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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1950
Page
2
Open weekend schedule outlines Clifton High tennis matches against local teams. Wording notes players and officials at Clifton events, with references to equipment and a Fort Worth appearance by spectators.
Multiple community notes describe visits and family events in Clifton and nearby towns. Mentions include Pendleton family in Tula, Hartiog and Jorgerson households in Waco, Marynell Ronasani in Fort Worth, and local sports coverage at Clifton High School. Also notes on renewals, a television meeting in Dallas, and a hospital admission after an accident.
Voters hear notices for candidates including Earnest L. Ficklin for County Commissioner Precinct Vane Picklin for Sheriff Clare Royal and George H. Grimes listed among the announced contenders.
The poll tax collector Omar Rabinson says over 200 tax order blanks are in the mail with January envelopes, delaying final tallies. Extra staff assisted late in the season as payments remained heavy but short of last year’s 4100 total.
Out of town relatives and friends gathered in Clifton for funeral services Thursday for L. M. Kelly who died of a heart attack Tuesday. The notice lists attendees from multiple states and towns, plus local support from Parker Chiropractic Clinics and the National Foundation for the Paralysis Inc. A. Parker of Meridian is cited as organizer.
Miss Fiymor Jarosek led a spring style show with freshman and third year classes displaying dresses of ks and rayons, aprons and cotton garments. Numerous models including Ann Teuth Adana Anna Jo Buckalew Frances Taird Audrey Anvunduon Frances Bam telson Evelyn Gustafson and others participated as Clifton townspeople noted the new paint job at Comer Pharmacy and a memorial for Oscar Carlson of Clifton. Oscar Carlson died January 2 in Deer Lodge Montana while en route home to Texas with his brother. He was a native of Norway born January 20 1881 and had worked at Mater Mining near Gold Creek. survived by a Fort Worth brother and Hagen Garonee, with Clifton’s interior business areas improving.
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