4-H Club Week Designated in Texas by Governor
Gov Price Daniel proclaims March 3 to 10, 1962 as 4-H Club Week in Texas highlighting 4-H aims of head heart hands and health. The program promotes citizenship leadership and practical skills through county extension agents and volunteer adult leaders across Texas with participation open to youths aged nine to twenty one.
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Texas
Price Daniel
America
United States
The
Agricultural Extension Service of
A&m College of Texas
Coke County Food Show Set for Saturday
The Coke County Favorite Food Show will be held Saturday March 10 with judging at 1 30 p m in the Methodist Church Bronte. Unit I Foods entrants include Nancy Richards Bennie Oglesby Janet Lee and others. Leaders are Mmes Joe Rawlings Joe McCutchen Ralph Walker and Bobby Roberts. Public invited 2 30 to 3 30 p m with coffee served. County winners may compete in the District Contest on June 29.
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Bronte
Mmes
Joe Rawlings
Joe McCutchen
Ralph Walker
Bobby Roberts
Nancy Richards
Bennie Oglesby
Janet Lee
Jeanne Vinson
Sharon McCutchen
Patty Lou Rawlings
Paula Parker
Janet Thomas
Karen Lee
Linda Carlton
Sharon Walker
Elaine Fikes
Robbie Smith
Nancy Trimble
Kathy Brown
Bronte Considers New City Hall Plan
Town officials discuss a proposed city hall with the county in attendance. Plans are incomplete and no definite outcome exists yet, though a county lease could fund ongoing payments. Continued on back page.
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Bronte
Contested School and City Elections In Bronte
Three candidates vie for three BSD trustee seats on April 7 as A E Bell Jr joins incumbents Harlin Lee and Edward Cumbie. Two polling sites Bronte City Hall and Tennyson with judges D K Glenn and Mrs Tom Green. City council contest lists five candidates plus Billy Joe Luckett Cecil Kemp James O Pitts Matthew Caperton Clark Glenn. Mayor J A Stephenson seeks re election with three council seats to be decided April 3 at Bronte City Hall Noah Pruitt Sr as election judge.
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A. E. Bell, Jr
Harlin Lee
Edward Cumbie
Bronte
Tennyson
D. K. Glenn
Tom Green
Enterprise
Billy Joe Luckett
Cecil Kemp
James O. Pitts
Matthew Caperton
Clark Glenn
J. A. Stephenson
Noah Pruitt Sr
Longhorn Track Team Heads to Winters Meet
Coach Ob Howard will take his Longhorn track team to Winters Saturday for a track meet. The Bronte squad competed at Mason last weekend with Barry Curlees winning the yard dash and Charles Kee taking fourth in the pole vault.
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Ob Howard
Longhorn
Mason
Bronte
Barry Curlee
Charles Kee
Lane
Longhorn Band Competes At Sweetwater Festival
Bronte wins parade trophy and Loraine takes Class B concert and sight reading as Longhorn Band performs at Sweetwater Band Festival on Saturday with judges James Neilson Pat Arsers Major Samuel Kurtz and Irving Drierbodt. They plan a San Angelo parade for the Fat Stock Show and Rodeo.
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Bronte Longhorn
Bronte
Loraine
James Neilson
Bahoma City University
Pat Arsers
Alamo Heights
San Antonio
Samuel Kurtz
Lackland Air Force Base
Irving Drierbodt
Southern Methodist University
Longhorn Band
Bobby Bingham
Bronte Band Prepares For Sweetwater Festival
Bronte band members rehearse for the Sweetwater Band Festival competition. The group tunes chords and routines as they aim for a strong performance at the event.
Last Rites Held Here Monday for Miss Mobley
Funeral services for Miss Nan nie Mobley 80 were held at 3 60 p m Monday at Kickapoo Baptist Church. A Bronte resident since 1902 she died Sunday morning in Bronte Hospital. Interment was in Fairview Cemetery under direction of Clwt Funeral Home. She was born May 2 1881 in Wilson County. Pallbearers were C E McGuire Oliver Hlageman Leelie Lammers Francis Seltz Loyd McCleskey Ermin Hall. Survivors include three sisters Mrs Mattie Hicks Mrs Carrie Coppedge and Mrs Miranda Luttrell all of Bronte Rotan and Robert Lee San Angelo screened.
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Nannie Mobley
Kickapoo Baptist Church
Bronte
Miss Mobley
Bronte Hospital
Fairview Cemetery
Clwt
Wilson County
C. E. McGuire
Oliver Hlageman
Leelie Lammers
Francis Seltz
Robert Lee
Loyd McCleskey
Ermin Hall
San Angelo
Mattie. Hicks
Rotan
Carrie Coppedge
Miranda Luttrell
Brente
Rites Held Here For Ed Stevens Former Resident
Funeral services for Ed Stevens 73 were held at Kickapoo Baptist Church with Rev Ted Bigham and Rev R W Blackmon officiating. Burial followed in Fairview Cemetery. survivors include wife Dana Langford, son Douglas of Wingate, daughter Ruth Olsen of Odessa, brother Grover Stevens, five grandchildren. He died of a heart attack at his Wingate home.
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Ed Stevens
Kickapoo Baptist Church
Ted Bigham
Shep
R. W. Blackmon
Fairview Cemetery
Clut Funeral Home
Joe Ed Scott
E. L. Caperton
Garland Spencey
O. R. McQueen
Bronte
Carlos Walker
Grant Lingley
Wingate
Stevens
DeWitt County
James Stevens
Dana Langford
Sweetwater
The
Baptist Church
Douglas Stevens
Ruth Olsen
Odessa
Grover Stevens
Colorado City
Hollis
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Coke County
Truman Parker
J. W. ‘By " Obertes
Weirdon
Fikes
Robert Vaughan
Seter
the Bronte
Kemp and
Caperton
Luckett
Glenor
Pitts
Jack White
Bill Sharp
Sweetwater Reporter
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