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Lamesa Area News Highlights January 1978 Events
Idaho reporter named as press editor. Lamesa civic figure Clyde Branon dies. Bank executives change posts between Lamesa and Lubbock. Kids Shop sold. vehicle registration via stickers introduced. Local land purchase for future shopping center. commissioner race announced. First baby of year born Jan 2. Rotary travel series begins. gun shop sale to Co-op. 300 plus tractorcade for farm parity. Oil distributor Gene Mays sells to Horkey Oil. Chamber forms long range plan. city council candidates file. ERA and Agriculture Movement spur debate. Cotton Inc meets. Lions mid winter conference in Lascat. Lamesa High art room fire causes $800 damage. AAM leaders to testify in Washington. Kiwanians serve 1,400 at meal.
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Larry Arnold
Idaho
Stephen Henry
Levelland Sun News
Lamesa
Clyde Branon
Branon
Dawson County
Rick Palmer
First National Bank of
Mildred Tunnell
Oma Lena Armstrong
Norris
Peggy) Barron
Brady, Gentry, Brady Company
Wichita
Kansas
North 22Nd
Woody Road
Lubbock Highway
Gene Mays
Mays Oil Company
Shell
West Texas
Horkey Oil Company
Lubbock
Chamber
Lamesa City Council
State Senate
AAM
National Cotton Council
NCC
Ackerly
O'Donnell
Health Systems Agency
Permian Basin
WBCCI
Texas Plains
Airstream Travel Trailer Club
Texas Arronautics Commission
Texas
Crawley
Dallas Woods
First National Bank
Barbara Hughes
Christine Grundy
Preston Smith
Lamesa High School
Dawson County Library
Dawson County Free Press
Lamesa Reporter
Press Reporter
Rotary Club
Nelson Hogg
Dorothy Haney
Delphians
Klondike
E.L. Short
E. Lee Harris
Big Spring
Parks Well Service
Girl Scouts of the USA
Lloyd Cline
Samesa
Lisa Kidd
San Antonio
Washington
U.S. Senate
Bob Krueger
Krueger