Pecos Area October 1978 Calendar Highlights
Community notices list weekly meetings in Pecos and nearby Balmorhea for October 1978. Lions clubs Optimist Club and AA events noted, plus TOPS Reeves Council, Downtown Lions at Holiday Inn, Senior Citizens activities, and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings with contact numbers.
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Lions Club
Pecos Inn
Amistad Lions Club
Lions den
Pecos
Optimist Club
Saragosa Hall
Pecos AA
Alnon
S. Oak
Balmorhea
Reeves Community Council
10Th St
Senior Citizens Center
Pecos Alcoholics Anonymous
S. Oak St
Hill caravan promotes John Hill in Pecos tour
A West Texas caravan backing Governor candidate John Hill visited Pecos yesterday as part of a statewide tour. The group included Gonzalo Barrientos Betty Sifuentes Mike Gonzalez and others. Hill pledges to cut wasteful spending and require agencies to justify expenditures while reviewing next biennium budgets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Texas
John Hill
Texas
Pecos
Gonzalo Barrientos
Tyerell Hill
Betty Sifuentes
Mike Gonzalez
del Rio
Andres Tijerina
University of Texas
Val Mendoza
Hill
Market Stirs as Chase Hikes Prime Rate to 10 Percent
Stocks drifted after Chase Manhattan Bank raised the prime lending rate from 9 to 10 percent, the first double digit rate since the 1974 75 recession. The Dow hovered around 901, with gains slight, while NYSE issues showed a slim advantage for gainers in midday trade. Cotton futures edged up with the leading markets posting modest advances, and grain prices were mixed as traders watched the higher cost of money impact activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York
New York Stock Exchange
Chase Manhattan Bank of New York
New York Cotton Exchange
Toyah Senior Citizens Host Autumn Covered Dish Luncheon
Toyah Texas Senior Citizens met at the School House on Sunday October 8 with about 50 attendees including out of town guests from Pecos and Cuba New Mexico. Catherine Ashley demonstrated voting machine use while Mrs Martina Chavez thanks helpers. The Toyah Home Demonstration Club met October 11 and planned a Halloween Carnival for October 28 at 6 pm with a spook house fish pond and food bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toyah
Pecos
A.H. Bruce
Clyde Chasteen
John
Ray Cedillo
Pat Goodnight
David
Cuba
N.M
Catherine Ashley
Martinia Chavez
Toyah Senior Citizen Center
Jerry Haile
Chavez
San Marcos Student Sings in Southwest Texas Chorale
Pecos senior Miss Carol Moorman, daughter of Mr and Mrs J R Moorman, is alto I in Southwest Texas State University Chorale. The Chorale, open to all students by audition, performs year round and tours Texas high schools each spring under Director Kenneth Fulton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Marcos
Carol Moorman
Pecos
Southwest Texas State University
Chorale
Texas High
Kenneth Fulton
Miss Moorman
J.R. Moorman
Washington
Pecos High School
Southwest Texas
Daniel S. Garcia
Ernest Garcia
S. Willow
Fort Bliss
Texas
Garcia
Exes Tea Draws Pecos High School Alumni in Homecoming
Nearly 100 former Pecos High School students attended the Exes Tea with Frank Joplin from class of 1920 registering. Carl Eddins, class of 1941 now living in Hartsdale, N.Y., traveled the farthest. At the pep rally, over 100 alumni were honored. Pecos defeated the Bucks in a large Homecoming crowd as thousands lined the parade and stadium. Also noted, the Pecos Ambulance Service transported Mrs. Joe Bickley to a nursing home after a 2:46 p.m. call.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pecos
Joe Bickley
Bill Bickley
Einstein film crews descend on Fort Davis to film at McDonald
British television crew led by Peter Ustinov and Martin Freeth arrives at Fort Davis and Marfa to shoot Einstein's Universe a 90 minute documentary marking Einsteins birth centenary. The BBC WGBH PBS project funded by IBM will show in March. The McDonald Observatory hosts the lunar laser ranging program testing general relativity with retroreflectors left by Apollo astronauts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Davis
McDonald Observatory
Davis Mountains
West Texas
University of Texas’ Observatory
Mount Locke
UT Austin
England
Peter Ustinov
Ustinov
Martin Freeth
British Broadcasting Corporation
Marfa
Einstein
Nigel Calder
Albert Einstein
Finstein
BBC
Wgbh-Tv
Boston
Mass
IBM Corporation
United States
Public Broadcasting Service
Harlan Smith
McDonald
Moon
Eric Silverberg
Earth
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hill Caravan
Chicago
DOW Jones New York
Dow Jones
A.m
Indus
Trans
Utilities
Conrail
Toyah News
The
Toyah ‘Home
Univers
Pecos Enterprise, Inc
South Cedar Street
Ken Dulaney
Lewis Barrett
Diane Osborn
Ruben Baca
Emily Galindo
Carlos Nichols
Mary Carpenter
Reeves County
Reeves, Ward, Loving, Culberson
Jeff Davis Counties
Ilia
Cookoff
Alpine Lodge
Crawford Hughes
Sandell
Lupes
Brownlee Hardware Co
Manuels Paint & Body Shop
Gibson’s
Producers Ins. Co
Pecos Transit Mix
Pecos Printing Co
Roundup
Newell Oil Co
Angels Barber Shop
Delaware
Fuentes Furniture Co
H&h
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