Collingsworth County Fair Announces Horticulture Plans
The 1983 fair will feature edible horticulture and agricultural crops exhibits in Burn Handley Community Center over September 9 and 10. Entries from county residents grown in 1983 are accepted with check in September 8. Judges award ribbons, rosettes, and prizes for top placements. divisions cover agricultural crops, forage, grains, seeds, sheaf forage, cotton, fruits, and vegetables with detailed entry counts and class specs.
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Collingsworth County
MD Telethon Set September 4 5
Wellington joins 30 Panhandle towns in the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon with a pledge center at Wellington State Bank. The 22 hour event runs 8 p.m. Sunday Sept 4 to 6 30 p.m. Monday Sept 5, coordinated by Neil McKinney and staffed by the BPW Club. Telethon benefits Muscular Dystrophy Association local patients and research, broadcast by KFDA TV10 Amarillo with reporters and fundraisers.
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Wellington
Panhandle
Wellington State Bank
Neil McKinney
Business
Las Vegas
The
Muscular Distrophy Association
MDA
Kfda-Tv 10
Amarillo
Mark Robertson Baker
Ken Baiers
Get the Most From Set-Aside Legumes
COLLEGE STATION Texas A&M University soil chemist Dr. Carl Gray explains how proper management of 1983 set aside legume crops like peas guar or clover can fix nitrogen for next year. Delaying decomposition preserves nitrogen, reducing future fertilizer bills and lowering needs for cotton sorghum and corn.
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College Station
Carl Gray
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Texas A&m University System
Nitrate and Prussic Acid Poisoning in Forage Sorghums
Dry heat this summer damaged dryland forage crops in Collingsworth County. Producers grazing PIK acres planted in forage sorghums should request permission at the County ASCS office. Nitrate above 1 percent risks toxicity. below 0.5 percent may be fed as total diet. Prussic acid risk rises in stress from drought, especially in Johnson grass and sorghum types. Suspect forage can be tested at the Texas Vet Lab in Amarillo or via veterinary labs. a one pound sample is required. Costs available at the County Extension Office. The Egyptians are credited with making the first leavened bread via airborne yeast spores.
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ASCS
Sudan
Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Lab
Amarillo Blvd
West
Amarillo
Ex- Wellington Leader alumni gather for reunion and tales
Nine former Wellington Leader employees visited for the Ex-Students Reunion, recapping postwar lives from Topeka to Lubbock. Other exes include Tanya Embry and Pauline Patterson, with notes on Miss Loco winners from 1933 and 1934. A local relic features a roof shingled with 1931 car license plates, reflecting hard times in 1931.
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The
Wellington Leader
Marie Seaberry Copeland
Topeka
Kansas
University
Exa Cadd
Dorothy Jane Riggs Vinson
San Diego
Mary K. Stephens Poteet
Lubbock
Wilma Brewer McClure
Wichita Falls
Treva
Wellington
Loco
Pauline Brown Patterson
Grace Sims Gerret Now
Floydada
Collingsworth
Tommy Powell
Soil Conservation Service
Tommy
Vance Hunts Vacation at Dodson Home
Mr and Mrs Vance Hunt and John of Round Lake New York visit Dodson and spend their vacation at their home south of Dodson. Nearby visitors last week include Faye Flatt Dallas George Carpenter and Kenndrick Joy Amarillo Spur lin Vinson Bob Garton and Robert Mangum Oklahoma City Lockney and many others from Dallas Waxahachie and surrounding towns. Dodson hosts Howard and Jo Hunt A V Lowrie Bundy Moore and R T Jameson among others.
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Vance Hunt
John
Round Lake
N.Y
Dodson
Faye Flatt
Dallas
George Carpenter
Kenndrick Joy
Amarillo
Lynn
Christine Spurlin
Vinson
Bob Garton
Robert
Mangum
Okla
Slim McCoy
Childress
Marten Bradley
Annie Lee Kellison
Lockney
Bennie Z
Missy Rampy
Farmers Branch
Steve
Christi Hunt
Kenneth Hunt
Kimala
Red Oak
Rhonda Lanone
Waxahachie
Frank Duckworth
Gina Conner
Quitaque
Newell McDaniel
Hollis
Guy Tyler
Sims to Speak Sunday at 1st Methodist
Woodrow Sims, Shamrock city manager and layman of First Methodist Church, will address the congregation at First United Methodist Church on Sunday at 10 55 a m. Rev Tom Thomson of Wellington will depart that morning for Asbury Seminary Wilmore Ky to complete Doctor of Ministry exams in progress.
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Woodrow Sims
First Methodist Church
Shamrock
First United Methodist Church
Sims
Tom Thomson
Wellington
Asbury Seminary
Wilmore
Card of Thanks for hospital stay and care
Mrs. Fred Myrtle Yarbrough expresses gratitude for friends concern flowers cards gifts and prayers during surgery and recovery. She credits Farris Woods Irene Yarbrough for yard and garden care. Mr and Mrs J D Farrar and D Ett Creed thank all for condolences food cards calls visits and memorials after brother John Farrar's passing.
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Farris Woods
Irene Yarbrough
Mrs
J.D. Farrar D'Ett
Public Notice on 1984 Budget Hearing by Appraisal Board
The Collingsworth County Appraisal District Board of Directors will hold a budget hearing for its 1984 budget on September 6, 1983 at 7:00 p.m. in the appraisal office Room 6 Courthouse. The public is invited to attend. /s/ Bill Lindsey Chairman Board of Directors Collingsworth Co. Appraisal Dist.
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Collingsworth County Appraisal District Board of Directors
Bill Lindsey
Collingsworth Co
Wtu
Commission
WTA
The
Shoal Creek Boulevard
Suite
Austin
Texas
Weekly School Lunch Menu and Odd Fact
The document outlines daily meals from Monday to Friday including breakfast items such as juice waffles cereal toast and milk and lunches featuring pigs in blankets raviola hamburger baked ham hoagies and sides like salad beans potatoes and fruit. A curious line notes the English used to mash hyacinth roots in white wind to hinder hair growth.
Bids Sought for 1975 Tandem Motor Grader in County Auction
Collingsworth County Commissioners advertise for bids on a used 1975 tandem motor grader with a 425 cubic inch diesel, 125 HP, six forward six reverse powershift, four wheel oil disc brakes, full hydraulic blade controls, ROPS enclosed cab, 14 ft moldboard with sideshift, 28 640 lb minimum weight, and six month or 400 hour warranty. Trade in offered: one used Caterpillar 120 SIN 896 984. Bids open September 12, 1983 at 2:00 p.m. right to reject any and all bids.
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Collingsworth County Commissioners Court
Commissioners Court
Helen Gollihugh
County Clerk
Texas
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Ralph
Monte Davis
Juanita
Vance
Beef Cattle Co
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1St Methodist
Fred Myrtle
Yarbrough
John Farrar
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Assembly of God
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11Th and
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Earl Lynn Feemste
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