Youth open new center in Pecos The Hangout
A youth center named The Hangout opens in Lindsay addition Pecos with donated building at 2309 Sandia formerly Stop and Shop Grocery. Officers include Diana Dominguez president and Jesse Dominguez sergeant at arms. The group seeks donations of furniture books games and a refrigerator. call 445 4608 for pickups.
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Pecos
Lindsay Addition
Macolm Profer
Sandia
Proffer
Diana Dominguez
Jesse Barron
Tony Dominguez
Vicki Phelps
Aramita Bijara
Jesse Dominguez
Gonzalo Bijara
Stan Morgan
Ricky Dominguez
Warren Proffer
Jack Hignojos
Donny Royal
Cheryl Phelps
Rhonda Proffer
Cynthia Dominguez
Velma Bijara
Betty Akins
Pecos Enterprise Starts Annual Football Contest
The Pecos Enterprise invites readers to vote on Friday night games by marking winners and guessing the Pecos Eagles score. Prizes include cash for the top three near perfect scores and a Perfect Score prize. If no perfect score, funds roll to next week. Deadline Friday noon or postmark. winners published each Wednesday.
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Pecos Enterprise
Pecos Eagles
Pecos Enterprise Office
Texas Water Rights panel approves Martin's Creek dam near Henderson
The Texas Water Rights Commission, by 2 to 0, approved a dam on Martin's Creek in Rusk County to back a multi million dollar power plant. Landowners protested losing pasture timber and water for livestock while officials pledged mitigation. Local residents cited long held family lands and age old ties to the area as they faced displacement from rising lake waters.
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Jack Keever
Associated Press
Austin
Texas Water Rights Commission
Martin’s Creek
Rusk County
W. T. Adams
Commission
Joe Carter
Otha Dent
Leslie Neal
Dallas Power and Light Co
Texas Electrical Service Co
Texas Power and Light Co
Henderson
Harrison County
Harris Martin
Mayme Leadon
Tatum
Tropical storm Fern drifts toward Texas coast uncertain path
Tropical storm Fern drifts slowly in the northwest Gulf of Mexico with a uncertain course toward Texas. The National Weather Service notes a poorly defined center about 260 miles south-southeast of Galveston and 280 miles east of Brownsville as winds reach 50 mph near the center. Edith strengthens to hurricane force off the Western Caribbean as threatening storms march toward Texas.
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Associated Press
Fern
Gulf of Mexico
Caribbean
Texas
White pupils stay home from school in Dallas desegregation
Attendance figures show 5,258 fewer pupils than opening day in 1970 as Dallas schools reopened under a court desegregation order. About 4,000 to 6,000 secondary students, mostly Negroes, rode buses to white schools in North and East Dallas, while several high schools remained largely black.
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Dallas
Boude Storey
Trinity Heights
Oak Cliff
Lincoln
Pinkston
Roosevelt
Lin
Nolan Estes
Skeleton not Brookfield found near Pecos unsettles locals
A skeleton found three weeks ago in Screwbean Draw north of Pecos in Reeves County is not that of Victor Brookfield, missing seven years. Sheriff A B Nail said the remains are male and elderly. dental records were sent to Austin for comparison.
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Screwbean Draw
Pecos
Reeves County
Victor Brookfield
A.B. Nail
Brookfield
Odessa
Santa Fe
Department of Public Safety Laboratory
Austin
Sheriff Nail
Wage-Price Freeze Inquiries Answered By ASCS Office
Reeves Loving County ASCS reports receiving about one weekly inquiry on the wage-price freeze and President EO on Economic Stabilization. County executive director Clyde L. Daughhetee notes the office handles questions and guidance.
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Reeves-Loving County
ASCS
Daughhetee
Internal Revenue Service District
First National Bank
Reeves— Loving County Ascs
3Rd St
Pecos
Clyde L
Dystrophy march set for Pecos September 14
About 160 volunteers will conduct a house to house march in Pecos to raise funds for muscular dystrophy research. Campaign chair is Jerry Millsaps, treasurer Mrs. Bill Allen. The effort supports early detection and treatment research, with Texas campaigns led by Dan Reeves of Dallas and a statewide committee including Joel Austin, Jim Carlen, Henry Frnka, Floyd Gish, Charles Kvinta, Henry Schuhmacer, James W Walters, and Thomas West Sr. The drive targets improving care and accelerating human treatments amid a large patient population.
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Pecos
Jerry Millsaps
Bill Allen
Texas
Dan Reeves
Dallas
Dallas Cowboys
Joel Austin
Alice
Jim Carlen
Texas Tech
Lubbock
Henry Frnka
San Antonio
Floyd Gish
Charles Kvinta
Yoakum
Henry
Telethon Nets 801 Locally In Pecos Drive
Local drive in Pecos collected 801 dollars during the ABC telethon for muscular dystrophy. Pecos Cab Company and Pecos High School freshman class organized the event and turned the funds in to KMOM-TV for research support.
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Pecos
ABC
Pecos Cab Company
Pecos High School
Kmom-Tv
TAP Promotes Texas Goods To Strengthen Rural Areas
The Texas Department of Agriculture promotes rural vitality by encouraging Texans to buy Texas products in stores. TAP campaigns boost farm profits and attract residents, featuring beef, grain sorghums, turkeys, citrus, and more through radio TV spots billboards and in-store displays across about 16 000 outlets and 400 billboards with one million mailings.
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Austin
John C. White
Texas Department of Agriculture
Texas Agricultural Products
White
Texas
Witte
TAP
Credit kept Carr from buying stock in NBL scheme
A witness said former Texas attorney general Waggoner Carr could not buy National Bankers Life stock because his credit was extended. The testimony tied Carr, Osorio, and Byram to a quick profits scheme involving NBL and a Houston financier identified as Frank W. Sharp.
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Dallas
Waggoner
National Bankers Life
Texas Atty
Waggoner Carr
Andy Byram
RIC International Industries, Inc
Carr
John Osorio
South Atlantic Co
Osorio
NBL
Byram
Houston
Frank W. Sharp
Tion
Sharp
Mrs Williams Injured in 12 Foot Fall at Closed Building
Mrs Ralph Williams was taken to Parkview Hospital Midland after a fall through a ceiling in the old D and H Chevrolet building. She crawled into an attic area when the ceiling collapsed, dropping about 12 feet to a cement floor. The building, owned by her husband, is currently empty.
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Ralph Williams
Parkview Hospital
Midland
Officials to release revised 1971 cotton crop estimate
Washington AP The Agriculture Department plans to announce a revised 1971 cotton production estimate today. The first estimate put output at 10.9 million bales with higher acreage and yields than 1970. Domestic mills will need about 8.1 million bales, while exports may add three million. Exports likely fall sharply from 1970-71. AER report notes some production areas.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Economic Research Service
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Gartland
PecosArt Center
Youth Open New Center
Enterprise
A.D. Finley
Gulf
Lone Star State
Texas Panhandle
Dalhart
National Weather Service
Skeleton
N. Grant St
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Mrs. Williams
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