Canal Show Draws town to Smoke Screen Vista
The town witnesses a dramatic canal event as mist and heat create a rising smoke screen along Main Street. Warmer days return after sleet and icy roads, while locals report temperature fluctuations from 20s to low 40s and comment on clothing choices. The Balmorhea area hosts lamb judging, hogs, a barbecue, pecan orchards, and a Mexican dinner at the Catholic Center as part of community activities.
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Main Street
Jack Kingston
Davis Wright
Ruidosa
Rio Grande
Richard Powell
Alpine
John Barfield
Balmorhea District Games With Local Pipe Project
Balmorhea hosts six district games with four at home beginning at 6 p.m. Fort Davis visits Balmorhea after the Bears opened district play Tuesday night. Mrs. Cora Moody and her son Danny with David Whitehurst of Pecos vacationed in Balmorhea and fished Balmorhea Lake while friends were visited.
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Cora Moody
Danny
David Whitehurst
Pecos
Balmorhea
Balmorhea Lake
Cora
Bears
Fort Davis
Ft. Davis
Park Ranger Frank Bell to Exhibit Big Bend Photo Essay
Park ranger Frank Bell, of Big Bend National Park, will have a photo essay titled Moods of the Big Bend on display at Sul Ross State University Museum of the Big Bend. The exhibit opens at 2 p.m. January 30 and runs through February 27, featuring images Bell captured during remote Big Bend hikes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Bend
Sul Ross State University
Museum of the Big Bend
Frank Bell
Big Bend National Park
Ken Perry
Bell
National Park Ranger
Mount Rainier National Park
Washington
Amistad Bass Outlook Brightens For 1977 Fishing
West Texas anglers report improving largemouth catches at Amistad Reservoir as larger bass begin to show up alongside steady small fish. Florida bass stocking and striped bass hybrids spark optimism, with eight to 15 foot points and 35 to 40 foot jigging producing quality fish amid variable winter weather.
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Amistad
Texas-Mexico
Rio Grande
del Rio
West Texas
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Florida
Texas Parks and Wildlife Fisheries
Texas
Civil rights leaders stall Griffin Bell's attorney general nomination
Civil rights leaders plan a final push to block President elect Carter's pick Griffin Bell for attorney general. The NAACP plans testimony from Jesse Jackson Aaron Henry and black parents who sued to desegregate schools, while other cabinet nominees near approval.
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Griffin Bell
Washington
Ter
NAACP
Clarence Mitchell
Jesse Jackson
Operation Push
People United To Save Humanity
Aaron Henry
Mississippi Naacp
Atlanta
Austin
Tex
Corpus Christi
Noon market report shows slight gains and inflation concerns
The New York stock market rose 1.75 to 964.18 as gainers edged losers 3 to 2 on the NYSE with volume near 9.96 million shares. The Labor Department reported December CPI up 0.04 percent for a 4.8 percent year end, while wholesale prices rose, signaling cautious investors about 1977 inflation. Cotton futures traded lower at midday with March at 70.00 cents per pound and grains quotes mixed in Chicago.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Burroughs
NYSE
American Stock Exchange
New York Cotton Exchange
Two Odessa Women Die In House Fire From Heater
In Odessa two young women died after an open flame heater caused a fatal setup in a newly rented home. Nancy Smiley 18 died at the scene and Karren Poucher 20 died at Medical Center Hospital after police were alerted by relatives as the house was described as extremely hot. Both worked at a local restaurant and had just moved in. Later in Monahans the Ward County Grand Jury indicted 13 people on burglary criminal mischief and possession charges. In Marfa Patricia Payne 27 and Debbie Lewis 20 from Durango Colo were arrested at a Border Patrol checkpoint for marijuana found with a routine check. In Odessa Rev Don Hungerford was elected secretary of the Permian Basin Center for Mental Health and Mental Retardation’s board of directors.
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Odessa
Nancy Lee Smiley
Justice of the Peace
Harold Sligar
Karren S. Poucher
Medical Center Hospital
Monahans
Ward County
Armando Huertas
Marvin B. Ellis
Larry Maurice Johnson
Tim Riddle
Paul Donelson
Huertas
Juan Murillo
Juan Fuentes Garcia
Larry Delbert Swaney
Patricia E. Swaney
Randall Lee Stephens
Marfa
Patricia Hughes Payne
Debbie Marie Lewis
Durango
Colo
U.S. Border Patrol
Border Patrol
Presidio County
Don Hungerford
St. John's Episcopal Church
Permian Basin
Hungerford
Cope Routh
Routh
Texas Commission On Alcoholism
Cancer group seeks control over anti cancer drug test
American Cancer Society urges Congress to transfer testing authority for anti cancer drugs from FDA to the National Cancer Institute. The letter to Rep. Paul G. Rogers notes cancer patients differ and presses for legislative change amid FDA safety concerns and calls for patient rights protection.
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Alton Blakeslee
New York
American Cancer Society
Congress
Food and Drug Administration
National Cancer Institute
Society
Paul G. Rogers
House
Subcommittee On Health and Environment
Cancer Society
FDA
RLD Almanac Quiz and Cancer Drug Row
The text includes a quiz on the United Nations Security Council and opera Boris Godunov, plus a discussion with Dr. Vincent J. DeVita Jr. about cancer drug trials. Researchers urge NCI leadership in developing experimental drugs at non profit cancer centers.
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United Nations Security Council
France
United States
Egypt
China
Soviet Union
United Kingdom
Boris Godunov
Tchaikovsky
Rimsky-Korsakov
Moussorgsky
Borodin
U.S. Supreme Court
Bureau of Drugs
Vincent J. DeVita Jr
NCI
Dr. DeVita
Associated Press
Barbs and Cupid Verse on January Mail Delays
A playful note on writing a Valentine era sonnet that rhymes Cupid with clever terms. It laments January mail delays as postal workers rush bundles while readers recall youth’s impatience for spring and the changing seasons of illness and pollen.
ENTERPRINE STAFF AND OFFICE DETAILS
The Pecos newspaper lists staff roles including Peggy McCracken editor in chief Nova Gutierrez family editor Gene Douglas city editor Diane Oborn display advertising Doris Welch classified advertising manager Ruben Baca circulation manager Emily Galindo composition supervisor Carlos Nichols pressroom foreman and Mary Carpenter office manager with second class postage paid at Pecos Texas.
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Peggy McCracken
Nova Gutierrez
Gene Douglas
Diane Obborn
Doris Welch
Ruben Baca
Emily Galindo
Carlos Nichols
Mary Carpenter
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Huelster
Ladies of
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Carter
Brock Adams
Juanita Morris Kreps
Judiciary Committee
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Senate
Cash Grain
Chicago
Alcoa
At&i
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Beth
Eastman
Exxon
Fairchild
Gulf Oil
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Harte-Hk
IBM
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Litton
Marathon
Mobil Oil
Monsanto
Penney
RCA
Safeway
Sears
Sony
Son Pac
Sid Oil Cl
Sid Oil Inc
Sun Co
Texaco
Time Inc
MN Carbide
Uniroyal
US Steel
Woolworth
Xerox
William Gyarfas
Division of
Oncology and Radiopharma
Cans Senvics
Sun Mon Tue
Catholic War Veterans
Western Club
Senior Center
S. Cedar
Lions Club
American Motor Inn
Amistad Lions Club
Lions den
Chaparral Village
Pecos Alcoholics Anonymous
Al-Anon
S. Oak St
Tops Club
Federation
Tops TX 259
St. Community
Community Action Office
By Phil Pastoret
Cedar St
Athena
Reever
Ward
Loving
Culberson
Jeff Davis
Tessas
Reeves County
Associated Presse
Pecos Enterprise
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