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Newspaper
Andrews County News
Location
Andrews, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1972
Page
1
Local readers note the upcoming start of the school year in Andrews as elementary packets arrive and a new coaching staff under Coach Tommy Watkins arrives. The column hopes for longevity and compares staff tenures with past leaders, calling for a fresh District 2 AAA era.
J L Keith, 78, suffered a fall in a local grocery store early Wednesday. He underwent emergency room x rays at Per mian General Hospital and was admitted. Surgery to replace the hip joint was performed Thursday morning.
The Andrews school system opens Monday with 14 new teachers and one new nurse. At Andrews High five new staff join, four at Andrews Junior High, and two each at DeVonian and Glorieta. New teachers include Sandra Di Juizio in German and English, Sandra Pearcy a Latin I instructor, and Donna Ruth Brawner a Texas graduate joining the district.
The speaker recalls Andrews schools building and program gains from the fifties to the sixties, notes lagging kini years behind Pecos and Monahans in vocational and upper elementary and junior high areas, and calls for renewed focus under current administrators trustees and teachers to improve facilities, academics, and athletics together. Gas exposure risks are also briefly mentioned as a warning.
Four days of conditioning and contact drills began as varsity Mustangs started practice on Friday. Coach Tommy Watkins noted equal talent among players and heavy need for scouting to determine starting positions amid a deep but unproven roster. Andrews appears to boast a notably large line, with questions remaining on both sides of the ball.
Preston Warren Grissom 18 was killed by a shotgun blast Thursday at the family truck stop near Nara Visa New Mexico. Services are set for 2 p.m. Monday at Singleton's Chapel of the Chimes with Rev. Carl Grissom officiating. The accident occurred during a routine horsing around scuffle with his father Mark Grissom at the Dalhart Texas highway station.
Grant Mabry 23 of Hereford assumed the duties as news editor of the Andrews County News on Thursday. He comes from Hereford Brand where he was sports editor, and he and his wife Terry Duncan Mabry moved to Andrews earlier in the week.
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