Pecos Rotarians Hear Drug Education Clinic Plan
Pecos Rotary Club members are urged to attend Thursday noon at the Community Center for a drug education clinic presented by Lt. Jimmy Rhodes of Midland. The meeting notes a November 1 luncheon move to the Holiday Inn and preparations for the District Governor visit.
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Pecos
Holliday Inn
Lewis Cowart
Walter Wade
Alamogordo
N.M
Dick Naylor
Charlie Manashan
Floyd Brownlee Jr
Harry Foster
Bill Moss
Rotary Foreign Exchange
Pecos High School
Texas Weather Stays Mild With Indian Summer Outlook
The Associated Press reports agreeable Indian Summer weather across Texas with cool nights and mild days. Early morning temperatures ranged from the 40s to 50s statewide, 60s in the far south, and Monday sunshine raised Rio Grande Valley highs to the upper 70s. Rain totals included Austin .77 inches, San Antonio .65, and College Station .26 as partly cloudy skies lingered.
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Associated Press
Lone Star State
Rio Grande Valley
Lubbock
South Plains
Austin
San Antonio
College Station
Weather Bureau
Texas
School Menu Wednesday Highlights
Wednesday lunch offerings include ham roll candied yams buttered corn cinnamon apple gelatin peanut butter cake or honey balls with milk.
DemoVoters Urged To Earn Star of Texas Award
Democratic voters in Reeves County are urged to boost turnout for the November 3 general election to win the Star of Texas award. County Chairman Paul Armstrong notes absentee voting has started and urges out of town or ill voters to check with the County Clerk. The program seeks the county with the highest percentage of Democratic votes in the governor race among similarly sized counties.
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Reeves County
Star of Texas
Paul Armstrong
Democratic Executive Committee
Armstrong
Texas
Elmer C. Baum
Baum
Stafford Rites Set for Mrs Mary Stafford 74
The funeral for Mrs. Mary Drucilla Stafford 74 will be held tomorrow at 4 p.m. at Pecos Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Butler Smith officiating. She died Monday at Memorial Hospital after a short illness. Born April 7, 1896 in Bellview Mississippi, she resided at 101 N Oak St. Survivors include two sons Noble R Liscomb Buchanan Dam and Clarence Stout Harlingen. two daughters Roy Lee Williams Lovington NM and Robert Paul Thomas Carlsbad NM. six grandchildren. two sisters Charlie Pelton Chase KS and Louis Henry Ontario OR. and two brothers Joe Stout and Charles Stout Ford KS.
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Mary Drucilla Stafford
Pecos
Butler Smith
Evergreen Cemetery
Noble R. Liscomb
Buchanan Dam
Clarence Stout
Har Iingen
Roy Lee Williams
Lovington
Robert Paul Thomas
Carlsbad
N.M
Charlie Pelton
Chase, Kan
Louis Henry
Ontario
Ore
Joe Stout
Charles Stout
Ford, Kan
Toyah Hosts Wide Homecoming Schedule Through Saturday
Toyah plans a full homecoming with a Wednesday 8 30 start featuring a no holds barred boxing match at halftime of the first doubleheader. Teams from Pecos Balmorhea and Toyah compete. Proceeds fund a Toyah Boys Ranch. Events run through Saturday including a parade, rodeo club prizes, alumni events and a visit by Victor Wickersham.
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Toyah
Pecos
Balmorhea
Bas
Jim Valdez
Oklahoma
Victor Wickersham
Toyah School
Hernandez Wins First Place in PP&E Contest in Phoenix
Fernando Hernandez Jr son of Mr and Mrs Fernando Hernandez of 818 S Willow Sr won first in the Punt Pass and Kick contest in Phoenix on October 17 with 13 year old competitors from Arizona New Mexico and West Texas. Charles Michaelis placed third in his age group. Hernandez will travel to San Diego December 5 for the western area finals joining winners from Denver Phoenix Salt Lake City Los Angeles and San Francisco. The event coincides with halftime of the Cincinnati Bengals and San Diego Chargers game.
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Fernando Hernandez Jr
Fernando Hernandez
S. Willow Sr
Phoenix
Arizona
New Mexico
West Texas
Charles Michaelis
Leroy Michaelis
Cowan St
Fernando
San Diego
Lions Club Anniversary Event and Speech Plans
District Governor Roy Chamblis of Ysleta will speak to the Pecos Amistad Lions Club on Monday November 9 as the club marks its first anniversary. The club reports a successful Halloween candy sale and plans a Thanksgiving raffle of a $100 grocery certificate. Donations of $1 are welcomed via any PAL member.
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Lions District
Roy Chamblis
Ysleta
Pecos Amistad Lions Club
PAL
One Day's Pay Theme Of 1970 United Fund Campaign
United Fund kicks off on October 21 with a $24,875 goal to support 11 health and welfare agencies in Pecos. Roy D. Precit leads a tight campaign with divisions for advance gifts industrial solicitation commercial solicitation public and civic solicitation and farmers and ranchers. An 7:00 am kickoff breakfast at the Community Center precedes volunteer assignments and agency support options.
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United Fund
Pecos
United
Roy D. Precit
Mike Harrison
Joel Daniel
Frank Harper
Mike Brockeman
Jack Holmes
Paul Randolph
David Reyes
Bill Pigman
Charlotte Slack
Raymond Nunez
Dudley Montgomery
Jay Maxey
Bill Moss
Jo Ann Wein
Jack Duke
Glen Ellis
Girl Scouts
Pecos Day Nursery
Heart Diseases
American Red Cross
March of Dimes Salvation Army
Boy Scouts
Planned Parenthood Clinic
U. S.C
Prewit
Texas Indians Win 285000 Grant For Reservation At Livingston
Congressman George Bush announced a 285000 grant from the Economic Development Administration to the Alabama and Coushatta Tribes at the Big Thicket near Livingston. The project aims to expand tourist facilities and create self sufficiency, with new dining room reptile show tour roads and village enlargements to winterize year round operation.
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George Bush
Economic Development Administration
Texas
Livingston
Alabama & Coushatta
Big
Washington
Millard Neptune
Austin
EDA
Bush
Burkholder On Committee Supporting Amendment 3
W.T. Crouch of Itasca heads a broad Keep Texas Productive and Green Committee backing Constitutional Amendment 3. The measure would tax agricultural land by productivity to reduce burdens, with support from a state-wide steering group including John Wells Plano Eugene Westherly Nacogdoches T.A. Kincaid La Vernia Rayford Stinson Como Mike Burkholder Pecos and others. Crouch says rising property taxes threaten farmers and foresters and the amendment would ease costs.
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Tosday
W.T. Crouch
Itasca
Texas
Keep
Crouch
John Wells
Plano
Eugene Westherly
Nacogdoches
T.A. Kincaid
la Vernia
Rayford Stinson
Como
Mike Burkholder
Pecos
Leon Bernsen
Corpus Christi
Emory Knapp
Prosper
W.B. Tilson
Plainview
Brad Crockett
Harelingen
F.E. Guthrie
Day
Merchants To Meet Wednesday At Community Center
The Merchants Committee meeting has been rescheduled for Wednesday October 21 at 10:00 a.m. at the Community Center. Committee Chairman Paul Randolph says the 60 minute session covers seven agenda items and will start on time with adjournment at the advised time. Merchants are urged to attend with neighbors.
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Total Merchants Committee
Paul Randolph
Randolph
Six Weeks Honor Roll for Pecos Barstow Schools
The Pecos Barstow schools release their first six weeks honor roll under Supt. Ray Whitley. It lists numerous students across grades including Brenda Corbin, Paula Casillas, Lynn Cowden, Pat Jackson, Connie Johnson, and many more with highest honors and honors designations, spanning from Grade 12 to Grade 6 and Barstow Elementary.
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Pecos- Barstow
Supt
Ray Whitley
Pecos High School
Brenda Corbin
Paula Casillas
Lynn Cowden
Pat Jackson
Connie Johnson
Mary Kay Jordan
Linda Leeson
Manuel Mendoza
Gabriel Ortiz
John Schultz
Bobby Stafford
Elizabeth Sutton
Kathleen Teague
Norman Tinkler
Barstow
Patricia Abila
Julie Gresham
Missed Paper Delivery Guarantied Call In By 6:45
Circulation Dept offers same day remedy for missed home delivery. If you do not receive your newspaper by 5:30 p.m., call by 6:45 p.m. and delivery will be guaranteed. The contact number is 445 5475.
Pecos Classing Office reports largest week of new season samples
Cotton classing at Pecos for the week ending October 16 shows nearly 2,800 Upland samples, total season 3,340, with 90 percent white grades and Strict Low Middling 43 percent. Staple lengths mainly 1 1 16 and 1 3 32 inches, premium range 3.5 to 4.9 at 92 percent, average strength 88 000 psi versus 93 000 psi last year. Classing covers cotton ginned in Glasscock Pecos Reeves and Upton counties, Texas.
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Pecos
L. L. Wells
Glasscock
Reeves
Upton
Texas
Sunken Car Found in Hidalgo Canal Suspected Bodies Inside
State police recovered a car submerged in an irrigation canal near Hidalgo Texas in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Crews prepared to lift the vehicle and a spokesman said it is believed there may be bodies inside.
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Hidalgo, Tex
Rio Grande Valley
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George Smith
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Chatty
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Regina Falle
Manuel Hernandez
Bill Willman
Vickie Woods
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Cindy Boren
Nancy Box
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Carol Casimer
Mike Cravens
Dianne Dean
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Debbie Ford
Sylvia Garcia
Aldefonso Gonzales
Mary Frances Hernandez
Jack Ivy
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Susan Sikes
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Kristi Kesey
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Allan Clayton
Vickie Harris
Jeane Perryman
Mary Preston
Cindy Stafford
Debra Spray
Theo Regas
Frank Platt
Mark McKinney
Connie Kesey
Kent Holiday
Debra Herrera
Cliff
East Pecos Junior High
Emelda Rodriguez
Criselda Garcia
Yolanda Her
Rera
Cynthia Sadler
Aida Anaya
Cheryl Baker
Irma Galindo
Kathy Herod
Lucy Gallardo
Irma Granado
Ronnie Jenkins
Gloria Rayos
Kathy Martinez
Pecos Elem
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Cindy Daniel
Brian Gross
Valarie Hamar
Vicki Hurley
Robin Mahan
Cecile Montgomery
Linda Wein
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Leslie Daniel
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Joni Ferguson
David Hilliard
Sonja Jenkins
Randall Johnson
Johnny Kerns
Linda King
Walter McNeil
Rod Perkins
David Peters
Scott Ramsey
Richard Rankin
Jerry Reavis
Hiploito
Rivera
Danny Rodriguez
Dolores Rodriguez
Robert Rogers
Mary Claire Samuels
Idalia Santos
Cynthia Slack
Michael Wehrheim
Ted
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Red Oak
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Forrest Bell
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