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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1978
Page
2
The Balmorhea school week menu features enchiladas and burritos with daily meals. Principal Hoffman notes six week exams October 9 to 11. Local social clubs share bridge results, and a Commerce meeting was postponed. Laity Sundays honored October 8 with services led by lay persons. Community notices include guest visits, Christmas card orders, and festival plans as the Balmorhea Bears prepare for upcoming football games.
Fourteen foreign buyers from Austria Bangladesh Belgium Denmark Finland Germany Italy the Netherlands Norway Portugal Romania Spain Sweden Switzerland and the United Kingdom will join a Cotton Council International National Cotton Council and USDA Foreign Agricultural Service led tour. Starting October 16 in New York City and ending November 4 in Fresno the trip spans Raleigh Memphis Greenville Scott Dallas Lubbock El Paso Phoenix Bakersfield Corcoran and Fresno with stops to view growing processing and marketing of U.S. cotton and to discuss crop prospects export policy and credit.
The column ridicules Conrail executives as grown-up little boys who wreck their toy train systems. It frames the author’s variable factors as errors in your computation and urges caution before striking back.
Pecos volunteers rushed to a Safeway parking lot fire at 810 S Eddy while Pecos Ambulance Service logged an emergency run to Reeves County Hospital from 1511 Cowan. Police logged theft at 1913 Ivy from Nicholas Rivera, with a tire valued at 40 dollars taken between Sept 29 and Oct 3. Burglary investigated at 401 East D reported Monday with 759 dollars in losses, including a 19 inch TV and stereo system.
Rolando Gonzales-Segura, 21, of Odessa, indicted last month for aiding and abetting illegal aliens, was arrested by U S Border Patrol in Sonora and is held in Sutton County jail on 20,000 bond awaiting transfer to Pecos Division. He was employed by a construction company.
Stocks rose modestly as inflation data cooled. Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 876.56 at noon, up 2.60, with gains among NYSE issues and a mixed day for indexes. Cotton futures rose with midweek quotes: Oct 63.80, Dec 65.87, Mar 68.08.
D andra Wanslow an 18 year old senior was crowned Homecoming Queen during half time at the Clint Van Horn football clash that ended in a 13 13 tie She was the 1977 Golden Girl representative to the Golden Girl Revue from Van Horn and has family and friends in Pecos with roots including Bobby Bells and Charles Bowers and grandparents Frosty and Mrs Bowers of the Baylor Mt Ranch Van Horn Texas.
Pvt. Ricardo M. Fuentes of Balmorhea has finished a 13 week One Station Unit Training course at Fort Knox Kentucky, earning armor crewman qualifications. He entered the Army in May, and is a 1978 Balmorhea High School graduate.
The Big Spring State Hospital will host its thirty-fifth alcoholism seminar on Friday October 13 in the hospital auditorium in conjunction with Howard College. Barbara L. Smith Ph.D. from Los Angeles will consult for the day long session. Registration begins early with a $1 fee and a $1 option for continuing education units.
Leonard G Buddy Cullum has joined American Trading and Production Corporation's Midland District as operations supervisor. He will oversee field operations in West Texas and New Mexico, bringing 24 years of drilling and production experience from Skelly Oil and Getty Oil. He is a native of Aspermont and lives in Eunice New Mexico with his wife and two daughters.
Monday evening Lions Club at Pecos Inn 7 p.m. and Amistad Lions Club at Lions Den 7 30 p.m. Tuesday Pecos Evening Optimist Club at Saragosa Hall 8 p.m. Pecos AA and Alanon 125 S. Oak closed 8 p.m. Open Friday 8 p.m. Balmorhea phone numbers listed. TOPS 259 Reeves Community Council 902 E 10th St 6 p.m. Wednesday Downtown Lions Club Holiday Inn noon. Thursday Senior Citizens Center Game day 1 to 5. Friday Pecos Alcoholics Anonymous 8 p.m. 125 S Oak 445 2508 375 2345. Senior Citizens Center exercise 10 a.m. 6
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