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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1968
Page
1
A patriotic and faith based exhortation to find gratitude amid upheaval. The piece urges belief in God America and community and promotes living with thanks through faith and generosity as a guiding light for tomorrow.
A two-vehicle collision on Highway 17 near a Pecos service station injured five people Saturday night. Da vid Lujan Vega Jr., 22, of Ojinaga Mexico drove the pickup. Ignacio Chavez Chavez, 18, led the other car. Chavez and two passengers were treated at Memorial Hospital and one was moved to Medical Center Hospital. Vega and another passenger sustained minor injuries. Vega was cited for an unsafe left turn.
Pecos Jaycees urge toy donations for their annual Toys for Toys project. Barrels are at Safeway and Wacker's parking lots for donated toys to be repaired and given to underprivileged children at Christmas. Doll clothing will be sewn by Jaycee wives. volunteers may contact Donna Patterson at 447-2607.
Advertisers are notified that all advertising including classified and display must reach the Pecos Enterprise office by noon Wednesday due to the Thanksgiving holiday and store closures.
The Pecos Junior High Band led by Drum Major Susan Sikes and director Charles Nail swept Division I honors at the UIL Marching and Twirling contest in Odessa. Twirlers Luann Hamilton Carol Casimir Becky Rogers Nancy Carpenter Jimmie Ann Hagar and Debbie Bradley earned Division I solos with Carpenter Casimir Rogers and Hamilton winning ensemble firsts.
Funeral services are set for Ada Belle Miller 90 at First Presbyterian Church Barstow with Rev J H Freeland officiating. She died Sunday at Pecos Nursing Home at 2 48 am and will be buried in Barstow Cemetery. Survivors include daughter Frances Manner of Pecos and two sisters P A Hayes Barstow and Lon Ducey Kansas City.
The obsequy for Pearl Marjorie Cowan 58 was held in Van Horn Friday at 430 p m with Champion Funeral Home in charge. Burial was in Van Horn Cemetery. She died Thursday in Providence Memorial Hospital El Paso after a brief illness. Rev John Bryd officiated. Survivors include her husband Bill a Van Horn rancher for 15 years previously lived in Rock Springs and Pecos. Attending from Pecos were Mrs Will Cowan Mr and Mrs Tommy Cowan and Cindy Miss Myrtle Cowan Mr and Mrs C T Mount Mr and Mrs Barney Hubbs and Lacy Hart. From El Paso Mr and Mrs Monroe Hart. Pallbearers were Woody Merritt Tom Erskine Dickie Wadley Cecil Brown Pecos Jay Capps Van Horn and Joe Gillespie Mentone.
Ralph Holm won the 30.06 Winchester model 70 rifle with a V7 scope in a drawing sponsored by the Evening Lions Club on Saturday at KIM studios. Fred Dominguez, the project chairman, announced the winner. The Downtown Lions Club plans a Wednesday drawing for a 270 Winchester rifle with scope at the luncheon to raise funds for glasses for needy children.
The 107 inch telescope at McDonald Observatory on Mount Locke will be dedicated at 11 a.m. Officials from the University of Texas NASA NSF and the National Foundation attend. Built with NASA support the telescope will study planetary atmospheres and solar system objects with high optical and spectrographic resolution. It becomes the world’s third largest and opens favorable observing opportunities during Mars oppositions in 1969 1971 and 1973.
In a defensive game Pecos Monahans Eagles fail to score as Lobos win 21 to 2. Rickey Wagner scored for the Lobos and Pecos}'
Rescue teams ha ve scoured Balmorhea Lake for Johnny Wayne Pharr, 3, presumed drowned after his grandmother Mrs Zeda Hammack, 38, was found dead in the lake. Divers faced frigid water and high winds as crews from DPS Pecos Sheriff and multiple bodies searched 10 to 30 feet deep, aided by boats and a long marker line.
Military funeral services were held in Mesa Arizona for Spec 4 Frank L Dominguez son of Mr and Mrs Frank Dominguez of Mesa He was killed in action in Vietnam by a Viet Cong bullet while aiding a wounded comrade Born in Pecos he moved to Mesa in 1953 He attended Mesa Community College after graduating Mesa High School in 1967 He entered the U S Army on March 21 and was sent to Vietnam on September 5 His father is an aircraft mechanic at Williams Air Force Base He is survived by his parents two sisters four brothers and grandmothers in Pecos and El Paso
The U S Office of Education approved 1 755 812 38 for Title I aid to public schools in the 16th Congressional District. Congressman Richard C White notes funds target students from low income families to address language and education gaps. Districts receive allocations based on the 11 960 children under 2 000 annual income or on Aid to Dependent Children recipients.
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