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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1938
Page
3
Monahans Daily Bulletin publisher Jim Mayfield reports his car was stolen early this week. An employee was sent to Barstow with $42 to deposit and, as of now, the car, the employee, and the deposit slip are still missing.
One hundred thousand dollars will be invested at Fort D. A. Russell over the next six months. The project covers new gun sheds a motor repair shop a gymnasium a warehouse and road improvements to enhance facilities.
City taxes due by January 31 reached 71.43 percent of the annual assessment. By the cutoff date payments totaled $15,200.87, per city secretary Ruth Roark.
Plans are completed for the second Stanton Boys 4-H club Livestock Show at a Stanton Service Club meeting. The event will be staged in Stanton next Saturday.
Deputy Tax Collector Pink Phelps released figures showing Brewster County issued 1 650 receipts and exemptions through the final day this year marking a new high in poll tax payments.
Pecos county highway project advances with an underpass to replace the grade crossing on highway 67 located 27 miles west of Fort Stockton. Plans were completed and forwarded to Austin by the local State Highway Department office earlier this week.
W P Rooney Pecos county chairman reports the annual Roosevelt birthday observance raised 233.18 for the nationwide fight on infantile paralysis. The event collected funds to support the national campaign.
A review of official records shows sixty percent of Ward county poll tax receipts and exemption certificates were issued at a Monahans sub-station. The concentration highlights the center's dominance in processing civic documents.
Arthur Jackson, an employee of W. K. Royalty Co., ran a midnight ride that hurled the car into a house, knocked the house off its foundation, damaged three fences, and created multiple bullet holes in the vehicle.
Total receipts from the 1937 tuberculosis Christmas seal sale in Terrell County reached $1 7.50. More than $106 of the funds will be retained locally to support the county health program.
Insured savings and loan associations in Texas report 1937 gains in direct reduction home mortgage loans rising from 30 4 million to 44 6 million and assets climbing to 64 3 million. Savings total nearly 40 million with each account insured up to 5 000. Pecos joins list. Louis Lundin of Kermit visited town last weekend.
A nationwide drive led by the Institute of American Meat Packers promotes buying meat, citing lower current prices, improved quality, and expanding production. The effort aims to help livestock producers facing losses while informing the public that meat is nutritious, digestible, and essential to the American diet.
AUSTIN February 10 Attorney General William McCraw, back from New York after six weeks on the Green inheritance tax case, plans to announce his gubernatorial candidacy soon. The former three term Dallas County district attorney will campaign statewide and push civil service reform in state government as a top plank.
C C Dyer county rural supervisor closed his desk January 31 with twelve tenant farmer applications for loans to buy farms. Five may be approved this year as the total loans for Reeves county. the advisory committee of three farmers will review and report within two weeks. Loans up to forty years at three percent with variable payments. Purchasers must pass inspections and follow FSA and Extension Service plans.
Mrs. L. W. Anderson and her grandson Wallace have come back from California after spending several weeks visiting.
Interstate Commerce Commission examiners led by A H Mackley and George J Hall were reading freight rate evidence in Dallas as they plan to return to Washington. The long hearing began November 8 and should end around March 1 with storage and preservation of evidence already a problem. Witnesses testified for days, one for a full week, making it the longest OC hearing in Texas.
In Austin on February 10, Dr. Geo. W. Cox, Texas State Health Officer, says mental and nervous disorders fill more than half of hospital beds. He cites organic causes like general paralysis from syphilis, alcohol use, and poor living habits as key factors in the rise of mental illness.
Assistant County Jailer W A Jobson believes Dallas slot machine fans robbed 246 machines before destruction and found many slugs, collecting water bucketfuls of them. Miss Gertrude Bell visits Alpine with her parents. Miss Annie Browning returns from Lamesa to visit relatives.
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