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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1935
Page
1
Kyle Biggs told Rotary members Pecos offers prime air mail access with 7:45 p.m. drop times yielding fast deliveries to Oklahoma City Tulsa Chicago New York City and Seattle via rail and night planes. Air mail costs double regular rate at six cents per ounce.
GT. White, commanding officer of the detachment from the Fight Cavalry, said that recruits were scarce during a camp here Wednesday and Thursday. He noted many think the army enlarging is for another war, though other causes include the drain on young men by the CCC.
In February a Harris County Texas county court at law acquitted the defendant charged with operating a lottery marble machine. The judge criticized broad legislative overreach noting that lawmakers regulate many aspects of life from bed sheets to medicines, but asserted marble machines lack sufficient offense to convict.
More than 75 officials from Southern Union Gas Co from west Texas New Mexico Dallas head here for the first Pecos round up picnic. H Beauchamp Jr district manager says Pecos division hosts the event. A cavern tour and country club picnic dance follow with Bud Marshall as dance caller. Dallas figures C H Zachty Walter Rei P W Smith J R Cole among attendees from Santa Fe New Mexico also represented.
State Senator K M Regan will be chief speaker at the cornerstone ceremony for the Pecos Federal building set for Thursday at 2 350 PM Invitations went to treasury post office county and city officials and other local groups The Pecos Lodge A F and A M will lay the cornerstone The Chambers of Commerce City Council and Federal Engineer F H Wagner with Postmaster M W Collie advise the committee
O M McCullough vice president of Central Hanover Bank writes to Clarence Beil praising a Security State Bank statement and notes he has never visited Pecos though he has enjoyed cantaloupes from the region and heard tales of the land beyond the Pecos.
Mrs. Leslie Bevill formerly Miss Callie Ross of Pecos won second place in a poster contest with entries from eighteen southern states. The entry from First Baptist Pecos depicted an illuminated black and white map on mission study along the border showing old missions priests and Mexican scenes along the Rio Grande.
A new wooden Petrole school building designed for two classrooms will be erected this summer in Reeves county Dubose district. Plans by M. M. Ferguson note two rooms and closets with state specifications. Location to be decided. the school is attended solely by Mexican students.
Mayor Toliver announces Pecos will have soft water for household use and drinking by about August 1. The delay enabled system upgrades including power line construction to wells south of Pecos and city council bids for a line from the main tank to the reservoir.
Jack Oglesby Eugene Donnell and Leon Pittman will attend the Silver Jubilee of Boy Scouts in Washington D C from August 25 to 30 as official representatives of Pecos Boy Scout Troop 67. They were elected by a jamboree council and will join a Buffalo Trail Council preliminary camp at Sweetwater.
The Slack and White wildcat well in section 20 School Block 56 Reeves County was drilling at 1650 feet at press time. Located northwest of Toyah, optimism runs high among interested parties. Rumors in Pecos suggested Grisham-Hunter Corp planned a wildcat location about four miles west of Orla in northern Reeves County.
Jack May, four years dry goods department manager at Pecos Mercantile Co., becomes commercial manager at Radio Station KIM and will oversee advertising. He previously worked in advertising in other Texas cities and is now based at KIM’s office in Hotel Brandon. Prewit Dawson succeeds him at the Mercantile after leaving Carlsbad Joyce Pruitt store.
A party including Mr. W. W. Ruhilen Mrs. Harri son Beauchamp Miss Tomie Lou Beauchamp and Dr Barr traveled to El Paso returning Sunday with Mrs. W. W. Ruhien who has been in California with her daughter Mrs. J. C. Clisham
Pecos enjoys a week of delightfully cool weather after a break in the southwest heat wave. Temperatures this week topped at 99 degrees with several days in the low hundreds. Southern Union Gas Co records show the year’s high reached 111 in June.
The fifteenth Paisano Baptist Encampment will run July 26 to August 4 at Paisano grove. Pecos residents will attend. Mrs. T. Y. Casey has taught there for years. Rev. EB Ratliff is a vice president and Rev. L. R. Millican presides. Daily schedule begins with 7 to 8 breakfast and features Bible exposition and sermons by Dr. Tidwell and Dr. Angell.
Pecos residents witnessed a total lunar eclipse on Monday night July 15. The event began around 9 15 and lasted about one hour as clear skies allowed a full view of the rare celestial display.
The first KIUN amateur audition drew about 50 to 60 listeners as 25 artists performed. Judges and audience chose five top numbers Toots Farnum with guitar Spillman Harris ukulele Lucille and Elizabeth Stephens vocal duet Mrs Ronald Roberson with Mrs E Craft and Mrs John Correll violin and Mrs W E Briggs piano Horace Woodruff soloist.
The Pecos Chamber of Commerce and American Legion committee plan a Friday meeting to solve a deficit in the annual rodeo funds. Dr. James L. Kincan reports more than 300 dollars in unpaid bills with no meeting decision on how to cover the shortfall. Dudley Yard suggests forming a Pecos rodeo association of local business and professional men to underwrite future events.
Miss Bernice McCullough writes from Mexico City of a Pecos Mercantile Co free Christmas gift trip. Accompanied by Miss Nancy Harmon, she tours Chapultepec Castle Palace of Fine Arts Floating Gardens National Theatre Cathedral and other sites.
State Engineer Julian Montgomery approved Change Order No 9 final draft for the Red Bluff contract. The move allows C E Armstrong to resume spillway excavation on the west riverbank and McCall Construction to prep for concrete work.
The West Texas Press association plans its annual convention in Big Spring on Friday and Saturday August 16 and 17. Enterprise staffers participate as members and editor Jack Hawkins serves as a director. Key speakers include Ray Nichols Vernon president of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce W J Strange Big Spring and Harry Hines state highway commission chairman. Entertainment features include a luncheon dinner and dance and a gulf tournament.
William L. Kerr district attorney of the 109th judicial district is listed in Who's Who In America for men under 40. He is noted as the sole Pecosite elevated in the edition.
Mack Little's car was slightly damaged Saturday when drivers leaving an alley across from Colweill's filling station struck the vehicle. Mrs. Little was at the wheel.
Yard left last Friday for San Diego. Mrs Yard will stay in the Coast with her mother for several weeks. Mr Hinkle and Mr Knox expect to return with Mrs Knox and Mildred early next week.
Lieut Morris Collie receives commission for CCC camp near Phoenix Arizona after military training at A and M College where he earned a drill medal. He will leave Pecos with Mrs Collie Sunday to take the post summoned by the War Department.
Barstow defeats Mentone 11 to 1 at Pecos Park in a Thursday night game. Dorriss pitches five-hit ball for Barstow with Lewis catching. Mentone’s offense struggles as Boyd and Stratton pitched, Wilson catching.
Miss Virginia Thomas spending summer in Pecos joins the Enterprise news staff. She studied last year in Boston Massachusetts and is described as an accomplished writer and skilled reporter whose work will add considerably to the paper’s news content.
City Marshal Red O Neil returned Wednesday from a short vacation trip to points in New Mexico.
L. R. Red Giles, already convicted at Barstow and sentenced to 12 years for the Citizens State Bank robbery attempt, was captured at Kilgore last Friday. He had been tried in Dumas on another count and escaped from the Amarillo jail while awaiting transfer. Police say nitroglycerine was found in the car during the arrest per District Attorney William Kerr.
Uncle Bett Prewit Jr fell at three on Sunday morning trying to quiet noisy cats. He cut his chin and suffered scratches and bruises, keeping him in bed this week. The cats’ yowling continues, but the annoyance comes from missed ball games over the illness.
Mr and Mrs Harold Henderson and Evelyn completed a six week journey to South Carolina and points along the way. Mrs Lola T Smith mother of Mrs Henderson traveled to Baltimore. They traveled north to start and came back via the southern route.
Serious damage occurred to the automobile of W. R. Lynch Tuesday after a collision at the intersection near the high school building. No one was injured.
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