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Newspaper
Monahans News
Location
Monahans, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1963
Page
1
A Hometown Chamber of Commerce Banquet honored O. G. Rudy as Outstanding Citizen along with Mrs. Ratliff and Ralph Chaney for youth leadership. The writer commends emcee Dick Hoyer for his superb handling of the event and notes the high quality of the Rudy Ratliff Chaney family.
Civil Defense begins a Medical Self Help Course Tuesday night at 7 30 at Brockman Elementary School instructed by Mrs Alberta Allen who has led Emergency Child Birth and Child Care chapters in Monahans and Grandfalls. Enroll by calling Mrs G C Weller WI 3 3053. Class limited to 25 persons and open to both men and women.
A petition with 38 signers from west of Monahans asks County Judge Carl Estes to call a February 16 election to incorporate 457.4 acres as Thorntonville Texas. The town would stretch 5190 feet north to south and 3300 to 3960 feet east to west. election set at Thornton Barber Shop with Ed Keys of Monahans representing petitioners.
Congressman Ed Foreman of the 16th District is appointed to the House Armed Services Committee. The Republican's addition brings Texans on the panel to three, alongside Democrat Joe Kilgore of McAllen and Democrat O C Fisher of San Angelo.
A Texas Legislature bill would create another South Texas district and realign Ward County with the district represented by C. Fisher of San Angelo. If approved, Fisher would add Ward and several Western counties while taking Gaines Andrews Martin and Dawson from Lubbock Congress member George Mahon. Ed Foreman would keep El Paso Hudspeth Culberson Loving Reeves and other west Texas counties.
A Ward County Teachers Federal Credit Union meeting is set for this evening at 6:30 in the High School Cafeteria. A free chili supper for members and friends will be served at 6:30, with the business meeting to follow at 7:30.
A Texas citizen must pay a poll tax to become a qualified voter. The poll tax is 1.75 dollars with allocations for schooling and state government, plus county levy. People 60 years or older are exempt. Those turning 21 this year may obtain an exemption certificate.
Funeral services for John A. Anderson, 42, are set for 3 p.m. in Lampasas. He died Friday evening at Ward Memorial Hospital. Born July 25, 1920, in Lampasas, he had lived in Monahans about 18 months. A World War II veteran, he is survived by his widow, six children Dean in the Navy, John James Michael Beverly and David, all of Monahans, one sister Mrs. L. M. Garner of Lampasas, and one grandchild.
The Monahans Jaycees sponsor a three session Freedom Seminar on February 9 at Tatum Elementary School Cafeteria. Sessions begin 8:45 a.m. 1:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. and cover different phases of Communism. W. B. Strube Jr leads as director with Dr. Fred Schwarz and W. Cleon Skousen advising.
About 450 people attended the Monahans Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting and Banquet at Ward County Coliseum. Distinguished visitors hailed from Odessa Midland Kermit San Angelo Pecos Pyote Air Force Station Crane Andrews Jal Big Spring and Abilene. Outgoing president Joe F Homer praised members and announced Charles Switzer as incoming president. Switzer pledged to build on Homer's work and attract new industry to Monahans.
District Clerk Jack Criggs released a list of 60 petit jurors for civil jury week beginning February 4. Twenty cases are on the docket and jurors must report at 9:30 a.m. Names include Loyal Kinman, Louie Hanson, Jim Williams, H. B. Ward, Perry Lange, John W. Bunnell, A. R. Adams, Carlos Cadena, and others.
James Rankin Dow, brother of former Wink Newspaper publisher Melvin Dow, died at his Lawton home last Tuesday. Funeral services and burial followed on Friday.
City Council holds a 2 p.m. meeting to review a first reading of a subdivision regulation ordinance. It covers subdivision plats, minimum design standards, and minimum improvements and would apply to land within five miles of the city limits. Copies are available at city hall before the meeting.
The Children’s Service League of Midland sponsors a diagnostic clinic for cere bral palsied children on Monday February 4 at the Cerebral Palsy Treatment Center 2111 West Ohio Street Midland from 9:00 to 1:00. Dr E T Driscoll will be among the examining orthopedic surgeons aided by pediatricians and therapists with no charge.
The Lobo football captains presented gifts of appreciation to the coaching staff during assembly Friday. Coaches Jim Beam Ken Ballard and Head Coach Corell Foster received gift certificates. Athletic Director Ray Pope said the gifts were given by the team for the staff's efforts on behalf of the players and the squad.
John M. Sheets 55 died Friday in Abilene between 8 and 9 p.m. He was born August 19, 1907, in Miller County Arkansas and worked for Ward County until recently. Survivors include sister Mrs. Lee Parker of Pyote and half sister Mrs. Chris Burrell of Odessa. Services set for 2 p.m. today in Pyote with burial in Pyote Cemetery under Barnes Funeral Home.
Mrs. Kay Dufek and the Opportunity School children will share their story at a meeting of the Fai Tabernacle Church Secon and Teresa at 7 30 Wednesday evening. All people of the commune are invited to attend to see the films and hear the story of how the Opportunity School operates.
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