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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1971
Page
5
Bill Shaw runs a Pasadena gas station with his wife and two sisters, boosting monthly sales from 5,000 gallons to about 30,000. The women handle pumping, customer service, fluid checks, and washing while Shaw plans to hand over more tasks as turnover and theft issues drop.
Three women from Reeves-Loving Co district of Home Demonstration Association attend the 35th annual National Extension Homemakers Council conference in Dallas. More than 700 Texans expected among about 3,000 attendees. The program includes seven workshops, panel discussions, and Edwin L. Kirby as featured speaker. Election of national officers to occur September 23.
Members of the Advisory Board for the Pecos Rainbow Assembly were honored at the Pecos Eastern Star Chapter meeting at the Masonic Hall. Marian Moreland presided with Marthana Hudson and Clara Frazier assisting. Willie Reynolds played piano as Moreland read a Rainbow poem. Grand Chapter officers Ernestine Winterrowd Ruby King and Curtiss Winterrowd received special recognition. A social hour followed hosted by Marjorie Mays Mildred Ferguson and Juanita Mahaffey with dips chips nuts cookies fruit punch coffee and a rainbow rose centerpiece.
A USDA expert notes high grade beef remains popular despite inflation and unemployment. Per capita beef consumption rose from 113 pounds in 1970 toward 130 by 1980 with 55 percent of production in Choice and Prime. Rising costs, fat content, and quality goals shape higher retail prices.
A series of reader tips covers cleaning gilded frames, safer bottle caps, storing photo negatives in large envelopes with labeled small envelopes, removing grass stains with rug cleaner, deterring birds with newspapers, slow watering plants via a pierced jug, and leather gloves cleaning with warm water and soap.
The Area II Young Homemakers and Young Farmers of Texas met in Wall with Beck y Chambers presiding. An awards banquet followed at St Ambrose Hall where Reeves County won the Outstanding Chapter Award and O Donnell earned Second Place with a $50 prize.
A humorous critique on rainy day rules for children. It argues kids prefer indoors on hot humid days and outdoors on drizzly days, revealing how adults market rainy day games while kids seek practical play outside or slip out to explore despite wet weather.
Industria reports about 43 000 Swedish employers or one eighth are women. They are concentrated in retailing with 12 300, in agriculture with 5 500, in hotels and restaurants with 3 300, and in textile and clothing with 3 800. The source notes Industria’s analysis.
Beltone announces a unique free offer for the hard of hearing in Pecos. A non operating replica of Beltone’s smallest model will be given at no cost or obligation to anyone answering the ad. It weighs under one ounce, is worn at the ear with no body wires, and is free while supplies last. Call now.
Mr. Harry C. Hall will be at the Professional Building Daggett and Eddy on Tuesday September 21 from 1 to 3 PM to offer free hearing tests. Call 447 2438 in Pecos for information or write Beltone Hearing Aid Service 605 AN Stanton El Paso Texas 79901.
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