Funeral Services Held Monday for O. C. Ivey 90
Oscar C. Ivey a Bronte resident since 1903 died August 4 8 15 p m at Coke County Memorial Hospital Rob ert Lee He served Coke County as deputy sheriff 1918 1922 He was a longtime area veterinarian and a First Baptist Church member The family farmed north of Bronte until 1943 Survivors include eight sons one daughter 26 grandchildren and 38 great grandchildren Burial was at Fairview Cemetery with Clift Funeral Home in charge
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Oscar C. Ivey
Bronte
Coke County Memorial Hospital
Robert Lee
First Baptist Church
Reuben Blake
Southland
Douglas Brown
Fairview Cemetery
Clift Funeral Home
Mr. Ivey
Georgia
Texas
Cape Ivey
Elizabeth Jones
Uo Bronte
Ioof Lodge
Ernest
W. W. Ivey
Ray Ivey
Mertzon
Jeff Ivey
Walsenburg
Colo
Paul and
Bryan Ivey
Long Beach
Calif
Buck Ivey
Center Point
Cumbie Ivey
School tax vote set again by school board
A note from Mrs. W E Stewart reports the school board fixed Sept 1 to reconsider the school tax raise. The paper urges learning the facts before voting yes while noting oil discussions and the Bronte highway accident with one death and multiple cars damaged. Continued on back page.
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Bronte
Rash of Wrecks Plagues Bronte Area
A week of auto accidents hits Bronte area with four crashes on highways near Bronte and Orient. Dan Percifull, Jack Harris, and passenger Mendez suffer injuries in a head on collision. Harris has facial lacerations and Mendez a broken leg.
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Bronte
Orient
Here
Ballinger
San Angelo
Dan Percifull
J. A. Percifull
Jack Harris
Baird
Percifull
Abilene
Air Force Base
Harris
Mendez
Putnam
Nate Smith
Blackwell
John Coulson
Smith
Joseph DeWitt Swan
Wheeler
Emile S. Goolsby
Goolsby
Tom Green
Swan
Ballinger Highway
Bronte Hospital
Billy Glen Bowen
Coleman
Mary Wheeler
Haskell
Bowen
James Hill
Owen Myers
Gouldbush
Hunt
Enterprise Photos
School Tax Rate Election Set For Bronte District
Garland Black reports the Bronte School Board calls a September 1 election to raise the tax rate from 1.00 to 1.25 per 100 valuation. A prior July 10 vote failed 77 to 59. oil company concerns about falling valuations may reduce district income by about 600 000 this year and next. Reuben T. Conner of Humble Oil offered a 10 percent valuation increase if others vote to raise the tax rate. Continued on Back Page.
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Bronte Independent School District
Itax
W. S. Evans, Sr
W. H. Maxwell, Jr
D. K. Glenn
Fort Qghadbourne
Rawlings
Bronte
Conner
March of Dimes Plans Coke County Chapter Meeting
Jack DuPree state representative for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis calls a Coke County Chapter re organization meeting. The meeting is set for Monday August 13 at 8 p m in the Robert courthouse with all interested residents urged to attend and officers and former workers especially invited.
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Jack DuPree
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Coke County
Foundation
Robert
DuPree
Vernon Glenn Indicted by Grand Jury in Coke County
A Coke County grand jury indicted James Vernon Glenn, 33, of Bronte, for murder in the death of Hollis Stevens. Trial set for Sept. 10 in Robert Lee with bond at $7,000. District Attorney Aubrey Stokes will prosecute. O Neal Dendy named special prosecutor.
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51St District Court
James Vernon Glenn
Bronte
Hollis Stevens
Joe L. Mays
Coke County
Glenn
Mays
Robert Lee
Carl Runge Sr
Earl W. Smith
Grand Jury
Bob Edwards
Foreman
Silver
E. L. Caperton
J. M. Parker
Robert I. Brown
Tennyson
Bill Allen
Curtis Walker
Eddie Good
J. D. Gilbert
Billy Sid Evans
James A. Wells
Garland Spencer
Crowley Harmon
Edith
Charley Belle Bagwell
Floyd Bagwell
Tom Smith
Bertha Smith
Ollie Christensen
Lou Whiteside
Donny Duncan
Patricia Duncan
Duncan
Bronte High hires W. W. Thetford as social studies teacher
Bronte School trustees at a Monday meeting named W. W. Thetford of Jayton as social studies teacher and girls athletics supervisor. Thetford, a Coke County native with a Texas Tech bachelor and master, will move with his wife and three children. he previously taught seven years in Jayton and joins the Bronte faculty for the coming year.
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W. W. Thetford
Jayton
Bronte High School
Board of Trustees
Mr. Thetford
Edith
Texas Tech
Lubbock
Thetford
Bronte
B. D. Snead
Garland Black
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O. C. Ivey
Bronte School Board
March of Dimes Meeting
Vernon Glenn
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