Wildcat oil well staked on Stransberry lease east of Van Horn
A wildcat location was selected east of Van Horn along Interstate 10 between Plateau and Toyah on the Stransberry lease. Driller Jim Barrow will drill, with potential follow up wells if natural gas formations are found. Fort Davis welcomed 3,352 visitors in September, up 8 percent from a year earlier.
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West Texas Times Rs
van Horn
Interstate 10
Plateau
Toyah
Jim Barrow
Stransberry
Balmorhea Hopes to Attract More Visitors Through Chamber Outreach
Balmorhea sees 56 942 visitors in the first nine months and seeks greater interest through Chamber of Commerce outreach. A Nov 1 meeting invites public views on drawing newcomers, while local social and sports notes cover club events, district football plans, ranch programs, and Episcopal traveling chapel visits.
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Balmorhea
Chamber of Commerce
School Week Menu Highlights for Monday to Friday
Monday features spaghetti with meat sauce, buttered corn, cole slaw with dressing, an ice cream bar, ranch style bread with butter and milk. Tuesday offers tacos, pinto beans, lettuce and tomato salad, pineapple upside down cake, corn bread with butter and milk. Wednesday serves baked cheese sandwich, black eyed peas, potato salad, whipped lime gelatin with pears and milk. Thursday presents fried chicken with cream gravy, mashed potatoes, buttered peas, cherry cobblers, hot rolls with butter and milk. Friday showcases a spooky burger, broom sticks, cobweb cake, jack o lantern fruit and witches brew.
Market eases after four day rally on profit taking
New York stocks nudged lower as profits were taken after a four session runup. Dow Jones noon quote down 3.85 to 851.31 while banks cut prime rates from 8 to 7.75 percent. Amex and NYSE indices slipped, cotton and grain futures rose on weather fears, and gold prices eased across major markets.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Dow
MacMillan
NYSE
American Stock Exchange
Great Basins Petroleum
Amex
Texas High Plains
Employers ordered to offer HMO as alternate
The government requires firms with 25 or more workers to offer an HMO option alongside traditional health plans effective Thanksgiving Day. HEW estimates about 52 million workers could be eligible, with a union veto in bargaining. The 1973 HMO Act aimed to spur prepaid group practices and curb rising costs.
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John Stowell
Associated Press
Washington
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
U.S
HEW
Robert van Hoek
Health Service Administration
Breath of winter edges Pecos area and weekend chill
The Pecos West Texas region faces a cooler trend this weekend as a weather pattern shifts. Thursday saw a high around 90 degrees, and the change signals more seasonal temperatures to come, according to Associated Press reports.
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Pecos
West Texas
Associated Press
Texas Panhandle
Childress
el Paso
Texas
Wisconsin
Mercury
South Dakota
Nebraska
Wyoming
Colorado
Colorado Mountains
Panhandle
Nebraska Panhandle
Montana
Gulf of Mexico
Great Lakes
Lower
Michigan
Gulf Coast
California
Arizona
Karen Quinlan coma trial focus in guardian bid to end life support
In Morristown New Jersey thousands of letters urge keeping Karen Quinlan alive as doctors say her chances of recovery are infinitesimal. The guardians seek permission to remove the respirator while the court weighs dignity in death amid evidence from medical and legal experts.
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Henry Gottlieb
Associated Press
Morristown
N.J
Karen Anne Quinlan
Karen
Miss Quinlan
Joseph and
Julia Quinlan
Superior Court
Robert Muir Jr
Rator
Muir
New Jersey
Daniel R. Coburn
The Great Pyramid Khufu Built Caused A Monumental Feat
The Great Pyramid of Khufu built around 2550 B C sits on a square base covering 13 acres. Its six million tons of material could form a 10 foot wall around France, per Napoleon. If cut into bricks and laid end to end it would reach to the moon.
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Khufu
Cheops
B.C
Napoleon
France
Reeves County Soil Surveys Completed by SCS in 1975
The Soil Conservation Service completed soil surveys on 225 680 acres in Reeves County during the 1975 fiscal year. Area soil scientist Hubert Jaco said about 99 percent of Reeves County has been surveyed.
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Reeves County
The
Soil Conservation Service
Hubert Jaco
Wesley Miller
Miller
Connecticut
Pecos
Alan Rosse
SCS
Aztec, N.M
Jaco
Loving County
Ray Blackwell
Reeves
Loving
Cigarettes Stolen In Tra Park Store Heist
Police report a late Thursday theft at Tra Park Store with two accomplices luring a clerk away while a third stole about two or three cartons of cigarettes from a counter. No arrests listed.
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Tra Park
Tra Park Trailer Park
Evening Lions Club and civic meeting notes
Evening Lions Club meets at the American Motor Inn at 7 30 p m with Amistad Lions Club at Lions Den also at 7 30 p m Business and Professional Women hold a meeting at Federated Parlor at 7 30 p m Morning Optimists convene at 6 30 a m Ramada Inn Rotary Club gathers at the Holiday Inn at noon with a morning session noted
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Lions Club
American Motor Inn
Amistad Lions Club
Lions den
Ramada Inn
Rotary Club
Holiday Inn
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Pecos Enterprise
Wildcat
Fort Davis
By Frankie Kingston
Ethel Jacobsen
Penny McElroy
Philda Morrison
Amy McIntire
Allen Hoefs
Jim van Deren
Washington State
Allen Gilbert
Ft. Davis
Sanderson
Buena Vista
Grandfalls Royalty
Dell City
Anthony
Presidio
San Elizario
Balmorhea Bears
Bears
Rankin
Chapparrals
Prude Ranch
Brown Foundation
Big Blue
Lubbock
Char-Cole Pit
FFA
Marfa
John Pearce
P.O
Irma Beaza
Cynthia Florez
Norma Carrasco
Silvia Carrasco
Trans-Pecos Big Bend
Episcopal Church
Episcopal
St. Peters Church
Robert Burton
Big Bend
Barstow
Terry Abila
Ruben Juarez
George Franco
Gilberto Diaz
Raul Palomino
Jose Ramirez
Jaime Abila
Stock Market Report
Yrnango
CASH
Chicago
London
Paris
Frankfurt
Zurich
Handy & Harman
Gewas Ww.vy
Englehard
Alcoa
At&t
Ad Rich
Beth Stl
Borden
Brit Pet
Cat Trac
Celanese
Chrysler
Cities Soc
Coca Cola
Cent Oil
Dow Chem
duPont
Eastman
Exxon
Fairchild
Ford
Elec
Gen Foods
Tire
Goodrich
Great A&p
Gulf Oil
Gif Stat Hous Lp
Int P
Jhnan
John Joh
Marathon
Marcor
Mobil Oil
Pesan Cent
Phill Pet S56
Morris County
Donald G. Collester
Dallas
del Rio
South Texas
Dalhart
Corpus Christi
East
Galveston
Plains
Gordo
Gus Arriola
Charles Smith
Butler Smith
Armando M. Fuentez
S. Peach St
Fuentez
Santa Rosa
Pecos Motors
Second
Cedar Streets
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