WPA report tallies El Paso area public works output
J Paul Henderson reports WPA activity over 3.5 years covering 184 projects and 7,221,632 man hours. Expenditures totaled 3,358,045 with federal funding 2,569,518 and local participation 788,529 across ten Texas counties including El Paso.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EL Paso
WPA
J. Paul Henderson
Henderson
Brewster
Culberson
Hudspeth
Jeff Davis
Loving
Presidio
Reeves
Ward
Winkler
Mystery Well At Pecos Keeps Oil Town In Awe
The Eel Well reaches 1585 feet in a sandy lime formation as drilling resumes after a three day freeze. A theft at the Pecos Angeles site leaves $85 in losses and a tourist missing. Pecos Chamber plans to open new tourist camp grounds next week and public subscriptions near $3000 are nearly complete for Toyah Bell No 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pecos Angeles
Keeling Campbell
Pecos
Chamber of Commerce Committee
Chamber of Commerre
Toyah Bell No. 2
United States
Del Norte Owners Spend Night Here
Mr and Mrs W L Tooley owners of Paso Del Norte Hotel in El Paso spent the night in Pecos on their way home from Brownsville where Tooley competed in outboard boat races finishing third in several events. He bought the boat driven by Gar Wood Jr and planned to return in spring with boats to promote racing on Red Bluff lake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L
Bill) Tooley
Paso del Norte Hotel
el Paso
Pecos
Dudley Yard
Tooleys
Brownsville
Mr. Tooley
Gar Wood, Jr
Ir. Tooley
Wood
Mr. Yard
Red Bluff Lake
Pasture Diet Guideline for a 500 Gallon Milk Cow
On pasture, a 500 gallon milk cow should receive about five pounds of grain mixture daily to balance nutrition and energy for milk production.
PWA and Red Bluff District sign $2.6 million bond contract
Secretary Ickes signed the contract in which the Public Works Administration agrees to purchase district bonds totaling 2.6 million dollars. A Pecos water loan of 300 thousand dollars is sought to buy the present system and run a pipeline from southern soft water wells. Union details include a Legion hall project on Fort Stockton road across from the jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. S. Ickes
Public Works Program
PWA
Red Bluff
Pecos
Little America
South Pole
Allan Innes-Taylor
the Plains Production Co
Capt. Taylor
Richard Briscoe
The
American Legion
J. L. Kincannon
Fort Stockton
Legion
Dawn Patrol World War Aviation Epic At Grand Theatre
Warner Brothers aviation epic Dawn Patrol shows Sunday and Monday at the Grand Theatre. Errol Flynn leads an all male cast including David Niven Basil Rathbone Donald Crisp and Melville Cooper in a World War I squadron tale of heroism and tragedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warner Brothers
Grand Theatre
Gene Hendon
Errol Flynn
David Niven
Basil Rathbone
Donald Crisp
Melville Cooper
Knights of the Air
Western Front
British
Royal Flying Corps
Patrole School District Observes George Washington Birthday Program
Patrole School District No. 5 presented a special Washington Birthday program on February 22. Visitors from Pecos and Patrole enjoyed songs, drills, and recitations, culminating in a playlet The Making of the Flag with roles for Betsy Ross, General Washington, and other students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrole
Washington
George Washington
Pecos
Manuela Levaro
Mother Goose
Healthland
Socorro Lara
Manuela Levario
Pilar Acosta
Alberta Lara
Delphina Vasquez
Jose Cantu
Eleutherio Cantu
Ygnario Palafox
Augustini Tarranzo
Magic Garden
Fried Chicken as a Farm Luxury and Self-Sufficiency
Farm folks can raise and finish a two pound fryer in about sixty days at low cost, while city shoppers pay high prices for fried chicken. The piece argues farmers should eat what they grow, notes the economics of home processing and storage, and cites W A Painter of Hale County Texas selling dressed poultry to Dallas and Fort Worth.
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Wisconsin
Iowa
Painter
Hale County
Tex
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del Norte
Flynn
Dawn
Prudencia Acosta
Beatrix A
T. C. Richardson
Breeder-Feeder Association
Mary
Soukea
Wally
Pecos City Bakery
Star Tires
Ragsdale
All Mule Inc
New Mexico Lumber Co
Pecas
Texas
East Third Street
Oldsmobile
Fisher
Eloment
Alwins
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