Local Lists Attest Community Leaders and Firms Across Towns
Readable fragments name dozens of residents and businesses from Buckholts Milano Rosebud Rockdale Rogers Burlington Temple Taylor Coleman Wilson Waxahachie with roles noted. The list includes agency members chamber officials and local distributors in a historical urban renewal context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Hubnik
Annie Arisman
Leonard Mraz
Jerry L. Kostrom, Jr
Annie L. Hartley
PFC
Dennis Woodum
Bartow Jackson
John Hubnik
Chamber of Commerce
Bob Terry
Area Roundup Rainfall Credited to Air Force Cloud Seeding
Air Force cloud seeding operations using GEORGETOWN equipped WC130 aircraft released silver iodide flares about 30 miles west of Austin on June 21. The rain spread across this area and most of Central Texas, ranging from a quarter inch to five inches.
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Air Force
Texas
Georgetown
Austin
Remodeling Opens Ros ebud Grade School Into Media Center
Rosebud Intermediate School is undergoing remodeling to convert the fourth through sixth grade building into an open area school. Interior walls will be removed and the space renamed the Media Center for individualized student instruction.
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Rosebud
Well Completion Reported for Southwest Milam Water Corp
Directors of the Southwest Milam Water Corp met Monday and accepted the system's new well as completed. President B. B. Thorndale McAnulty said contracts call for a 430 gallon per minute well, with experimental pumping reaching as high as 700 gallons per minute.
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Southwest Milam Water Corp
Rockdale
B. B
McAnulty
Corporation
McGregor Becomes Regular Stop on Texas Chief Route
Officials say McGregor will host a regular Texas Chief passenger train stop on the Chicago to Houston route starting in July. The Santa Fe service will run two daily trips, one in each direction, serving travelers between major cities.
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Amtract
McGregor
Chicago
Houston
Santa Fe
Overpass Near Hearne Advances to Connect Highways 6 and 79
Construction on the new overpass north of Hearne on Highway 6 progresses with four spans poured. When finished it will link Highway 6 and 79, eliminating railroad grade crossings and reducing congestion at the current junction.
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Hearne
Highway 6
Ambulance Service to Discontinue July First
United Emergency and Rescue Service notified officials it will discontinue July 1. The volunteer unit began in November with 24 volunteers, risking Caldwell’s coverage after June 30.
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United Emergency and Rescue Service
Bulance
Caldwell
Lake tragedy as 18 year old drowns at Somerville
Somerville Lake claimed another life last Monday when Martin Dean Brainard 18 of Houston apparently suffered a cramp and drowned. He and four companions were swimming from Welch Park to an island in the lake.
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Somerville Lake
Martin Dean Brainard
Houston
Somerville
Welch Park
Milano Hires Tom Gola as Coach and Social Studies Teacher
Milano High School hires Tom Gola from Taylor as basketball coach and junior high social studies teacher. Superintendent R L Porter says the board still seeks a high school principal.
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Milano
Tom Gola
Taylor
Milano High
Supt
R. L. Porter
Rockdale honors II Leader Bill Alford for new Little League complex
The Rockdale Reporter credits Bill Alford with leading the drive to complete Rockdale Little League’s four-field complex. The project includes two lighted fields and all four fenced with chain-link. Alford estimates total site investment at least $30,000 in materials equipment and donated labor.
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Rockdale
Bill Alford
Alford
Texas civic group cancels Paris Europe trip for POW relief
Cameron officials confirm the August 1 plan by about 1,000 Texas civic leaders to travel to Paris Stockholm and Moscow to press for better treatment and early release of American POWs in North Vietnam. North Vietnamese officials in Paris would not meet the delegation and the Soviet Union refused a Moscow visit per Ben Barnes.
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Cameron
Texas
Europe
North Vietnam
Ben Barnes
Paris
Milton Schiller
Kathryn Kahler
John Ben Sutter
Susan Rosson
Stockholm
Moscow
Kahler
Sutter
Miss Rosson
Yee High Chapter
National Honor Society
Barnes
Soviet Union
Cameron City Receives $13 965 Tax Refund This Quarter
Cameron city secretary J B Fuller reports the first quarter 1971 one percent city sales tax brought in 13 965 46 dollars, about 1 000 more than the same period in 1970 but below the 15 934 60 dollars recorded in the final quarter of 1970 during the Christmas shopping season.
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Cameron
J. B. Fuller
Creek Project Goes To Senate
The Senate Public Works Committee approved the Pond Creek Watershed Project sending it to the full Senate. The project aims to secure 2.3 million in USDA funds toward a 4.5 million cost, with local funds, and includes 22 flood retarding structures 166825 feet of channel work and 9 grade stabilization structures benefiting about 258 farms in Bell Falls and Milam counties plus 27 upland farmers.
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Senate Public Works Committee
Pond Creek
Senate
John Tower
Texas
Tower
United States Department of Agriculture
Bell, Falls
Milam
Northeast Milam Gains Two Wells
In Milam County two wildcats were scheduled by Lenoir Josey Inc of Houston. No. 1 Ellison on a 100 acre Levi Taylor lease and No. 1 Gerdes on an 866 acre Gilbert Cribbs lease target drilling to 1900 feet near Rosebud. CTCOG receives second year funding of 15866 dollars for Focus on Aging program across six counties.
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Milam County
Lenoir Josey, Inc
Houston
Baileyville
Falls
Robertson County
Levi Taylor Survey
Hog Creek
Houston - Oklahoma Oil Company
Navarro
Josey
Gerdes
Ellison
Gilbert Cribbs
Sanyo Investments
Central Texas
Four Kelley siblings ace degrees in single summer
Harmon W Kelley earns MD from the University of Texas Medical School in May while Danny Roy Kelley finishes a master in music at Peabody. Constance Kelley Ward pursues a master's in music education at Prairie View A&M and David Kelley works toward a BA at Prairie View A&M.
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Harmon Kellys
Cameron
Harmon W. Kelley
University of Texas Medical School
Danny Roy Kelley
Peabody Conservatory
Baltimore
Constance Kelley Ward
Prairie View A&m
David Kelley
Kelleys
Constance
O. J. Thomas
Wayne Kelley
Funkadelics
Yee High School
Kelley Sr
Alcoa
Leland Denson
Harmon
Dr. Thomas
Galveston
el Paso
Danny Boy
Bethel Ame
Kelley
Frances Cox
Prairie View
Peabody
Houston Symphony
David
Texas
O. J Thomas
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F.M.L
Cameron School
Grasshoppers
Danny Robbins
Thorndale
Lake
Rockdale Lands II
P.O.W
H. Ross Perot
Dallas
Hanoi
By Lloyd Albertson
Wildcats
R. W Ellison
G. Gerdes
Houston-Oklahoma Oil Company
Griffin Chapel
Minerva
Dr. E. H. O'Neal
CTCOG
Funding For
Kelley Grauvua'ies
Kelley Ward, David and
Danny
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