Balmorhea Chamber Plans Sign and Projects
Balmorhea Chamber of Commerce met with 11 members. Advertising chairman reports about 300 dollars needed to cover a 1700 sign for Balmorhea on IH 10, to be erected by month’s end. Committee reviews brochure map, museum project, and director appointments.
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Balmorhea Chamber of Commece
Rick’s Cafe
Tony Parker
Gulf Advertising Company
Dicky Schloemer
Dicky Schloemer, Chairwomen of the Brochure Committee, Said That Mrs. Millsapps
Billy Holley
Museum
Main Street
Louise Adams
Kenneth Schloemer
Clarence Crenshaw
William Sprinkle
Chamber of Commerce
Moon
Victor St. John
Balmorhea Methodist Church
el Paso
Carlsbad
N.M
Carlsbads
San Jose Plaza
Denny Moore
Balmorhea Community News Highlights Local Events
Balmorhea residents note visits by Thelma Massey and Cowboy Mendenhall, upcoming Balmorhea City Council and City Board of Equalization meetings, and new Balmorhea State Park maps. Student activities include a first car wash raising about 60 dollars, senior class parties, and Catholic Club bingo and Mexican supper. High School and beginners bands performed their spring concert, with 19 in the big band and nine in the beginners. Credit Union directors to meet to discuss old and new loans and delinquents.
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Bebe Bottoms
Barbara Humphries
Jey Lynn Kerley
Louise Patrick
Sue Toone
Lois Ward
Bottoms
George Toone
Catholic Center
Louisa Patrick
Credit Union
Barron Moore
Mixed stock market gains and livestock report update
New York markets turn slightly lower amid profit taking after a five month rally. Dow Jones slips to 844.73 as NYSE shows a small edge for gainers while Imperial Corp. of America rises to 9 1/8. LIVESTOCK AND CASH GRAIN reports cover cattle hogs sheep and grain prices across Fort Worth and Chicago. Locusts are unable to fly until body temperature hits about 70 degrees, needing sun to warm up.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Imperial Corp. of America
American Stock Exchange
NYSE
Syntex
Amex
Fort Worth
Tex
Two dollar bills and the early American economy
The Continental Congress authorized two dollar bills in June 1776 as bills of credit for defense. About 49,000 notes circulated, but inflation during the Revolutionary War eroded demand for paper money, giving rise to the phrase not worth a Continental.
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Continental Congress
America
World Almanac Notes
CVAE Boys Reach San Angelo State Meet in VOCT
CVAE boys from Zavala Junior High competed in the VOCT contest at San Angelo on April 12. Adan Rodriguez earned second in electro welding among ninth graders. Danny Reyes won first in cutting torch with Faustino Flores second and Danny Bustos third. Ernest Natividad took third in carpentry. Ray Pena placed fourth in wheel balancing.
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Texas
San Angelo
Pentry
Adan Rodriguez
Danny Bustos
Faustino Flores
Danny Reyes
Gene Wilkins
Faustino
Danny
Gene
Ernest Natividad
Ray Pena
Two Fort Stockton men charged with arson in motel blaze
Russell Prieskorn and Michael Lay, aged 18 and 19, remained jailed on $25,000 bond after being charged with second degree arson. The March 26 fire destroyed about 40 motel units and the Sands Motel office, with damages estimated over $300,000 plus losses of personal items and a late model car. The motel is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Phil McClure.
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Fort Stockton
Texas
Russell Prieskorn
Michael Lay
Phil McClure
CVAE girls host mothers tea party on Friday
CVAE girls plan a mother tea event from 11 to 12 Friday with party hats and flowers made from dish cloths as favors. Invitations have been sent and refreshments of tea punch cake and cookies will be served at a decorated table on this special day.
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Lupe Lujan
CVAE
Pecos
Salvador Lara
Eagles
New York
California
Auto burglar steals tapes and TV in city theft spree
Police report multiple burglaries and thefts over the weekend. Ernest Ballard’s car on Nebraska Street lost eight tape spools after a break in. a TV at Lorenzo Fierro’s home at Air Base Apartments disappeared between Saturday evening and Sunday morning. Other incidents include wind shield damage to a pickup on Third and Eddy, coin machines stolen from Longhorn Bar, a purse recovered with little cash, a tire slash at Ramada Inn, and bar burglaries at Avalon Club and Sharon Joe’s Lounge with various coin and cash losses.
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Ernest Ballard
Nebraska St
Ballard
Longhorn Bar
Third St
Butler Smith
Candida Turin
Pecan St
Smith
Bill Edgar
Ramada Inn
Edgar
Avalon Club
Cedar St
Charles Smith
Sharon Joe’s
13Th
Cedar Streets
Pecos area events calendar listings
Calendar of coming events in Pecos items Monday Lions Club Amistad Lions Club Eagle Band Boosters program by sixth grade band at Austin Elementary PTA TOPS Club Alcoholics Anonymous Social Security rep Young Homemakers parade float Evening Lions Club and more. Country Music jamboree Saturday night at Gibson's parking lot.
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Pecos
Austin Elementary
Gibson's
Deaths Vernon G. Hudson 65 Pecos resident burial today
Services for Vernon G. Hudson aged 65 were held at 2 p.m. in Pecos Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Fairview Cemetery. He died at his home Saturday. born August 18, 1909 in Gordonville and resident of Pecos since 1954. Survived by two sons Coy Hudson and Vearle Hudson, daughter Glendalyne Taylor, brother Floyd Hudson, seven grandchildren and one great grandchild. Also notes about the Federal Reserve System history.
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Vernon G. Hudson
Pecos Funeral Home
Fairview
Hudson
Gordonville
Pecos
Coy Hudson
Vearle Hudson
Lubbock
Glendalyne Taylor
Water Valley
Floyd Hudson
San Angelo
Pecos Enterprise Buckner News Alliance Note
Pecos Enterprise notes Buckner News Alliance as the owner and mail processor for this edition, indicating second class postage paid at Pecos Texas. This imprint confirms the newspaper affiliation and mailing category for distribution in Pecos and surrounding areas.
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Pecos
Texas
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Nan
Pat Brijalba
Amelia Carrillo
By Frankie Kingston
Ralph Boyington
Jal
City Board of Equalization
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Jake Damerson
Pat's
Amy McIntire
Buck Towler
Frankie Kingston
Ruidosa Hot Springs
Tissie Ann Elliott
Georgetown University
Wes Elliott
Nan Cate
Verhalen
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Balmorhea High School
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Centennial TS
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Zavala Junior High
VOCT
Odessa
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Odessa Country Club
Linkletter
National Coordinating Council On
Ector County
Austin
Ben T. Reyes
D-Houston
Midland
Western Pollution Control, Inc
Petroleum Analytical Laboratory Service
la Voz de
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Lorenzo Fierro
Apts
Winshield
Kenneth Clark
Alamo St
Clark
Third and
Eddy Streets
Lions Club
American Motor Inn
Amistad Lions Club
Lions den
Eagle Band
Tops Club
E. 10Th St
Senior Citizen's
Social Security
Community Action Office
Jobe and Son
W. 2Nd
Lions
Holiday Inn
Rotary Club
Alcoholics Anonymous
S. Oak St
MTWIF_S
Vernon Hudson
Federal Reserve System
Central Banking System
United States
Congress
Federal Reserve Bank
Buckner News Alliance
John Pitts
Peggy McCracken
Lynn Webb
Becky Rivera
Diane Osborn
Mary Shute
Ruben Baca
Emily Galindo
Carlos Nichols
Joyce Miller
Reeves County
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