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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1939
Page
3
Elections across Trans Pecos on Saturday and Tuesday led to Mrs. W. R. Harral and Mrs. J. W. Butler winning school trustee races. Hart Johnson was unanimously chosen mayor, with three incumbent council members re elected.
Bathing Beauty revue at the 1939 Water Carnival in June offers an all expense paid five day trip to Treasure Island San Francisco for the winner. The prize is expected to draw a larger group of young ladies than last year.
Trustees who begin May 1 to serve three year terms were elected Saturday in a photo finish with ten votes separating the field of four. Walter J. Fiensy led with 152 votes to win one of the two seats, while Russell M. Lilley was re elected as president.
Sheriff Ellis Summers said car license receipts for Winkler County and the state fell about eleven thousand dollars below 1938 totals this year. He noted most of the decline came from truck and heavy equipment registrations.
Julian Montgomery the state highway engineer told Culberson County Judge Burch Carson that grading on 5.3 miles of the 45 mile road from Van Horn toward the junction with U S 62 has been approved by the Texas Highway Commission marking the designation of Texas State Highway 54 as U S 90.
About 350 Wink residents voted on Tuesday reelecting F. F. Breazeale as mayor and L. L. Ford as city commissioner. L. H. Owenby lost the commission race by fourteen votes.
In Winkler county March conditions worsened with a mild influenza outbreak, at times striking every family member. School enrollment rose, suggesting the crest of the health flare has passed.
Col. R. H. Lew and Fort Russell soldiers state that Easter weather disrupted Army Day events, forcing changes in observances at the Marfa post.
A late night fire in Marfa swept Jones Drug Co Philip s Dry Goods Store and the Childers Building just before midnight last Saturday as firefighters attending their eighth annual ball at the El Paisano Hotel responded to the blaze.
District officials in Balmorhea oppose printing the delinquent tax rolls for the water system tax assessments. They criticize the plan as unnecessary and worry it could reveal unpaid accounts and undermine current collection efforts.
Poll tax receipts indicate Grandfalls Mona Hans Grandfalls and Royalty hold the largest voting strength in Ward county. This data highlights strong local participation and influence among named communities.
The State Highway Department in Austin announced 1 868 000 for farm to market road construction in Texas. Grand Falls received a share to surface 5.2 miles on the road leading to Crane.
Rumors spread this week that Tuesday’s Monahans city election results might be contested. No official contest notice has been filed. If a challenge occurs it would concern voters in the recently annexed south and the previously annexed north portions of the city.
Local scout representatives and interested citizens met last week to reorganize a committee directing the extension of scouting in Monahans and Wickett.
Balmorhea State Park observed the fifth anniversary of its CCC camp last week. The Balmorhea Texan published a special edition to honor the occasion.
Fort Davis state Game Warden Tom Redford led Texas’ inaugural antelope capture and relocation operation. Daily press reports describe a large, successful roundup and transfer to new ranges.
After several days of warm springlike weather in the Davis Mountains, rain high winds and low temperatures hit on Wednesday and Thursday. Fruit growers, hoping for a large yield—the first since 1934—fear little salvage from the damage.
Snow began last Thursday evening in Sanderson and topped six inches before ending. Ranchers, fearing a killing freeze for new brush, now view the moisture as a boon to pasture grass and weeds.
J Singleton Fort Worth PWA examiner visited Kermit for two days and indicated he would favor PWA purchasing the city's bonds, signaling strong likelihood of federal backing for waterworks and sewer system projects.
Mrs Frank Cooper and her children Marion Evelyn and Johnny Bob of Mentone visited friends on Friday. Marion Cooper was home from John Tarleton College for the Easter holidays.
Miss Margaret Simmons, daughter of Mr and Mrs Bike Simmons, spent the Easter holidays at home visiting her parents last weekend.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Titus Miss Janice Wadley and Miss Sarah Chapman left Monday to return to school after visiting here with their families. Titus and Wadley attend Texas Tech in Lubbock while Chapman studies at West Texas State College in Canyon.
Miss Patricia Green a Sul Ross College sophomore spent last weekend in Alpine visiting Mr and Mrs Tom McClure and O F Woods. She left Tuesday to return to school.
Miss Dean McCall a Pecos elementary school teacher returns from Alpine where she spent the Easter holidays visiting her parents.
Fred Armstrong, a Texas Tech student, spent his spring holidays at home visiting his parents Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Armstrong.
Pecos elementary school teacher Miss Nancy Jones spent last weekend visiting her family in Lubbock.
Raymond Curfman business manager of the La Ventana Texas Tech annual spent last weekend in town visiting with Mrs Curfman.
Miss Betty Bassett of the Community Public Service local office spent last weekend visiting with her family in Sanderson.
Miss Mary Nabors a freshman at Texas Tech spent the Easter holidays at home with her parents Mr and Mrs R V Nabors.
Freshman student Howard Collier of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth departed Monday to return to campus after spending the Easter Holidays visiting with her parents in town.
Mrs. R. E. Kilmer and the children drove to Austin last weekend to visit Mr. Kilmer. He is a district engineer there attending to official duties.
Mrs Runnels spent last weekend and several days this week visiting in Fort Worth with her son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Hal Wandry.
James Drane, student at Schreiner Institute Kerrville, left early this week to return there after spending the weekend with his parents Judge and Mrs J A Drane.
Mr and Mrs Charles Fitzgerald and Mr and Mrs Clarence Mount left Sunday morning for a Northern California mining area where they will spend a week or ten days visiting and attending to business matters.
Mrs Edna Johnson who teaches in Abernathy and Miss Mary Catherine Couch a Home Demonstration agent in Idalou traveled to Pecos last weekend to spend Easter with relatives.
Sheriff and Mrs. Hardin Ross of Mentone were here Sunday spending Easter with relatives and friends.
Hardin Simmons University senior Miss Mary Sue Johnson departed Sunday after spending the weekend visiting relatives in the area and preparing to resume her studies.
The Mexican Baptists of West Texas announce their quarterly meeting at the Mexican Baptist Church in Pecos on April 28 29 and 30 with an expected attendance over 300. South Africa’s crime rate has almost trebled in three years.
British India Ceylon Java and the United Kingdom supply Canada with most of its tea chiefly in unprepared form.
Fragmentary note records amounts paid out and balances for a transaction. Details are illegible, with incomplete names and figures. The text suggests a bookkeeping entry or receipt but lacks full context or identifiers.
Lee Weatherby a first year student at Hardin-Simmons University departed Monday to return home for the holidays leaving the Abilene campus during the break period and indicating plans to resume classes after the holiday recess.
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