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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1968
Page
2
Bill and Claudia Arms report steady catches at Red Bluff Lake with 12 black bass and 4 large bluegills logged on a Tuesday morning. The lake stays quiet during weekdays while weekends bring families for swimming skiing boating picnicking and camping. Bill Arms Camp offers bait drinks ice and fishing tackle.
A former Pecos High School teacher and coach, William Spiller, died of cancer on Sept 8 in a Fort Worth hospital and was buried there. He taught and coached at PHS in 1962 63 serving as assistant baseball coach. He is survived by his widow Kay two children and parents Mr and Mrs T O Spiller of Bronte two brothers Lt Donald Wayne Spiller of Fort Bliss El Paso and Eddie Spiller of San Angelo.
Texas Farmers Union District 8 will hold a working meeting in Big Spring at the Holiday Inn Blissard on Tuesday September 17 starting at 9:00 a.m. TFU District 8 Director says the session will cover district reports membership NFU Insurance plans and county meeting scheduling. Naman will speak on Farmers Union's Challenge for the Future and answer questions. Counties in the district include Dawson Gaines Glasscock Howard Martin Midland Mitchell Nolan Pecos Reeves Runnels and Tom Green. The event is open to the public and aims to support family farms.
Ma cario Salgado aged 67 died early Wednesday at Memorial Hospital. Final rites were held at Santa Rosa Church with burial at Santa Rosa Cemetery. He lived at 609 Mulberry and was born December 10 1895 in Presidio. Survived by eight sons and three daughters living in Pecos Rui doso New Mexico and Pecos.
Judy Farnum reported a man or group hanging around her babysitting residence at 2137 Wyoming Thursday night and again Wednesday. Walter Boxer said a .38 pistol vanished from his car at Sinclair station SH 20 and Hwy 17 Tuesday. Benjamin Munoz found his horse dead Wednesday afternoon after suspected riders struck fence. W M Hoets reported an attempted break into the Boswell Insurance Building Monday. Church and Teachers Supply store back door attempted to be jimmyed to gain entry and air conditioner removed effort. In Texas 1967 wells were mostly wildcat with only twenty percent yielding oil or gas.
Mrs Gordon Garlington traveled Tuesday to Prenter West Virginia to attend funeral services for her sister Mrs Freda Dickinson who died after a brief illness Services were held Thursday at Prenter Presbyterian Church She is survived by two daughters Mrs Andrews Summers and Miss Suzanne Dickinson both of Charleston WV one son John of Columbus Ohio her mother Mrs Dell Keeney of Prenter one brother and several sisters including Mrs Garlington Another son Mark was killed last month in a plane crash at Charleston WV airport He was en route to his mother s bedside at the time of the crash Mrs Garlington will visit her mother then return to Pecos in about three weeks
A two day event at Sul Ross State College Alpine begins October 4 with talks by ranchers students and Extension personnel on creosotebush control uses and economics. A field tour October 5 from Fort Davis to Van Horn will review ranch work and range improvements with a Mexico presence. Lodging and meals at Prude Ranch priced at $6 per person.
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