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SCHOOL BUDGET TO BE AIRED HERE Public hearing of the proposed school budget for the 1966-67 school year has been set for Tuesday night, Aug. 9, in the high school li brary, starting at 8:00 o'clock. School Supt. J. M. McCroskey said that bids for gasoline, milk, ice cream and bread will also be opened at the meeting. The public is cordial ly invited to attend, it was stated. Officers of this area sought Monday and Tues day of this week to deter mine if the shooting of Alex Phipps Saturday afternoon, is related to a double mur der in the same vicinity heb. 25. Sheriff C. M. “Speck” Strawn of this county, was summoned to the Phipps home about 4:40 p.m. Sat urday by a phone call that said Phipps had been shot. PIONEER GROCERY CLOSES AUGUST 1 Tankersley Grocery, a business firm of this city since 1916, founded by the late J. D. Tankersley, clos ed its doors to the buying public Aug. 1, and the stock and fixtures have been sold to various firms and in dividuals. Mrs. Maude Tankersley, widow of the firm’s founder has operated the business since 1934, assisted by her brother, Robert Dotson, who has been associated with the store since its be ginning. Mrs. Tankersley said that she will retire and do some of the things she has al ways wanted to do but, couldn’t because of the press of business problems and Dotson says he will en joy semi-retirement but plans to work at least part time here. The public in general and old-timers in particular, will regret to learn of the clos ing of this pioneer business firm. Mrs. Tankersley asked the Reporter to convey her thanks to all who favored her with their business and friendship during her long tenure in business here. Copy deadline is 2 p.m .Tuesdays for Reporter. Upon arrival he found that Phipps was suffering from a loss of blood from a flesh wound in the hand. He brought the injured man to the hospital here and en route Phipps told him that he had been shot while putting feed in a creep feeder at his ranch in Bosque County. Phipps said three shots were fired at him from a car moving down the rural road past his feed lot. He stated that three men were in the car but he could not identify them. Phipps’ daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae Phipps, and a friend, James “Bink” Brown, were gunned down with a shotgun in her home about a mile from the scene of this last shooting. Their murders remain un solved. After leaving Phipps at the hospital here, Sheriff Strawn radioed Bosque County Sheriff A. O. “Tiny” Carr to meet him at the county line where the two joined in an investiga tion of the scene and area. Strawn said there may be a connection between the assault on Phipps and the double murder, but that no real leads have been found yet.
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Glen Rose Reporter
Glen Rose, Texas, US
Thu, Aug 04, 1966
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