadvantaged children, and babysit while mothers shop. Six students currently visit daily. teens volunteer beyond school and jobs. Contact Leta Scott at 445-5487 to volunteer.
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Betty Daniels
Mary Mitchell
Texas Department of Human Resources
Pecos
Ms. Mitchell
Mitchell
Jesse Fulcher
Greg Mitchell
Kaye Bolinger
Robert Hinojos
Fines and probation set for aiding aliens in Pecos court
Nine defendants including two U.S. citizens and seven Mexican nationals were convicted in U.S. Magistrate J.M. Preston’s Pecos court of misdemeanor INS violations. Joaquin Cruz Rodriguez received 500 dollars in fines and one year unsupervised probation with six months’ imprisonment suspended. Others faced varying fines and sentences, with some defendants previously convicted of other offenses or making false citizenship claims.
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United States
U.S
J.M. Preston
Pecos
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Joaquin Cruz Rodriguez
Lubbock
Jesus Hernandez-Lopez
Garden City
Kan
Juan Hernandez- Lopez
Aurelio Guerra-Garcia
Noel Guerra-Lerma
Flavio Villegas-Romero
Jose H. Tercero-Ruiz
Oscar Mendoza-Morales
Efrain Morales-Rodriguez
Guerra-Lerma
Villegas Romero
Tercero-Ruiz
Mendoza-Morales
Mexico
Morales-Rodriguez
Stocks Rise as Market Rally Gathers Steam
New York trading showed a continued rally with the Dow up 7.28 to 832.12 at midday. The NYSE composite advanced 0.42 to 55.46 while the American Exchange value index rose 1.06 to 161.77 and cotton and grain futures traded lower or mixed.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
NYSE
American Stock Exchange
Chicago
New York Cotton Exchange
DOW Jones
Pecos and Barstow Boxers Win Golden Gloves Trophies
Pecos and Barstow competitors star in Odessa Golden Gloves events sponsored by the Evening Optimist Club. Pecos victors include Jamie Garcia Dan Levario Andy Matta and David Dominguez who earned Best Fighter honors. The Open Division produced winners moving on to Fort Worth.
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Pecos
Barstow
Evening Optimist Club
Odessa
Jamie Garcia
Barry Scarborough
Danny Salcido
Nicky Moore
Woodson Hills Club
David Dominguez
Lalo Acosta
Fort Stockton
Manual Avila
George Mason
Rueben Abila
Arthur Powell
Fort Worth
Dan Levario
Joe Cortez
Andy Matta
Roger Gonzales
Andrews
Cheto Ramos
Abel Matta
Madame Butterfly cast by Big Bend Orchestra in Alpine
Madame Butterfly will be staged by the Big Bend Chamber Orchestra on March 4 with ALPINE soprano Ann Cooper in the title role. Cooper, formerly with the Canadian Opera Company, has sung Mimi, Violetta, Despina, and The Forrest Bird and has appeared with the Atlantic Symphony, Calgary Centenary Festival, El Paso Pro-Musica, and the Big Bend Orchestra. Dr. Rex Wilson, Sul Ross State University choral director, sings Pinkerton and has performed Rodolfo and other musical works.
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Ann Cooper
Canadian Opera Co
Big Bend Chamber Orchestra
Errol Gay
Miss Cooper
Mimi
Calgary
el Paso Pro-Musica
Pinkerton
Rex Wilson
Sul Ross State University
Wilson
Rodolpho
Gianni Schicchi
Smiley
Calaveras County
SHARPLESS, U.S. Counsul to Be Sung in Austin College Program
Bruce Linkley will sing Sharpless in a department of music program with Suzuki’s servant Butterfly sung by Barbara Carey. Ismael Salcido, 37, services held. born 1941 in Pecos, survived by wife Leanora and family. Francisca de la Rosa Flores, 78, dies in Monahans after 1926 Pecos residence. interments planned at Barstow Cemetery. The program lists Dr. Raymond Wheat as retiring SASU Spanish Department chair and features Joanna Cowell, Mrs. Penny Hardaway, Stephen John, and chorus members in roles from Butterfly and family settings.
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Sharpless
U.S
Suzuki
Butterfly
Barbara Carey
Stanford University
Carlsbad
New Mex
Ismail Salcido
Santa Rosa
Francisco de la Rosa Flores
Francisca de la Rosa Flores
Ward Memorial Hospital
Monahans
Barstow Catholic Church
Barstow
Rosary
Flores
Pecos
Ignacio
Isabel
Tomas
Felipe
Abram
Efrin Rodriguez
Francisco Ysalde
Gonzales B. Madrid
Odessa
Linda Rodriguez
Charleston
S.C
Raymond Wheat
SASU
Kate Pinkerton
Joanna Cowell
Penny Hardaway
Stephen John
Austin Elementary PTA Thanks High School Trades Class
The Austin Elementary PTA thanks Cyril Smith and the Electronic and Electrical Trades Class from the high school for designing and building speaker enclosures rewiring for three microphone outlets and fully installing the new sound system cited as a big school advantage by a PTA spokesman.
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Austin Elementary
PTA
Cyril Smith
Electronic and Electrical Trades
Local Fire Calls Reported Across Pecos Area
The Pecos Volunteer Fire Department answered a heater truck fire on an oil lease 15 miles SE of Pecos at 3:15 p.m. No injuries. cab and heater coils destroyed. A house fire at 1300 E Fifth occurred outside city limits at 6:08 p.m. Feb 12. structure damaged. A trash can fire at 415 S Ash was reported at 9:45 p.m. Monday. Police investigated a burglary at Fifth and Locust involving back-door entry, five cases of beer valued at $30, and coins from a coin machine. A California resident received a stop sign citation after a 1971 model car collided with a 1973 model car driven by Inez Odell Watkins, 58, of Pecos. involved Ernest Hucke, 68, of Santee, in the Pinehurst and Country Club Drive crash at 2:55 p.m. Feb 12. A separate citation for improper backing was issued to Jesus Levario Gochicoa, 31, of 119 N Pecan after a collision at 1:07 p.m. Monday in the 100 block of North Pecan, near B Street, between his 1970 car and a 1970 pickup driven by Arturo Salgado Hinojos, 26, of 218 N Walnut.
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Pecos
S. Ash
Fifth and Locust
California
Inez Odell Watkins
Pinehurst
Country Club
Ernest William Hucke
Santee
Jesus Levario Gochicoa
N. Pecan
North Pecan
Arturo Salgado Hinojos
Walnut
Soldier from Balmorhea in REF0RGER 79 exercise
Pvt. Ricardo M. Fuentes of Balmorhea and the First Armored Division in Germany participate in REFORGER 79, a winter strategic mobility exercise demonstrating U S ability to move by air and sea to reinforce NATO rapidly. The operation involves U S units in Germany, allied elements, and National Guard and Reserve units in an area spanning Northern Baden Wuerttemberg and Eastern Bavaria.
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Ricardo M. Fuentes
Mike G. Fuentes
Balmorhea
Germany
U.S
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Baden-Wuerttemberg
Bavaria
Army National Guard
NATO
Fuentes
First Armored Division
Labor force grows twice as fast as population in decade
The Conference Board reports that the number of Americans either working or seeking work has risen at about double the rate of the U.S. population over the past ten years. This indicates improving labor market activity and potential tightening in job availability as the workforce expands more rapidly than the broader population.
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U.S
Conference Board
Junior Play Night In High School Auditorium
Community events listing shows a junior play at the high school auditorium at 8 p.m. Also scheduled at the Senior Citizens Center at 119 S. Cedar are a blood pressure clinic from 9 a.m. to noon, an exercise class at 10 a.m., and a china painting session from 1 to 5 p.m.
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Lions Club
Pecos Inn
Amistad Lions Club
Lions den
Pecos
Saragosa Hall
Pecos AA
Al-Non
S. Oak
Balmorhea
Barstow
S. Cedar
Franklin's
Pecos Jaycees
Senior Citizens Center
Pecos Alcoholics Anonymous
S. Oak St
Balmorhea Woman Named Mental Health Bellringer Chairperson
Marilyn Moore of Balmorhea was named Mental Health Bellringer Chairperson for the May 1979 campaign, announced by Dick Fredrick, president of the Mental Health Association in Texas. The association comprises citizens concerned about mental health issues.
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Marilyn Moore
Balmorhea
Dick Fredrick
Mental Health Association
Texas
Coaches Meeting Calls Youth Basketball Officials
Jim Edwards Pecos community recreation director announced a coaches meeting for all youth basketball at the Community Center on Wednesday Feb 14 at 8 p m. Each team should send a coach or representative to participate and discuss community quality of life issues.
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Jim Edwards
Pecos
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