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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1973
Page
1
The second annual Clifton Junior Rodeo opens Thursday at 8 p.m. in the local riding club arena with performances also scheduled Friday and Saturday nights at the same time. Entry blanks for the horse show are filled on show day, leaving final entry numbers uncertain until Wednesday’s deadline.
Top awards for the 1972 73 school year were announced at final commencement exercises on May 23 and a later assembly on May 24. Diplomas were awarded to 47 members of the Class of 1973 by Superintendent Kent Appleby and Dr W F Key with Charles Fehl er. Janie Conrad was valedictorian and received a University of Texas at Austin scholarship. Diane Bernhardt won a music scholarship to Hill Jr College. The local Veterans of Foreign Wars Post presented additional scholarships.
More than 40 contestants entered the 21st Lake Whitney Beauty Pageant set for June 24 25 at Yogi Bear's Jellystone Campground Juniper Cove. The Lake Whitney Association reports daily applications and a record sponsor count may be broken.
Clifton reports 18.15 inches of rainfall for 1973 through May 31, with May 2.10 inches, January 4.90 inches, February 1.90, March 3.10 and April 6.15 inches. Data compiled by J B Darden Jr for the National Weather Service. He phones any half inch or more to Waco.
Chief Waller reports three separate crashes in Clifton over the past week. Robert Odell Toten received a fractured left leg with contusions after a motorcycle hit a car driven by Mrs. Bruce Parks on North Highway 6. Toten was taken to Goodall-Witcher Foundation Hospital. Two others, John Camperman and Carol Menking, were treated and released after a two car crash at South Ave P and 9th St involving Wayne Menking and Charles Hinson. No one was hurt in a motorcycle truck collision at Ave F and 7th St.
The City Council will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, June 11, in City Hall. The Bosque County Commissioners will meet as a Board of Equalization from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday, June 11, in the County Courthouse in Meridian. The Clifton Independent School District Board of Trustees will meet tonight, June 7, in the office of Superintendent Kent Appleby at Clifton High School.
Bosque County Commissioners schedule three June meetings on the 11th 18th and 29th in Meridian. Topics include Board of Equalization reassessments bids on peat gravel and asphalt and possible federal revenue sharing projects such as a sheriff unit radar air conditioning and a jail courthouse roof.
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