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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1936
Page
1
Local business leaders are urged to organize a monthly or semi monthly trade event in Pecos to draw out of town shoppers with bargain prices prizes and advertising. The Pecos Enterprise plans a special 50th anniversary edition with nationwide distribution and radio tie ins via KIUN rich coverage expands Pecos profile internationally.
Shareholders of Pecos Federal Savings and Loans Association voted to reelect the existing board for the coming year at a Wednesday meeting. The current board formed when the organization started last fall and will select officers soon. Members listed include Garnee Bell as chairman J C Wilson as secretary Fern Tatum Albert Sisk and L W Anderson.
Reeves county commissioners court will hold a special session on Saturday January 25 to consider petitions seeking a local option election on Saturday February 8. Petitions were circulated in December and gathered several hundred voter names.
The Beeps school improvement project proceeds after a week delay due to labor shortages on relief rolls. Sponsored by the PWA, it will upgrade the elementary school and add two new buildings for Mexican and Black students, with major work on restrooms, lighting, floors, and equipment.
State Senator Regan spent the week visiting supporters in El Paso and will headline the Midland Chamber of Commerce banquet Friday night. He avoided politics but indicated he has not yet decided on re election. Former Senator Benjamin Franklin Berkeley of Alpine opposes him.
Bids will be opened January 29 for installing a lawn sprinkler system at the federal building. F H Wagner is collecting bids. Specifications call for 98 sprinkler heads with half inch connections and solid brass piping.
Mr and Mrs H M Snyder welcomed a daughter named Wanda born Wednesday of this week. The baby is reported doing nicely.
Four men from Monahans and Wink pleaded guilty in the federal commissioners' court to possessing counterfeit ten dollar bills and attempting to pass them. Bonds were set at 2500 dollars each. The counterfeit money was secured in Juarez at seventeen dollars per hundred. They are held in the county jail awaiting removal to El Paso for trial.
Mrs. Dorothy Dean, appointed supervisor for Reeves County in the statewide tax survey, resigned as Chamber of Commerce secretary to take the post. The federal government allotted 2.5 million dollars to the Texas tax board to complete the survey, using relief rolls labor. The project aims to identify untaxed land, remove duplicates, classify property, and create a permanent record for all 254 counties. District 20 headquarters are in Alpine led by A E Owes Ninine. Eleven counties are within the district. three dropped for lack of eligible labor. Ward County was given a late deadline to supply workers.
Pecos High announces a broadened curriculum for the second semester. New offerings include a Texas History course tracing the state under six flags and centennial development, plus dramatics typing clothing English and economics courses for students.
F H Wagner, supervising architect, outlines landscaping for the Pecos federal building grounds. Plans include Firethorn shrubs, Japanese Pachydandra, Cherry Laurel with glossy privets, sodded grass areas, hedges of Chinese privet, and Hackberries. The design aims to harmonize with the architecture and set a regional example of beauty.
The Reeves County planning board will meet Monday to review WPA grant applications and prioritize county projects. County Judge J. B. Woolfolk called the session at a precinct request to assess needs, funding steps, and possible project start dates for county employment.
A Pecos Odessa meeting at Brandon hotel drew about 40 property owners to discuss a rumored cut off parallel to the Bankhead Highway forty miles north. Officers were elected and a five member committee led by Young Bell was appointed to contact the State Highway Commission to confirm or oppose the route.
KIUN in Pecos Texas resumes the Stewart Warner All Star Radio Roundup sponsored by Leader Grocery and Hardware. The program airs Sundays Mondays and Wednesdays at 6 30 PM with electrically transcribed music via World Broadcasting System. A New Zealand listener praised the Pecos station and noted KIUN has reached Hawaii Canada and Mexico and nearly every U S state. The next DX program is set for February 14 to be monitored by the U S government at Grand Island Nebraska.
At the January session the Reeves County commissioners voted unanimously to call a bond election for 90,000 in four and one quarter percent bonds to fund a new courthouse and jail. The election on February 8 will be held at Pecos court house Balmorhea irrigation office Saragosa Toyah and Red Bluff schoolhouses for qualified real estate taxpayers. The plan hinges on a $75,000 WPA grant and funds to be raised locally. Judge Woolfolk urged voters to approve, noting added taxes of about 15 cents per $100 value and urgent building needs.
The grand jury met early this week and returned seven indictments three felonies and four misdemeanors. Jurors included John Q. Adams R E Beattie W Kountz Earl Bell J F Biggs J F Billingslea G G Breen J P Donnell W H Knox Rudolf Seers Roy Wilcox Dudley Yard and Charles Young.
Word was received from Washington that cotton certificates may be sold and transferred now just as before the AAA ruling. Certificates to enter the national pool must be turned in at the county agent's office by five o'clock Friday afternoon January 17. The sale and transfer had been halted on January 7 after the Supreme Court ruling.
Mrs H P Davis and family plan a move to Douglas Arizona to join Mr Davis who went there in November to take the role of secretary of the Douglas Chamber of Commerce and Mines.
Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Pat Oliver on the birth of a daughter Thursday morning.
Martin Michel, manager of the Community Public Services Company, is in El Paso this week on business.
A series of new programs under Better Listing TM will begin on Radio Station KIM this Friday at 2:15 a.m. The notice indicates the schedule starts today with continuation on the last page.
The Reeves county census release shows 376 ranches and farms as of January 1, 1955, up 49 since 1950, with over 1.3 million acres operated averaging 3 650 acres per operator. Crops occupied less than one percent in 1954 with 782 acres cropped and 1 446 idle. Livestock in 1938 totaled 28 835 cattle and 3 454 sheep with smaller counts of hogs horses and mules.
Mr and Mrs Bill Sherrod announce the birth of a daughter Mary Ann born Friday January 10. The mother and baby are reported doing exceptionally well and friends expect the father to return to normalcy in the near future.
Mr and Mrs Thomas of Pyote attended the Firemen's Ball Monday night in town, a social of local volunteers held to honor service and community spirit.
C Finley this week authorized the Enterprise to list his name as a candidate for re election to the office of Commissioner of Precinct 1. He is serving his third year after being appointed to complete J K Eisenwine's term and was elected in 1934. He is a longtime county resident and cites his record in county affairs. Miss Josephine Seay returned home to Toyah after an appendectomy at a local sanitarium last week.
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