01 May 1975
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Newspaper
Lamesa Press Reporter
Location
Lamesa, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1975
Page
1
Lamesa’s Bicentennial program opens at 9 50 a m with the Middle School band on the square. The 10 a m ceremony will feature LHS and middle school bands, a Webb Air Force Base color guard, and the presentation of state and national certificates and flags by Mrs Ann Simmons of Luibock to Mayor Lloyd Cline. State Senator Kent Hance attends.
The seventh annual Lamesa Optimist Club Youth Appreciation Banquet will occur Saturday at 7 30 p m in the Lamesa High School Student Center. About 85 to 100 high school students from Lamesa Dawson and Klondike will be honored with Bob Murphey headlining as speaker Ed Wilkes will MC. Tickets cost 4 and are sold by local banks and Henry Norris Insurance. The event includes marching bands the color guard from Webb Air Force Base and dignitaries arriving by antique cars. The program features invocations speeches a Bicentennial presentation and flag raising with America The Beautiful sung by bands and choir. Traffic will be diverted for the first Bicentennial event in Lamesa.
Sam Smiley was named valedictorian and Billy Jack Dyer salutatorian of Lamesa High School's graduating class. Principal Charlie announced the top ten students during the Tuesday morning ceremony.
May has proclaimed Elder Texans Month by Governor Briscoe. Dawson County Senior Citizens schedule a full week beginning May 29 with a Friday aging conference at the Senior Citizens Center. Mayor Cline and County Judge Pratt give welcomes at 10 a.m.. Nadeen Blair chairs. guests include Donna Johnson and Donna Bearden.
John F. Farris will become Assistant Dawson County Extension Agent effective June 11, replacing James Reeves who resigned April 30. Farris, a current vocational agriculture teacher at Dimmitt, is married to LaNelle Adams with two children Chad and Julie. The couple are Methodists. He holds bachelor and master degrees in SEE MAN PAGE 2.
Mayor Alvin Hogg received state and national Bicentennial certificates and a flag as O'Donnell began celebrations. Clark's Rangers fired a powder volley in the gym scene while students sang and danced, marking the town's first Bicentennial program. Nadia Treadway leads the local commission with community involvement.
Ronald L. Herring, a soil conservationist, is transferred from Anson to the Dawson County Soil Conservation District. Tarleton State University graduate in agriculture education, he has one year with the Soil Conservation Service and recently assumed duties. He ranches a small flock of registered sheep, and with wife Cindy and son Chris, attends Baptist church and belongs to Farm Bureau and the Soil Conservation Society of America.
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