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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1975
Page
1
Continental Telephone Company of Texas plans a courtesy program on telephone usage for offices and businesses with a film How to Lose Your Best Customer Without Trying. Sessions run about one hour, with Oct 21 to 23 in city hall chambers. Contact Ron Ethridge by Oct 17 with attendance estimates.
The Fall Fair launches today with a larger livestock show drawing entries from nearby counties. Eligible exhibitors are bonified FFA or 4-H members under 21 who personally care for their animals under supervision, keep accurate records, and show the animal without ring help. Lamb entries cost 2.50 each, limited to two per exhibitor. Lambs must be in place by 1 p.m. Friday and released Sunday at 9 a.m., with weighing starting Friday at 1 p.m. Special release can be arranged for State Fair exhibitors.
The Meoqui Lions Club and Pecos Evening Lions plan a joint Fall Fair event with a world championship barbecue cookoff featuring Mexican Lions. Lions tour Pecos, while judging classes for lambs and breeding cattle provide premiums, ribbons, and showmanship awards amid an international fair atmosphere.
Cartoonist Gordon Bankston known for Oil Patch cartoons and products across eight states will judge the World Championship Barbecue at the Pecos Fall Fair Saturday. A former Odessa resident with oilfield roots near Smackover Arkansas, he now works full time in Odessa, has published two cartoon books, painted 12 oilfield canvases, and earned a Man of the Year nomination from the West Texas Chamber of Commerce.
John Paul Pitts chronicles his reluctant entry in the World Championship Barbecue Cookoff at the fairgrounds with 23 contestants. He lists quirky helpers, plans for Boozer's Barbecue marinated in tequila and beer, secret ingredients salt and pepper, and hopes to win both World Championship and Showmanship. He jokes about entertainment, including a poetry recitation and slides, if no orchestra is found.
City officials voted to send ambulance service accounts 90 days overdue to Retail Merchants for collection. The department faces 10534.50 in unpaid balances, with previous month collections at 61 percent. The move halves any recovered funds to the collection agency.
Pecos High School announces three homecoming nominees Mary Jane Lopez Gwen Thigpen and Terry Salcido with Elizabeth Guerrero named sophomore princess. freshmen have ten nominees but voting after screening. Queen voting occurs the week of homecoming as Pecos meets Andrews at Rotary Field. The annex tea for alumni precedes at the vocational building from 1 to 2 30 p.m. on Oct 17 with a pep rally in Eagle gym to follow.
The All Texas Air Tour with 67 aircraft and 137 people halted in Pecos for lunch at the country club. Mayor Bill Pigman and chamber officials welcomed the group at the airport before the Evening Optimist bus took them to lunch. The nonprofit tour began Oct. 4 in Temple and will visit 26 cities, ending Oct. 11 in Wichita Falls.
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