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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1940
Page
7
Monahans hosts the Permian Basin District Firemen Association quarterly convention on Saturday January 13. Eugene Sanders assistant state fire marshal will be the principal speaker.
Arthur Gilbert Walter 65 of Minneapolis Minnesota died in a local hospital last week from internal injuries after the Packard sedan he rode in collided with another car and rolled over about ten miles east of Monahans on the Bankhead highway.
Odessa police led an investigation into a burglary and fire at the Big Bend Liquor Store on North Grant Avenue. About $50 in cash, $200 in checks, three suits of clothes, and whisky were stolen.
Ector County commissioners renewed a three year lease on 80 acres of land for county airport use at 500 dollars per year. County Judge A H Dennison announced the action last week.
Gulf Oil Corp announced 10 new wells in Ector County with nine in the Goldsmith field and six additional sites in four surrounding counties this week marking a strong starter pace for 1940 oil activity near Odessa.
Effective last week A H Walker of Van Horn moved from Culberson County to Menard County to continue as county agent with higher pay J W Holmes shifts from Mitchell County to Culberson County as county agent replacing Walker duties relocate within the state in administrative service changes
County Agent A. H. Walker releases a detailed Culberson County report showing a huge rise in 1939 participation in the farm and range program compared with 1938.
Checks totaling 12000 dollars were distributed to Ward County farmers early last week as the second payment under the soil conservation practices program part of the AAA.
In Monahans last week the County Agricultural Association elected three new committee members Harold Eudaly of Grandfalls Walter Burkholder of Barstow and Jim Thornton of Pyote were renamed to their posts after the election.
The El Paso Natural Gas Company will start a gasoline plant project costing about one and a half million dollars this week. Construction has begun and many workers were employed over the past weekend.
Jal state health officer Dr. O E Puckett said last week there is no danger of a smallpox epidemic in the city’s schools. Four cases are confined to one family, no spread outside reported.
The CCC company moved from Balmorhea State Park to Big Bend State Park in the Chisos Mountains over the weekend. All enrollees are in new quarters except a salvage detail of 36 men kept at Balmorhea for a few weeks.
Work began this week on the landing field for a Civilian Pilot Training School at Sul Ross College. About thirty NYA youths are leveling the field, removing fences and other obstructions.
Olson and Mc Candless No. 1 Crockett in Pecos County two miles southeast of the Apco field shows saturated cores and good porosity at depth 4479 feet suggesting feasible high gravity oil. Kermit reports a slight December rise in postal receipts over last year amid 1939 year notes by Mrs Rush S Marion bestmistress.
Postal receipts for the last half of 1939 rose from the last quarter of 1938 but the annual totals for 1939 declined slightly from 1938. A mid 1939 slump in the second quarter contributed to the yearly drop.
William Digby Roberts, superintendent at Balmorhea State Park for three years, left this week to take new duties in the restoration of old Fort Griffin near Albany.
The 1940 census precursor began in Winkler County this week with Cooper D. Davis of Kermit named county enumerator. The full population census is scheduled to start on April 15 nationwide.
Balmorhea high school junior and senior classes discuss with Supt. L. L. Martin an educational tour of western states. Tentative plans call for departure at school close and a two week trip.
Cotton ginnings moved slowly toward last year’s pace as gins cut schedules to two days per week. Estimates show only about 40 to 50 bales remain to be picked.
Ward County's 1940 cotton allotment is fixed at 31.37 percent of cultivated acreage by the state agricultural committee. This marks a sharp drop from the 1939 figure of 40.9 percent.
Plans advance for the Ward County Livestock Show to be held March 20 in Monahans. Classes include Hereford breeding cows bulls and heifers dairy cows saddle horses sheep hogs milk goats poultry and 4-H Club calf judging.
Parents of Wink grade school children receive a form explaining the Five-Point Health Project run annually by the Winkler County health unit in cooperation with public schools.
L G Phippen president of Interstate Realty Co of Los Angeles announced in Alpine that a new oil test will be drilled in Brewster County after talks with local investors and parties interested in starting the activity.
Marfa reports the corps area headquarters seeking a cost estimate for transporting Fort D. A. Russell personnel to Beaumont for potential spring maneuvers. The move would involve a trek by the troops to the Beaumont area this season.
Mayor W. H. Wilson and city secretary Donald E. Tracy planned to depart last weekend for Fort Worth to finalize all outstanding papers and complete pending formalities.
The Social Security Board opened a Big Spring office with acting manager Robert M. Payne. The office will handle local contacts for monthly retirement benefits starting Jan 1 1940 and not tax collection. Counties in service area include Andrews Borden Crane Dawson Ector Gaines Glasscock Howard Loving Martin Midland Mitchell Reeves Ward and Winkler.
The text notes King George V of England pursued an unusual hobby collecting badgerugars and beautiful Australian love-birds.
The city completes final disposal of its water works bonds totaling 74000 dollars and now holds the funds in the bank to settle all outstanding claims with Community Public Service Company.
Thomas H. Taylor president of Howard Payne College Brownwood will be principal speaker at the McCamey Chamber of Commerce banquet this weekend Presidents of the college and local business leaders gather for the annual chamber event in McCamey Texas.
In Marfa Texas a deputy sheriff Robert E Speed of Shafter died from wounds suffered New Year s afternoon while his son Robert was visiting from Texas A M College Bill Howell owner of a package store in the mining town is jailed in Presidio County on related shooting charges The incident cold case remains under investigation and authorities report no further details at this time
Texas Game Fish and Oyster Commission reports 1939 hatchery production at 5,212,288 fish, up 1,905,292 from 1938. Heart o’ the Hills Hatchery led with 795,817, Dundee 679,776, Tyler 642,210, with multiple hatcheries across the state contributing twelve species. Less than 15 percent of total fish went to private waters.
An octogenarian Orange County resident repeats a rare claim that he killed two bears with one shot decades ago. He also recalls a season during which he felled 14 of 17 deer, while Texas sportsmen faced poor quail hunting due to scant rain and hot weather. The piece notes weather harmed deer and game across Texas and highlights pollution control efforts along the Rio Grande Valley by citrus refuse and oil-field discharges, with state agencies tightening enforcement.
John Mack Brown stars in the Universal western shown Saturday at the Grand Theatre with four Melodious Western songs introduced during the program.
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