Hill Country Rodeo draws 7500 over two nights
Attendance at the Fifth Annual Hill Country Championship Rodeo reached about 7 500 across Monday and Tuesday shows. Monday drew 4 000 spectators with Tuesday slightly lower as Junior Chamber of Commerce officials announced the event record. A Kerrville Times note reports Alpine rancher Bob Sims injured by an eagle on his ranch after roping the bird. he dispatched the animal and returned to work. County records note land sales including C F Sears selling 3 104 acres to George Kothmann, who then sold 1 555 acres to Bennie B Bradford, and others selling Andres Murchison Jr home to Dc A Weise. An Eldorado Success item mentions a 45 by 60 foot building with a 15 by 60 foot space for another business.
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Bob Sims
Alpine
Mr. Sims
C. F. Sears
George Kothmann
Kothmann
Bennie B. Bradford
Kf. H. Perry
D. C. Reed
Andres Murchison, Jr
Dc. A. Weise
Menard News
Large Bear Killed in Texas by Ranchers under Warden
In the Davis Mountains Texas a 463 pound bear was slain after it killed twenty-five sheep. State Game Warden T O Redford supervised the hunt with ranchers and obtained special permission from the Texas Game Fish and Oyster Commission. The bear is noted as the largest killed in a score of years though bears remain rare in most Texas regions. Open season runs Nov. 16 to Dec. 31.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
Trans Pecos
Redford
Davis Mountains
Texas Game, Fish and Oyster Commission
Brain
O D Daniel Signs Bill For Lower Concho Unit
Gov O Daniel signed bills including a $3000 appropriation for the Lower Concho River Water and Soil Conservation Authority and a measure authorizing State Park Boards to acquire sites at several Colorado River dams for flood control and conservation projects.
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Austin
W. Lee O’daniel
Lower Concho River
Eldorado Postoffice Excavation Begins on Courthouse Square
Excavation for the foundation of a new postoffice building in Eldorado started Wednesday this week. The structure will stand on the courthouse square and form a key civic facility for the town.
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Postoffice
Eldorado
Mystery Slaughter of Pecos River Fish Probed
Local officers and the state game fish and oyster commission investigate a mass die off in the Pecos River. Reports say thousands of dead fish drifted downstream early this week as ranchers along 25 to 30 miles noted the carcasses, including a 15 to 20 pound catfish near Crockett County beyond Sheffield.
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Pecos
State Game, Fish and Oyster Commission
Iraan
B. B. Ingham
Crockett County
Sheffield
Ozona
Texans to vote four constitutional amendments in November
Texans will vote November 5 1940 on four proposed amendments to the Texas constitution. The package includes direct Supreme Court review for certain injunctions, city civil service carve outs from two year terms, secretary of state appointment of notaries, and a Red River County tax levy to refinance debt.
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Austin
Texas
United States
Secretary of State
Senate
Red River County
Commissioners’ Court
Mesquite Bean Crop Buoyant In West Texas Ranch Area
Mesquite trees yield a bumper bean crop across West Texas despite dry weather, providing feed for animals and economic value for ranchers. The scene recalls Pancho resting beneath a shaded trunk, chewing a bean as he contemplates spring and upcoming baile, with prior use of mesquite for hats and corrals noted.
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West Texas
Pancho
Hundred Pound Shotgun Exhibit Unearthed at Texas Mines Museum
A 100-pound muzzle loader from 1523 brought by Hernan Cortez to Mexico is shown at the Centen nial Museum. The weapon, with a 35 millimeter bore, served in the Mexican War of Independence from 1810 to 1812. Also noted are Texas cattle counts in Webb and Kenedy counties exceeding 100,000 head and a tire’s high-speed rotation estimate.
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EL Paso
Tex
Mexico
Hernan Cortez
Texas College of Mines
Texas
Webb
Kenedy
Pancho Harnesses Local Timber and Gum for Daily Use
Pancho sets upright a tree for building and learns the wood’s durability. He handles sticky gum on his hands and discovers its value in laundries, muci lage, and confectionaries. Dark gum finds use by more ambitious locals. He basks in dry-year bean bumper crops, gathering a sackful for his own sustenance and drying, grinding, and baking bean flour into a nourishing cake.
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Pancho
What World Needs Is More Zippers
A Mt. Vernon Optic letter by Joe Gandy argues the wheel and zipper as the two greatest inventions. He jokes that buttons waste time, notes zippers suit women better, and laughs at outdated clothing practices.
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Joe Gandy
Mt. Vernon Optic
Will Hitler Drop In New York
The Fuehrer plans a personal aircraft with transatlantic range suggesting a possible New York visit. A landing would test New York’s reception and the Hitler legend amid widespread jokes and prejudice in the city.
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Hitler
New York World Telegram on Hitler’s lack of followers in exile
The New York World Telegram argues that Hitler would be powerless without followers and would be a Fuehrer without his weapons, a war lord without killing tools, and a tyrant without concentration camps, a dictator surrounded by free voters. It praises New York as welcoming to those who oppose hate and betrayal.
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Fuehrer
Germany
New York
Hitler
New York World-Telegram
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Eldorado Success
O'Daniel
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J. L. Ball Dairy
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Kimble
O. C. Fisher
Eagle Office
Kimble County
the Junction Eagle “Printers
Goethe
Carl H. Frink
Clayton, N. Y
Nevada
Frink
Manchester
Hotpoint
West Texas Utilities Company
Miles
Puy
Goodyear
Pelt
Loeffler Motor
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