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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1939
Page
7
Texas health officials note a 1939 birth can expect to live 62 years, nearly double the 1900 figure, due to vaccines, sanitation, regular exams, and advances in treating tuberculosis cancer and sexually transmitted diseases.
The University of Texas home economics department runs a nursery school as a laboratory for advanced students. Directed by Miss Lucile Emerson since 1927 it lets co-eds study with children in real home settings to learn mothering rather than teaching.
The Smithsonian Institution annually receives about $1,044,692 from the government and $140,000 from private endowments.
Universal comedy stars W. C. Fields Edgar Bergen and Charley McCarthy in a hit screening at the Grand Theatre Sunday and Monday. The feuding pair provide top laughs with Field s antics and McCarthy in blackface and aviation costumes. New faces Princess Baba and Constance Moore appear with Mortimer Snead and James Bush in a comic wedding caper full of pandemonium.
Declining retail prices reduced Texas department store dollar sales by 2.7 percent in January and February 1939 versus a year earlier. University of Texas statisticians estimate total volume matched or slightly exceeded last year, while credit sales to net sales rose and collections to outstanding accounts fell, the Bureau of Business Research reports.
Miss Lillie Leona Tierman and J. P. McElwain both of Pecos were married Sunday afternoon. Justice of the Peace B. A. Oden officiated at his home with only the bride's parents and brother as witnesses.
The statement notes that determining the exact oil amount in a crankcase requires the vehicle to be on level ground. It implies accuracy is compromised on inclines or declines.
In the Reeves County league meet at Balmorhea Saragosa students won rural school division honors. Christina Baeza took first in junior girls declamation Rebecca Brijalba second in junior girls declamation Billy Matta first in junior boys declamation Lionel Baeza second in junior boys declamation Pas Carrasco and Rebecca Brijalba won first in sixth and seventh grade spelling and boys playground ball placed third. First place winners will advance to the district meet in For Lock on April 14 and 15 with blue ribbons for first, red for second, and white for third.
A statistical tally reports five thousand two hundred forty five national banks operating across the United States. The count reflects lender institutions chartered as national banks under federal supervision and regulation.
William J. McCarthy of Trans-Pecos Oil Co visits Toyah Bell well in Pecos to pull a 4300 foot casing and shoot the well after a break at 575 feet. Tests show the cement plug set properly sealing gas for later reentry. Plans outline long distance telephone links bridging Pecos to Davis Mountains and Big Bend areas. Core drilling on Red Bluff reservoir to start May 1 with Fort Sumner and Carlsbad sites under progress. A 35 pound blue catfish caught at the rocky crossing by Joey Kraus highlights local fishing. Town youth report minor injuries from hard sidewalks blamed on roller skating.
The item notes Holland Princess remains tied to a loan delay awaiting a new public works fund. Pecos and West Texas mourn the death of distinguished cattleman Charles Wilmore Tudor, a key regional developer over 39 years. Pecos voters face a Pecos school board contest with five candidates. Quiterio Pineda, Pecos’ oldest resident and Mexican quarter native, died at 99 after arriving with soldiers from Fort Stockton.
Reports from Washington state the City of Pecos secured approval for a $300,000 loan to finance a soft water system. The move aims to improve town water quality and reliability.
Paul Floyd a Texas University pharmacist student arrived Tuesday evening to spend the Easter holidays with his parents Mr and Mrs Dave Floyd Bill Toliver son of Mayor and Mrs B A Toliver has been working in Nevada and returned home this week Robert Beauford a San Marcos Academy student is home for spring holidays with his mother Mrs Mae Beauford Sea feathers found offshore from the Gulf of St Lawrence to the Carolina are actually animals
A report states that foreigners own ninety seven percent of Mexico's mines, highlighting a heavy foreign presence in the country's mineral industry.
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