Area Lions head to Pecos for district cabinet meeting
More than one hundred Lions and wives gather in Pecos for Texas District 2 T3 cabinet meeting at the American Motor Inn. District Governor Mike Schwartz of El Paso leads events with seminars at Zavala Junior High and a busy weekend schedule including museum tours, receptions, bingo, square dancing, and a Sunday 8 to 9:30 a.m. cabinet session.
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Pecos
West Texas
Lions
Texas
American Motor Inn
Mike Schwartz
Pat
el Paso
Zavalla Jr. High School
Lions Club Activites
Pecos Evening Lions
Maggie Matta
Fred Dominguez
Lion Otis Mawhiney
Odessa CC involvement cleared up
Odessa Chamber of Commerce was not involved in arranging bail for jailed farm workers at Reeves County Jail. Attorney Warren Burnett said he handled the bail for three women two of whom are mothers of juveniles and Paula Cruc, a law student aiding organizers, who were freed after trespassing charges. UFW organizers sought outside help since Pecos has no local bail bondsmen.
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Odessa Chamber of Commerce
Reeves County
Warren Burnett
Odessa
United Farm Worker
Burnett
Enterprise
Chamber
Paula Cruc
Odessa Chamber
UFW
Pecos
Gene Garrison
Reeves
Texas
Pecos County
Verhalen
Toyah students to start at home for kindergarten to fifth grade
Toyah residents win a one year trial allowing kindergarten through fifth grade to stay home for classes while Pecos-Barstow-Toyah district sets up a detached campus for about 20 Toyah children. Three of four board members support the plan amid concerns from HEW and lunch program inequities.
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Toyah
Pecos
Pecos- Barstow-Toyah
Elvin Reynolds
Chester Kesey
Charles Mitchell
Louis Matta
C.W. Wright
Reynolds
Meek
Kesey
Wright
H.S. Haile
Department of Health Education and Welfare
Ben Meek
HEW
Pecos Welcomes Lions Visitors With Texan Hospitality
Pecos Texas readies for Texas District 2 Lions Cabinet meetings this weekend drawing over a hundred visitors. Local Lions Clubs and Chamber urge residents to greet guests warmly, share Pecos hospitality, and keep the town friendly despite local unrest in cantaloupe fields. Pony League All-Stars compete in Lubbock as part of regional pride.
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Texas
Lions International
Pecos
Three Lions Clubs
Chamber of Commerce
Plum
Ole Pecos City
Lions
Mike Schwartz
Cantaloupe
Lubbock
Odessa
Ontario
Apollo crew returns. astronauts exposed to gas
Apollo astronauts Stafford Brand and Slayton were treated in sick bay after detecting a yellow gas during splashdown 330 miles west of Pearl Harbor. Doctors called their confinement precautionary as the trio recover from a nine day mission and plan to fly to Houston on Saturday.
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USS
New Orleans
Earth
Thomas P. Stafford
Vance D. Brand
Donald K. Slayton
Hawaii
Pacific Ocean
Apollo
Pearl Harbor
Thomas Kleehammer
Frogman
Stafford
Slayton
Brand
Houston
Ranger named to Pecos post
Joe W. Coleman, long time law enforcement officer, is named a Texas Ranger to be posted in Pecos. His DPS Ranger Service appointment is effective September 1, after four years with the Criminal Intelligence Service in Houston. He is a Raymondville native, Army veteran, and joined the DPS in 1966. Coleman serves in Company E, Midland, under Ranger Captain J P Lynch.
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Wilson E. Speir
Coleman
DPS
Texas Ranger Service
Department
Criminal Intelligence Service
Houston
Raymondville
Corpus Christi
Falfurrias
Victoria
Erma
Tom
Mark
Mary
Army
Company E
Midland
Texas Ranger
J.P. Lynch
Pecos County arrests 13 UFW demonstrators during picket action
Pecos County deputies arrested 13 United Farm Worker demonstrators early today as they set up picket lines on Burkholder farms near Cayanosa to press for boycotts of cantaloupe harvests. Odessa attorney Warren Burnett sought their release on $400 cash bonds and accused county officials of possible inmate meal withholding while in Reeves and Pecos jails.
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Pecos County
United Farm Worker
Cayanosa
C.B. Ten Eyck
Ten Eyck
M.G. Singh
Odessa
Warren Burnett
Burnett
Reeves County
Pecos
Fort Stockton
Reeves
A.B. Nail
U.F.W
New nurse director Bea Rader joins Reeves County Memorial Hospital
Beatrice Rader newly named director of nurses at Reeves County Memorial Hospital arrived two days ago to begin duties and oversee administrative and nursing functions. A former director at Brewster County Memorial Hospital Alpine, she aims to learn from staff and serve the community in Pecos. Born July 16, 1921 in Tulsa, she is a Texas plains native, Eastern New Mexico University graduate, and resident of Tra Park with three children and nine grandchildren.
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Reeves County Memorial Hospital
Beatrice Rader
Rader
Brewster County Memorial Hospital
Alpine
Pecos
Baptist Church
Order of Eastern Star Lodge
Tulsa
Plains of Texas
Eastern New Mexico University
Tra Park
Hitching Post Joins Chamber as Pecos Sees Growth
The Blunt Bridges business owner was solicited for Chamber membership by director Oma Fallis. A second progressive Pecos enterprise supports the effort for a better local economy.
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Chamber of Commerce
Hitching Post
Blunt Bridges
Oma Fallis
Pecos
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