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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1971
Page
6
A reader asks if a big wedding should be postponed or eloped to please parents. Advice favors practicality, suggesting finances for a baby and future costs over a magazine style celebration and warns about social judgment.
New Orleans jumbo trumpeter Al Hirt will give a postgame show at home plate in the Astrodome as part of Louisiana Weekend. The Astros Mets game starts at 5 p.m. on Saturday July 17, with Hirt’s Dixieland trumpet set to follow the conclusion of the game. Mayors from Louisiana are invited to attend the weekend event hosted by Judge Roy Hofheinz.
Local ad fragment lists bulk price cuts on various items including a 209 count bag for 75 cents and a 200 count box for 25 cents. No clear brand names or store locations provided.
Iceland's incoming leftist coalition agrees to close the Keflavik NATO base and withdraw about 3,000 American service personnel within four years. They favor NATO membership but oppose foreign troops in peace time, amid tensions with Russia and questions over Communist ministers in government.
Balmorhea records show numerous visitors from Lubbock Ft Stockton Alpine and San Angelo. A birth is reported at Pecos hospital for Herschal McDonald son Scott Harrison born July 3 1971. Masonic installation banquet and changes at Foxworth Lumber noted along with Humble Station addition and Brockett transfer to Albuquerque.
Senate Finance Committee chair Russell Long outlines a plan to create a Federal Child Care Corporation to expand day care nationwide. The proposal starts with a $500 million Treasury loan and would fund services via a revolving capital fund, aiming to help working mothers as well as welfare recipients.
AP reports Texas Parks and Wildlife officials say Galveston Bay still leads oyster production, yielding about 90 percent of state supply. Although 47 percent of the bay is closed to harvesting, only 1,500 acres of oyster bottoms are in the closed zone, with roughly 250 acres potentially productive and a plan to relay oysters to approved private leases after safety delays.
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