Bronte Boys Take Second in District Track Meet
Bronte Longhorns finish runner up in District 20 B at San Angelo with Benny Corley scoring 13 of 33 team points and tying for top honors with Bobby Helmers of Merizon. Eldorado wins overall with most distance races. five Bronte athletes advance to regional in Stephenville.
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Bronte Longhorns
San Angelo
Garland Black
Benny Corley
Bronte
Bobby Helmers
Merizon
Eldorado
Dee Arrott
Ray Eubanks
Albert Grace
Dean Black
Ronnie Cole
Steve Taylor
Neil Black
Stephenville
Bronte business closures prompt calls for planning
Two more Bronte businesses closed the service station run by Evert Best and So Lo Food Mart run by W W Millikin. The write in calls for constructive planning to prevent recurrence and support for local enterprises as the town contemplates staying viable.
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Bronte
Evert Best
So-Lo Food Mart
W. W. Millikin
Young Negro Goes On Trial For Murder
Willie McDade seventeen, on trial in Coke County for the October thirty first highway murder of L H Shorty Canada a Gandy milk truck driver. The case overlapped with Roosevelt Wiley twenty six seeking a new death sentence in Lubbock. McDade and Wiley were alleged partners in the robbery and killing on Highway 87 in the southwest Coke County precinct. District Attorney Justin Kever leads the state with assistant Jack Sessoms. Clyde Vinson and Forrest L. Harding defend. A life sentence is expected. McDade’s minorial age prevents a death penalty. Mr and Mrs Roy Wilkins and children from Oklahoma City visit the Wilkins family.
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Willie McDade
L. H. (Shorty
Canada
Gandy
Lubbock
Roosevelt Wiley
Wiley
McDade
Highway 87
Coke County
Justin Kever
Jack Sessoms
Clyde Vinson
Forrest L. Harding
Attornees
Kever
New Ice Deck Opens Wednesday At Luckett Texaco
The Luckett brothers open a 24 hour ice vending deck at Luckett's Texaco on Highway 277 south of the station. The venture uses equipment from W. W. Millikin who has closed his grocery and ice dock. It offers twenty five pound blocks and twelve and a half pound sacks of crushed ice.
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Luckett
Texaco
Highway 277
Bill and
G. D. Luckett
W. W. Millikin
Hearing on Water District Saturday
A meeting to discuss calling an election for a Kickapoo watershed water district begins at 9 a.m. Saturday in the Robert Lee courthouse. A March petition seeks voters to form the district to build dams on Kickapoo creeks to curb floods near Bronte and town, with potential financing by the Agriculture Department and planning by Coke County.
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Kickapoo
Court House
Robert Lee
Commissioners Court
Water Control and Improvement District
Bronte
Soil Conservation Service
Department of Agriculture
Coke County
Rabbit Drive Set Again For This Saturday
The Bronte area rabbit drive next Saturday will move northward after a successful prior event that netted about 5 000 rabbits. About 125 to 150 hunters joined a community barbecue at Coke County Park. Foxes were also killed, and participants from many areas are invited to join.
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Bronte
Coke County Park
Bronte School District Discontinues School Nurse Post
The Bronte School Board voted to discontinue the school nurse position next year to cut expenses. The role, held by Mrs. Osmo Black at 3200 dollars annually with state support, would cost local funds if continued. Teachers await contract decisions while two teachers have resigned and the superintendent has also stepped down.
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Bronte
Osmo Black
Church of Christ Meeting Underway
The Gospel Meeting at the local Church of Christ draws local and out of town visitors as ministers speak on baptism, the new creature, and taking heed not to fall. Services continue daily at 7 30 p m with public invitation to attend remaining lessons.
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Church of Christ
Melvin Placke
Jack Bailey
Horace Taylor
Red Cross Drive in Coke County Still Short
Red Cross chairman A Springer reports Coke County chapter short of the $1020 1959 fund goal. East side Bronte and west side have turned in $524.12. exact totals from Robert Lee area unknown. Donors urged to mail checks to Springer or auditor Norman R. Riker.
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HW. A. Springer
Coke County
Red Cross
Springer
Robert Lee
Bronte
Norman R. Riker
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