Mary Ella Meek Home From Miss Texas Runway
Mary Ella Meek of Pecos returned Sunday after finishing fifth in the Miss Texas pageant in Fort Worth. She praised her top five finish, noted God’s plan, and said she will return to Baylor. Family and friends filled with pride as she recounted the week’s events and support, including 27 flower arrangements and 15 cards.
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Lynn Webb
Mary Ella Meek
Fort Worth
Pecos
Texas
State
Baylor
Mary Ella
Odessa
Donavan
Miss Meek
Atlantic City
É Que Paso? A camp romance from a young boy
John Pitts recounts a boy's camp romance with his girlfriend Joy, highlighting awkward crushes and funny missteps. The boy describes canoeing rescue, watermelon secret, and a cheek kiss, culminating in a bold, self aware confession of being “all boy and half sex maniac.”
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Thang
Joy
Cantaloupe Harvest Delayed by Weather in Pecos Area
Pecos grower A B Foster reports cantaloupe picking will lag several weeks due to a cool spring and early June hail that destroyed about 1000 acres and required replanting. Harvest in Pecos starts July 24 and runs to early September, with Presidio-area crops winding up as about half the acreage bailed out.
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Pecos
A.B. Foster
Foster
Presidio
Local crime prevention course set for city police station
Law enforcement officers and local businessmen will begin a two day crime prevention course at 1 p.m. Wednesday and finish Thursday in the municipal courtroom at the police station. Police Chief Gene Martin notes the classes were postponed one week but are now scheduled as planned.
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Gene Martin
Martin
Dallas bank wins low bid for county hospital bonds
Bids for financing the Pecos County hospital were opened in a special county commissioners court session. First National Bank of Dallas submitted the low net interest bid of 2,754,028 on 2.9 million dollars in bonds to be repaid by 1998. Other bidders included Cullen Center Bank and Trust, White-Welding Co, Underwood and Newhouse Co, and First Southwest of Dallas. Judge Darrell Glover called the bids in line with the going rate.
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County Commissioners Court
First National Bank of Dallas
First National
Cullen Center Bank and Trust of
Houston
White-Welding Co
Dallas
Underwood and Newhouse Co
First Southwest of
Scott Flowers
First Southwest Company of
Pecos
First National Bank
Darrell Glover
Glover
Reeves County
Duval Road
Space mission kicks off twin launches to link Soviet US crews
A two man Soviet Soyuz flight lifted from Baikonur in clear weather for a planned space linkup with American astronauts. Cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov reported all systems normal after the initial orbit. At Cape Canaveral the Saturn rocket countdown for Apollo crews Stafford Brand and Slayton proceeded despite Atlantic thunderclouds.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Earth
Alexei Leonov
Valeri Kubasov
Baikonur Cosmodrome
West
Texas
Leonov
Globe
Moscow
Soviet Mission Control Center
Soyuz
Saturn
Apollo
Thomas P. Stafford
Vance D. Brand
Donald K. Slayton
Atlantic
Cape
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Ford
Washington
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Stafford
West Germany
County court hears senior center and day care funding requests
County Commissioners heard from the Association of Retired Persons seeking a county share of revenue funds for a Senior Citizens Center in the old bakery at Cedar and Second. They would match city and state support, while other requests included $4,000 in matching funds for Pecos Childrens Day Care Center and talks on autopsies and a new hospital auditing firm.
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County Commissioners Court
The
Cedar
Harold Meyer
Reeves County
Walter Holcomb
Larry Fuller
Monahans
Fred Chandler
Honey Armstrong
Pecos
Fort Stockton Water Carnival to Feature Showboat Melodrama
Fort Stockton prepares for the annual three night Water Carnival with performances July 17 18 and 19 at 8 30 p m Showboat story includes a missing side wheel a confused captain a villain and heroine with water ballets dances and music The event draws thousands from West Texas and is sponsored by the Fort Stockton Water Carnival Association.
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Fort Stockton
Pecos River
Comanche Springs
Alice Duerksen
Gale Lain
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John Pitts
Dallas Bank
Marcos Martinez
Ismael Carrasco
Wendell Faulkner
Cecil Cothrun
H.D. Glover
New County Hospital
Commissioner’s Court
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