Eddie Pollock Wins FFA Soil and Water Award
Eddie Pollock 19 of Glen Rose will receive the Future Farmers of America Foundation Soil and Water Award at the State FFA Convention in Houston July 15. He bred beef cattle and sheep, drilled water wells since age 14, built dams for water storage, and cleared land for pasture. Vocational agriculture teacher William B. Cowan Jr. led Glen Rose High School program.
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Eddie Pollock
Morris Pollock
Glen Rose
FFA
Future Farmers of America Foundation
Houston
Eddie
Glen Rose High School
William B. Cowan Jr
Future Farmers To Attend State FFA Convention
Glen Rose Future Farmers of America members will attend the State FFA Convention in Houston July 14 16 under chapter president O Z Lemens. Six members will travel with Bill Miller of Sam Houston State Teachers College and four thousand rural youths are expected at the three day event.
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Glen Rose
Future Farmers of America
FFA
Houston
O. Z. Lemens
W. B. Cowan
Nemo Revival Set for July 18 24
Rev Eldon Pritchard of New Prospect Baptist Nemo announces Bill Choate as evangelist for the Nemo church revival July 18 24. Orville Martin will be song leader. Services start 8 p m each evening with invitation to all.
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Eldon Pritchard
New Prospect Baptist Church
Nemo
Bill Choate
Orville Martin
Strawn Aids Granbury Gas Fire Rescue Effort
Sheriff Strawn helped evacuate residents in Granbury near a Gulf bulk station where a gasoline tank caught fire during filling. Two explosions followed as firefighting units from Granbury Benbrook Fort Worth Weatherford and Stephenville responded and confined the blaze to Gulf property.
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Speck Strawn
Sheriff’s Department
Granbury
Strawn
Gulf Bulk Station
Benbrook
Fort Worth
Weatherford
Stephenville
Gulf
Bridges Elected to Angus Association
Charles W Bridges of Glen Rose has been elected to membership in the American Angus Association at St Joseph Missouri announced by secretary Glen Bratcher.
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Bridges
ANGUS
Charles W. Bridges
Glen
Burglars Target Glen Rose Lumber Co
Local firm Glen Rose Lumber Co reports a burglary last week with about 1200 dollars in merchandise and office equipment stolen. Entry was made through a hole in the concrete tile wall and exit through side doors. Sheriff Speck Strawn said fingerprints taken by his office may lead to arrests. Stolen items include Black & Decker power saw two drills a Skil drill a Stanley drill Shop Mate drill a Black & Decker sander plus cash from the till and a Victor calculator clock radio and transistor radio. Office ransacked with desks and filing cabinets left scattered.
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Speck Strawn
Black & Decker
Stanley
Victor
Jones
Local officers set roadblock on Highway 67
Sheriff Speck Strawn City Marshal Danny Smith Bosque County Sheriff Tiny Carr and Game Warden Bob Rudy joined forces Tuesday after lunch to set a roadblock on U S Highway 67 west of town in an attempt to capture two armed robbers wanted by Stephenville authorities. The gunmen robbed a Stephenville man of 24 dollars about noon Tuesday five miles east on the same highway. Roadblocks failed to stop them.
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Speck Strawn
Danny Smith
Bosque County
Tiny Carr
Bob Rudy
U.S. Highway 67
Stephenville
Girls Softball Team Being Organized in Area
Girls ages nine to twelve are invited to report to the baseball park Friday at 6:00 for softball workouts. Two teams will be formed or more if enough players show up. Mr and Mrs Robert L Stinnett of Lubbock visited Glen Rose over the weekend. they are former area residents who moved in 1915.
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Robert L. Stinnett
Lubbock
Glen Rose
Netts
Sarah Hart Dies In Wreck Near Tyler
Mrs Randy Hart 31 of Joshua was killed when her car was hit broadside at a highway intersection near Tyler. Her son Randy Jr 8 serious head injuries and hospitalized. Another son Sandy Wayne 212 escaped injury. She was en route to Van to visit parents. Funeral services held at Hillard's Van and First Methodist Church here with burial in White Church Cemetery.
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Randy Hart
Joshua
Leslie Hart
Tyler
Randy Jr
Sandy Wayne
Bell Telephone Co
Cleburne
Sarah Smith
Hershel Smith
Van
Hillard
First Methodist
White Church
Goldsmiths Escape Injury After Burleson Wreck
Mr and Mrs John Goldsmith and their son were in a Burleson wreck on Tuesday while traveling from Glen Rose to Grand Prairie. A second car pulled in front near an intersection causing the collision. Mrs Goldsmith was hospitalized for possible rib fractures. Mr Goldsmith and their son were uninjured. The 1965 Chevrolet was badly damaged.
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John Goldsmith
Burles
Glen Rose
Grand Prairie
Jess Moore
Burleson
Goldsmiths
Round-Up Days Lauded and Follies Likely to Return
Chamber of Commerce president Speck Strawn and committees praised the Round-Up Days celebration held Friday and Saturday, with an estimated 4,000 in attendance. The event featured a busy schedule, two street dances, a dunking fundraiser, contests, parades, and a Junior Championship Rodeo, with crowd-pleasing acts and many winners named in floats, cars, and riding clubs.
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Chamber of Commerce
Speck Strawn
Chamber
Glen Rose
Stephenville
Optimist Club
Courthouse Square
Alvarado
Walter Mears
John Dodd
Jessie Mears
Echols Cleaners
Vida Mae Smith
Naughty Follies
Glen Rose Flower & Gift Shop
Jameson Clubs
John Deere
Midway Nurs-O-Tel
H. D. Riding Club
Johnson County
Brath Sheriff’s Posse
Fort Worth Mounted Patrol
Paluxy Area Watershed Group Forms Upstream Flood Prevention Effort
Landowners from Erath Hood and Somervell counties gathered at Bluffdale to form the Paluxy watershed association. They planned to seek planning assistance for the 249000 acre watershed and submitted a request to the State Soil Conservation Board for project sponsorship. Jack English was elected chairman and Russell Laughlin secretary. Directors named represent Erath Hood and Somervell counties.
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Paluxy
James Watson
Bluffdale
Erath
Hood
Somervell
Watson
Commissioners Courts
Hood- Parker and
Bosque
Erath County
Richardson
Indian Camp
Sycamore
Mitchell
Pony Creeks
Hood County
Somervell County
Emmett Yoder
Soil Conservation Service
Former resident dies from injuries after car accident
Word came this week that Mrs. George Yeager 75 of Boerne the former Dora Key Wimburne of Glen Rose died from injuries suffered in a recent car crash Yeager spent years in Somervell County where her father the late Rev Finch Wimburne pastored local churches She and her daughter visited Glen Rose last summer.
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George Yeager
Boerne
Dora Key Wimburne
Glen Rose
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Kenneth Jones
Sarah Hart
Wreck
Oakdale Park
Rodeo Arena
Gary Mann
Debby Dozier
Jesse Kennedy
Leonard Mitchell
Larry Watson
Edwin Black
Marian Kinton
Franklin Phillips
Harold Price
Bob Miller
Wendell Stephens
Jerry Watson
Jack Miller
Richard Sexton
Claudia McAfee
Jane Bryant
Cynthia D. Bullard
Eldon Black
Becky Murrill
Mike Morton
Jimmy Shiflett
Susan Stout
Ricky Horton
Darla Lynn Gee
Drunda Horton
Kenna Kay Miller
Sharon Kay
Joe Don Echols
U. S. Army
Kenneth Lesley
Chalk Mountain
Lee Cantrell
E. L. Rhoades Sr
Earl Jackson
J. E. Brown
Mrs. Eddy
Flanary
Mark
Judy
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