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Newspaper
Monahans News
Location
Monahans, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1958
Page
1
The Monahans Muser reflects on the Texas Press Association meeting with renewed enthusiasm and notes offset printing’s rise. Monahans claims the first offset daily in Texas and possibly the U S, while urging local financial support for the Little and Pony League to sustain youth baseball programs.
Royce Preston Sprouse 27 and his brother Larry 16 were hurt when their scooter collided with a car in the 300 block of West Sealy at 9 55 p m last Thursday. Royce broke a leg and Larry suffered bruises and cuts. The scooter rider was Thomas Martin Conn of Monahans. the car driver was William Bradley Wilson Jr of 1305 South Doris. The scooter was totaled and Wilson’s car sustained about 50 dollars in damage.
Co. R. Folmer was returned from Portland Oregon Tuesday by Deputy Sheriff Charlie McNabb of Grandfalls. Folmer is charged with removal of mortgaged property involving a 1957 Mercury owned by the First State Bank. His bond is set at 3500 for Grand Jury hearing.
Mr and Mrs Harry Reese returned Tuesday night from Wichita Falls where they attended the funeral of Mrs T E Reese sister in law of Mr Reese. She died in a Wichita Falls hospital on Saturday.
Local residents are reminded that Pick-up Day is next Monday June 23 in a cleanup drive sponsored by the Civic Improvement Committee of the Chamber of Commerce. Residents should have trash ready as city and county trucks will begin early Monday morning to collect debris and junk from lots and alleys.
Pan American Petroleum announces a new Monahans Gasoline Plant 18 miles north of Monahans on a 20 acre site to process casing head gas from five North Monahans formations. Initial output 4 million cu ft daily with room to reach 12 million. construction to start mid July with completion in November. Pan American runs 14 U S gasoline plants, six in West Texas.
Thieves entered the Derrick Drive-In on East Sealy by ripping a back window board and climbed over a stove to steal about $30 from the cigarette machine. City Police are investigating the weekend burglary.
A contract to rehabilitate the officers club and swimming pool at Pyote Air Force Station was awarded to Suggs Construction Company of Big Spring for 47 177 dollars. Major Grant Wilson announced the decision as other bids arrive for additional building repairs and club carpeting.
The Pyote Independent School District Board of Equalization will hold its annual meetings starting at 9 a.m. on Wednesday July 2. An official notice appears in The News.
Seventy eight local merchants report rapid ticket uptake for the Jaycee Car nival Treasure Chest drawings. The Carnival runs July 10 11 12 behind the Community Building with prizes including an 11 cu ft freezer refrigerator 21 inch TV console and an automatic washer and dryer. Proceeds support Jaycee youth activities.
Jack Starkey son of Mr and Mrs J S Starkey 309 W 11 has earned a University of Texas pharmacy degree and was notified Wednesday of approval by the State Pharmaceutical Board He is in Houston serving with the Air Force National Guard at Ellington Field
Odell Davis 42 escapes from the Ward County jail after cutting through a steel plate and entering the sheriff's quarters. He was recaptured by Reeves County deputies in Pecos with accomplice Ernest Jones who faces an aiding escape charge. Davis had been held for a mental status rehearing since April and previously released from Rusk Institution in April. Another item notes West Point graduate Lt. O Quinn Jr. winning a gymnastic trophy and Monahans family trip to Los Angeles.
Fort Davis artist Edwin F Jones prepares for a July showing at the Monahans Sandhills State Park Museum. Jones trained in Chicago and Los Angeles and studied under Czede kowski, shaping portraits and West Texas scenery with a seasoned hand.
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