Two Pecos locals remembered for work and wit
Fran Sunday recalls Harry Foster and Marie Lawrance Moran as active community figures. She notes Fosters Rotary service, restaurant success, and pies, and mentions Marie Moran who hosted weddings, with corrections to an obituary name error and local florists. The column also touches on drug policy debates, new research on heroin treatment, and a skunk incident reported to the Pecos Police Department.
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Harry Foster
Marie Fortune
Harry
Alton Hughes
Pecos
Pecos Army Airfield
Fosters Restaurant
Rotary
Heaven
Marie
Abilene
Virginia
Ginger) Moran
Gail
West End
Virginia Lorance
Virginia Lawrance
Stewart’s
Melba Toone
Jacoby Named Range Specialist for Extension Service
Pete W. Jacoby Jr. will become area range specialist for the Texas Agricultural Extension Service on Nov 1. He replaces Robert Steger and will work with county agents in Extension District 6 and western District 7, developing and expanding education programs for adults and youth. He is an Ozona native with degrees from Texas A&M and the University of Wyoming and has worked with the Extension, Forest Service, and universities. He is married to Patricia Guice with no children.
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Pete W. Jacoby, Jr
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Ft. Stockton
John F. Hutchison
Jacoby
Robert Steger
New Mexico
Hutchison
Pete W. Jacoby
Ozona
FFA
Ozona High School
Sul Ross State University
Texas A&m University
University of Wyoming
A&m
U. S. Forest Service
American Society of Range Management
Colorado- Wyoming Academy of Science
Patricia Guice
Victim Claimed In WSU Plane Crash Advances Death toll
John Taylor, 21, Wichita State football player from Sherman Texas, died at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio after sustained burns from the October crash near Silver Plume Colorado. The disaster on October 2 killed 13 players and 17 officials and fans aboard the plane, with 40 aboard. Taylor arrived in critical condition from Denver earlier that week.
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San Antonio, Tex
Wichita State University
John Taylor
Wichita State
Sherman
Tex
Army
San Antonio
Silver Plume
Colo
Taylor
Royce Taylor
Brooke Army Medical Center
Denver
Pvt Busby Finishes Eight-Week Army Course
Army private Larry W. Busby 21 son of Mr and Mrs Albert Busby 1319 Cypress Pecos completed an eight week administration course at Fort Ord California He was trained in preparing military records and forms and in fundamentals of the Army filing system typing and office machine operation.
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Army
Larry W. Busby
Albert Busby
S. Cypress St
Pecos
Ft. Ord
Calif
Friday School Menu Spooks Up a Witch’s Feast
The Friday menu features Witches Brew vegetable beef stew and Jack O Lantern Salad with peach and cottage cheese. A Pumpkin pie finishes the frightful spread with Goblin ice cream cups and Black Cat rolls, plus butter and milk.
Woman Found Clubbed To Death In Dallas Home
Beverly Jean Hope, 36, mother of three, was beaten to death with a firewood club in her $100000 North Dallas residence. Grover H. Hope, president of Chaney & Hope Inc, found the partially clothed body in a son's room after police reports of bloody footprints and a failed phone call from a friend assaulted in the area. Police noted undisturbed dwelling contents and the murder weapon later recovered.
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Dallas
Grover H. Hope
North
Beverly Jean Hope
Hope
Chaney & Hope, Inc
Free Shopping Spree Draw At Pecos Optimist Club
Donors who give at least one dollar to the Pecos Optimist Club have a chance to win a five minute shopping spree at Piggly Wiggly on Nov 27. The winner selects as much as possible for free with a $100 meat cap and no tobacco allowed.
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Pecos Optimist Club
Franco With Unit Awarded For Safe Flying
U S Air Force Staff Sergeant Ventura Franco son of Mrs Rosalia Franco of Pecos Texas has been honored for helping his unit earn the Military Airlift Command flying safety award for six years of accident free flying He is an aircraft maintenance technician with the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron at McClellan AFB California The 55th flies WC 130B Hercules and WC 1358B Stratolifter aircraft and logged more than 67000 hours without an accident in the six year period ending September 1970 The unit is part of Air Weather Service a MAC sub command which provides weather data for military flights Franco attended Pecos High School His wife Amelia is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Faustino Moran of Firebaugh California.
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U.S. Air Force
Ventura Franco
Rosalia Franco
S. Peach St
Pecos
Military Airlift Command
MAC
Franco
55Th Weather Reconnaissance
McClellan Afb
Calif
Air Weather Service
Amelia
Faustino Moran
Firebaugh
Thousands greet Nixon in Dallas during campaign swing
In Dallas crowds estimated in the thousands welcomed Richard Nixon along with Senate hopeful George Bush and gubernatorial candidate Paul Eggers. The event drew middle America, mostly white and over 25, rallying against inflation, crime and campus unrest. Security was heavy at Love Field and Market Hall, with two teens detained after threats against Nixon and a separate arrest for stealing socks and cufflinks.
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Dallas
Richard Nixon
U.S. Senate
George Bush
Paul Eggers
Market Hall
Main Street
Nixon
Bush
Eggers
Fort Worth
New York City
Love Field
Secret Service
Paul Townsend
Secret Service Force
Harry Hines
All Volunteer Army Dim in Vietnam War Talk
Sen John Stennis chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee says an all volunteer army is impossible while the United States is in the Vietnam War He notes a renewal of the Selective Service Act will be required and that higher pay alone cannot recruit volunteers He spoke at Ft Sam Houston during a tour with enlisted men and junior officers.
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San Antonio
Tex
United States
Senate
Armed Services Committee
John Stennis
D-Miss
Stenflis
Ft. Sam Houston
Stennis
Democrats Redouble Efforts To Offset Nixon Visit in Texas
Texas Democrats intensify voter outreach to counter President Nixon's visit aiding GOP candidates Senator George Bush and Paul Eggers for governor. Nixon rallies draw large crowds while Democrat Lloyd Bentsen campaigns in the Rio Grande Valley and Corpus Christi. Governor Preston Smith attacks GOP spending as Bush and Eggers defend leadership and fiscal policy amid inflation debates.
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Associated Press
Texas
Nixon
U. S
GOP
George Bush
Paul Eggers
Gregg County
Longview
Kilgore
Market Hall
Dallas
Lloyd Bentsen
Bush
Rio Grande Valley
Corpus Christi
Preston Smith
Eggers
East Texas
Ing
Bentsen
Washington
John Tower
Tower
Altar Society Dinner Set for November 15
The St. Catherine's Altar Society will hold its annual dinner November 15 at the Parish Hall with serving from 11 30 a m to 1 30 p m Tickets are available from any society member The menu features turkey ham and all the trimings plus home made pies
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St. Catherine's Altar Society
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East Pecos
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Luis Echevarria
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