Bonham Public Library Hosts Open House During National Library Week
The Bonham Public Library invites x x for an open house Sunday from 2 to 5 PM at City Hall. The event, tied to National Library Week theme Come Travel Through the Library, features film screenings Beaver Valley in the Great Tetons Restless Sea and Canada Scenic and Historical. Refreshments, library tours, and staff from the library board will assist visitors.
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Bonham Areca
City Hall
National Library Week
Library Week
Beaver Valley
Great Tetons
Lirary
Canada
Mary Ella Thompson
J. O. Broiles
Bonhim Public Library
Child Declares Independence Says I Have an Education
Judy Campbell five and in kindergarten impressed her mother by declaring she did not need help to bathe. She stood with hands on hips and announced she could manage alone. The child then entered the tub without assistance.
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Judy Campbell
1942 election night photo features Deets Dorough group
The county judge's office photo shows Deets Dorough with wavy black hair and includes Charlie Jones D. L. Watson and others. Choice Moore helped date the image to 1942 and identified participants such as C. R. Inglish and J. O. Moore in the county office on the building's second floor.
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Deets Dorough
Deets
Choice Moore
Charlie Jones
D. L. Watson
C. R. Inglish
J. O. Moore
North Star of Texas Coin Show to run April 22 23 in Paris
The North Star of Texas Coin Show will be held at Paris Junior College on April 22 and 23. It is the third annual event sponsored by the Paris Coin Club.
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North Star of Texas
Paris Junior College
Paris Coin Cub
Homecoming Dates For McCraw's Chapel and Rehobeth
Two local churches plan homecomings on the first Sunday in May, with McCraw's Chapel and Rehobeth announcing their events. Calendars note the dates though planning is still several weeks out.
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McCraw's Chapel
Rehobeth
Shiloh
Bonham People Attend East Texas State Inauguration
Residents from Bonham travel to Commerce for the inauguration of Dr Hal Laday as president of East Texas State University and to hear Governor John Connally speak.
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Bonham
Commerce
Dr. Halladay
East Texas State University
John Connally
Bonham golfers prep pro am as spring warmup
Bonham players set their first pro am of the year for Sunday afternoon as a warmup for the annual spring tournament. They note rain and standing water complicate play and that Ted Biggers uses a riding mower as a makeshift golf cart to clear rough.
Open House at Borham Public Library Sunday Afternoon
The Borham Public Library holds an open house Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. The event features travel films shown in two small theatres set up in City Hall, one in the council room and the other in the corridor.
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Borham Public Library
Correction on spelling team member Mary Lou Ashmore
The report corrects a misidentification by stating the winning spelling team member is Mary Lou Ashmore, not Mary Lou Wil Aare.
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Mary Lou Ashmore
Mary Lou Wil- Aare
Crusade Against Cancer Begins Survey Drive in Fannin County
The 1967 Crusade Against Cancer in Fannin County names W L Barnett as crusade chairman and Mrs E C Williams as residential chair. A Texas cancer education survey will collect about 600000 household responses statewide during April 23 28 in the house to house drive. Volunteers will tally data on smoking patterns and serve in district cancer society offices. A follow up survey will run in 1968 to measure progress across programs. Volunteers call 5 3 2548 to join.
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W. L. Barnett
E. C. Willams
Fannin County
Williams
Gene Danner
David Manning
Willie Carpenter
Dorothy Railback
Texas
Thei
District Cancer Society
Connally to add local option vote in liquor bill
Gov. John Connally agrees to insert a true local option provision into the liquor by the drink bill. Rep. Ben Atwell says the House Tax Committee will amend to require a local election before serving mixed drinks in any precinct, city, or county, with a House floor move likely. The change aims to cover areas currently without elections while leaving wetter counties alone unless challenged.
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Austin
UPI
John Connally
Ben Atwell
Dallas
House Tax Committee
Connally
Atwell
John Field
Dick McKissack
Field
Students Face Draft Over Protests in Madrid
In Madrid and across Spain students clashed with police during a wave of unrest against Franco. A government spokesman warned that students found guilty of poor conduct or citizenship would lose draft exemptions. Over 1,000 met illegally at Madrid University and demonstrated for unions and democracy, facing riot police and cavalry.
Guerrilla Cult is Broken Up in Central Java
The army said it disrupted a communist guerrilla cult led by hermit Tjokro in a remote area of central Java near Jogjakarta. Followers were told to communicate with him only via a tape recorder and stamp their feet three times if captured.
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Jakarta
UPI
Java
Jogjakarta
Tjokro
Communist Party
Fire damages car at Westloth and Star intersection
Car caused by Caris Sage Fire damaged a vehicle driven by Harold Hamilton at the Westloth and Star junction. Firefighters arrived to find the blaze extinguished.
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Harold Hamilton
Westloth and
Star
Protests Rally NYC as 100 Draft Cards Burn in Central Park
About 50,000 to 60,000 demonstrators march from Central Park to United Nations Plaza joining civil rights leaders and antiwar groups. The burning of 100 draft cards occurs at 11 a.m. amid police presence, with figures like Dr. Martin Luther King and Stokely Carmichael expected to speak.
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New York
UPI
Central Park
New York City
United Nations Plaza
Vietnam
Harlem
Columbia
U. Wer
Martin Luther King
Stokely Carmichael
Black Power’ Student Non- Violent Coordinating Committee
Floyd McKissick
CORE
Benjamin Spock
Mississippi
Cleveland
Detroit
San Francisco
Nark
Special Forces
Gary Rader
Evanston
Northeastern University
Rader
FBI
Sixth Avenue
Albert Friedheim
Central Park South
Cabaniss Honored by Fannin Countians in Paris
About 350 people from nine northeast Texas counties gathered in Paris Friday night to honor Les Cabaniss retiring district engineer of the Texas Highway Department. Judge Choice Moore led the event. James C. Dingwall praised Cabaniss’ 46 year career and district achievements as Dewitt Geer missed due to illness. Gifts were given to Mr. and Mrs. Cabaniss at the banquet attended by about 50 from Fannin County.
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Texas
Texas Highway Department
Paris
Les Cabaniss
Fannin County
Choice Moore
Moore
Cabaniss
James C. Dingwall
Dewitt Geer
Dingwall
Northeast
State Highway Department
Lamar County
Texas A. & M
Engineering Corps
Highway Department
Lamar
Fannin
Ladonia
Paris Junior College
Civil rights splintering over Vietnam War said Newsweek correspondent
Newsweek writer Philip Carter told an Austin College conference that civil rights groups are fracturing over the war as voices push for Black Power. Carter, based in Houston, warned the movement faces rocky days and possible end to its old form. Earlier, SCLC Texas field secretary Booker T. Bonner warned Houston could become a civil rights storm center.
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Sherman
UPI
Newsweek Magazine
Philip Carter
South
Houston
Austin
Carter
Booker T. Bonner
Texas
Martin Luther King
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Bonham official to attend National School Board Assoc session
John Meade Bonham school board vice president and Texas School Board Association president will lead Texas delegates to the National School Board Association convention in Portland Oregon April 22 to 25 1967. He and wife will fly from Dallas Love Field via San Francisco and expect about 9000 attendees. The agenda includes shifting Texas from the western to southern division and debates on federal school construction aid Head Start transfer to the U S Office of Education and expanding school welfare program participation. Meade spoke at a workshop in Wichita Falls.
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Bonham
National School Board Association
Portland
Ore
John Meade
Bonham School Board
Texas School Board Association
Texas
Meade
Love Field
Dallas
San Francisco
Wyoming
Utah
Colora
United States
OEO
U. S. Office of Education
The
Texas Association
Midwestern University
Wichita Falls
Bonham High School Star Bryce McIntyre Named MIT National Scholar
Bryce W. McIntyre Jr., 1967 Bonham high school graduate, selected as MIT National Scholar for top academic promise. He excelled in math, engineering talent, and District 6-AAA contests and played guard on the football team. He also earned a Rice University scholarship and will join MIT in September, with a summer internship at LTV Aerospace.
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U. S
Bryce W. McIintyre
Bonham High School
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bryce W. McIntyre
Star Street
McIntyre
Bondi
1.C.U
Roland B. Greeley
MIT
United States
Aubrey Conley
Greeley
Howard W. Johnson
McIintyre
Conley
Rice University
Houston
Aeronautics Division
LTV, Aerospace Corporation
Thundershowers forecast for Bonham area Sunday
Scattered thundershowers are forecast across the state with warm temperatures. Sunday’s highs are expected in the mid 80s and lows in the 60s as clouds persist. Showers likely in most regions Sunday, with Saturday remaining cloudy to partly cloudy.
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Bonham
Light Damage in Two-Car Collision on East Sam Rayburn
City officers report light damage after a two-vehicle crash on East Sam Rayburn Friday. Drivers identified as Jimmy Lee Batley of 1710 North Main and Lee McBroom of T Russell, with estimated damage around 75 dollars.
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East Sam Rayburn
Sam Parton
Don Windle
Ang
Jimmy Lee Batley
North Main
Lee McBroom
T Russell
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Bob Cantrell
Her Highness
Donna Copeland
Carol Copeland
Bonham Lions Club
Shirley Sidoti
James Sidoti
Patti Snider
W. A. Snider
Ethelleen Williams
Don Blacketer
Donna Hill
Sonny Brent
Aretha Tadlock
Camille Cullom
Alicia Acree
Freddie Lou Herpeche
Susan Kinkade
Caris Sage
Madison Avenue
U.S. Building
East River
Nevada
New Mexico
Rocky Mountain States
Bryce McIntyre
U.S
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