Safeway Expands Stamford Store With Five New Faces
Safeway opens a Stamford supermarket April 19 with five new staffers including assistant manager C P Hendrix from Abilene. D C Field Jimmie Mitchell and FF BL Johnson transfer from Coleman and Bob Goforth joins as journeyman meat cutter from Big Spring. The store, costing about 120000, will feature modern equipment as Wayland Fuqua notes, with 14 existing workers and four part timers.
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Safeway
C. P. Hendrix
Abilene
Hendrix
Stamford
D. C. Field
Jimmie Mitchell
FF. BL Johnson
Coleman = Safeway
Bob Goforth
Big Spring
Wayland Fuqua
Haney and
Sibley
Fuqua
Rotary to Observe 50th Anniversary in Stamford
The Stamford Rotary Club marks its 50th anniversary with a 1 p.m. April 20 ladies night at the Country Club. Rex Webster, former Rotary International VP, will keynote with Governor Maurice Crawford and district leaders attending. Tickets are $3.50 from Fareed Hassen. A brief club history will be presented and charter member T. J Elliott plans to attend.
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Stamford Rotary Club
Country Club
Rex Webster
Rotary International
Maurice Crawford
Wichita Falls
R. I. McArron
Breckenridge
Roscoe Blankenship
Abilene
Fareed Hassen
T. J Elliott
Cleburne Huston
Fortieth Texas Cowboy Reunion set for Stamford July 1 2 3
The fortieth Texas Cowboy Reunion will be held July 1 2 and 3 in Stamford. Eugene C Swenson president announced committee chairs including Jake Westfall ad publicity and Dr Tony B Selmon first aid with many longtime volunteers and a line of rodeo events and attractions.
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Stamford
Eugene C Swenson
Will Rogers
Dif
Jake Westfall
Westfall
Tony B. Selmon
H. G. Andrews Jr
Raymond Hollabaugh
John M. Bennett
C. E. Brownfield Jr
Roy Craig
Russell Crownover
George Humphrey
Stanley McKeever
A. J. Mills
Gerald Proctor
Charles Stenholm
Carl E. Swenson
J. H. West
Eugene Swenson
Cowboy Reunion
Carl Swenson
Bernard Buie
H. G. Andrews
A. M. G. Swenson
W. G. Swenson
Jimmy Walker
John R. Rice
Pre Schoolers Registration and Examination Set
Pre school round-up to be held April 99 and 30 in the Home Economics Building at the high school starting at 12 30 p m each day. Parents of children entering public school next year should bring birth certificates and vaccination records for diphtheria toxoid and smallpox for registration and examination by doctors and a dentist. Dr Tony B Selman Dr T A Bunkley and Dr Gene Shelhamer will assist.
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Tony B. Selman
T. A. Bunkley
Gene Shelhamer
Volleyball Champs Fall to Ballinger in Bi-district
The Stamford District 7-AA girls volleyball squad lost to Ballinger in a bi-district contest in Abilene on April 6. Ballinger won 15-8 and 15-0. Olga Alvarez led Stamford with four points as Ballinger advances to the regional in Lubbock.
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Stamford
Ballinger
Abilene
Olga Alvarez
Bulldogs
Lubbock
Rites Held for Dr Rutherford at St John s
Funeral services for Dr J H Rutherford 97 were conducted April 12 at St John s United Methodist Church with Rev Jarrell Sharp officiating. Burial followed at Highland Memorial Cemetery. he died Sunday at Stamford Inn after living there since 1965. He was born January 3 1874 in Vandalia Illinois.
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J H. Rutherford
St. John’s United Methodist Church
Jarrell Sharp
Highland Memorial Cemetery
Kinney Funeral Home
Rutherford
Stamford Inn
Vandalia
Ill
Vanderbilt University
Stamford
Marrie Ethel Moore
West Texas
Masonic Lodge
Vanderbilt
Knights of Pythias
St. John’s
Joe Rutherford
Waco
Harrison Durrett
Houston
Ben Cole
Richard Lane
Tony Selmon
Ike Hudson
F. E. Upshaw
Bartlett Helland
J. M. Ashcroft
Wilcoxes Attend Eleventh Western Heritage Awards Banquet
Mr and Mrs R T Wilcox have been invited to the eleventh annual Western Heritage Awards Banquet and Ceremony at the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center in Tulsa Oklahoma on Saturday April 24 rising the event in the local society notes.
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R. T. Wilcox
National Cowboy Hall of Fame
Western Heritage Center
Tulsa
Okla
Stamford Hospital District plans to expand and improve
Stamford Memorial Hospital reports a 1970 profit of 46 728 and rising 1971 records. Occupancy hit 50 beds with 55 patients at times. January 40, February 42 average. Administrator John Martin spoke to Rotarians on district boundaries, possible elections, and a future tax rate drop to 12–15 cents.
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Stamford Memorial Hospital
John Martin
Stamford Hospital
Rotarians
Martin
Medicare
Funeral Rites Held for E. V. Chastain in Stamford
E. V. Shorty Chastain, 73, a longtime Stamford grocer, was laid to rest Monday at Kinney Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Garry Worden officiating. He died Saturday at Hamlin Hospital after a march 31 illness. Born July 31, 1897 in Fannin County he moved to Stamford in 1920 and married Nettye Grubbs in 1930. Survivors include his wife three daughters two in Del Rio one in Baytown six grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren.
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FE. V
Shorty) Chastain
Kinney Funeral Home
Garry Worden
Temple Baptist Church
Highland Memorial Cemetery
Chastain
Stamford
Lillian Cross
Margaret Foster
del Rio
Helen Wallen
Baytown
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Jess Watson
Skinner
Wendeborn Field
Jeff Thane
Tracy Daniel
Robert Moreno
Dr. Rutherford
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Lucille Mueller
Southwestern Apparel Co
C. O. Shiflett
Texas Central Railroad
John Harrell
Stamford Industrial Foundation
J. W. Golden
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U. S. Chamber of Commerce
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