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Newspaper
Monahans News
Location
Monahans, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1958
Page
1
An overview traces evergreen decorations back 4000 years to Egypt and recounts Saint Wilfred Morefamilar and Saint Nicholas shaping Christmas customs. It notes the tree as a symbol of peace everlasting and gift giving, with Saint Nicholas linked to stockings by the fire.
Religion writer George Cornell explains how the two part series The Journey to Jesus fills in the Magi journey with reasoned inferences from Gospel data and known facts. He notes legends and traditions grew over time but many general propositions align with likely possibilities. The Christmas reading invites readers to follow the five part series in this issue.
City Hall closes December 25 to 29 with urgent calls to WI 3 4343. Courthouse closes December 23 to 29. Tax office closed Christmas Day. Monahans schools closed December 19 to January 5. Grandfalls schools close December 23 to January 5. Banks and Post Office closed Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.
A revised taxi cab ordinance raising fares about 40 percent awaits final reading and approval at today’s City Council meeting. The plan increases minimum fare from 35 to 50 cents for trips under one mile and adds 10 cents per quarter mile beyond that, with a full fare for any trip regardless of group pickup. The Fire Department backs a fire alarm radio system though the Civil Defense Authority declines half the cost. City will consider advancing 5850 for purchase. Water line bids from the city supply source at Hogg Ranch will open, and the council may buy a City owned house with two East E Street lots.
Commissioner Leroy Price for the county and Mitch Widdess with Parris Wheatley for the city announced an agreement with the State Highway Commission in Austin on Thursday to share the cost of right‑of‑way acreage for the interchange project.
Ward County Commissioner C. O. Shorty Williamson of Royalty was awarded 27500 damages by a Federal Court jury in Abilene for an August 9 1957 collision near Westbrook between his car and a Ford driven by William Greggs of Snyder. Williamson sought 144750 including lost earnings and medical costs.
State Highway Patrolmen and City Police stopped drivers around town last Wednesday in a series of 30 minute spot checks. About 30 motorists were cited for driving without a valid license. Police Chief Sam Hulme noted two or three teenagers were among those arrested.
Thomas Rzepnicki of Philadelphia and John Godby of Zanesville Ohio received two year suspended sentences after pleading guilty to burglarizing a local service station. L J Reeves was sent to prison for two years after additional charges and prior record. A pair of divorce actions were also finalized as district court closed for the year.
A slate of six nominees for places on the Chamber of Commerce board of directors has been distributed to the membership with ballots due by December 31. The top three vote getters will be elected to join the board in January. Nominees are George Buckles, Dalton Haines, Morris Howard, Earl McLain, Sid Scarborough and John Wheeler. Retiring members are Willard Paine, C. V. Hamm and Bill Lee. Holdovers are Mitch Widdess, H. A. Clements, R. L. Dunagat, Bill Agey, R. B. McGowen Jr., Don Brown and current Jaycee President Ralph Hargrave.
The Permian Basin Girl Scout Council, headquartered in Monahans, governs 15 counties and 4500 area girls. It runs a 1958 budget of 30790 with neighborhood funds adding about 30000, and supports 30 plus neighborhoods through a Monahans office, two district offices, and a central executive director.
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