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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1979
Page
5
Ann Landers recounts progress in vasectomy reversal via microsurgery led by Dr. Herman J. Silber of St. Louis. Reversed cases now show at least 90 percent success with brief hospital stay and strict recovery rules. The column also includes reader letters about a coach and weight loss, ending with notes on civic sentiment.
The Permian Basin Girl Scout Council held its annual meeting at the Holiday Inn in Pecos on Feb 24 with delegates from 16 counties. Outgoing officers were honored and Rev. Robert Zap was elected president for three years. The gathering also announced outstanding senior scout Helen Mary Jordan of Andrews and outstanding adult Ken Steward of Midland.
Dear Old Timer recalls liquid brown sugar and coconut candy pyramids. A 50 year old recipe inspires updated haystack candies made with toasted coconut, dark brown sugar, honey and cream baked into pyramids, then cooled and stored.
The New York maple syrup industry, valued around 3.5 million dollars, modernizes with plastic tubing replacing buckets and streamlined sap collection. Earl R. Parker, a top producer, uses 20 miles of tubing for 10,000 taps and cut staff due to mechanized flow. Vermont and New York together yield 62 percent of U S production. The piece notes cost efficiencies from shift to tubing, gravity-fed collection, and fuel oil fueling sugar shacks. The column also includes Erma Bombeck humor about luggage costs and tipping at airports. The Chicago Museum of Science and Industry reports 4,126,430 visitors in 1978, its second highest annual attendance.
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