WICC Study Group To Meet Here Feb. 10
The West Texas Chamber of Commerce Task Force on Small Towns will convene at Glen Lake Methodist Camp on February 10, 1967, drawing about 100 representatives from local towns. Fort Worth leader C. L. Cooke chairs the committee while WTCC head John Ben Shepperd calls the study a comprehensive program likely to yield real results for West Texas towns. The daylong meeting includes a camp dining luncheon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Glen Lake Methodist Camp
Jack McCarty
West Texas
C. L. Cooke
Fort Worth
Community Public Service Co
WTCC
John Ben Shepperd
Cooke
Ae Aa
Cleburne Man Arrested Here After Hospital Visit
A Cleburne man was arrested Tuesday night and jailed on aggravated assault and theft charges after Sheriff Speck Strawn investigated a wreck on Highway 67. The man and his Dublin estranged wife were in the hospital where she had a broken nose and facial bruises. He allegedly beat her en route from Cleburne to Dublin and stole a hypodermic needle and prescription drugs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleburne
Johnson County
Speck Strawn
Highway 67
Dublin
Hospi
Mrs J M Bratton Spends Weekend in Fort Worth
Mrs J M Bratton spent the holiday weekend in Fort Worth visiting relatives and enjoying time with family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. Bratton
Fort Worth
DeCordova Contracts Are Let In Brazos River Project
An urgent blood drive is organized for Eddie Glass in Cleburne Memorial Hospital as 20 donors are sought for surgery. The Brazos River Authority announces low bids by H B Zachry Co and Zach Burkett Co for two DeCordova Bend Reservoir works in Hood County, with contracts totaling 6.862 million and 198 thousand dollars respectively, pending bonds and signatures. The project forms part of the 16.3 million reservoir program to create about 155 thousand acre feet of storage on the Brazos River, following Posum Kingdom Lake completed in 1941.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eddie Glass
Galveston
Glass
Memorial Hospital
Cleburne
Brazos River Authority
H. B
DeCordova Bend
Possum Kingdom Lake
Mineral Wells
Man Known Here Receives Promotion At Hood River Firm
Alec Meaders, cousin of Dr. W. E. Meaders and Mrs. Maggie Snyder and son in law of Mrs. Dave Howeth, has been named president of Steven Son Co Ply a large plywood concern at Hood River Ore Mrs Meaders is the former Hazel Johnson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alec Meaders
W. E. Meaders
Maggie Snyder
Dave Howeth
Stevenson Co-Ply
Hood River
Ore
Meaders
Hazel Johnson
Christmas Pilgrimage of Homes planned in Somervell County
Mrs. Paul Hancock Jr of Glen Rose Beta Sigma Phi announces the second annual Christmas Pilgrimage of Homes to be held Tuesday night December 13 at 6 30 in Somervell County. Featured homes include those of the Pruitts Spurgeon Shackleford Moss McCarty and others with refreshments at the Community Center at 8 p.m. Tickets are $1 covering all homes and the refreshment hour. Proceeds benefit the foreonty. Thanksgiving visitors included the Vankirk and Langston families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Hancock Jr
Glen Rose
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
Somervell County
Bill Pruitt
Fred Spurgeon Jr
John Shackelford
Hossie ‘Moss
Ben Moss
Jack McCarty
Hancock
Foronty
Cotton plow up date extended to December tenth
Representative J E Ward announced a 10 day extension to the cotton plow up deadline from December 1 to December 10. Growers must destroy stalks by the new date. Thanksgiving visits highlighted by Fort Worth and Waxahachie family gatherings included the West, Bradford, Gray, Finley, Seay, Rice Finley, Italy, Waxahachie, and Burleson groups. A football injury required leg cast removal timeframe mentioned as expected in about four weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. Ward
Sonley West
Harold Bradford
Jeretha Gray
Fort Worth
Allie Finley
Mineola Givens
Venus
J. Rice Finley
David Seay
Waxahachie
Seay
Italy
Kenneth Hulsey
Burleson
Robert Hulsey
Former local folk touring in Europe
Mr. and Mrs. Sherrel Shackelford of New Orleans are traveling in Europe visiting Italy Switzerland France and England. Former Glen Rose resident, he is son of Mrs. Mattie Shackelford and she is Martha Love daughter of Mrs. Nancy Love. Shackelford works for Gulf Oil Corp and the couple has recently been stationed in Africa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherrel Shackelford
New Orleans
Europe
Italy
Switzerland
France
England
Glen Rose
Mattie Shackelford
Martha Love
Nancy Love
Shackelford
Gulf Oil Corp
Africa
Marks Recovering From Surgery In Memorial Hospital
Dr. Roger Marks was reported Tuesday night recovering satisfactorily from surgery at Memorial Hospital in Cleburne. The piece notes Thanksgiving visits by Mrs. L. W. Netherlin and family, plus relatives from Dallas, Iredell, and Lake Stevens. The travelers include Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Hulsey touring Texas Oklahoma and Arkansas over the holiday weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger Marks
Memorial Hospital
Cleburne
Mrs
Raymond Hulsey
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
L. W. Netherlin
J. B. Odom
Dallas
Lake Stephens
Wash
Odom
W. W. Odom
Iredell
Meningitis Case Sparks Concern in Local Schools
Parents of first graders react to a two year old girl’s spinal meningitis diagnosis from a Cleburne hospital. Kenneth Malden and family have two other daughters in the same grades while County Health Officer Dr. English urges preventative medicine for the two first grades but minimizes risk to the wider community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Malden
Cleburne
Malden
Robert English
Roger Marks
Glen Lake Camp Project Underway
J L Hemby a Fort Worth building contractor began work Monday on a 250000 dollar Glen Lake Methodist Camp project. The first phase is a new superintendent home with foundation work done on a modern three bedroom rock veneer house across the highway from the Roger Marks residence. Tom Voss the camp superintendent says the home should be finished in 80 days and the current house will be razed for the new building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. L. Hemby
Fort Worth
Glen Lake Methodist Camp
Roger Marks
Tom Voss
Hospital Notes From Marks English Hospital Week
Hospital notes list patients hospitalized on Tuesday including Mrs J M Bratton Mrs J E Reed R O Montgomery Donna Kay Linch J E Brown and others Released from hospital last week were Mrs Dora Goldsmith Mrs J B Walton Herman Timmerman Robert Koch F W Waldrop Coleman Wilson E G Tidwell Foster Owens Visitors to J P Williams home Sunday were Odell Walker Donald Dragoo Cecil Dragoo Lewis Hill and his mother of Fort Worth Mrs Clay Lackey was in Stephenville Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marks English Hospital
J. M. Bratton
J.E. Reed
R. O. Montgomery
Donna Kay Linch
J. E. Brown
Dora Goldsmith
J. B. Walton Herman Timmerman
Robert Koch
F. W. Waldrop Coleman Wilson
E. G. Tidwell
Foster Owens
J. P. Williams
Odell Walker
Donald
Cecil Dragoo
Lewis Hill
Fort Worth
Improvements Underway in Livestock Buildings
Robert Shackelford, grandson of Mr and Mrs Floyd Howeth, was flown from Methodist in Lubbock to Brooks in San Antonio for head injury care after a Nov 18 motorcycle crash in Lubbock. Meanwhile Som ervell County Livestock and Poultry Assn adds a 10 by 380 hog shed and a 48 by 48 extension to its Glen Rose School facility, funded from existing funds, ready for the Junior Livestock Show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Shackelford
Floyd Howeth
Methodist Hospital
Lubbock
Brooks Military Hospital
San Antonio
Shackelford
Howeth
Charles Shackelford
Dallas
Somervell County Livestock & Poultry Assn
Glen Rose School Ag
Highway 67
Sam White
White
Chamber Directors to Meet Friday in Glen Rose
Directors of the Glen Rose Somervell County Chamber of Commerce will meet Friday at 2:00 p.m. at the office for a special business session. President Jack McCarty outlined agenda items including Christmas activities election planning the annual banquet and WTCC meeting plans. Directors to be elected to replace term-limited members McCarty Jones Summers. Holdover directors Abernathy Hunter Freas Hewlett Ernst and Jackson Jr. urged to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glen Rose - Somervell County Chamber of Commerce
Jack McCarty
WTCC
Kenneth Jones
Temple Summers
A. A. Abernathy
H. A. Hunter
Sam Freas
Jim Hewlett
Walter Ernst
J. E. Jackson Jr
McCarty
Akey Hospitalized After Admission to Memorial Hospital
Virgil Akey was admitted to Memorial Hospital in Cleburne Wednesday afternoon and is set for surgery on Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virgil Akey
Memorial Hospital
Cleburne
Dry November marked by near full Tuberculin testing turnout
Glen Rose School reports almost complete participation in grades one through seven for the Tuberculin Testing program. The effort thanked Dr. Roger Marks and Beta Sigma Phi for their help while U.S. Weather Bureau data show November as the year's second driest month at .31 inch. temperatures ranged from 84 to 24 degrees with six below freezing days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Freas
Glen Rose School
U.S. Weather Bureau
T. J. Davis
Davis
Tom Vosses Enjoy Thanksgiving Trip
Mr and Mrs Tom Voss and Bob and Kay spent Thanksgiving visiting friends in Houston and touring the Gulf Coast. They toured NASA and met with Buzz Aldrin who recently walked in space, visited the Astrodome and traveled to Galveston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Vosses
Tom Voss
Bob
Kay
Houston
Gulf Coast Area
NASA
Buzz” Aldrin
Space
Astrodome
Galveston
Dick Akey Buried in Cleburne Rites
Funeral services for Dick Akey 57 of Cleburne were held at Crozier Pierson Chapel Friday at 1 30 p m. Burial followed in Rose Hill Cemetery. Akey died Tuesday November 22 after a long illness. Surviving are his wife two sons one daughter and four sisters and Virgil Akey of this city is his brother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick Akey
Cleburne
Virgil Akey
Crozier-Pierson Chapel
Rose Hill Cemetery
Akey
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WICC
DeCordova
Bury
Waco
Zachry
Burkett
Walter J. Wells
Robert Gaskill
Jerry van Kirk
Fred Langston
R. C. Mattison
Austin
Viet Nam
Tommy Johnson
Tommy Joe
Billy Don
Kenneth Bankston
Marks
H. E. Brawley Jr
Leeland Boyd
Howard Brawley
Glen Lake
Clay Lackey
Stephenville
Brooks
Tennie Coleman
Abilene
Sale
Steet Eeesseenenege
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