07 Apr 1977
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Newspaper
De Leon Free Press
Location
De Leon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1977
Page
1
This notice invites the community to attend Easter worship at their chosen church this Sunday. It calls for renewed faith in Jesus Christ, peace, brotherhood, and guidance, and asks for blessings for all community members.
In De Leon, a runoff will be needed for Place 1 on the City Council after Wes Harper 118 votes and Mitchell Tate 98 trailed Doyle W. Smith 84, with Emmett Moore winning Place 2 at 135 votes. Voters cast 302 total. Norman Sides, Neal Morris, and Jake Morris won the ISD board seats with 236, 196, and 188 votes respectively in a 417 vote tally. Incumbents Joe Morgan 241, Walter John Beaty 232, and Larry Boyd 234 won the hospital board seats.
The De Leon Volunteer Fire Department invites all to attend a National Safe Driving Course at City Hall on April 18 and 19. Classes run 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. for eight hours. registration is $2 and covers the booklet and certificate. Insurance discounts of up to 10 percent may apply.
Wayne Chambers announces the Comanche Trail Council Boy Scouts drive beginning with a 7:00 a.m. pancake breakfast at City Hall on Friday April 8. The drive funds Scouting services for Cub Pack 37 Scout Troop 37 and Explorer Post 37, plus training roundtables Camp Billy Gibbons Philmont planning and a Council Service Center. Summer camps include Camp Billy Gibbons June 12-18 and July 1-13 for Troop 37 and Explorers, with leaders Cubmaster Bill Lindsey Scoutmaster James Perkins and sponsor First United Methodist Church and De Leon Volunteer Fire Department.
Derwin Nabors longtime De Leon Volunteer Fire Department member since February 1946 has missed only five meetings in thirty one years. A State certified fireman and former Fire Marshall he enjoys training and serving the community. He is a retired area commissioner and father of two with a Bearcat football son. He praises De Leon’s volunteer department and continues to support local festivals and school sports.
Jerry Place has purchased the business formerly known as Anderson Flying Service and will run Aero Agronomics Inc at De Leon Airport. Place, a Gillette Arkansas native and University of Arkansas alumnus with a Purdue PhD, taught agronomy at the U of A and later worked with Dames and Moore in Cincinnati. He has about ten years of flying experience and plans future aviation work.
The second annual Kitten Relays will host twenty seven teams in high school and junior high divisions. Teams include Ranger Dublin Bangs Goldthwaite Hico Albany Baird Comanche Eastland Cisco De Leon Llano Hamilton Breckenridge Clifton and Early’s junior high. Defending high school champions the Kitten Relays welcome last year’s medalists De Leon in trials. Field events start at 1:00 p.m. and preliminaries at 3:00 p.m. Finals run at 7:00 p.m.
De Leon launches Clean-up Fix-up and Paint up Days with city trucks ready to collect discards. Jerry Place with agronomy background and his wife Margie plan to operate a crop and analytics oriented business, living at 902 Apache and joining local Lutheran Church. The Places have two sons in college and a co op program with Houston Light and Power. First prize $50 second $25 third $10. organizers seek groups to enter and participate through April 11.
De Leon Public Schools earned multiple ribbons at the district 10-A UIL literary meet on Saturday. In high school events Robin Hood won spelling with Missy Owen second. Donald Fields took first in Slide Rule. Byron Smith won Ready Writing while Mark Barton was third. Frances Lopez won Typing with Mima Cisneroz fourth. Janet Mathis placed third in Shorthand. Dana Grisham was fourth in Poetry Interpretation. Byron Smith took second and Mark Barton third in Number Sense. Dawn Waggoner led junior high with a first place win.
Comanche County Commissioner Derwin Nabors reports about 25000 dollars in damages in Precinct 4 from heavy rains and floods. Twenty one bridges and crossings were washed out but are now passable for rural mail carriers school buses and residents. A Copperas Creek bridge west of Downing failed with 25000 dollars estimated for replacement. The county will salvage steel from another Copperas Creek bridge and widen it to sixteen feet using emergency fund revenue sharing.
Steven Murphy placed second in Oval Reading while Jackson Boen finished sixth. In Number Sense Robyn Donaldson won with David Stokes second and Jeff Fields fourth. John Dennington earned first with a perfect paper in Junior High spelling. Cindy Wilkerson second and Sherry Miller third. Kerry Miller took third in Ready Writing. In Grades 5 and 6 Spelling Lori Womack won, Cathy Wright second, Mica Waggoner third. The Picture Memory team Rhonda Donaldson Julie Wilson Benji Sapien Mike Keith and Chris Caraway tied for fourth.
The 220th Judicial District Court became effective April 1 1977. Governor Dolph Briscoe named Andy Campbell as District Judge and Leslie Vance as District Attorney. The district includes Comanche Hamilton and Bosque counties, previously part of the 52nd District with Coryell. Byron McClellan remains 52nd District Judge while Bobby Cummings serves as DA.
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