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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1976
Page
1
After more than three years of negotiations Safeway Stores with El Paso district offices began construction on a 28 000 square foot Pecos store. Crews cleared the land this week and expect completion by October.
Congressman Richard C. White of Texas opposes a 15.2 million cut in the Great Plains Conservation Program in the 1977 budget. The program serves 16th District counties including Loving, Reeves, Ward, Winkler, El Paso, Hudspeth, Culberson, Presidio and Jeff Davis, supporting reseeding and erosion control. He urges adequate funding to expand conservation efforts and notes no cited duplicative authorities. Safeway plans a Pecos store expansion with Area Builders of Odessa. a 2.7 million project aimed at late September completion.
In Washington AP reports the Postal Service suspends planned mail service cutbacks as Rep. James M. Hanley interprets a moratorium to block small post office closings and halt Saturday deliveries. Barler requests funds to ease financial crisis and avoid further reductions.
In Forest City Iowa Johnny and Bonnie Nelson fight to adopt 4 year old Doan Ben Van Vihn. A Vietnamese mother Doan Thi Han Ahn followed Ben from Saigon to the United States and was ordered to surrender custody after court proceedings. The couple claimed she did not prove maternity and said Ben's mother abandoned him to an orphanage in Denver before Saigon's fall.
All volunteer workers in the 1976 Reeves Loving Bar Stow unit of the American Cancer Society are urged to attend training sessions Monday at the Pecos Community Center Banquet Room. An informative film will be shown and worker kits distributed. Sessions are 10 a.m. and 8 p.m.
Kay Hepworth, 12, a sixth grader from Pecos and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alan Hepworth, defeated 20 competitors at Crockett Junior High to claim the Reeves County spelling bee title. She correctly spelled mocha to beat Bessie Haynes and matrimony to seal the win and earn a trip to the regional finals in Lubbock on April 10. The field included contestants from Austin Elementary Balmorroa Barstow and Lamar Elementary as well as Crockett Junior High and Za vala, with Hepworth overcoming chicken pox to stay in the race.
Blustery north winds stirred dust and mixed snow and rain showers across the Texas Panhandle and parts of East Texas. Tornado funnels were sighted near Willis and near Lometa, with hail reported north of Henderson. Temperatures ranged from 40s to 90s as storms moved through the region.
Pecos residents can watch Pecos Monahans televised event at 7 p.m. Saturday as ABC affils KMOM TV air Almost Anything Goes. Three downtown merchants Penneys Woolworth Anthony’s join moonlight sale 7 to 10 p.m. with a chance to win a $50 gift certificate for shoppers at Anthony’s downtown store.
Congressional candidate George McAlmon spoke to Presidio County residents in El Paso about replacing the toll bridge with a publicly owned six lane border crossing to Ojinaga Mexico. He cited high tolls 60 cents per vehicle 10 cents per pedestrian and 60 for cattle trucks plus per head fees.
Phillip Tyree, a five year Pecos resident and Texas A M graduate, announces his bid for one of two open city council seats in the April 3 election. He cites experience with Duval Corporation and Culberson County plant as basis to improve city finances and services. He and wife Cherry reside at 1805 Iowa St with two children and attend St Mark's Episcopal Church.
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