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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1936
Page
1
A Pecos column urges financing band uniforms and a city park through statewide taxes. It argues taxation distributes costs, supports a municipal pool golf course playground and clubhouse, and warns against reliance on private subscriptions. The piece champions shared town improvements and warns of competing town risks.
A Texas Panhandle poet Miss Peggy Caldwell inspired the title WIND IN THE COTTONWOODS for a Texas Panhandle poetry anthology. Caldwell has seven poems included and suggested the volume title for the Dalhart Publishing Co. anthology.
The Youth Week events close with a Pet and Hobby Show at 3 to 5 pm Saturday at the Williams Kerr Chevrolet lot, featuring student pets, hobbies, and handicrafts in multiple divisions with ribbons for winners. Betsy Ross wins first prize of $5 in Lions club essay contest with Wyvonne Loven earning second prize of $2.50.
Edna Gilardi was chosen Miss Pecos by three out of town judges in the Grand Theater finals. She will represent Pecos at the Frontier Follies and compete for Texas’ Most Beautiful Girl with a six month MGM Hollywood contract.
The student candidate for county clerk heated up a political rally Tuesday night. Six year old son of County Clerk Hal Smith showed lines of worry and whispered to his mother that she might beat Daddy.
Texas tops visitor counts for Carlsbad Cavern with 2 216 visitors in April. New Mexico trails by two hundred forty four. Oklahoma reports 314, and other states plus foreign nations including Arabia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Denmark, England, France, India, Japan, Spain and West Indies are listed among attendees.
The many friends of Arthur Hayes of Monahans who is well known in and around Pecos will regret to learn that he is seriously ill.
The Pecos federal court in the new building will hold its first session Monday with Federal Judge Charles A. Boynton presiding. The term, delayed from March 28 due to furnishings, will run for two weeks with about 12 criminal cases including counterfeiting and liquor tax violations and 24 civil cases on the docket. Notable filings involve oil lease disputes in Ector and Crane counties and a long running liquor tax case.
Miss Julia Williams leads her class of 21 girls and two boys in the Annual Springtime Recital on Monday May 11 at 8 15 in the high school auditorium. Selections range classical and semi classical and the program includes Nell Cowden Virginia Michel Ethel Armstrong Margaret Simmons Elizabeth Glasscock Nita Jollis Jeanne Russell and 22 other performers.
John A. Marion highway patrolman, fractured skull from collision with fellow patrolman Royce Blackman near Pyote while en route to Big Springs, remains grave though resting and improving slowly per attending physician. Blackman sustained minor bruises and cuts. Marion recently transferred from New Braunfels to Pecos. Deputy Ray Keenan stopped the pair four miles this side of Pyote.
Twenty members of Pecos high school senior class accompanied by sponsor Harry Holcomb and escorts Ray Whitley and Jack Staugh drove to Carlsbad for a Cavern sightseeing trip. They were guests of cavern officials for the tour of the natural wonder.
The Pecos exhibit panel for the Centennial celebration in Fort Worth will be shown at the West Texas Chamber of Commerce convention in Amarillo. It features a 10 photo of the Red Bluff dam and wash drawings of local attractions, prepared by the Albert Evans Advertising Agency of Fort Worth. Victor Le May called the panel highly attractive and said Pecos cooperated more than any other city.
Mrs. Alex D. Haynes of Pecos was among 59 Texans awarded cash prizes in a statewide Texas history contest by General Foods. Her winning entry depicted the Goliad Massacre and the Texas soldiers’ agony as Mexican forces prepared to execute them.
A nominating committee of Guy Walker J F Biggs and J P Donnell was appointed at the Lions club meeting to nominate candidates for club offices for the coming year. The club will elect officers on Wednesday May 20.
Boyce House, a well-known West Texas newspaper man, and W H McDonald, nine-year Eastland County lawyer, were visitors in the enterprise office this week. McDonald has announced his candidacy for State Land Commissioner.
Mrs W S Alla Moore a rare Texas woman railroad agent and telegrapher died in Dallas May 3 of pneumonia and was buried in Fairview Cemetery with Rev John Byrd officiating She came to Texas in the 1880s from Indiana and served as agent telegrapher after her husband died in 1887 Later she moved to San Antonio and retired in 1904 Allamoore station in West Texas was named in her honor
At the Pecos Chamber of Commerce luncheon in the Orient Dining Room on Tuesday, the group voted to send Secretary Ben Smith as a delegate to the West Texas Chamber of Commerce convention in Amarillo on Monday and Tuesday of next week. Dudley Yard, a director for three years, is nominated again for the office.
David Adams, Scotland Pecos resident for 27 years, died May 1 of blood poisoning. Funeral service at Pecos Funeral Home with Rev. Joe B. Scrimshire officiating. Born Plain City Connecticut May 31 1856. Survived by two brothers a sister in law Mrs Tena Adams 11 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
Toyah seniors will hold graduation exercises Saturday night with Travis Moorman as principal speaker. S. H. Winn announced Frances Powell valedictorian and Becky Seay salutatorian. Other graduates include Davis Thomason Jean Winn and Nancy Winn. This year marks Toyah schools first complete four year accredited course.
Judge J. B. Woolfolk returned to his home from a local sanitarium on Monday and is recovering well after an illness.
Mrs Bill Turpin credits luck and coincidence for a sequence of plans that shifted from a trip to Big Spring to a last minute theater outing where she was announced on stage as the night’s $100 prize winner. Her changeable plans included a bus ride from Pecos station and a late arrival to the show.
Reeves County selects delegates and alternates for the State Democratic convention. E M Regan and H G Russell of Pecos and L M Pittman of Balmorhea win as delegates while Jack Hawkins Pecos James F Ross Balmorhea and Bill Daniels Toyah serve as alternates. Resolutions back Roosevelt and Garner and denounce efforts to block their renomination ahead of the San Antonio state convention on May 26.
T. F. Slack, Pecos attorney, announces candidacy for Reeves county Attorney. Slack, famed in West Texas legal circles, previously served as Ward county attorney and built a reputation for impartial efficiency. He pledges to serve to the best of his ability if elected. Dr. Harold Lindley attended the New Mexico medical convention in Carlsbad.
Pecos has been chosen by the State Highway Department as one of 17 information houses to aid travelers. The Pecos site on Highway 90 will connect with the New Mexico route, with staff trained in Austin to provide route guidance, mileage between towns, and historical points of interest. The building costs about 1000 dollars and will feature an artistic entrance driveway, aiming to be among the state’s finest information houses.
Pecos Lions Club invited to Alpine for the district Lions rally on Wednesday night May 13. Thirteen Pecos members plan to attend with their wives in a bid to reclaim the attendance prize they won months ago.
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