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Pecos Enterprise

Location

Pecos, Texas, United States of America

Date

Nov 23, 1979

Page

2

Holiday gas prices top $1 a gallon in Texas

A Texas survey of 419 service stations shows premium gasoline at full service averaging $1.001 per gallon and premium unleaded at $1.002, with regular and dieselPrices up about one cent from last month. Most stations remain open weekends and holidays. 6 percent operate 24 hours, 2 percent out of fuel. No supply problems expected over Thanksgiving weekend.

Texas American Automobile Association Ber

Stocks Edge Higher In Quiet Post Holiday Trading

New York stock prices advanced modestly as gainers outweighed losers about two to one at mid day. Dow Jones rose 4.27 to 811.69. GM up to 51 and Ford up, Chrysler down. NYSE composite +.35 to 59.53. volume 11.65 million. Cotton futures fell with spot prices mixed. Wheat and grain prices listed for Chicago markets.

NEW York New York Stock Exchange Macmillan American Broadcasting General Motors Ford Chrysler American Motors NYSE American Stock Exchange New York Cotton Exchange

Pecos Schools Breakfast and Lunch Menu Outline

Pecos Schools share the weekly breakfast and lunch menus for Monday through Friday and for each day lists entrees sides and desserts. Items include pancakes and bacon biscuits enchiladas roast beef charburgers fish sticks and multiple sides with milk, juice, or fruit. All menus subject to last minute changes.

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Volunteer Corner seeks help for aged and disabled

The Enterprise highlights volunteer needs from the Department of Human Resources in Pecos. Calls for bridge players, Christmas decorations for The Way Inn, volunteers to prepare merchandise for the Helping Hand Store, and offers to provide foster grandparents or relatives for the holidays. Readers urged to call 445 5487 to help.

Department of Human Resources Pecos

Alliance group meets at St James Church

The Ministerial Alliance met Tuesday at St. James Baptist Church. Host pastor Rev R M Montgomery with Rev F L Covington as assistant. Lunch featured fried chicken and quail, string beans, rolls, vegetable salad, peach cobbler. Rev Ben Gillespie presides. next meeting set for Tuesday at Primera Iglesia Bautista Mexicana at Eighth and Sycamore.

St. James Baptist Church R.M. Montgomery F.L. Covington Willie Lee Mayes Ben Gillespie Primera Iglesia Bautista Mexicana Sycamore

Optimistic banquet set for tomorrow in Pecos

The Evening Optimist Club of Pecos will close Youth Appreciation Week with a banquet at Saragosa Hall on Sixth and Peach Street tomorrow at 8 p.m. About 60 local youths will be honored for their student and community leadership. A barbecue dinner will be served. Relatives, friends, and the public are invited. Tickets cost 2.50 per plate and may be bought from club members or at the door.

Optimist Club of Pecos Saragosa Hall Sixth Peach Street

Texas Almanac 1980 81 milestone edition released

The 50th edition of the Texas Almanac and State Industrial Guide is now off the presses marking a major publishing milestone. The book covers Texas weather politics economy parks and geography with updates on industries and a 704 page compendium featuring maps and a special Gulf Coast article prepared by the Dallas Museum of Natural History.

Galveston Lee Milazzo Southern Methodist University Dallas Morning News Texas Almanac Willard Richardson Galveston News Enterprise Dallas A.H. Belo & Co Belo Corporation Dallas News Robert A. Nesbitt Galveston Historical Foundation Texas Hill Country Lyndon Johnson Pecos Gulf of Coast of Texas Dallas Museum of Natural History Texas Gulf Coast Richard M. Morehead Austin

Obituary: Gwen K. Jackson 52 Pecos resident

Gwen K. Jackson, 52, died at her home at 2022 Hackberry at 4 50 p m Thursday. Services 2 p m Saturday Pecos Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Evergreen Cemetery. Born November 27 1926 in Dallas she lived in Pecos 26 years moving from Tyler. She was a Church of Christ member survived by husband John son Jeff at home and daughter Joni Benfield of Abilene.

Gwen K. Jackson Hackberry Pecos Funeral Home Chapel Evergreen Cemetery Dallas Pecos Tyler Church of Christ John Jeff Joni Benfield Abilene

Vehicle collision yields citation for failure to yield

Carmela Baeza Hinojos 39 of 906 S Walnut received a citation for failure to yield at 5 14 pm Wednesday after her 1973 Nova hit a 1978 brown Ford driven by Marcelino Natividad 28 of 2401 Seminole Police report Burglarized home TV valued at 75 missing from Helen Kellys residence reported Tuesday at 3 20 pm Stephen Vick 2116 Country Club Drive says bicycle gone from Whites parking lot Nancy Ann Pineda 15 of Trapark Space 53 reported missing Thursday at 9 15

Carmela Baeza Hinojos S. Walnut Marcelino Jose Natividad Helen Kathryn Kelly Pecos Stephen Vick Country Club Drive White Nancy Ann Pineda Trapark Space 53

November 1979 Calendar Page Highlights

Calendar notes for November 1979 show dates and daily entries. The fragment lists a sequence from 12 through 30 with timestamps and a lead line mentioning a calendar in the newspaper.

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Community club schedules and events for Pecos area

Local clubs list weekly meetings across Pecos Balmorhea Barstow and Pecos Jaycees Optimist Rotary and Lions groups with times venues and contact notes. The section ends with a horse racing update from Cornwalls Heights noting Keystone Race Track reached a tentative four year pact averting a shutdown and that racing will proceed as usual.

Cornwells Heights Keystone Race Track Mike Mercer Keystone Bucks County

Barbs on Driving Rules and Self-Reflection

The speaker argues many drivers with ambition ignore road rules and suggests that second thoughts would reduce errors. They comment on politeness and fault finding, and warn that being outweighed or outreached by others can feel suicidal.

Notices in Reeves County Texas judgments and citations

Public notices list two court citations in Reeves County Texas. J Schapiro and wife face suit over land. Frank Joplin seeks trespass to try title to part of Section 36 2N 56W. Chris Spencer case orders termination of parental rights. Billy Parko ordered to appear in county court.

J. Schapiro Reeves County Texas Said County Pecos Frank Joplin J Schapiro Township T&p Ry. Co Reeves and Loving Jack Louis McGowen Billy Parko Christopher Robin Spencer

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