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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1964
Page
1
Women prepare to compete in a cow milking contest at 2 PM on Saturday on the court house square. Horse shoeing and cow calling are listed as preliminaries as locals anticipate a lively, humorous event despite critics calling it udder nonsense.
Bonham fans will see a youth quadrille as part of the Bonham Quarter Horse Association program tonight. Events begin around 7:30 p.m. in Nunnelee community arena with music by The Black Outs and a cow milking contest. Cows will be provided by James Sudderth Grade-A dairy.
The article notes fruit lore in Ambrose with remarks from Mrs. Tom Gregory about native plums and jelly quality, plus a local push for home jelly making. It also promotes Red Cross water safety classes and a summer recreation program at Bonham State Park, running six weeks, 8 am to noon, three days weekly, free of charge for area youths.
The Medical and Pharmaceutical Information Bureau reports acne is a common skin ailment affecting as many as 80 percent of adolescents.
Bonham merchants with Foremost Creameries Sherman offer free ice cream sticks for all Saturday after noon. Serving begins about 1 30 o'clock and continues until the milking contest starts.
J. D. Butler of Butler Milk offers five pounds of cheddar as prize while Dr. Moo rides in to supervise shoeing of animals before milking. Smithy Raymond-Taylor handles shoeing and teams provide their own milk bucket. Milking stools are provided and trophies awarded. Friday lineups list South Side team with Dick Grunert and several local sponsors.
Bonham will see partly cloudy skies and warm temperatures with a chance of thundershowers through Saturday. A weak cool front may bring a weekend dip, with rain totals from a tenth to three quarters of an inch. Temperatures at 92 high and 75 low Thursday, with a forecast for slightly below normal Read more in North Texas.
United Press International joins the new network election service with ABC CBS NBC and the AP to cover presidential gubernatorial and senatorial races. Mims Thomason says the 1964 pool may broaden for 1966 and urges a national election bureau using all participating outlets.
Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma said he asked U S ambassador to renew jet fighter flights within one or two days after the US halted carrier-based planes following the Pathet Lao downing of two aircraft. He said escorts could be used briefly to photograph Communist movements and would not be permanent.
Goldwater seen gaining 39 GOP delegates from Minnesota Maryland Missouri Utah Connecticut and Idaho. Headquarters say he already has 500 delegates committed and a UPI tally lists 532. Texas delegates near 56 for Goldwater and Montana to contribute 144 more. Virginia and New Mexico add at least 28. Rockefeller leads New York with 85 of 92 delegates.
Gov William W Scranton of Pennsylvania announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination at the Maryland state convention. He challenged Goldwater’s near-lock on the nomination, urging the party to act with conscience as delegates remain uncommitted and final roll call looms in four weeks.
In Austin the state Democratic convention faces a split amid protest by liberal factions. Delegates from Bexar County seek seating over conservative challengers as disputes over credentials threaten to reshape who attends the convention.
Swedish air force Colonel Stig Wennerstroem was given life imprisonment at hard labor by the Stockholm magistrate for selling top Western defense secrets to the Soviet Union. The 57 year old officer confessed to passing secrets while stationed in Washington.
Two reunions in the Bonham area bring Grayson college exes to Whitewright for the 26th annual gathering and Halsell college exes to Savoy for the 27th annual meet. Grayson winner of the 1858 subulasaby will be announced Sunday afternoon.
West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard arrived in Washington for talks with President Johnson. They were to discuss tougher Communist moves in light of the 20 year Soviet East German pact and the impact on Berlin. The United States stated the treaty does not alter West Berlin’s status but warned of possible new tensions.
UPI reports Free Ambassador Alexander Aoufas was sent by Greek Prime Minister Georges Papandreou with a message to President Johnson. The White House declined to comment on possible efforts to ease Cyprus tensions.
The Communications Workers of America reaches a new contract with major telecom employers as talks resume. The deal covers salaries and benefits, with Ohio Oklahoma and New York units affected, and is valued around one million dollars in promised pay and improvements.
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