Avoca Residents Reunions Highlight Weekend Gatherings
Avoca area residents attended multiple family reunions and weekend visits. The Wat and White families hosted gatherings at Lake Stamford and Anson High School Cafeteria, with about 80 attendees each. Visitors from Abilene, Tuscola, Dallas, Stephenville, Del Mar, and San Diego joined relatives, sharing meals, games, and travel between events.
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L. Z. Wat
Lake Stamford
Mamthers
Ince Eugene Watts
Doc White
Anson
J. E. White
Anson High School
Ernest Sylvesters
David Spurlin and Sons
Raymond Sylvester
Abilene
John F. Cyress
San Diego
Calif
Leona Jennings
Milton Jennings
Alvin Sylvester
Glenn Sylvester
Lloyd Johnson
Stephenville
Stamford FFA student attends national leadership conference
Ricky Miller, 16, of the Stamford FFA Chapter at Stamford High School, traveled to Washington D C for the National FFA Leadership Conference at the National FFA Center. The weeklong program features leadership training, heritage education, and exchanges of FFA ideas, with tours to Mt. Vernon, the National Archives, Smithsonian, Arlington Cemetery, and a Capitol Hill luncheon with Congressmen. Miller is the son of Mr and Mrs J Mike Miller. his instructors are W L Medford and W R Holbrooks.
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Ricky Miller
Stamford
FFA
Stamford High School
Mt. Vernon Plantation
National Archives
Smithsonian Institution
Arlington National Cemetery
Capital
Omar Burleson
Anson
Capitol Hill
Washington
Miller
J. Mike Miller
W. L. Medford
W. R. Holbrooks
Women’s Meeting Set in Austin June 24 to 26
A Texas IWY gathering in Austin June 24 to 26 marks International Women’s Decade. A bus will transport Abilene attendees, departing June 24 at 11 15 a m and returning June 26.
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Texas
Austin
Abilene
Texas Iwy Committee
Ruth Kirby
23Rd Street
Littlefield
Barbara Pillow
Texas Tech University
Lubbock
Stamford businessman files voluntary bankruptcy petition
A Stamford businessman, David Lee Brown, filed a voluntary bankruptcy in Abilene federal court listing debts of 95176 and property valued at 100970. He lives at Lake Stamford and operated Thompson Hardware Co. since June 9, 1975, a store formerly owned by the Thompson and Huston families. Petition filed by Abilene attorney Walter S. Pope Jr.
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Stamford
David Lee Brown
Abilene
Brown
Lake Stamford
Thompson Hardware Co
Thompson and Huston
Walter S. Pope Jr
Local man to become lector in San Angelo diocese
Thirty eight men of the Catholic Diocese of San Angelo including one from Stamford will be instituted as lectors at Sacred Heart Cathedral by Most Reverend Stephen A. Leven at 3 30 p m Sunday June 19. The reading will begin the two year path toward permanent deacon ordination with September set for acolyte institution and Holy Orders in 1978. The class meets monthly for weekend training with Reverend Russell Schultz as Academic Director. A prior class of thirty men was ordained last August and Jesse Moreno of Stamford is among the current candidates.
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Diocese of
San Angelo
Stamford
Stephen A. Leven
Sacred Heart Cathedral
Leven
Russell Schultz
Jesse Moreno
Abilene visitors attend tennis tournament and family gatherings
Beccy Garvin Sissy Heathcott and Christy Lindsey visited Abilene relatives over the weekend. Tommy Lindsey Max Williams and Steve Mahood attended the Abilene tennis tourney with Max placing second in states and the pair winning the over age 38 doubles division. Wayne Rennels stayed for a two week visit with his grandmother.
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Max Williams
Wayne
Steve Mahood
Dallas
Wille Williams
Max
Steve
Abilene
Notable Social Roundup and Pioneer Adman Albert Lasker
A long social note lists numerous gatherings in Lagerton Abilene Stamford and Anson with visits from Hale Fosterings Risters and Townsends among others. The piece shifts to a portrait of Albert Lasker a Galveston advertising pioneer who shaped radio ads promoting brands and programs and helped launch Amos n Andy Lum and Abner Information Please and more.
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Albert Lasker
Texas
Galveston Free Press
Bob Hope
Bing Crosby
Jack Johnson
Galveston
Lord & Thomas
Morris Lasker
Amos N’ Andy
Lum and
Abner
Information Please
NARFE Leader Urges Unity to Defend Federal Retiree Benefits
Clyde W. James of West Texas, vise president of NARFE, spoke to local members urging united action to oppose benefit reductions. He stressed that every federal retiree should join NARFE, noting the organization began in 1920 with 14 members and has since grown.
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Clyde W. James
West Texas
National Association of Retired Federal Employees
NARFE
United
James
U. S
U S. Civil Service Retirement System
Lubbock
NARFE Brazos Valley chapter serves federal retirees
More than 250000 members with chapters across all SO states, NARFE has pushed retirement system improvements including annuity increases survivor benefits health plan cost of living escalator and fund stabilization. Brazos Valley Chapter serves Anson Stamford Haskell and Knox City meeting monthly. contact officers Dunklin Foster Baldwin and others at listed boxes and phones.
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NARFE
James
Brazos Valley
Anson
Stamford
Haskell
Knox City
Hawley School Receives Federal Education Entitlement
Cong Omar Burleson announces $3 219 tentative entitlement for Hawley Independent School District for fiscal year 1977 under Public Law 874. Office of Education federal aid targets affected areas. $0 certified for immediate payment. check expected within the week.
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Omar Burleson
Hawley Independent
Office of Education
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