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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1935
Page
2
The Pecos Valley News reports on the establishment of SSI Pecos Weekly Times Reeves County Record and the Reeves County Establishment. The Enterprises are consolidated as of March 1946, marking a significant regional media consolidation.
A sacred Christmas piece recalls the 1935 birth of a child in humble surroundings and links the tale to universal goodwill. The article then analyzes President Roosevelt's Atlanta speech as the opening salvo of his 1936 bid, praising his farm, spending, and monetary policies and predicting re election based on his record amid drought and AAA crop restrictions.
A NM Conference chartered bus will spend December 25 night in Pecos with thirty youths en route to Memphis for the Young People's Conference. Miss Catherine McCree and Rev Joe Lerimshire join the trip here. A watch night service at First Methodist Church closes the event, beginning Tuesday evening December 31.
A Sunday vesper service is planned at First Methodist Church with a youth choir to sing Christmas carols. Mrs. M. D. Bell arranged the event, closing the church’s Christmas services with a special afternoon program. The pastor will deliver a Christmas sermon the following Sunday morning at 11.
A fragmentary notice mentions Cho with a score or code 15 ae Linust F Re Su. No clear event date or context provided in readable text. Further details are unavailable in the accessible portion.
Bing Crosby headlines the comedy Two for Tonight at the Grand this Sunday and Monday. The romantic farce features Joan Bennett Mary Boland Lynne Overman Thelma Todd and Ernest Cossart with songs and slapstick as the plot follows a songwriter and a family’s scheme to sell a song after a crash injuring Crosby.
The Texas State Planning Board, WPA and University of Texas approve a mineral resources survey. The University Bureau of Economic Geology will direct. 92 geologists will lead field parties with nine relief workers per geologist. Local geologists will head teams to leverage county knowledge and relief conditions.
Dr. John W. Brown warns Texans during holiday travel that speed and reckless driving cause deaths and suffering. Drivers and pedestrians share responsibility on busy roads as cold hazards and absent mindedness threaten safety. Vernon L. Sullivan of Red Bluff visited town. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Johnston traveled to Lahbouch and back.
Miss Minnie Sporer of Pecos has been chosen as class editor of the Grassbar yearbook at John Tarleton Junior College. The selection marks her as a student leader for the school’s yearbook project and reflects recognition by faculty and peers.
Elaborate musical room and grand staircase stage a Ted Lewis show moment. A dcorated set with flowers, colors and a bandstand hosted by a millionaire’s home, featuring performances by Nat Pendleton, Richard Tucker, Henry Santi, Bert Reach and the 50 musicians.
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