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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1973
Page
6
A mother in Oregon recalls her rough draft book Ralph's Bathroom Primer about her 11-year-old son who spends hours in the bathroom, hindering family life. The piece lampoons bathroom habits with sly humor while noting the boy has become oddly grown up in the confines of the bathroom.
The West Texas Trail Riders Association held its annual General Members meeting Feb. 16 in Pecos. President Jim Tilson of Odessa presided as officers and directors were introduced. The meeting included an explanation of the junior board, which selects active young members to help plan the association's activities.
Readers volley with sharp reactions about parenting, marriage and aging mothers. A 48 year old divorcee seeks advice on a prenuptial with a 67 year old partner and his children. The Pecos West Texas Trail Riders discuss 1973 rides, leadership, ecology gear, and a June route.
Gayle Lipscomb a senior Girl Scout from Odessa will represent the Permian Basin Girl Scout Council at the International USA Indian Cultural Exchange in Poona India in April. She travels with one other U S adult departing New York April 6 visiting Delhi Agra and Bombay then Poona for 14 days joining Indian Girl Guides at the World Center Camp.
A foreign exchange student recalls early culture shocks in the United States. Episodes include misreading a traffic signal, a comic encounter with an New York police officer, and confusion over television and bath controls in Dallas. The piece highlights the ongoing need to adjust to daily life differences abroad.
The article promotes a town Boy's Club for boys of all character levels with open access and affordable dues. It highlights full time leadership, volunteer staff, constructive programs, and focus on guidance, health, and values to shape attitudes toward right and wrong and civic duties.
Pilar Montoya of Balmorhea won one of 15 calf scramble prizes at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo matinee on March 3. He received a $225 certificate toward buying a registered calf, to be raised under Paul Tapp’s supervision for next year’s show. The calf scramble began with 24 contestants and 12 calves, part of a 1942 program that has paid out over $1 million for calves to 6,000 winners.
Army master sergeant John T. Anderson, captured in Hue during the 1968 Tet offensive, says acupuncture gave him dramatic relief from an acute back injury suffered in wrestling. He described treatment by a presumed North Vietnamese Army doctor while in captivity and noted immobilization before the therapy.
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