Three Permits Issued For New Construction In Monahans
Monahans building boom continues with July permits totaling about 55 000 for new construction and 67 800 for the month. Year to date permits exceed one million dollars, about 500 000 behind last year once repairs from a tornado are excluded. One residential permit was issued for 5000, while additions repairs and mobile homes account for 12800, and other new construction totals 45000 for a house at Fourth and Betty and 5000 for a Colonial Food Store site at Fourth and Gary.
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Monahans
County Receives Mixed Drink Rebate Checks Amid Dry Weather
State Comptroller Bob Bullock notes drought drives Texas bars to sell more mixed drinks with $167 million in Q2 sales and $321 million for the first half of 1978. Checks totaling $4.8 million go to 342 cities and 201 counties, with Odessa and Ector County among top beneficiaries. Monahans receives none. The 10 percent tax on gross receipts is rebated quarterly, 15 percent to localities and the rest to the General Revenue Fund.
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Bob Bullock
Texas
State General Revenue Fund
Alcoholic Beverage Commission
Comptroller’s Office
Evening Optimists Plan Monahans Club Formation
An organizing meeting for an Evening Optimists Club in Monahans will be at Fermin's Restaurant at 8 p.m. on August 23. The club, mainly for Spanish speaking men, welcomes all. Contact Fermin Vasquez or Urbana Martinez for details. Local officials from Monahans and Pecos discussed clubs and youth funding, citing Pecos members raising over 80,000 yearly for scholarships and youth activities.
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Monahans Evening Optimists Club
Fermin Vasquez
Harvey Rivera
Pecos
Evening Optimist Club of
Larry German
Albuquerque
New Mexico
New Mexico-West Texas
Optimist International
Ken Shipley
Clovis
Optimists Club
Monahans
Fermin’s
Urbana Martinez
Rivera
Washington
County Juries Try Appeals From City Court
County Court heard the first jury trial on appeals from Municipal Court with Jimmy Wayne Bracken fined 100 dollars and Alan Kent Haley fined 50 dollars plus costs. City Attorney Mike Wade prosecuted. Lawrence L Barber Jr. defended. Judge Taggart noted fourteen other cases disposed of that week and scheduled another jury for August 7.
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Chester Taggart
Jimmy Wayne Bracken
Alan Kent Haley
Haley
Mike Wade
Ed Keys
Auto Slams Pole Disrupts Mona Power
Baudelio C. Uribe of 1301 South Doris lost control while northbound on Stockton turning west on 15th Street. His auto slid into the Dairy Queen lot and struck a utility pole, breaking it and leaving live wires on the car and street until Texas Electric shut off power. Uribe was treated and released at Ward Memorial Hospital.
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Monahans
Baudelio C. Uribe
South Doris
Dairy Queen
Uribe
Stockton
15Th Street
Fred Clark
Dave Watts
Texas Electric
Hospital Bid Opening Today At 2
Bids for the construction of the Ward Memorial Hospital will be opened at 2 o'clock today at a special called meeting of the Commissioners Court. The hospital was nearly destroyed by a tornado on April 19, 1977. plans were prepared by Huckabee and Denham with Pierce Goodwin Alexander and Brooks Collier as consultants. A scale model of the new structure is displayed in the courthouse lobby.
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Ward Memorial Hospital
Huckabee and Denham
Pierce, Goodwin and Alexander
Brooks/ Collier
July Heat Record Increases Yearly Rainfall Total
July brought 10.74 inches of rain, not the driest month though. Of 31 days, 20 reached 100 degrees or more, with a high of 116 degrees noted as the month’s peak.
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New Colonial Food Store
Fourth and
Gary
Bullock
Andrews County
City of Andrews
Brewster County
Alpine
Crane County
City of
Crane
Ector County
Odessa
Howard County
Big Spring
Pecos County
Ft. Stockton
Rees County
Angie Gibbs
Karen Watson
West Texas State University
Canyon
Loboland
Angie
Karen
MHS
L. G
Larry” German
German
Cliff Lawrance
The
Noon Optimists
Lawrence L. Barber, Jr
Eddie Mangan
Stella McAnally
Roger William Stafford
David Randal White
Jesse James Riggans
Steve Arthur Westfall
Fred Dee Thompson
Martha Jean Shafer
Pamela Denise Roberts
Shirley Marie Coleman
Obel Huertas
Memorie Kay Barnes
James Garfield Wooten
Taggart
Earline Crisp
Neal
Mason
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