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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1932
Page
7
School reports receipts of 104.70 from the Coronation of the football queen. Disbursements total 14.22 for decorations supplies costumes and train related costs. Net income near 90.48 after expenses.
The preview favors Wink over Alpine and notes a 21 0 win by the Bucks over Marti while Marfa tied Pecos. It predicts Texas over A and M, Rice over Saylor, MU over TCU but a loss, and Tech over Simmons. High school games: Sweetwater over San Angelo, Lubbock over Amarillo, Waco over Temple, Cleburne over Corsicana, Breckonridge over unspecified, and Masonic Home favored in Fort Worth.
The report lauds Captain Baker from Pecos as a superb all around player with weight strength running ability punting passing and defense. It notes potential graduations of key players and predicts rebuilding for Buddy Withers Wink Joses and the evramimum school team amid Midland's disappointing Class A showing and McCamey's stronger showing in Class B.
The Pecos High coronation featured the crowning of Nancy Camp as Football Queen with a grand procession of two football players turned singers, numerous attendants, and a large turnout. Organizers Miss Magee and Miss Doris Williams earned praise for flawless planning and a personal capital exceeding one hundred dollars raised for the season.
Relatives and friends of grocery man Max Otto breathed relief after 30 hours of anxiety when he called from a ranch house near Van Horn to say he was safe. About 20 searchers from Pecos Kent and Van Horn scoured the rugged hills after Otto, Clarence Mount and Tom Whesley went hunting near Kent 45 miles north of town. They planned to return by noon, but Otto did not appear and searches continued.
Artichokes grown in the El Paso Valley like those around Pecos are being turned into prepared edibles by the Britt Manufacturing Co. of El Paso. A. A. DeBole of the American Artichoke Co. oversees the process. Pecos soil proved adaptable to artichokes last season but markets were unstable, so large scale cultivation was not attempted this year.
Governor Ross Sterling hunted on the KRokernot ranch 226 miles north of Alpine and 75 miles south of Pecos. He shot a 220 pound deer with Martin and W R Ely of the high way commission also in the party.
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