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Newspaper
Monahans News
Location
Monahans, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1938
Page
5
The document records the 1938 football program finances for MonAhans-Wickett Schools. It cites receipts and expenditures totaling 5,272.81 with remaining bills of 2,446.71 and 1,857.59 for the El Paso trip, signed by Superintendent P. D. Lewis on December 27, 1938.
December marked the fifty thousandth Texan starting reading and writing lessons through WPA literacy classes per state director Carl W. Huser. About 16,400 students are currently enrolled, with over 33,000 previously illiterate adults completing courses. The program also includes homemaking, vocational, general adult training, and nursery units aiding 2,392 preschoolers.
A Western Newspaper Union note explains toothache signals dental decay that can trigger stomach trouble blood poisoning and grave illness. It emphasizes bacteria from bad teeth as sources of serious disease and even death.
Municipal leaders expand ice rinks and outdoor sports replacing police intervention with play. Homer Rainey notes 4,500,000 youths aged 16 to 25 idle and urges satisfying recreation as essential alongside education and employment. Chicago has converted 200 vacant lots to rinks and 600 to playgrounds as social workers back the plan.
Miss Viola Burkholder daughter of Mr and Mrs W I Burkholder of Barstow and Mr Edwin Howrey of Pecos were married Saturday at 3 09 in the bride parents home Reverend W M Turner of Pecos First Baptist Church officiated The couple to El Paso and Las Cruces NM then return to Pecos where they will reside Mrs Howrey deputy clerk in Ward County Clerk office for six years Mr Howrey with Nagel Lumber Pecos and a former Monahans resident
Dorothy Lee Garner and T. E. Weiss were married at the Methodist parsonage in Burkburnett Christmas morning in a small ceremony with friends in attendance.
Garner daughter of Mr and Mrs Lee Garner Burkburnett and Tolever Weiss son of Mr and Mrs E N Weiss Monahans were wed. After a wedding trip to Fort Worth they returned to Monahans to make their home. Weiss is employed by S S Grocery.
Thirty two guests attended a party at Joe's Place in Pyote honoring Mr. and Mrs. John Moreland last Friday. The Manaahas Fire Department presented a floor lamp to the couple. Before their marriage on December 16, Mrs. Moreland was Nanora Boland of Pyote.
Local manager W. P. Portwood says interest on all meter deposits with Texas Electric Service Company is due January 1, 1939. Unless patrons request cash payments, interest of 30 cents or more will be credited on the January electricity bill.
Earl Quinly, a trucking contractor, left Wednesday for La Grange, Illinois, to operate his trucks in the Illinois Oil field. He has been making short hauls in the Ward County field since its opening.
Funeral services were held Tuesday at Barstow for Gilbert Wayne White six month old son of Mr and Mrs Gilbert E White who was killed in a sideswiping accident on the Bankhead highway a few miles west of Odessa Christmas night.
Dr. W O Rehmeyer departs for a six week trip visiting Oklahoma City Detroit New York City and parts of Pennsylvania to pick up a Lincoln Zephyr and visit his parents. Dr Rogers of Austin will assume his practice during the absence.
Miss Doris Tatom daughter of Mr and Mrs Fern Tatom will return to Austin Sunday to resume her studies at the University of Texas.
The French-Indochina pavilion became the first foreign structure to reach Treasure Island as the 1939 California World's Fair preparations continued.
The Mexican state of Lower California has a population density under two persons per square mile, indicating a sparsely populated region.
Mr. Lester Russell and his family spent Christmas at the home of Mr. Russell's parents in Overton. Dave Sudderth was confined to his home Tuesday with a bad cold.
Lodewyk Zimmer unveils a 16 foot high clock with 98 dials now on display at the New York Museum of Science and Industry. The feature highlights glass kerosene lamp wicks that burn brightly for a lifetime and never need cleaning.
Hollywood actors in Western thrillers must punch the time clock under a new studio rule. The policy prompts a quip that the actors become cowed punchers in the film industry.
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