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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1963
Page
2
Dun & Bradstreet counts 217 business firms in Bosque County based on the January 1963 reference book. Dallas regional manager J W Hight notes nationwide requests for financial statements go to about three million firms including small corner grocers.
The Dun and Bradstreet Reference Book lists manufacturers wholesalers and retailers seeking or granting commercial credit but omits some service and professional businesses such as beauty and barber shops security dealers and real estate brokers. It notes that the total US business base is higher than three million and explains how mailing financial statements aids credit evaluations by suppliers and insurers. Credit reports include business history description financials and payment records.
Sunday School and worship services listed for multiple Clifton churches including First Baptist Fifth Street, W5th Street, Church of Christ Womack, Missouri Synod, Laguna Park Baptist, First Presbyterian, Assembly of God, United Pentecostal, Catholic Mission of the Holy Angels, and Trinity Lutheran. Weekly times cover Sunday through midweek services, youth programs, training unions, and choir rehearsals with clerical notes. Several events note January dates and congregational meetings.
Bob McLean of the Waco Social Security Office advises planning ahead to avoid delays in first checks. He urges contacting the office three months before retirement, bringing proof of age and required documents, and noting you can receive benefits while still working. He also suggests calling ahead to confirm needed items and timing.
Clifton residents report Mrs. Dunlop has been ill for months and is now a patient at Winkler County Hospital in Kermit while her husband Calvin Dunlop once managed the Community Public Service Company in Clifton. Also visiting were Mr and Mrs Henry Wegner and relatives from Waco including Calvin Finstad and his sons Richard and David.
A local salon advertises a January promotion offering permanents for 5.00 and a discount on all other permanents during the month.
Large numbers of farmers and ranchers are planting or reseeding land to native grasses with quality seed and proper equipment. Techniques include thin stand seeding of small grain as a nurse crop and grass plantings after brush control, with emphasis on timely rain and firm seedbeds.
The Karem Shrine Temple in Waco awarded Felix T Shaffer a life membership at a December ceremony with about 300 Shriners present. Shaffer, a Meridian resident for 50 years, led lodge activities in Meridian and Hico, ran a chain of stores in Hamilton and Bosque Counties, served as Meridian postmaster in the 1940s, now retired and raising Shorthorn cattle near Meridian with his wife at 503 North Main Street.
Mr and Mrs Allen Grimland and son Larry left December 20 for Nashville to spend seven days with Mrs Grimland's relatives. Christmas visitors include Mr and Mrs Frank Huffman hosting Jack Crowder and sons from San Antonio, Darrell York and children from Waco, and Mr and Mrs W P D Huffman and family. Wayne.
Robert FE Binford Post 8453 in Clifton Texas holds meetings on the Riverside Drive on the first and third Thursday of each month.
Mr. Huffman spent December 19 to 23 in the city hospital for medical care. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Thompson left for Denver to attend the National Turkey Federation convention. Christmas visitors include Velma W. Golden and son D. A. Golden, Inez Cottle and daughters Linda and Donna, Joe Height from Amarillo, and LaVerne Milliorn and children Beverly, Barbara, Pryan, and Tommie Haynes from Buchanan Dam.
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