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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1940
Page
2
Historical note lists Pecos Valley News Pecos Weekly Times Reeves County Record and Consolidated dates along with The Enterprise and Gusher Consolidated and identifies Barney Hubbs as publisher and Vestel H Lott as editor.
The decades of the 1930s are framed as a time of deep depression and experiment. The speech links war’s toll to the loss of liberty and stresses the nation must keep its heads to preserve democracy. Internal issues include rising national debt, relief expenditures, agriculture, and a watchful public.
Deanna Durbin stars in her sixth film First Love at the Grand Theatre for a weekend engagement starting Saturday 11:30 p.m. with prevue and Sunday Monday showings. The story follows an orphan girl in a wealthy, snobbish family as she experiences her first romance with Robert Stack, yielding her first kiss and proposal.
The article recounts long efforts to protect and restore pronghorn populations in the west. Texas and New Mexico trap and relocate antelope to suitable ranges, with recent Brennand ranch rounds yielding 237 captured animals. It notes federal funding, future Texas trapping in the Trans-Pecos, and rising quail populations from guarded preserves.
Reeves County farmers with payment checks at the county agent’s office have not called for them. County Agent Ted Johnston urged those notified to collect their checks immediately. More than $15,000 in payments were received locally before Christmas.
Horatio Alger famed author of boys books donated much of his income to help youths in need and died in reduced circumstances leaving a legacy of charitable effort.
The Carlsbad Caverns reports 1939 visits reached 218,382, bringing yearly total to 1,448,817. California led state visitors with 23,400 in December and 1,606 from Texas, while 200,000 plus traveled from abroad including Canada with 747 and Mexico with 731.
Texas dairy production increased in November per the University of Texas bureau. Creamery butter rose 6.6 percent to 2,669,000 pounds, ice cream 18,000 gallons up 6.8 percent, and cheese 1,298,000 pounds up 5.5 percent from November last year, with a slight October decline.
Texas turkey growers shipped 96 fewer dressed turkeys last month than in November 1938, despite two Thanksgiving dinners. November totals were 548 cars. Chicken shipments declined from 39 to 7 cars and egg shipments dropped from 44 to 15 cars, per the University of Texas business research bureau.
The University of Texas bureau of research reports 16 Texas businesses failed in November with average liabilities of 29 000 dollars per company 18 000 per failure overall. contrasts October and November last year show higher totals.
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