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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1932
Page
7
State Fire Marshal Raymond S. Mauk warns of Christmas season fire risks. He urges careful handling of trees candles decorations and gifts to prevent fires at home and in business districts during the holidays.
Advice warns against using toy trains and appliances on light sockets until fuses and connections are sound. Do not replace blown fuses with pennies or wire as fuses are the safety valve protecting wiring. Christmas festivities should be joyful, but thoughtless fire hazards can cause sadness. about one in ten fires during the season results in fatalities.
Sul Ross State Teachers College industrial education head Victor J Smith receives honorary membership in the national Epsilon Pi Tau fraternity for industrial education teachers. The text also includes unrelated quotes about beer legislation and Senator James I Watson.
The Old Rig Hotel in Hobbs New Mexico, partially burned two years ago, is being torn down after court fights over the ruins. The two wing stucco hotel, once called the Pecos or wandering hotel of the Permian Basin, immorated oil boom eras serving workers and tourists. A windstorm during erection toppled the frame injuring workers. A settlement may permit razing the remaining ruins as debate in Congress blocks proceed.
After a century in horse service the First Cavalry leaves Fort Russell Texas on decree from the War Department. Six officers and 540 men are last to ride out December 31 as the regiment shifts to motor transport and becomes mechanized at Fort Knox Kentucky with 20 officers and 200 enlisted already there.
Ed Estes editor of the Tyler Courier-Times says Attorney General James V. Allred is conspiring to lower oil prices. Allred threatens an immediate investigation into the Standard Oil companies of New Jersey and Indiana if Estes proves true.
Cody Bell of Rankin controls much of a two miles square area at Castle Gap where treasure seekers work for a 10 percent share. Bell reports rumors of finds but no verified discoveries. Locals recall vanished springs and burned wagon tire landmarks as clues, and a buffalo horn sent to San Francisco was deemed from an extinct animal over two thousand years old.
Notice to apply to the Texas Legislature in January 1933 for acts authorizing the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway Company to purchase or lease properties of Clinton-Oklahoma-Western Railroad Company of Texas, Kansas City Mexico and Orient Railway Company of Texas, and North Plains and Santa Fe Railway Company. Signatories are W. B. Storey and Clinton-Oklahoma Western Railroad Company of Texas.
The page fragment shows railway entity signatures and a quoted remark on disarmament by James T. Shotwell, alongside a comment about whistle use affecting referees and traffic cops. No clear event or outcome is presented.
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