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Newspaper
Monahans News
Location
Monahans, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1968
Page
2
Portugal’s six year plan for Angola totals 967.6 million dollars with the largest share for mineral and oil resource development including iron ore diamonds and manganese. Another 161 million will go to port and communications projects during the period.
Washington-On-The-Brazos State Park preserves a page of Texas history as Texas delegates signed the Texas Declaration of Independence on March 2 1835 amid battles at the Alamo Goliad and San Jacinto. The park features George C Childress statue markers and restoration of Dr Anson Jones home with graves of Asa Brigham and John William Smith.
In March the Ward County Red Cross chapter launches a mailing campaign to urge volunteer contributions to sustain services amid funding gaps from the United Fund. Executive secretary Mrs. W. H. Woods warns the unit could lose its charter without sufficient funds, risking distant contact with Odessa for aid. Clyde Wilson leads as president and teaches life saving. the chapter aided 47 families with emergency communications and financial help and assisted about 100 people with disaster aid.
Obituary items report the deaths of Mrs. Jennie Henry 85 of Rising Star and Mrs. Mary Estelle Emmerson 83 of Baird, with interments and church services noted. Other notices include a fatal one car crash near Tyler involving Betty Jean Carlile, and obituaries for Hudson Lindsay Rucker and William Ammon Cleghorn with burial plans and survivors listed. Community service items recount Red Cross aid and youth programs in Monahans.
Martha Ferrales vanished near Wickett while her brother and mother shopped. Monahans Pecos and Kermit officers joined a search. Deputy Herman Hamilton found the exhausted child asleep three miles north of Wickett. She wore white jeans a tee and tennis shoes and said little about going home.
A beauty specialist told a women’s group in New Delhi to “have your face slapped periodically and you will look better,” prompting mixed reactions about cosmetic guidance and self care.
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