Put Up or Shut Up Window Washing Week
Jack Stein recounts a humorous misadventure window washing for Wes, facing neighbors who want the service at their locations. He contemplates a new business charging 50 dollars an hour with a satisfaction guarantee to fund his children’s college future. Brenda might join him in a weekend venture and a local bank could host a college fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mack
Seem
Mack and Company
Wes
Austin
Bill Hobby
Texas
Hobby
Democratic Party
Dan Morales
D-San Antonio
Jim Mattox
Texas Gop
John Weaver
Capitol
It Was A Different World In The Mid 1940s
Johnny Cooper of WHS Class of 1947 recalls a premodern era before television penicillin and many modern inventions. He highlights cultural changes, everyday life costs and norms, from five and ten cent stores to gas prices, party lines, and social attitudes, noting a simpler but nostalgic time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dacron
Xerox
Kinsey
Ann Landers
Israel
Iceland
Texas
Union
Senate
Hobby
Bill Hobby
Wellington Texans Buck Banks In Panhandle Deposits
Wellington ranks tenth in the Texas Panhandle for bank deposits with 3 banks holding 4,951,944.89 dollars, trailing only Memphis in the region. Dodson's 669,254.78 dollars compares with Memphis 5,412,639.16 dollars as oil activity revival touches northern county wells.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellington
Texas Panhandle
Lower Panhandle
Memphis
Colvin
Sinclair Prairie No. 1
Wattenbarger
Mary E. Wattenbarger
China Grove
Elm Creek
Sinclair Prairie
E.K. Caperton
Shamrock
Texas budget and tax bills approved after 30 day session
Senator Bill Sarpalius reports the Texas legislature approved a record 38.3 billion dollar budget and a 5.7 billion dollar tax bill. He opposed both, citing waste and hasty drafting, noting impacts on the Panhandle South Plains area over the next two years. The budget increases are modest despite population and inflation growth, with agency consolidations and several eliminations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin - Texas
Panhandle-South Plains
Texas
Letters From The People Editor's Note Celebrates 97th Birthday
Judge R L Templeton writes to Ed Parrish recalling Wellington history from the 1928 Hoover Smith election and noting lifelong friendship with Parrish and his daughter Lillian Parrish. He mentions Benny Atkins grave, born memory, and extends birthday wishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Parrish
Wellington
R.L. Templeton
Parrish
Herbert Hoover
al Smith
Lillian Parrish
Walter Atkins
Benny Atkins
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West Avenue
Henry W. Wells
Cual UK
Texas Press Association
Panhandle
National Newspaper Association
Brenda
Jack Stein
Johnny Cooper
WHS
By Priscilla Sullivan
United Super Market
Can. Thompson Food Market
California
New York
Donald Curry
Keith Beeman
15Th St
Highway 83
Beeman
Church of Christ
Jan Glenn
Fort Worth
U.S
Louis Graham
Earl Hartman
Dan Fires
Collingsworth County Sheriff's Department
John Rainey
Buck Creek
Hay Camp Country Club
Hubert Brooks
John Alf Thomas
State Department of Public Welfare
Silverton
Turkey
Gop Pooh Pooh
Bob Bullock
Ann Richards
George Bayoud
Clements
Dallas
Bayoud
Linus Wright
Reagan
Department of Education
Bill Sarpalius
The
Good Neighbor Commission
Governor's Commission On Physical Fitness
Texas Sesquicenten
Nial Commission
Texas Department of Commerce
Texas Amusement Machine Commission
Comptroller of Public Accounts
Department of Highways and Public Transportation
Department of Public Safety
Texas Water Commission
Texas Railroad Commission
Texas Department of Agriculture
Oka
Lyndell Williams
Commerce Childress
First Federal Savings & Loan
First Federal Savings & Loan of
Waco
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