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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1972
Page
6
The Family page presents a compact snapshot of local notices, birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, and community events. Readable items include engagements and social notices featuring residents, families, and neighbors from the area.
Sandy Smith, a Barstow native, began teaching this year in Pecos Barstow Schools. She teaches fourth grade at Pecos Elementary, calls Barstow home, and credits family support for her degree from Sul Ross State University. She has lived in the area about twenty years and enjoys gardening. She joins Texas State Teachers Association and Texas Classroom Teachers Association and belongs to Barstow Order of Eastern Star. Margie Duke presents plaque to Nancy Box, Golden Girl nominee, in Barstow.
Retirement couple Mr. and Mrs. Allen K. Killough collect lighters from friends and strangers alike after starting in 1952 with a few broken pieces. Their shelves hold silver, novelty, and foreign lighters from Switzerland to the Philippines, forming perhaps the nation’s largest personal collection.
Dallas hosts 1972 State 4-H Dress Revue with 46 Texas finalists from counties and districts. Top winners receive a trip to Chicago for National 4-H Club Congress and cash or bond prizes from state associations. Finalists, including growing male participation, compete on October 6 luncheon and October 7 public fashion show at the State Fair grounds.
The City Federation met September 20 at the Federation Parlor with President Fannie Camp presiding. The Young Homemakers Club presented the by laws program for Federated Clubs. The Merry Home and Garden Club served refreshments to 16 members.
Tea and Killough cultivate a famed shelf filled lighter sets and a one year old chartreuse parakeet that puffs on Tea s cigarette. They host autograph books with guest messages since 1951, welcome visitors, and enjoy dancing to old country tunes with trophies from schottische waltz and other dances. Troop 226 selects patrols and assigns a speaker for each group during the September meeting.
The Sandhills District Committee of the Boy Scouts met at Pyote Community Center on Sept. 18 with representatives from Reeves Winkler and Ward Counties. Discussions covered summer camp at Buffalo Trails ten troops report, Pyote swim meet success, nominating committee for next year, banquet planning in Pecos, den mother and leader training October 29, and new scout program training kits. Over 100 new Cub Scouts were registered after the Monahans Kermit and Wink rally.
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