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Newspaper
Monahans News
Location
Monahans, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1965
Page
1
The Price Insurance Agency now ANS S Main celebrates 20 years with first client Dr Kunstadt. Officials praise Little League growth, space program thrills, and a call to curb space junk as Johnson urged litter awareness beyond Earth.
Grandfalls Mayor J H Raglin was notified that the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency approved a community improvement plan including low rent public housing and FHA insurance. City officials aim for the low rent project with possible FHA housing. urban renewal not currently planned. federal loans available on request per Congressman Dick White and Senator Ralph Yarborough.
Three Ward County teenagers will attend the third annual Attorney General's Youth Conference on Crime in August. Leonard Rodney Long and Ann Patterson, sponsored by the Monahans Rotary Club and Lions Club, along with Gloria Lozano Garcia of Barstow sponsored by the Barstow Lions Club, are named attendees. The event aims to foster youth leaders with projects to prevent delinquency across Texas communities.
An error appeared in the Tatum School Fourth Grade Honor Roll where Gary Wayne Anderson was listed as Gary Wayne Agnew. The record is corrected to show his proper name.
Civil Jury Week opens with Charley Teasley versus Greyhound Bus Lines a damages suit over injuries from alighting a Monahans bus. Eugene Carman seeks judgment against B J Service for a broken jaw. Fred Burk sues Jackson for damages after a parking lot accident. Two insurance and traders cases follow as pre trial actions reduce the original docket.
A public hearing on the Interstate 20 project from three miles east of Monahans to Judkins and the Sandhills State Park interchange is planned at 10 30 Tuesday morning in Floyd Guinn Auditorium Odessa. Attending officials include County Judge Toon Estes Chamber of Commerce Manager R T Wilson and possibly Roland Maxwell and Conrad Dunagan.
Attorneys for Pyote School District filed a Writ of Error with the Texas Supreme Court arguing nine points of error and a tenth constitutional issue over the annexation of Pyote to Monahans-Wickett. The filing comes after a recent ruling by the Eighth Court of Civil Appeals in El Paso and questions A J Staas status on the County School Board.
Willie L. Cates 52 of Moorhead Mississippi suffered a broken arm and head injuries after reportedly falling from a westbound freight train about 1:30 PM two miles west of Wickett. He was treated at Ward Memorial Hospital then transported to Midland. A companion, William H. Dobbins of Oklahoma City, rode a tank car. officials ruled out foul play by Friday morning. Dobbins was questioned as deputies investigated.
The notice lists new residents including Billy J. Russell 702 S Ike E W Ashworth 113 S Carol Raymond R Voigt 1405 S Doris Bill Suggs 701 S Eric D R Kee 900 S Main George F Baker 1005 S Gary Bob Tumlinson 514 W 13th B B Briggs 1210 S Ursila Fernando Heras 312 W 9th R V Stringer W Hwy 80 Turney Apt No 1 B A Brown 921 S Doris Carl Allen Boatwright 203 E 17th.
The El mer Hill Park pool will be reserved every Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m. for Monahans Youth Center members to swim for 10 cents. The program runs throughout summer and is open to all teenagers in the Monahans Wickett Pyote district who join the youth center. Membership costs 1 dollar per year.
Monahans High School started summer English classes across four levels. Principal Lathan Walker says 39 students enrolled. The program targets students who failed or struggled in English to complete makeup work and is strictly remedial, not regular coursework.
The Monahans Youth Center board sets its semi annual council meeting for June 10 at 7:00 p.m. at the Youth Center Building Ith and Fay Streets. Incumbent directors include Charles Baker Edith Grissom and Jack Blanchard. New directors will be elected to fill expiring terms with nominations from a committee and from the floor. Executive director Ralph Chaney will present reports and plans.
Kiwanis Club of Monahans announces Patterson Customer Relations and Sales Clinic starts June 14 at First Methodist Church Fellowship Hall with 135 plus registrants. Frank A Patterson Sr conducts sessions Monday Wednesday Thursday 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. No final exam.
Willard McSpadden a 38 year old Grandfalls man is in Odessa Medical Center Hospital in critical condition after falling about 23 to 25 feet while helping rig a pulling unit west of Grandfalls. He was treated at Ward Memorial Hospital then rushed to Odessa for surgery by a Midland brain specialist. An emergency two hour operation followed for a fractured skull. He also sustained a broken hip and ribs.
Stuckey’s Inc of Eastman Georgia announced plans to build a roadside stop and shop tourist establishment west of Monahans at the Wickett interchange on Interstate 20. The store will offer confections jellies canned goods souvenirs and Texaco products. Construction to begin within 30 days at an estimated cost of 90000.
Schlumberger Well Surveying Corp and Monahans chamber announce construction of a $60,000 facility south of George Bentley’s yard on the Grandfalls Highway. The project will relocate at least 17 Schlumberger families, with completion expected around Sept. 1, as other oil service firms consider moves to the central oil-field hub with ten company offices already there.
Cal Farley founder of the Boys Ranch near Amarillo will address Mona hans Lions Club at their noon meeting on Tuesday June 22. The Ranch houses 330 former homeless and troubled boys aged 4 to 18 from over 200 cities and communities.
Larry Lawson son of Mr and Mrs Daniel Lawson of Wickett is scheduled for heart surgery at St Luke's Hospital Houston today The operation was delayed from Friday and now set for Monday He will remain in hospital about two weeks and welcomes cards and letters at St Luke's Hospital Room 620 A Houston
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