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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1938
Page
2
The Enterprise and Gusher Consolidated merged May 16, 1925, after earlier combines among Pecos Valley News, Pecos Weekly Times and Reeves County Record. Barney Hubbs published, Vestel H. Lott edited. Subscription rates listed, post office requirement noted.
The Administration's wide rearmament program aims to spend at least 5 billion dollars in fifteen months with 1 billion added to the next budget. It covers navy and army expansion, updated coast defenses, and a large air force, while shifting focus from consumer goods to heavy industries and private employment aims by 1940.
The Pecos region becomes energized by oil development with hotels crowded and daily crowds at Toyah Bell No. 2 as casing is set and oil reaches the crown blocks. Visitors have viewed the well in action over the past week and a carload of tubing and casing arrives for the Troxel well. Frances Hubbard and Mozelle Bryan of Pecos are elected class officers at Baylor University. A baby girl, Enid Kathrin Bush, was born to Mr. and Mrs. John Bush on September 25.
Pecos-Midland football meeting draws crowds as Midland team arrives for a 3 p.m. kickoff at Rotary Field. Also, the greatest Trades Day in Pecos history is planned by the Chamber of Commerce for next Saturday, with Electric Gin Pecos projecting ginning yields and cotton acreage reductions affecting totals this week.
Southwest cotton growers meet in Dallas with senators to push for equitable base yield and acreage in Red Bluff Water Power District. Bid advertising for Pecos River valley rural electrification advances. Kyie pool prospects brighten after gate accident at Finley and Cherry No 1. Pecos Eagles, labeled underdogs, face Crane Cranes in seventh game seeking first win.
Frances Titus, arts and sciences junior from Pecos, joins Sock and Buskin at Texas Tech. Members dedicate the play Ven geance in Leka to new members at the first meeting.
Pecos Valley Red Cross focuses on preventing home and farm accidents described as causing thousands of deaths and injuries. Rev. John Byrd cites 37,000 annual fatalities nationwide and outlines school check-lists for 10 million children to identify and remove hazards in homes and farms.
A new religious cowboy song The Heavenly Range Land composed by Co. P. Bruce of Pecos will be broadcast over KIM by the Church of the Nazarene singers next Sunday at 2 15 p m
Mr Beauchamp and his son Fred went to Dallas last weekend due to the passing of Mr Beauchamp's father. They remained there several days.
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