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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1979
Page
2
Senior Citizens of Barstow will meet Tuesday November 13 at noon in the Community Center for a covered dish luncheon and program. J R Wooten will be the guest speaker. All senior citizens are invited.
Josephine A Upchurch 69 longtime Barstow resident and grocery store owner died at Medical Center Hospital Odessa after an illness. Services were at Pecos Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Barstow Cemetery. Born August 9 1910 in Pueblo Colorado she was a member of the First Christian Church. Survived by daughter Betty Allgood Barstow sister Elizabeth Walker El Paso and three grandchildren.
New York stocks rose in light trading with the Dow at 810.58, up 4.10, as blue chips gained and losses outpaced. NYSE composite rose .24 to 57.98, AMEX value index up 1.66 to 210.40, volume 9.17 million in two hours. Cotton futures firm, grain quotes steady amid holiday thinness. Dow Jones averages show modest gains across 30 Industrials, Trans, Utilities, totaling 282.77 up 0.84.
Community calendar lists Lions Club at American Motor Inn and Hu Puff Quilting Bee, senior luncheon at Reeves County Hospital, and various club meetings across Pecos Barstow Balmorhea and Rio Pecos areas. Also shows immunization drive, TOPS groups, and Rotary Jaycees events.
Reeves County registered voters will soon receive inconspicuous mail cards meant to replace expired ones and flag address changes. If card is not updated by March 1, 1980, voters risk being dropped from the rolls, potentially losing voting eligibility next November.
The Annual Festive Foods Program is set for tomorrow at 7 p.m. in the CPS Reddy Room. Millie Villalobos, aided by Linda Thompson and the 4-H girls, will demonstrate holiday foods and decorations, with refreshments and door prizes for attendees. Public invitation to share holiday ideas.
The Governing Body of the Permian Basin Health Systems Agency will hold its regular meeting Monday November 19 at 7 30 p m in the conference room of the Permian Basin Regional Air Terminal Building. Topics include 1980 governing body membership and new officers 1980 as well as review for approval of grant application and proposed budget for Public Hearing December 1. The agency recently completed a revised draft of the Permian Basin Health Systems Plan for 1980 and the 1980 81 Annual Implementation Plan.
Pecos Ambulance Service dispatched multiple times from Thursday to Sunday to locations around Mentone Pecos Inn and Odessa. Calls include transport requests for Frank Corrales and a woman, a nonessential transport, and a man on E Highway 80. Criminal mischief involved a damaged 1973 Ford pickup and a pried east door at Safeway. An accident on Cedar and Third involved a 14 year old and a 24 year old driver with citations. Fires included dumpster blazes on E Fifth and Elm blocks.
Jeanie Cooksey, a Pecos native born in Peoria Illinois, grew up here with her parents Mr and Mrs Bill Cooksey and brothers Clay and Scott. A Crockett Junior High and Pecos High School graduate class of 1973, she earned degrees from Texas Tech University in 1978. She teaches eighth grade American History at Crockett Junior High after returning this past August and remains active in Pecos civic life through the Women's Division of the Chamber of Commerce and First Christian Church.
Mark Allen Moore of Connecticut was arrested after being seen leaving Ysidio Ortega residence at 2344 S Eddy. Sergio Ramirez of Space 32 DeVilla Trailer Park was reportedly stabbed Sunday at the Rainbow bar. Hector Montano of 1917 Ivey was arrested for alleged attempted murder and jailed per the Sheriff's Department.
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