Windstorm leaves Sagerton family homeless in mobile home
A 70 mph wind gust during a thunderstorm ruptured butane lines and started a mobile home fire in Sagerton, destroying most belongings of the Diers family. Neighbors and the Sagerton fire department assisted as the family recovered a few salvageables and awaited an insurance adjuster while considering a new home.
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Leigh Merchant
Sagerton
Charles Diers
Old Glory
Diers
Kimberly
Revival Among Young People at Lueders First Baptist
The Lueders First Baptist Church hosts a youth revival August 27 to 31 open to school aged youths. College and high school leaders from Lueders and Avoca Baptist churches run nightly programs with meals, Bible study, and recreation including homemade ice cream. The first gathering is at Rev. and Mrs. Neal Shepherds home Monday Aug. 27 with adult supervisors present.
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First Baptist Church of
Lueders
Lueders Baptist
Avoca
Neal Shepherd
Stamford Council Deliberates Sanitation Bids and Sets Special Session
Stamford city council postponed action on commercial sanitation services during the regular session on Monday and scheduled a special session next week. Two bids were opened from Triple C Sanitation Service of Idalou and local contractor Leon Hargrove for landfill maintenance and collection services. The panel seeks comparative figures before deciding, with Triple C offering two proposals and Hargrove bidding solely on landfill maintenance.
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Stamford
Triple C Sanitation Service
Idalou
Leon Hargrove
Triple C
Hargrove
Lake Stamford Park
Louis Kohout
Mary Stephenson
Tamara Newland crowned Jones County Cotton Queen in Anson
Stamford High School senior Tamara Newland was named the Jones County Cotton Queen at the county fair in Anson on Thursday night August 16. She is the first Stamford contestant to win the title in six years.
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Tamara Newland
Stamford
Anson
Miss Newland
Billy Adams
Abilene
Stamford girl crowned Jones County Cotton Queen
Tamara Newland of Stamford was named Jones County Cotton Queen over 22 contestants, sponsored by the Authorized Sears Catalogue Merchant. First runner up Susan Kinney, also of Stamford, sponsored by the Stamford Rotary Club. Second runner up Karla Berry of Anson. The previous Stamford queen was Cathy Pritchard in 1973.
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Stamford
Jones County
Tamara Newland
Yvonne Newland
Tucker Newland
Stith
Sears
Susan Kinney
Susan
Ray Kinney
Stamford Rotary Club
Karla Berry
Anson
Cathy Pritchard
Billy Boone
Booster Club Begins Membership Drive at Stadium
The Stamford Athletic Booster Club is selling memberships with a table at the stadium before Friday's Clyde scrimmage. Bulldog pins will be offered. calls for membership info go to Wanda Wade by day or Melba Reaves after 5 pm, or Mercedes Perez after 5 pm.
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Stamford Athletic Booster Club
Clyde
Storm lashes Sagerton area with damaging winds and rain
Springlike storms hit the Stamford Sagerton region from Sunday to Tuesday bringing up to 3.50 inches of rain in Sagerton and gusts around 70 mph that toppled mobile homes and damaged structures. In Lagerton the Diers mobile home burned after a butane line rupture caused a fire. No injuries were reported.
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Lagerton
Charles
Helen Diers
Kimberly
Stamford
Sagerton
Charles Diers
Larry LeFevre
Susan
LeFevre
Stenholm to address joint service clubs luncheon
Congresssman Charles Stenholm will speak at a joint luncheon of local service clubs in the Lion's Club Building on Tuesday August 28 from 11 45 a m to 1 p m. Non members may attend by reserving with Joe Smith Upshaw by noon August 27 at 773 3681.
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Charles Stenholm
Lion’s Club
Joe Smith Upshaw
Starr Leaves Coke Manager Post as Marr Takes Over Stamford Plant
Kenneth Marr is named Stamford Coca Cola plant sales center manager, succeeding Don Starr who had held the role since 1960. Starr, 43, says he is not retiring but on special assignment as a consultant and will tend to farming, while campaigning for Charlie Stenholm. The Stamford center covers parts of nine counties and about 1000 customers. Marr and Starr share similar backgrounds, both Army veterans and longtime Coke employees.
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Kenneth Marr
Stamford Area
Stamford
Coca Cola _ plant
Don Starr
Starr
Coca Cola
Charlie Stenholm
Coke
Cong. Stenholm
California
Maryland
Germany
Midland
Harmon Daffern
Marr
Paint Creek High School
Vietnam
Jones
Haskell
Stonewall
King
Kent Dickens
Baylor
Knox
Shackelford
Throckmorton
Margaret Kinser
Scranton
Pam Cox
Munday
Sharon
VIP Club Blood Pressure Clinic for Members Page 13
The VIP Club plans a blood pressure clinic for members with details on Page 13. The Stamford American features photos from Sunday's wind damage at Sagerton across this week’s edition.
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Sagerton
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Kim
Stephen White
Jack Watson
John McGaughey
McGaughey
Clifford Beggs
Marvin Hinds
Jim Riley
Riley
Homer J. Merriott
Council
Central County
Jones County Cotton Queen
Booster Club
Will Stegemoeller
LeFevres
Stegemoeller
K. A. Balzer
Leo Monse
Monse
Cong
Stenholm
Eastland County
Scranton High School
Cisco Junior College
Valerie
Chamber of Commerce
The
Lions Club
Orient Street Church of Christ
Patricia Woods
Mindy
Dusty
J.O. Connell
Connells
Caribbean
New Mexico
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