School Banquet Honors Outstanding Athletes
A high school banquet Tuesday night honored athletic teams with awards from coaches Tommie Randle Bill King and Brent Mc Williams. Noberto Valerio received football, Ismael Lujan and Emiteria Alvarez won basketball, Jaime Rodriguez and Connie Granado led track, Danny Brijalba earned tennis, and Juan Ornelas Rosa Sanchez plus Johnnie Baeza Yolanda Muniz received outstanding and fighting heart honors. Dr. Paul Pierce of Sul Ross spoke to a full house.
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Paul Pierce
Sul Ross
Tommie Randle
Bill King
Brent McWilliams
Noberto Valerio
Ismael Lujan
Emiteria Alvarez
Jaime Rodriguez
Connie Granado
Danny Brijalba
Juan Ornelas
Rosa Sanchez
Fighting Heart
Johnnie Baeza
Yolanda Muniz
School Menu and Community Notes from Balmorhea
Weekly school meals listed with lasagne and chicken fried steak among options. Aides visited the fire station, toured City Hall, and viewed taxes and bills. Balmorhea Federal Credit Union met Tuesday with officers and loans announced. Chamber of Commerce to plan Summer Festival. Local hires and residents mentioned. emergency medical technology classes scheduled in Midland. Barn dance drew a small crowd. Kingston Ranch repairs underway.
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C.T. Gray
Catherine Farrington
Balmorhea Federal Credit Union
Jay Jones
Bob Moore
Delbert Mooney
Amy McIntire
Frankie Kingston
Sylvesta Sanchez
Head Start Class Led by Elizabeth Peters Near Sara Gosa
A kindergarten group from Sara Gosa led by teacher Elizabeth Peters participates in an early education session. The brief notes the class focus and instructor but lacks further details.
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Saragosa
Elizabeth Peters
Noon market report shows broad stock losses and rate worries
The noon trading session in New York features declines across indices as investors fret over renewed interest rate concerns. The Dow drops to 937.58 with broad NYSE losses and a lighter volume tally, while Lockheed leads active trading and grain and livestock notes follow in brief market items.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
NYSE
Federal Reserve
Fed
Lockheed
American Stocks Exchange
Amarillo
Tex
Cash Grain
Chicago
Windmill customers win special utility rate in New York
The New York Public Service Commission approved Consolidated Edison plan to buy back excess windmill power and allow up to 25 wind turbines in NYC to connect to the grid. Each unit up to 10 kilowatts, with a 4.96 dollar minimum, plus meter charges and a 6.80 dollar per kilowatt surcharge. Excess energy paid at about 2.5 cents per kilowatt hour.
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Albany
N.Y
State Public Service Commission
Consolidated Edison Co
Con Ed
Mahattan
Don Edison
PSC
New York City
Export cotton sales soar into new marketing year
Washington AP reports export sales of cotton surged with contracts for next season. For the week ended April 24, 108,600 bales were sold for delivery in the current marketing year ending July 31, raising 1976 77 sales to 4,980,900 bales.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Marfa Production Credit to Meet Next Friday in Beta Building
The 43rd Annual Meeting of the Marfa Production Credit Association stockholders will be in Marfa next Friday at the Beta Building on Highway 17 near Highway 90. Jack Barton, newly elected president of the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Houston, will be the principal speaker.
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Marfa Pca
MARFA
Marfa Production Credit Association
Beta
Highway 17
Highway 90
Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Houston
Jack Barton
R.J
Rip'’ Adams
Odessa
Odessa College
Wrangler Hall
Gulf
West Second
Miles Eckert
Fall webworm begins early across many trees
The fall webworm creates dirty white webs on branch ends feeding on leaf surfaces. Eggs hatch into caterpillars that form webs and later cocoons, with a second generation appearing in late summer. Control focuses on removing early webs and applying labeled pesticides such as carbaryl, Bacillus thuringiensis, chlordane, malathion, or toxaphene.
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Trans-Pecos
House panel reverses on foreign oil imports control
The House Government Operations Committee voted 24 to 17 to reject Rep. John Conyers’s plan to have a new agency within the energy department act as the sole importer of foreign crude and petroleum products. The panel backed keeping foreign oil under big U.S. oil company control and criticized the proposal as creating an oil dictatorship. A Senate compromise meanwhile edged toward sharing pricing authority with a three member regulatory board.
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Washington
House
U.S
John Conyers
D-Mich
Senate
White House
Energy Department
Carter
Conyers
Rep
L.H. Fountain
Dn.c
United States
Calendar of Pecos area events for the weekend and week
A calendar listing weekend and weekday activities in Pecos. Items include a Saturday high school rodeo bake sale at Safeway from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., bake sale by Order of Eastern Star, and various club meetings at local venues including Senior Center and Lions Den.
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Safeway
Order of Eastern Star
Woolworth and Safeway
S. Cedar
Evening Lions Club
American Motor Inn
Amistad Lions Club
Lions den
Pecos
Chaparral Village
Cedar
Pecos Alcoholics Anonymous
Al-Anon
S. Oak St
Tops TX
St. Community Council
Saragosa Hall
Austin Elementary
Austin
Business and Professional Women's Club
Federation
Pecos Art Association
John J. Dorr
Fort Davis
T.C. Slack
Missouri
Senior Citizens Center
Senior Citizens Board
Senior Center
P.m
Texas highway safety plan eyed for 12 to 18 months
District engineers from across Texas met to discuss spending 240 million dollars to improve highways. Luther DeBerry, director of the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation, said the 26 engineers’ recommendations will guide a statewide safety and rehabilitation assessment over the next 12 to 18 months.
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Austin, Tex
Texas
Luther DeBerry
State Department of Highways and Public Transportation
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Chamber of Commerce
Ruben Carrasco
Duval Company
Balmorhea
Louise Adams
Ray Brown
Kansas
Midland
Rick
Johnnie Kingston
Kingston Ranch
Allen Miller
Joe Prew
Briscoe
Sid Rich
Doug Pendergras
Texas Nursing Home Association
By Frankie Kingston
Oor
Dow Jones
Indus
Associated Press
Alcoa
At&t
Armco
Ad Rich
Beth Sil
Borden
Brit. Pet
Cat Trac
Celanese
Chrysler
Sve
Coca Cola
Dow Chem
duPont
Eastman
Exxon
Fairchild Cam
Ford
Elec
Gen Foods
Mirs
Gen Tel
Gen Tire
Goodrich
Great
A&p
Gulf Oil
Glf St Ui
IBM
Int Paper
Jhn-Man
John Joh
Litton
Marat Oil
Mobil Oil
Monsanto
Penney
Phill Pet
RCA
Sears
Sony
Sou Pac
Oii
Oil Ind
Sun Co
Texaco
UN Carbide
Uniroyal
US Steel
Woolworth Xerox
Big Spring
Harry Spannaus
Webb Air Force Base
Spannaus
Paul Brown
Ron Miller
Pecos Enterprise
Pecos Enterprise, Inc
South Cedar Street
Ken Dulaney
Peggy McCracken
Nova Gutierrez
Diane Osborn
Doris Welch
Ruben Baca
Emily Galindo
Carlos Nichols
Mary Carpenter
Reeves County
Reeves
Ward
Loving
Culberson
Jetf
Morning Tops Club
Federation Parlor
Big T
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