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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1971
Page
8
PECOS AP report says chief lowers patrolman height to attract Mexican youths but only ten applicants meet the new standard and none are selected. Tensions rose after a 1971 shooting when police searched the Rodriguez home for gunmen, injuring a couple. Additional recruiting efforts target black non-coms at Ft. Sill and a tour van to minority neighborhoods.
May board report outlines staff work with divisions and committees including Pecos Little League, Tourism and Convention, and Medical Development. Duval Corp employs about 1.2 percent of Pecos workers with a 6 percent across the board raise as Sulphur trains rise to five weekly. Plans include Fiddlers Contest, square dancing, beard growing, and rodeo events. new Texas Land of Contrast book offered by the Highway Department. Amendment 4 support. and construction projects like Border Coast road work, Salt Cedars clearing, a new gas plant, and Texas Electric Company facilities at Wickett. Office stats show April activity: 439 incoming mail, 164 calls, 301 visitors, 844 outgoing mail, 193 calls.
About 15 000 people attended Rhodesia's first pop music festival at Glamis Stadium. Police cut power after the event ran one hour over the legal limit, citing crowd behavior as unexpectedly orderly.
Texas farmers report widespread rain last week but remain far behind schedule on major crops. District notes show irrigation and dryland planting in Panhandle and South Plains, with cattle in fair to good condition and grazing improving in some areas.
Dr. Eldon Curtis Lewis of Wichita State University named dean of the School of Business at West Texas State University, succeeding Dr. C. C. Callarman who retires under a mandatory policy but remains on the faculty. The piece also notes widespread agricultural conditions across Texas counties with varying moisture, crop prospects, and livestock markets.
Dr. Ernest B. Speck, professor at Sul Ross State University, is named editor of the Texas Folklore Society 1972 collection honoring Mody C. Boatright. The 200 page volume will include 12 to 15 Boatright essays and an introduction by Speck.
An interdenominational career development center may open in fall to counsel church professionals in Texas Oklahoma New Mexico Arkansas and Louisiana. Rev William M Gould Jr chairs the committee pursuing the Southwest Career Development Center with a $30 000 goal of which $17 600 has pledges from the Roman Catholic Church and eight Protestant denominations. Research began after a February ecumenical consultation at SMU Perkins School of Theology.
The column outlines daily zodiac guidance for Aries through Pisces for Monday May 17 1971. It notes personal traits for those born today Edward Jenner is cited as a birthdate, with advice to channel energy into disciplined, constructive pursuits and to leverage favorable planetary aspects for study, travel, or leadership across various fields.
In Gloucester two Anglican clerics form an association to uphold traditional doctrine and oppose ecumenism. They aim to reject proposed reunion with Methodists and claim converts in seventeen English counties.
A humorous summer planning note outlines a game to survive school vacation with a jet set of quirky rules and point values. The author lists actions like mowing the lawn with a slug bite face and moth storage stunts, promising large scores for mischief and chaos.
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