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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1961
Page
4
A large crowd attended the annual Junior-Senior Banquet at Bronte School’s cafeteria last Friday night. Supt. C. B. Barbee delivered the principal address while Eddy Spiller acted as toastmaster.
Community leaders discuss launching a Bronte public library through women's clubs to expand access to books. Residents could donate hundreds of titles, and many would support a reading center beyond the school collection.
The Bronze Anti-Communism Study Group will show the film Operation Abolition at a Monday meeting. It traces 1960 San Francisco student riots during HUAC hearings and cites J. Edgar Hoover on Communist influence. The group invites town and nearby residents to decide the film’s validity and youth danger. Also notes Tommy Glenn Sims won junior boys’ singles at the district tennis meet in San Angelo.
At the regular trustees meeting last Thursday night Bronte School Board sworn in incumbent Allen Sherrod and new member Bill Thomas to form a seven member board. Harlin Lee reelected president with C. O. Richards as vice president and Allen Sherrod as secretary. Standing committees named Finance C O Richards and Joe Rawlings Personnel Edward Cumbde and Bob Wilson Building and Maintenance Allen Sherrod and Bill Thomas. Bids opened for a school sewer line to the main Bottom Plumbing Co. awarded the contract as low bidder.
Pvt. Ronald Hughes graduates from Armored Radio Maintenance School at Fort Knox Kentucky and transfers to Fort Carson Colorado to work on missile radios. His mother Mrs J F Hughes accompanies the trip, notes snowy return through Colorado, and the Hughes family settles in Colorado Springs.
R E Patton of Abilene will be Plant Chief Engineer for West Texas Utilities Oak Creek Power Plant set to begin operation early in 1962. About 20 experienced operators will work under him as the first 75 000 KW unit nears readiness. Patton is a Texas A M graduate with a management engineering degree and has worked in WTU production and Abilene Power Plant training. He is a West Texan native, Abilene High School alumnus, wartime Army Signal Corps veteran, and husband of Essie Nail Patton with two children. Continued on Back Page.
Bronte High School will send a full team to the Stephenville regional IL meet with the girls volleyball squad in regional play and tennis entry Johnnie Sims. Carolyn Glenn and Kenneth Shaver enter science, Deanie Allen declamation, while coach Bob Howard leads track with Tom my Boecking, Buddy Walker, Donald Spiller, Rudy Olivas, Dee Arrott and Charles Lee. Boecking may miss trip due to flu.
Bronte Masonic Lodge schedules a closed meeting Thursday April 20 at 8 p m with talks by Rev. R W Blackmon and Rev. Bob Grimes. Leonard Fletcher urges all lodge members to attend as April 10 to 25 is proclaimed as rededication time for Texas Masons.
Clint A. Low Jr. is hired by the Bronte School board to teach sciences and advanced mathematics. He holds a Master of Education from Texas Tech and has taught at Burnet Gregory-Portland and New Home. The Low family plans to move from Burnet to Bronte in June and attend a July University of Oklahoma Summer Institute.
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