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Shooting, computers camp focus
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Summer camps focused on shooting sports, computers and West Texas water
use are scheduled this Summer in Monahans.
Ward County Extension Agent Andy Stewart made the announcement. The
annual 4-H Horse Camp was in progress this week.
The camps scheduled are the 1997 Cyber Camp from June 22 through June 25
to be held at the George and Opal Bentley 4-H Center; the Texas 4-H
Water Camp from July 6 through July 11 at the Bentley Center; and the
Texas Youth Shooting Sports Camp from July 13 to July 18 at the Bentley
Center.
For information on the Texas Agricultural Extension Service camps,
contact the Ward County Extension Service at 1900 South Stockton Street,
Suite J, in Monahans.
The Cyber Camp is a cooperative effort among the extension service,
Monahans-Wickett, Pyote School District computer teachers, Ultravision
Internet and Mike Cotton.
Water camp is an effort of the extension service and the Natural
Resources Conservation Service.
Shooting sports is coordinated by the extension service, Texas Parks and Wildlife, Sandhills Archery Club and shooting sports leaders.
Classic ups cable rates in July
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Classic Cable rates for basic service are scheduled to increase to
$26.95 a month with July billings, according to a company report to
Monahans City Council on Tuesday, June 10.
The increase raises basic cable rates by two dollars a month. Last
August, the basic monthly cable premium also went up by two dollars,
recalls Classic Cable Monahans manager Mark Hamlin. That increase came
shortly after Classic, headquartered in Plainville, Kan., purchased the
United Video Cable Co. which had served Monahans.
The announcement of the latest cable rate increases is scheduled to be
made in mailings to Monahans cable television subscribers in the weeks
ahead. Some report they already have been notified of the latest two
dollar a month increase.
Higher cable television premiums were announced to the council in a
statement that first included an announcement that a cable customer
preference survey had been finished.
From that letter to the council signed by Rowdy Whittington, the
regional manager for Classic Cable:
"We are pleased to announce the completion of our first-ever Customer
Preference Survey.
"Over 25,000 customers, or 13.5 percent of all customers, responded.
". . .Unfortunately, quality programming carries a price. Networks have
raised their rates aggressively and our programming costs have gone up
about 22 percent over the past two years.
"To continue to provide excellent programming while continually
upgrading our technical capabilities, we must increase our monthly
pre-tax basic cable rate to $26.95, effective with July's billing."
The survey to which Whittington refers was for Classic Cable subscribers
corporate wide, not just the subscribers Classic serves in Monahans and Ward County.
Running back survives lightning strike
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Roy Vasquez, the sophomore sensation running back last Fall for the
Grandfalls-Royalty High Cowboys, survived a lightning strike on Sunday
afternoon, June 8, near his home, authorities report.
The bolt did not hit Vasquez directly but apparently struck close to
him, according to reports.
Vasquez was injured in the midst of one of a series of violent
lightning, thunder and rain storms sweeping Ward County on Sunday and
Monday.
Those same storms turned streets in Ward County towns into running storm
sewers. In Monahans, water was hubcap deep and deeper in low lying
areas of some roads on Sunday.
Vasquez was the only reported injury attributable to the weather earlier
this week.
The football star was taken by the Grandfalls Volunteer Ambulance
Service to Ward Memorial Hospital in Monahans for treatment and then
transferred to Odessa Medical Center. By Wednesday, Vasquez was back
home and doing fine.
"He was lifting weights today," reports School Superintendent Charles
Carter, "and ate a big lunch."
Vasquez, 16, was one of the Cowboy stars that took Grandfalls deep into
the state high school six-man football playoffs last Autumn. They won
the regional championship and missed the Great Eight by two points, a
30-28 loss to Jayton.
Despite the Sunday brush with lightning, Carter says it appears Vasquez
will be back on the gridiron for the Grandfalls-Royalty Cowboys with his
team mates to help defend the various honors they won in their last
six-man football campaign.Hanna signs on with Loboes
Larry Hanna, who won a 2A state football championship in Iraan last
Fall, was hired by the Monahans-Wickett-Pyote School District Board in
an unanimous 7-0 vote late Tuesday night, June 10.
By mid-morning on Wednesday, June 11, the new district athletic
director and football boss was meeting with Lobo coaches at the Monahans
High School Fieldhouse.
Hanna was familiar with the quarters. He coached at Monahans as an assistant for nine years. |
Drum Majors:
1. Ashley Bean
2. Marty Lewallen
Twirlers:
1. Christie Bates
2. Lauren Gray
3. Shara Dane
4. Kristin Hall
5. Marynelle Clayton6. Emily Berringer
Robert McNutt services today
Services for Robert C. McNutt,
84, are scheduled for 10 a.m. today
(Thursday) at Harkey Funeral Home
Chapel with Dr. Allie Balko officiating. Burial will be in Monahans
Cemetery.
Mr. McNutt was born Aug. 10,
1912 and died June 9, 1997 in Mon-
ahans. An area resident since 1973,
he was a retired machinest and a
Baptist.
Survivors include a son, Tom
McNutt of Wickett and a daugther,
Bobene Burrow of Monahans; three
brothers, Thomas McNutt of Rock-
port, Harley McNutt and Floyd Mc-
Nutt, both of Bentonville, Ark.; a
sister, Lois Bradbury, also of Ben-
tonville, Ark.; eight grandchildren
and nine great-grandchildren.
His wife, Bernice, whom he married June 27, 1943 in Rockwall,
preceded him in death in December,
1996.
Longtime resident buried Wednesday
Services for Francisca Ramirez
Gonzales, 78, were held Wednesday
in Grace Fellowhsip Church officiated by Pastor Mark Bristow. Burial
was in Monahans Memorial Cemetery under direction of Harkey Funeral
Home.
Mrs. Gonzales was born April 2,
1919 in Ballinger and died June 8,
1997 in Ward Memorial Hospital.
A homemaker, she moved to Mon-
ahans in 1946 and was a member of
Grace Fellowship.
She married Gabriel M. Gonzales
April 23, 1925 in Stanton. He preceded her in death Feb., 1995.
She is survived by six sons,
Hilario Gonzales, Eustecio Gonzales, Domingo Gonzales, Jesus Valentine
Gonzales, all of Monahans,
Francisco Gonzales of Natalia and
Felipe Gonzales of Midland; two
daughters, Amelia Flores of Crane
and Celerina Gongales of El Paso;
two brothers, Joe Ramirez of Kermit
and Gabriel Ramirez of Denver,
Co.; two sisters, Carlota Garza and
Tanis Garza, both of Hobbs, NM;
48 grandchildren; 69 great-grandchildren and two
great-great-grandchildren.
Former resident interred in Andrews
Private graveside services for
former Monahans resident, G.A.
Ragsdale, 87, were held Tuesday in
the Andrews Old Cemetery under
direction of McNett Funeral Home.
Mr. Ragsdale was born Dec. 29,
1909 in Coleman County and died
June 9, 1997 in a Lubbock hospital.
He had served as deputy and chief of
police in Monahans before moving
to Andrews in 1961. He had been a
DPS officer for six years and served
in the Andrews Sheriff's Department for 15 years and as a Justice of
the Peace for 12 years before retirement. He was a member of First
Christian Church.
He married Nila Pearl Bodine in
Big Spring Feb., 1943.
Survivors include his wife of the
home; two sons, Ron Raglsdale of
Elm Springs, S.D. and Danny Rags-
dale of Del Rio; a daugther, Mary
Musgrove of Fort Worth; two
grandchidlren and one great-grandchild.|
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