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Newspaper
Monahans News
Location
Monahans, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1938
Page
6
Officials and community groups outline a 1939 plan to fight syphilis by public health education, church, home and school programs, improved sex education, and marriage medical exams. They call for strengthening laws, preventing quackery, and improving welfare for youth and expectant mothers.
Texas Technological College alters Christmas holidays to January 2 due to Red Raider participation in the Cotton Bowl on January 2. The official break now starts Tuesday with work suspended. the change shifts dates from December 17 to January 2. The Butchers plan a move to Mamlin. Shell Pipe Line engineer Mr. Butcher will transfer.
Emma L. Bond, a former Fannin county school teacher raised on a Clay county farm, is named regional home management adviser for the Farm Security Administration. She directs home plans for 31,742 Texas and 14,477 Oklahoma families. Bond, with three University of Oklahoma degrees, studied grain sorghum dishes and teaches self sufficiency using small hand mills. She has served as Oklahoma state home management director since 1935, succeeding Laura Neal Love, killed in an automobile accident.
The slogan Guard Against Syphilis under National Social Hygiene Day will honor a Texas observance on February 1 with meetings and public campaigns led by Dr. Geo. W. K. State Health Officer. Officials report growing interest and a larger turnout than previous years as the third annual event advances the attack on syphilis.
Civic groups and health welfare agencies mobilize support for public health initiatives. Community service organizations join forces with health advocates to push improvements in care access and wellness programs across neighborhoods.
In Ward county one field test location was recorded, with three completed producers and one abandoned cluster. Across 14 counties, 26 oil producers and a gasser finished while five were abandoned, compared with 33 producers and three dusters the prior week. Locations for 32 field tests and one wildcat were staked across nine counties, down from the previous week. Ector led with nine completed wells. Ward added three, and several counties logged two or one.
Crockett and Howard each contributed two, Gaines Upton and Ward counties one each, with the lone wildcat staked in Cochran county.
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