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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1962
Page
10
Mr and Mrs Adolph Wise visit here on Tuesday at the home of Mr and Mrs Ira Callan. They plan to move from Corpus Christi to Davis Oklahoma to be near her ill mother.
Readers learn Gap youths featured as winners in the Junior Livestock and Home Economics shows at the Central Texas Fair in Clifton. The article also notes local visits, church training sessions, reunions, and family travels surrounding the event.
Mrs. V. D. Goodall, first vice president of the Texas Auxiliary, chaired regional round tables and spoke on Membership at the Texas Medical Association Auxiliary School of Instruction in the TMA Headquarters Building in Austin. Dr. W. D. Goodall joined the event as a council on Public Relations member. Miss Miriam Thompson visited with her parents in Seguin.
Bob and Bettye Viertel of Craw filled gap again dominating the Angora Goat Show at the Central Texas Fair in Clifton. The couple won multiple classes led by champion buck and champion doe, with Bob earning showmanship and prize money totals, while Bettye claimed top spots across several divisions. Tom Greenwade and Ashley Lovell also won prizes in various goat classes.
Senior girls of Clifton High School were entertained with a brunch by Charlotte Miles on Saturday September 15 at the Miles home in Mosheim. Favors were miniature graduates and the menu featured Tea Creamed Eggs and Cheese Sausage Rolls De Luxe Cheesewiches Stuffed Dates Doughnuts Frosted Grapes and Coffee. Attending were hostess Charlotte Miles and seniors Carol Dennis Janice Willenberg Char lene Meyer Connie Hoel Sherrie Blewett Glenda Files Donna Blassingame Patsy Leck.
Week end visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert F. Collins were Paul D. Haynes and son John Timothy of Electra and Jimmy Youree and son Jimmy Lee Jr. of Houston. Mrs. Haynes is a Collins daughter. Haynes is a rural mail carrier. The Yourees recently returned from Germany where Jimmy Youree served in the Armed Forces over two years. Their son was born while stationed there, and the family traveled across Europe while overseas, but they prefer the United States.
Clifton Ford dealer Carl E. E. Stewart held a barbecue supper on Tuesday night September 25 for national fleet accounts garage owners filling station operators and others tied to these groups. Before the meal guests viewed a pre show of the 1963 Ford and Mercury and a film highlighting the new models features followed the meal.
About 100 attendees gathered at Clifton's Trinity Lutheran Church for the Heart of Texas Church Workers Institute second session on Sunday September 23 from 3 to 8 PM The Mary Circle served supper The first session was at Zion Lutheran Church in McGregor with several Clifton residents present including Mr Paul Elton Mrs Burton Hoff Mrs P Joe Dahl and Mrs Everett W Wallace.
A Waco Social Security Office representative will be at Clifton City Hall dining room on Tuesday October 2 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 noon to assist with disability benefits eligibility. A severe and long lasting disability is required for qualification. Temporary conditions do not qualify. The office will explain eligibility rules under the Social Security Law.
The Robert E. Binford Post 8553 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Clifton Texas holds meetings on the first and third Thursdays of each month on Riverside Drive. Members are welcome to attend.
Longtime Bosque County resident Tom C Grimland Sr aged 78 died around 10:00 am Tuesday September 18 in Garland while cared for at his son's home. He was born June 27 1884 in Norse and worked in Clifton Waxahachie and Waco in the automobile trade. Funeral services were held September 20 at Wilkinson and Hatch Chapel Waco with interment in Oakwood Cemetery. He is survived by his wife two sons a daughter a step son and daughter plus 19 grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Mr. and Mrs. J M Jorgenson traveled to Fort Worth on Wednesday September 19 to attend funeral services for Ford Bradish Sr and his wife who died in a head on crash on Highway 285 near Antonito Colorado. Six men in another vehicle perished in the same collision leaving Ford Bradish Jr critically injured in Alabama Colorado hospital. The Jorgensons stayed with Claud Jackson and Mrs Jackson later joined them in Clifton for the weekend.
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