Farm Safety Week Set For July 24-30
Coke County proclaims July 24 to 30 1966 as Farm Safety Week as local farm groups plan safety activities. Ben A Boykin president of the county Farm Bureau notes rising farm accident deaths since 1961 and urges vigilance to cut deaths and injuries.
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W. W. Thetford
Coke County
Farm Bureau
Ben A. Boykin
C. E. Arrott
Fred McCabe Jr
County Farm Bureau
Johnson
Connally
Boykin
America
Thetford
Bronte Business District Called to Cooperative Improvement
Local merchants urged a joint effort to upgrade Bronte's Main Street to attract customers. The proposal, supported by the mayor, envisions a meeting and public publicity campaigns. Residents are asked to subscribe to The Enterprise and participate in patriotic community events at the Methodist Church.
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Bronte
Main Street
Revival Meeting at 1st Baptist Bronte Starts Friday
The 1st Baptist Church in Bronte hosts a revival from Friday July 22 through Sunday July 31 led by visiting evangelist Fern A Miller of Cleburne. Rev Harry Morris invites all area residents to morning and evening services with prayer meetings and choir practice preceding each session. Morning services run 7 am Monday through Friday with 10 am sessions Tuesday Thursday and Friday. Garry Bivins directs singing and Angelo State College student assists.
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First Baptist Church
Bronte
Harry Morris
Fern A. Miller
Cleburne
Trinity-Birazos
Memphis
Dublin
Canadian
Stratford
Baylor University
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Fort Worth
Garry Bivins
Angelo State College
Morris
Bargain Enterprise Subscription Sale Nears Deadline
The Enterprise offers a 50 cent cut for yearly subscriptions through July 30 in Coke and adjoining counties at 2.50 and 3.00 elsewhere, with local reps and desk staff promoting the deal. Publisher Ben Oglesby urges readers to subscribe, noting no price rise for paid-up subscribers despite rising newsprint costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coke
Ute
P. O. Drawers
Rocky Thompson
Blackwell
Herbert Holand
Brookshire
Jack Corley
W. T. Green
Tennyson
Ben Oglesby
Enterprise
New Lions Club Charter Banquet Set for Tuesday
Bronte’s Night Lions Club hosts Charter Night Banquet Tuesday July 26 at 7 30 p m in the school lunchroom with a large visiting Lions delegation expected. Royce Fancher presides, George Thomason and Carl Hyde to present and speak. Wayne Dunnam chairs. Cecil Cox and Austin Masterson will give invocations and benediction. Janet Lee and Bennie Carol Oglesby to sing. Coalson also to attend.
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Bronte
Lions Club
West Texas
Royce Fancher
George Thomason
Sweetwater
Carl Hyde
Midland
Wayne Dunnam
Cecil Cox
Church of Christ
Austin Masterson
Janet Lee
Bennie Carol Oglessby
New Lions Club
Coalson
Red Barn
Baylor Students Work Summer in Germany With Group From Texas
Glenn Sims and three Baylor students live in Aschau, Bavaria, earning 3.15 marks per hour at a Nitro chemical plant. They rent for 12.5 marks monthly with meals, work 42 percent weeks, and report friendly locals, scenic views, and language barriers while touring Munich and Erding.
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Tommy Glenn Sims
Germany
Baylor
Sims
Aschau
Kraiburg
Austria
Munnich
Switzerland
Hitler
Erding
N.E
Munich
West Germany
Pechl
McGregor
Waco
New Lake Talked At Meeting Thurs
At city hall last Thursday night officials and directors of the Kickapoo Water Control and Improvement District and Farmers Home Administration discussed building a lake between Bronte and the Colorado River. FHA officials offered to help secure financing while city and WCID officials await FHA’s report on feasibility and best approach. May or Royce Lee and WCID Chairman D. K. Glenn led the discussion with other citizens present.
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Bronte
Colorado River
Kickapoo Water Control and Improvement District
Farmers Home Administration
FHA
City
WCID
Royce Lee
D. K. Glenn
Mayor Lee to Address Lions on WTCC Program
Bronte Mayor Royce Lee, director of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce, will speak Thursday at noon to the Bronte Lions Club about WTCC’s Growth Potential for West Texas. He aims for a full house to preview the chamber’s program of work after the luncheon. The mayor recently presented the program to the Robert Lee Board of Community Development.
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Royce Lee
Bronte Lions Club
Lee
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Bronte
WTCC
West Texas
Robert Lee
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Frankie Percifull
1St Baptist Church
Glenn Sims
New Lake
Mayor Lee
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