Kent Challenged in the News By GOP Execs
The Ward County Republican Executive Committee issues a balloon busting contest challenge to Jim Kent during the party summer picnic at Wickett Park on Saturday July 6 at 7 p.m. Louis Pinkerton declares victory ahead of time while Kent jokes about concealed air pumps. The event features free swimming, a covered dish supper, and speeches by Republican candidates Mrs Loyd Jean Mrs Wayne Harreson and Sam Harrill oversee arrangements for a family friendly gathering inviting all to bring a dish to share.
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Ward County
Republican Executive Committee
Jim Kent
Wickett Park
Louis Pinkerton
Loyd Jean
Wayne Harreson
Sam Harrill
Ward Memorial Hospital Admits Week of June 27
Ward Memorial Hospital notes no house physician and asks most patients to call their family doctor before treatment. During the week of June 27 to July 1, admissions include residents from Monahans such as Michael Mobbs and Mary Tiernan, plus out of town entrants from El Paso and Odessa.
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Ward Memorial Hospital
Monahans
Michael Mobbs
Louise Calaway
Donna Parnell
Willie Bullard
Lois Tuck
Priscilla Webb
Wanda Neill
Ficuterio Acosta
Paul Bints
Abel Stella
Mary Tiernan
Linda O'Dell
Joyce Nix
Kelly Jean Hall
Anna Smith
Glenn Rose
Clifford Rosco
Ismael Valenzuela
Linda Hanson
Josephina Valle
George Holbrook
David Sykes
Denzil Cooper
Peggy Holt
Athelda Courtney
el Paso
Fred Henderson
Odessa
Local Births Record Highlight Several Newborns
Mr and Mrs Refugio Nunez welcome a girl weighing 6 pounds 8 ounces. Mr and Mrs Jerry Nelson greet a boy at 9 pounds 2 ounces on June 20. J W Calaway’s family welcomes a boy 7 pounds 4 ounces on June 26. Mr and Mrs Russell Parnell report a girl 6 pounds 4 ounces on June 20. Mr and Mrs Henry Tiemann announce a boy 7 pounds 9.5 ounces on June 28. Mr and Mrs Webb Courtney celebrate a boy born June 29.
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Jerry Nelson
J. W. Calaway
Russell Parnell
Henry Tiemann
Webb Courtney
Obituaries from Monahans area remember kinship and loss
Obituaries list multiple Monahans residents dead in recent days. Mrs. J W Kinsey 75 of Monahans died in Hamlin hospital with funeral at Rotan and burial in Roby cemetery. Daisy Evelyn Webb 62 of Monahans died in San Antonio after illness. burial in Monahans Cemetery. Vera Lee Powell 60 Monahans resident 32 years died in Ward Memorial Hospital. services at First Baptist Church with burial in Monahans Cemetery. Survivors names and locations include Kinsey, Webb and Powell families, plus extended relatives in Crane Imperial St Louis El Paso Eugene Tucson Las Vegas Borger Roswell and Freemont.
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J. W. Kinsey
Thurman Kinsey
Monahans
Hamlin Hospital
Weathersbee
Rotan
Roby
Sylvester
D. L. Kinsey
Crane
James C. Kinsey
Imperial
Daisy Evelyn Webb
Dwight Church of Christ
Loy Dell Williams
James Williams
San Antonio
Lillie Mann
Roy Gorum
St. Louis
Sam Gorum
el Paso
Louis Gorum
Eugene Ore
J. M. Gorum
Los Angeles
Calif
Alice Newby
Wickett
Bruce Conklin
Lucille Dundy
Las Vegas
Nev
Cleo Turner
Tucson
Ariz
Buelah Dekle
Gladys Sparrow
Vera Lee Powell
First Baptist Church
Hammond Funeral Home
Powell
Ward Memorial Hospital
Dublin
Texas
Order of Eastern Star
Dee Powell
Patricia Lee Birkenbuel
Roswell
N. M
Doyle Robert Powell
George Martin
Freemont
Shirley Ford
Lexington
N. C
Loneta Lindsey
Borger
Monahans News History of the Great Southwest
The Monahans News details its growth and development coverage in the Great Southwest. Published weekly on Mondays and Thursdays from Monahans Texas. The paper operates from 107 West Second Street in Ward County 79756.
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West Second St
Monahans
Ward County
Texas
Five Flags Over Jekyll Island Record
The Georgia heritage note recalls five flags that have flown over Jekyll Island: French, Spanish, English, American, and Confederate.
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Georgia
Jekyll Island
Gulf Employee District Manager Presents Award
Ardis, a 16 year Gulf employee and Texas A&M graduate, received the award as the district manager of the U S Bureau of Mines formally presented it.
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U.S. Bureau of Mines
Ardis
Texas A&m University
Gulf
Inductions Reported for Two County and Kermit Man
Alfredo V Martinez and another man from Kermit will serve in the army. The record showed no inductions from Loving County.
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Alfredo V. Martinez
Kermit
Army
Loving County
Marine Bobby Moody Held Safe Return From Vietnam
Marine Bobby Moody was wounded in Vietnam near Da Nang on June 15 by shrapnel to his leg and shoulder. He received treatment in Tokyo and is en route home, with partial paralysis in his hand and arm and four months of service completed before the injury.
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Bobby Moody
Vietnam
Mood
da Nang
Tokyo
Japan
Memphis
Tenn
Local Servicemen Finish Training And Receive Assignments
Dale Pickering completed a 12 week fuel and electrical systems repair course at Aberdeen Proving Ground training on M-60 tanks and M 113 M 1114 carriers. Seaman Carl Pool serves aboard USS Oriskany which earned Navy Unit Commendation for Southeast Asia operations. Ted Wardill awaits Officer Candidate School at Fort Sill after Army enlistment. wife Carolyn Lowe accompanies him to Lawton.
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Louis D. Pickering
Lester Travis Pickering
W. 2Nd
Army Ordnance School
Aberdeen Proving Ground
Fir. Pickering
Army
Oriskany
San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard
Air Wing Sixteen
Navy Unit Commendation
Southeast Asia
Ted Wardlill
Fort Sill
Lawton
Oklahoma
Carolyn Lowe
Ted
Fort Bliss
Fort Leonard Wood
Missouri
T. G. Ward, Jr
City permits total climbs to forty seven hundred for month
Permits mounted to $4,700 to bring the total for the month to $54,700. New construction inside the city for the first six months of the year lagged behind last year. For 1968 the total is $125,485 while the figure for this time of the year in 1957 was $339,085.
Landing Fees Show LaGuardia Higher Than JFK
The Port of New York Authority charges hefty landing fees with a $5 minimum at JFK Newark and LaGuardia. Larger planes pay 0.95, 0.36, and 0.36 dollars per 1000 pounds of max gross weight respectively, making LaGuardia the costliest.
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New York
LaGuardia
John F. Kennedy International
Kennedy
Newark
Port of
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