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Newspaper
Stamford American
Location
Stamford, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1973
Page
1
The annual Jones County Landscape and Garden Clinic will be held at the Cliff House in Stamford on Thursday March 15. The Garden and Landscape Clinic is sponsored jointly by the Stamford Chamber of Commerce and Jones County.
Lueders sees change as L. Peterson longtime banker linked with Tuscola Abilene and FDA becomes president of Farmers State Bank succeeding H Wayne Smith who joins Coleman Bank as senior vice president Rex Ford named assistant cashier after Feb 1 Martin Felts departure Extension Building Committee set speakers from Texas A&M Extension Service Emory Boring Dr Bob Berry Dr Everett Janne discuss insect problems plant diseases and home landscape design program runs 9:00 a.m. to noon with 8:30 a.m. Registration and noon meal
Fire Chief Bill Lawson and Mrs Lawson joined Denise and Beth in Merkel on Sunday for a planning session of the Mid West Texas Firemen and Fire Marshal's Association. The group prepared for the April 14 convention to be hosted by Throckmorton, with semi annual gatherings rotating towns.
Stamford merchants announce a Moonlight Madness sale this Friday night from 7 to 11. About 19 merchants participate and 5,000 mailers with 32 coupons will reach Stamford residents and nearby areas. One merchant notes special buys are essential for success.
City Manager H. K. Macomber and Public Works Superintendent Bob Dickenson attended a paying short course in College Station this week with two sessions held and one attended by Macomber and the other by Dickenson. Stamford has acquired paving equipment and seeks bids on more to enable city crews to pay for street work.
Fort Worth and Denver Railway plans to acquire the 42 mile Stamford to Rotan leg of Texas Central Railroad in a Rotan meeting at 1:00 p.m. Friday. The Interstate Commerce Commission approved FW D's Jones and Fisher Counties purchase. The line links Stamford to FW D's Wichita Falls Abilene route with stations at Hamlin and Rotan and carries wallboard plaster cotton and cottonseed products.
The Chamber of Commerce sponsors a fellowship breakfast to be held Friday morning March 9 in the basement of St John United Methodist Church. Serving starts at 7 am and the meeting ends after a brief visit and entertainment. Special guests will be introduced each week.
Three Stamford Baptist churches and additional churches in Avoca and Lueders will host a united series with five missionary speakers from March 15 to March 18. In Stamford the venues are First Baptist, Central Baptist, and Calvary Baptist. nightly 7 30 pm services Thursday to Saturday, plus 11 am Sunday service and 7 pm Sunday night. All area residents are invited.
The Stamford Cub Scouts host the First Annual Pinewood Derby on Sunday March 25 at 2:00 PM in Stamford High School gym. Scouts will build seven inch cars from kits, race on a forty foot track, with Hibbons and trophies for top finishers. Registration is 25 cents per car. limit one car per boy.
Finals in the Governmentan Action Speech Contest sponsored by Stamford Electric Cooperative will be in the Stamford city hall council room Monday March 5 starting at 7 30 pm Jerry Terrell SEC member service director says seven finalists from five area schools will compete Each finalist will speak five to eight minutes on My Responsibility as a Youth to my Community One boy and one girl win an all expense paid trip to Washington DC for the Texas Electric Cooperatives Youth Tour in June 1973 Finalists are Joni Dianne Letz Susan Baldree Patricia Anne Todd Douglas Alton Vahlenkamp Rekey Agee Russell Johnson and Norman Dozier
Leland Nauvert has filed for Place 2 on the Stamford School District board of trustees. The seat is currently held by Bob Prichard, who has announced for reelection. Filing deadline is March 7 with election day set for April. Trustee Lynn Gillespie, currently at Place 1, has announced for another term.
Stamford youths place in seven events at the Stamford High School Invitational. Seth Brownfield won girls informative speaking, Steve Link took third in veteran slide rule, Rus sell Rogenquist fourth and Tony Pierce fifth in junior high slide rule, Jacque Southerland third in persuasive speaking, Stanley Acker fifth in boys prose, Melissa Kohout fifth in girls prose, Zed Bennett fifth in boys poetry, Martha Humphrey fifth in junior high number sense, Randy Rosenquist fifth in science, Bucky Haters third in jumper high spelling, Steve Doty fifth and Tony Pierce sixth in another event. Andrews won sweepstakes with Stanton second and Lubbock third. trophies and plaques awarded. About 675 students and 100 adults attended, with participants from as far as San Antonio.
City council approves sale of 255000 in sewer and waste water project bonds for Stamford with an average 5.85 percent interest rate. Bonds are junior lien with interest-only payments until 1981 and principal funding begins then. Bid ads on the project, estimated at 409875, expected within weeks.
Low clouds over Stam ford Wednesday morning foretell rain farmers dread while fields slowly dry. The six month period Aug 1 1972 to Feb 22 1973 records 18.95 inches of rain far above the 13.17 inch average and surpassing the 16.73 inch 1968- era high. Snow mixed with rain on Wednesday and Thursday preceded a spell of clearing and early spring warmth.
Margin Stovall of Vernon will relocate to Stamford as a section foreman for the Ft Worth and Denver Railway. Kenneth Ogden, rail superintendent in Wichita Falls, confirms Stovall will assume his new duties soon.
A meeting of Jones County 4 H Adult Leaders will be held in the County Extension Agents office at 10 30 a m on Saturday March 17. Necy Wilburn and Kirby Clayton will discuss possible organization of the group into an association. All adult leaders are invited to attend.
Russell T. Kelley 25 a Stamford High School graduate and son of Mr and Mrs Holand Kelley was named sergeant at arms of the Texas House of Representatives. The appointment by Rep Joe Allen came after a unanimous committee vote. Kelley formerly served as senate sergeant at arms admin assistant and will start the new post this week. He attended Texas Tech University and McMurry College and was active in sports and student government. He has held roles with the National Conference on Legislative Security and represented in several national legislative activities.
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