08 Dec 1938
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Newspaper
Jal Flare
Location
Jal, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1938
Page
1
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Residents only contest sponsored by New Mexico Electric Service Company seeks two best exterior decorations in Jal. First prize an I. E. S. floor lamp, second a Silex coffee maker. Entrants must be residential. business houses excluded. Contest runs until the first of the coming year. Full rules to be printed in The Jal Flare.
Clifford Lewis, husband of former Jal resident Lucille Fails, was killed when his car struck a train near Fort Worth Texas. He was buried at Portales. Mrs. Lewis, formerly Miss Lucille Fails of the El Paso Natural Gas camp near Jal, lived there for several years. He leaves his wife and one child.
Fred Wray of Jal High School had a serious operation in a Hobbs hospital last Wednesday. His condition improved and he is expected to return home within ten days.
One of the outstanding single reel novelties will appear at the Rex Theatre next Wednesday and Thursday. It features candid shots from films including The Sisters, Brother Rat, Angels with Dirty Faces, Dawn Patrol, Heart of the North, Oklahoma Kid, Juarez and others.
Mr. Bill Brown, a construction worker on the new Hazeltine machine shop building, was injured when a scaffold broke and a rock fell. He was taken to Community Hospital with superficial cuts and bruises to the head face and arms and was reported to be doing well.
Mrs John Kennedy, a graduate nurse, returned from Claremore Oklahoma after weeks at the Mayberry Clinic learning modern colon irrigation methods. She has installed the Mayberry irrigation device in her home and offers care for colon disturbances.
A Friday night event at the High School Gym raised funds for the school band. Prizes went to top players in contract and auction bridge, Forty-Two, and Chinker-Cheek events. George Davis won the Bard quilt but donated it back for band auction. Mrs. Peter Bish bought it at auction.
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. V. F. Benson was discharged from a Kermit hospital and returned to his home in the El Paso Natural Gas camp after treatment for pneumonia.
The Jal Civic Club plans a Christmas program to fund electric stringers, trees, and town decorations. Citizens are urged to contribute through John Connell, head of the project, to dress up Jal for the season. The club also oversees Christmas Tuberculosis stamps distribution to raise funds for fighting TB nationwide.
In Denton Texas Miss Helen Murray of Jal led the Texas State College for Women hockey lineup in a pre Thanksgiving clash between Texas and A and M. A and M won as Murray, a sophomore physical education student, helped her team contend in the season finale.
Mr and Mrs Gordon Smalley of Hobbs spent last Tuesday with Gordon Smalley's parents Mr and Mrs R R Smalley at The Texas New Mexico Pipe Line camp.
At a Jal City Council meeting on December 5, ordinance 28 required all city employees handling food and drink to pass physical examinations to obtain health certificates.
City ordinances ban fireworks sale within Jal limits with a 25.00 fine. Anyone setting off fireworks in the business district faces a 96.96 fine. Regulations will be strictly enforced.
Buster Thompson spent last week in Stephenville Texas visiting relatives and friends.
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