Learn to Sing Solo and Find True Happiness
A 1975 graduation feature highlights Tom Anderson's counsel about happiness being a heart condition not tied to wealth. He cites figures from Jay Gould to Voltaire, urges individual effort, moral living, and personal responsibility, and emphasizes education as lifelong growth.
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Publlic
Tom Anderson
American Way Features
Jay Gould
Lord Byron
Alexaner the Great
God
Voltaire
Trat
Christ
Character, Freedom, and Love as Life’s Core Values
A reflective column extols character as happiness and the root of freedom, arguing that freedom comes from personal responsibility and distrust of government. It emphasizes self sufficiency, the duty to love God and parents, and warns against government overreach while condemning neglect of the elderly and stressing love as humanity’s supreme value.
Community thank you notes highlight Leisure Lodges week
Residents and staff at Leisure Lodges in Lamesa thank Charles Goad Dyer Furniture Bryan Street Baptist Church L.L. Lincoln Dairy Queen Charles Reese Essence Singers Faith Temple Church and Mrs Beckman for making Nursing Home Week a success with a bus tour drama and an ice cream gesture. Bill Hobby responds to a public utilities bill foe urging contact with lawmakers.
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Lamesa
Charles Goad
Dyer Furniture
Bryan Street Baptist Church
L.L. Lincoln
Dairy Queen
Lincoln
Charles Reese
Essence
Faith Temple Church
Beckman
Pioneer Event Honors Local Merchants and Food Donors
Thanks were extended to numerous merchants for prizes donated for the annual event. Donors include Fabric Shop, Fields Mens and Ladies Wear, Higginbotham-Bartlett Co. and many others. Food contributions came from Furrs Piggly Wiggly The Country Store Heritage Club Home Demonstration ladies and the Senior Citizens.
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Fabric Shop
Fields Mens
Higginbotham - Bartlett Co
Wright Drug
Fenton’s Dad and Lad
C.R. Anthony Co
Lee Office Products
Baldwins Dept
Cowboy Supply
Carroll Henson
Ray’s
L’ann
Duke and Ayres Variety
McDonald’s
McCail’s Drug
Goodyear
Dyer Furniture
Western Auto
City considers container loader upgrades and accounting improvements
Lamesa council discusses four automatic container loader kits at 8400 dollars total and a Burroughs accounting machine at 14721 dollars to boost efficiency. Emergency warning system for cable TV is planned, and a tax board of equalization members are appointed. Jubilee planning proceeds with Optimist Club promotions highlighted.
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Taylor
Burroughs
Phillip White
Rob McDonald
Reinhard McKinney
L.D. Freeman, Sr
Lloyd Cline
Jim Norris
John Palmore
Art Bizzell
Nelson Hogg
Carroll Taylor
Ben Allen
James McAllister
Mike Duran
Rev. Steinbronn
Jim Nance
Brian Morris
KPET
Stephen Henry
Lamesans Prepare for Jubilee Year and Disaster Warning System
City officers monitor storm clouds as a tornado warning plan matures with Public Safety controls. The center relies on a teletype weather link with Midland and aims to warn only when necessary. A nine member committee advances a college center project, while Dawson County readies a grand centennial Jubilee in July with strong citizen cooperation.
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Public Safety
Ben Allen
Civil Defense
Taylor
Weather Bureau
Midland
Permian Basin
United States
Edgman
Thompson
Dawson County
Doctors' Strike in San Francisco Sparks Malpractice Debate
A doctor strike in San Francisco highlights rising malpractice costs, insurance burdens, and the fight over patient compensation. The piece argues for safeguards against frivolous suits while acknowledging legitimate negligence. It links costs to higher bills and cites Southern California as a source of the broader “something for nothing” health care trend.
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San Francisco
California
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Senate
I Bill Hobby
Leisure Lodges
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Tom Wood
R.W. Mitchell
Charnell Jobe
Ann Duran
West Texas
Howard College
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Richard Crawley
Willis Gresham
Walter Bucker
Inez McBrayer
Neal Chastain
Bob Crawley
Lee McAllister
Fred Weaver
Paul Harvey
Ray
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Caldwell
Meador and Wells
Jackie Eugene Hinson
Houston
Percy Foreman
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