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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1971
Page
6
A reader asks about men ditching neckties and women’s wardrobe freedoms, while another laments quitters at work and a mother seeks guidance on hysterectomy versus vasectomy. Helen responds with practical options including tubal ligature info and the value of direct talk with partners.
Betty Bird, counselor for the blind at the University of Texas, leads efforts to improve access to equipment and study spaces for blind students. The Office for Blind Students supports 60 students with six reading rooms, Braille writers, tape recorders, and a work room in the Academic Center.
Balmorhea voters hear resignation accepted for Mayor Merle Brockett. Jane B. Moore appointed to fill the term and sworn in by Secretary Farrington. Aldermen Wes Elliott Arlton Bottoms Ysidro Dominguez attend alongside Mayor Pro Tem Alfred Pax. Council approves new hose purchase and places surplus fire funds on time deposit. Next meeting August 17 due to absences. plus campus Braille orientation plan for blind students and fawns in Lavaca County wear radio necklaces for wildlife study.
Reed Drilling Tools weekly survey records 148 active rigs in the Permian Basin area spanning West Texas and Southeast New Mexico up one from the prior week. District 8 counties Pecos, Martin, Ector, Ward report prominent counts with Lea County dropping from first to second. Slaughter and Levelland areas show eight rigs while Sutton County gas sectors Sonora and Sawyer add six.
Clemente Alvarez of Balmorhea buys the Texaco station and takes over management this week, with Norbert Huels ter retiring after two years. Alvarez also buys the McBee residence and moves in last week. Mrs. Ellen Weinacht hosts a Thursday bridge club at her ranch with an lasagna supper, high score won by Martha Moore, low by Nan Cate, bingo for Ellen Lethco, and strawberry pie after. Leonard Lethco returns from Guatemala with Spanish studies. Greg Germany and daughter Heather Lynn visit from Odessa with Martie Lethco. In London, a government report shows 129 boys under 14 were caned in British reform schools from January to September 1970.
The Nixon administration will not cut interest rates on Farmers Home Administration loans for low to moderate income families. The rate remains 7 1/4 percent for the current fiscal year, as FHA expects rising money costs and a program funding of about 1.6 billion dollars. About 115,000 families are planned to participate in fiscal 1972 for new homes, existing homes, and rural repairs, with subsidies aiding very low income borrowers.
Mario Hendricks son of Edith Garcia 330 Airbase was promoted to E 5 after graduating from NCO school and airborne training at Fort Benning Georgia. He is stationed at Fort Hood Texas for on the job training and will report to Fort Bragg North Carolina with his wife Elfida and daughter. Cynthia Suzanne Kesey and Jim Strother named to Baylor University Dean’s List for spring term. FHA rate dispute cited with 7 1/4 percent charged by lenders. National Rural Housing Coalition condemns increase as harmful to low income borrowers.
Tommy F. Joplin son of Mr and Mrs curtis F Joplin Pecos Texas recently completed a U S Air Force ROTC field training encampment at Fairchild AFB Washington Cadets gained exposure to base life survival training aircraft and aircrew indoctrination and career options Joplin belongs to the Baylor University AFROTC unit and is a 1967 Pecos High School graduate
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