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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1978
Page
2
More than 200 area high school students are expected at Sul Ross State University Alpine for Sully Day April 18 featuring live business skills contests. Registration starts at 8 a.m. with events in typing shorthand and accounting plus a championship typing contest.
The New York market retreated amid caution over Middle East developments. The noon Dow fell 5.28 to 757.28 while NYSE issues leaned losers. Traders had hoped for post pact optimism after tentative coal settlement but wariness grew as Israel pressed into southern Lebanon. Hercules Inc led declines. The NYSE index slid to 49.59 while the broader AMEX rose to 125.95. Volume reached 10.18 million shares by noon. Cash grain prices in Chicago showed No 2 hard red winter at 2.86 and No 2 soft red winter at 2.76 to 2.80 per bushel.
Farmers must improve irrigation efficiency as fuel and labor costs rise. Mike Boatright of the Soil Conservation Service explains key concepts including timing by crop needs, estimating water requirements, computing delivery, soil intake rates, and adjusting flow to match intake changes. Local offices offer technical help to fix old systems or install new ones.
Cotton futures No 2 rose in midday dealings with strict low middling 1 1/16 inch spot cotton at 55.64 cents per pound. May 58.43, Jul 59.55, and Sep 60.70. Dow Jones at 11 a.m. shows mixed declines and gains across indices.
The Farmers Home Administration will sponsor a seminar for engineers and others on March 23 at the Sheraton-Crest Inn, Austin. Registration begins March 22 at 4 p.m. with the meeting at 9 a.m. March 23. The event aims to inform attendees about rapid changes in the rural development program and to discuss engineering service contracts. Harold Carter, FmHA community programs engineer, is the contact in Temple, Texas.
The Balmorhea community held a Senior Citizens gathering on March 9 with plans for a March 16 covered dish lunch. Local farm sales relocate to California. Berry family moves toward Tennessee. Council discusses tax school meeting, telephone rate protest, and Housing Authority appointees. lease drafted for overnight camping facilities at N Main and FM 2903.
The Report George Regas of Tios Drive In advised at 10 am March 14 that between 10 pm March 13 and 10 am March 14 an unknown person broke into the drive-in. Cash was stolen along with food items and appliances from the walk in cooler and two yellow tools. Also missing was a portable television. The case is under further investigation. A 1974 Pontiac Executive collided with a 1977 Ford Club Wagon in the Tuesday crash. Ambulance aid was sought for an elderly grandparent. A missing bicycle case involved Christine Wilks whose son’s 20 inch silver Schwinn Scrambler bears serial FN 52516 valued at $142.
Calendar of coming events in Pecos outlines weekly meetings and activities for Lions Club Al Non Group Home Demonstration Club Rotary Club Blood Pressure Clinic and Alcoholics Anonymous. Details include locations at Holiday Inn 119 S Cedar Oak Street and 401 S Alberta with times ranging from noon to 7:30 p.m. on various days.
Two Sul Ross State University professors will present papers at the Texas Folklore Society annual meeting in Nacogdoches March 23 to 25. Dr. Rex Wilson will read Bob Wills and Folk Music detailing Wills folk style and influence on Southwest fiddle art. Dr. Ernest B. Speck will present Notes for a Final Section of Mody Boatright's Cowboy as Hero, about the book's unfinished final chapter and his plan to edit and publish Boatright's manuscript.
The Pecos Golden Girl Revue seeks sponsors to nominate up to ten girls. Each sponsor donates 25 dollars for socials and provides a parade float. Contact Vicki Pattillo at 447 3803 or the Chamber of Commerce at 445 2406 to enter a nominee.
Abilene hosted the event with Pecos pupils placing in various categories. Tom Bolling earned third in persuasive speaking after advancing through three rounds to semi finals and finals with his speech Is President Carter Keeping his Political Promises. John Clark also reached semifinals in persuasive speaking, among numerous Pecos competitors across informative speaking debate prose and poetry.
The system of dating events as B C and A D was proposed around 525 by Dionysius Exiguus a Roman abbot and astronomer who fixed Christ's birth 753 years after Rome's founding.
Lloyd Norris, district manager, announces Jerry Dempsey’s promotion to district supervisor for stores in Pecos Fort Stockton Monahans and Crane effective March 1. A Pecos resident for two years, Dempsey lives at 30 Trap Park and previously served as Country Food Store 29 at 703 W. 3rd St. He has been with Town and Country for three and a half years and is president of the Pecos Jaycees.
R C Christian, 67, and his wife Eutabe, 64, died February 18 in a house fire at their Tucumcari home, New Mexico. He worked for F M Reeves and Son while living in Pecos about 1940 to 1950. They are survived by two sons, George of Bakersfield, Roy of Oak Harbor, and a daughter, Bill Joyce King of Lakehead. George and Mrs King are Pecos High School graduates.
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