Lighting Contest Seeks Entries From Merchants and Homes
Del Rio Chamber of Commerce and local garden clubs sponsor a Christmas home lighting contest. Entries are accepted until December 15 with separate divisions for homes and merchants. Judging uses a point system across three areas plus an overall final judging.
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Chamber of Commerce
Laughlin Air Force Base
The
del Rio . Chamber ‘of ‘Commerce
Morning Glory Garden
Mignonette Garden Qub
Cactus. Thom Garden Club
Volunteers Needed For UNICEF Drive Campaign
Volunteers of all ages are invited to assist in this year’s UNICEF card and calendar sale. Reach Mrs Ben Woodson or visit Val Verde County Library to help staff sales sites and enlist organizational cooperation. Call 775-5907 to participate or to buy cards at the library.
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Unicef
Ben Woodson
Val Verdes County
Lefty O'Doul dies at 72 after stroke and heart attack
SAN FRANCISCO health reports Lefty O'Doul a baseball idol for 40 years died at 72 from a heart attack while recuperating from a stroke. The San Francisco native, who helped organize Japanese pro baseball, was hospitalized at French Hospital after a mild stroke, with funeral plans tentatively set for Thursday.
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San Francisco
French Hospital
Patrick Stalters
Halsted and Company
Lefty
Nixon
QC Doul
Japan
Frank Joseph O' Doul
Butchertown
Market Street
Tony Lazzeri
Frank Crosetti
DiMaggio Brothers
O Doul
Obituary notes for Hugh Williams and others from UPI dispatches
London actor Hugh Williams dies at 65 after brief illness in London hospital. Miami freelance photographer Robert Rudolf collapses and dies en route to hospital at 39. Cambridge resident Cornelia James Cannon dies at 93, author of Red Dust and Heirs among others. Ruth White, 55, noted stage actress, dies prompting a church requiem Mass in Perth Amboy. Hoyte Wooten, 76, broadcasting pioneer, dies at home in Whitehaven Memphis after heart illness.
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United Press International London
UPD
Hugh Williams
London Hospital
Miami
Robert Rudolf
Rudolf
United Press International
Time
Life
Newsweek
Franklin
Cornelia James Cannon
Perth Amboy
St Mary's Church
Ruth White
Perth Amboy Hospital
Memphis
Weakness Across and the Echoes of Fragility
A puzzle like the crossworld of clues unsnarls the idea of weakness across and the many forms of fragility. From breadwinner amid sea adrift to terms for decay and renewal, the grid links sun and harvest goddess to subtle senses of strength and frailty.
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Java
Névade
Rites Set Today For Judge Stone
Galveston Texas former state senator and 56th District Court judge Will Ham Stone, 72, found dead at his home, will be buried today at Galveston Memorial Park Cemetery in Hitchcock. Stone served on the Galveston bench from 1955 to 1969 after earning a law degree via night classes. He had earlier served in the Texas Senate from 1939 to 1946.
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Galveston
UPD
Will Ham FE
Stone
56Th District Court
Galveston County
Young County
Tex
The
Texas Senate
Galveston Memorial Park Cemetery
Hitchcock
Edward Woodward Services Today
Edward Woodward former Sweetwater mayor and early Texas Board of Education member will be buried today in Brownwood. He was 80 at death after a weeklong illness and longtime Brownwood schools superintendent who helped establish the state board in 1949.
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Brownwood
UPD
Edward Woodward
Sweetwater
Texas Board of Education
Woodward
State
Hit and Run Driver Kills Texas State Trooper
Weatherford Texas The highway patrol reports trooper Douglas Houston Thompson 26 was struck and killed while talking to a motorist beside his patrol car on U S Highway 80 four miles west of Weatherford A second trooper Sgt J N Beggs and the motorist were uninjured Police searched for a nine year old white poodle and noted the suspect car would show damage to its right front corner and a three foot chrome strip torn from the door.
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Weatherford
Tex
Douglas Houston Thompson
Texas
Department of Public Safety
Thompson
U.S. Highway 80
J. N. Beggs
Godian
Burns Claim Soldier's Life at Ft. Bragg Barracks Fire
Gregory L. King 21 died from burns after a barracks fire at Ft. Bragg N C last month. He died at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio less than a day after fellow burn victim Pfc Larry W Salmon 20 of Tiptonville Tenn died. Salmon had 60 percent body burns while King had 83 percent.
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San Antonio
Gregory L. King
Ft. Bragg
N.C
King
Pfc
Larry W. Salmon
Tiptonville
Tenn
Brooke Army Medical Center
Ft. Sam Houston
Salmon
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O’doul
Jean Gold
Las Vegas
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DanBus
Fleatwood
Assoc
Carlos Sotelo
Bus
James R.cooper
Ralph N. Skelton
Okishoma
Shoemaker’s
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Gayle Hunnicutt
Ra Eye Eng Es
Peet
Mirisch
Geluxe
United Artists
Judge Stone
Berry's
NEA, Inc
Burns
Santa
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