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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1938
Page
2
Announcement that The Enterprise and Gusher merged on May 16 1925 following Consolidated March 14 1917 and Reeves County records reflecting barney Hubbs as publisher and Vestal H Lott as editor in Pecos Valley News lineage and local press history.
Subscription rates listed: Wee One Year two dollars and six months one dollar. Entry as Second Class Matter Oct eighteen, 1915 at Pecos Texas post office under act of March eight, eighteen seventy nine. Copy must be in office by Wednesday to insure current issue.
The Enterprise reprints Howard Collier Jr. s West Texas Chamber of Commerce My Home Town speech praising Pecos as gateway to the Southwest. It extols Pecos features including railroads highways water from Red Bluff, Carlsbad Cavern nearby, two radio stations KIUN and a state patrol bureau, a $200000 federal building, Reeves County courthouse, a $400000 school system, and Hotel Brandon. The piece hails Pecos population around 5500, strong civic groups, and calls visitors to explore its recreational industrial and business capital status.
Paramount presents Spawn of the North a frontier Alaska tale starring George Raft Henry Fonda and Dorothy Lamour. Raft and Fonda play lifelong friends drawn into a brutal salmon war and romance tests their bond with Lamour and Louise Platt amid a dramatic sacrifice by Raft.
Texas and out of state visitors attend events linked to the C. of C. in El Paso Lubbock San Antonio and Fort Worth. Names include Judge Bardford Roy Tennant Jr Mrs L T Fulier Irene Logan Lucille Stout W A Davis Jr Tom Jones Ruby Nell Wilson Henry McNance and many others from Oklahoma Kentucky California and Missouri.
The College of Mines band plans a Pecos appearance Friday en route to Odessa. Officials request permission to perform at the high school auditorium to help cover travel costs for the Mines Texas Tech game.
Pecos high school Spanish teacher Miss Daisy Johnson leaves for Waco to attend the Baylor University Homecoming events.
A Refugio attorney announced a write-in candidacy for governor in the upcoming November election. The statement highlighted the candidate’s plan and stated commitment to voter outreach.
The Ritz Brothers headline a zany Saturday show at Grand Theatre in Straight Place and Show. Richard Arlen Ethel Merman Phyllis Brooks and other Hollywood stars appear in a Twentieth Century Fox production as the trio liven a staid racing club with comic chaos.
J B Hudson County Treasurer presents receipts and expenditures for Reeves County spanning the 1938 third quarter. The report itemizes balances and transfers across juries road funds highway districts and court house and jail maintenance with totals showing cash on hand and amounts received or paid since the last report.
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