Personal notices from Clifton Record a week delayed
Multiple local family updates. Mrs. Matilda Canuteson sends a yearly Record to her son Will in Waco as a gift. Dr. and Mrs. Joe Little visit Millsap with E L Upshaws. Five year old Janie Conrad underwent tonsillectomy and is recovering well. Ed Kettler’s home hosts A E Carter family of Killeen and Mrs Buck Bronzad and children. Patricia Watson recovered from tonsillectomy. Kathleen Kennedy of Dallas visits Stewart family. Don and Lynda Ashcraft visit with Baylor friends in Waco and Fort Worth. Gene Aars visits Beeman relatives in Fort Worth and Dallas then returns home with grandparents. For sale: manifold duplicate order books at Clifton Record.
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Matilda Canuteson
Will Canuteson
Waco
Joe Little
Larry
Diane
Millsap
Karen Sue
Killeen
Arthur
Buck) Bronstad
Terry
Ronnie
James Edward
Patricia Watson
Orlette Watson
Kathleen Kennedy
Dallas
E. E. Stewart
Don Ashcraft
Donna Kay
Mark
Fort Worth
Lynda Ashcraft
Baylor University
P. L. Ashcraft
Don Ashcrafts
Alton C. Heier
Heier
Chas. Aars
Martin Hoel Sr
Gene Aars
Aars
Claude Beeman
Beeman
Hoel
Beautiful New Country Home of Ira Lambert
The Turner pink stone home sits about three miles west of Clifton on Farm to Market Highway 215. Completed in 1959, it features year round air conditioning, two bedrooms, two baths, a den, living room, modern kitchen and dinette, rear sliding doors to an oak grove, and a double garage. Materials were from Wm Cameron and Co., with Lewis Bell as head carpenter and Frank Turner laying the stone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ira Lambert
Lamberts
Clifton
Poage urges larger flood prevention funding in 1961
In a March 18 1960 letter Congressman W R Poage argues the Small Watershed Flood Prevention Program is vital and criticizes proposed fiscal year 1961 funding of 30 million. He notes prior Texas projects like Cow Bayou and Lower Brushy, the role of the Soil Conservation Service, and calls for increased appropriations to avoid a standstill. He plans to press the Appropriations Subcommittee for higher funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soil Conservation Service
Department of Agriculture
Texas
Cow Bayou
Lower Brushy
United States
Temple
Appropriations Committee
Meeks Dies in Fort Worth at 54 Following Heart Surgery
J T Meeks aged 54 of Fort Worth died in a Fort Worth hospital around 4:00 a m Saturday March 12 after heart surgery two days earlier. He leaves a wife, one son in Guymon Oklahoma, two daughters in Fort Worth, his mother, two brothers, two sisters and five grandchildren. Funeral services were held March 14 at White Settlement Church of Christ with interment in a Fort Worth cemetery. Attending from Clifton included W B Meeks and other relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. T. Meeks
Fort Worth
W. B. Meeks
Clifton
Meeks
Alfred Meeks
Guymon
Oklahoma
Jimmy Alfred
Myrtis Marie
G. B. Meeks
Beauford Meeks
Dallas
R. O. Bankhead
Valley Mills
Clarence Humphries
White Settlement Church of Christ In
Bobby C. Jackson
Mary
Howard
Don Churchman
Former Bosque County Man J D Hord Dies In Lubbock
J D Hord 82 of Lubbock died Friday March 18 after a car crash near Detroit on a return trip with his wife and son. He was a former Bosque County commissioner reared near Valley Mills and longtime resident of the Coyote area. Funeral services were held in Lubbock March 20 with interment there. Survivors include two brothers Jim Hord of Moshin and Andrew Hord of Valley Mills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bosque County
J. D. Hord
Lubbock
Hord
Valley Mills
Coyote
Clifton
Detroit
Michigan
Mr. Hord
Jim Hord
Mosheim
Andrew Hord
First water conservation stamp issued for watershed work
The 4 cent water conservation postage stamp debuts April 18 in Washington and reaches local post offices April 19. It honors rural and urban watershed groups like Bosque soil conservation district and North Bosque watershed association for tackling water problems from farms to creeks. More than 210 similar projects operate nationwide. Mrs. D. C. Halverson sent the Record to her brother Tom Grimland in Waco for the coming year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
W. C. Hafer
National Watershed Congress
Bosque Soil Conservation District
North Bosque Watershed Association
Mr. Hafer
D. C. Halverson
Tom Grimland
Waco
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W. R. Poage
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E. E. Stewart Motors
Bear Ey
Joe McCune
Joe
Pat
Michael Young
Baytown
M.D. Young
McCune
Youngs
Jerry Mathews
Jim Petzold
Texas Department of Public Safety
Fl Paso
Perry A. Mathews
Tado Petzold
Shurfine
Shurfine Coffee
Oleo
Bama
Apple
Starkist
Green Label Tuna
del Monte Tuna
Philadelphia
PEG
Libby’s
Crear Corn
Libby
Libby's
Vienna
del Monte, Seasoned
Neuhoff
Packad
Cello
Booth
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Jesse Jewel
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