Shoes and gadgets and weddings shine in quirky musings
A column riffs on luxury gifts like Heinz calfskin golf shoes priced around 50 dollars and a Swiss two faced wristwatch while noting personal splurges from leopard skin tuxedos to mink bow ties. It also covers an engagement in Muleshoe with Miss Sharon Evans set to wed Alvie Bud Gilliland August 23 at Main Street Baptist Church.
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Harold Sheehan
New York
Sharon Evans
Alvie “Bud
Gilliland
Nride
Leonard BE. Beans
Mute Shoe
Rood
Muleshoe
Wille
Main Street Baptist Church
Miss Evans
Texas Tech
Muleshoe State Bank
Bahn
Feaplover
Lester B. Dill
Meramee Caverns
Stanton, Mo
Dil
Times Square
Carla Jackson Bride Elect Fetes With Shower
Miss Carla Jackson, fiancée of James William Reed, was honored at a Tuesday night shower hosted by Mrs. Maud Dee Stout and co hosts Miss Vonita Cawthron and Miss Glenda Cawthron on Youth Street. Gifts included favorite recipes and pink and white decorations. The couple plans to wed September 6 in Plainview.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carla Jackson
James William Reed
Maud Dee Stout
Vonita Cawthron
Glenda Cawthron
Plainview
Marilyn Monroe conquers Moscow at film festival
In Moscow the late actress Marilyn Monroe is described as achieving immediate success at the Moscow film festival. The piece notes her name rarely appeared in Soviet press before her death and frames the coverage within a Soviet context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elena Korenevskaya
Moscow
Marilyn Monroe
Hollywood
Elizabeth Taylor
Danny Kaye
Charlie Chaplin
Mary Pickford
Marilyn
Brigitte Bardot
Sophia, Loren
Silvana Pampanini
Miss Monroe
Natalie Wood
Miss Wood
Miss White Engaged to Roy Edwards in Sept Wedding
Hobbs New Mexico special report announces Miss Angie Lou White the daughter of Mr and Mrs B L White engaged to Roy R Edwards son of Mr and Mrs I M Edwards. The couple plans a September 1 ceremony near Denver City with Miss White a Funice New Mexico High School graduate and Edwards a Denver City High School alum who farms west of Denver City on the Hobbs Highway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver City High School
Edwards Estate
Denver City
Hobbs Highway
Luncheon Honors Bride-Elect Sharon Bottoms
Mrs R W Bowman of Sudan hosted a luncheon in the Gold Room at Hemphill Wells in Monterey Center honoring Miss Sharon Bottoms of Sudan, bride-elect of Kerry Arnold of Tascosa. The couple will marry August 31 at San Jacinto Baptist Church in Amarillo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. W. Bowman
Sudan
Gold Room
Hemphill-Wells
Monterey Center
Sharon Bottoms
Kerry Arnold
Tascosa
San Jacinto Baptist Church
Amarillo
Law West Of Tiber Cowboy Rider Dies In Rome
Luigi Costarelli known as the sheriff died at a Rome clinic at 64 after years of riding a two wheeled horse through streets in a Western costume. He attracted tourists and locals by riding to restaurants with a Western saddle and toy pistols, shouting Tut morti. Patrons tipped him and he would ride away content.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Luigi Costarelli
Cosatrelli
Ring Ceremony Unites Mary Jean Gross and Frank Lockadoo
In Canyon at West Texas University Joseph Hill Chapel a candlelight wedding united Miss Mary Jean Gross and Frank Lockadoo. Officiated by Rev. Charles Hastings Jr with a bridal party including Linda Gross maid of honor and Dave Conatser best man. The couple plans to reside in Fritch and resume studies in September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canyon
Joseph Hill Chapel
West Texas University
Mary Jean Gross
Frank Lockadoo
George Gross
Muleshoe
J. R. Triplett
Fritch
Charles Hastings Jr
Linda Gross
Dave Conatser
Shelia Triplett
Pete Gross
John Gross
Linda Lookadoo
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O. W. Schellinger
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Steve Baskette
Mines
L. V.thomas
EF. S. Self
J. H. Lowe
Billy E. Young
Ronald JD. Smith
Sam E. Prather
W. Noel Bryant
George Bunton
Sam Cox
Haskell Beaver
John Cocanoucher
Mmes
Tullius V. Walker
Bill West
Clyde McKinzie
Lloyd Mugg
Quincey Haney
F. Sellers
Arnold
WSCS
Bertha Rice
Woman's Society of Christian Service
Wesley Methodist Church
J.C. Arnold
Charlie Sport
Ross Hood
Worth Green
Norville Hefner
Nell’s Antiques
F.D.I.C
Johnston
Farr
Safeway
Figgly Wiggly
United Brook
A. G
Behrens
Kimbell, Waples Platter
A. L. Davis
Buddy
Palizzio
DeLiso Debs
Paramount
Amalfi
Debs
West
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Caprock
Masha’ Monroe
Alena Korenetshiasa
Antle Whith
Miss White
Tiber
Singapore
Methodist
West Texas
House of Beauty
Breck - L'Oreal Olive Oil Permanentl
Soft Water Service
Ull
Dad
Pioneer Natural Gas Company
Jay King Furn. & Appl
Dupont
Ylon
Preeers
Elgin
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