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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1968
Page
7
The city constructs a $10.5 million civic center complex on HemisFair site including a 3,000 seat banquet hall and 2,800 seat theater. A $10 million Institute of Texan Cultures will showcase the 26 ethnic groups in Texas history.
Laguna Park and Lake Area News covers social events as Mrs. Harrett Apple hosts family from Dallas and guests, Violet Jobe and Charlotte Moore visit Sportsman's Lodge for a weekend of fishing. Local anglers like Arnold Braune, Simon Beam, Jack Ryan, Bob Hammock report catching sandies and crappie with slabs or minnows. A Meridian couple, Sandra and William Shields Jr., announce their marriage and future plans near Lake Whitney.
Directors of the First National Bank of Valley Mills announced that John P. Gilliam bought major stock from Mrs. Roy Pool and was named bank president after the death of Roy S. Pool. Gilliam, 30, of Clifton, comes from Waco banks and plans to move to Valley Mills with his wife.
Mr and Mrs Fred Boyd Sr travel by Piper Tripacer to Minneapolis with delays in Excelsior Springs and Eldora as weather shifts. Fred Jr pursuing flying lessons and will reunite with Willie in Minneapolis. Willie joins Air National Guard soon. Mrs W M McGrady at Twin Oaks Rest Home after Scott & White Hospital care. Roy Wallace returns to Boat Dock Road. George A Hight released from Goodall-Witcher Hospital. Mrs Joe B Jones recovering from broken leg at Goodall-Witcher. Edward L Martin in Veterans Hospital Marlin improving. Blue Bennett Art Craft Club party with games, auction, and hand embroidered pillow cases. many attendees listed. Gloria Gambrell visits from Mesquite. W C Chapman back in Whitney Hospital. Regina Slaughter home after long Whitney stay. hospital visits by friends at Marlin. Blue Bonnet Club meets March 8. Ross Green celebrates 71st birthday.
Capt. and Mrs. Aars of Berlin Germany were honored guests at a March 3 coffee hosted by Mr. and Mrs. C Pernell Aars and Charley. The event featured a white cloth refreshment table with daffodils, cookies, and salted nuts. The couple, visiting from Germany since 1964, plan to return March 17 to duties in Berlin where Capt. Aars commands the television station.
The Robert E. Binford Post 8553 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States holds meetings on the first and third Thursdays each month in Clifton, Texas, along Riverside Drive.
Mrs. O. M. Bronstad returned home by plane on March 2 after spending weeks visiting relatives in California. She attended the February 10 wedding of her grandson Hugh Thomas Bronstad and visited her son Rev. Hugh Bronstad and wife, then spent two weeks with another son Oliver Bronstad and family at Fresno.
The Confluence Theater at the HemisFair'68 federal pavilion will introduce separating walls and screens that expand over time until a single panoramic screen fills the viewer's field of vision.
An advertisement notes scratching pads priced at 30 cents per pound at the Clifton Record office. It appears as a brief classified style line promoting the low price for office supplies.
The Inland Fisheries Division of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department monitors 80 000 miles of streams and rivers 266 square miles of farm ponds and 1 201 594 surface acres of major public reservoirs in the state. For sale Paperback Texas Almanacs 1 75 each Clifton Record 3 1dh Swingline Tot 50 StaplerPaks including stapler and staples for 98c at the Clifton Record.
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