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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1935
Page
1
Out Our Way predicts Pecos will beat Wink 15 to 7 in the Thanksgiving football game at Pecos. The column notes Wink as the favorite but argues Pecos can recapture early season form and win, while conceding no alibis if Wink prevails.
In this issue the Enterprise highlights society items gathered by Mrs Richard L Toll who fronts the society pages. Her efficiency and readable compilation invite readers to send news about Pewee and nearby events to her for inclusion.
A Thanksgiving morning KIU radio broadcast from the home station begins at 10 15 o clock with a Heetal Thanksgiving program. The event features several minutes of programming and will be carried nationwide, inviting listeners to tune in for the day’s offerings.
Amarillo remembers rancher McQueen the Plainsman who recalls guiding the last free herd of mid western mustangs across the treeless plain near Linto Estacado. He describes the chase to drive the wild horses to the fence and the long run to corral them after long days on the road.
Wink and Pecos clash on Thanksgiving Day at Rotary field in a key Class B District Seven game. A Wink win seals the district crown, while a Pecos upset could create a three way tie with Odessa. District glory, bands, and pep squads accompany the anticipated gridiron showdown.
The Pecos Enterprise announces a three week circulation contest starting Monday with a $250 cash prize split among two winners. Readers enter by submitting a coupon on page six, with votes beginning and prizes awarded on Christmas Eve.
H P Davis, secretary of the Pecos Chamber of Commerce for four and a half years, resigns to become manager of the Douglas Chamber of Commerce and Mines in Douglas Arizona. He will start December 5 and departs Pecos after two weeks.
The Pecos Federal Savings and Loan Association organized Tuesday with about 50000 dollars in capital. Officers elected include Clarence Bell president Fern Taton first vice president Albert Sisk second vice president M I Cowan press secretary and Roy I Biggs attorney. A five member board includes Clarence Bell chairman J C Wilson secretary Fern Taton Albert Sisk and L W Anderson. The Security State Bank named as depository and by laws approved. Regular meetings set for the fourth Thursday. offices to be at City Hall with loans expected within 15 days.
In Wink and Winkier county residents were invited to Pecos for a Thanksgiving Day football line on a radio program aired on Station KIM at 11 15 Wednesday morning. The invitation was extended by J F Biges president of the Chamber of Commerce Supt KR H Blackwell Pecos schools Mayor B A Toliver and Coach Buddy Withers of the Pecos Eagles.
The KILN IDX long distance program will air from the station on the morning of December ninth. It honors the Newark News Radio Club with wide club promotion. Receipts from recent correspondence show broad reception from many states, and Pecos residents are urged to have friends tune in at 1 a.m. December 9.
A misprint in last week's Enterprise stated that Judge J B Woolfolk led the Reeves county planning board for the Chamber of Commerce. The board member representing the county is Woolfolk while H S Davis serves the Chamber as secretary. Sam Prewitt represents the City of Pecos.
Mrs. Helen Moore of Texas City is the sole woman in the current legislature. She may gain a companion next session if Ruth Dexter wins the race for Travis County representative. Dexter would seek the seat now held by tall moustached ex-cavalryman John B. Patterson.
Dr. J. Bryan returned to Pecos Sunday after attending the Southern Medical Association convention in St. Louis last week.
Mrs. Paul Dowling is confined in bed with a slight illness. Miss Hazel Wells of El Paso is spending the week end with Miss Julia Williams.
Jack Hawkins and Judge J. E. Starley traveled to El Paso on Saturday for a brief business visit and returned the same night.
The federal government sponsors a sewing project in Pecos to employ up to 16 women. Materials and garments are provided for local charity distribution. The city rents the workspace in the old Thompson building with heating while machines are rented. government machines will be available soon. Mayor Toliver calls it a worthy program aiding unemployed women and needy recipients.
Texas State Employment Service reports 5 902 persons placed in the first two months. Director Nichols notes positions were in private industry and public works, not “gross-cutting” jobs. September and October private industry placements reached 1 255 and 1 045 respectively with federal relief funded public works adding 261 and 5 043 placements. Employers are told to refer the best qualified unemployed workers, and placements are based on qualifications.
Reeves County authorities order compilation of delinquent tax records under a new act. Mrs. Sora DeRacy wins the bid, will start work immediately from an office in Brandon Hotel, and is praised for her long service in the tax collector’s office since 1929. The project is expected to take more than a year to complete.
ALL SMILES L. A. Bannowsky welcomed a rare gathering as his children reunited after nine years. A daughter Mrs. Alex Sarah of Roswell New Mexico and son Edgar of El Paso joined the Pecos household along with Fred Margaret and Mrs L Morris. They planned to spend Thanksgiving with relatives in Menard Texas.
A Thursday night dance at the Barn Night Club will honor Wink and Pecos football teams. Music by an S- piece orchestra from Wink, Texas directed by Mr. Esk ridge, who also leads the Wink High School band. The event will be broadcast on Radio KIUN.
Bids were opened yesterday for the lumber to be used in constructing the bridge over Toyah Creek on the Pecos Grandfalls road. Work on the project has progressed rapidly in the past two weeks with twenty seven men employed, following an initial slowdown due to a labor shortage.
The First Baptist Church of Pecos choir provides special music for the Pecos Baptist Association Workers Meeting in Fort Davis on Tuesday December 2. The program lists talks on business of song teaching Sunday school class and sending missionaries with speakers from Monahans Presidio Crane and El Paso, plus a sermon by J L Roden Wink. A venison lunch is served at noon.
Rain in the Pecos area Monday night totalled .26 inches per the Southern Union Gas gauge. The wet spell occurred with intermittent showers overnight as temperatures swung from the Eighties to below freezing on several nights.
Mr and Mrs Farl Goedeke of Carlsbad announce the arrival of a son on Monday November 18. The baby will be named Bobbie Earl and joins the family with joyful congratulations from relatives and friends.
The Grissom Hunter well in northwestern Reeves near Orla remains the only well in Reeves county where drilling continues. depth now 225 feet. The Mason Oil Co test on the Kyle ranch in Loving county was plugged Tuesday for abandonment with plans to relocate and drill another test soon.
Lions and Rotary clubs conducted a joint social gathering Wednesday evening in the Orient Hotel dining room during the Thanksgiving week, continuing a customary collaboration between the two groups.
Dr. and Mrs. Jim Camp returned to Pecos Wednesday from a trip to St. Louis where he attended a medical convention and visits with relatives in Sparta Nash Mendille.
Funeral services for Henry P. Yates of Jal New Mexico were held at 3 PM Monday at Pecos Funeral Home with Rev. Wilbur Fo Turner leading. Interment followed at Fairview Cemetery. Yates, a Jal rancher who married Ian Goedeke in 1927, leaves wife, two children, two sisters, and three brothers.
Kiser arrived Monday from a hunting trip in the Davis Mountains with a 10 point buck. Mrs Kiser and Mr and Mrs Frank Joplin joined the expedition but only Kiser harvested a deer.
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