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Newspaper
Andrews County News
Location
Andrews, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1963
Page
1
The article notes August fading into September will spark major stories, with four big risks ready to break. It mentions a Permian Basin Railroad hearing the second week of September and the Mustangs starting the six grid season as key fall events.
New Texas laws begin Friday affecting Andrews County and statewide. Drivers may speed up ten miles per hour on most highways to 76 daytime and 65 at night, with fines for reckless driving. Other changes include worthless checks penalties, runoff election switch fines, bomb scare penalties, separate property management for women, annexation rules, and loan company licensing. Multiple dates and entities are noted across counties.
A cool front brought overcast skies and heavy rain across Andrews County over the weekend, with totals varying from 0.5 to 3 inches. Eastern areas reported the heaviest showers while Andrews proper saw about 1 inch. No major damage besides a lightning sparked fire at a Falken Lease tank battery. Temperatures have run hot in the days prior, easing into the mid 60s at night. Northern Natural supplied the week’s temperatures.
The Board of Trustees of the Andrews Independent School District approved purchasing fourteen Dempster Dumpster trash containers to be placed at all district schools. A monthly $73 garbage collection fee from the city was approved to service the containers, with the rate tied to city sanitation charges. Containers will be installed at the high school, six at junior high and elementary, one at the old high school, and one at each of five primary units.
The Japanese exchange student Nobuhiko Yama, 18, is due to arrive in San Francisco on Saturday Aug 24 and will be flown to Amarillo for processing and distribution to Midland after briefing. AFS officials await exact arrival time as a large local high school delegation prepares to greet him.
Flames ignited by a storm caused $4,600 damage at a Falken Lease tank battery 24 miles southeast of Andrews. Two 500 barrel tanks were destroyed and oil spilled as the blaze burned over four hours. An Andrews Volunteer Fire Department crew assisted while firemen battled near 5:30 p m. See FIRE. Page 8.
Mrs Kit Dobbs of 1005 North faced a hawk swoop in her yard Saturday morning. She used a stick to break the bird’s impact and finished it off with a kitchen mop.
Ten year old Larry Bell suffered multiple injuries when a chain hoist slipped while a wrecker lifted a car. He endured extensive treatment including possible bone setting and casting later. Larry, praised for patience, aims to return to school as doctors monitor healing and plan casts if needed. Lonnie Thomas, 13, helped with the doomed project at A C Salvage as the two boys worked toward a makeshift car.
Art G. Smith will join his brother Bert Smith Sr. at the Grimes Building on NW Ave. A in September. He moves from San Antonio where he served on the district attorney's staff. Art is married with two children.
The Andrews Chamber of Commerce announces an industrial committee contact team led by Frank Stickney as chair with J. A Ulmer as alternate. The eight divisions cover utilities labor transportation local government raw materials and business climate. Meetings are weekly at 3 pm Mondays.
Acceptances pour in from top oil firms for Andrews Oil Appreciation Day chaired by Chamber manager Bill Thomas. Twenty one company executives will attend the day long program including a closed session with U S Senator John Tower and a banquet priced at 5 dollars per person featuring steaks.
Final rites were held for Tommy Richard Cade 31 in Jayton. He died Saturday in a drilling rig accident about 65 feet up on a pipe rack. Cade was a roughneck for Frank Brahaney DP Co. and lived in Andrews after moving from Post. Survivors include his wife Mary three daughters and one son.
Paige Ramsey and Gary Cooper returned from a two day youth conference in Austin sponsored by Attorney General Wag goner Carr. The event united 1 100 youths from across Texas to discuss youth crime, law enforcement, and school activities with Andrews delegates sharing plans to combat youth crime locally. Ramsey and Cooper plan to speak to civic clubs about their initiatives.
Junior and senior high school beginners band students are invited to a meeting announced by Bill Green, the high school band director. The session, for 7th through 12th graders who have never been in the band, is set for Aug 27 at 4 30 p.m. at the high school.
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