Dollars For Tourism Seeks Local Support For Limestone County
A parade of residents and local families donate to the Dollars for Tourism campaign in Limestone County. The list includes many names and households from Menlo Park to nearby towns supporting tourism development. An AP dispatch notes tense clashes in Menlo Park and a Tennessee gubernatorial nomination win for Buford Ellington, plus a botany note defining a houtboy as a strawberry variety.
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Limestone County
Ellington
Tennessee
Nashville, Tenn
Buford Ellington
Johnson
Kennedy
Four Mexia Jaycees Boost Blood Donor Drive
Letter lauds the Limestone County Jaycees for increasing first time donors at the bloodmobile. They organized a blood program at Calvary Baptist Church on Wednesday August 10 from 3 2 to 6 p m under D F Smith, chairman, Limestone County Red Cross Blood Program.
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Limestone County
Calvary Baptist Church
D. F. Smith
Limestone County Red Cross Blood Program
Man Threatened To Climb Peak And Shoot People
Armando Pruna 54, a former Cuban resident, was arrested in El Paso after threats to climb a mountain and kill several people. Police seized a rusty 32 caliber pistol and seven bullets from a motel room. The FBI said he telephoned relatives in Philadelphia saying he would go up the mountain to kill himself. He was held in a mental ward at an El Paso hospital.
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EL Paso
Franklin
Armando Pruna
FBI
Philadelphia
Penn
Carlos Pruna
Worm diggers win 25cent raise in blood worm strike
In Wiscasset Maine the blood worm diggers reach a price increase of 25 cents per 100 worms from worm dealers ending a strike that kept 300 workers from winter digging. Digger Darrell Russell stated they dig year round even at ten degrees below zero. Six Flags Over Texas marks its fifth anniversary with brief ceremonies at the Park Mall area.
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Wiscasset
Maine
Darrell Russell
SIX Flags
Dallas
Texas
Mall
Sunday School Lesson On Honoring Parents In The Home
A 1966 Sunday school lesson interpreting the commandments focuses on the fifth commandment and the home as a school of faith. It argues parents must model Godly living, teach prayer, and avoid provoking children, with the northern emphasis on obedience, respect, and wisdom from God.
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Jesus
God
Christ
Funeral services set at Coolidge for Luana Hayes
Funeral services will be held at St James Primitive Baptist Church in Coolidge Sunday at 3 PM for Luana Hayes a 10 month old who died in Coolidge August 2. Rev C C Collins will officiate and burial will follow in Coolidge cemetery with Dorsey Keatts Funeral Home handling arrangements. Luana born October 1 1965 in Coolidge was daughter of Leola Hayes. Survivors include grandfather Judie Hayes of Coolidge great grandmother Mrs Josie Thomas of Coolidge and four nephews and four nieces.
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St. James Primitive Baptist Church
Coolidge
Luana Hayes
C. C. Collins
Dorsey Keatts
Luana
Leola Hayes
Judie Hayes
Social Security outreach and a local singing event in Mexia
A Waco social security representative will assist Mexia residents at city hall every Thursday from 10 am to noon for right to payments while the Stars of Harmony from Waco will sing Sunday at 7 30 pm at New Home Church on highway 14 sponsored by the Usher Board. A Washington hearing on Selective Service is deferred. A Batman sidekick’s wife gives birth to a daughter and a Texas City crash report notes a dusting pilot killed and a baseball record from 1924 is mentioned.
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Mexia
Stars of Harmony
New Home
North Highway 14
Usher Board of
Selective Service
Mary Livingston
Washington
L. L. Sheffield
Armed Services
Tee
Mexia Harrison Team Picnic At Fort Parker Park
Members of the Harrison Furniture baseball team held a banquet at Fort Parker State Park with families present. Sponsor Hubert Harrison distributed pocket knives, and players received first place trophies along with gifts to the manager and assistants.
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Harrison Furniture
Fort Parker State Park
Hubert Harrison
Harrison
Mexia Baseball Association
Pat Fain
Danny Wright
Johnny McClure
Michael Boehme
James Shamblin
Terry Aycock
David Mitchell
Wesley Pittman
Jim Ramsey
James Anderson
Marcus
Frost
Tony Lauderdale
Weaver Connell
Laddie Aycock
Larry Evans
Gary Thomas
Bill McCullough
Annellal Wright
Bruce Fagin
Bathoy
Last Rites Held for Mrs Jackson in Groesbeck
Mrs. Halle Mays Jackson dies at Coxs Hospital in Groesbeck. Funeral Sunday 4 p.m. at Head Branch Baptist Church conducted by Rev. N C Williams. Burial in Lone Star Cemetery Groesbeck with Dorsey Keats Funeral Home in charge. She leaves four sons five brothers five sisters and extensive grandchildren and great grandchildren.
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Cox's Hospital
Groesbeck
N. C. Williams
Lone Star Cemetery
Dorsey - Keats
Rosse
Jackson
Limestone County
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Baptist Church
Curtis Jackson
Pampa
Dim Jackson
D. Maurice Jackson
Seattle
Washington
Rogernald Billy Jackson
Oakland
California
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Dallas
Vernon Mays
Corpus Christi
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Victoria
Mays
Robstown
Gertrude Loyd
Rosena Tillie
Oma Tipps
Bernice Jackson
Rosa Marshall
Kerrville
Last Rites For Mrs Gamble At Cotton Gin Church
Mrs Eva Dec Williams Gamble dies Aug 2 in Mexia General. Services at Gipson Chapel A M E Church Cotton Gin Sunday at 1 pm. Burial in Cotton Gin cemetery by Dorsey Keatts Funeral Home. Survivors: husband General Gamble of Mexia. four daughters Myrtle Biggers Roxie Carter Eleador Mims Erma Dee Hudnall. six grandchildren. two great grandchildren. three sisters Naont Williams Geneva Williams Long Bluitt. two brothers Lawrence Williams Maurice Williams.
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Cotton Gin
Eva
Methodist Church
General Gamble
Mexia
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Houston
Roxie Carter
Eleador Mims
Midland
Erma Dee Hudnall
Dallas
Wichita Falls
Long Bluitt
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Maurice Williams
Paris
Young Austin Couple Survive Whitman Encounter
A UT student Don Walden and Cheryl Botts described a blond gunman with two rifles in the university foyer before Whitman’s spree. They fled down the stairs and alerted police, narrowly escaping harm as shots rang out near the tower.
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4 Sus
Austin American
Miss Botts
University Tower
Don
Cheryl
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