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Newspaper
Monahans News
Location
Monahans, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1959
Page
1
The National Safety Council warns that Christmas becomes the deadliest holiday due to weather travel and drink. It urges church leaders to frame accident prevention as practical religion and to promote safe driving as goodwill.
Police search for thieves who broke into Henry's Gulf Service Station at 4th and Main Sunday night and stole about $200 in currency from behind a display light. An employee found the loss at 6 am Monday. $30 to $40 in change remained in the register. The burglar pried the back door with a tire tool between 9 pm Sunday and 6 am Monday.
Monahans firemen answered two alarms within ten minutes Wednesday morning. The first call was to extinguish a blaze on a truck engine at McDaniel's Chevron service station with slight damage. A standby call followed at E L Fitch Trucking Co for heat valve adjustment.
Leonard Rhea and B E Liles of Monahans were discharged from Ward Memorial Hospital after injuries from a station wagon rollover on Highway 18 north of Monahans. The crash occurred as the driver braked causing a skid on wet pavement. vehicle overturned, fence and trees damaged. Rhea is charged with operating a vehicle without proper license.
Monahans Lions Club held its annual Christmas party and Ladies Night exchanging toys to be donated to needy children. Toys were handed to the fire department for distribution during Christmas. Entertainment featured the Treble Aires with Mary Ann Kent and others. Rev. Roland Hays spoke on the real meaning of Christmas. The group closed with Silent Night by candlelight.
Graveside services for Becky Jo Wright infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Billy Joe Wright were held at 3 30 p m Monday at Monahans cemetery with Rev R F Simmons of the Monahans Baptist Church officiating. She died last Monday and was born December 10 at Ward Memorial Hospital.
Ward County receives rainfall Monday night as rain snow and sleet dampen the region. Measured totals include SCS Monahans .48 inches Barstow .60 Pyote 3 inches Grandfalls .30 Wickett .50 with the season tally at 14.04 inches.
Deadline is Saturday for the Jaycee Christmas Lighting contest co chaired by Ralph Nettleton and Bill Whitfield. Prizes of 15, 10 and 5 dollars go to the top three Monahans residents as judges decide between 7 30 and 9 p m Monday night. Residents of Monahans or its trade area may enter by calling WI 3 5166 or 3 4781.
Eddie Goswick C G Massey Jr and C L Murphy pleaded guilty before Judge J H Starley in District Court Monday Goswick jailed for burglary after escaping on September 22 and recaptured two days later received a two year term Massey got two years for forgery and Murphy drew five years on each of two burglary counts to run concurrently with Pecos County sentence
Henry O. Griffin Sr. 63, a Shreveport resident, died after a heart attack in Wickett. Visiting with his wife, he was staying with Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Adams. Survivors include two sons two brothers and four sisters.
The county commissioners met on Monday to approve transfers from the sun dry expense account totaling 9000 to building and maintenance 4000 to indigent 800 to health and sanitation and 700 to library. A 4000 loan from the general fund was made to the hospital operating fund to smooth year end operations. Judge Estes planned a department heads meeting to address longer and more frequent coffee breaks and seek even operation across offices.
Funeral services for Alcario Rodriquez age 67 were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Catholic Church of Grandfalls. He died when the pickup he rode in overturned Sunday on a farm road southwest of Grandfalls. Born May 15, 1892 in Mexico, he survived by two brothers and two sisters in Mexico.
Ward County farmers voted unanimously to keep marketing quotas and penalties for 1960 in a national referendum. Mrs. Sybil Burch notes 21 votes cast with 12 for upland cotton and 9 for long staple. no votes against.
The News announces two issue dates in December for the Christmas edition on December 2 and the New Years paper on December 29. Merchants are reminded these will be the only publications during those weeks.
Senator Ralph Yarborough will address Pecos residents this afternoon at 2 p.m. in the Pecos High School Auditorium on the national economic outlook and Texas cotton prospects. The public gathering runs until about 6 p.m. and will attract farmers, merchants, and others interested in cotton farming. Topics include acreage, price support, and related farming issues affecting the industry and local trade.
Monahans patrolman Sonny Lane pursued two men after six bicycles were stolen from private homes Tuesday. By Wednesday morning five bikes were returned and one remained missing. Lane believes the pair swapped bicycles at each residence to execute a prank, leaving their original ride behind.
County offices close Dec 23 to 27 and Jan 1 to 3. City offices close noon Dec 24 to 27 and Jan 1 to 3. Banks close Dec 25 to 27 and Jan 1 to 3. Schools close Dec 19.
The City of Monahans will receive bids until 2 p.m. December 28 for a strip of land about 50 by 70 feet adjoining Lot 1, Block 1, Vernon Addition on the west side. The strip fronts 50 feet on 8th Street and extends north about 70 feet. The full notice to bidders appears elsewhere in this issue.
The Post Office will stay open until 5 p m Saturday and from noon to 3 p m Sunday except for the money order department Postmaster Bill Shelton announced. He urged everyone to mail Christmas items promptly and to wrap packages securely with clear addresses and return names.
Burl Nesmith a 32 year old Monahans man remained in critical condition with head hip and leg injuries after being struck by Wallace Watson 36 of Monahans while crossing Highway 18 near downtown Monahans just before 7 40 p m Tuesday Watson reported seeing Nesmith at the center line and braking but Nesmith stepped into the path of the car no charges were filed by Highway Patrolman Kenneth Blanchard at the scene Nesmith was admitted to Ward Memorial Hospital and listed unchanged Wednesday afternoon
Brief notices and listings from Society and Entertainment pages include social happenings and event listings across sections with brief summaries.
City Council approved revisions to the Master Plan and authorized 10 to 15 reviewers. A traffic signal will be installed at 4th and Betty streets within two weeks to ease congestion near the new post office. Engineers provided topographical maps as the plan advances toward a June completion.
Texas State Parks Board seeks applicants for a temporary park manager concessionaire at Monahans Sandhills State Park with Bob Larson’s resignation leaving no immediate replacement. Temporary hires may become permanent. museum manager position via local Park Association may also be filled temporarily with no definite timing.
Special dedication services are planned for December 27 at 4 PM at the new First Presbyterian Church. Rev Henry Haupt announces the event with a 6:30 PM covered dish supper followed by a program including the church history and reminiscences by charter members.
Four Mona Hans High School students earned All-State Choir honors from Region VIII tryouts in Odessa. Gail McNerlin Larry Carter Donna McPherson and Charles Kirkpatrick joined choirs from Andrews Lamesa Odessa and Permian High Schools. They will travel to Austin the first weekend in February to perform as a single chorus under choral director Jerry Jackson at the piano.
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