West Texas Barrel Racing Roundup to Bring 200 Contestants to Stamford
About 200 cowgirls including veterans travel to Stamford this weekend for the West Texas Barrel Racing Association Roundup. Events at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday feature barrel racing goat tying ribbon roping breakaway roping and flag racing. An 8 p.m. Saturday awards banquet at Cliff House honors the year’s 15 high point winners with prizes including a horse trailer from the Stamford Chamber of Commerce and a saddle from Eager Feed Mill. Competition is divided into senior novice and junior divisions based on earnings and age.
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Stamford
West Texas Barrel Racing Association
WTBRA
Texas Cowboy Reunion
Cliff House
High Point
Stamford Chamber of Commerce
Texas
Eager Feed Mill
Ances
Association
Stamford Observes Labor Day Holiday by Local Merchants
Stamford will observe Labor Day as a holiday designated by local retail merchants. Most businesses will be closed on Monday.
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Stamford
Youthful customers slow to use new age liquor rule
Stamford area package stores report few 18 to 21 year olds bought liquor or beer after Monday’s law change. Don Foster of Foster's Package Store notes about four customers in the newly eligible group, with potential weekend increases. Jack Stacy of Pinkie's at Tuxedo cites one 18 year old at liquor store and two or three at beer store Monday.
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Stamford Area
Don Foster
Foster's Package Store
Stamford
Jack Stacy
Pinkie’s
Tuxedo
Season tickets go on sale for 1973 Standard Bulldog football
Season tickets for the 1973 Standard Bulldog football season go on sale Thursday and Friday at Ang 30 and 41 near CR Anthony's on the west side of the square. Tickets priced seven fifty for five home games and one fifty for a single game. Preseason scrimmage with Coatoma Friday at four hundred pm.
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Bulldog
Ang
Anthony's
Fice
Gregory Conducts Methodist Service at St John’s Church
Gregory, son of Mr and Mrs Cecil Gregory and a graduate student at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore Kentucky, delivered the service at St John’s United Methodist Church. The Rev Jarrell Sharp, pastor, was hospitalized at Stamford Memorial Hospital with chest pains last week, was dismissed, and plans to recuperate at home and resume normal activities soon.
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Marvin Gregory
Cecil Gregory
Asbury Theological Seminary
Wilthore, Ky
St John’s United Methodist Church
Jarrell Sharp
Stamford Memorial Hospital
Abilene
Stamford
Stamford Police Back Retirement Plan With State System
Seven members of the Stamford Police Department voted with City Manager H. K. Macomber to join the Texas Municipal Retirement System pending board and city council approval. Macomber said the board in Austin must act and the council must also approve since employee funds are city matched. If approved, the program could take effect in October. Officers previously declined enlistment when it was on an individual basis. now it would be a department enrollment. Currently some city employees are already in the system with employees contributing five percent of salary and the city contributing seven percent.
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H. K. Macomber
Texas Municipal Retirement System
Counc Macomber
Austin
Stamford
Macomber
Sesson
Thurman
Richards
Reuguiyating
Hamlin
H. G.pete? Andrews
City paving projects face shortages halt in Stamford work
Stamford city paving, led by City Manager Magnuinter, sits at a standstill due to shortages in asphalt ingredients and limited supplies from the Texas Highway Department. Public Works Director Bob Dickenson notes about HW blocks of streets resurfaced and more work planned when materials arrive.
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Bob Dickenson
Public Works
Stanford
Anson Meeting Hears Three County Redistricting Proposals
County citizens gather at the Anson courthouse as a committee presents three proposed divisions for Jones County commissioner precincts to satisfy Supreme Court one person per precinct. Plans from Richards and the judge split Hamlin Stamford and Anson across four precincts with equal voter counts. The session notes public support calls for prompt action and warns against delaying until 1986 or letting a court decide.
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C. O. Richards
Anson
Jones County
Richards
U. S. Supreme Court
Marshall Wyatt
Lueders
Cr. Richards
John Howard
Jon Scarborough
Damlin
Mack Doty
Charley Hollis
Earl McCaleb
Frank Carter
Leon Thurman
Midland County
High Court
Roy Arledge
Arledge
Joe Scott
Nugent
Ray Craig
Acion
Craig
Hamlin
Funeral for Steven Peery Held in Dallas
Steven Peery husband of Cindy Brown Burtigld and son in law of Stanford native Jim Brown died in a Dallas motorcycle accident. He and his wife resided in Dallas. Services were held Wednesday in Dallas.
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Steven Peery
Dallas
Cindy Brown
Burtigld
Stanford
Surmday Peery
Jim) Brown
Stamford Public Schools adopt 859980 budget with 1000 enrollment
The Stamford Board of Trustees approved a 859980 budget as enrollment reached 1000 by Wednesday. The plan adds 62664 for cafeteria expenses and 31000 for anticipated salary increases, with 1000 total students across kindergarten through twelfth grade including 302 in Oliver Primary and 267 in Reynolds Elementary.
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Stamford Public School
Woodie Beene
Beene
Oliver
Stamford
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