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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1962
Page
13
Mrs. Royce Lee addressed the Sorosis Club last Friday evening at the R. E. Cumbie residence. Mrs. Edward Cumbie hosted the group and a brief business meeting was held. Desserts included pecan pie, nuts, coffee and cold drinks for attendees Clyde Lee, David Crockett, W. D. McDonald, Roy Robinson, Royce Fancher and Jean Sheppard.
Five Democrats appear on the Coke County ballot for lieutenant governor. Crawford Martin 45 of Hillsboro is a lawyer businessman and state senator. Jarrard Secrest 45 of Temple is an attorney and state senator. James A Turman 34 of Gober is a doctor farmer and former speaker. Robert Baker 40 of Houston is a lawyer and state senator. Preston Smith 49 of Lubbock is a West Texas businessman and former state senator and representative.
Several Texas state offices face unopposed races including William J. Murray for Railroad Commissioner and Robert S. Calvert seeking re election as Comptroller. Ben Ramsey and Keith Wheatley vie for the other Railroad Commissioner spot while Jesse James, O. C. Fisher and Jerry Sadler run without opposition in their roles. Social notes list residents of Odessa and San Angelo visiting Bronte and the Adair home over Easter.
A spokesman said Reverend Lewis Stuckey of Brownwood will fill the pulpit during Sunday services while the church lacks a pastor. Rev Stuckey is a retired Baptist minister and former pastor of the local church, and Wednesday services will be directed by church members.
April 18 to April 24 hospital notes show admissions including Ann Ivey Antonio Martinez Sr Mary Denton and others. Discharges include Mrs A N Rawlings Mrs Roy Baker Oran Gann James Fields and Mary Denton among multiple entries.
G Waggoner Carr of Lubbock leads the list of attorney general hopefuls for the Coke County ballot. Carr, 43, a former state representative and House speaker, competes with W. T. McDonald, 50, of Bryan, judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals, and Tom James, 32, of Dallas, also a lawyer and state representative. Les Pretor, 41, of Austin, serves as Travis County district attorney. Bob Looney, an Austin attorney, joins the field, along with Tom Beavley, 40, an Austin lawyer and former secretary of state. Sam Richards and his son visited Mule Shoe over the weekend with his mother, Mrs. Iva Richards.
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