Three giving events in Stamford area this weekend
Stamford residents can participate in three worthwhile drives starting Friday through Sunday. A citywide newspaper drive benefits the Stamford Day Care Center, a Lions Club pancake supper supports the high school scholarship fund, and a blood drive Tuesday at St. John’s United Methodist Church offers the gift of life. Residents may call 773-2411 for pickup, and volunteers urge dropping old newspapers into a grain trailer on the square. Blood donations run 3 to 7 pm.
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Stamford Area
Stamford
Stamford Day Care Center
Lions Club
Red River
Red Cross Blood Center
Fellowship Hall
St. John’s United Methodist Church
Steps toward Texas deepwater terminal move advance
Gov. Dolph Briscoe signed orders creating the Texas Deepwater Port Authority after private plans for a Texas coast superport stalled. Seadeck Inc. and major oil firms pursued a near billion dollar offshore facility off Freeport, but federal rules and profit limits affected funding. Exxon Mobil and Gulf left the consortium, while Seadeck offered to transfer its federal license to the state.
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Austin
Dolph
Briscoe
Texas
Texas Deepwater Port Authority
Seadeck
Freeport
Hugh L. Scott
Seadeck Inc
House
Senate
Deepwater Port Authority
Scott
Seadock
Exxon
Mobil
Gulf
Local pumper receives 30 year Amoco service award
Henry J. Powell a Knox City Sub Area Levelland pumper, completed 30 years of service with Amoco on February 24. Presented the award by area foreman C W Miller Powell a Stamford resident will be honored at a year end awards dinner. Powell joined Amoco February 24 1948 as a camp tender in North Cowden area after early years as a roustabout and promotion to pumper in 1952. He has worked in the Knox City Sub Area Aspermont vicinity during development drilling in Frankirk Field. Powell is an avid sportsman and enjoys leisure time activities.
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Henry J. Powell
Amoco
Knox City
Levelland
Powell
C. W. Miller
Stamford
Amoco Production Company
North Cowden
Kupatt Elected Vice President of Texas Ginners Association
J D Kupatt farmer of Rule Lagerton was elected vice president of the Texas Cooperative Ginners Association for the 1978 79 term at the annual meeting in Houston Feb 12 14. A TCGA director since 1972 he has served on the Rule Cooperative Gun board for 16 years and led as president for 13 years. He and his wife Meta have four children and attend Faith Lutheran Church in Sagerton.
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J. D. Kupatt
Texas Cooperative Ginners’ Association
Houston
Kupatt
TCGA
Rule Cooperative Gun
Meta
Jana
Karla
David
Faith Lutheran Church
Sagerton
Workshop for 4-H'ers scheduled
4-H leaders and youth from Jones County are invited to the Texas 4-H Center near Brownwood for a two day workshop March 11 12. Training covers recreation aquatic science and community service led by Texas AEP staff and other resource persons. Contact the County Extension Office in Anson or call 823 3801 for registration.
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Jones County
Texas 4-H Center
Brownwood
Kirby Clayton
Necy Wilburn
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Anson
Stamford Man Becomes Game Warden In Lubbock County
News from Stamford in 1968 notes Bobby L. Goff, 26, has been commissioned as a game warden by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and assigned to duty in Lubbock County with headquarters in Lubbock, arrival expected around February 24. Also, a Stamford man, P. D. Park, has been promoted to full colonel in the Air Force. J. T. Wisener appears on UT Arlington dean's honor roll.
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Gail
Carrie
Bobby L. Goff
Stamford
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Lubbock County
Lubbock
Air Force
P. D. Park
Lendall Prewit
J. T. Wisener
University of Texas At Arlington
Pioneers on Parade 20 Years Ago In Stamford
Local photographer Linda Merriott wins a Rotary Club scholarship award of 100 dollars for Stamford High School with plans for future two-way recognition. Bob Galloway enlists in the Army for three years under a special program. Louis Blackstock presides at a Panhandle photographers meeting and highlights achievements. Charles Brownfield named Stamford Easter Seal chair. Lake Stamford State Park paving prospects rise after a farm delegation’s Austin visit. FR finish labeling proposal advances, per Beverly Rhoades of CPSC.
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Linda Merriott
Stamford High School
Bob Galloway
W. C. Galloway
Vanderbilt
Army
Fort Ord
Calif
Selmon earns master’s degree at UT Austin
The University of Texas Graduate School awarded 327 master’s degrees at the close of the 1977 Fall Semester. Master’s degree recipients, announced by Dr. Irwin C. Lieb, included John Richard Selmon of Stamford. Selmon received a Master of Science in engineering.
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University of Texas Graduate School
Irwin C. Lieb
John Richard Selmon
Stamford
Selmon
Pot hole money prompts rural post hole plan
J A reflects on federal pothole funding and proposes a rural counterpart to dig post holes. He jokes about inspectors and regulations while noting the high cost of filling 116 million holes and imagines Congress backing country projects to fix fences and protect farms. Local visitors are named.
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Johnson
Paint Creek
Thomas Jefferson
Congress
Washington
Commission
J.A
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Lyndell Williams
State Highway and Public Transportation Commission
State Board of Human Resources
State Board of Insurance
Hugh Yantis
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
San Antonio
Supreme Court
Missouri Pacific
Falls County
High Court
The
Court of Criminal
Carla Shearer
Criminal Appeals Court
Governor's Committee On Aging
Committee On Aging
Alamo Area
Kendall
Kerr
Medina
Wilson Counties
Killeen
South Plains Area
Hale
Hockley
Garza
Atty
John Hill
State Supreme Court
Wayne LeCroy
Texas Board of Private Investigators
Bill Clayton
House Agriculture Committee
Chase Untermeyer
Railroad Commission
Secretary of Interior
U.S. Supreme Court
Ginners
Stamford Amercan
B. Q. Cooper
Abilene
Susan Carothers
Miss Carothers
Rhonda John
Son
Sherry Swenson
Lueders
Dixie Bennett
Brazos Valley
Stamford American
Rotary Club
Louis Blackstock
Panhandle Professional Photographers Association
Herring Hotel
Amarillo
Panhandle Association
Texas Photographer Association
Blackstock Studio
Judy Mills
Charles Brownfield
W. M. Braymer
West Texas Rehabilitation Center
Lake Stamford State Park
Stamford and
Haskell
State Highway Commission
Consumer Product Safety Commission
CPSC
Beverly Rhoades
Wedgeco
Ross Gentry
E. Hamilton
Bunkley
Buddy
Northside 66
Upshaw
N. Swenson
J. A
Nora Macon
Opal Grice
Rule
Moneta Newman
Old Glory
Lynn Flowers
McHarg
Welding Works
Carl Cooper
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