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Newspaper
Monahans News
Location
Monahans, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1973
Page
1
Justice of the Peace Bill Reagan is reported to be improving after a stroke on December 1. He is hospitalized at Kermit Hospital in room 301 and welcomes cards or letters from well wishers.
Tickets for the Music Man musical at MHS go on sale today for December 16 and 17 in the MHS Auditorium. Reserved seats cost 3 dollars and 2 dollars, general admission is 1 dollar. See any A Capella Choir member for tickets.
UT lands across 12 West Texas counties including Ward Winkler Pecos Andrews Martin Crane Upton Crockett Reagan Irion Schleicher and Terrell Counties will offer 276 tracts at a 10 am public auction in Austin. Afterward sealed bids from 1 million will be opened for a 7680 acre Pecos County sulphur lease with a one sixth UT Permanent Fund royalty. Bids take place in the Commodore Perry Building.
Trans Pecos RC&D Area executive committee will meet Thursday December 13 at 2 p.m. in the Monahans Chamber of Commerce. The purpose is to select a board of directors from county lists as a preliminary step to start planning and launching approved projects. Ward County's rep is Precinct 1 County Commissioner H A Collins.
County Commissioners will review a $260,000 Ward Memorial Hospital expansion including a radiology lab an expanded x ray lab a rebuilt business office and a four doctor clinic. Financing may be private with lease to doctors. Agenda also covers energy conservation SH 18 North utility adjustment and possible condemnation appeal and other 1974 county items.
City officials expect delivery of high band police radio equipment by September 1974 following a planning commission meeting in Odessa. The radios are part of a $731000 revamping program for 34 law enforcement agencies in the Permian Basin, with distribution delays anticipated to Monahans.
Com muniCable of Texas seeks a franchise change to start local origination programming and ad sales. The council will reconsider after FCC preemption claims and protests from KMOM manager Frank Lokey and Radio Station owner Ross Rucker. Mayor Hoyer says to let KMOM owners Grayson Enterprises prepare statements.
Public invited to the Herman Marcus Monahans Plant dedication on Saturday December 15 at 10 a.m. Industrial Foundation member Joe Corby says Herman Marcus president of the Dallas apparel firm will attend with other top officials. State Senator W E Pete Snelson State Representative Dick Slack and possibly U S Representative Richard White are expected. Plant tours begin at 11 a.m. after opening ceremonies.
Hospital board learns accredited status keeps Ward Memorial out of the Texas Life Safety Code jurisdiction. Administrator Bob Hill cites reduced anticipated cost from $80,000 to about $35,000 for required corrections. Board plans expansion talks with County Commissioners and architectural input before proceeding.
The Monahans Housing Authority needs eight to twelve lots to add 46 units for the Low Rent Housing Project. Desired parcels are tax clear, with water and sewer, clear title, south town location, preferably in R-2 or multi housing zones, and large enough for two or more units. Sellers should write to Housing Authority, City Hall, Monahans, with legal description and asking price.
The 1438rd District Court docket has been trimmed from seven to four cases for today. Pecos Savings and Loan v Snelson, Gracey v Davis and Allstate, Texas Employers Insurance Association v Herring, and Burris v Pierson et al are set for hearing with docket call at 8 40 a m and jurors to report at 9 a m. Pat Rice leaves Monahans after four years with the Soil Conservation Service for Graham on December 24.
Monahans School Board will review preliminary play gym plans for Tatum Elementary at the December meeting led by architect Tommie Huckabee. Superintendent George Callender estimated construction near 50 000 dollars and energy conservation measures are to be discussed alongside the agenda item.
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