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Newspaper
Monahans News
Location
Monahans, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1973
Page
1
The Jaycees offer fish fry tickets good for a Friday meal at the High School Cafeteria. Tickets are 1.50 for adults and 0.75 for children at the door. Saturday features the Lobos at the Sandhills Relays starting at 1 p.m. at Estes Stadium.
Absentee voting increased slightly near week’s end but remains light in city and school races countywide. Monahans City Council led with 11 votes by Friday 4 pm, while Wickett reported two. Several towns showed zero absentee totals. voting ends March 31 for Monahans and April 3 for other contests, with city election April 3 and others on April 7.
Ward County commissioners plan a second March session to revisit Barstow pool funding. Commissioner H A Collins seeks a cost sharing grant as estimates rise from sixty thousand to over ninety thousand dollars with potential federal aid.
Seventeen year-old David Washington of Monahans High School was named the Optimists Young Texan of the Month for March at a noon meeting. He excelled in football baseball and track while maintaining solid academics and earning multiple Perfect Attendance Awards. He has long served as team manager and participated in Summer League baseball since age nine.
A unanimous School Board decision at a special meeting in the old Junior High Cafeteria orders the fourth and fifth grades from Gensler Elementary to be moved to Tatum or Sudderth Elementary. Wickett will lose a grade next year, with about 65 locals in attendance supporting Wickett.
Public hearings on proposed changes to Texas game and fish laws will be held Thursday at the Ward County Courthouse at 2 p.m. Texas Parks and Wildlife officials invite all interested persons to attend to learn about the proposed alterations and to share local input to aid lawmakers in creating regulations. Reports from the hearings will be sent to the Austin Headquarters.
A Chamber of Commerce Retail Trade Committee meeting is scheduled for tomorrow at 10 a.m. in the Chamber building to plan promotions for 1973. Agenda items include proposing holidays for 1973, setting dates for trade promotions such as Krazy Date, and Easter promotions. Committee Chairman Glenn McDaniel urged full attendance to discuss these matters.
About 30 Monahans High School students will compete in UIL Literary events at Ector High School in Odessa. Participants include David Burch in Boys Informative Speaking, Diane Carter in Girls Informative Speaking, Vickie Miller in Girls Poetry Interpretation, Richard Callaway in Boys Poetry Interpretation, and many others across journalism, number sense, typewriting, ready writing, slide rule, shorthand, science, spelling and writing contests. The MHS drama group will travel to Andrews on Thursday for the One Act Play competition.
The senior citizens luncheon will be held today at noon in the Community Center with Saint Patrick's Day themes prepared by the Monahans Texas Youth Conference chapter. Meat is provided by J. Conrad and Mike Dunagan, and Rev. M E Stevens from Southside Baptist Church will lead devotional and song. A musical program by the Ed wards Elementary Pickers and Plunkers, under Mrs. Delores Watson, follows. Bingo, guided by Chamber Manager Joe Corby, ends the event. rides can be arranged through Mrs. Ruth McGee at 943-5316.
The city council will open bids Tuesday for water and sewer pipe for the utility extension to the Herman Marcus plant under construction. The only other item is approval of a name change on an Oil and Gas Bond.
District Attorney Larry Fuller comments on a constitutional reshape proposal for Texas courts. He sees it promoting discussion though predicts defeat in the Legislature. The plan would rebuild the court system from city courts to the State Supreme Court, shifting elective power from the people.
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