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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1932
Page
1
The home team seized a dramatic win with a late trick play to secure the football game. Key players and coaches from both sides provided a tense, back and forth contest as fans watched the decisive moment unfold.
Moach Lee Johnson leads the Wink Wildcats in a dramatic 7-6 victory over Snyder to capture the bi district title. Wink overcame Pecos Iraan and favored Snyder, with home-field advantage and a daring guarantee boosting their bid in a hard fought season finale.
In a regional game, Wink clung to a 0 0 draw with De Leon but finished with a 5 0 victory under the Interscholastic League system as Wink reached the De Leon goal three times.
The speaker praises Wink for guarantees and family ties shown during Pecos game. They credit Wink with delivering a championship level football experience in Pecos and express strong fan support for the team.
An anonymous speaker detailed the complex craft of grinding and shaping lenses for glasses at a Rotary Club noon meeting at Orient Dining. The talk covered materials like lens grinding fluids and stones and explained how molten glass becomes precise corrective lenses.
A Christmas play titled By the Light of the Stars will be staged Friday night at the Grand Theater. Pecos Little Theatre will provide a prelude musical score before the performance.
A senior official from the Sinclair Refining Company is reported to be suffering from the flu and is staying at the Brandon hotel.
The Texas highway department dissolves an injunction, allowing $136,000 in state road work in Reeves County. Trinity Farm and Gravel Co of Dallas wins $112,014.27 for blacktopping the Carlsbad road between Arno and Orla, with about 150 workers. Dozier Construction Co of Austin wins $24,149.14 for two bridges on Highway 27 between Fort Stockton, Balmorhea, and Kent, employing around 60 men. Work on Salt Draw bridge near Pecos continues, with high priority on completing the region’s key highways hub status.
The University of Texas astronomy observatory may be built on Spring Mountain in Jeff Davis county near Fort Davis. W J McDonald of Texas bequeathed nearly a million dollars toward the project with Dr Otto Struve endorsing the site as ideal for viewing and access.
The Adams and Bradley No. 1 Regan McElwain completed in section S4 block E WANW Survey, Pecos investors Ken Regan and Earl Bell with California Company holding interests. Shot Sunday afternoon, it sprayed oil over the derrick, producing about 1000 barrels in the first 24 hours and around 600 the second day, surpassing prior Loving County initial- production records and signaling a revival of activity in the Loving pool.
Pecos merchants stock up for the season and decorate with care as Christmas displays light up the business district. A community tree, colored lights, and shop windows from Brandon corner to the highway celebrate the holidays. Santa arrived last Saturday to cheers and candy for children.
A man sleeping in a vacant downtown building wakes to find his salvaged boots missing after a cold night. He had stripped to rest and later discovered the footwear gone, leaving him in hardship to continue.
Ken Regan the Pecos district's first Texas Senate representative in 30 years will address the Pecos Chamber of Commerce next Tuesday at noon before leaving for Austin to join the legislative session. A large turnout is expected as Regan promises valuable information on district issues.
Pecos aims to be West Texas’ most beautiful city at Christmas. The Chamber of Commerce plans a decorated lighted tree at the downtown highway corner and urges homes and businesses to lit up. The More Beautiful Christmas contest returns with two prizes for best home and best downtown establishment. judging is at 5 oclock on Christmas Eve.
Four year old Robert Cortez Mann died from burns after finding gasoline in a can and placing it on a stove. The Barstow family, son of R C Mann, reported the funeral at Pecos Baptist church with interment in Fairview cemetery. This follows a prior Pecos gas stove explosion death two weeks earlier.
Associate Justice Mawin Flannigan of Phoenix dies in a fatal crash when a vehicle carrying W. Brad Shaw of San Antonio overturned near Van Horn. The accident occurred on a jiew road this week according to local reports.
The record hunting buck in the area this season was taken by R. C. Van Zandt near Bear Mountain. The 10 pointer dressed at 280 pounds. Jamie Deering of Pecos accompanied Van Zandt.
Magi Ullah of Wink will attend the Sunday morning service at the Christian church weather permitting. Rev. Gus Ram age announced the sermon will revisit the first Christmas and trace Ullah’s legend from ancient Persia back 1000 years to a princess.
Famed actress Greta Nissen and husband Donald Nick visited Pecos Tuesday night en route from Hollywood to Memphis. The pair, traveling in a specially built Cadillac, asked to remain incognito while at Hotel Brandon.
Edwin Finley of Toyah recounts a hunting season incident when he found a bear in a coyote trap about nine miles from Toyah. He notes it is unusual for a bear to stray far from the mountains and says the animal was wounded.
William Franklin Fellis, son of Mr and Mrs J Fellis, died Monday December 12 from diphtheria. The funeral was handled by Pecos Furniture Co with many friends offering condolences to the family.
Jake Vandervoort 65 longtime Burford refinery employee died Thursday night after flu and complications. His family resides in Shreveport.
A 2 3 4 pound girl born Monday night at Camp Sanitarium to Mr and Mrs Oscar Croft of Barstow weighs 23 4 pounds at birth and is reported healthy. The Miller couple of Barstow welcome a boy named James Edward, named after Ed and Jim Miller. Another boy arrived last Friday to Mr and Mrs Eston Wdge and is said to be thriving.
The Reeves County Federal Relief Committee applied for 8500 in emergency relief funds to aid Pecos and Toyah with unemployed workers. Earlier grants totaled 5500 for Pecos 2500 Toyah and 1500 Balmorhea for work relief in late 1932.
Pecos endured a severe winter spell all week as rain sleet and snow coated streets and yards. Temperatures hovered near freezing with a low of 14 degrees reported December 7 and a high around 56 degrees on Monday. Roads remained treacherous from ice and fog and the cold snap continued into Thursday evening.
This week Pecos Camp and Camp San itarium cared for the smallest patient, a 225 pound girl born to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Croft, and the largest in town, Mr. Sitton of Fort Stockton, weighing slightly over 175 pounds, receiving treatment.
Monday night a boy weighing 9% pounds was born to Mr and Mrs Pete Wilke who ranch near Pecos. Mother and child are doing well. A second baby named Faith was born to Mrs Karl Haux of Monahans after her serious accident.
Lesherevill and Matcolim Majors of the Texas Louisiana Power Co office and Tom Meachum, manager of the Wink Texas Louisiana office, narrowly escaped death after their truck slid on an icy Monahans road and collided with a train near Wink depot. All three suffered only scratches and bruises as witnesses called the escape miraculous.
J A Baldwin manager of the Southern Union Gas Company office at Pooto was bound to a chair Monday by two unknown men who held him up at pistol point. The bandits rifled the cash drawer and escaped with 56.25 in cash.
The body of J. M. Cummings found beside Texas-Pacific tracks last week with both legs severed was shipped to Loremor, Iowa for burial. Kolar Funeral Home arranged the service with relatives in Iowa.
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