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Newspaper
Monahans News
Location
Monahans, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1958
Page
1
The Monahans area reports traffic dangers on airport road nicknamed a drag strip as games draw crowds to nearby baseball fields. City plans slow signs and patrol presence to reduce risk amid rising pedestrian and vehicle activity. The town also condemns high pool filter bids, noting engineer fees tied to cost inflate overall estimates.
The article notes possible choices for a new post office location with 4th and Betty favored by elimination while 4th and Alice and 4th and Calvin options were dropped. Safeway Stores owns 4th and Betty and may receive notifications via Boise or LA offices. In golf, 20 players tee off on number 1 during a pro am, nine stay in fairway, Jerry Mobley hits 335 yards to the green amid tall tales about Titanic Thompson.
The City Council rejected all five bids for installing a filter system at the city swimming pool after deeming costs too high. The lowest bid was 21,516 from A. P. Kasch & Sons. Esmond engineering firm Wade Howell had estimated 16,000 and noted bids were unexpectedly high. The council authorized paying Howell's 2 percent engineering fee of 1,183.38 and ordered pool repairs and a new pump with costs between 500 and 1,000. Opening to occur in two to three weeks.
Courses in Literature III Grammar III and IV to be offered starting June 9 at Mona hans High School. Instructor is Mrs Vera Finks. Enrollment is 15 dollars for 2 credits or 25 dollars for full credit. Summer term runs June 9 through July 19 with classes six days a week for 2 hours 15 minutes daily.
A three car crash west of Wickett on Highway 80 left 28 year old Ralph Nance of Pyote with a badly injured left arm and possible amputation. Charles E. Cole 19 and Stephen A Rowsley 43 of Fort Worth were treated and released. Rowsley’s wife’s purse and most money were stolen from the Cole pickup.
Danny Mason an Odessa College golfer from Monahans won the eleventh annual Monahans Invitational with an 8 under par 208 finishing one stroke ahead of teammate Jerry Mobley. Hellinghausen led after Saturday but dropped back with a final round bogey filled finish. Dub Warden of Andrews won a sudden death playoff for third.
Katherine Kugle, fresh from Trinity University San Antonio, will join the News staff this summer as a feature writer and assistant women's page editor. She is a journalism major, former society editor of the Trinitanian, and has worked with the Interscholastic League journalism division.
West Texas archaeologists led by Dr. Fred Wendorf at Texas Tech study Monahans sand dunes to uncover 15 000 years of southwestern weather patterns. Six sites including Odessa meteor crater and Bogg Ranch aim to reveal past climates via fossils and strata.
Walter Rogers age 40 of Mona hans driving a Halliburton truck collided with J. M. Heflin age 15 from Imperial about 11 p m Friday night seven point eight miles south of Grand falls on FM 11 Patrolman S C Merchant reported Rogers was passing Heflin when the vehicles side swiped both drivers escaped injury
Monahans firemen responded around 1 30 PM Friday to combat an oil well blaze about 6 to 7 miles east of Barstow. The Hissom Drilling Co. Midland owned rig with Longhorn Well Service Co. Wink on site. Damage estimated at 40000 dollars after about three hours of fighting.
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