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Newspaper
Monahans News
Location
Monahans, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1963
Page
1
A.G. Adair notes the Jaycee Carnival wrapping up with a rousing success. He jokes about a Green Thumb exhibit credited to County Agent Harrison, later revealing Mrs. Bess Wagner, Johnny's secretary, entered small tomatoes under the agent’s name.
Bobby Ripley is jailed on a 3000 bond set by Justice of the Peace Bill Reagan charged with criminal assault. A local woman reported the attack after a 1013 Friday night call and provided the first name of the suspect. Ripley was apprehended and charged in Justice Court.
George L. Buckles Co. of Monahans completed the No. 1 Beaty Well in Ward County on July 6 as a gas-distillate well in the South Ward Up per Penn Lime Field to 7 836 feet. Cementing and perforation details followed with an open flow potential of 60 million cubic feet of gas and a liquid hydrocarbon ratio of 26 100 cubic feet per barrel. Dis tillate gravity measured 63 3 degrees at 660 feet from the NW line and 1980 feet from the SW line of Section 3 Block 34 H&TC RR Survey.
The Texas Water Pollution Board in Austin approved Wickett's plan for a sewage treatment plant serving 900 people with a daily flow of 70 000 gallons. Sewage will be discharged into an oxidation pond.
The Green Thumb Exhibit recognized 94 youth and 71 adults who showcased garden items. Winners span many crops with multiple first place recipients including Jaylie Longbotham, Sam Massey, Ronald Boren, and Jin daily among others, across tomatoes to melons.
The article urges immediate action in drowning cases and describes mouth to mouth resuscitation. It stresses start immediately without waiting for ambulance, clearing airway, tilting head back, breathing into lungs, and repeating cycles at about 15 breaths per minute. It notes training from Red Cross and that amateurs can help.
The column lists eleven newcomers to the city, naming Kile Ellis, Vanroe Ogburn, James Bentley, E R Kennedy, Charles McShade, R L Chaveller, Earnest Coffey, Jesus Garcia, G G Gardner, J A Jarnagan, John D Nicholson and their street addresses on S Betty Bry an Main Bruce James Alice Sealy and 12th Sealy entries.
In the first half of 1963 Ward County bought 46175 in Series E and H bonds per Mrs Rex Wilson chair of the county savings bond committee. The county reached 38 percent of its 1963 goal. Texas statewide sales for the same period totaled 76246599 dollars, or 50.6 percent of the statewide goal.
Nancy Bevill an 18 year old Monahans High School graduate won the Miss Southwest title over 15 entrants in Fort Stockton Saturday night. The event closed the 25th Annual Water Carnival Festival with Kay Daniel Pecos as first runner up and Sharon Kincaid McCamey as second runner up. Nancy authors Teen Talk in Monahans News and is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Ray Bevill of Monahans.
The National Board of Fire Underwriters advises informing sitters about two escape routes through the house. If a fire occurs, they should lead children to safety first and then call the fire department.
Grandfalls town council calls a two part bond election for August 3 totaling 80000 dollars. Proposition one seeks 50000 dollars for waterworks expansion and improvement while proposition two seeks 30000 dollars for gas system upgrades. Bonds run up to 40 years at 6 percent and are paid from net revenues of water sewer and gas systems. Eligible voters must be resident qualified property owners taxed in Grandfalls.
City Council agenda for Monday includes four items. First a report on adding traffic signals on Highway 80 and modernizing the signal system. Next a consultant engineer as oil and gas drilling inspector under Ordinance 508. Then the appointment of a CPA for the 1963 audit. Finally the resignation of the City Manager effective August 2.
Two Monahans men and a Wickett youth were burned last Thursday in a flash fire at the Waddell Gasoline Plant. Earl H. Duncan was hospitalized at Odessa with second degree burns on his face. Herbert G. McMaster and Steve Fambrough received first aid for burns on their hands and faces. Fambrough is a Wickett resident.
Betty Thomas was taken into custody early Saturday morning and charged with assault with a prohibited weapon after Frazier Wallace was hit in the knee by a .22 caliber shot in an alley near Fat's Place. Police were notified by Ward Memorial Hospital staff about 2 30 a m Saturday.
Jaycee president Don Edmonds called the four night carnival an outstanding success. Crowds flocked to the midway for rides and booth activities while proceeds support Jaycee community projects. Prize winners included Olivia Armenta, Barbara Rhodes, Les Pool, and John Simpson.
Ward County Irrigation District No. 1 of Barstow extends bids until August 7 for mineral leases on three Reeves County land tracts. Details appear elsewhere in the News issue.
Lester Eugene Adams notable Grandfalls merchant died on arrival at Ward Memorial Hospital at 10 a m Sunday aged 66. In Ward County 22 years he owned Adams Mercantile of Grandfalls. Survivors include a widow, seven sons and four daughters, four brothers and two sisters. Services pending at Barnes Funeral Home. Final rites expected Wednesday with Fort Stockton cemetery interment. Removed details: some names and spellings corrected for clarity.
Funeral services were held Sunday at 3 p m from Shilo Missionary Baptist Church for Mrs Roberta Williams 60 who died Thursday in Ward Memorial Hospital Rev James C Nellie officiated with burial in Monahans Cemetery She survived by three sisters Mrs Annie Hammon Monahans Mrs Teary Hammond Stamford and Mrs Larcine Bluert Mexia
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