Annual Texas Prison Rodeo Adds Women Convicts
Huntsville officials announce the Texas Prison Rodeo will for the first time include convict women from Goree Unit. Events run Sundays in October at 2 p.m. with carious rodeo contests and the Hard Money bull challenge. Proceeds fund rehabilitative services for over 16 000 inmates.
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Texas
Huntsville
Goree
Texas Department of Corrections
Jim Butten
TDC
Sheriff's Posse of
Houston
Batten
Services For Father Of Lester Slaton
Funeral services for Aubra Lester Slaton 78 of Sexton Chapel were held at Sexton Chapel Methodist Church with Rev John Riley officiating. Burial followed in New Harmony Cemetery under Eubank Funeral Home Canton. He died Monday in a Tyler hospital. He was a retired farmer and had lived in Sexton Chapel since 1917. Survivors include wife Katie Slaton two sons Melvin Slaton and Lester Slaton three daughters Davie Shelton Cora Lee Scott Artie Blaylock one stepson Dexter Luck two brothers B H Slaton O D Slaton a sister Alpha Mullins nineteen grandchildren and 28 great grandchildren. Pallbearers were James Douglas Anders Mike Slaton Aubra Anders Cecil Robinson Winnon Shelton Steve Slaton and Ken Slaten.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aubra Lester Slaton
Sexton Chapel
Sexton Chapel Methodist Church
John Riley
Dallas
New Harmony
Eubank Funeral Home
Canton
Slaton
Tyler
Katie Slaton
Ben Wheeler
Melvin Slaton
Lester Slaton
Davie Shelton
Cora Lee Scott
Houston
Artie Blaylock
Dexter Luck
Bloomington
Ind
B. H. Slaton
O. D. Slaton
Alpha Mullins
James Douglas Anders
Mike Slaton
Aubra Anders
Cecil Robinson
Winnon Shelton
Steve Slaton
Ken Slaten
New Postal Innovations To Trim Dallas Grand Saline Mail Times
United States Postal Service introduces Area Mail Processing with the Dallas Post Office as the core center. Grand Saline area mail will reach customers about one hour earlier starting August 5, with outgoing mail due by 5 p.m. for same day dispatch.
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Grand Saline Area
United States Postal Service
Dallas
Grand Saline
Willis Roberson
Roberson
Mesquite
Carl C. Ulsaker
Southern Postal
United States
Texas
Florida
Ulsaker
Dallas Post Office
SCF
U. S. Postal Service
Ui1- Saker
Services Held for Harold A Patterson Jr Edgewood
Funeral services were held Wednesday at Edgewood First Baptist Church for Harold A Patterson Jr 24 of Edgewood killed in a Monday night auto crash on State Highway 19 north of Athens Burial followed at Oak Hill Cemetery Edgewood under LyBrand Eubank and Company Funeral Home Patterson a US Army Vietnam veteran attended Edgewood High School Tyler Junior College and worked as an electrical technician for Curtis-Mathes Co in Athens Survivors include his wife Jennifer Patterson parents Harold Patterson Sr Patsy Tull and William Tull seven brothers and six sisters in Edgewood Arlington Fort Hood Dallas Tyler Wills Point and Arlington Names pallbearers listed including Buddy Valentine Buzzy Valentine Stewart Cates L W Reeves Bill Hand and Gary Jones 64 000 Americans died last year of lung cancer that could be cut drastically if people stopped smoking cigarettes.
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Harold A. Patterson, Jr
Edgewood
First Baptist Church
Bill Thompson
A. L. Cates
Oak Hill Cemetery
LyBrand
Patterson
Athens
Arlington
Curtis-Mathes Co
Edgewood High School
Tyler Junior College
Jennifer Patterson
Harold Patterson
Patsy Tull
William Tull
Jeffrey Tull
Donnie Tull
Wayne Tull
Richard Tull
Ronnie Tull
Fort Hood
Garth Tull
Dallas
Logan Patterson
Cynthia Prestiege
Tyler
Sharon Hodges
Wills Point
Vicki
Twenty Hour Law Enforcement Training Attended
VZ Law Enforcement Officials Attend Twenty Hour School with half the course completed by Wednesday. Van Zandt County Sheriff B W Ward reports the remaining half to be held later this month. Topics include Arrest Laws, Criminal Law, Courtroom Conduct and Search and Seizures. County Attorney Bob Barret taught Search and Seizures. Attendees include Coy Stone Jerry Koonce B C Hendley Pete Wright and Sheriff Ward from Van Zandt County and officers from Dallas Seven Points Tool Gun Barrel Winnsboro plus others. The event satisfied hours toward Texas certification. The Assembly Room at the County Courthouse hosted the session.
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Bill Eblen
East Texas Council of Governments
van Zandt
B. W. Ward
Sheriff Ward
VZ County
Coy Stone
Jerry Koonce
B. C. Hendley
Pete Wright
Dallas
Seven Points, Tool, Gun Barrel
Winnsboro
Savings Bonds Rise in June Sales Hit 532 Million Nationally
In June 1972 new purchases of Series E and H United States Savings Bonds reached a national record of 532 million, nine and a half percent above June 1971. First six months sales totaled 3 247 million, sixteen point six percent above 1971. Local totals include 17 906 dollars in June for C L Stanford County Van Zandt County.
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United States Savings
C. L. Stanford
van Zandt County
Commerce notes rise in half-year exports in 1972
Reports show exports for the first half of 1972 totaling 34 percent above the $127 million level the previous year, marking a strong rise in overseas sales.
Postal service reshapes city mail routes in Mesquite area
A program affecting post offices lists Canton Cedar Hill DeSoto Duncanville Edgewood Ennis Ferris For ney Grand Saline Hutchine Kaufman Kemp Kerens Kle berg Lancaster Mahank Malakoff Red Oak Seago ville Terrell Trinidad Wax ahachie and Wills Point in the Mesquite region.
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Mesquite Area
Canton
Cedar Hill
Corsicana
DeSoto
Duncanville
Edgewood
Ennis
Ferris
Forney
Grand Saline
Hutchine
Kaufman
Kemp
Kerens
Kleberg
Lancaster
Mahank
Malakoff
Red Oak
Seagoville
Terrell
Trinidad
Waxahachie
Wills Point
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Eubank and Company Funeral Home
Texas Commission of Law Enforcement Officers Standards and Education
Che Grand Saline Sun
Main Street
van Zandt Co
Syble Dickerson
Mike Warms
Lloyd Lewis
Jimmy Shields
Chris Campbell
Alf Roberson
Sun
Winston B. Lucas
Irving
Grand Saline & Community
Grand Saline, Tex
Church of
Wency Hiller
Leo McKern
Robert Shaw
Orson Welles
Susannah York
Paul Scofield
Walt Disney
Earl Hoelliman
Patricia Crowley
Lew Ayres
Fruitvale
Church of Christ
Jerome Savage
Kingston
Jamaica
Mr. Savage
Abilene Christian College
East Africa
California
Jamaica School of Preaching
Caribbean
The
Chevrolet
Buick
Monte Carlo
Truman Heddins
Grands Saline
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