Pecos chosen for West Texas Trailriders Fourth of July ride
Melton Rasberry, president of Pecos based Pecos Trailriders, announced Pecos will host the annual West Texas Trailriders trek for the Fourth of July Rodeo. The four day ride ends with a town welcome and a parade, dance and Mexican supper. The group will begin in Marfa June 9 and travel via Fort Davis Balmorhea to Pecos, where they receive the city keys and join the rodeo festivities.
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West Texas
Trailriders
Pecos
Melton Rasberry
Fort Stockton
Marfa
Fort Davis
Balmorhea State Park
Hoban Gin
Sheriff's Posse
Remodeled Continental Trailways Station Opens in Pecos
Continental Trailways and Pecos officials joined Chamber of Commerce directors for a grand opening of the remodeled Pecos Trailways station. Fred Dominguez, manager, led the station with Danny Low noting it is the first between Dallas and El Paso to be extensively remodeled. Continental officials on a 1975 Eagle Silver Eagle bus from Brownsville included Low, Ken Millsap, Jay Henson, and Glenn Martin. Pecos elementary students toured the bus as Continental runs 12 daily schedules through Pecos on east and west routes.
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Chamber of Commerce
Continental Trailways
Kristi Kesey
Pecos
Pecos Station
Trailways
Fred Dominguez
Dallas
el Paso
Danny Low
Brownsville
Continental Officials
Ken Millsap
Jay Henson
Express
Glenn Martin
Continental
Dominguez
Que Paso Que Paso cookoff prize grows and trip to San Antonio teased
Que Paso contest winner may travel expense paid to San Antonio to represent Pecos in the October menudo extravaganza. Catholic War Veterans add 25 dollars to prize pool. First place 27 dollars, second 18 dollars, third 10 dollars plus a plaque from Fonville Jewelers. Event at Ben's Spanish Inn at 7 p.m. Saturday with free samples and judging. The column also notes dining spots in Ruidoso and El Paso and a light anecdote about Rev Ray Powell and a coffee clutch prank with number 41.
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Terry Burns
San Antonio Chamber of Commerce
San Antonio
Pecos
Fonville Jewelers
Ben's
Reeves County group to discuss learning disabilities
The Reeves County Association of Children With Learning Disabilities will meet at 7 30 p m Thursday in the community center banquet room. A film Why Billy Can t Learn will explain reading writing math and related tasks. Plans were announced to sell I D tags next week through schools and to all in the community with Mrs Ed Robinson chairing.
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Reeves County Association of Children With Learning Disabilities
Billy
Ed Robinson
Pecos 4-H Open Horse Club Plans Meeting
Adults interested in the Pecos 4-H Open Horse Club will meet at 8 p.m. Friday in the community center for an organizational meeting to get horse shows and play days rolling. Club spokesman John Lewis urged all adults with children in the program to attend without fail.
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Pecos
John Lewis
Two Is a Crowd in Falls Burglar Case
In WHICHTA FALLS AP report a 7th District Court defendant Mike Cherry described breaking into a building and freeing a companion stuck in a 9 by 12 inch window. He pleaded guilty and received a three year probated sentence.
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Whichta Falls
7&Th
Mike Cherry
Stanley Kirk
End of second quarter signals short Pecos school break
Friday closes the second quarter for Pecos Barstow Toyah schools. High school exams occur Thursday and Friday, followed by a Monday holiday for students while teachers finish records. A Southern Assembly program featuring Phil Martel and Tiki is set for 2 p.m. Friday.
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Pecos-Barstow- Toyah
Phil Martel
Tiki
Martel
Dollar sinks as oil nations seek new oil pricing
In Vienna ministers from oil exporting states discuss proposals to exclude the dollar from oil trading. Iran hints at tying oil price to IMF SDRs while Kuwait and others push varied approaches. SDRs need value across 16 currencies. Baghdad. A collision on W Second St and a truck fire near IH 20 are minor side notes.
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Vienna
Austria
U.S
Amsterdam
Brussels
Paris
Frankfurt
W. Second St
Armando Alba
S. Eddy St
Esteban Matta
Matta
Alba Auta
Jamshid Amouzegar
International Monetary Fund
Amouzegar
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Absentee voting starts for 3.5 million county hospital bond
County clerk Catherine Ashley announces absentee voting for the proposed 3.5 million hospital bond begins Monday and runs to 5 p.m. March 18. Mail-in ballot applications are accepted in Ashley’s Reeves County courthouse office, and ballots will be mailed March 3.
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Catherine Ashley
Ashley
Reeves County
Pecos-Barstow-Toyah LVN program opens for August
Pecos-Barstow-Toyah schools invite applications for a year long licensed vocational nurse program in adult education. Eight students will be admitted after May pre entrance testing and June selection. Eligibility requires a high school diploma or GED. Tuition covers costs. equipment needed. training in hospitals and nursing homes under supervision.
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Pecos-Barstow-Toyah
Jimmy Davee
State Licensing Board
Davee
Texans enjoy clearing skies after icy storm battering five states
Cool dry air sweeped across Texas as a recent ice and snow blast affected five states. Highs reached 71 in places with 30s and 40s elsewhere and Marfa dropped to 19. Snow from the Great Lakes to the Tennessee Valley lingered over the upper Midwest while flooding risks rose in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys.
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Associated Press
Texas Panhandle
Marfa
Texas
Galveston
Great Lakes
Tennessee Valley
Mississippi Valley
Er Service
Ohio Valley
Arkansas
Missouri
Black River
Black Rock
Pennsylvania
Ernest Kline
Atlantic
Plains
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Boy Wonder
Woolworth Coffee
Powell
Paul Randolph
RCLD
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Robert Morriss
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Iraq
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