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Newspaper
Andrews County News
Location
Andrews, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1964
Page
4
In Andrews Basketball League action the Trojans edged Smith Drug 60 59 in the first game while falling 47 48 to Henry Penny in the doubleheader. Willie McCain scored 18 for the Trojans and Dan Abshier led Smith Drug with 24 points.
Henny Penny's led by 15 points from a top scorer with 10 by Sheputis and eight by Munn and Gore. Trojan foe Collins led with 13 as McCain 12 and Jones added points. Templeton 7, Brooks and Hubert 2 each. League action returns next Thursday at the old Mustang gym.
Six college students traveling to Andrews for Christmas holidays involved in crashes caused by sleet and ice near Lenora and 15 miles west of Big Spring. Four Howard students uninjured. Winnie Montgomery of Payne College injured but stable at Andrews Hospital. North Texas State and Texas Woman's University students aided by others. Four separate county road accidents reported Friday and Saturday with various injuries and one vehicle overturning on Seminole highway.
The Texas Department of Public Safety predicts 190 traffic deaths during the Christmas to New Year period with 105 by motorists. An 11 day deathwatch starts Wednesday and runs until Jan 3 as highway patrols, including Andrews and Buff Angell, vow 24 hour vigilance. Drivers urged to use headlights and exercise caution.
Team Two holds first place after a 3 point win over Team Six with Nadine McCubbin posting a 216 high game and Jo Ann Price a 426 high series. No. 1 dominated No. 4 with a 4 point win as No. 1 earned the top team game 381 and best team series 1080.
Andrews County shows an increase to nine rigs in the Reed Roller Bit survey up from eight the prior week. Lea County New Mexico remains first with 34 rigs, Pecos County has 20 and Ector County 11 down two.
Seaman Apprentice Clarence Maxie USN, son of Mr and Mrs Clarence Maxie of 1108 NE 8th, is at the Naval Training Center Great Lakes Illinois attending a fire control technician school. He studies basic electricity electronics and mechanisms preparing for control of missiles torpedoes and gun fire in the Navy rating.
Barbers Bowl sits first in the Oil bowling league after a 4 point win over Hughes Top Co. Other results include Bosco Inc winning 3 from Mann Oil and Gas El Paso beating Wells Machine Cruz Rentals over Hoffman Well Service Andrews Sub-surface over S. E. & E Brownies Well Service over Texaco Inc Shell Oil Co. tops high team game 914 with Besco Inc. 2611 high individual 226 by Glen Clement and 603 by J. C. Mills.
Mr and Mrs Don Adams and young Denise of Abilene visited Mrs Adams parents the Welton Ingrams and other relatives here last weekend.
James Buchanan is described as the only lifelong bachelor to serve as president, a noted oddity in American political history. The claim highlights his single status during a period when remarriage or spousal life was common among leaders.
Otis confirms Ermon Clouten completed the course Torotogy and receives the issued diploma. The document marks the completion by Dever Hiven, on an unclear date, noted as Worst numeteen Qualired andirty-mine.
At 215 p.m. Saturday a 1964 pickup driven by Frederick Fernoye Keorip of Wink and with Jack Nicholson of Kermit as a passenger turned over in a bar ditch on the Kermit highway ten miles west of Andrews. Both occupants were uninjured. Turner, the investigating trooper, filed the report. A second crash at 5 p.m. Saturday nine miles east of Andrews on the Big Spring highway involved Carl Stapp of El Paso and Conrad Koerper of Yoakum driving a 1961 foreign car. Stapp and Koerper were admitted for observation at Permian General Hospital after the car left the road, crashed through a fence, and overturned. Buff Angel, the investigating officer, reported total car damage.
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