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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1975
Page
2
Barstow Elementary held an assembly featuring rope artist Ed Eldridge, famed internationally for rope tricks and fast draw expertise. He stressed gun safety to students and some parents. PTO funded the event, with two more performances planned later in the year including a puppet show and a singer.
Barstow contains notes from Dianna Dominguez and Irene Garcia of San Angelo. Mary Quiroz and Henry Gutierrez travel to Odessa. Lynn Webb was admitted to Pecos Memorial Hospital and later discharged. Victor Juarez also underwent tests at Pecos Memorial Hospital over the weekend. Marcos Licon and family from Carlsbad, New Mexico visit his mother Soteria Mendoza for a few days.
New York stocks fell sharply amid profit taking and worries about Federal Reserve credit and Ford tax plan. Dow Jones 30 dropped 8.66 to 811.00, NYSE composite fell 0.44 to 45.54, with 762 declines to 358 advances on 1,537 issues. Major losers included steels, metals, oils, drugs, and glamors. IBM and Polaroid weakened while Imperial Oil led active stocks.
A Petroleum Today article says the United States holds about 300 billion barrels of unrecoverable oil, enough to meet current consumption for 48 years without imports. It cites Big Muddy Wyoming and Cat Canyon California examples and outlines enhanced recovery methods like thermal recovery, CO2 flooding, and micellar polymer flooding to access remaining oil.
Hal Thomas Jones died Sunday in Chicago at 71. Services Oct. 2 with Masonic graveside rites at Memory Gardens of the Valley. He had been an El Paso resident 26 years, led Jones Brothers Inc., helped grow and ship onions and cantaloupes in West Texas, and served as First Presidio Bank director. He was a member of Silver Trowel Lodge 29, El Paso temples, and Scottish Rite. Contributions urged to El Paso Radiation Center Foundation or Shriners Crippled Children’s Hospital care of El Manna Shrine.
George Ybarra of 124 Peach St. led officers on a 2:30 a.m. pursuit through city streets at speeds reaching 90 mph after stealing away from a roadblock. He faces eight traffic citations and fines totaling 372.50, plus detention in city jail. Police also probe a weekend theft of 25 dollars and an electric razor from Ag Chem on Oleander Street. A note adds that South African diamond miners must sift about a hundred million pounds of sand per gem found.
A listing of weekly gatherings and happenings: Lions Club meetings at American Motor Inn and Downtown Holiday Inn with Court of Honor at Crockett Junior High Cafetorium, TOPS and Alcoholics Anonymous at Eighth Street and 125 S. Oak, Social Security office hours, Reeves County TV appearance, Rotary and Optimists meetings, a Martha Goose Parade preview at Pecos Train Depot, and a Pecos Country Music Association Jamboree at Pecos Fairgrounds.
Texas allows qualified merchants to report sales taxes annually after one year in business, with under 100 dollars in annual tax liability. Eligibility requires a good tax record and taxable sales of roughly two thousand dollars per year. About fifty thousand of two hundred twenty five thousand permit holders use the annual system.
The text notes merchants prefer quarterly reporting for small sums, like $25 every three months, rather than $100 annually. It explains the annual January 31 deadline coincides with tax season, and firms exceeding $100 must switch back to quarterly reports.
At Kermit the 4 H Animal Auction drew 62 entries selling for a grand total of 12545.67 compared to last year s 11636.55, as Lee Roy Frady from Odessa auctioned the event at the County Barn amid fair excitement. Monahans AAA Club tours West Texas sights while Carlsbad discusses anhydrous ammonia plant dedication with Gov Apodaca present. City officials in Monahans continue ambulance service talks with a target operation date of October 15.
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