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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1980
Page
2
Pecos Schools posted weekly breakfast and lunch menus from January 14 to January 18. Breakfast offerings include oatmeal, pancakes, bacon, cereal, and eggs with sides. lunches feature spaghetti, Salisbury steak, tacos, burgers, and fish sticks with various sides and desserts. All menus subject to last minute change.
United States equities rose in heavy trading after a labor report showed December unemployment at 5.9 percent, little change from November, while wholesale prices increased 8 percent. The Dow advanced about 3 points to around 862, led by metals and grain stocks as market breadth stayed positive.
Canada operates as a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system and a federal structure. The head of state is Queen Elizabeth, represented domestically by a governor general appointed on the prime minister’s advice.
Balmorhea residents host guests as Gary Harrison and Bo Cook visit from California while Ethel Jacobsen of Alpine entertains the Monday bridge club at Amy McIntire’s Toyahvale home. Players include Libba Hedrick Martha Moore Sharon Harrison Jan Lopez Sadie Kingston and Louise Adams with high and low scores noted and a bingo prize awarded. Walter McElroy moves his Balmorhea house to Fort Davis this week.
A new panel of petit jurors is to report Monday at 10 a.m. to the County Court at Law in Reeves County. The list includes numerous Pecos and Balmorhea addresses with jurors such as Domingo Galindo, Martin Machuea, James Preslar, Mable Wise, Andrea Harris, Jo Ann Wein, Ofelia Gomez, Benny Arreguy, J B Jennings, Glenda Miller, Estella Hopkins, Baltazar Dutchover, and many others, reflecting broad local participation.
A national uranium resource evaluation survey will sample groundwater and stream sediments in Culberson Hudspeth Jeff Davis and Presidio counties in Texas. Union Carbide Nuclear Division conducts the work for the Department of Energy to map uranium occurrences nationwide by 1988. In a separate note American exports more than tripled 1968 to 1977 but share of world trade fell to 11.7 percent.
Pecos hosts the Region 6 3A All Region Band with students from Pecos High School Monahans Andrews Ft Stockton Odessa Ector San Angelo Lakeview and Midland Freshman schools. Har ris Brinson of Angelo State University leads as clinician. rehearsals today Friday and Saturday 9 am to noon and 1 30 to 4 pm at Pecos High School band hall. The Saturday 7 0 concert at Pecos High School Auditorium. No admission charge for any activity. Pecos students in the band include Cynthia Montgomery Monty Miller Jeff Love lace Ken Winkles Sammy Martinez Norma Rum baugh and Prissy Cobos with Lydia Cabral as alternates.
North Texas sees partly cloudy today becoming clear at night and Saturday with cooler conditions especially west and central. Highs range from 54 to 70 with lows in the 30s and Saturday highs near 56 to 62. South Texas expects partly cloudy skies, windy and colder tonight, then partly cloudy Saturday with Hill Country highs in the 60s to upper 70s and lows in the 40s. Saturday highs 50s north to 60s elsewhere.
A reader thanks the Pecos Police Department for checking her home during Christmas. She notes the house was found in excellent order and expresses gratitude for a police force attentive to Pecos needs.
January 1 1980 calendar lists weekly meetings across Pecos area organizations. Lions clubs Rotary Jaycees BPW TOPS and other groups meet at locations including American Inn Holiday Inn Barstow and Hickory Housing Center with times from morning quilting to evening sessions. Also notes senior center activities and local sewing and art clubs with recurring second and fourth Monday or Tuesday schedules.
The Report FIRE notes a brush fire six miles south on Highway 17 reported at 1 58 p m and Pecos Ambulance Service dispatched at 7 27 a m to transfer a patient to Odessa. Gene Cone reports his back license plate missing from a 1978 Ford pickup parked at Ropers Motel or residence. Francis Perez Garcia reports windshield damage to a 1976 Pontiac Grand Prix and a 1964 Chevrolet, with estimated $400 loss from a BB air rifle while parked in a carport.
The Sheriff's Office arrested one juvenile and a 23 year old resident of Saragoosa for burglary at the Billy Moore residence in Balmorhea after a theft Monday involving several doors and gates. A cassette recorder and unspecified cash were missing from 1005 E Eleventh Apartment B. the recorder was recovered.
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