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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1938
Page
10
Book week November 13 to 19 will be observed at Pecos schools with an intensive drive to add books to the libraries. Citizens are urged to donate books to any school child.
Johnny May traveled to Alpine last weekend with Allan Green and returned home Sunday.
Zimmer Motor Co introduces the 1939 Ford V-8 and the 1939 DeLuxe Ford V-8 with hydraulic brakes. Both share styling with Lincoln-Zephyr and Mercury 8, feature quieter bodies through new insulation, all-welded steel construction, and safety glass. The event marks plant expansion and the Mercury 8 debut.
Seven hundred twenty adult tickets and 116 student tickets were sold for the Pecos-Crane football game last Friday. Of these, 578 purchased stadium rent tickets. Attendance was the second largest home game this year, with Monahans Pecos topping it. Crane received 50 percent of gate receipts after expenses.
A grateful note extends thanks to all who aided the recent Parent Teacher carnival last Saturday. Carpenters electricians merchants Lions and Rotary Club members teachers patrons pupils and others who contributed are thanked by the elementary junior high and senior high school Parent Teacher Association.
Mr and Mrs J C Bullion relocate this week to Sweetwater where he becomes district manager with headquarters there after a career as district salesman. New Ford models feature center poise ride chrome alloy springs four double acting shock absorbers rigid frames Xmember 112 inch wheelbase DeLuxe Ford V-8 offered in seven colors with five body types.
Donors to the Band Horn Fund are listed with contributions from Pecos Rotary Club to Pecos Enterprise. Notable donors include Pecos Drug Co., J. Penney Co. Inc., First National Bank,Williams-Kerr Chevrolet, Security State Bank, and many local businesses and residents. Total details enumerate 100 plus contributors with amounts ranging from $1 to $250.
Former Pecos educator J. R. Humphreys now living in Olney wrote A Tentative Teachers Manual in Safety Education during courses for a doctor of education at Columbia University. The 85 page manual is adopted by Columbia University and requested by the University of Texas and the National Safety Council, while the American Association of School Administrators uses it in its yearbook. Miss Irene Precit of Austin visits relatives in town.
Eugene Donnell and Tom King from Pecos are among Tarleton College's 60 track hopefuls reporting to Coach Oscar Frazier. They seek spots in the 100 yard dash and high jump as Tarleton aims for its strongest squad in years in the Fort Worth meet amid regional competition.
Bill Kingston Jr of Balmorhea is convalescing in a local hospital after a horse threw him last week injuring his leg. Mrs. John G. Renken visited her parents in Waco for two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Young spent last weekend in Jal visiting Mr. and Mrs. Bill Walters.
Harvey Beauchamp, manager of the West Texas district for Southern Union Utilities, is featured in Southern Union News. He began in April 1929 in Dallas accounting and has led West Texas properties since 1931, including Barstow, McCamey, Monahans, Pecos, Pyote, Wickett and Wink.
An English Austin touring party including S. D. Cruthers and his wife and family paused in Pecos this week while traveling from England toward Auckland New Zealand. They planned to depart San Francisco by ship in early November for the journey.
Mrs Ed Otto hosts a Hallowe en themed party with lanterns and games in the living room. Twenty six members attend and present gifts for her birthday. Marvin Cowan Jr a Midland area student is recovering from surgery at University Hospital after an operation last week.
Mrs Beauchamp of Plass is visiting here with her husband Harvey and Mrs Beauchamp, who returned with Mr and Mrs Beauchamp last weekend.
Mr and Mrs Wesley Hart and Mrs B C Curtis spent the last week in Denton visiting with families and friends.
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