07 Feb 1967
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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1967
Page
1
The Favorite reports a brand new baby boot found in the 200 block of North Main brought to the office. Odell Hyepock sends in a rental notice for a brand new four apartment house at 1212 Park Avenue in a quiet neighborhood with mosquitoes. no hens or sparrows accepted.
The Community Improvement club hosted a Saturday night barbecue in Bonham starting at 5 p.m. with many locals in attendance. Coach Cotton Ford, nicknamed Big John, was teased by the players though he knew about it. Harlem Stars comedians and players visit Bonham February 13 to face a Fannin County team, with proceeds aiding Bonham Boys Baseball, Inc. to erase red ink on the books.
Trav Currin says he has placed all seven of Cook ie's puppies in good homes and now has a waiting list for a next litter. He notes he gave the pups away without exchange or refund privileges.
Rufus Van Zandt and Clark Benton discussed fishing Monday but neither planned an afternoon trip. They found fishing uncomfortable as the line froze while they reeled it in.
Andrews Texas officials moved 9840 students to other facilities as a precaution to permit workmen to reinforce and repair parts of the four year old 2.6 million high school. Superintendent R A Montgomery said classes end Friday and students relocate Monday for about eight weeks of corrections.
Chinese Red Guards smash the gate at the Soviet Embassy in Moscow and threaten diplomats during a two week anti-Soviet flare. Russians enter the Chinese embassy in Peking as protests spread across both nations. Moscow evacuates many Soviet families amid rising diplomatic tensions and warnings of consequences.
Boy Scout Week runs Feb 7 to 13 with events across Bonham. A Court of Honor on Feb 8 awards Eagle badges to five Scouts: Poliakoff Hupson Lovelace Sisk and Dopson. Citizens Day Feb 13 features County Judge Moore and city officials addressing civic duties.
A Dallas man, John Thomas Beasley 30, died when his pickup left Highway 78 near Lowell’s Bluff, struck two trees, and overturned. Roger Watson of Leonard escaped with minor chest injuries when his car veered off U S 69 into a utility pole brace. Beasley’s death marked Fannin county’s first traffic fatality in 1967.
U S planes crossed into Cambodia to bombard Viet Cong units after a Claymore mine attack that killed and wounded U S troops. The operation, part of Gadsen and allied with defoliation efforts in the DMZ, targeted a jungle stronghold along the Cai Bac River ahead of Tet cease-fire.
Clouds increase and temperatures drop in Bonham with a frigid 16 degree morning and highs near 50 today. Snow flurries have occurred in the Texas Panhandle and are expected to continue through Wednesday along with light rain from the Gulf coast to southern North Central Texas.
Woodrow Mauldin of the Nunnelee club is the new president of the Fannin County Council of Community Clubs. Elected Monday night in the Fannin County Electric Co-Operative assembly room, he heads a slate including Raymond Perry as vice president and program director and Mrs. John Witcher as secretary. Representatives from Mulberry, Nunnelee, Ravenna, Alten’s Chapel, Bartley Woods and Lannius attended as G. C. Adrian of the Texas Forest Service spoke on Texas forests and state income.
In Amman the former head of Egypts secret service seized an airliner with 42 aboard and landed there to defect to the Jordanian government. The Misrair flight from Cairo to Hurghada had disappeared and then reappeared with no details released by Misrair Airlines.
Honey Grove leaders praised civic and cultural volunteers at the annual membership banquet where Jack Shelton was named Outstanding Citizen. Ed Gossett cited Shelton’s support for rural and small town programs, as past president Roy Lochridge presented the honor. Gossett urged preservation of American heritage and individual effort to drive progress.
Reported by New China News Agency hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the Soviet Embassy in Beijing demanding Brezhnev and Kosygin’s ouster. Demonstrations described as part of a violent anti-Soviet mood linked to Maoist cultural revolution, with reports of clashes in Changchun and Heilung-Kuang.
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