Castro County Citizen Of Year Edd McLeroy Honored
Edd McLeroy, longtime Castro County extension agent and later vice president of First State Bank of Dimmitt, received Castro County’s Citizen Of The Year for 1972 at a banquet in Dimmitt High School gymnasium. The district lauded his leadership in diversifying crops, promoting cotton and sorghum, aiding lamb feeding, and his work with 4 H youth and charities.
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Edd McLeroy Castro
Act
Dimmitt
Edd McLeroy
Ray Joe
Huley
Bank of Dimmit
Castro County
McLeroy
Castro Izon
Chamber of Commerce County
First State
McLer
Riley
Meleroy
Dimmitt High School
Kenneth‘ White
Tulsa
David Dechtel
Bill Behrends
Dimmitt High
Richard Bales
Houston Jesuit Fathers Sue Sharp and 72 Others
The Houston Educational Foundation suing in federal court names 73 defendants including Frank W. Sharp Preston Smith Louis Welch and Michael Kennelly in a 115 million civil action accusing unregistered securities fraud and misuse of Jesuit funds. The suit cites Sharp as the principal architect and lists other notable figures tied to the Texas Stock scandal.
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Houston
Imer
Texas State
Texas Offir
Elmer Baum
Sharp
Texas
Preston Smith
Louis Welch
Michael F. Kennelly
Strake Jesuit College
Loyola University
New Orleans
Gus Mutscher
John Osorio
The
Educational Foundation
Kennelly
National Bankers Life Insurance Co
Smith and Baum
Welch
Dallas
NBL
Sharpstown State Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Wustee Henry Oliver
Farwell Sisters Dominate Junior Livestock Show Stars
Annette Langford of Farwell showed the grand champion steer weighing 1 057 pounds sold for 6 cents per pound. Her sister Jacquelyn Langford exhibited the reserve champion steer. Multiple exhibitors from Friona Lazbuddie Bovina and surrounding towns also entered champion sheep and barrows in five divisions.
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A-J
Friona
Palmer County
Annette Langford
Farwell
Jacquelyn
Leon
Langford
Rick Seaton
Larbuddie
al Kerby
Bov
Mike Windham
Lazbudie
Kevin McClaran
Bovina
Jim Smith
Lazbuddie
Dennis Willard
Karen Hart
Ex Enemies To Gather At Reunion In California
Ex enemy pilots will join the 91st Bomb Group Memorial Association in Anaheim California for their annual reunion. Former German Luftwaffe flyers and American bomber crews will swap war tales and view a revised aerial film clip titled The Memphis Belle.
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Anaheim
Calif
UPI
Hitler
Germany
91St Bomb Group Memorial Association
Statue Returned After Two Years on Upland Lawn
A 100 pound iron statue of a boy with a lantern, stolen two years ago from a private lawn, reappeared on Mrs. Walter Kozierowski’s yard after being left by two men in a car. She wondered why it was taken and why it was returned.
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Upland
Walter Kozierowski
Welfare rolls rise 16000 in September 1972
UPI reports HEW data showing welfare recipients up by more than 16 000 in September 1972 while total welfare cost fell 30.3 million to 1.6 billion due to reduced medical assistance expenditures. AFDC gained about 30 000 cases and APTD added 6 000 as state changes varied.
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Washington
UPI
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
Social and Rehabilitation Service
AFDC
Michigan
Ohio
Georgia
Illinois
Caroline
Missouri
Florida
Wisconsin
Alabama
New York
Refinery Cluster Defines Texas Gulf Coast
The eastern Texas Gulf coast hosts the world’s greatest concentration of petroleum refineries. The dense cluster underscores the region’s heavy impact on global energy supply and regional economy.
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Houston
Texas Gulf Coast
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Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
ZinmDeause Livingston
Ing Aid Center
James L. Miller
Equitable
John E
John E. Gaschen Agency
First National Pioneer
Lubbock
Ver
Sue Sharp
Texas Atty
Gen
Waggoner Carr
Farwell Sisters
Padre Island
Texas’ Great Seashore
Padre Isles
Gulf of Mexico
Sal
Gulf
United States
P.O
Corpus Christi
Yuntay
Lubbore
Hecind
Cha
Tess Hose
Dillard’s
Elura
Sheerio
By van Raalte
van Raalte
Bikini
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