Fifteen Stamford Bulldogs receive All-District honors
Stamford Bulldogs earn District 6-AA recognition as coaches named top players. Ricky Miller, senior, is on both the first team defense and second team offense. Additional first team defense picks include Ayloi Cook Pat Liles Victor Davis.
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Stamford
Ricky Miller
Ayloi Cook
Pat Liles
Victor Davis
Augustino Alvarado
Allen Moore
Arthur Applin
Ernest Fernandez
Ike Liles
Jodie McGaughey
Steve Schmidt
Miller
Edward Gardner
Mike Cox
Heller and Miller Share Gene Stuckey Award Honor
Don Heller and Ricky Miller were co-recipients of the Gene Stuckey award at the annual football banquet held Monday night at Cliff House Restaurant. The fourth award in memory of official Stuckey honors a senior athlete for talent, character, and leadership on and off the field. Varsity players received plaques for Dr. Tony Selmon, Willie Medford, George Rollins, and John Blackstock. Special guests included coaches wives, SHS twirlers and cheerleaders, with Sonia Carter providing entertainment.
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Don Heller
Ricky Miller
Gene Stuckey
Cliff House
Stamford
Tony Selmon
Willie Medford
George Rollins
John Blackstock
SHS
Sonia Carter
County history book pickup in Jones County Friday and Saturday
Residents who ordered The First Hundred Years A History of Jones County can pick up copies Friday and Saturday at the Cowboy Country Museum from 10 am to 4 pm. Hooper Shelton will sign books, and an Old Quilts Display by the Stamford Lioness Club will be open, featuring about 50 quilts spanning over a century.
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Jones County
Cowboy Country Museum
Hooper Shelton
Stamford Lioness Club
Artist Finds Talent at Age 73 in December Display
Vivian Culwell Edmonds, 75, named artist of the month for December with about 75 paintings on display at the Chamber of Commerce office. A former Frog Holler School pupil and childhood playmate of Cong. Omar Burleson, she began serious art in the last two years after taking classes with Nell Bennett in Stamford. Edmonds has won Jones County Fair prizes and studied with John Crump of Anson, while balancing family life with five married daughters and nine grandchildren.
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Vivian Culwell Edmonds
Cong
Omar Burleson
Frog Holler School
Stamford
Chamber of Commerce
Mrs. Edmonds
Cong. Burleson
Frog Holler
New Light
Cong Burleson
Meldon
C. Raney
Nell
ACU taps ex Bulldog Ted Sitton as head coach
Ted Sitton, former Stamford Bulldog and Abilene Christian College standout, has been named head coach at Abilene Christian University. Born January 30, 1932 in Stamford, Sitton played quarterback at Stamford High School before college and has coached at ACU, Graham, and Abilene High School. He and his wife Gloria Pace Sitton have four children and multiple grandchildren living across Texas.
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Ted Sitton
Abilene Christian University
Stamford
Sitton
A. B
Pat) Sitton
ACU
Stamford High School
Bulldog
SHS
Abilene Christian College
Graham and
Abilene High School
Lillian Bushell
New Hope
Stonewall County
Nacogdoches
Sittons
Pat
Elizabeth Street
Patsy Bohannon
Garden Grove
Calif
Peggy Hickey
San Antonio
Carolyn Coggin
Denver City
Jean Williams
Corpus Christi
Phil Sitton
Gloria Pace
Ambulance plan, gas rate talks mark Stamford council meeting
Stamford council tabled natural gas rate hike and a subdivision water contract while debating ambulance service changes. Own ambulance duties sparked proposals from Gene Stanford to assume all calls with a lease option, as officials weigh legal issues. The sole enacted measure was a second reading ordinance closing a south Stamford alley and street.
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Stamford
Lone Star Gas Company
Glade Reed
Leland Nauert
Gene Stanford
Stanford
H. R
Macomber
Cantata at First Baptist Church Sunday Evening
The First Baptist Church Adult Choir directed by Larry Armentrout will present The King Of Kings cantata this Sunday at 7 p.m. with Lynda White Marilyn White Lillian Southerland on piano and organ and soloists Mrs Larry Armen trout Mrs Allan Wedeking Bill Glenn and Mark Lovver. After the service the congregation will donate wrapped white food gifts for needy families and the choir will perform for Teakwood residents Sunday afternoon. An all church reception follows the service as December activities begin the holiday season for the church community.
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Peterson
First Baptist Church
Larry Armentrout
Lynda White
Marilyn White
Lillian Southerland
Allan Wedeking
Bill Glenn
Mark Lovver
Teakwood
Stamford Chamber manager resigns to join Denton post
Darrell W. Woolwine 39 resigns as Stamford Chamber of Commerce manager effective Dec 15 to become assistant manager and head of the convention and visitor bureau in Denton starting Dec 18. He led local events and cooperated with the Stamford Housing Authority and Day Care Center during 111 months here.
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Darrell W. Woolwine
Chamber of Commerce
Denton
Woolwine
Stamford
Convention and Visitor Bureau
Stamford Housing Authority
Sweetwater
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Duncan
Okla.) High School
Inclement weather looms over Stamford cotton harvest
Harsh forecast slows area cotton gathering as gins report 963 bales weighed, with Gillespie Gin at Tuxedo busiest at 525 bales. Temperature swings from 76F to near freezing complicate picking. Rain chances 20 percent Wednesday, 33 to mid 30s highs, extending into Friday.
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Stamford
Gillespie
Tuxedo
Smith
Farmers Coop
Paymaster
Corinth
Bricksdale! Coop
Sagerton
Hughes
Avoca
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Marty Gomez
Mike Farda
Colorado City
Stuckey
Alldogs
Share Stuckey Award
Howard Payne
Central State University
Edmond
Okla
Black Hills State College
Spearfish
S. C
Department of Army Recreation Services
Korea
Bill Longley
Darrell Woolwine
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