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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1978
Page
11
Readers share views on adoptees seeking roots and single mothers’ options, while a frustrated wife seeks advice on a repaint project causing rifts. Ann Landers weighs in on adoption, marriage duties, and practical guidance for everyday domestic issues.
Mary K. Sweeten from Texas A&M Extension outlines grape use for fresh eating, juice, jelly, jam, and wine. She notes Muscat and seedless varieties yield raisin-like dried products, gives ripening sugar and acid ranges, and provides MP-279-Jellies recipe requests. Instructions cover air-free fermentation, sugar addition, sedimentation, potassium metabisulfite use, and storage.
Pat Seaman of Texas A&M Extension outlines steps to fix sidewalk cracks using ready mixed mortar and epoxy concrete mix. Tools include a wire brush trowel wood float and heavy brush. Repair only on dry surfaces chisel clean mix mortar and epoxy then fill and smooth with the float.
The Rails of the World exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History features watercolors by J Fenwick Lansdowne portraying the rail family Rallidae. The show, titled Rails of the World Paintings by J Fenwick Lansdowne, runs through July 15.
Erma Bombeck surveys cruise life in a humor column noting slide moments from a Caribbean trip, meal marathons, fixed routines, and onboard activities. She mocks the endless eating, chair envy, beauty contests, and collective nausea exchanges, ending with a caution for travelers to pack maternity underwear.
Linda McCormack of Texas A&M Extension warns that soft water causes a rainbow iridescent film on glassware from dishwasher use. The etching is permanent, unpredictable, and worsens with high temperatures and alkaline detergent. To prevent it, ensure full dishwasher water fill and use less detergent, or switch to low phosphorus detergent with sodium carbonate, and lower rinse temperature to about 140 degrees Fahrenheit.
Dear readers share a cheddar cheese bread recipe with a turmeric hint for a golden crust. The method folds in warm yeast, milk, and grated cheese, kneaded to a smooth elastic dough, risen in a buttered bowl, shaped into two leaf pans, and baked until golden, yielding crisp slices with butter.
Sul Ross State University transitions to a new biology department chair with A Michael Powell, professor of biology, appointed effective fall 1978. Current chair Dr Barton Warnock continues as distinguished professor while nearing retirement after 32 years of service. Warnock, a renowned botanist, has guided growth of the department since 1947, overseeing enrollment gains, graduate program expansion, and a herbarium with over 25,000 specimens, and 13 species named in his honor.
A nationwide touring exhibit of 100 years of home entertainment memorabilia travels from Edison’s tinny phonograph to a 1946 mass produced TV set. Curated by RCA, it features a working model phonograph, a Victor Victrola, an early crystal radio, and the 630-TS nine inch TV with its distinctive horned speaker.
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