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Newspaper
Monahans News
Location
Monahans, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1968
Page
1
Preparations are underway for the Jaycee carnival July 17 to 20 at Estes Stadium football parking lot. Gene Cadell Shows will provide rides, with four color TV sets as nightly prizes and 66 merchants sponsoring tickets for drawings each evening. Winners must be present.
Financial statements released today show total combined assets of 23 138 763 27 with deposits 20 559 814 63 and loans 14 409 214 54 as of June 30. First State Bank figures: assets 9 805 418 30 deposits 8 643 330 65 loans 5 457 217 41. First National: assets 7 395 493 56 deposits 6 670 569 10 loans 4 009 019 80. Texas Savings and Loan: assets 5 937 851 41 deposits 5 245 914 88 loans 4 942 977 33.
County residents are urged to save the date for the sixth annual Green Thumb Exposition next Friday. Entries are sought across stables fruits nuts flowers and field crops.
Ward County school officials discussed forming a single evaluation firm arrangement with about six tax jurisdictions to cut costs. Board also eyed machine accounting, Plex-A-Pave tennis court surfacing, and facility needs, and named auditors and teachers for next year. Resignations were accepted and bills totaling 6390.30 were approved.
James Michael Dutton and John Marrs of Monahans have been awarded Southern Union Gas Company scholarships for the 1968-69 academic year at Texas A&M University. Dutton studies aerospace engineering and Marrs nuclear engineering. both were active in Monahans High School clubs and National Honor Society.
The Monahans County Commission accepted H W Morgan's $4693.34 bid to fence about three miles along State Highway 18 on J T Monk Yates and Edd Cox property. They set July 22 for further budget figures, approved bills totaling $19,907.54, and funded various facility upgrades.
The Music Center at 403 S Allen reports the theft of two gross guitar picks this week. Police suspect the thief is either an octopus or suffering a severe itch acceleration.
Thieves struck Perry Nunley field concession stand early in the week, breaking in despite a high quality lock. The stand served to fund teen baseball programs and was padlocked to deter theft.
Local Girl Scouts must sign up by Monday for Day Camp running July 29 through August 3. To register call Mrs. Lon Chandler at 943-3985 and pay 3.00 for Scouts or 3.50 for non Scouts. Mrs. Ida Dawson is Day Camp Director with a full schedule from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. Monday through Thursday and an evening session Friday for parents.
Monahans City Council adopted a 1968-69 budget totaling 668,940 with a 4,416 drop in expenditures and no tax increase. The plan raises salaries across departments, notably boosting police pay grades, while in-city oil well permits and delinquent tax collections are expected to lift revenue. The council urged attendance at a July Commissioners Court meeting to press for airport and park improvements and approved two Signal Oil slant hole drilling permits northwest of the railroad tracks.
Construction of a natural gas treating plant six miles southwest of Pyote was disclosed to the Commissioners Court by two representatives of Natural Gas Pipeline Co of America seeking road right of way. The plant near the old radar base would cost about 1.5 to 2 million dollars and is tied to a 110 mile 30 inch pipeline under construction from Pyote toward New Mexico, about one third finished with sections in Ward Winkler and Lea Counties ending near Lovington.
Two civil matters were disposed this week in 143rd District Court. Garcia vs Ice settled before trial while Harvey Green vs Lanny Ice went to trial. The jury found the accident unavoidable and sided with the defendant. The event occurred about a year ago on South Stockton when a large Lanny Ice transport rammed the Permian Mud bail during a sand storm.
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