Park art show opens March 22 at Carlsbad Caverns NP
The joint National Park Service and Carlsbad Area Art Association exhibit runs March 22 through April 4 at the Carlsbad Caverns National Park visitor center. Entry is free, paintings must depict scenes from Carlsbad Caverns or Guadalupe Mountains or related historic views, and up to three pieces per artist are allowed. Visitors can vote for favorites during opening week. ribbons awarded to the top four entries.
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National Park Service
Carlsbad Area Art Association
Carlsbad Caverns National Park Visitor Center
Don Dayton
Carlsbad Caverns
Guadalupe Mountains National Parks
Evie Diamond
Balmorhea senior luncheon and Band Boosters meetings scheduled
Balmorhea senior citizens plan a noon luncheon on Thursday March 16 with a bring a covered dish and guest policy. Afternoon games planned. Chamber of Commerce meets March 13 at 7 p.m. in the Community Center to discuss Fall Festival and future activities. Band Boosters meet March 13 at the school led by Marilyn Moore and Gilda Morales to plan fundraising. Wheat and soybeans quotes reported from Chicago futures.
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Balmorhea
Chamber of Commerce
Seminar for Secretarial Development to be Held March 20
The Permian Basin Graduate Center announces a one day course titled Seminar for Secretarial Development to be held Monday March 20 from 8 am to 5 pm in the Graduate Center classrooms basement of the Metro Building in Midland. Dr Faborn Etier UT Austin associate professor will instruct. Registration is 65 dollars.
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Permian Basin Graduate Center
Faborn Etier
University of Texas At Austin
Etier
Texas
Mexico
UT Austin
Graduate Center
Metro
Colorado
Midland
Gulf Building
World's longest key role Sul Ross unit to start push
More than 120 members from four universities will join Sul Ross State University in Alpine to begin a campaign on Friday for an extended key role initiative. The effort focuses on expanding student involvement across campuses and will rally chapters to promote the project.
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Sul Ross University
Alpine
Uni
World’s Longest Keg Roll raises for St Jude’s Hospital
Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity chapters plan a 330 mile keg roll through West Texas to raise 5,000 to 10,000 dollars for St Jude's Children’s Hospital. Starting Friday at 7 p.m. they will roll a beer keg 24 hours a day for three days, visiting 12 towns including Fort Stockton and Lubbock, backed by local businesses and sponsors.
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Tau Kappa Episilon Fraternity
St. Jude’s Children's Hospital
Lubbock
Sul Ross State University
UT el Paso
Texas Tech
University of New Mexico At
O'Donnell
Sul Ross
Lynn Caffey
Caffey
Danny Thomas
St. Jude's Children's Hospital
New Orleans
St. Jude’s Hospital
Key rolling for St Jude's aims to set world record
Caffey stated pack crafts raise money for St Jude's Children’s Hospital and editors of the Guinness Book of World Records are being contacted to seek recognition for a continuous key rolling feat. The event, tied to a national TKE project, targets a Lubbock kickoff after noon Monday.
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Caffey
TOLAR
St. Jude’s
Guiness
TKE
Indianapolis
St. Jude's
St. Jude's Children’s Hospital
Thomas
Lubbock
Hit and Run and Fire Incidents Across Town
A sequence of police reports notes multiple hit and run incidents on March 10 to 12 involving vehicles at various locations including a Popular Food Store parking lot and the Adams Wilson intersection. Also listed are a truck fire, a hotel fire, a dumpster blaze, ambulance calls for medical emergencies, an assault on a trailer house window, two drunken public intoxication arrests, a vehicle collision, and a stereo theft from Roger's Exploration.
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Hortencia Marufo
4Th St
Diane Florez
S. Elm
Susanne Dominguez
S. Oak
S. Cedar
Richard Sims
S. Eddy
Steve Precht
Box 112
Pecos
Carl Douglas Young
Barstow
Birdie Bell Slack
Bell Acres
Brandon
4Th
Oak
Dempsey
Robert Gomez
N. Oak
Sally Gomez
Jesus Acosta Talamantez
Talamantez
Florentino Cardenas Sanchez
Virginia Ortega Alvarez
Anna Maria Gomez
Hickory
Fred Biffle
W. 2Nd St
Roger
Pecos Boxer Dan Levario Reaches Golden Gloves Nationals
Pecos fighter Dan Levario won the Texas Golden Gloves at Fort Worth in the featherweight division with a decision over Eddie Gonzales of Dallas to advance to the national finals in Albuquerque New Mexico in March 2026. He beat Arthur Amalia of Lubbock in the semi finals and helped Odessa place fourth with 14 team points as Fort Worth led with 19.
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Dan Levario
Pecos
Fort Worth
Levario
Eddie Gonzales
Dallas
Albuquerque
N.M
Gonzales
Arthur Amalia
Lubbock
Odessa
Forth Worth
Houston
Calendar of events in Pecos area for March 1978
A daily listing of local club meetings and activities in Pecos. Highlights include Lions Club and Rotary meetings at the Holiday Inn, Al Non Bible study and church group gatherings at 119 S Cedar, Senior Citizens Center coffee and games, Blood Pressure Clinic, Alcoholics Anonymous at Oak Street, and a Thought for today by Ed Howe.
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Lions Club
American Motor Inn
Amistad Lions Club
Lions den
Senior Citizens Center
Pecos Al-Non Group
S. Oak
S. Cedar
Downtown
Holiday Inn
Pecos Alcoholics, Anonymous
S. Oak St
S. Cenar
Space shuttle Enterprise begins cross country tour
The Orbiter Enterprise departed from Space Center on a two hour flight to Huntsville Alabama after a weekend stop drew an estimated 234 300 people It will undergo vibration tests at the Marshall Space Center with the Enterprise piggyback on a Boeing 747 during the cross country flight
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Arpil
Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce
Marilyn Moore
Gilda Morales
Chicago
Pecos Enterprise
New York
Dow
Europe
U.S
Federal Reserve
NYSE
American Stock Exchange
New York Cotton Exchange
DOW Jones
A.m
Indus
West Texas
Fort Stockton
Grandfalls
Monahans
Stanton
Big Spring
Ackerly
Lamesa
Tahoka
Waurg
CUB Sco
Kansas City, Mo
Emerald Isle
Hallmark
Sally Hopkins
St. Patrick
Ireland
Sand Hills
County Fairgrounds
Dale
Chris Taylor
First Presbyterian Church
Sherry Keen
Tra Park
Pecos Enterprise, Inc
South Cedar Street
Ken Dulaney
Lewis Barrett
Diane Osborn
Ruben Baca
Emily Galindo
Carlos Nichols
Mary Carpenter
Reeves County
Reeves
Ward, Loving, Culberson
Jeff Counties
Foam Insulation Inc
George Ashby
Swat
Pecos Rotary Club
Ed Howe
Space Shuttle
Sears
Sears, Roebuck and CO
Great Western
Great Western Finance
Connor
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