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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1968
Page
5
The Democrats plan a platform draft this week and a Chicago meeting next week to nominate a President and Vice President. Amid war criticism, Republicans favor general principles over rigid rules while Truman quips about running on a record. The column also notes dove season opening and local notices about Pal o Duro Canyon Park and theater operators.
The second community sing out will be on Tuesday August 27 at 7 p.m. in the High School auditorium. Paul Guthrie leads with the Star Spangled Banner and other numbers like Summer Time Guan Tanamera and In the Good Old Summer Time. Local groups including Silly Lemons the First United Methodist choir and Mt Zion Baptist Church participate. The Barbershop Quartet from Music Man entertains with accompanists Mrs Den Van Pelt and Mrs Truman Estes. Connie and Gwen Lewis sing a vocal duet with Cherry Lewis.
Sister Agnes Catherine joined the St Josephs Hospital staff arriving from the Mother House in Springfield. She is a registered nurse from New Orleans trained at Charity Hospital and with the Visiting Nurses Association part of the Public Health program.
Walter Franks born December 17 1891 in Newburg Arkansas died after health decline in Wellington Kansas. He moved from Quail to open a first store on West Avenue later built the Franks Building on East Avenue. Funeral held at First United Methodist Church with burial in Memorial Gardens. Survived by wife Pearl, daughter Vernene Day, two brothers and two sisters with one granddaughter.
The report notes storms spared most areas west of Wellington and Clarendon with limited damage. Crops across the region appear healthy with dark green cotton and sorghum, suggesting potential irrigation and a harvest likely better than average barring hail or insect losses.
The Garden Valley reunion for residents and former residents of Garden Valley in Childress County will be held Sunday August 25 in the Women's Department building at the Fair Grounds in Childress. Registration starts at 10 a.m. a basket lunch will be served and the business meeting begins around 1 p.m. Visiting and singing follow.
St Josephs Hospital will sponsor a Collingsworth County fair booth September 6 and 7 to promote the Red Cross Blood Bank There will be information displays and volunteer signups Sister Perpetua said The Red Cross may visit again after September 26 and Archie Williams of Wichita KS coordinates the drive In the past year the county used 299 pints with 153 sent to St Josephs Hospital and the rest to local residents
Thayne Amonett, longtime athletic director and head coach, is named principal of the Wellington elementary school by Superintendent J. L. Harper. Amonett, who holds a BS from Texas Tech and an MS from Midwestern, will keep his football coaching duties with Hamilton and Forrester as assistants, and Stavenhagen and Nunnelley taking on grade teams.
Family members from Berkeley Missouri and St Louis visit Mrs. J. H. Birchfield at the Folks Convalescent Home where she recovers from a broken hip. She receives physiotherapy and hopes to walk again with a walker.
The Collingsworth County Cotton Insect Control Association organized in 1967 will spray cotton three times at one week intervals to prevent boll weevil overwintering and spring hatch. Oklahoma and Childress County growers may sign up August 29 to September 2, sharing costs with Texas farmers. full price applies to outside state land.
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