Pecos cantaloupe expert hails artichoke sugar dream
In 1930 31 A A DeBole and associates ran private trials west of Pecos with exotic melons and the Jerusalem artichoke. The tuber rich plant promised a sugar source rivaling beets, with yields claimed up to 10 tons per acre. He produced cantaloupe by products including jellies candies and syrups and demonstrated 14 cantaloupe derived products at a chamber of commerce banquet. DeBole hoped to attract eastern capital for a Pecos plant but left without realization, leaving his plans to merit a second look.
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A.A. DeBole
Pecos
Debole
Jerusalem
Webster
DeBose
Chamber of Commerce
Henry Ford
A.A. DeBose
Ira J. Bell
el Paso
Dallas
Laredo
Fort Worth
United Way boosts Pecos through community programs
Editorial urges Pecos citizens to donate to United Way, highlighting funds directed to Boy Scouts Girl Scouts Girls Softball Colt League Pony League Little League Pee Wee Football and to Salvation Army Pecos Day Nursery March of Dimes Planned Parenthood and Red Cross. It notes Red Cross helps service members, March of Dimes fights polio and supports health research, Planned Parenthood benefits families and the community, and Day Nursery aids working mothers and labor force. The paper backs United Way as a path to a better community and citizens.
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United Way
Pecos
Boy Scouts
Corporations reidentify capabilities and goals in change
AP analyst says top firms are reassessing their core abilities and aims after the 1970s. executives confront trauma from market shifts and regulations, with industries like autos chemicals steel energy and banking realigning strategy toward new capabilities for the 1980s.
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John Cunniff
New York
Eugene Jennings
Jennings
Michigan State University
Today in History October 29 1975 Highlights and Birthdays
On this date in history 1929 the New York stock market collapsed signaling the worst financial catastrophe in U S history. Also 1618 Sir Walter Raleigh was executed London for treason and 1682 William Penn landed at Chester Pa. In 1918 Kiel mutiny began WW I peace talks and 1923 Turkey proclaimed. 1940 peacetime draft numbers drawn and 1956 Israel attacked Sinai. One year ago Nixon was critical in Long Beach hospital. Caricaturist Bill Mauldin is 54 and ex manager Bill Rigney is 56. Two hundred years ago Massachusetts armed ships set sail for the East Coast.
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Associated Press
New York
U.S
Walter Raleigh
London
Englard
James I
William Penn
Chester
Kiel
Republic of Turkey
United States
Israel
Egypt
Sinai Peninsula
Amchitka Island
Aleutians
Soviet Union
Thank you for blood drive support by Pecos Evening Lions
Otis Mawhiney thanks readers for the blood drive success rising from 19 pints to 162. He praises the community spirit, notes volunteers’ help, and echoes the sentiment that it is more blessed to give than to receive.
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Evening Lions
Otis Mawhiney
Pecos
Supreme Court to hear veto power case in Texas UT law project
The Texas Supreme Court will hear Jessen Associates Inc. and Comptroller Bob Bullock over a $2,590 payment for cost studies on a $10 million UT law school addition. Gov Briscoe vetoed riders requiring legislative approval for university construction, citing a 1975 law. The case tests governor veto scope and how it affects state agencies and university boards.
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Austin — Texas Supreme Court
High Court
Austin Architectural Firm
Jessen Associates Inc
Bob Bullock
Bullock
University of Texas Law School
Dolph Briscoe
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Clayton
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Odessa
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George H. Hall Sr
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