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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1971
Page
8
Dear Polly offers home hacks from rust removal on old keys to keeping heat out with blinds and awnings. Readers share tips on wrapping packages with tape ready on a roll, using a hair dryer bonnet as a foot warmer, and safer hot dish transport.
Brief history milestones include Jefferson Davis sworn in 1861 in Montgomery Alabama. Notes Luther and Michelangelo deaths, La Salle Texas settlement, Iwo Jima battle start 1945, Ireland prime minister 1948, Cuba Castro blackout ten years prior, Viet Nam union boycott threat, Nixon missile buildup remarks.
The compiled best sellers include fiction titles such as Love Story by Erich Segal Islands in the Stream by Hemingway Rich Man Poor Man by Irving Shaw Passenger to Frankfurt by John O’Hara Christie and nonfiction works The Greening of America by Reich Civilisation by Clark Future Shock by Alvin Toffler Khrushchev Remembers and Inside the Third Reich by Speer.
Mr and Mrs Robert J Breckles and six children relocated from Midland to Barstow occupying the former Garrett home on Mackey Street. Cristopher Breckles celebrates his third birthday February 6. Barstow High School honors list includes Gabriel Ortiz third six weeks and Manuel Hernandez semester honors. Elementary grades list multiple students attaining Honors and Highest Honors across grades one to six, with teachers named.
Betty Canary notes that liberalized children resist parental changes from new furniture to hair color and cars, warning that even small shifts provoke rebellion. She also promotes her book Surviving as a Woman, available by mail for $5.95 with delivery in about three weeks.
Wanda Passmore reports a Crusaders meeting at Kathleen and Herb Robertson’s home with enthusiasm and examples of promotions. Margie Duke and Dixie Burkholder lead preparations for a late March style show with merchant and seamstress cooperation. Mr. Cotton of Pecos Men's Shop highlights 100% cotton sport coats, and Mrs. Slack’s Cottage Shop expands junior cotton lines. Mrs. Tomlin supplies appealing piece goods for cotton lovers, inspiring project ideas.
The Cotton Crus newsletter highlights a positive Spring Summer cotton outlook praising cotton fabrics and retailers like Reecia's Fashions. It thanks merchants for stocking cotton and invites others to share new store offerings. It notes a nominating committee for 1971 72 officers and an upcoming March meeting at Mary and Jimmy Wafer's home.
The daily forecast covers all zodiac signs from Aries to Pisces. It advises discretion for Aries, cautions Taurus on pursuing new ideas, urges Gemini careful evaluation, Cancer resilience, Leo openness to new methods, Virgo enthusiasm with selective activity, Libra generosity for artistry and travel, Scorpio planning, Sagittarius red tape reduction, Capricorn focus and tact, Aquarius steady progress, and Pisces peak ingenuity for assessing new offerings.
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