Pecos People Highlight Local Family News and Achievements
Mary Ann Box returns home after surgery at Kermit Memorial Hospital with her son Ricky Box visiting from Midland College. Ricky, a freshman studying business and commercial art, attended the Pecos Lamesa football game. Betty Massey sails to Denver then Jackson Hole for an educational convention through Sept. 20. Carrico siblings enroll in college with Mary Lisa at San Angelo State University and Brett entering his senior year, both pursuing psychology and math respectively, while Mary Lisa tutors at West Texas Boys Ranch and writes for Rampage.
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Ricky Box
Bill Box
S. Alamo
Midland College
Ricky
Betty Massey
Adams
New York Life Insurance Co
Denver
Massey
Jackson Hole
Wyo
Mary Lisa
San Angelo State University
Miss Carrico
West Texas Boys Ranch
Brett
Maryland program helps displaced homemakers forge new careers
Fran Urban, 43, an alcoholic who left her husband, finds a new path at the Maryland Center for Displaced Homemakers. The center assists 35 plus year olds who lose income through divorce or widowhood, offering counseling, workshops, resume help, and limited funding to rejoin the workforce. It stresses peer support and practical training, from auto mechanics to finances, to rebuild lives and independence.
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Sally Jacobsen
Associated Press
Baltimore (Ap
Fran Urban
Urban
Maryland Center For Displaced Homemakers
Cynthia E. Marano
Marie Parr
Maryland
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke
D-Calif
Laurie Shields
National Alliance For Displaced Homemakers
Oakland
Calif
Ms. Parr
Seeds From The Sower Sermon Excerpt At Corner Store
A sermon piece likens those outside God’s provision to a hungry child at a candy shop. It urges tasting and seeing the Lord’s goodness, describing Him as kinder and greater than all, offering a life that never dies, rest, enduring hope, and endless resources. It invites readers to choose salvation, noting it is all free.
Club begins new year at Pecos BPW pot-luck supper
The Pecos Business and Professional Women's Club opened the 1978 79 season with a pot-luck at the Hickory Housing Center. President Bonita Hart spoke of upcoming State and National B P W conventions and showed slides from her trips. A $25 donation was approved to aid an area Mental Health Clinic project. Sixteen members attended and yearbooks were distributed. The next meeting is Sept 26 at 7 30 p m at the Hickory Housing Center.
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Pecos Business and Professional Women’s Club
Hickory Housing Center
Bonita Hart
Galveston
Puerto Rico
Hart
Pecos Jayceeettes
B&pw
Delta Kappa Gamma chapter hosts annual salad supper
Gamma Mu Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma met at Mrs. Sue Couch s home for their annual salad supper. Ms. Baggett, president, led the business meeting and formed biennial committees while newly formed groups planned year activities. Attendees included Callie Bevill Wilma Buchanan Jane Cameron Mary Alice Ferguson Margaret Harrell Marianne Hart Ann Hicks Juracy McCall Mary Casey Ruby Fay Newton Carolyn Rankin Vestel Rogers Julia Ross Deane Schloemer Emma Shepherd Malda Thomas Margie Millsaps.
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Marianne Hart
Ann Hicks
Juracy McCall
Mary Casey
Ruby Fay Newton
Carolyn Rankin
Vestel Rogers
Julia Ross
Deane Schloemer
Emma Shepherd
Malda Thomas
Margie Millsaps
Engagement and club meeting announcements blend with museum exhibit
A Pecos couple announces the engagement of Susie Trujillo to a local groom with Sept. 30 wedding planned at Santa Rosa Church. The Merry Wives Club opened its new season hosting a luncheon, yearbooks, and Shakespeare quotes for upcoming programs at the West of the Pecos Museum. The Los Angeles art scene previews a Sept 19 to Feb 4, 1979 exhibit featuring 15th to 20th century prints, drawings, and contemporary LA photographs.
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Merry Wives Club
Don Weinacht
Frank Kelley
William Shakespeare
Pecos Museum
Mies
C.J. Anderson
Beulah Baird
O.E. Barker
Leslie Bevill
Bond Bradford
John Burkholder
Ralph Burkholder
Fred Chandler
Charles Daniel
Bob Dean
John R. Dorr
W.L. Fuller
W.E. Hollis
W.H. Holcombe
Alton Hughes
E.A. Kelly
Harold Lindley
Ben Meek, Sr
Jim Sample
L.E. Schneider
Guy Walker
Charles Weinacht
C.M. Wesson
Jack Williams
M.P. Withers
Freddy Villescas
Dolores Villescas
N. Walnut
Santa Rosa Church
David Fierro
Pecos High School
Continental Telephone Co
LA Art Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Durer
Rembrandt
Goya
Cassatt
Picasso
Miro
Rauschenberg
Bandinelli
Tiepolo
Los Angeles
Ann Landers column addresses fat prejudice and personal insults
Reader letters urge Ann Landers to stop insulting fat people while offering personal anecdotes on body image. The column responds with arguments that obesity can be managed and mental health support may help, and also shares reader experiences on hairpieces, in-laws, and hostess etiquette in blunt, practical terms.
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Ann
Homemakers Open New Year With Salad Supper
Reeves County Young Homemakers start the year with a Salad Supper at the Junior High School Homemaking Lab. Lois Roach presides as business plans cover Young Homemakers week Sept 17 23 and the Fall Fair Oct 12 14. Members to bring a salad and guest. contact Anne Vines at 447-3390 to join. Pecos Savings and Loan sponsors fair booth.
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Reeves County Young Homemakers
Lois Roach
Pecos Savings and Loan
Anne Vines
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Mwbill
Reba Carrico
S. Park
Annapolis
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Edith Schonberg
Alpine
Antonio Trujillo
Susie
Ann Landers
Dear Ann
Lottie
THE
Lone Star
Nellie
Nell
Philadelphia
Phil
Homemakers
Pecos Enterprise
Ifm
Hazel’s Oratory
S. Eddy
S. Cedar
Ruben
Lupe
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