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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1966
Page
2
Members of the Clifton Barracks and Auxiliary 1887 Veterans of World War I gathered Tuesday night January 4 at City Hall dining room for a covered dish supper. Mrs. Ernest Giese led the Ladies Auxiliary in prayer in the absence of the president.
Dr Harold Bennet director of the Missions Division of the Texas Baptist General Convention invites Reverend Clay L Burns pastor of the First Baptist Church in Clifton to attend the Nationwide Rural Church Conference at Pass Christian Mississippi March 22 24. The conference sponsored by the Home Mission Board of The Southern Baptist Convention will be at the Gulf shore Baptist Assembly near Pass Christian. Sessions will address problems and challenges facing rural American churches. Texas convention and Home Mission Board will share invited attendees expenses.
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Watson and sons Clyde Clay and Barry of Port Lavaca visited Mrs. Watson's parents Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Turner and sisters in Clifton on January 2. Tommy Turner returned home with his sister to recuperate from burns suffered while working on a roof. Additional visitors included Mrs. Ollie Mae Gray and Mrs. Gus Kleibrink of South Bosque and Mrs. Lloyd L. Turner and son of Dallas.
Mr and Mrs W R Smith and their children W Ross Jr Dana Daphne and Darla spent Christmas with Mrs Smiths mother Mrs B C Rogstad Sr Route 2 Meridian. Mrs Smith is the former Miss Neldine Rogstad. The Smiths are on a month long vacation after a year in South America and have lived in Trinidad Florida and George West. They plan to move to Pittsburg Pennsylvania. They lived in Port Lavaca 13 years before moving abroad. They say they had a wonderful year there and Mr Smith a mechanical engineer helped start a new aluminum company in South America.
Lynne Enochs and Bettye Brown traveled by bus to Granbury to visit Lynne's grandmother Mrs. W. C. Stokes from Friday afternoon to Sunday. They stayed with family and returned home after the weekend trip.
Central Texas pilots host the eighth annual March of Dimes Airlift in Waco with 26 pilots and 18 planes. Flights cost one penny per pound, run from 9:00 AM until last rider is served, and fuel is donated by Mobil. If weather delays, the event shifts to January 30.
Henrick C. Dahl of 515 North Alpine Drive Beverly Hills California renewed the Clifton Record for another year. Dahl a former Cliftonite and donor of the Deh Trophy to the Clifton Golf Club praised the paper for its coverage of relatives and friends from his old hometown.
Bruce P. Huff, son of Mrs. Charles A. Sowell of Walles Millis, has been promoted to technical sergeant in the United States Air Force. He serves as an aircraft maintenance technician at Barksdale Air Force Base near Shreveport, Louisiana, with the Strategic Air Command. Huff attended Waco High School. his wife Jackie is the daughter of Jack P. A. Crook of Waco and Mrs. William B. Spencer of Bellmead.
R. L. Lane and J. L. Hutcheson spent from Friday of last week until Sunday near Walsenburg on a business trip.
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