Local Scouting Drive Gathers Leaders in Pecos
Den volunteers needed Leaders from Midland and Odessa spoke at a Pecos luncheon to boost scouting interest. Pecos has four Cub Scout Packs and four Boy Scout troops plus an Explorers post, with districts in Sand Hills within Buffalo Trails Council.
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Steve Odom
Buffalo Trails Council
Midland
Rick Wilson
Odessa
Holiday Inn
Pecos
St. Catherine's Catholic Church
First United Methodist Church
First Presbyterian Church
Bessie Haynes School
Sadler
Pecos Police Department
Charles la Fever
Sand Hills
Buffalo Trail Council
Kermit
Wink
Monahans
van Horn
Marfa
Buffalo Trails
Balmorhea
Fort Davis
Wilson
Roland McFarland
Jerry Swaim
Don Carlile
Ray Whitley
Gerald Groves
Pecos High School
Jim Livingston
Chamber of Commerce
Dudley Montgomery
Security State Bank
Odessa hosts Russell Lee slide show and talks
Noted photographer Russell Lee visits Odessa March 11 12 to meet the public and speak to photography classes at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin and Odessa College The exhibit runs March 1 11 at UTPB and March 12 30 at OC A public reception is at 730 p m March 11 at UTPB faculty lounge Lee will discuss work from 1930s to 1960s focusing on Farm Security Administration images less-priviledged farm life and conditions Leaders Bill Murchison Martha Edwards and Bob Rothstein coordinate arrangements at OC and UTPB
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell Lee
Odessa
University of Texas of the Permian Basin
Odessa College
UTPB
Lee
Stocks rise on Middle East peace hopes in brisk trading
The Dow Jones industrial average climbed 8.31 to 834.89 as gambling stocks led gains on the NYSE. Caesars World Bally Manufacturing and Playboy Enterprises all advanced, with savings and loan issues and United Financial Corp. of California lifting the sector. Polychrome jumped on the AMEX amid a bidding clash with a Japanese buyer, raising its offer to 26 a share.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
United Financial Corp
California
First Charter Financial
Great Western Financial
American Stock Exchange
Irene Douglas Run Unsuccessful Call Seeks Pecos Ambulance
Police and Pecos Ambulance Service responded to a report of a woman in labor at 2004 S Park a vacant lot. No woman or rene Douglas found after checks of adjacent streets. call deemed a possible false alarm.
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Irene Douglas
Pecos Ambulance Service
PAS
Pecos Police Department
S. Park
Norene Douglas
First National Bank
Pecos
East 13Th
Reeves County Hospital
S. Pecan
Odessa College to host student programming contest
Odessa College will sponsor a student programming contest on March 31 from 9 30 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the OC computer center. Applications are due March 15. Teams of two to four students from a single college will compete in Fortran or Cobol, judged by DPMA members.
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Odessa College
OC Computer Center
George Willis
Permian Basin
Data Processing Management Association
Willis
Dr. Willis
DPMA
Calendar of Pecos area clubs and senior center events
A list of weekly meetings and activities in Pecos and nearby towns. Activities include Lions Club groups, Optimist Club, AA and Al-Anon, TOPS groups, Bible studies, Flower arrangement demos, Rotary and Jaycees meetings, senior center classes, games, lunches, and exercise sessions with locations and typical times noted for each item.
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Lions Club
Pecos Inn
Amistad Lions Club
Lions den
Cantaloupe City
C.B
CPS Reddy
Senior Citizens Center
S. Cedar, Hui
Pecos
Optimist Club
Saragosa Hall
Pecos AA
Al-Non
Oak
At & P.m
Balmorhea
Barstow Lions Club
Barstow Community Center
Old Senior Citizen Center
Hickory
Eddy St
S. Cedar
Downtown Lions Club
Pecos Rotary Club
Pecos Jaycees
Alpine Lodge
Balmorhea Seniors Citizens Center
S. Cedar, Huff and Puff
Pecos Wins Snyder Invitational Golf Tourney
Pecos High School claims first at the Snyder Invitational on March 23 with a team total of 678. Lamesa 680 Snyder 687 Sweetwater 688. Pecos individuals include Richard White 79 79 158 and Mike Daniels 85 85 170. Next tourney set for March 10 in Andrews.
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Beau Jack Hendricks
Pecos High School
Pecos
Lamesa
Snyder
Sweetwater
Richard White
Mike Daniels
Robert Abila
Benjie Garcia
Pabulo Reveria
Community Center Hosts Youth and Adult Sports Meetings
Community recreation director Jim Edwards announces several meetings at the Community Center Banquet Room this week. An Adult Volleyball organizational meeting is scheduled for 7 tonight, with 8 p.m. sessions to discuss boys baseball programs for 6 to 7 and 8 to 9. Men's softball organizational meeting is set for 7 p.m. Monday March 12, and Women’s softball follows at 8 p.m. the same day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Edwards
Community Center
Loreine Collins
Nancy Towry
Lillian Pfeifer
Judy Weinacht
Balmorhea Senior Citizens
Winkler County
Lawmaker calls speeding premium surcharges a rip off
Rep. Walter Grubbs says extra insurance charges for speeding tickets are unjustified and urges a bill to ban surcharges. Two tickets in 12 months raise premiums about 15 percent for three years, with totals near 13 million dollars annually under a State Insurance Board rule.
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Austin
Texas
Walter Grubbs
D-Abilene
House Insurance Committee
House
State Insurance Board
Balmorhea Association Charities Holds Annual Meeting
Balmorhea Association of Charities met February 27 with R V Turnbaugh presiding. Attendees included ministers and local leaders. $125 in contributions were received, $91.56 spent. Turnbaugh re elected chair and Cassie Farrington secretary treasurer.
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Balmorhea Associated Charities
R.V. Turnbaugh
Church of Christ, Presiding
Homer Deavenport
First Baptist Church
Don Holladay
United Methodist Church
Louise Adams
Well Kept Community Club
Loreine Collins
Balmorhea
The
AARP
Cassie Farrington
Clayton Stallings
ANCO Sponsors 1979 State 4-H Project Show
ANCO The Anderson Company of Bryan Texas will sponsor the 1979 State 4 H Project Show produced by the Texas Agricultural Extension Service The event runs June 5 6 at Texas A M University with 20 project areas and 42 exhibit classes including veterinary science corn grain sorghum forage electric photography creative arts and geology 4 H members from across the state will compete Dr Warren Mauk Extension 4 H specialist notes the sponsorship adds private sector support and strengthens planning and evaluation of the show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ANCO
The
Anderson Company
Bryan
Texas
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
H.T. Davison
Texas 4-H Foundation
Davison
Texas A&m University
Davision
Warren Mauk
Liquored Lobster Tagging Sparks Ethical Squabble
Canadian marine biologists proposed tattooing lobsters with numbers to track them, but a tattoo artist refused due to fear of harming claws. Lobsters were placed in alcohol salted water and tattooed before they sober up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Pecos Students Named to Dean's Honor Roll
Dora I. Galindo and Carol E. Moor man of Pecos are among 3 629 students whose fall grades earned them places on the Southwest Texas State University Dean's Honor Roll. Regular Honor Roll required 12 semester hours and a B average.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dora I. Galindo
N. Cedar
Carol E. Moorman
Washington
Pecos
Southwest Texas State University
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Sidney Sadler
Bessie Haynes
Bill Murchison
Martha Edwards
Bob Rothstein
City Barns
Walthall
South Oak
Owen
Pecos Texas
Pete Ana A
RY Sores
Cee Ea
Pecos Enterprise
Puff
P.m
Andrews
Grubbs
Glass
Wer
Fay Brijalba
Las Cruces
N.M
Patsy Madrid
Lubbock
Donna Martinez
Cindy Carrasco
Ben Dutchover
Allen Gilbert
van Horn Hospital
Louis Dutchover
Alpine
Howard Payne
Temple
Don Payne
Max Gregory
Mary Montez
Jack Hoffman
Smithville
Walter Hoffman
Pecos Enterprise, Inc
South Cedar Street
Ken Dulaney
Lewis Barrett
Ruben Baca
Emily Galindo
Carlos Nichols
Mary Carpenter
Reeves County
Reeves, Ward, Loving, Culberson
Jeff Davis
C & G Electric Service
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