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Newspaper
Monahans News
Location
Monahans, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1982
Page
2
Monahans city council paused SAG review delaying a 6.89 percent request, aiming for a June 22 decision. Officials pressed for guarantees against future higher-rate filings, and considered halting a two-year-old RRC case while consulting Pecos area towns.
Alfred Nelson Buzzy Green III becomes Monahans High School band director. A Sul Ross State University, Alpine, alum and educator, he holds a doctor of musical arts from the University of Kansas and a BME from West Texas State University. Green has taught widely, directed camps, and served as guest conductor and orchestra leader in Texas and Kansas.
Wickett Volunteer Fire Department seeks 164 feet of fencing and a fiberglass lined water tank for 1,600 gallons at a total cost of 4045 dollars. The tank would be mounted on a truck and used to combat grass and trailer house fires away from hydrants. The board plans to include the tank cost in next year’s budget after noting no current allowance. A fence project for the county coliseum animal pens was approved at 3811 dollars from American Fence of Odessa, with other bids deemed unsuitable. The session also approved a 600 dollar credit for overestimated curtains in the new community center.
Lane Marshall of Texas A M University predicts major shifts in housing as 20 million new units are needed this decade due to changing lifestyles. He notes rising costs of conventional single family homes and foresees dramatic changes in the look of housing as older patterns fade. Marshall recently received the presidents medal for lifetime contribution to landscape architecture.
Funeral services were held in Jasper for Dale Sloan 74 formerly of Monahans born October 17, 1907 in Camden Arkansas brother of Homer Sloan survivors include Kay wife two sons Dale Sloan Jr and John Shaver four daughters Billie Dale Regas Mary Lynn Nickel Patsy Matthews Peggy McDaniel another brother Hugh Sloan sisters Ollie Pryor Helen Fletcher and 14 grandchildren. Also noted are services for Helen Hawkins 65 of Richardson and R E Griffith 50 of Eldorado with details of their careers and survivors, and Louis Helm 83 of Monahans with his family and pensioner details.
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