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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1933
Page
6
Pecos Valley News and Pecos Weekly Times merge notices list HUBBS PRINTING COMPANY at the Pecos, Texas office with editor JACK HAWKINS and manager BARNEY HUBBS. Subscription rates are $1.00 yearly and $2.00 six months. Second class matter note stamps October 22, 1915. Office deadline requires Gepy in office by Wednesday to insure current issue. Telephone 171.
The Texas Legislature enters its fourth month with a 10 per day pay for 120 days. Some expect extension, others seek early adjournment. The income tax plan taxes up to 7 percent for individuals and 6 percent for corporations, with exemptions for married filers and dependents. Senate passage is in doubt while major appropriations bills advance.
The May workers conference for Pecos Valley and Davis Mountain Baptist Associations will convene at Sanderson Texas on May 4 with Evangelism as the theme. Rev J F Green serves as Sanderson pastor. The program includes devotion, talks on revival and evangelism, special music, a board meeting, and a lunch break.
A Pecos resident, Bill Kerr, was chosen by the 42nd Rotary district to serve as its Governor. The district covers New Mexico and much of Texas, signaling praise for Pecos and Kerr’s leadership within the global service organization.
The Pecos Enterprise notes the death of Rev C V Williams longtime Methodist pastor. It praises his preaching intellect community service and devotion as a husband and father while mourning Pecos loss of a man of God and civic contributor.
Regan announces he will vote for the beer bill when it reaches the Senate. Supporters and opponents alike praise his clear stance and refusal to straddle the issue.
The Mancos Times Tribune argues Merida must advance into a new era of progress. It cites transportation expansion, national growth, and tech advances like the automobile, telephone, air travel, electricity, radio, and science as forces driving change. Citizens should invest, create jobs, and spend to mobilize industry.
Lawmakers push to revive a sales tax to fund public schools while keeping cigarette tax and gross production enforcement strong to curb leaks. An income tax has House approval, but observers question the need for new taxes if school reorganization and leak stoppage suffice.
With a weary Legislature eager to finish, lawmakers may approve measures that earlier lacked support. Citizens seeking sizable tax reductions should monitor the final weeks and press their representatives without hesitation.
Affidavits alleging depredations by bands of armed Mexicans in the Big Bend area have been sent to Secretary Dern. The documents support a proposal to reestablish cavalry posts at Marfa, abandoned earlier, as Secretary Dern notes the economy takes priority but promises attention to Marfa soon.
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