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Newspaper
Monahans News
Location
Monahans, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1968
Page
7
A complete voter registration application form is provided to clip and mail to Ward County Tax Collector at the Courthouse in Monahans. The notice states registration is free and all persons regardless of age must register to vote this year.
Highlights and sidelights from Texas Liquor Control Board activities include a January 29 hearing on complaints against board employees and the governor backs swift punishment for misconduct. Dallas prosecutors probe a protection scheme. grand jurors in Smith County examine a license grant.
The Ruidoso Racing Association board declares a $10 per share dividend, the largest in the association’s history. President A. B. Green notes the payout doubles prior records and cites gains from improved food concessions and new attendance records despite a rainy summer.
Lieutenant Governor Preston Smith appoints Representative Hendryx of Alpine to the Legislative Council committee to study creating an academy of science for crime prevention and detection. Study requested by House Resolution 37 during the 60th Legislature session.
The new Social Security law adds a $100 monthly earnings credit for each month in active military service starting January 1968. Credits are automatic and do not require any application, and they come from Treasury funds rather than additional contributions. This change may raise future benefits for service members and their families.
Nauru lies west of the Gilbert Islands just south of the equator and is famed as a major phosphate source. The eight square mile atoll is essentially a massive phosphate rock deposit.
Don Edmonds former Monahans city manager and ex Hurst official becomes planning and management consultant at Knowl ton Ratliff and English of Ft Worth. The move places him in a new role with the consulting engineering firm.
Joe Lee Scott, 38, of Jal New Mexico, died Tuesday after a short illness in a San Angelo hospital. Funeral services were held Wednesday with burial in Bronte. Surviving is his brother here, Coach Kenneth R. Scott.
The Bureau of Land Management administers 460 million acres of public domain while scientific sanctuaries account for just 8 000 acres. This highlights the small share of protected areas within federal lands.
Parents of the first Monahans baby of 1968 express gratitude to local merchants for gifts and to Ward Memorial Hospital Ladies Auxiliary and the Mona hans News for coverage. They also thank Mr. and Mrs. Jubentino O. Sanchez.
From 1864 to 1869 placer mining near Butte Ontario produced about 1.5 million dollars, earning the region the tag richest hill on earth. Now Butte is best known for its high zinc lead and manganese production per Britannica.
The Pope is described as sovereign of the State of Vatican City, a role formerly tied to the Temporal Domains of the Holy Roman Church. The wording reflects the historical shift from papal temporal authority to Vatican City sovereignty.
A public notice outlines homemaking as a profession guiding families through rapid tech change. It promotes extension programs for parenting, nutrition, sewing, budgeting, and time use, urging Mrs. Homemaker to balance progress with meaningful life. Enroll via Miss Pat Crenshaw in Monahans, Texas with a $1 fee for a six session correspondence course.
The Monahans News is published every Monday and Thursday at 107 West Second Street in Monahans, Ward County, Texas 79756. It is entered as second class matter February 26, 1931, at the Monahans post office under the March 3, 1879 Act of Congress.
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