Good News Club reports 17 present in Barstow
Barstow Good News Club met Wednesday afternoon at the community center. There were 17 children present. Ruth Hallard presented the memory work, Lidia Garcia led devotion and singing, Maud Witt played piano, and Margie Knowles prepared the bible story. J.C. Singers gathered later with Rebecca Garcia as song leader and Chelle Cotton at piano. Jesusita Ramos returns home from Ward County Memorial Hospital in Monahans.
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Barstow
Good News Club
Ruth Hallard
Lidia Garcia
Maud Witt
Margie Knowles
J.C. Singers
Rebecca Garcia
Chelle Cotton
Visitors in Barstow Share News and Family Visits
Barstow brief notes tell of Garcia and Garza families hosting relatives from San Angelo Odessa and El Paso while others including John Spence a paratrooper home from Fort Bragg North Carolina and friends from Los Angeles California visit kin in the area. Local students and wedding attendance noted with brief travels and returns.
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Joe M. Garcia
Fermin Garza
San Angelo
Lencho Polanco
Odessa
Gloria
Noami
Garcias
John Spence
Richard
John
Fort Brad
North Carolina
Robert Dutchover
Trudy
Pomona
Calif
Inlaw
Luis Abila
Dutchover
Texas
Pete Renteria
Los Angeles
Market mixed after early fall on recession concerns
Stocks declined slightly in New York trading with the Dow down to 634.23 by noon as investors weighed recession fears and a softer energy outlook. Gains lagged losses on the NYSE while bonds hints hinted at lower rates, and cotton and gold markets showed modest moves.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
American Home Products
American Stock Exchange
NYSE
Great Basins Petroleum
Amex
Fort Worth
Tex
Associated Press
London
Frankfurt
Zurich
Handy & Harmon
Sanitation Board Approves More Three Yard Containers
City council authorized 32 additional three yard trash containers at 192.50 dollars each and asked City Manager J J Maxey to seek a contract price on five more truckloads for future delivery. Delivery in 10 days. Purchases paid from revenue sharing funds to avoid tax money use.
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J.J. Maxey
Maxey
Dogs Patrol Night Grounds At Stonar Girls School
Guard dogs patrol the grounds at night at Stonar Girls School in Worth England where annual fees are 923 pounds. Arthur Bateman, chairman of the school governors, says the dogs are part of a chastity patrol following reports of male prowlers near the campus amid police shortages.
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Worth
England
Stonar Girls’ School
Arthur Bateman
City council approves two police patrolmen and new city hires
The Pecos city council approved Armando Gil and Robert Rains Jr as patrolmen and added Joe Luis Chavez and Santiago Turin to garage and sanitation crews while terminating Rodney Williams and Mary Evans. Gil, a humane officer, will become patrolman on Jan 16, and Rains arrives from New Mexico as an accredited officer. A new policy bans overtime pay for city supervisors. The council also reported Day Care Center plans approved by the department.
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Armando Gil
Robert Rains Jr
Gil
Rains
Rain
Pecos
New Mexico
Joe Luis Chavez
Santiago Turin
Rodney Williams
Mary Evans
Coun
Cilmen
Barbs On Executives And The Housing Bid Process
A discussion notes many executives prize image and mentions HUD in Washington with bids now advertised. The report states construction contracts for the facility should be let in February. A routine $2,000 Presidio school bonds lease and monthly report approvals were also handled.
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Washington
Ford weighs more aid to South Vietnam amid Khmer Rouge crimes
The Ford administration said it is considering supplemental military aid to South Vietnam after the Phuoc Long fall, with a planned 300 million proposal to restore cuts. Congress had reduced authorizations, while Cambodia aid faced a 200 million ceiling and 47 million in equipment.
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Washington
Ford Administration
Thieu
State Department
Robert Anderson
Ford
U.S
Phuoc Long Province
South Vietnam
Congress
Cambodia
Ing
Defense Department
Phuoc Long
Saigon
White's 16th district holds its own amid recession
Congressman Richard White said Texas 16th District remains strong while nation suffers recession. He highlights a six point Democratic program led by Jim Wright to curb inflation, tax reform, lower prime rates, savers incentives, public works funding, energy alternatives, and anti trust review. Also notes a 685 inning softball game by New Jersey team in 1974 ending Labor Day for Muscular Dystrophy fundraiser.
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Richard White
Enterprise Today
16Th
White
Jim Wright
Fort Worth
New Jersey
Russell Family Expands Noted Art World Presence
Mrs. Russell steers a family art heritage as Jim Jeane and Marion gain recognition. Minutes slip by before a painting session ends, signaling a moment of tension yet reinforcing the Russells' growing reputation in the art scene.
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Russells
Marion
Jeane
Jim
West Texas
Oil Theft At Boxcar Sparks Reeves County Inquiry
Reeves County sheriff's officers seek about 60 cases of motor oil missing from a boxcar at a local siding. Investigation under sheriff's office direction. A separate report notes over $600 in entertainment appliances were stolen from a Pecos residence on Wednesday. Pablo Montoya reported a television set valued at $345 and a tape deck with speakers worth $299 were taken while the family attended a movie.
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Reeves County
Pecos
Pablo Montoya
S. Oak St
Social Vespula pensylvanica Builds Communal Nests
The Vespula pensylvanica is a social wasp that forms colonies unlike solitary species. It belongs to the paper-building group of wasps and hornets and constructs communal nests from chewed wood pulp mixed with saliva.
Community club and meeting notices for week
Listings show Alcoholics Anonymous meetings at 212 S Oak and other groups across town. Events include Country Music Jamboree at the community center, Merry Home and Garden Club, Weight Watchers, Arts and Crafts at Senior Citizen Center, Lions Clubs, Al Anon, TOPS, Downtown Lions at Holiday Inn, and Rotary Club at noon each weekday.
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Alcoholics Anonymous
S. Oak
Merry Home and Garden Club
Charles Dyer
Adams
Community Center
Lions Club
American Motor Inn
Amistad Lions Club
Lions den
Al-Anon
Tops Club
E. 10Th St
Senior Citizen's Center
Holiday Inn
Rotary Club
Unseasonable Warmth Breaks as Storm Edges East
Wintry conditions spread from California through Washington with a developing storm. Sharply colder temperatures settled in behind it while rain splashed the Eastern Seaboard and inland into the Appalachians. Fog thickened in the South before daybreak and fair weather remained scarce. Skies cleared on parts of the Pacific Coast and in areas from Texas to Tennessee. Overnight lows stayed in the 40s in the eastern third, reaching New York and Pennsylvania.
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California
Washington
Seaboard
Appalachians
Pacific Coast
Texas
Tennessee
New York
Pennsylvania
Camouflage in War Times Emerges as Tactic
Camouflage is used in warfare to disguise objects and help them blend with surroundings. Scientific camouflage developed during World War I with the French creating elaborate devices to conceal military objectives and industrial plants.
Pecos Enterprise Local Staff and Pricing Notice
PECOS enterprise staff directory and publishing details outline editors reporters and department heads. It lists circulation and advertising managers, office and mail delivery areas, rates for local Reeves Ward and Loving counties and distant counties, and AP membership rights for republication.
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Reeves
Ward
Loving
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el Paso
Taylor Hospital
Emilio Lopez
Linda
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Placido Gamboa
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Jerry
Tinka) Anderson
Baby
Wichita Falls
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Forrest Walker
David Melendez
Robert Melendez
Louis Abila
Louis
Crockett Junior High School
Salvador Rodriguez
David Rodriguez
Ernie Felts
Angelo State University
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Borden
Brit. Pet
Cat Trac
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Marcor
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Texaco
US Steel
Sanitation Department
By Phil Pastoret
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Phnom Penh
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Bill Bagley
David Dunn
Pecos Enterprise
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Cedar St. Pecos
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Peggy McCracken
Lynn Webb
Becky Rivera
Diane Osborn
Mary Shute
Ruben Baca
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