Clifton Teens Set To Start Texas Teen-Age League Play
More than 100 Clifton boys form eight local teams preparing for the summer Texas Teen-Age Baseball league. Freshmen and peewees begin Friday night with peewees at 6 pm and freshmen at 8 pm, juniors start Monday. Opening night features Clifton Black Sox vs Green Sox and Red Sox at Crawfills Gap with Valley Mills hosting Turnersville.
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Texas
Clifton Boys
Peewees
Clifton Black Sox
Clifton Green Sox
Clifton Red Sox
Crawfills Gap
Valley Mills
Turnersville
Gap
Clifton
W. D. Huffman
E. E. Harvey
Doyle Hulme
Calvert Helms
Bob Jenkins
Bill Carpenter
von Gilmore
Tobe Nichols
Tommy Golden
J. R. Cowan
Sherrill Anderson
Truman Pederson
The
Oren J
Tookie) Canuteson
Clifton Greens
Melvin Kleine
Personal notices from Clifton area residents
Mrs H E Prosser of Valley Mills has been treated at Clifton hospital since May 19. Milton Dahl Sr and Mrs Dahl of Star Route 2 Clifton purchased the former Ben Hutcherson place at 402 North Avenue K. Mrs A J Bishop of Morgan underwent surgery at Clifton hospital on May 20 after entering May 19.
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H. E. Prosser
Valley Mills
Clifton Hospital
Milton Dahl Sr
Clifton
Ben Hutcherson
North Avenue
A. J. Bishop
Morgan
Births of Gillaspie and Lund Sons in Clifton and Eastland
Mr and Mrs John Tom Gillaspie of 106 North Avenue F Clifton announce the birth of son Brian Keith born May 19 1962 at the local hospital weighing 5 pounds 2 ounces Paternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Herman Gillaspie and maternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Tommy Mann Jr both of Clifton Great grandparents Mr and Mrs Tommy Mann Sr and Mrs A L Short of Clifton and Mrs Tom Gillaspie of Meridian Dr. Eastland couple Mr and Mrs Fehrman H Lund announce son Brian Lawrence born Friday May 18 at Eastland Hospital weighing 9 pounds 7 ounces He has brothers Stephen Craig and sister Paula Grandparents Mr and Mrs L M Lund and Mrs Ernest Landgraf of Clifton
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John Tom Gillaspie
North Avenue F
Clifton
Brian Keith
Herman Gillaspie
Tommy Mann Jr
Tommy Mann Sr
A. L. Short
Tom Gillaspie
Meridian
Fehrman H. Lund
Eastland
Brian Lawrence
Eastland Hospital
Stephen
Craig
Paula
L. M. Lund
Ernest Landgraf
Death of Pete Hoff in Clifton at age 83
Pete T Hoff died at his Clifton home on May 22 after extended illness. Born November 18, 1878 in Boggy, he lived on the Hoff farm before retiring to 302 North Avenue I. Surviving are sister Mollie Nelson and nephew Melvin Nelson. funeral May 23 at Clifton Funeral Home Chapel with interment at Our Savior's Church Cemetery Norse.
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Bosque County
Peter T
Pete) Hoff
North Avenue I
Jim Hoff
Martha Olson Hoff
Peter Thomas Hoff
Clifton
Hoff
Raymond H. Rogstad
Mollie
Melvin James Nelson
Jacksonville
Florida
Betty Hoff
Clifton Funeral Home
Stanley B. Knudsen
Trinity Lutheran Church
Oliver Christenson
John Lund
R. T. Fort
O. G. (Cotton) Olson
Oliver Reesing
Simon Bekkeland
Our Savior’s Church
Norse
Memorial Day Observances Planned in Clifton
Memorial Day services are set for Wednesday in Clifton with a 8:30 a.m. ceremony at Clifton Cemetery. The event is hosted by VFW Post No 8553 and American Legion Post No 322, featuring a brief message by Rev. S B Knudsen and a salute by a VFW squad. Taps will be sounded by Herman Landuu Jr. Flags will be placed on about 360 veterans’ graves across county cemeteries South of Highway 22 by Clifton groups and North of Highway 22 by Meridian VFW and Walnut Springs Legion Posts. Jodie Amundson of Clifton handles grave marking inquiries.
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Clifton Cemetery
Robert E. Binford Veterans of Foreign Wars
Selmer Erickson American Legion
Clifton
S. B. Knudsen
VFW
Herman Landuu Jr
Bosque County
Clifton Vfw
Legion Posts
Highway 22
Meridian Vfw
Walnut Springs
Jodie Amundson
Five Bosque 4-H Youth Get Gifts
Sears Roebuck Foundation Swine program gifts awarded to Bosque County 4-H Club members on May 19. Recipients include Martha Dorman China Spring Glenn Hanson Bennie Hanson Brooks Symank Louis Thiele and Tom Greenwade. Boar pigs also awarded with plans to show in county and Waco area fairs.
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Sears-Roebuck Foundation
Bosque County
Martha Dorman
China Spring
Valley Mills
Glenn Hanson
Cranfills Gap
Bennie Hanson
Waco
Farrow
Bill Burgan
Morgan
Fred Johnson
Clifton
Melvin Prescher
Steve Russell
Crawfills Gap
Jimmy Sears
Mosheim
Gary Symank
Vernon Worley Jr
Meridian
Derril Wenzel
Hans Kalschever Retires at Texas Milling Clifton
Hans Kalschever retires as manager of the Texas Milling Company in Clifton due to ill health and recovery. Jim Smith, long time accountant at the mill, is named acting manager during Kalschever's convalescence at home after recent major surgery.
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Hans Kalscheuer
Texas Milling Company
Clifton
Kalscheuer
Jim Smith
Bosque County Housing Units Selon 1960 Census
The 1960 census reports Bosque County has 4 847 housing units with 3 841 occupied and 2 776 owner occupied. Sounds conditions include 3 086 with plumbing and average unit value of 5 300 dollars. Renters total 1 065 paying 41 dollars monthly. 3 674 have running water. 4 062 flush toilets. 4 052 baths. 60 basements, 21 trailers. Appliances include 1 338 air conditioned, 3 051 TV, 3 168 radios, 2 500 telephones. Among occupied homes 2 695 have washing machines and 379 have freezers. 2 496 are one car families and 810 have two cars. Burial note: Mrs Henry Krollage underwent surgery at Clifton hospital on May 23.
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Bosque County
United States Department of Commerce
Texas
Bureau of the Census
Superintendent of Documents
Government Printing Office
Washington
D. C
Clifton Band Parents Name E B Harris New President
At the Clifton Band Parents Association meeting May 21 E B Harris was named president with Jerry Godby as vice president and Mrs W T Holder as secretary treasurer Retiring officers are T J Wiggins and Mrs J C Kincheloe The group discussed band caps deliveries and summer uniform care plans for fundraising and the annual banquet planning
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Clifton Band Parents’ Association
E. B. Harris
Jerry Godby
W. T. Holder
T. J. Wiggins
J. C. Kincheloe
Clifton High School
Lavender
Waco
Wiggins
Brown
Miss Julia Olson Dies at Clifton Sunset Home
Miss Julia E Olson a Clifton resident for 96 years died Friday May 18 at Memorial Hall Clifton Lutheran Sunset Home. Born February 22 1866 in Norse community she was a milliner in Waco and lived with sister in Clifton. Funeral 3 pm May 20 Clifton Funeral Home Chapel with interment in Clifton Cemetery.
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Clifton
Julia E. Olson
Memorial Hall
Clifton Lutheran Sunset Home
Miss Olson
Sunset Home
Clifton Hall
Ole Olson
Antonette Johnson Olson
Norway
Our Savior’s Lutheran Church
Norse
J. K. Rystad
Waco
John A. Olson
Julia
Clifton Lutheran Sunset
South Avenue E
First Presbyterian Church
Olaf Westgaard
Beatrice
Rufus S. Clement
Elnora
Temple
O. M. Olson
Martin G. Olson
G. Shefstead
Matilda
C. Canuteson
Josephine
Melissa
Clifton Funeral Home
Walter T. Gigstad
Harold Clement
Dallas
J. B. Darden Jr
Jake Seljos
Raymond H. Rogstad
W. A. Wegner
Hans B. Dahl
Clifton Cemetery
Local Residents Share News From City and Beyond
Mrs. Anna Mueller has been in the local hospital since May 21 awaiting improvement. Miss Beatrice Finstad of Route 2 Burleson renews her Clifton Record and gifts Mrs P. O. Olson a belated birthday subscription. Alvin L Bronstad and wife visited their son Charles in Port Neches and watched a Houston Colts vs San Francisco Giants game in South Texas. Don Ashcraft family from Fort Worth spent the weekend with relatives here. grandchildren Mark and Steve Ashcraft joined their parents on the trip home.
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Anna Mueller
Mueller
Beatrice Finstad
Route 2
Burleson
P. O. Olson
Hendricks
Minnesota
Alvin L Bronstad
Charles Bronstad
Port Neches
South Texas
Bronstad
Houston Colts
San Francisco Giants
Don Ashcraft
Kay
Gene Ashcraft
Kim
Christi
Fort Worth
Messrs
Ashccraft
P. L. Ashcraft
Alton C. Heier
Mr. Heier
Mark
Steve Ashcraft
Don Ashcrafts
Clifton High School 1962 Graduation Schedule and Class List
Forty four seniors including Gene Albrecht and Maurine Ulland will receive diplomas at Clifton High School on May 29 in Bettis Auditorium with baccalaureate on May 27. Dr. Thomas B. Abbott of Baylor University will deliver the commencement address titled Is There a Tomorrow.
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Clifton High School
Bettis
Gene Albrecht
Chuck Blewett
Albert Casey
James Davidson
Moody Lee Fredenburg
Jerry Howard
Jerry A. Huse
Rudy Wayne Johnson
Charles Larson
George Larson
Ernest E. Love
Paul Mangum
Clarence William Mueller
Axel F. Olsen Jr
Carol Don Olson
Alton Glenn Reesing
Woodrow Wayne Schneider
Dale Sinclair
Alvin W. Spitzer Jr
Raimund Stacha
J. W. Thiele
Edward L. Turner
Thomas Clyde Turner
Marvin Wiede
Lloyd H. Weideraenders
Raymond C. Zuehlke
Betty Bonds
Nellie Jean Carr
Georgeanne Calvert
Diana Dunn
Brenda Ann Eggen
Connie Jo Ferson
Mary Nell Hoel
Zeda Anne Jameson
Fay McFadden
Mary Beth Potter Nieman
Elaine Brooks Patterson
Carol Ann Bronstad Pitts
Karen Sue Schramm
Darlene Shipp
Miriam Thompson
Maurine Alland
Vicki Vickrey
Diane Kay Webb
J. E. Morton
First Methodist Church
Clifton
Stanley B. Knudsen
Trinity Lutheran Church
Thomas B. Abbott
Baylor University
Waco
Abbott
Pennsylvania
Muskingum College
New Concord
Ohio
John Glenn
Western Reserve University
Cleveland
University of Florida
Gainesville
Florida
Minnesota
California
M. D. Woodruff
First Baptist Church
Lord
Erhardt
God Bless
Our Land
Konitz
Brenda Eggen
Maurine Ulland
Dr. Abbott
Williams
Lion O. E. Pierson
Walter C. Hansen
S. L. Witcher
Clifton Independent School District
Kent Appleby
Woodruff
Clifton PTA Holds Final 1961 62 Meeting in Bettis Auditorium
The Clifton PTA wrapped up the school year with a 3 PM May 16 session led by president Mrs T J White in Bettis Auditorium. Officers for the coming year were announced, a curtain fund of 865 was set aside, and band performances by the Clifton High School ensemble were featured. Miss Anna Hanson of the Clifton Lutheran Sunset Home was hospitalized May 22 for ongoing medical care.
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Clifton Parent-Teacher Association
Bettis
T. J
Dick) White
Walter C. Hansen
Bill Brown
Clifton High School
Stephen Rester
Charles Rummel
Bettis Auditorium
White
T. H. Ralph
Arthur Willmann
Calvert G. Helms
Gerald Rice
Lillian Gandy
Edward Brown
J. W. Shipp
Anna Hanson
Clifton Lutheran Sunset Home
New District Formed For Sheep and Goat Raisers
More than 200 wool and mohair growers met in Gatesville to organize a new district of the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association. The district includes Bell Bosque Comanche Coryell Hamilton and McLennan counties. New directors Walton Greenwade Tom Redford and C B Hodge were elected to join Bob Melbern and Gail Dudley on the board with Melbern as chairman of the district.
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Gatesville
Texas Sheep & Goat Raisers’ Association
Bell
Bosque
Comanche
Coryell
Hamilton
McLennan
Walton Greenwade
Meridian
Tom Redford
C. B. Hodge
Salado
Bob Melbern
Gail Dudley
Melbern
Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers’ Association
Texas
Superintendents Named for 1962 Central Texas Fair Shows
Central Texas Fair officials announced the 1962 junior livestock and home economics show superintendents to run September 20 to 22 in Clifton. Elbert H. Hough Jr. will head the junior livestock with department chiefs including Gerald Peacock and Ralph Bradley among others. Mrs. Raymond Lammert is general superintendent of the home economics show with department heads such as Mrs. Carroll Knudson and Mrs. J B Darden Sr. Also notes ads seek catalog advertising since the Polled Hereford Association skips the fair this year.
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Central Texas
Clifton
Elbert H. Hough Jr
McGregor
Gerald Peacock
Ralph Bradley
Jack Donaldson
Lester Smith
George Mingus
Herbert Ender
S. W. Steakley
Hubert Viertel
Walton Greenwade
Charles Reeves
Raymond Lammert
Carroll Knudson
J. B. Darden Sr
Jack McMillan
al Hanson
Walter Prescher
E. J. Sonntag
W. B. Zander
Moran Warren
Leonard George
Hayden Watson
Sunset Home Plans 16 by 36 Addition and New Facilities
Superintendent Odie Pederson states Clifton Lutheran Sunset Home is adding a 16 by 36 foot building adjoining Luther Hall. The addition includes a 6 foot sidewalk under shed roof and will house a commercial laundry, a fully equipped beauty shop, and an extra tub bath and lift. Residents’ laundry will be processed in the new facility and local beauty operators will service residents on designated days within the Sunset Home.
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Odie C. Pederson
Record Office
Clifton Lutheran Sunset Home
Luther Hall
Pederson
Barracks and Auxiliary to Meet May 29 in Armory
Clifton World War I Barracks and Auxiliary 1887 plan a 7:30 PM session at the National Guard Armory City Park on Tuesday May 29. A covered dish supper will precede the business meeting. Hosts include Mr and Mrs Robert Lee Mrs Willie Hatfield Mrs Nina Dutton of Hamilton and Mr and Mrs Ernest Giese of Clifton.
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Clifton
National Guard
Sisters of Barracks 1887
Robert Lee
Willie Hatfield
Nina Dutton
Hamilton
Ernest Giese
Paper Renewed For Tulia Daughter By Reesing
M H Reesing visited the Record office Monday afternoon to renew the paper for the coming year in the name of his daughter Mrs Ed Brasher of Tulia.
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M. H. Reesing
Ed Brasher
Tulia
Clifton Cattle Auction Prices Reported Thursday Morning
Prices quoted for eggs grain and cattle from Clifton buyers show a steady market on Wednesday's Clifton auction. Cattle offerings totaled about 700 head with steers yearlings and calves selling from 14 to 32 dollars for cows and calves up to 210 dollars. hog tops reached 15.50 dollars.
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Clifton
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Bosque River
Old Mill Dam
Clifton Blacks
Maxie Wallace
Clifton Reds
Robert Smith
T. Gustafson
H. W. Johnson
Ian
Pete Hoff
Armed Services
United States
Hans Kalschever
Mr. Smith
Henry Krollage
Olson
Lindsay Evans
Longview
Virgie Mitchell
Rowe Sams
A B. Wilie
W. H. Beazley
Ross Sams Sr
Dick Holt
M. G. Olson
P. K. Jeanes
Alice Jenson
Allen Amundson
Burgess Pool
Bellaire
Houston
Douglas Hill
Cisco
Andrew J Kaulbach
Beaumont
Rufus S Clement
Joseph S. Clement
Lawson Bomar
Garland
Reverend Knudsen
God
Vihtor
Hine
Mrs. O. R. Jenson
Carol Ann Dennis
Reverend Morton
Nancy Swenson
Susan Witcher
Kay Schramm
Knudsen
PTA
Goat Assass
Auxiliary
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