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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1938
Page
3
Turner R Turner of El Paso builds a large venture housing Jim Inals Pecos tire and service station. Jim Durnal named Trans Pecos distributor for General Tires and Batteries. Turner served as El Paso distributor since 1922 and held civic roles while eyeing Pecos future.
Starting July 1 Standard Oil will roll out a national courtesy card for motorists. W H Knox of Pecos, the local distributor, said the plan ties together several oil companies including Standard Oil offices in Ohio Kentucky Indiana Nebraska Humble Union Utah Phillips Texas and others to honor the card nationwide.
Pecos welcomes a new tire and service station at the Bankhead and Carlsbad highways. The Standard Oil distributor and General Tires and Batteries dealer will hold a public open house on Saturday June 18 with Pecos School Band hostesses flowers and refreshments. The $30000 building offers about 10000 square feet of space and features white stucco construction with red and blue borders.
The opening of Jim Durnal's new station makes twenty members in the Standard service station family in this section. W. H. Knox of Pecos is the district distributor. Other Standard stations include Pecos Ailes, Bell's Garage, Biggs', West Side Grocery, Zimmer, Toyah Hutcheson's, B F Powell, Davis Mountain, Kent Mercantile, Balmorhea M L Maulden, Orla Hall Olds, Mentone, Barstow Cantrell's Monahans Avary, East Side, Kermit Hill's, Wink Terrell Battery, Royalty Williamson, and Grandfalls Standard.
Qian reports Bill Knox takes on a large Pecos based Standard Oil territory covering Reeves Ward Winkler Loving and part of Culberson counties with 20 stations. He has been Standard distributor for 3 ½ years in Pecos after 10 years with the company and earlier work in El Paso and Alpine. He is active in civic affairs serving as Pecos Chamber of Commerce past president and Pecos Rotary Club director.
Claude Capps named service manager of Jim Durnal's Standard Service Station and General Tire store in Pecos. A five year Pecos resident, he has three years of experience in service stations and recently moved from Portales New Mexico. He invites friends to visit.
Bill Daugherty of Foxworth-Galbraith Lumber Company said the building materials for the new Jim Durnal tire and service station were supplied by the Foxworth-Galbraith firm. The company expressed appreciation for its role in the project.
Pecos young ladies will serve as hostesses for the formal opening Saturday of Jim Durnal's station at the intersection of the Bankhead and Carlsbad highways. Hostesses Evolene Howell Helen Toliver and Dot Nabors will show visitors through the plant help serve refreshments and pass out flowers and favors to guests.
Jim Durnal arrives in Pecos as manager of Jim Durnal's station at the crossroads. He comes from El Paso with a long business achievement record including four plaque awards for 100 percent quota in every department. The Durnals plan Pecos as a permanent home, citing growth in agriculture oil ranching and tourism as bright prospects.
J L Jim Cunningham the general contractor behind the new tire service station at Jim Durnal’s praised its construction. Manager Jim Durnal and El Paso’s Bob Turner joined W H Bill Knox of Standard Oil in lauding the building as the finest of its kind locally. Cunningham, a popular Pecos contractor, has built many local structures.
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