City Council Adopts Suspension Of New Fuel Formula
The council suspended a 120 day period for a new fuel cost formula crafted by Texas Electric Utilities after District Judge Herman Jones ruled the previous formula non compliant. TESCO Manager Lloyd Stoebner suggested denial and PUC review, but the council followed the Texas Municipal League attorney Don Butler. The meeting also named Jerry McLain to replace Ted Leslie on the Airport Advisory Board through July 1982, approved a 1980 81 tax roll adjustment for a 75 year old, and postponed deciding next year’s homestead exemption until firm valuation figures are received from the Central Appraisal District. The legislature allows up to 40 percent exemption 1982 84, HB 30 adds a delinquent tax penalty up to 15 percent can be charged even without a tax attorney, but attorney fees cannot be recovered in suits if one is hired. The council also welcomed letters from 3rd and 4th graders praising anti drug coloring books supplied by the city.
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Texas Electric Utilities
Herman Jones
Austin
TESCO
Lloyd Stoebner
Stoebner
Public Utilities Commission
Texas Municipal League
Don Butler
Calame, Linebarger
Graham
Council
Dale Wood Captures Grand at Regional Pecan Show
Dale Wood of Monahans won the Grand champion Shelling pecan for the Western variety at the Regional Pecan Show in Midland. Seven other Ward County winners advance to the state contest in Austin next July. Other exhibitors include George Gannaway John Tatum Carmen Ammer James Ward Mrs. Conrad Dunagan A D Freeman and Joe Hull. Local offices will close for Christmas. City Hall open till noon Thursday. county courthouse closed Thu and Fri. Southern Union Gas closed Thu. Texas Electric Service Co. open till noon and possibly later.
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Dale Wood
Monahans
Midland
Joe Hull
Corbett Avary
Mo Lisman
Southern Union Gas
Ceeze
Texas Electric Service Co
Lloyd Stoebner
Optimists honor youths as Texans of the month
The Monahans Optimist Club names Kay Bentley November Young Texan of the Month. A Monahans High School senior, she ranks third in a 177 student class and participates in Honor Society Future Teachers of America drama choir and sports. She plans to study at Odessa College and explore chiropractic medicine.
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Monahans Optimist Club
Optimist International
Young Texans
Kay Bentley
Monahans High School
T.S. Bentley
Kay
Future Teachers of America
Odessa College
Floyd Hernandez
Price Hernandez
Floyd
Obituaries for Leonard Wofford and Mary Thornton
Obituary notices state Leonard Lon Wofford 68 of Kermit died Sunday in the Big Spring VA hospital and services were held Monday in Kermit. He was a WWII Army veteran and a retired roustabout. Survivors include son James A. Wofford and sister Lorraine Dunlop. Mary W Thornton 68 of Lamy New Mexico died December 18. services were held December 22 at Wilson Miller Chapel with burial in Monahans Cemetery. Survivors include two sons Jim Pat and Gene Vickers, a daughter Geneva Moore and nine grandchildren.
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Leonard Lon Wofford
Kermit
Dave Wofford
Monahans
Wofford
Big Spring
Frederick
Oklo
The
Baptist Church
James A. Wofford
el Paso
Emma Adams
Lorraine Dunlop
Mary W. Thornton
Lamy
N. M
Bluford Thornton, Jr
Pyote
Wilson-Miller Chapel
Monahans Cemetery
Clark Ford
Midland
Jim Pat
Sedalia
Cole
Gene Vickers
Geneva Vivian Moore
Santa Fe
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Jerry McLain
Ted Leslie
Airport Advisory Board
Leslie
New York
S. Stockton
Sherry Mummee
Hal Price
Arlinda Valencia
Jim McCormick
Robert Craft
O.E. Anthony
Leonard Rhea
Robert Cooper
Especial Servicios EN Espanol Domingos
Juan Papaleo
Grace
Wilma
Hirai
Eeeee
FSLIC
Texas Savin Socratic
Odessa
McCoy's
Texas A&m University
Ward County
Richey
Fort Stockton
Eva Baker Watson
Optimist Club
Frank Voight
Leonard Wofford
A. E. Kelly
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