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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1938
Page
1
Out Our Way notes Pecos prepares for the world’s first rodeo anniversary festival scheduled July 2 3 and 4. Merchants fund drive changes reduce advance donations boosting town pride and expected increases in entries with possible celebrity guests and growing tourist interest.
Spey E M Wells announced the addition of 12 new patrolmen to the western Texas Highway Patrol along with seven veteran officers. The district now numbers 19, stretching from Odessa to Alpine with sub stations planned at Van Horn Fort Stockton and Alpine for expanded coverage.
The Consumers Refining Association began refining and canning oil at a Toyah plant one mile west of Pecos. The first large shipment, 900 gallons and 314 cases, went to Artesia after tests by Artesia’s Carl Martin, Hagerman’s Noah West, and Lake Arthur’s Glen O Bannon. The oil named Superior tests A 1 and is wax free. The refinery underway with 8500 gallon daily capacity employs 18 and plans expansion.
Counsel for Barstow withdrew its bid for a temporary injunction in the Barstow to Monahans county seat dispute and will press for a permanent injunction at the next court term. A hearing had been set before Judge J. A. Crane. Monahans contends the November election was illegal. the five year limit now governs due to a constitutional change.
Beverly Vaughan will teach piano in Texas Christ i for the fall term at the high school level. She studied music at TCU for the past three years and has taught music for a year. Vaughan will be home soon to begin summer lessons here before starting classes.
Supt. R. Henry Blackwell leaves Monday for Austin to join summer session at the University of Texas.
Pecos merchants host their third Dollar Day event on June 7 with the Pecos Chamber of Commerce coordinating the sales. The promotion follows two prior successful efforts and features deep discounts across a range of shops including Pecos Mercantile, Wadley May Clothiers, The Style Shop, Sherrod’s Ben Franklin, The United, J C Penney, The Leader, Home Furniture, Silk Dry Goods, Community Public Service, Pecos Drug and Western Auto.
J. R. Cole of the Santa Fe and Newland Oldham of Carlsbad New Mexico officials of the Southern Union Utilities Company were visitors in Pecos last weekend.
For the first time in years Mrs. Lillie W. Cole does not teach Pecos summer school. Only three students registered so the annual project was abandoned. Mrs. Cole is in Austin resting and attending Texas University.
Bill Sherrod’s Ben Franklin Store in Pecos undergoes a 4600 remodeling with factory fixtures a Pittsburgh glass front and air conditioning. The owner says it will be the era’s most modern for the region and ties to Pecos’ growth. A new Sherrod’s Ben Franklin store will open in Fabens with Fred Schuster as manager.
A Flaming car near Pecos killed nine year old Raymond Lyall and injured six others while a driver, Moore, and youths Norris Duffey and Dorothy Lyall aided victims. Norris and Dorothy escaped the blaze, Moore guided survivors, and all others recovered. Gilbert of Wink died after being ejected near Pyote as a wave of accidents grows.
The Red Bluff Water Power Control District invites bids for clay blanket material to cover 700 feet of the dam toe. Engineer O N Gloyd of Dallas advised the project after inspection. The plan covers 3 000 to 5 000 cubic yards of material and bids open Tuesday at the Red Bluff office.
A group of Colorado businessmen and the Colorado high school band toured Pecos Monday night and Tuesday en route to Carlsbad Caverns. They spent Monday night in Pecos with a downtown parade and band performances.
Long-time Pecos resident and widow of W H Drummond, Florence Drummond died at her home after a lingering illness. An early settler who moved from New Mexico to Toyah Valley in 1885 and Pecos in 1888, she aided neighbors as nurse and helper. Funeral services at the Catholic Church were led by Father Victor C Vannes with pallbearers named, and survivors include six children.
Mrs. Ella G. White 71 of Balmorhea died in a Pecos hospital after weeks of illness following a fall and broken hip. Funeral services were held at the First Presbyterian Church Balmorhea with burial in the Balmorhea cemetery. She lived with her brother A C Schreyer for 30 years, was born in Huntington Indiana and widow of Reuben A White. She was active in the Methodist Church Eastern Star and Well Kept Community Club.
Miss Ruby Catching of Slaton and Miss Dee McCall of Alpine were elected by the Pecos school board to fill two vacancies in the elementary school faculty. McCall will replace Marianne Kingsbury in first grade and Catching takes over as elementary librarian from Lois Reese.
Pecos plans a $15,000 WPA labor grant for school improvements including a band hall at the elementary and upgrades to the elementary junior high and high schools and Rotary Field. The project features a brick band hall, campus work, sidewalk and curb repairs, tennis courts, and new fencing and plantings.
Pecos school board approved a request to allow the rodeo committee to use the football field lights for the July 2 3 and 4 rodeo and celebration.
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