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Hereford Gets New Mayor Name Ooug Watson; Age, 8Good citizens arc trained, not I room and explained their various born, is Mrs Fritz Christman’s | jobs | theory, and so her third grade pu- j St ars made a talk on the may ! pils at Shirley School have '■pent or's duties. Commissioner Raylanthis year llt; arning what makes a I Kvans outlined to the group howgood citizen.Culmination of ihe year - lonjr civic project will come this afier-I noon when members of her class, elected to office a mayor, city manager and city commissioners, take over running of the city for one long hour.Mayor Henry Sears will swear in Douglas Watson as Mayor at 1 p.m. Other officials are Mike Watts, city manager; Gordon Golden and Jerry Sheppard, city commissioners; Dale Minor, water 1 commissioner and David Grubbs chief of police.Parents of the children are Messrs and Mesdames Frank Wat son, Verdon Watts, O Z Golden. Roy M. Sheppard, L. K Minora city governi if*nt functions Police Chief I.co Box explained h:s department and Wafer Commissioner Oni ts Carroll told them how the water and sanitation departments in Hereford are organizedand maintainedAfter thevn officials had explained citv government, students derided to form their own city, elect their officers and ret some practical training in citizenship.The nroiect was run as a nolitt-i oil ranmai^n comolete w fh cam-; mlpn talks an1 ramn'ii^n issues■ nrr♦rvi n to soe what needed to he ^one nd thes* ^^(Tressivo rn*nd ed children conducted forthrightj; Political foravs advocating im-1 proved park systems, installationrt(]and Dr. and Mrs Roy Grubbs.What they know about city gov-, r)f vr lights a!! around schoolsi ernment was learned Inst hanlt;l nrvj erection of an in ioor swim-during the past ei^ht months as * TKK)jcity offic ials visited ciass- j ^on students discussed the feasibility of having four city com-wmissioners instead of two, as theFuneral ServicesAre Held TuesdayI1tr#-t'!f*18s1:lnrMrr'nffm'incitv nrescntlv has Thev der ided it i t would be an excellent idea and vwent home where served as f1 *a one-man lobby ’ i 'anization to c influence their parents’ vote on the f topic. ! v
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Hereford Brand
Hereford, Texas, US
Thu, Apr 26, 1956
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