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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1970
Page
3
Fragment from a community column saluting Thanksgiving. The author recalls family gatherings, sings songs about the holiday, and traces Thanksgiving origins from biblical times to Lincoln and Roosevelt, noting wartime changes and a few local newspaper corrections.
Tommy Hooker of Pecos High School led the defensive line selections and earned district honorable mention as an offensive guard. The list includes multiple players from Monahans Andrews Ector Kermit Seminole Ft. Stockton and Kermit with positions from running back to defensive back plus several honorable mentions.
Santa Claus arrives by air Friday November 27 at Pecos Mafivo? Airport at about 2 00 pm. He will ride the fire wagon to the airlawn shopping area then downtown Pecos. Pecos Volunteer Fire Department members assist in greeting children and distributing candies and taking letters to Santa before Christmas Eve.
City and county offices will be closed Thursday and Friday for a long weekend. Normal business resumes Monday.
A nine member welfare study committee urges Texas to raise payments to meet basic human needs and to remove the $80 million constitutional cap on welfare spending. It calls for renamed state agency, quarterly policy approvals, expanded day care for AFDC children, food stamps, and targeted training to break the poverty cycle.
In a rocky ranch area southwest of New Braunfels a light plane crash claimed seven lives. The victims included pilot Gary Jordan of Houston, his wife Frances and their three daughters, plus two friends from Slidell Louisiana. An FAA report noted a Cessna 206 left Houston for Austin with six aboard then proceeded to San Antonio. Recovery was hampered by remote terrain as wreckage spread across a 150 yard area.
Harold Dudley, 46, former Wichita Falls Chamber of Commerce manager, was named chairman of the Texas Employment Commission by Gov. Preston Smith. He replaces Nancy Sayers as the public member on the three person board, which includes labor and management. The commission oversees unemployment benefits, job trends studies, and local employment offices.
The piece notes Dudley's background as campaign manager for Smith in 1966 and 1968, his degrees from Midwestern University and UT Austin, and his aim to boost the Texas Employment Commission's effectiveness in aligning workers with jobs. It lists six year terms and $25 000 salaries for employment commissioners.
Nixon picks four Texas judges won quick Senate judiciary subcommittee approval led by Sen. Tower with support from Sen. Yarborough. Nominees Owen D. Cox Corpus Christi Ro bert M. Hill Dallas William Steger Tyler and John H. Wood Jr San Antonio await full Senate action.
The Associated Press reports steady south winds lifting temperatures across Texas after record lows the day before. Morning readings ranged from 21 degrees above Tuesday in Marfa to 45 in Corpus Christi with cool spots in El Paso Wink Lufkin Midland Texarkana Austin and San Antonio. Clear to partly cloudy skies expected statewide as warming continues.
Johnny Barfield coaches Richland Springs into a bi-district title game against Meridian after a successful season. Barfield, a former Pecos High School student, is the son of Mr and Mrs Jiggs Barfield.
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