Music Man set for Midland Theatre run debut Feb 1
The Music Man opens at Theatre Midland February 1 for sixteen performances. Starring Jim Sathers as Harold Hill, the con man who sparks a brass band idyll in River City Iowa, Paula Cahoon plays Marian the librarian. The large Midland cast includes J J Baskin Rita Buckley Dean McLain Bill Cormack and Roger Thomas with direction by Art Cole choreography by Cherry Jones and stage management by Joe Hathaway Max Howard. Box office for Midland Community Theatre opens January 25 with public sales starting January 29.
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Theatre Midland
Jim Sathers
Harold Hill
River City
Iowa
Paula Cahoon
Marian
Art Cole
J.J. Baskin
Winthrop Paroo
Bill Cormack
Ewart Dunlop
Stock market gains after inflation data lull
The Dow added 3.89 to 850.74 at midday as gains outpaced losses on the NYSE amid a 0.6 percent December CPI rise and a 9 percent full year inflation tally. The NYSE composite rose to 56.40 and the American Stock Exchange index gained 0.24 to 161.32. Cotton futures rose, with nearby contracts up as much as 1.25 per bale. Dow Jones averages for 11 a.m. show mixed moves across indices with the 30 Industrials at 849.27.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Wall Street
Union Carbide
NYSE
American Stock Exchange
New York Cotton Exchange
DOW Jones New York
Dow Jones
A.m
Indus
Marfa Aerial Fest Aims for Twelfth Season Start
Marfa plans an aerial show with Jim Franklin and his Aero Fest launching the 12th season in Marfa Sunday Jan 28. Franklin will fly the Wild Waco bi plane with Terry Taylor as wind rider performing low level aerobatics and wind-stick tricks during a Texas tour of smaller communities year 1979. Pecos Ambulance Service responded 5:39 p.m. Tuesday to a report of a man on Farm Market 869 southwest of Pecos. the person was found to be intoxicated on the highway. NO INDICTMENT The Reeves County Grand Jury no-killed Jaime Javier Villarreal 22 of Sage Apt 4B regarding a shooting Jan 2 in which Luis Reyes Jr 37 of Pecos was wounded. Villarreal had been detained by Pecos Police during the investigation.
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Jim Franklin
Marfa
Texas
Franklin
Waco
Terry Taylor
Pecos
Reeves County
Grand Jury
Jaime Javier Villarreal
Apt
Sage
Luis Reyes Jr
Villarreal
Pecos High Class of 49 Plans Reunion Event
The Pecos High School 1949 graduating class seeks missing classmates Jo Ann Berry Bernice Hutchings Faulene Wyrick Margaret McCauley Laurence Hartman and Sam Scroggins. Contact Valera Gatewood or Doris Tillery after 5 p.m. for reunion details. An Aero-Fest with aircraft displays runs 2 p.m. gate opens 10 a.m. Tickets $2 adults $1 children under 12. Co sponsored by Marfa Chamber of Commerce.
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Pecos High School
Jo Ann Berry
Bernice Hutchings
Faulene Wyrick
Margaret McCauley
Laurence Hartman
Sam Scroggins
Valera Gatewood
Doris Tillery
Marfa Chamber of Commerce
Glenda McCravey
Chamber of Commerce
Bible Study Group Meets at Way Inn Jan 25
The Bible Study and Fellowship group will meet Thursday January 25 from 9 30 a m to noon at the Way Inn corner of Eddy and Stafford A nursery will be provided A word study on fellowship began January 11 and will continue at this meeting
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Way Inn
Eddy and
Stafford
Lions Club
Pecos Inn
Amistad Lions Club
Lions den
Pecos
Saragosa Hall
Pecos AA
Al-Non
S. Oak
Balmorhea
Pecos Rotary Club
Holiday Inn
Franklin's
Pecos Jaycees
Senior Citizens Center
S. Cedar
Services for Amy Celeste Clayton Held in Lubbock
Services were held Monday for Amy Celeste Clayton four year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Glenn Clayton of Lubbock Texas who died after a brief illness at Methodist Hospital. Survivors include grandparents Harold Clayton Pecos and Gene Castleberry of San Angelo. Reyes Grado Espinosa 70 died Tuesday at Reeves County Hospital in Pecos. Funeral services will be Friday at 11 am at Santa Rosa Catholic Church with burial at Santa Rosa Cemetery. Espinosa born July 27 1908 in Bedford Texas resided in Pecos 40 years. She leaves four daughters all of Pecos Georgia Mendoza Maria Lara Amelia Anchondo Juanita Matta also five sisters and two brothers and 41 grandchildren 22 great grandchildren. Rosary Thursday at 8 pm at Santa Rosa Church.
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Amy Celeste Clayton
Glenn Clayton
Lubbock
Texas
Methodist Hospital
Harold Clayton
Pecos
Gene Castleberry
San Angelo
Maria Lara
Amelia Anchondo
Juanita Matta
Manuela Reza
Hobbs
N.M
Juanita Valenzuela
Artesia
Laura Rodriguez
Maria Vasquez
Odessa
Elvira Pena
Bedford
Jesus Grado
el Paso
Benjamin Grado
Fort Davis
Santa Rosa Church
Mu Alpha Theta hosts UT professor on lasers at high school
The Pecos Chapter of Mu Alpha Theta sponsors a Monday program at the high school featuring Dr. Peter R. Antoniewicz of the University of Texas Physics Department. He will lecture on lasers, give a live demonstration, and present the program three times for Mu Alpha Theta members and junior and senior math and science students.
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Pecos
Mu Alpha Theta
Peter R. Antoniewicz
University of Texas
Antoniewicz
Club Woman of the Year for 1978 named in Rio Pecos meeting
Elaine Moody received a silver tray as Club Woman of the Year for 1978 at the Rio Pecos Extension Club meeting where Susan Bolen installed the new officers. The tray recipient will continue as reporter for 1979, per staff photographer Robert Hinojos.
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Elaine Moody
Rio Pecos Extension Club
Susan Bolen
Robert Hinojos
Community club schedule and crime report blaze
A January 1979 community diary lists Lions Club meetings, TOPS groups, rotary, Jaycees, and other organizations in Pecos and Balmorhea with dates and venues. A Stirling Scotland crime note reports 90,000 stolen cigarettes ruined by rain earning thieves a $7,700 fine.
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Stirling
Scotland
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Jacey Squires
Olin Britt
Meredith Wilson
Roger Thomas
Marcellus
Kelly Patterson
Tommy Djilas
Caroline Hissom
Amarryllis
Mary Samples
Eulalie
Maggie Beatty
Alma
Jan Moore
Maud
Susie Hitchcock
Ethel
LaMoyne
Pecos Enterprise, Inc
South Cedar Street
Ken Dulaney
Lewis Barrett
Ruben Baca
Emily Galindo
Carlos Nichols
Mary Carpenter
Reeves, Ward, Loving, Culberson
Jeff Davis Counties
Amy C. Clayton
Club Woman
Pecos Alcoholics Anonymous
S. Oak St
S. Cedar, Huff and Puff
America
Tarheng
Bab Sen
Ane Vie Rey Nowme
Nowato
Eve Whig R Jet
Reg Price
Kings Point
Emerson
F.E
Whitewall
Justingins
Whites
Queen
S. Eddy
Catalina
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