Barstow Community News Recaps Christmas Events and Meetings
Barstow residents attend Bridge Club luncheon December 9 at Pecos hosted by Mrs Frances Manuel with many guests. A Christmas party December 13 at Mrs Loren e Trott's home featured devotional readings gifts and refreshments. City council slated to meet December 16 at the Community Center to discuss water superintendent resignation and other items.
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Barstow
Bridge Club
Frances Manuel
Pecos
John Burkholder
W. L. Fuller
Forrest Walker
Walter Burkholder
Charles Dyer
Madge Conger
Marion Russell
4.L. Young
Bob Faulkner
Iva Wadley
Thelma Northcutt
Lorene Trott
J.E. Echols
Woodrow Echols
Trott
Albert Rice
Murrah Cranfill
Roy Williams
Rice
Williams
Vernon Alldredge
Wendell Nichols
Natha Gillis
Wi. H. Diehl
Elizabeth Felts
Freeland
Inez D. Rogers
Vinson
Nichols
Belle Hummel
L.O. Ryland
Toyah Holiday Luncheon Honors Senior Citizens
Toyah Home Demonstration Club hosted a Christmas luncheon for Toyah senior citizens in the home economics room. Out of town guests from Duluth Minnesota and Carlsbad New Mexico attended after car trouble brought them in. The Toyah Methodist Church youth will present a short Christmas program with a small gift exchange tomorrow evening.
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Toyah
Toyah Home Demonstration Club
Home Economics Room
Tom Cargill
Georgia Daniel
Ann Duncan
Robert Jones
J. F. Keating
0. G. McPherson
Christina Renteria
Kenneth Scott
Dave Thomason
Ott Tinnin
Parliament
Jack Farrel
Carlsbad
N. M
Thomas H. Ross
Ross
Duluth
Minn
California
Toyah Welcomes New City Hall in Former Church Building
Toyah City Council met in the former First Christian Church building given to the city by church members. The land belongs to the city for the building lot swap. The church dating from 1929 or 1930 funded by egg sales and homegrown vegetables, restricts dances and alcohol. the new hall will host community events. The Toyah 4 H Club Christmas party at the school followed with gifts and refreshments for 17 members and two guests.
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Toyah
First Christian Church of
O. G. McPherson
Jack Burchard
McPherson
T & P Railroad
Jack
Enco
Women’s Christian Association
Toyah 4~F
Don Gass
Action volunteers and disadvantaged citizens take on nationwide year of service
Delphine Bad Wound from the Oglala Sioux leaves the reservation to join University Year for Action. About 550 students from 20 colleges will work in health, housing, and education, living in communities and earning credit and stipends.
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Washington
Delphine
Capitol Hill
South Dakota
University of Colorado
Peace Corps
Joseph Blatchford
Action
Federal Citizens’ Service Corps
Blatchford
Dorsement
Nixon
University of Nebraska
Action Headquarters
Richard Hranac
Broken Bow
Neb
Arlene King
Howard University
Philadelphia
Hospital seeks exit from Baptist alliance in Texas
Memorial Baptist Hospital System votes July 16 to separate from the Baptist General Convention of Texas. Witness W. Wilson Turner testifies at an injunction hearing as J. B. Bumgardner sues to stop the release of control. Defense argues the vote was internal convention matters.
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Bradshaw
Bumgardner
William M. Holland
Alaska natives near reclaiming 40 million acres and funded relief
Alaska natives face poverty as Congress approves a bill to return up to 40 million acres and 962.8 million dollars. Don Wright of the Alaska Federation of Natives says the measure aims to end poverty pockets. many communities would gain land but cannot sell it for 20 years. The move comes amid a history of limited private land ownership and dire living conditions.
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Anchorage, Alaska
Alaska
Congress
Don Wright
The
Alaska Federation
Tives
Balmorhea Community News Recaps Local Meetings and Visits
Mrs. Jane Moore attended the national American Vocational Association Convention in Portland representing Texas homemaking and vocational teacher associations as a voting delegate and president of both groups. Also noted are Balmorhea Hobby Club’s Christmas dinner, Mrs. Helen Martin’s housewarming in Balmorhea Housing Development, and a visit from Mr. Earl Mayor of Broomfield Texas to Balmorhea en route to Phoenix.
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Jane Moore
Balmorhea High School
Portland
Ore
National American Vocational Association
Moore
Vocational Homemaking Teachers of Texas Association
Texas Vocational Technical Association
Coasta
Territorial Association
Sidney Marland
U.S
Educaion
J.C. Penney Co
McCall’s Patterns and Coats and Clark Company
Timberline Lodge
Helen Martin
Martin
Balmorhea
Deacus Jones
June Glover
W.S. Stephens
Floyd Brownfield
W.E. Moore
Earl
Broomfield, Cole
Mrs. Moore
Phoenix
Fort Worth Commissioners Oppose Trinity Tollway Study
Tarrant County commissioners voted unanimously to halt further studies of the Trinity Tollway linking Dallas and Fort Worth. They urged the Texas Turnpike Authority to convert the existing Fort Worth Dallas toll road to a free highway after bond payments. Dee Kelly of the Turnpike Authority said the move will kill the project.
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Fort Worth
Tarrant County
Dallas
Texas Turnpike Authority
Fort Worth-Dallas
North Dallas
Texas Highway Department
Turnpike Authority
Tral Texas Council of Governments
Dee Kelly
Tarrant Commissioners
Trinity Tollway
Retiring GM chief cites productivity concerns
James M. Roche, leaving General Motors chairmanship, warns output per manhour rose only 2.1 percent annually in five years, the lowest among major nations, while hourly pay rose 6 percent, pushing unit labor costs up. He notes stark international contrasts and sees no easing of ecologist power industry tensions, highlighting lebensraum as a core issue.
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John Cunniff
AP Business News
New York
James M. Roche
General Motors
National Association of Manufacturers
Roche
United States
West Germany
Sweden
Switzerland
Japan
Germany
Dallas student wins top prize at London drama school
Tiffany Dianna of Dallas Texas won the $265 Ronson award as the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts top promising actress of 1971 and said she must return to the United States because she cannot obtain a work permit or Equity card in Britain. She came to London three years ago, working menial jobs while studying at RADA.
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London
Dallas
Tex
Tiffany Dianna
Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts
U.S
Britain
Equity
Tiffany
RADA
Ronson
Academy
Susannah York
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First Presbyterian
Council
W.L. Fuller
Yale
Sierra Madera Water Utilities District
Fort Stockton
First Baptist Choir of
J.J. Maxey
Jim Pirkle
McCamey
Robert McAnally
Ernest
Amarillo
Garcia Is Home
Jose Garcia
Memorial Hospital
Kermit
Garcia
Benny Gresham
Mesa
Arizona
Geronimo Hignojos
Viet Nam
Benito Hignoros
Manuel
Lydia) Garcia
Fred R. Smith
Lubbock
Teresa Smith
Girlstown USA
Lee
Tony
Bruce Ryan
Adolpho Muniz
Robert
Danny
Delma Pena
Mark
Greg Dinwiddie
Ben Villalobos
Debbie Schmidt
Rebecca Koenning
Benny
Olga
Victor Juarez
Pablo Navarette
Hmigino Garcia
Bobby Edge
First Presbyterian Church
C.W. Wright
Rhonda
Tony Fleenor
Stephen Hughes
Mary
Kenneth Felts
Mike Goode
Bill Willman
Kent Lauderdale
Tommy Diehl
Daniel
Debra Hughes
Debbie Barnett
Vicki Goode
Ernie
Naomi
Wanda Felts
Ernest Felts
Mrs. Freeland
Woodrow -Echols
Grants’ Pass
Oregon
Paul Sullivan
Tammy
Red Bluff
Sullivans
Jamie
Toyah Senior Citizens
Ab Cunningham
Avery Ranch
Davis Mountains
Cunningham
Irs
Pat Owoodnight
Holiday Feed
Sierra Blanca
Higinio Salinas
Mr. Salinas
New City Hall
Hospital
Wright
Teresa Moore
Winnie Jones
Jewel Brey
Marie Backus
Nora Boyd
Wilma Finley
Jean Rowe
Rosa Renz
Jennie Stroade
John Hiett
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