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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1968
Page
1
The Pecos Public Schools will operate a summer session at Pecos High School for students in grades 9 through 12. The program runs June to July with morning classes 7:30 to 11:45 and no formal graduation for summer grads. Tuition is 24 dollars for two hour classes and 48 dollars for four hour classes.
N F Chapman, a Pecos oil promoter and land developer born in Mississippi in 1884, died at Midland Memorial Hospital after a three week illness. Services were set for 2:00 p m at Ellis Funeral Chapel Midland with burial in Resthaven Memorial Park. He left a legacy in wildcat oil ventures and the Chapman Oil Field. He is survived by his wife Ava, five daughters, one son, sixteen grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Pallbearers listed from Pecos and Midland. Memorials to Intensive Care Unit and the First Presbyterian Church of Midland.
Texas Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association reports Reeves County wells generate about 10 million dollars yearly to the local economy. The county produced 7.1 million dollars in oil and 2.9 million in natural gas in 1966, with oil statewide rising to 1.05 billion barrels in 1967.
Local Pecos stores plan May 30 Memorial Day closure. Minutes from the January 26 Merchants Committee note the holiday list for 1968 including Independence Day Labor Day Thanksgiving and Christmas. Post Office Reeves County Courthouse and city and chamber offices will also close.
Barstow High announces top two students for valedictory and salutatory. John Carl Allgood leads with 94.44 average and Johnny Collins follows with 88.87. Graduation will be in the Barstow High School auditorium Thursday at 8 p.m. Roddy Harrison, a Pecos attorney, will deliver the main speech.
Reeves County car owners pay the bulk of the $169,000 local share for the glamorous 41 000 mile interstate building program via gasoline taxes and auto-use levies. Transportation Secretary Boyd notes costs have risen about 20 percent since 1965, delaying completion to 1975 and adding about $1 184 000 more local payments.
Navy Lieutenant David L. Robison, son of Mr and Mrs R A Robison of Pecos, received his seventh Air Medal for meritorious aerial flight as an aviator with Attack Carrier Air Wing Two aboard USS Ranger. He helped carry out combat strikes in Southeast Asia. The Trans Pecos Society of Petroleum Engineers set a Ladies Night dinner for Monahans May 27 at 6 30 p.m. at Monahans Country Club with Ed Moses speaking on The Five Ws of Investing.
Funeral services for Floyd Kermit McNeil 52 will be held tomorrow at 10 a.m. in the Pecos Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. W. Leslie Smith officiating. Interment will follow in Fairview Cemetery. He died May 16 in Needles Arizona and was born September 11, 1915 in Pauls Valley Oklahoma. He is survived by two brothers L D McNeil of Pecos and G W McNeil of Prescott Arizona and a sister Mrs Frances Stephens of Phoenix.
Pecos High School seniors begin exams Thursday and Friday as the school year ends. Baccalaureate services are Sunday at 8 p.m. and graduation exercises follow Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the high school auditorium.
Pecos youths Hill Glover and Todd Avery were selected to attend the 1968 Texas American Legion Boys State at the University of Texas in Austin from June 8 to 15. They will study state government, participate in party organization and campaigns, and may advance to Boys Nation in Washington, D.C. with top participants.
A one person fatal crash on Highway 285 seven miles south of the New Mexico line killed Ruth Hunt Sims, 50, of Jal. Investigating officers say the 1965 Buick station wagon left the road, rolled in a dry wash, and she died of head and chest injuries at St Francis Hospital Carlsbad. Officers Floyd South Warren Nutt and Joe Hicks led the inquiry.
The Pecos Junior High Spring Concert will be presented by the band and choir at Pecos High School auditorium at 8 p.m. Friday May 24. Wade Weiler will conduct the band and choir and awards will be made to deserving band students.
At a Pecos Valley District meeting, Dr. James J. Hefner was named District Scout Commissioner and Jesse Stephens became Health and Safety Committee chair, succeeding Howard Lamkin who will relocate to Monahans. Garland Matthews joins the district committee as Camping and Activities chair.
The Pecos High School auditorium will host Senior Day at 2 p.m. on Wednesday featuring a unique program from the senior class including the presentation of the class will and prophecy. Awards such as the Letha Precit and Bill Dean Memorial will be given, and the yearbook The Eagle will be distributed after the program.
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