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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1940
Page
4
State police report 1939 traffic fatalities at 1,583, down 27 from 1938, far short of expected double digit reductions. Pedestrian deaths rose 4 percent to 385, with 127 victims aged 40 to 64 and 82 over 65.
Cash buyer seeks a well located 6 or 7 room residence and small adjoining acreage. Offers to rent or leasePACE Building Cedar Street 40 by 100. Trades include Pecos mineral rights and two houses, 1920 acres, and various commercial properties in Oklahoma and Dallas. Also seeks ranch or river land exchanges with business and residence lots and irrigation tracts. COURTNEY HOTEL.
A strictly stock 1940 Mercury 8 visited Pecos as a scheduled stop in a national economy contest run. The Denver based event tracks gasoline and oil use on regular roads with observers aboard and concludes around February 15. Local entries compete for prizes, with a separate Zimmer Motor Co. Mercury contest offering a barrel of gasoline and seat covers as top prizes. The car posted 21.8 mpg over the last 288 miles.
Prairie View State Normal and Industrial College in Waller County announces incorporation of wildlife conservation into every curriculum level. A 1494 acre habitat project includes 12 food patches, 15 brush shelters and 150 cover plantings under L. A. Potts in charge with R. S. Bird and two students supporting.
Rufus A. Roberts is confined to her home this week with a flu. Her son William Gordon has been ill for several days.
The United States Navy offers a qualifying cadet a full year of paid instruction at Pensacola Naval Air Station Florida. Cadets train in two phases including a one month elimination flight in Miami and main training at Pensacola. During instruction cadets receive 105 dollars monthly with quarters uniforms and books provided. Upon graduation they are commissioned as ensigns in the naval reserve and receive full pay. after three years promotion to lieutenant junior grade follows. At end of active duty a 500 dollar cash bonus is given and the service period lasts seven years.
Since November 28 NYA workers have hosted visitors at the Texas Warm Springs Foundation site 13 miles from Gonzales. The first unit provides dormitory space for 16 children and staff quarters with pools and treatment rooms as part of a master plan to serve more than 100 crippled Texas children.
The statement notes that the heart performs less work after standing for a period than when at rest. It highlights physiological effects of posture on cardiac effort.
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