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Sunday will mark the official open ing of the new Stamford Memorial Hos pital and should be a just cause for celebration for it truly is a facility worthy of pride. Not only is the hospital designed to care for todays needs but the directors have built with vision. This hospital was built with an eye to the future and for a growing community. Everything is of the best. There has been no corner-cutting, no short cuts. The welfare of the patient has been considered at every point. Right now, The American would like to say thank you to the members of the board of directors who have given so unstintedly of their time. These are busy men. They have jobs of their own or businesses they need to look after. Yet they have given hours and hours of time to the hospital district. To get ahead, you have to look ahead. The idea must precede the action and a community that does not look ahead will go no where but backward. Stam ford is determined to continue to be a fine place to call home and the new hospital will make it even more so. We have often wondered why the bar bers and beauty shops in Stamford do not stagger their closing days. Why can’t at least one shop be open on Mon day and close on another day. Is not the convenience of the customer worthy of consideration? Maybe we are the only one, but it seems that every time we find time for a haircut it is on Monday and the shops are all closed. Those black and white license tags which have become familiar to Texas motorists will not be with us next year. Technical problems, it seems, will force abandonment of the plan which for years has called for black on white one year and white on black the next. The 1970 tags were to have been white on black but the reflectorized material used on the plates will not work on a black background. Maybe we will get in tune with the times and have psychedelic plates. Mike Cornelius of Lubbock, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Cornelius and grand son of Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Cornelius, has just joined the ranks of the golfing elite. Fifteen-year-old Mike made a hole in one on the Lubbock municipal course the other day. He hit a three wood 200 yards on the No. 8 hole and the ball went straight for the cup. Cong. Omar Burleson, in his weekly letter, summed up to a T our feelings about the war in Vietnam and the cur rent stalemate which has been brought about by this country’s actions. The congressman writes: “Since we are there, and everyone must ardently wish we were not, it seems our choices are narrow. In fact it appears there are only two. We either’ continue to bog down and lose Ameri can lives or we do what we are there to do. The latter, simply put, is to say to the aggressor that if he pulls his troops back into his country, the conflict will be over. Otherwise, the ‘optional mea sures’ mentioned by the Present on his visit to Southeast Asia means the use of air power to the extent neces sary to stop the enemy's aggressive cap ability.” Mrs. Alex Capps of Anson has sent The American two pictures which recall earlier days in Stamford — days when the romance of railroading still was at tractive to younger people. Although the pictures are about sixty years old some of the men are still recognizable. Mrs. Capps, the former Francie Cor ley, wrote: “When my girl friends would come to see me, we would run to the round house and ride the engines all around the yards and even to the oil mill.” She recalls that both Alex Capps and Vander Corley first worked in the round house before they became fireman and engineer, respectively. Capps was fire man on thee first locomotive to pull a passenger train into Spur. Corley was an engineer for more than 50 years. Most of the men in the pictures are now dead but will be remembered by Jones Countians. Henry Cook served as county commissioner, and John Cook operated a machine shop here for years.
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Stamford American
Stamford, Texas, US
Thu, Aug 07, 1969
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