Bread baskets rise from Pecos kitchen art
Mrs. E A Petty of Pecos crafts bread baskets as a growing home business. Using a simple dough recipe, she forms decorative baskets with dough fruit toppers, bakes them for hours, then glazes and shellacs them. She sells six a day from home and car, pricing baskets at 6 50 and 15 dollars, with upcoming displays at Mesquite Tree Art Shop in West of the Pecos Park.
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E.A. Petty
Pecos
Mrs. Petty
Pecos Park
Terlingua Chili Cookoff feuds fuel long standing rivalry
Dallas Morning News columnist Frank X. Tolbert says the Terlingua chili event is on and bigger than last year despite a feud with California organizer C. V. Wood. Tolbert recounts past insults, duels of chili fame, and Wood’s failed bid to top Terlingua, with loyal chili lovers awaiting the showdown.
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Frank X. Tolbert
Tolbert
Dallas Morning News
C.V. Wood
Wood
Terlingua
New York
H. Allen Smith
Alpine
Smith
Dava Chasen
Beverly Hills
Chasen
Texas
Austin
Wick Fowler
Dave Chasen
Fowler
California
London Bridge
Lake Havasu
Allengeni Jani
Jack Powell
Tenessee
Viva Terlingua
Kissinger Mao Meet Surprises with Peking Talks
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger held a surprise meeting with Chairman Mao Tse-tung at Mao's Beijing home. The talks lasted one hour and forty minutes and were at Mao's invitation. A State Department spokesman offered no details beyond calling the session very useful.
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Peking
Henry A. Kissinger
Mao Tse-tung
Mao
Communist Party
State Department
Snyder police charge two men with burglary
Two Pecos men, Ernest Mata and George Ybarra, were apprehended by Snyder officers and returned to face auto burglary charges. Police said the pair were linked to recent thefts in Snyder and nearby areas, with over 600 dollars worth of guns radios tape players and citizen band radios recovered at a local address.
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Snyder
Ernest Mata
George Ybarra
Pecos
United Way sets budget and strategy for 1975 76 drive
United Way committee met in City Council room to set the budget goal and campaign plan for the 1975 76 United Way Fund. The group adopted a $30,000 target to be distributed to 12 designated agencies including Boy Scouts $7,000 and Pecos Day Nursery $5,000 among others such as Girl Scouts Red Cross Salvation Army March of Dimes Planned Parenthood and Girl's Softball.
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United Way Committee
United Way Fund
United Way
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
Red Cross
Salvation Army
Pecos Day Nursery
March of Dimes
Planned Parenthood
Jesse Stevens
Pecos
Trials Postponed in 143rd District Court
Illness among defendants and the suspension of Monahans attorney A R Archer stalled Friday sessions in 143rd District Court. District Attorney Larry Barber reported most cases were delayed as Archer’s clients awaited new counsel while pre trial hearings for Moss Bluff resident Jeanette Franklin, charged in a Salt Flat man’s death around April 7, proceeded slowly.
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A.R. Archer
Monahans
143Rd District Court
Larry Barber
Archer
Moss Bluff
Jeanette Franklin
Salt Flat
J.H. Starley
Franklin
Barber
Miss Franklin
Memorial Hospital
Teachers gain ideas at State Convention on learning disabilities
Special education teachers report a wealth of new ideas and materials from seminars at the State Convention of the Association of Children with Learning Disabilities in Abilene. Dr Madeleine Hunter highlighted research on detecting perceptual and motor problems and applying targeted methods to help children with learning disabilities. The event stressed rapid changes in the field and the necessity for teachers to stay current through conventions and published materials.
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Jim Curlee
Association of Children With Learning Disabilities
Abilene
Curlee
Texas
Madeline Hunter
University of California
ACLD
Reeves County Acld
Bersosa to Manage Both Local Theaters
Manuel Bersosa appointed to run the two local theaters. He becomes the new manager of the State Theatre and the Townplayhouse, guiding programming and operations.
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Bersosa
Manuel Bersosa
Rotary Luncheon to See Geode Cutting in Pecos
Pecos Rotary Club noon luncheon at the Holiday Inn will feature Archie Scott, Security State Bank board chairman, discussing geode formation and cutting to reveal crystals and color. He will also display part of his geode collection and related Texan theaters in Pecos. Bersosa, Pecos native and former Texan Drive-In manager, has been reassigned to Fort Stockton as Pecos Theater manager, overseeing the Pecos theater and two Commonwealth theaters in Pecos.
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Pecos
Bersosa
Fort Stockton
Commonwealth
City Council Plates Agenda For Thursday Session
City councilmen face a heavy agenda at the 7:30 a.m. regular session. They will consider deeding land in the Airport Addition to Reeves County for a new hospital site Cedar Street widening from 14th Street to 120 and the purchase of two ambulances totaling 32000 dollars.
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Airport
Reeves County
Cedar Street
14Th St
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