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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1968
Page
1
Mr and Mrs Roy Pearce of Pecos won a Ford Motor Company trip awarded for outstanding January February and March sales. The couple flew to New York and boarded the S S Independent for a ten day cruise to Bermuda San Juan Puerto Rico and St Thomas on Ford’s tab. Out of 7 031 dealerships in the United States 500 were award winners.
Toyah and Grandfalls school groups visit Pecos for field days on May 9 and May 14. Over 200 students from nearly 30 area schools join tours arranged by the Chamber of Commerce to showcase local attractions and civic sites.
A memorial plaque and the ten acre Bessie Haynes Memorial Park were dedicated Sunday in Pecos with about thirty residents and civic leaders present. The Dean family gifted the park in 1950 in memory of Bessie Haynes, a longtime Pecos employee who died in 1960, after travel and local remarks by Charles Haynes of Long Beach.
A Pecos civic effort aims to gather 100 names for a blood drive list. Gordon Holiday, newly hired hospital administrator, and Richard Casey, the laboratory technician, lead the blood collection push to save lives at the hospital.
Phillips Petroleum announces C and M Oil Company of Pecos will distribute Phillips 66 products in the area. Capshaw, Miller, and Miller own C and M Oil at 1320 West Third Street with Capshaw to run the firm.
The Texas Highway Department honored Pecos maintenance staff with no accident awards after decades of service. The article also details Reeves County election results with winners in county and district races, referendums on liquor by the drink, horseracing betting, and milk price fixing, plus party votes and local leadership names.
The Reeves County Memorial Hospital Auxiliary will hold its annual awards and membership luncheon on May 14 at 1 00 p m at Pecos Valley Country Club. Mrs Rankin invites interested women to attend and make reservations by calling 447 2574. The group supports the hospital with charitable projects including new furniture and bed, service tray, bedside table, dresser, chairs and drapes. Mrs Bill Calloway serves as president this year.
Byron Looker of Odessa was killed when his 1967 Plymouth failed to make a sharp right turn at the Highway 80 and Interstate 20 access road junction 3.1 miles east of Barstow. The 8:25 p.m. crash involved no other vehicles and Looker, employed by Permian Mud Service, was alone. DPS Patrolmen Warren Nutt and Floyd South investigated.
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