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Newspaper
Monahans News
Location
Monahans, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1978
Page
2
Bill Frey of Escondido offers an alternative method to sprout avocado seeds after the toothpick and glass fails. Start fresh, wash the seed, shave ends, plant in vermiculite or wood shavings, keep moist, sprout in two to four weeks, then pot in soil and water thrice weekly. Prune to encourage branching and accept some seeds may not sprout.
Funeral services held for Barbara Jean Fine 45 of 1309 South Allen at First Baptist Church with burial in Monahans Cemetery. She died August 15 1978 after a two year illness. Also remembered were B M Bud Rains 68 of Monahans and Robert Scott Smith 29 of Lubbock in separate services with interment in Snyder Cemetery Hobbs and burial in Hobbs New Mexico respectively. Survivors listed for each include spouses children siblings and parents.
Odessa hosts the biennial Permian Basin Oil Show October 18 21 at the Ector County Coliseum. The event, called the working man s oil show, attracts more than 500 exhibitors and aims to educate the inland oil and gas industry while drawing half a million visitors from industry and public. The exposition, begun in 1940, highlights technology, equipment and services for West Texas and New Mexico oil fields, pairing company leaders with rig workers amid urban civic discussions on city improvement.
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