The Fort Worth Press Closes After 53 Years
The Fort Worth Press ends May 30 after 53 years of publication under Scripps Howard. The closure cuts 186 jobs and leaves only one other Fort Worth daily and Sunday paper competing in the market.
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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1975
Page
2
The Fort Worth Press ends May 30 after 53 years of publication under Scripps Howard. The closure cuts 186 jobs and leaves only one other Fort Worth daily and Sunday paper competing in the market.
Sam D Logan Jr editor of the Madisonville Meteor reports frequent thefts of single copies from a street stand and notes price rules for coin operated sales. The Clifton Record backs him while praising his paper stand and citing continued losses despite brief improvements.
William B. Bertelsen 70 of Cranfills Gap, a longtime Bosque County leader, dies. Rites at Olaf Lutheran Church Cranfills Gap with pallbearers from Waco Duncanville Plano Dallas and Houston. Survived by wife Etta Mae and children Bellamy Jorgenson and Christabel. six sisters and mother. Bertelsen helped organize the Clifton Rotary Club and held key bank and civic posts. Funeral service featured organist Mrs. William Whitford and hymns From Heaven Above Now Let the Vault of Heaven Resound. His death followed a life of banking public service and community leadership.
Congressman Poage outlines residency and citizenship rules, age limits, fitness tests, and admission steps for Naval, Military, Air Force, Merchant Marine, and Coast Guard academies. He urges early filing by October 1, collects forms, transcripts, photos, and letters, and explains nomination roles and medical and academic screenings.
Dear Mr Jordan the past tax filing period was the busiest ever for the IRS southern Texas district with records set at the Service Center Returns arrived 10 percent faster than last year. We reached 2.6 million returns within a week after the Ming deadline. Clifton Record played a vital role in these successes. District Director Robert M McKeener expresses gratitude to you and your staff at the Austin office.
Frances Rensonover of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service offers concrete steps to prepare freezers for new produce. Unplug and clean, remove food, use towels to absorb water, wash with warm water and baking soda, then repackage with poly its and boxes. She notes inventorying stored items and using plastic freezer bars for even shapes.
A widow and her daughter visit a country cemetery before Father’s Day. They pause at fresh mounds for her late husband Martin and son William Bertelsen, then recall Christmas carols and family donors who helped build the nearby St Olaf church.
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