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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1970
Page
6
Highlights from 1969 Clifton area pages note new homes dedication in Turnersville on September 4, enrollments at Clifton Schools at 721, Cent Tex Fair prizes, Cubs football opener, and local civic events. Reports cover crime, honors, and upcoming calendar items with community notices and safety reminders.
The SDEC reports Jefferson County leads registration with 75.9 percent of 90,609. Bexar 62.8 percent. Dallas 70 percent. Harris 69.9 percent. Midland, a key conservative area, shows 73.7 percent. Brazoria 90.2 percent. Operation Everybody offers awards to counties meeting quotas.
Nellie Whatley 86 of Clifton died January 12 at her residence. Funeral services were held January 14 at First United Methodist Church Clifton conducted by Rev Cleon Flanagan. Burial followed in Clifton Cemetery.
Josie M. Hardwick announces she will not be a candidate for re election to the office of District Clerk in the coming primary. Voters in Bosque County are informed of her decision through this notice.
DPS Director Wil son Speir secured 864638 for enlarging the Austin training academy from 181 to 381 students and to create space for the Texas Crime Information Center. The plan includes a computer Teletypes bank linked with DPS offices statewide. The council also weighs a name change to Texas Justice Council. Local projects include a rehabilitation program for El Paso County Jail starting with a cooking and baking school.
Wiley Seward of Clifton is named great grandfather to Dawn Danette Baker born Jan 11 in Bryan Texas to Charles and Virginia Ann Baker. Grandparents are Dan Seward of Waco. The piece notes a December 18 hog cholera quarantine and a campaign to stamp out the disease with state federal indemnities for destroyed animals.
The Texas Animal Health Commission approved the minimum changes required by federal authorities to enforce new brucellosis eradication regulations. Enforcement and printing of the rules likely will occur over the next 60 to 90 days statewide and with federal health authorities.
Billy Jack Wood 16 of O'Donnell Glenn Thurman 18 of Wichita Falls and Jean Ann Block 17 of San Angelo win state 4-H awards to attend the National 4-H Congress in Chicago. Wood plans agriculture career and conservation work. Thurman focuses on soil conservation. Block pursues home economics or nursing.
A series of reader questions addressed by Colonel Morris S Schwartz State Selective Service Director Austin Texas. Topics include how to subscribe to Selective Service News classifications 1 Y and IV F requirements need to carry a registration certificate after discharge and methods to obtain duplicate registration certificate and related duties for those convicted of refusing induction.
A read-on indefinite classification may be appealed as a new classification. If re opened, the same right of appeal applies. A freshman with I-S deferment need not reapply. only one request is required. An I-5 C deferment lasts until the academic year ends or studies cease.
Four Texas youths earned all expense paid trips to the National 4-H Congress in Chicago after meeting 1650 delegates from across the U S and Puerto Rico. Derek Washington Jimmy Bartlett Jerry Bird and Dick Gasaway won for achievements in 4-H projects with sponsorships from Santa Fe Railway Ford Motor Company Fund and the Orange County Agricultural Extension. Washington Bartlett Gasaway and Bird are Houston Mauriceville Orange County residents with diverse 4-H records and future plans in public speaking electronics engineering dairy marketing and beef and rabbit projects.
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