Permian Basin Museum Adopts Open Daily Schedule
The Permian Basin Petroleum Museum in Midland will begin a daily open schedule from Monday July 23 with hours 9 am to 5 pm Monday through Saturday and 2 to 5 pm on Sunday. The test runs through year end with reviews on costs and visitation. Monday work will occur at night or during public hours. Holidays closed are Thanksgiving Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Santa Rita Club volunteers join to staff the expanded hours and gift shop.
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Permian Basin Petroleum Museum
Midland
The
Santa Rita Club
Deadline Aug 15 for Heritage Family Land honors
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Brown urges farms and ranches to register for the 1979 Family Land Heritage program. Eligibility requires continuous family ownership in agricultural production for 100 years or more. Since 1974 twelve hundred forty five properties have enrolled. certificates and histories are published by the Texas Department of Agriculture.
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Texas Department of Agriculture
TDA
Texas Family Land Heritage Registry
Department
Brown
Texas
County Historical Commission
P.O
Austin
Stocks mixed as GDP decline offsets rate rise in Carter era
New York stock prices were mixed with the Dow up 0.17 at 827.47 at noon as news of a sharp GDP drop countered a rise in the discount rate. Volume hit 11.18 million on the NYSE, down from Thursday, while IBM gained 4 to 69 but Gulf Oil fell 3/8, and J Ray McDermott rose 3/8. Cotton futures rose with the No 2 contract quoted around 63 cents. Dow Jones indices at 11 a.m. show mixed movements across Industrials, Transports, Utilities, and Stocks.
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NEW York
New York Stock Exchange
IBM
J. Ray McDermott
Gulf Oil
Ralston Purina
NLT Corp
New York Cotton Exchange
DOW Jones New York
Dow Jones
Pecos Girl Wins District 6 4-H Fashion Revue
Melissa Gholson won the 13 year old division with a prairie dress at the District 6 4-H Fashion Revue in Wink Tuesday. She is the daughter of Floyd and Mrs. Thompson of Pecos. Also representing Loving County, Kim Wilkinson and Mary Nell Haley earned red ribbons in the second division for active sportswear.
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Melissa Gholson
Wink
Floyd Thompson
Pecos
Loving County
Kim Wilkinson
Mary Nell Haley
Teen Challenge Rally at Way Inn Tonight
A missionary rally called Gods Miracles will be held at the Way Inn located at 2313 S Eddy at 7 30 p m. The program features Gods Miracles a youth ensemble from Teen Challenge Institute a technical collegiate missionary school near Sunbury Pennsylvania Vernon Hagar chairman of the Way Inn board will introduce Gods Miracles.
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Way Inn
Teen Challenge Institute
S. Eddy
Sunbury
Penn
Vernon Hagar
The
Prude Ranch Camp Awards Won by Local Kids
Yvonna Holcombe daughter of Walter M Holcombe and Michael Renee and Charles Benavides children of Manuel Benavides won multiple ribbons at Prude Ranch Summer Camp Fort Davis Texas June 25 July 7 They earned Prude Ranch Champ belt buckles for highest points in activities mainly horsemanship and rodeo Manuel Benavides counselor Camp featured daily horse time and other activities such as swimming tennis archery riflery soccer and crafts with additional campers joining later sessions from across the United States
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Yvonna Holcombe
Walter M. Holcombe
S. Park St
Michael
Renee
Charles Benavides
Manuel Benavides
Trapark
Prude Ranch
Fort Davis
Texas
Yvonna
United States
Pecos Enterprise Area News Patch Weather Forecast
The forecast covers North Texas with Sunday through Tuesday showers and scattered thunderstorms. Partly to mostly cloudy skies with a cooler Tuesday, lows in the 70s and highs from 89 to 101. South Texas stays warm with 90s to near 100, while West Texas sees scattered storms and highs around 90 to near 100, with Panhandle lows in the 60s to 70s.
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Associated Press
North Texas
South Texas
Rio Grande Valley
West Texas
Big Bend Valleys
Panhandle
Wheat and grain quotes from Chicago market report
Chicago AP notes futures prices for Wheat No 2 hard red winter at 4.23 and No 2 soft red winter at 4.28. Corn No 2 yellow at 3.06 with hopper 2.98 and box quoted. Oats No 2 heavy at 1.60. Soybeans No 1 yellow at 7.56. No 2 yellow corn Thursday sold at 3.084 hopper and 2.98 box.
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Chicago
Civic Concert Association schedules July 30 program
Odessa civic concert association presents Victoria Parr and Terry Hawkins July 30 at 8 p.m. in Odessa College Fine Arts Auditorium. Cosponsored by Odessa Cultural Council. Parr and Hawkins trained in Odessa and headline a diverse program with solo duo and trio works. Admission free thanks to community support. public invited.
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Civic Concert Association
Odessa Civic Concert Association
Victoria Parr
Terry Hawkins
Odessa College
Odessa Cultural Council
Odessa
Josh Parr
Bonham
SMU
Dallas
State University of New York
Stonybrook
N.Y
Interlochen
Mich
Taos School of Music
Taos
N.M
Berkshire Music Center
Tanglewood
Mass
Rome Festival Orchestra
Rome
Italy
S.V.A
Manchester
National Opera
College Par
Parr
Midland-Odessa Symphony
Texas
Long Island
New York
Carnegie Hall
Iceland
T.M Hawkins
Lome Drive
North Texas State University
Miss Hawkins
Rocky Ridge Music Center
Fontainbleu
France
Theatre Three
Dallas Civic Opera
Shamrock
Tony Sirianni
Midland
David Milnes
Cultural Council
Agency heads retire from Texas Education Agency
FourTEA administrators will retire August 31 Melvin Olle Ben Teague J A Marshall and David Thompson Their long service spans from 1949 to 1970 with roles in audits distributive education vocational agriculture and technology The group includes the longest serving Marshall who joined the agency in 1941 and rose to director of vocational agriculture through 1970
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Austin
Texas Education Agency
Melvin H. Olle
Ben Teague
J.A. Marshall
David Thompson
Olle
State Board For Vocational Education
Assisant
Investment of
Teague
Marshall
State Department of Education
State Department
Southwest Texas Under Flood Warning Today
Southwest Texas faced a flash flood watch as showers and thunderstorms moved across the southern half of the state. Counties affected include El Paso Hudspeth Presidio Brewster Pecos Terrell Crockett Schleicher and Sutton with continued showers likely. Highs ranged from the 80s in North Texas to near 100 in far South Texas while the northern third had partly cloudy skies.
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Associated Press
Texas
el Paso
Hudspeth
Presidio
Brewster
Pecos
Terrell
Crockett
Schleicher
Sutton
Cowboy Artists of America Exhibition at Phoenix Museum
The 14th annual Cowboy Artists of America Exhibition will run at the Phoenix Art Museum from October 26 to November 25. It features Western themed pieces by noted artists and marks a regular autumn event in Phoenix cultural life.
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Cowboy Art Phoenix
Ariz
Cowboy Artists of America
Phoenix Art Museum
Coming events in the Pecos Area July 1979
Community notices list weekly club meetings across Pecos Balmorhea Barstow and nearby towns. Lions Optimist AA TOPS Rotary Jaycees and senior citizens centers host regular gatherings with times and locations for each group across Mondays Tuesdays Wednesdays Thursdays Fridays.
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Pecos
Optimist Club
Saragosa Hall
Pecos AA
Al-Non
N. Oak
Old Senior Citizens Center
Second Hickory
Eddy St
Barstow
Lions Club
Holiday Inn
Senior Citizens Center
S. Cedar
Huff and Puff
Pecos Rotary Club
Pecos Jaycees
Alpine Lodge
Collisions and Burglary Reported Across City Streets
Thursday reports include a Third and Cedar collision with Felicano Gonzalez Paredez cited for failure to yield, and Daniel Benavides cited for missing license display. A Madison and S Park crash cites Dickie Morelan for running a stop sign. Tena Macha involved in a separate GMC Sierra collision. A burglary at 2335 Cactus notes a Timex watch and a pocket calculator missing for $50. A bulldog bite at Ropes Motel involves Sangin Bhakta. a dog placed in a blue Ford pickup. Fire reports include a mobile home fire on Highway 17 near Purina Grain Store and a fire at Earl Bell School on Sycamore.
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Third
Cedar Streets
Felicano Gonzalez Paredez
San Antonio
Daniel Jose Benavides
Madera Rd
Pecos
Madison
S. Park
Dickie Booth Morelan
Tena Perry Macha
Country Club
Paul E. Johnson
Texas Electric
Sangin Bhakta
Ropes Motel
Highway 17
Purina
Estelle Rodriguez
Sycamore
Earl Bell
West Texas Chamber awards first foundation grant
The West Texas Chamber Foundation announced a thousand dollar grant to the Private Enterprise Development Committee to recognize teaching of the American free enterprise system in West Texas public schools. An awards program will judge secondary level teachers and winners will be named at the 62nd WTCC Annual Meeting in San Angelo in April 1980.
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Private Enterprise Development Committee
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
West Texas Chamber Foundation
West Texas
Bob Corkins
WTCC
Corkins
Fred Barrington
San Angelo
Balmorhea News Highlights Local Trip and Obituary
A BALMORHEA and Balmorhea Retired Persons trip to Canyon July 24 to see Texas, with 12 registered and more welcome. Also, Mrs Cecelia Fellebaum died in El Paso at 92, survived by family including Eddie Fellebaum of Balmorhea. Baptist Women met July 16, next July 30 Bible study. Fire Dept answered two calls, a van fire east of town and a grass fire west of town, sending trucks both ways.
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American Association of Retired Persons of
Cecelia Fellebaum
el Paso
Eddie Fellebaum
Balmorhea
Vera
Sharon Harrison
Billy Curry
Dy Huelster
Pecos
Henry Jones Place
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Heritage Honor Farms
Pecos Enterprise, Inc
South Cedar Street
Ken Dulaney
Lewis Barrett
Emily Galindo
Carlos Nichols
Mary Carpenter
Reeves County
Wes Tands
Reeves, Ward, Loving, Culberson
Jeff Davis Counties
Michael, Renee
Davis Mountains
Pecos Enterprise
Miss Parr
Deaae Chance
Pat Ferguson
Kathleen P. Smith
Dorothy Davis
Karen Fields
Glen Svanas
Amistad Lions Club
Lions den
Cantaloupe City CB Club
CPS Reddy Room
P.O. Box
Abilene
Butch
Arkansas
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