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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1967
Page
2
Congressional leaders urge refunds of federal money to states to fund specified programs under state direction. The idea faces budget deficit uncertainty but is argued as cost effective and closer to the scene, suggesting less federal middlemen and lower taxes.
A column observes that many young people, raised in decades of prosperity since the Thirties, show reduced work urgency and lack of economic anxiety. While not labeling them wholly indolent, the piece warns such complacency may blunt resilience and warns of future reckoning.
Mrs. W. T. Lofland of Austin attended Hillsboro Junior College Homecoming to receive a plaque for her late husband, the first college president inducted into the HJC Hall of Fame. Other ex-students named include Texas Attorney General Crawford C. Martin, Amarillo author Alton Dewlen, AP man Harold Ratliff, and surgeon Dr. Walter Burdette.
Mrs. Orbin Finstad and her daughter Miss Ann Finstad plus Miss Rita Bonds of Clifton and Mrs. Hubert Viertel of Crawfills Gap spent Saturday and Sunday in Houston visiting Mr. and Mrs. Danny Finstad.
Tarleton State College notes 1722 regular registrations up 4 percent from 1657 at this time last year. Erath County residents record the largest off year voter registration since 1951, while Alfred Westerfeld announces Joyce Marie’s marriage to G T Gregory II in Crawford.
Agent Maurice Acers warned that future murder numbers would exceed World War II losses and that most attendees would later work in law enforcement. He cited rising crime, praised Boy Scouts for curbing crime locally, noted a mumps spike with 1750 cases this year, and reported Clifton football mothers hosted a banquet.
Rev Young and son Mark visited the Dormans. Carl Jones and Gary of Dallas joined the Jones celebration of Mr Jone s 86th birthday. Clifton community mourns Bryan Moorman ill in Temple hospital and Frank Neill injured in a fall.
Local advertisement in the Clifton Record invites readers to save money with discounts and specials. Details are unreadable, but the notice aims to attract shoppers and promote value deals.
Receipts for the 1966 Christmas Seal Campaign reached the $1,000 mark, reported by Mrs. William Tergerson, executive director of the Bosque County Tuberculosis Association. Campaign ends February 28. donations accepted at Bosque County TB Association Crawfills Gap Texas 76637. Campaign chairmen are Mrs. Albert Hastings and Mrs. Mil- Reeves.
Ton Dahl Sr of Star Route 2 Clifton notes the association seeks to broaden anti TB efforts and fundraise. After last year’s tuberculin tests in select schools the plan is to test all county students and personnel this year to control respiratory diseases.
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