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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1963
Page
4
The Meridian courthouse annual Christmas dinner was held in the Commissioners' Courtroom on Thursday December 12. State Senator J P Ward gave the invocation as guests including Mr and Mrs Marvin Stockard Miss elle Stockard Mrs Jimmie B Gill and Miss Patsy Owen shared food and fellowship during the noon hour.
A long list of guests includes Zander The Rails back, Minnie Brown, Velma Golden, Axel Hanson, A. O. Carr, Charles Buckingham, H. F. Burrow, Bob Rhody and children, Floyd Key and children, Lucille Watson, Earlene Behringer, Sharon Eoff, Elva Seidel, H J Seidel, Curtis Bakke, Bryan Bateman, R W Standefer, Earl Page, T. C. Hovey, Jack Cureton and child, Charles K. Ward, W. B Cotton Doerman, Melvin Saunders, George H. Brook, Harald Morrison, J. P Word and children, D A Golden, Hugh Olson and others.
Rallin J Aars son of Mr and Mrs CC Pernell Aars Route 2 Clifton was selected among 34 Baylor University students to be listed in Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities for 1963-64 He ranks as a senior at Baylor and will receive a plaque at a later awards ceremony and have his name and photo printed in the Who's Who yearbook The selection process depends on school criteria and GPA with a 25 of 40 standing required for initial election
Members of the United Pentecostal Church on North Highway 6 in Clifton completed outside work on a new addition. The project includes a white brick exterior, a foyer, office, two rest rooms, a fellowship hall with kitchen, classrooms, and a long hall connecting spaces. Inside finishing remains. remodeling is done by volunteers led by pastor Reverend Joe Carnley, after work days. Stained glass from the original structure and new aluminum windows were installed, with glass paneled front and fellowship hall doors.
Twenty members of the Bookaneers Library Club gathered at Mr and Mrs O R Jenson in Norse for a Christmas party on December 9. The event featured stories poems carols and festive refreshments with Santa table decor and gift exchanges among Clifton Public Schools students.
Sunset Home staff and guests shared a 7 p m Christmas dinner at Clifton Lutheran Sunset Home. First Methodist Church ladies served the meal. Mrs C Tyssen presented a gift aspirator to aid residents with asthma. Toasts and carols followed with Rev Charles Eidum as toastmaster and other ministers making remarks.
Marine Lance Corporal Leonard M. Turner of Clifton participated in the Big Dipper amphibious exercise off Taiwan with the U S Seventh Fleet. some 3 000 Navy and Marine Corps personnel 20 ships and 100 aircraft conducted coordinated assaults to repel a hypothetical aggressor and return to normal operations after objectives were met.
Miss Mary Ellen Ender, a student at Draughon’s Business College and employee at Sanger Harris in Dallas, spent the weekend near Clifton with her parents Mr and Mrs G A Ender and sisters Neil and Vivian. Mr and Mrs Dale Bean and daughter Denise visited here last weekend with Mr and Mrs Simon Bean.
Bob McLean, field representative of the Waco Social Security Office, will meet residents at Clifton City Hall dining room on Tuesday January 7 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 noon to help with Social Security issues. Bring 1963 W-2 forms and withholding statements from each employer if multiple jobs.
For sale listing from Clifton Record includes post binders ledger sheets and index files in varying sizes 744 by 1034 and 914 and 117 percent.
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