Dates for ELS Cotton Referendum Announced
A mail referendum on marketing quotas for 1971 crop extra long staple cotton will be held December 7 through December 11, announced Lou Kilgore, Chairman of the Reeves County ASC Committee. Eligible voters are farmers with an ELS allotment who produced ELS cotton in 1970. Individual allotment notices and ballots will be mailed to ELS cotton farm operators.
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Lou Kilgore
Reeves County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation
ASC
Pima
Sea Island
Sealand
ELS
Secretary of Agriculture
Clifford M. Hardin
Kilgore
Over 7 000 Shots Given In Clinics
The Lions Clubs and Texas Dept of Health sponsored clinics in Pecos Toyah and Barstow areas administered diphtheria and rubella shots to over seven thousand people. A follow up clinic is planned for December 15 16 to complete the immunization series. Those needing a third shot should see their family physician unless free provision is arranged.
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Lions Clubs
Texas Dept. of Health
Progressive
Amistad
Pecos
Toyah
Lions
Tommy Beauchamp
Wiretapping Law Could Help Rule Out Organized Crime
Atty. Gen. Crawford Martin urged Texas judges and prosecutors to pass a wiretap law to curb organized crime, arguing current laws miss criminal orders and that the Mafia reached Texas through legitimate businesses. Lt. Col. Leo Gossett described organized crime in the Southwest and noted efforts to build a statewide anti crime program.
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Austin
Crawford Martin
Martin
Conference On Organized Crime
Texas
Texas Department of Public Safety
Southwest
Gossett
Texas Organized Crime Prevention Council
Cotton Classing Report for Pecos Territory Harvest
The USDA Classing Office processed 11 650 upland cotton samples in the week ending November 13, raising the season total to 33 700 versus 39 000 year earlier. Strict Low Middling led at 19 percent, with Middling 23 percent and Strict Low Middling Plus 8 percent.
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Pecos Territory
USDA
L. L. Wells
Slack Honored by 69th District in Odessa Coliseum
Richard C. Slack received public tributes at a dinner in Odessa with more than 1000 attendees. Dignitaries including Governor Preston Smith lauded his decade in the Texas Legislature, with speeches from local leaders and presentations of a city key and watch. Slack and wife Charlotte accepted the honor, while the Odessa Chuck Wagon Gang served the meal.
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Slack
Richard Slack
Globe Theatre
Odessa
Dick Slack
Jim Reese
Rep
Ector County
Bonnie Dearley
Richard C. Slack
69Th Legislative District
Texas
Culberson
Hudspeth
Loving
Winkler
Ector
Reeves
Preston Smith
Bob Dean
Robert Neal Hughes
Rep. Slack
Austin
W. S. Heatley
Paducah
Gus Mutscher
House of Representatives
E. W. Schmidt
Pecos
Darrell Glover
Ryan
Reeves County
W. E. Cook
G. L. McGuire
Kermit
John West
Wink
Mike Berry
Frank Barton
Loving County
Tom Neely
Norman Breed
Barton
Odessa Chuck Wagon Gang
Coliseum
Smith
Houston
Barbs by Phil Pastoret and the fifths expert
A cryptic column notes Barbs by Phil Pastoret and mentions an expert with fifths who struggled in accounting. It hints at advances in food processing while suggesting an ironic mismatch between talents. The piece blends wit with a nod to industry progress.
Language Workshop by George A Gonzales at Pecos School
George A Gonzales of the University of New Mexico will lead a workshop at Bessie Haynes Elementary in Pecos on Saturday November 21 at 9 am. The session titled Language Learning for Mexican Americans is part of a West Texas Education Center series for teachers focusing on Mexican American students.
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George A. Gonzales
University of New Mexico
Bessie Haynes
Pecos
West Texas Education Center
Midland
Jim Lewis
Adan Salgado
David Mitchell
Lee Tarver
Mississippi State College
Jehovah's Witnesses Schedule Kermit Convention
Dene Lindsey announced that he and another area minister will lead duties at the Pecos congregation circuit convention in Kermit from November 20 to 22 1970. Texas district supervisor E R Brandt and R A McCarroll will speak daily at the Kermit High School auditorium with events including a baptism and a model ministry school and a Sunday address on who will conquer the world in the 1970s.
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Dene Lindsey
Pecos
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Kermit
Lindsey
Stanley Edwards
E. R. Brandt
Texas
Jehovah's Witnesses
R. A. McCarroll
Light West Texas Freeze Nips State as Cold Front Moves Gulfward
The Associated Press reports a light frost across West Texas as a new cold front swept through. Skies stayed clear with high clouds over the Panhandle. Dawn readings dropped to 30 in Dalhart and Lubbock and 32 in Amarillo El Paso San Angelo and Wink. Other towns stayed in the 39 to 40s, with Brownsville at 52 and Galveston at 57. Tuesday afternoon highs ranged from 83 in McAllen and 82 in Alice to 60 in Dalhart.
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Associated Press
West Texas
Gulf of Mexico
Panhandle
Dalhart
Lubbock
Amarillo
el Paso
San Angelo
Wink
Brownsville
Galveston
McAllen
Alice
Unique Crusade Begins Tonight in Pecos at Assembly of God
Early Church on Wheels led by Art and Chris Teague arrives at 2209 South Eddy Pecos for a non denominational crusade through November 29. Services are nightly at 7 30 except Saturdays with daylong door to door witnessing. The fifteen member group has sold possessions to preach Christianity.
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Pecos
Early Church On Wheels
Art
Chris Teague
Assembly of God Church
South Eddy
Lord Jesus Christ
Whiils
Art Teague
Rock and Gem Club to Meet at West of Pecos Museum
The Trans Pecos Rock and Gem Club will hold its regular monthly meeting on Thursday night, November 19 at 8 00 p m at the West of the Pecos Museum. Curtis Carlson will present slides of rock slabs. All interested are invited. Refreshments and a door prize will be provided.
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Trans Pecos Rock & Gem Club
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