Wellington Leader (Newspaper) - September 6, 1984, Wellington, Texas 1 BOX 45436 TX 75245 16 Pages Volume For Seventyfive Years a Builder in Co flings wo rfh County COLLINGSWORTH TEXAS 79095 SEPTEMBER 1984 County Fun Fair Roll Out This Weekend The 1984 Collingsworth County Fair opens as the Color Guard leads the big parade onto the courthouse square at ana it will not end until the events at Fun Fair in Ellison Park fold their booths anH move out Saturday evening Even the carnival will be open Saturday night for its final In the exhibits in Bura Handley Community Center will show the crops and vegetables and fruits and flowers Collings worth is the talents of its artists will be exhibited and demonstrations Friday and com exhibits will entertain or The Country Store in the American Legion building will be just The community center will be open immediately after the parade to 5 Saturday hours will be 9 to 12 when the downtown part of the fair closes and action moves to Ellison Park where the Fun Fair will entertain through the Checkout time at the Community Center will be 12 noon to 1 Some downtown merchants and others on Highway 83 have indicated they will close at noon Saturday so they and their employees Fun Jest Amusement is back for a full week of carnival entertain having opened Monday Performances will con through Saturday Opening time will be The carnival will be at its usual location east of the National Guard Armory at Marian Chairmen have announced plans for fair PARADE Cliff chairman will begin moving the parade onto the sauare at This parade is for the kid in all of he The parade itself will form on West Avenue in front of the Post Office and be in place by Upon reaching the southwest corner of the it will travel along the north and west sides and upon reaching the southwest corner turn right onto 9th Street and continue west to the area of 1st United Methodist Sheriff Kenneth Maxwell will clear the route onto the Leading the parade will be the Veterans of Foreign Wars Color and music will be by That Skyrocket The parade will on West Avenue in front of the post office and the parade divisons will include the commercial adult organization youth antique dec orated bicycle and A division for horsedrawn buggies and both covered and and other horse drawn vehicles will be Organizational queens and sweethearts will ride in cars provided by Duncan Chevrolet Olds and Smith Motor The National Guard will march and the unit is expected to have part of its Wellington and poss ibly Samnorwood Volunteer Fire Departments will take as will the Wellington Volunteer lance Service and Sheriffs There will be a division for miscellaneous entries and farm FOOTBALL SEASON The Wellington High School varsity football team takes the field Friday at 8 here in the traditional season opener with 84 Skyrocket team members front from Michael Rodney Neal James Geronimo Molina and Alex Second from are Scotty Ruben Jamie Kenny Michael Skelton and Mario Third from are coach Carl Johnny Kelly Michael Marvin Brown and Jimmy Back from are coach James Shawn Kendall Kacy James Tracy Day and coach Tom John Skyrockets Open Against Hollis Here Wellington Skyrockets open their 1984 football schedule on home against Hollis Starting time is 8 Backing them up will be That Skyrocket Band and the Pep the Right the Tigers are rated the 1 team in their classification in the State of They have 9 seniors on their starting and some of these kids have played for three years Soccer League Set For 6Week Season A group of parents met to set up a 6weeks fall soccer league to play on Tommy Hudson was elected president and Lynn Holton was elected Basic rules and guidelines were established at the The soccer league will have a booth at Fun Fair Saturday fresh hot tamales made by Maria also ice cream and Those who have not signed up for soccer will be able to join on said There is still a need for coaches or those wishing to assist and also said Head Coach James Last year they played for the state championship and lost They have lost only three starters on offense and three on They have a lot more seniors and a lot more experience than we continued We have some young players starting the first time ever who are going into this For us to play to win the its going to take a tremendous effort from our because Hollis has lots more maturity than we declared their Williams said he has confidence the young Rockets will give it all they have and be real also try to move the try to execute throw the ball well and get their blocking assignments We look forward to this It will give us an idea of what kind of team we will have and the work with these young people we will have to do to get them ready to compete within our as well as in said We have wound up some long hot workouts and our kids are ready for this ball James Benton remains on the Old Settlers Meet Friday for Lunch Old Settlers of Collingsworth County will hold their annual luncheon and reunion at the Senior Citizens Malcolm has As a special the group will watch the Fair then return to the senior citizens building for the covered dish Those attending the reunion can come by the building as early as 9 to register and visit before parade After a program of quartet singing will be presented by Buck Lancaster of Turkey and his The oldest old settler present will be as will the one coming farthest and the one having the most A business session will be held to elect officers for next year and the remainder of the afternoon will be given over to Haskell Manuel is president for this Those attending the luncheon are asked to bring a covered With the lead part of the parade forming in West Avenue in front of the post Margaret Vines has announced the streets on which the other divisions of the parade will be made Goss reminded that all bicycles are to be decorated and to gather in the paved area of the Post Office yard by judges will inspect the bicycles before the parade Commercial floats Street west of West Motorcycles and Four Wheelers Street East Adult organizations 12th Street Youth Organizations 12th Street Mopeds 13th Antique cars 13th Miscellaneous 13th Street due to knee surgery he underwent He is off crutches and started running Jimmy Barber has turned an ankle last Thursday night in the Hope fully Jimmy will be the coach Hollis will outweigh the Skyrockets They will field a linebacker See page 3 City State Loses Bonding Suit District Judge Mary Lou Robinson has ruled in favor of United States Fidelity and Guaranty bonding company in a suit filed by City State Bank against the bonding bank officials said City State executive vice president Cliff Goss said he was informed by the banks attorneys Tuesday of the decision but he said he had not had time to review the 28page Were but the decision wont have any effect on our Goss since the bank had charged off its portion of the note in question back in Well be discussing with our attorneys in the next few davs See CITY Farm Equipment 13th Horses and horsedrawn vehicles 14th Street both east and west of West Every parade entry must have a if it is to be and numbers must be up at the Chamber of Commerce office by 10 The number must be attached on the left or right side of the entry where it will be clearly visible to the Judges will be EXHIBITS All exhibits will be located in Bura Handley Community which will open as soon as the parade is and close at 5 Saturday hours will be 9 to 12 and checkout See FAIR page 2 Local Option Election Sought An application for a petition for a local option election to legalize or prohibit the sale of liquor in Collingsworth County was filed in the office of Helen county The application was filed August 23 and bore 14 James Edward one of those confirmed that the group had received a The application designates that the election will be to determine the legal sale of all alcoholic including mixed bever It has been approximately 40 years since a local option election has been held in Collingsworth Signatures of 477 qualified voters will be required on the petition for the percent of the number of voters in the last election for When the signatures have been secured for the it will be turned into the county clerks where the clerk shall check the names of the signers and the voting precincts in which they reside to determine whether the signers were qualified The commissioners at its next regular session after the petition is shall order a local option election to be The election must be held on a day not less than 20 days nor more than 30 days after the date of the commissioners court order for an Brock Giffey Dies in Accident Sunday Brock Aaron 17months old son of Nick and Janelle died Sunday after he stepped or fell off a curb into the path of a Collingsworth County Sheriffs patrol car at The accident occurred in front of New Life Assembly of God Church shortly after evening as approximately 20 including and were talking in front of the Because of the suns witnesses are uncertain whether the boy fell off the curb or stepped off into the path of the patrol driven by Deputy Reece The patrol car was traveling at 1520 miles per said Sheriff Kenneth The sheriff said this was a 7inch tall for a 17monthsold driving west toward the said he did not see the little boy and was not aware he was in the street until he heard looked in his rear view mirror and saw It is but I see no fault in him or anyone It is one of those regrettable things wed rather had not said Brock Aaron Gilley was born April in Graveside services were held at 2 in North Fairview Larry pastor of New Life Assembly of officiated and Funeral Directors was in charge of Survivors are his parents two Ryan and Wyatt one Tara paternal and Jean Gilley of and and Peg maternal and BROCK GILLEY Dehmlow of A memorial fund for Brock has been established at both Welling ton City State and Wellington Money will go to the general building fund of New Life Assembly of God Those wishing to contribute may go by cither bank or may make contributions through Schooler Gordon Funeral
