Pencil Costs and Beards Stir Moon Mission Comment
A Drop of Ink column critiques NASA budgets including a $25 pencil for an astronaut and jokes about shaving in flight. The writer muses on beards as a symbol of exploration and praises Crawford, Texas for its second straight Community Improvement award and its townwide cleanup and business district improvements.
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N. A. Se
Moon
Daniel Boone
Admiral Perry
Crawford
Texas
Clifton
Lions Help to Finance Local Programs in Clifton 1968 69
Clifton Lions Club reports total contributions of 2105.59 for 1968 69 supporting the Texas Lions League for Crippled Children the Caravan for the Blind and local causes such as Boy Scout Troop Little League Clifton High School Band and Goodall Witcher Hospital Foundation Building Fund. Donations include 281.50 to crippled children 227.29 to the blind and 162.50 each to Scouts and Little League along with 202.00 to the Clifton High School Band.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifton
Lions Club
Bill Painter
Lions
Texas Lions League
Bosque County
Soil Conservaton Service
Clifton Lions Club
Cubs Stadium
Clifton High School
Goodall-Witcher Hospital Foundation
Boy Scouts of America
Nellie Pederson
Summer Youth Baseball Opens in Bosque County Tonight
Bosque County youths kick off summer baseball with multiple teams from Clifton Crawfills Gap Meridian and Valley Mills in Neils Creek and McGregor leagues. Pee Wee games start 7 PM and Freshmen follow. home and away format listed for first three nights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bosque County
Clifton
Crawfills Gap
Meridian
Valley Mills
McGregor Fields
Gap Pee Wee Lions
Freshman Lions
Clifton Red Sox
WWI Vets to Meet at American Legion Building Hamilton
The World War I Barracks 1887 and Auxiliary schedule a 7 pm meeting on Tuesday June 3 at the American Legion Building in Hamilton. A supper will follow with Hamilton members hosting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
Hamilton
Felony Indecent Exposure Filed Against Clifton Man
A 24-year-old Clifton man faces felony indecent exposure charges in Justice Court after a Meridian 13-year-old girl reported the incident. Police say the girl and two others were in a parked car when the man asked for directions and exposed himself as she approached his vehicle to help. Mother of the girl pressed charges following the report. County Attorney Leslie Vance commented.
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Justice Court
Clifton
Meridian
Leslie Vance
Bids Opened for Clifton Sunset Home as Waco Firm Leads
Bid results show Waco Construction Inc as apparent low bidder at 1 041 000 for the Clifton Sunset Home project. Second low came from KK A Sparks at 1 056 639 with Temple Bruce Campbell and Son at 1 095 950. one bid from A J Powers was rejected for missing forms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifton Lutheran Sunset Home
Waco Construction, Inc
Waco
Bruce Campbell and Son Construction Co
Temple
A. J. Powers Co
Elmer Luckenbach
Sunset Home
Governor Signs New Law Changing School Children Transfer Method
Texas parents may transfer children between public school districts without moving residence under a new state law. The Texas Education Agency outlined the plan in a May 26 letter to superintendents. The act, passed by the 61st Legislature and signed by Governor Preston Smith on May 4, repeals a transfer method in place since 1925.
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Austin
Texas
Texas Education
Preston Smith
Memorial Gifts Fund New Facilities At Goodall-Witcher Hospital
The Goodall-Witcher Hospital plans two new service units an Intensive Care and Post-operative Recovery Unit and a Cardiac Care Unit funded by Memorial Gifts. Donors include families memorializing Andrew Dahl Pierce Ward George Goodall Richard Shaw Edna Grimes Johanna Bertelsen and others. Additional rooms and areas remain available for memorial designation with specified gift costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goodall-Witcher Hospital
Andrew Dahl
Pierce B. Ward
George W. Goodall
Richard M. Shaw
Edna Grimes
Johanna Bertelsen
Doctors Ministers Joint Workshop Stated
All doctors and clergy in Clifton are invited to a joint workshop at First Baptist Church Clifton on May 29 at 7 30 p m The event is sponsored by Goodall Witcher Foundation Hospital medical staff and Clifton Area Ministerial Alliance Chaplain Roy Cooper Hillcrest Hospital Waco will lead sessions
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Clifton Area
First Baptist Church
Clifton
Goodall-Witcher Foundation Hospital
Commencement speaker inspires packed Bettis Auditorium scene
Baylor University registrar Dy Al ton B Lee delivers the commencement address before a standing room only crowd of over 800, with 55 CHS Class of 1969 graduates. Valedictorian James Petrich and Salutatorian Virginia Bakke join on stage amid trustees and faculty as diplomas are presented.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dy Alton B. Lee
Baylor University
CHS
Bettis Auditorium
James Petrich
Virginia Bakke
Memorial Day Rites Set Friday at Clifton Cemetery
Memorial Day services sponsored by American Legion Post 322 and VFW Post 8553 will be held Friday morning at 9 at Clifton Cemetery. Mayor Cris Pierson will give greetings, Rev. Albert Petrich will deliver the address, and Taps will be played by Tim Outlaw with a firing squad salute.
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American Legion Post 322
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
Chilton Cemetery
Cris
Pierson
Clifton
Albert Petrich
Our Savior’s Lutheran Church of
Norse
Tim Outlaw
Legson
Jodie W. Amundson
Legion
V. F. W. Posts
Bosque
V. F. W. Post
Meridian
American Legion Post
Walnut Springs
American Legion
W. F. W. Post
Pool
Oswald
Adventist
Boggy
Fairview
Coon Creek Smith Bend
Cedron
St. Olaf
Kant
Valley Mills
D. A. V. Post
Besque County
Clifton Cemetery
Civic Discusses August Turkey Dinner at June Meeting
Civic Improve ment Society plans the 1969 Central Texas Fair turkey dinner to be served at Clifton City Hall at noon August 29. The June 1 meeting at 3 p m at the same site will finalize arrangements led by Mrs N W Willett Jr and committee with hostesses named. no July August meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civic Improvement Society
Clifton City Hall
Civic Society
N. W. Willett Jr
Hugh E. Combs
Ray Byford
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Clifton Record
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Texas Health Department
U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
U. S
Luexenbach
Cae
Kent Appleby
Clay Burns
Clifton School Board of Trustees
Jack Hill
Calvert Helms
Olee Bakke
Charles Fehler
Bach
Civic
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