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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1971
Page
3
Hubbs was elected president of the Pecos Rotary Club in yesterday's election. Officers include Vice President Mike Harrison Secretary Bill Moss and Treasurer Harvey Tinkler. Directors elected were Lewis Cowart Eddie Daniel David Davis and Clark Ford. Rev Milton Propp Minister of First United Methodist.
The North Pecos Elementary School Parent-Teacher Association will meet Monday night at 7:30 p.m. at the school. A musical program will be presented. An exchange program update notes three Pecos students passed the foreign review board and will have applications sent to foreign countries. The Pecos Amistad Lions Club plans a light bulb sale Monday at 6 p.m. and no regular meeting that night. A vandalism incident damaged a plate glass window at a local business, with $225 in damages.
Secretary Clifford M. Hardin announces the Rural Environmental Assistance Program for 1971 later renamed from ACP. It restores federal cost sharing for conservation practices with a new structure to reduce pollution, protect soil and water, and encourage local government partnerships. Funds for 1971 will be provided with a 50 percent federal share for permanent benefits, and off-farm benefits promoted through local projects.
Zech C. Dameron Jr. died suddenly at 10 a.m. in Memorial Hospital after a massive heart attack. Funeral services are pending at Pecos Funeral Home. Dameron retired from the Soil Conservation Service and recently wrote an agricultural column for the Pecos Enterprise.
On opening day of the 92nd Congress Representative Richard C. White reintroduced about ten bills, including rehabilitation of the Red Bluff project, now pending with the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee. He aims to secure Bureau of Reclamation approval and support from Pecos Valley interests. He also introduced a Presidio County toll bridge bill and hopes a recent Rio Grande realignment will aid approval. White toured Korea, Okinawa, and South Vietnam with the Army Subcommittee, noting 15 district men on duty. among them S/Sgt Ramon Gomez of Balmorhea.
Plans for the Reeves Loving County Junior Livestock Show and Sale on January 29-30 are underway, led by J. T. Moore Jr., General Sales Chairman and head of the Agriculture Division.
Judge D W Suttle of San Antonio will hold a February session of the Midland Odessa Division in Pecos starting February 15 for about three weeks. Civil actions on the Midland Odessa docket will be heard at the Pecos courthouse with sessions overseen by the federal court.
Ann Trammell and Pat Lawrance launch The Window Box behind Airlawn Sales at 1219 Johnson Pecos. Hours 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. six days weekly starting Monday. Shop offers handmade Texas lamps priced 10 to 130 dollars, fixed and hanging lighting, custom draperies and Kirsch rods, Ripple Fold, Waverly fabrics, decor items, and a formal opening later when stock arrives.
The Chamber of Commerce elected five new directors to three year terms. They are Don Dean Gibsons Discount Store Frank Harper Automotive Proving Grounds Woody Ivy Community Public Service Co. Garland Matthews Radio Station K I U N and T C Slack State Bank. Installation occurs at the March 19 banquet as the chamber year runs April 1 to March 31.
A daily meal features ham and rice bake with glazed sweet potatoes seasoned green beans fruit hot rolls butter and milk. The item appears as a church or school menu entry. Saint John Chrysostom is cited as a quotation at the end.
Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow in Burnet for Mrs. Davie Stark step mother of N L Hap Stark U S Deputy Marshal of Pecos Rites at Clements Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Bluffton Cemetery She died yesterday morning after a brief illness Born March 27 1887 in Llano County she had lived in Burnet 51 years Survivors include two brothers one sister two step daughters two step sons six grandchildren seven great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews
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