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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1934
Page
4
Bar n y Hubbs serves as manager for a one year water copy service offered by editor Jack Hawkins. The package lists a price of 1.00 dollars.
A letter argues that peace officers in Reeves Ward and Loving counties need modern equipment to fight organized crime. It warns that gangsters could rob a Pecos bank with machine gun support and escape, making costly losses and endangering lives unless police are equipped with fingerprints and crime-detection tools at a cost of a few hundred dollars.
A state highway department beautification program seeks public cooperation. Citizens are urged to plant yuccas only through proper channels and to submit suggestions to maintenance crews or the division engineer, stressing citizen ownership of the highway system.
The editorial urges improving local sports support citing higher basketball crowds than Pecos and plans to start a baseball club. It praises volunteers who form teams to compete with strong opponents and stresses no profit motive. It also notes the Game Protective association campaign against predatory birds and animals with prize winners receiving public service recognition.
The Baptist church held regular services with Rev Ira Harrison preaching. The Intermediate B Y P U met at the Williams home for a cafeteria style social with molded jello and cake. Attendees included Cecil Williams Grady and Gladys Utter Benny and Louise Cleveland Billy Jack and Barbara Humphries Frances Powell Anna V Woodly Mrs W O Reeves and others. Next social is a picnic to be announced. G D Taylor family visited Red Bluff Sunday. Mrs Larkness of El Paso visiting her daughter Mrs D J Hart. Mrs J J Pope attended commissioners court in Peeos Monday.
Women from Toyah participating in a Friday prayer event at Pecos include Mesdames J L Moore E B Daniel Jr W A Woolley J W Humphries Benny Cleveland Arrington J M Morgan B T and Guy Powell The Toyah group presented a pageant symbolizing the WMU pin Roy Woods of Texarkana visited the Rhu family last week.
The Senior class of 1934 plans a trophy case costing about seventy five dollars to be placed near the Bulletin lower hall board. One locker on each side of the pourd will be removed to fit the case. Trophies will have a proper display in the near future.
Abe Barnstein of Deming New Mexico claims to be the sole Jew cowboy, while Alvin Neal reports sixty carloads of cattle shipped this spring from Midland to Sierra Blanca. Banks, led by Drovers National Bank of Kansas City, show $3,000,000 in readiness for ranch financing, signaling a bullish market. Creel feeders on El Senora Ranch prove profitable as calves gain early weight despite scant rainfall. Denver buyer John Hoyt ships 100 head of high grade calves from Toyah via Bob Parker and Bill Collins.
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