Sears Store Wins First In Sales Contest
Monahans Sears Roebuck catalog order store tops national sales contest and earns a three day expense paid trip to Dallas for the staff. Store Manager Mike Ethridge and six other employees including Gene Kiersey Mary Irene Myers Linda Edwards Barbara Strodgman Rodney Brinkley will travel Sunday through Tuesday to tour the Dallas Sears complex Six Flags and a Milton Berle show.
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Monahans
Sears Roebuck
Sears
Dallas
Mike “Tridge
Ethridge
Gene Kiersey
Marvene Starnes
Mary Irene Myers
Linda Edwards
Barbara Strodgman
Rodney Brinkley
Six Flags
Glass Firm Under New Ownership in Monahans
Monahans Glass and Mirror at 817 South Stockton has new owner Scott J. Fuller of Odessa who bought the business from Chuck Helmer. Fuller, who moved his wife and two children to Monahans, says he offers customers “anything in glass work” and brings prior Odessa Glass and Mirror experience. Helmer’s plans are undecided.
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Monahans Glass and Mirror
South
Stockton
Scott J. Fuller
Odessa
Chuck Helmer
Fuller
Monahans
Odessa Glass and Mirror
Helmer
Registration Schedule Set for 1971 72 School Year
Orientation and assemblies begin Monday for faculty, with student registration Tuesday through Thursday August 17 to 19. First day of classes Monday August 23. Registration times vary by school level and class, with new students to register 2 to 4 p.m. on the same days. Eight new teachers join the district. faculty breakfast Monday at Colonial Inn and meeting at 9:30 a.m. at the high school.
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Colonial Inn
Supt
Callender
Farm and Ranch Breakfast Date Set for Aug 20
The Chamber of Commerce schedules a steak breakfast with hot biscuits and campfire coffee for the Farm and Ranch tour on Friday August 20 at 7 30 a m at the Ab Freeman Ranch five miles south of Monahans. Tickets cost 1 per person from Farm and Ranch committee members Edd Cox Johnny Harrison Harold Cox or banks First National or First State. Attendees meet at the ranch site with no bus tour planned and a program to be announced per chamber manager Joe Corby.
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Chamber of Commerce
Ab Freeman
Monahans
Farm and Ranch Committee
Edd Cox
Johnny Harrison
Harold Cox
First National
First State
Joe Corby
School board weighs travel costs and lunch policy
The board discussed itemized travel expenses for playoffs with shared costs from the school, county, and city. A new free lunch policy was reviewed but no action taken while federal guidelines are studied. Superintendent Callender noted one third of cafeteria students used free or reduced lunches after last year’s program. Insurance costs for unused buildings were deferred until after the upcoming bond election.
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George Callender
City approves Leon Street opening to Highway 80 route
Grady Sisson, Robert Nagle, Joe Lanier, Chuck Wilson, and Harold Kirby will serve on the board with Forga to open Leon Street on Highway 80. The street will be paved but not curbed or watered until landowners begin development, creating a new access route from the southeast to Highway 80.
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Grady Sisson
Robert Nagle
Joe Lanier
Gas Company
Chuck Wilson
Harold Kirby
Forga
Leon Street
Young Voters Eligible In Bond Election
Property owners and, for the first time, 18 to 20 year olds who are registered may vote. About 200 voters under 21 will be eligible in the bond election.
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