Texas Cowboy Reunion Deepens West Texas Heritage
A July 1978 Texas Highways feature on the 48th Texas Cowboy Reunion in Stamford depicts the event as a regional cultural festival. It highlights grand entry scenes, rodeo events, old-time fiddlers, chuckwagon barbecues, and people from Persimmon to Rising Star, stressing continuity with the past and ongoing vitality in a four-day celebration each July 4 weekend.
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State of
Texas
Beverly Stoeltje
Bob Parvin
Greg White
W. B
Dub
West Texas
Stamford
Jones
Haskell
North Plains
Paducah
Aspermont
Cross Plains
Rising Star
Scurry County
Haskell County
America
Texas Cowboy Reunion
Texas Construction Boom Highlights January April 1978
Texas construction boomed with 1.2 billion dollars in new building value for January through April 1978, led by homes. UT bureau notes 48,779 new dwellings, 39 percent above last year. Midland tops per capita values. state highway plan funds 70.5 million for 3,766 miles. Grover withdraws from Senate race. Courts, opinions, and party politics also summarized.
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Lyndell Williams Austin
Texas
University of Texas Bureau of Business Research
Midland
Bryan College Station
Amarillo
Austin
Houston
Dallas-Fort Worth
State Highway and Public Transportation Commission
U. S
Grover
Avoca Girl Earns Tech Degree in Health Education
More than 2,000 graduates received degrees at Texas Tech University's spring commencement. Among them was Quala M. Buerger of Avoca Route 1 Box 48, completing a health education major.
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Texas Tech University
Avoca
Quala M. Buerger
Route 1
Box 48
Driver license offices to be closed next week
The Stamford driver license office will be closed Tuesday July 4 and Officer Melvin Cagle will return July 11. The Anson office will be closed July 3 and reopen July 7.
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Stamford
Melvin Cagle
Anson
Pioneers on Parade and Stamford Update
The Stamford American reports farm to market road difficulties near Lake Stamford look solvable as city council sets the tax rate at 1.35 per 100 valuation. A Western Week Rodeo Sell-A-Bration runs June 27 28 29 with 44 entrants in the barrel race for a hand-tooled saddle. C E Bunkley becomes Stamford Rotary president succeeding George Kinney. The July 4 holiday prompts early newspaper press.
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Stamford American
Lake
Stamford
City of
C. E. Bunkley
Stamford Rotary Club
George Kinney
Kinney
Texas Cowboy
Pioneers on Parade and Stamford City Actions
Twenty years ago Stamford voters kept the same tax rate of 1.35 per 100 valuation as work began on a new grain warehouse with half a million bushel capacity on West Gould Street near the migratory labor camp. A TB test program in Jones County aims for modified tuberculosis free accreditation, with Department of Agriculture inspectors testing cattle from beef and dairy herds. The Stamford Inn reservations persist yearly for the Texas Cowboy Reunion, and Anne Hudson was elected sheriff at Bluebonnet Girls State in Austin. The city council approved lake patrol and regulations at Lake Stamford, with full text to be published.
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Supreme Court
W. St. John Garwood
Austin
Republican Party of Texas
John Hill
Billy Goldberg
Texas Research League
California
Texas
Bill Clements
Department of Agriculture
Jones County
Stamford Inn
Sarah Foster
Stamford
Lake
Anne Hudson
Nelms Named to TSTI Sweetwater Honor Roll
Stamford student James R Nelms earns a place on the spring quarter honor roll at Texas State Technical Institute Sweetwater campus. He is listed on the President's Honor Roll after completing training in Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Mechanics at TSTI Sweetwater.
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Stamford
Sweetwater
Texas State Technical Institute
TST
James R Nelms
Nelms
Tsti Sweetwater
Screening Clinic Set Here July 19
The Texas Department of Health Region 4 will hold a screening clinic at the Stamford Library Building 600 McHarg Stamford on July 19. Clinic hours run 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Services include diabetes blood pressure skin tests for tuberculosis and immunizations. Please bring immunization records for follow ups. No charge for services.
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Texas Department of Health
Region 4
Stamford
McHarg
Sidelong glance at Supreme Court ruling on police search powers
Dear editor, J A laments a Supreme Court decision allowing police with warrants to search newspapers offices for notes and photos. He questions scope, return of items, and if writers like him could be searched. He seeks help locating a missing letter amid desk clutter.
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Johnson Grass
Paint Creek
Supreme Court
Big City
Stamford American
Dallas Morning News
J.A
County bond sales top $100000 in May totals
Jones County reports May Series E and H United States Savings Bond sales totaling 102733, reaching 25 percent of the 1978 goal of 410000. County sales were 22155 and Texas statewide May sales reached 25166570. Through five months, Texas sales total 130175129 with 42 percent of the yearly goal achieved.
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United States Savings
Jones County
A C. Humphrey
Texas
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