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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1939
Page
7
A state police tally shows May deaths at 97 in traffic, plus 22 lives lost across seven multi fatal accidents. County road crashes increased as vehicles shift from highways, with 31 city street fatalities and 63 on designated roads amid varied causes.
Mrs. Ruby Moran and Mrs. A J Hart returned Sunday after a three weeks vacation with relatives in Winters Coleman and Houston. Denny Fisher of Winters returned to Pecos with them to visit here with Billy Hart Hubbs.
Robert Young and Ann Sothern star in Maisie an OK Theatres road show playing Wednesday and Thursday at the Grand Theatre Gene Hendon announces The comedy drama follows Young as a rehabilitated ranch manager amid Rodeo Week in Big Horn Wyoming Ann Hussey plays a faithless wife and Sothersn portrays a showgirl in a plot of romance and intrigue
Texas public health official urges water and milk sanitation vaccination and sanitary privies to curb typhoid fever. He cites 1900 US death toll 35,000 and rural Texas deaths in 1937, urging concrete well lids fly control and 100 foot privy distance from water sources. Vaccination recommended as economical and safe before typhoid season.
Newly found records show the toll bridge over the North Platte River near Fort Laramie Wyoming took in forty thousand dollars during the year 1853.
Official county records from Reeves and Ward counties detail oil and gas leases, assignments, quit-claims, affidavits, and escrow agreements dated June 12 to June 17, 1939. Key entities include Sun Oil Co., Trans-Pecos Oil Co., Forrest Development Co., Public School Land parcels, and multiple banks and individuals.
A Red Bluff hearing on the Red Bluff Water Power Control District versus Fritz Estill was continued to the fall term of district court. The district seeks an injunction to bar Estill from trespassing on district property without paying a recreational fee.
Miss Nancy Green of Alpine visited this week with Mr. and Mrs. Tom McClure. She spent several days in Monahans as the guest of Miss Ernestine Scrimshire.
Austin reports the largest Texas bear carcass in years, a 463 pound brain killed by ranchers under Game Warden T S Redford after it killed twenty five sheep in the Davis Mountains. Open bear season runs November to December but special permission allowed the slaughter.
College Station July 6 extension expert R R Lancaser says cutting hay early before seed formation yields higher quality and protein. A ton of alfalfa cut just before bloom has protein value about 14 dollars versus 8 dollars after seed formation. Leaves provide most digestible protein and vitamins A and calcium.
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