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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1939
Page
11
In Texas 1280 loans totaling 2,580,000 were made by 119 insured savings and loan associations in May, exceeding prior records. Since January 1 1939 Texas loans reach 10,734,900, up 20,300,000 from a year earlier, with about half funding new home construction.
Gene Hendon of the Grand Theatre said the OK Theatres office in Dallas will send a camera man to Pecos July 3 4 to film local residents and rodeo visitors. The aim is to capture how they walk talk and look. If you see the Candid Camera Man smile. Movies premiere on Grand screen July 11.
Mr and Mrs Frank Clark Pecos residents for three years moved this week to Lubbock to make their home there He goes into the furniture business in Lubbock Formerly with Galbraith Steel and Supply Company here Mrs Clark was secretary to District Manager E W Beauchamp Insurance coverage up to 5000 per account by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation an agency of the federal government
The State of Texas to the Reeves County sheriff is commanded to publish this citation weekly for four weeks to summon William Culbertson R F Culbertson Mrs Myrtle Culbertson Kilgore W L Kilgore Kate Dillow Kilday Sam Kilday Ruth Dillow Ernest Bailey Dillow John Austin Charles Bobby Austin Oma Austin Ralph Austin and others to appear at the Reeves County District Court in Pecos City on September 4 1939 to answer the petition filed June 26 1939 in case No 3663 by Sam Davis as administrator of C W Amrine deceased seeking trespass to try title and to remove cloud from title over two parcels of land in Balmorhea and Reeves County Texas and related estate claims.
The Pecos Rodeo 1938 results list steer ribbon decorating ledgers with Bud Spillsbury Pecos among top three day averages and best show times. Calf roping features Allen Holder Rankin Olin Oltizer Oklahoma Jack Sellers Del Rio with best show Cleve Kelly 13.2. Team tying includes Spillsbury Ten Eyck and others with top averages. Bulldogging and bronc riding show multiple riders led by Bill Till Fort Stockton and Drew Hopkins Toyah among top times.
Plaintiffs as administrator seek title and possession of land with cloud on the title. Counts invoke unknown parcel nature, three five and ten year limits and tax payment defenses. Prayer asks for title, possession and cloud removal. Writ requires return next term and to show execution. Pecos City office dated June 26, 1939. Hollis Smith Clerk with Estelle Clinton Deputy.
Buck Jackson, announcer de luxe and Pecos Rodeo Committee chairman, is set to take the mic and liven up the show with his chatter rather than riding a horse.
The record holders include Henry Gramer of Kansas City Missouri 1910 Barton Carter Claremore Oklahoma 1925 Clay McDonigal Juarez Mexico 1917 John Bowman Hupup Colorado 1927 Lee Robinson St Petersburg Florida 1925 Herbert Meyers St Petersburg Florida 1925 Milt Hinkle Cheyenne Wyoming 1916 Rube Roberts Fort Worth Texas 1930 Everett Bowman Kingman Kansas 1928. The text also lists legal section references 14 1 5 Sec 16 2 5 Sec 17 2 5 Sec 11 Sec 12 Sec 12 3 5 Sec 3 2 5 Sec 4 Sec 5 1 5 Sec.
The posted prize money will be paid in each event regardless of entry fees, with extra funds added if fees exceed the posted prize. Contestants may ride both afternoon and night if needed, or split the field if entries are large. Six or more entrants make a contest. fewer than six are contracted. In cowgirls roping, fees join $50 and are shared four ways. Judges chosen at registration. decisions final. All contestants must ride in the opening day parade July 3, 1939, enter by noon that day, pay fee, and sign an agreement. No entry accepted after noon. Contestants must appear in person on July 3. The show declines responsibility for injuries to contestants or stock. by entering, participants waive claims. The management may withdraw a contestant for rule or judge violations or for being intoxicated, rowdyism, quarrels with judges, or abusing stock.
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