Thursday, November 14, 1996
After all, the New York Times that great bastion of the Eastern ,liberal
Elite - has that great slogan All the News That is Fit to Print". Curry
and I decided not to rip-off the Times and declare our paper to have
"All the News Print to Fit".
The Atlanta Journal, before it merged with the Constitution, had gem
of a slogan in "We Cover Dixie like the Dew" The old Scripps-Howard
declaration of "Give Light, and the People Shall Find Their Way" is a
little too close to a religious proclamation for me to want to see it at
the top of our paper every Thursday.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch burdened itself with the cumbersome "We are
the Enemies of Predatory Plutocracy, Predatory Government and Predatory
Poverty". Whew! I couldn't race to the dictionary fast enough to remind
myself what a "plutocracy" is.
For the Monahans News, my personal favorite slogan would be "A Lone
Voice in the Wilderness of the Great Chihuahuan Desert", a phrase which
caused Lifestyles Editor Linda Stephens to burst into laughter while
saying "That's the most absurd thing I've ever heard!".
Pearson C. Cooper, former publisher and staff meteorologist, took this
rookie publisher aside and in a grandfatherly way reminded me, "We're
not in the Great Chihuahuan Desert, you idiot, we're in the Permian
Basin."
I would like to steal the slogan from Atlanta and switch it around a bit
to "We Cover Monahans like the Sand Covers the Desert". Hmmm? What do
you think? No, don't turn the page I'm serious, I really want to know
what our readers think would be a good motto for the Monahans News.
I realize, of course, that great words of wisdom don't come free, so I'm
prepared to pony-up a little incentive.
The rules for the "Great Motto Contest" will be as follows:
Motto suggestions must be postmarked no later than Dec. 1, 1996. Entries
may be dropped off at the Monahans News between 8:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.
dally until Monday, Dec. 2. Preference will be given to humorous mottos.
Scrutiny will be given to weighty or serious mottos; I.e. Primo Veritas!
(Truth First!). Insulting entries will be glued to a brick and shipped
C.O.D. back to the sender.
Prizes are: First Place Is a $50 certificate for dinner at the Spotlight
Restaurant; Second Place is a $25 certificate for dinner at the
Spotlight Restaurant; Third Place is a $10 certificate for lunch at the
Spotlight.
Mail your entries to: "The Great Motto Contest" c/o The Monahans News
P.O. Box 767 Monahans, TX 79756
We love it when people bring news to our office However, sometimes we
are not here when our friends come by and drop notes and news releases
on our desks.
Please, if you bring something by for the paper and we're not here,
write your name and phone number on it so we can call you if we have any
questions.
Remember that the Monahans News is here to serve this community and you
are not going to find what we offer on CNN, USA, ESPN or TNT.
I personally consider the library at we have in this community to a
wonderful asset to our community. The hours, however, do not convenience
the entire society.
This concerns me because our library is effectively closed to our youth
from the Junior High through the High School. I have spoken to . ,any in
charge and have been told anything from "Our Kids need to make choices
to "the appropriation of moneys cannot cover the employee's pay for any
extra hours". All I would like to see is for the library to open and
close later one or two days of the week. This could not cost the county
any more and would afford our youth another place that we are paying
or with our taxes-for research, if not the pleasure of a different book.
I would like to point out that our youth of today will be tax paying
public of the future. Closing our youth off from the library now will
hurt them today and the City of Monahans tomorrow.
Sincerely, Kathy Martin
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On behalf of the Sandhills Community Health Foundation, the Board would
like to offer our sincerest thanks to the volunteers who assisted with
our recent Membership Drive on October 18th. Special thanks to First
National Bank, Furr's, Lowe's and Wickett Gulf Employees Credit Union.
Also thanks to Fe Gregorio, Melissa Handy, Betty Lewis, Candy Powell,
JoAn Moore, and Hildo Munoz.
To those of you who paid or pledged memberships or made donations,
please know that your support is greatly appreciated, and urgently
needed. We encourage you to be as active in our foundation as possible
with your help, we can accomplish a lot.
Sincerely, Arthur Carpenter, President
Facing the beginning of what will presumably be the second most ethical
administration in history, resigning cabinet members took this
opportunity to get out. Leaving the president shorthanded and babbling
stuff like, "I'm consider putting one of those extreme, tax cutting,
blow-a-hole in the deficit Republicans on my cabinet this term. I'm all
for bi-partisanship today." And then the President extends a sort of let
bi-partisans be bi-partisans olive branch, or something like that.
So, since half of the cabinet split, what we're looking at is a new
bunch of cabinet people running around not knowing what they're doing
(in some cases even who hired them), a democrat president and a
Republican majority in the house and Senate. And there you have it.
After a year of partisan campaigning and spending hundreds of millions
of campaign dollars, we end up with what we already had, Diversified
government. Diversified government in a bi-partisan kind of way though.
But know, let's swing from diversified government it diversified voting.
More women voted for President Clinton and more men voted for the
Republican majorities. What does this mean? It means that a bipartisan
committee will be formed to study the full extent of this gender gap
crisis, and determine what services can be made available to help the
voters close the gap. (It was also rumored that Bob Dole had declined
the offer to head this committee. Wouldn't feel right about it.) But
finding someone aid head the gender gap committee is the least of
President Clinton's worries, He's hot a cabinet to fill again. And you
know the trouble he has getting his nominations past those bi-partisan
Republicans.
However, on a positive note, this cabinet exodus did create some jobs
opportunities working for the President. All interested cabinet material
should apply in person at the White House. Note real sure just what the
qualifications are, but according to the Secret Service, they're not to
too strict.
By the way, does anybody happen to know an unemployed ex-bouncer who
might be interested in a temporary cabinet position?
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The Monahans News welcomes the action taken by the Ward County
Commissioners Court in calling for a public meeting Friday with the
administration of Ward Memorial Hospital and the Hospital Board. We
agree with Commissioner Larry Hunt in that the hospital is an essential
part of this community.
Not only is the hospital essential to the health and well-being of our
current citizenry, but is also a mandatory presence for businesses
looking at our county as a potential place to locate. In other words,
the presence of a hospital offering as many services as is financially
feasible is important to the future.
However, having said that, we - like the commissioners court - feel
there are some questions concerning the day-to-day operations of the
institution which need to be discussed in open forum. While the hospital
administration has been open and cooperative with the local media,
unfortunately we can not say the same about the governing hospital
board. While we realize, of course, that serving as an unpaid member of
the board is a thankless task that requires a lot of work, we feel that
the "no comments" this newspaper has received when working on (A) The
Dr. Jackson affair; (B) The unauthorized bank account affair; and now,
(C) The financial affair have not served well the board nor the public.
We hope that the meeting Friday will be entered into in a spirit of
cooperation geared towards problem solving. There will be some tough
questions asked and - possibly - some tough measures taken... but then
such is the important business of public health care.
Frances Deck
Having run out of the real thing it became necessary to get the car out
of the yard. I had a plan though. I put Altos in the porch room with a
rawhide bone, opened the gates and backed the car out. I then enticed
the big red dog back out of the yard and closed the gates. I let Taltos
back out of the porch room and the dogs once more raged at each other
through the fence. And they say blondes are dumb.
Leaving the two snarling animals behind I drove into Grandfalls to pick
up some more refreshments and see if I could find the owner of that
small pony masquerading as a dog.
I returned home with nothing more than a six pack of cokes. Nobody knew
anything about a red dog the size of a small pony. My wheels had barely
stopped turning in the.driveway when I heard a terrible thud and the
hole car shook. Looking in my rearview mirror I saw the animal had begun
to think of as, Red Dog, standing on my trunk. Grinning happily he then
jumped onto the roof of the car. Good thing I don't have one of those
vinyl roofs. Another thud, and suddenly there was his huge face staring
at me through the windshield. With visions of "Cujo" dancing through my
head I opened the door and stepped out of the car. Red Dog jumped From
the hood of my car landing in front of me. Then he sat down and looked
up expectantly at me. What could I do? I fed him. O.K., O.K. I' m a
sucker.
When Christopher arrived home Red Dog was ecstatic. This dog loved
trucks. Whose truck it was didn't seem to matter.
With Christopher's encouragement I agreed to an experiment to see if the
dogs could get along without the fence between them. This experiment
ended with me beating Red Dog over the head with a belt, while
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MONAHANS OPINION
Thursday, November 14, 1996
A Letter From The Editor
Announcing the Monahans
News "Great Motto Contest"
By Steve Patterson
Editor and Publisher
Deputy Editor Jerry Curry and I were discussing the other day ~about how
the Monahans News needed something in its front page flag other than
"Combined with the Monahans American and The Ward County News."
After all, the New York Times that great bastion of the Eastern ,liberal
Elite - has that great slogan All the News That is Fit to Print". Curry
and I decided not to rip-off the Times and declare our paper to have
"All the News Print to Fit".
The Atlanta Journal, before it merged with the Constitution, had gem
of a slogan in "We Cover Dixie like the Dew" The old Scripps-Howard
declaration of "Give Light, and the People Shall Find Their Way" is a
little too close to a religious proclamation for me to want to see it at
the top of our paper every Thursday.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch burdened itself with the cumbersome "We are
the Enemies of Predatory Plutocracy, Predatory Government and Predatory
Poverty". Whew! I couldn't race to the dictionary fast enough to remind
myself what a "plutocracy" is.
For the Monahans News, my personal favorite slogan would be "A Lone
Voice in the Wilderness of the Great Chihuahuan Desert", a phrase which
caused Lifestyles Editor Linda Stephens to burst into laughter while
saying "That's the most absurd thing I've ever heard!".
Pearson C. Cooper, former publisher and staff meteorologist, took this
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