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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1970
Page
3
Pecos Public Schools will run a broad summer program including weight training track golf and a basketball clinic for boys. Programs run June 8 to July 17 except track June 2 to July 17 with a June 6 meet at Andrews. The basketball clinic runs June 8 to 19.
Funeral services are at 3 this afternoon for Mrs. Lahoma Roberts 48 who died Tuesday morning in Memorial Hospital. The rites are at North Temple Baptist Church with Rev. Butler Smith officiating. Interment will be in Fairview Cemetery.
The SSA reports 34,434 residents in Texas 16th District received 2,599,000 monthly as of year end 1969, with a 15 percent increase retroactive to January 1. Totals by county include El Paso 27,446 recipients and 2,062,000 dollars and Reeves 1,325 recipients and 91,000 dollars, among others.
Scotch foursome play is scheduled to start this afternoon at the Pecos Golf Course with tee off between 5 and 5 30 p m. A $1 entry fee will fund prizes, and the weekly format is planned each Tuesday after work hours.
Diane Simpson daughter of Mr and Mrs Harold Simpson will receive a B S from the University of Texas at El Paso in commencement services. She is a 1966 Pecos High School graduate with a 4 0 grade point average majoring in English and plans to teach Speech at an El Paso charm school this summer and seek a teaching post with the El Paso school system in the fall.
Guy H. Dalrymple of Beaumont was installed as the Texas Hospital Association president at the convention closing in Houston. W. Wilson Turner was named president-elect. Horace M. Cardwell received the Earl M. Collier award for admin excellence.
The U S Senate approved a bill to create four new federal judgeships in Texas. The measure adds judges for the northern, southern, western and eastern districts, approved on Wednesday.
T H Laurance died this morning about six in Odessa Medical Center Hospital after a long illness. Funeral services are pending at Pecos Funeral Home. Surviving are his widow Nelda and one son Paul, both of Pecos. The Senate passage was the final congressional action on a bill creating 58 new federal district judgeships in 25 states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
The largest HCJC class in Big Spring history included the 1000th graduate. John R. Oglesby Pecos received an associate degree as 101 graduates earned degrees May 14 in the college auditorium. Valedictorian Linda Jean Massey Big Spring had a 4.00 average. salutatorian Billy J. Cook Garden City posted 3.99.
Pecos residents are asked to verify their inclusion in the census. Harold Meyer urges all to call 445-2406 to ensure no one is overlooked. Donations to the Ralph Bradley Fund can be made at First National or Security State Banks to help with Memorial Hospital medical expenses.
Casualty notice from Washington AP reports Army Sgt Gary L Cox of Pasadena Texas died in Vietnam not from enemy wounds. He was married to Jo A Cox of 1404 E Thomas St.
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