Terlingua Chili Cookoff Draws Local Spectators
Balmorhea families attended the Terlingua chili cookoff on Saturday. Participants included Buck and Pat Towler Deke and Toots Jones and the Tony Parkers. Bill King, a Balmorhea assistant coach, was treated for paint poisoning at Snyder Hospital and has returned home to resume work.
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Balmorhea
Buck
Pat Towler
Deke
Toots Jones
Tony Parkers
Bill King
Snyder Hospital
Balmorhea News Roundup Highlights Staff, Funerals, and Sports
Balmorhea notes include staff and yearbook photo duties by Editor Cherry Elliott and Lily Tercero, along with Peggy Moore Socorro Rodriguez and Gary Compton. Funeral attendance for Elena Blackmon and Wayland Younger is reported, plus Balmorhea Bears beat Fort Davis 27-7 in wrestling? No, football. Junior High tied Fort Davis 8-8. A storm disrupted power and hail damaged crops near Verhalen.
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Elena Blackmon
Balmorhea High School
Fort Stockton
Alabama
Cherry Elliott
Lily Tercero
Peggy Moore Socorro Rodriguez
Gary Compton
Balmorhea Bears
Fort Davis
Noon market report shows modest gains amid slow rally
The Dow Jones average rose 4.99 to 941.99 as gainers outpaced losers on the NYSE and the American market. Analysts note hesitancy with signs of sluggish economy and expect a softer GNP for Q3. Cotton futures rose with higher midday prices and cattle market in Fort Worth shows steady to lower tone across grades.
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NEW York
International Telephone & Telegraph
NYSE
American Stock Exchange
New York Cotton Exchange
Fort Worth
Tex
Permian Basin Museum Tours For Oil Show Visitors
The Midland-Permian Basin Petroleum Museum will offer two daily tours at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday during the Permian Basin Oil Show near Interstate 20. Admission costs 1 for adults 50 cents for children under 11 and free for preschoolers. Museum hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday.
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Midland — Permian Basin Petroleum Museum
Junior League of Midland Inc
Santa Rita Club
Interstate 20
Rodeway Inn
Charlie the Clown to Visit Pecos Merchants for United Way
Charlie the Clown will tour Pecos Thursday through Saturday entertaining children in local stores. Merchants donate ten dollars to participate with half proceeds going to the local United Way, sponsored by the chamber of commerce and participating merchants. Charlie appears in circus costume with candy and balloons, contact Char lie C W Smith at the Lazy F Motel.
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Austin
Gene Garrison
Odessa Chamber of Commerce
University of Texas of
Permian Basin
Coordinating Board
Texas College and University System
Garrison
Chamber
UTPB
Odessa
United Way of
John Ben Shepperd
Utpb Picks Development Board
Charlie
Pecos
United Way
Chamber of Commerce
C.W. Smith
Deaths: Monroe Allcorn and Alvaro Burgess services held
Death notices report funeral services for Monroe Allcorn 58 of Seguin former Coleman County resident and World War II veteran with burial in Coleman Cemetery. Also noted are services for Alvaro Flores Burgess 65 of Fort Stockton brother of Pecos resident Mrs Cruz Ortiz with burial in Fort Stockton.
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Monroe Allcorn
Clyde Allcorn
Pecos
Stevens Memorial Chapel
Coleman Cemetery
Coleman
Allcorn
San Antonio Veterans Administration Hospital
Coleman County
Seguin
Helen Albcorn
Jewel DeBusk
McCamey
Ethel Sartain
Rachael Sartain
Euless
Dorothy Woerdell
Clyde Alborn
Alvaro Burgess
Alvaro Flores Burgess
Fort Stockton
Cruz Ortiz
St. Agnes Catholic Church
St. Joseph Cemetery
Burgess
Presidio
Odessa
Albert Burgess
Woodward
Burglary, thefts hit Harris Lumber and area shops
Police report twelve spray paint cans valued at 216 stolen from Harris Lumber Company after a yard break in. Tires and wheels worth 130 disappeared from an auto stored at Pecos body shop. A Portales man lost an eight track player from a pickup on Mulberry Street. Multiple arrests follow a high school parking lot incident for paint sniffing and marijuana. A Lor enzo Barraza faces firearm and public intoxication counts after gunshots near Second and Walnut. A purse and radio were stolen from Memorial hospital parking lot. Checks forged on a Barstow account noted. Police seize two crude weapons on a man in the 700 block of W Third. Several minor traffic collisions reported with no injuries.
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Harris Lumber Company
S. Cedar St
Pecos
Eli Acosta
EXA
E. Second St
Portales
N.M
Jose Hernandez
Mulberry Street
Pedro Prieto
Richard Martinez
Peace Justice
Cliff Preslar
Charles Henry
W. Third Street
Missing Panamanian Cargo Ship Sylvia L. Ossa
Coast Guard kept little hope of finding the 590-foot Sylvia L. Ossa with 37 crewmen after last contact 140 miles west of Bermuda. A dawn search resumed for the iron ore carrier from Brazil to Philadelphia, reporting heavy weather that slowed speed before vanishing amid the Bermuda Triangle. An oil slick, lifeboat, rope coil and OSSA sign were found near the last reported location.
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NEW York
Coast Guard
Bermuda Triangle
Atlantic Ocean
Sylvia L. Ossa
Brazil
Philadelphia
Bermuda
Omnium Shipping Corp
U.S. Coast Guard
OSSA
Community group listings and events schedule brief
Lions Club meetings at multiple venues including American Motors Inn and Lions Den start 7:30 p.m. Pecos Optimists and Alcoholics Anonymous plus Al-Anon meet in Pecos area with contact numbers. Morning TOPS Club at Federation Parlor. evening TOPS 259 at St Community Council office. Senior Citizens events include birthday party and covered dish luncheon with minister wives. Also PBS Channel 5 program The Puzzle Children at 7 p.m. in October.
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Lions Club
American Motors Inn
Amistad Lions Club
Lions den
Pecos Optimists
Chaparral Village
Federation Parlor
Tops TX 259
St. Community
David Tunson
Ministers Wives
Barstow
Flu inoculations resume in Texas
The National Influenza Immunization Program restarts in Texas after a short pause to allow CDC and Pennsylvania officials to review three Pittsburgh deaths linked to flu vaccine. Officials say heart attacks in people with heart disease caused the deaths, not the vaccine. The batch used has immunized 118000 others without issues. FDA found no link to a bad batch.
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Texas
Center For Disease Control
Atlanta
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Food and Drug Administration
Pecos Daily News Ad Rates and Staff Listings
Pecos Texas edition lists staff roles including Peggy McCrackes as Managing Editor SONA Gutierrez Family Editor Jene Douglas City Editor and others. It also details advertising and circulation rates and delivery areas Reeves Ward Loving Culberson and Jett Davis counties with mail rates and student rates. The paper is a member of the Associated Press and notes publication details and postage.
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Peggy McCrackes
Ynn Webb
Sona Gutierrez
Jene Douglas
Mane Osborn
Joris Welch
Tuben Baca
Milyg
Mary Carpenter
Reeves Ward
Loving Culberson
Jett Davis
Associated Press
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Mike Rogers
Baby
Ellison Farm
Soil Conservation Office
Lubbock
Soil Conservation
Texas Employment Office
Boy Scouts
By Frankie Kingston
San Antonio
Charles Towery
Amy McIntire
Toyahvale
Ellen Lethco
Sadie Kingston
Verhalen
Nancy Tower
San Angelo
Tennessee
Alcoa Ood
At&t
Borden
Chrysler
Cities
Coca Cola
Dow Chem
duPont
Glf St Ut
Hart-Hk
IBM
Int Paper
Jhn-Man
John Joh
Litton
Marathon
Mobil Oil
Monsanto
Enney
Phill Pet
RCA
Safeway
Sears
Sony
South Pac
Stand Oil Cl
Sun Co
Texaco
Time Inc
UnCarbide
US Steel
Uniroyal
Woolworth
Xerox
Jaycees
Jaycee-Ettes
el Paso
Midland
Crane
Fabens
Holiday Inn
Fort Stockton Cowboy
Huntsville
Ivonie Daniels
Bunkie
Freddie Fender
Texas Department of Corrections
Joel Rios
ABC
Southwest
Santa FE
State Public Service Commission
White
Marfa
Richard White
Border Patrol Sector
Department of Corrections
University of Texas
West Texas
Harris County
UT System
Big Bend National Park
Bob Hardesty
College
United Way Fund
Norvell
W. Harris
W.D. Noel
Charles R. Perry
Louis Rochester
E.M. Schur
Indus
Charlie the Clown
Charlie & Friend
Lorenzo Barraza
Barraza
Second
Walnut Streets
Memorial Hospital
Perry Willard
Monahans
Mary Abila
Seventh and Elm Streets
Hector Rodriguez
S. Peach St
Peggy Calderon
S. Pecan St
Rodriguez
Calderon
Jimmie Criswell
Jose Castillo
Apts
Iowa Street
Criswell
Castillo
Third
Eddy Streets
Mark Williamson
Missouri St
Sylvia Tellez
Tellez
Cedar Street
Jose Carrillo
Manuel Rodriguez
Oak St
Pecos Alcoholics Anonymous
Al-Anon
S. Oak St
PBS TV
Challe
Senior Citizens Center
Cedar Streets
S$ MT. Wit
Amtrak
Cedar St. Pecos
Carrer
Yslur
Buckner News Alliance
Reeves County
Eileen Stroud
Sweetwater
Butler Smith
North Temple Baptist Church
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