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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1938
Page
1
Historian tone notes a critical European crisis as Hitler Mussolini Chamberlain and Daladier meet in Munich to avert a world war. The big four conference follows President Roosevelt's appeal for renewed negotiations, drawing mixed public reaction.
Street chatter frames Roosevelt as stabilizing peace efforts amid fears the United States may join a new European war. Public sentiment shifts with Edward Chamberlain lines and Hitler's demands on Czechoslovakia, as analysts warn of a potential spark in the big four conference and Sudentenland disputes.
Pecos travels to Odessa tonight for the first of Pecos' major district games. Coaches Jim Neill and A E Kotrola will field a new Pecos formation as the undefeated Eagles face the Odessa Bronchos, who moved to Class A this season and are also unbeaten.
The Pecos Lions announce an attendance contest with teams split into YO groups running through the first Wednesday in December. New members John Henry Meier Bill Bush and WK Keslar joined at a luncheon. Suy Walker and Porter Donnell named chairmen of the print committee to plan the minstrel. Sub-committees 480 named. Directors approve a safety program with Captain E M Wells and set a committee to meet Wells to develop the campaign.
La Verne Hartsell received a 10 year prison term in district court on a robbery with firearms conviction. He robbed Hughey Halbert's Service Station in Balmorhea taking cash and merchandise during the September term of the 109th district court after three weeks of criminal and civil cases.
Pecos welcomed about fifty West Texas bands orchestras and choirs on Sunday afternoon. The Organization of Region 8 new division in the state was organized as the event showcased musicians from Midland to El Paso.
Bi County ginnings reach 1700 bale mark this week as Pecos High School WRELP band launches a coupon book sale in Pecos Business Building Campaign. Five cents from each book goes to the band instrument fund, with contestants including Helen Patterson and Ruth Reeder competing for weekly prizes and a grand Ford or De Luxe sedan.
Cold nights halted bud opening across Reeves and Ward counties this week, slowing overall cotton output. Reeves county totals reached 405 bales by Wednesday, with 300 at Balmorhea and 105 in Pecos, while Ward county’s Barstow and Grandfalls compresses spun out 1319 bales, 1059 at Barstow and 260 at Grandfalls, totaling 1724 bi county bales. The Pecos Compress, led by I E Chesney, presses all crop and government loan cotton, with a federal bonded storage license approved. Government loan cotton prices range 6 to 9.7 cents, paid via Security State Bank after delivery. </S>
Sid M. Kyle, prominent rancher, was named president of the Loving County Wildlife Planning Board at its first meeting in Mentone. Dr. Lee W. Fisher conducted the meeting and appointed Kyle president with H. A. Lindley as vice president. Lee R. Pool was named secretary.
After a week of sessions, the federal court adjourned Saturday morning here following two case transfers to El Paso. Federal Judge Charles Boynton ordered venue changes on two civil suits. The only criminal trial involved a counterfeit charge with two offenders sent to reform school and state prison farm. The rest of the term focused on civil cases, chiefly injury suits.
The Pecos Valley Baptist Association will hold its annual meeting in Alpine on October 4 and 5. Rev. W. M. Turner of Pecos announced the event and will serve as moderator, with Rev. M. M. Fulmer of Alpine as host pastor. A large attendance of Pecos Baptists is anticipated.
L. W. Anderson a Reeves and Ward county rancher and extensive property owner has been named by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace as a member of the State Soil Conservation Board. The appointment gives West Texas representation in AAA policy administration and makes Anderson the main advocate for area livestock owners and farmers.
The Pee of School Board invites bids on 1500 dollars of musical instruments for the high school band. Items include bassoons oboes lyre seven new uniforms bass clarinet and bass horn.
Two trench silos for grain sorghum storage are under construction in Reeves county this week. One lies on A. R. Eppenauer’s property 17 miles south on the Balmorhea highway, the other on the Beckham property 13 miles south. Both plan to use the grain sorghum for winter steers feeding.
The Community Public Service Company held its regular western division quarterly meeting in Pe cos last Saturday. About 70 out-of-town persons attended, including several company officials from Fort Worth.
A $5,109 WPA labor grant was approved in Washington for Pecos School system. Work starts around December 1 with county road crew availability. Projects include sodding end zones and field edges at Rotary Field, trees, pumping equipment, roadways and walkways, elementary lawn work, sidewalks, rehabbing woodwork, and fencing. Some items were removed before final approval.
J. J. Pope who lost the precinct 2 race withdrew his election contest in district court before Judge J. A. Crane. R. S. Burchard now carries the Democratic party stamp for the November race as defendant in the contest suit.
Pecos residents including Red Bluff Water Power Control District representatives will travel to Carlsbad on Monday October 10 for a public hearing on Pecos River flood control measures.
The first Farm Security Administration purchase loan to a Balmorhea area tenant farmer was completed this week in Reeves County. The borrower has forty years at three percent interest to repay. Local committee members review applications and assist in property selection while production loans, unlimited in amount, aid eligible low income farmers.
Pecos will inaugurate two daily mail deliveries on weekdays with no Sunday service. Postmaster Morris Collie announced readiness for the new schedule using six new community mail boxes and no residential Saturday delivery until noon. Postage rises from one to two cents per ounce with the change.
County agents say Reeves and Ward farmers who stayed within acreage limits will receive 9c per pound loan payments plus 2.4c per pound bonus, while penalties apply to overplanted rebels. A 3c per pound subsidy on last year’s crop benefits cooperating growers, with overall returns likely at or above last year. Weather and early freezes threaten Pecos Valley output.
The Pecos lodge of the Knights Of Pythias voted Wednesday night to give $50 to the Pecos High School Band. The donation supports the drive to raise 1500 for purchasing instruments for the band.
Dr. Jim Camp travels to Fort Worth to attend the Tar rant County Clinic where eminent American doctors including Dr. Arthur Hertzler will address the Texas physicians and surgeons assembly.
Members of the Fairview Cemetery Association are requested to attend a meeting at the Funeral Home this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The group will discuss plans for a proposed WPA labor project and the specifications drawn up by Ken Bowser.
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