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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1964
Page
7
A collage of notes covers education debates over rapid reading versus slow reading, a farmer’s cotton harvest lag, Christmas shopping trends, and light sports notes. Anecdotes include Mickey Mantle’s campus visit, editor reflections, and a traveling salesman’s Ozarks encounter, all reflecting everyday community concerns.
A decorative cornice broke off the roof of San Francisco's historic mint and fell about 50 feet onto the car roof of the building's maintenance chief. He quipped that the incident was typical of the problems he faces keeping that place together.
Lynn Wolf accompanies Coach Don Beck pictured with three players named for honorable mention Mike Smith Freddy Bobo and Neal Roberts in the team frame.
College Station reports that extending soil chemist Jim Valentine urges farmers to chemically analyze irrigation water to avoid future soil productivity loss. Samples should be taken during peak use and sent to the Soil Testing Laboratory at Texas A&M with Form D-617. fee is five dollars per sample.
Physicians, dentists and nurses will be needed in growing numbers, along with more medical technologists, dietitians and therapists. The forecast highlights workforce shortages and the push for broader recruitment to support expanded patient care services.
Mrs Wyrick is survived by a sister Mrs Ethel Hilburn of Wellington and a brother Willie Greer of Texline along with three grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Mr Wyrick preceded her in death March 19 1937 and a daughter Mrs Ludie Lawrence died May 19 1951.
Dozens of farmers in the Quail area report short crops and worry over a loan rate three cents below last year. Gins north of Salt Fork say cotton is drying well with little weather damage. Grades have slipped from middling light spot to strict low middling as late summer burn affects some fields.
Urgent warning urges readers to act on kidney warning signs such as getting up at night and pain. The ad promotes BU KETS a gentle diuretic tonic available today at PARSONS DRUG with a 39 cent back guarantee.
A London physician writes in a medical journal that he finally stopped nail biting after extracting his own front teeth. The drastic self cure highlights a controversial approach to habit cessation and raises questions about self treatment ethics.
Patsy Reynolds of Texas A&M urges expanded public health units to provide mental health services statewide. She notes 195 counties lack such services, leaving 2.5 million people without access and calls for more clinics beds and trained workers beyond metropolises. Judge J C Abernethy leads the Mental Health Planning Committee drafting action recommendations.
Yellowstone Park is recognized as the world’s first national park marking a milestone in conservation. Established to preserve geysers, wildlife, and natural landscapes, its creation set a precedent for protected areas globally.
Booker T. Washington 9th and 10th grade boys and girls basketball teams beat Memphis Morningside in a Wednesday doubleheader in Memphis on November 25. Girls won 22 to 8 with Mary Ingram scoring 9, Lou Moore and Carolyn Kilgore 6 each. Boys won 49 to 32 paced by Claude Barber 10, Virgil Massey 9, James Smith 9.
The Collingsworth Chamber of Commerce sent ten letters this week to young doctors seeking a local practice, selected by the medical care committee from a Texas Medical Association list. The push to recruit an additional Wellington physician has been a major Chamber and Builders Club effort this year with seventeen letters mailed recently and ongoing personal and letter contacts. All current local doctors back the drive.
A Palo Duro Canyon State Park overnight tale reports Scout Graigery Donnell of Canyon waking at 4:30 am to find a pole cat in his sleeping bag. He was treated for scratches and warned to watch for infection. both he and the skunk survived with memories of the encounter.
In Great Yarmouth England a slot machine was delivered to court as evidence after a jackpot payout caused a dispute in a gambling prosecution. Police and court officials sealed the machine and prepared it for inspection as part of the case.
Van Delmer B. Duckworth of Norfolk has earned the rank of Petty Officer MM/3 in the U.S. Navy and serves with an air compressor crew aboard the aircraft carrier USS Randolph. At 21, he is the youngest in his division with that rating and has the shortest service time. He enlisted June 19, 1963 after graduating Wellington High School in 1962 and working in Paul Spillman’s law office. He is the son of Mrs. Mae Duckworth of 1000 Ennis Street.
The list names players including Ronald Hunt of McLean Gary Smith of White Deer and Charles Smith of White Deer with teammates Mike Henderson of Canadian Joe Rudy of Wellington Monty Hawpt of White Deer Jim Odom of Memphis and Kenneth Harrell of Canadian. Wayne Barton of Wellington is quarterback with Vernon Marler of White Deer Keith Yarnell of Canadian and Dick Crockett of McLean at full back.
Collingsworth County prepares for the 1965 upland cotton referendum with 63,694 available acres and a national 16 million acre allotment plus 200,000 from reserve. If two thirds vote for quotas, price supports rise to 65 to 90 percent of parity with penalties for excess. else the 50 percent parity rule applies. All 1964 upland cotton producers are eligible to vote on December 15.
John Forbis chair of the Collingsworth county savings bonds committee reports county sales in October totaled 5717 dollars. Texas Series E and H sales for October reach 12227000 dollars statewide. The ten month Texas total is 124000000 dollars, up 1.4 percent from last year, with the county year-to-date at 77197 dollars, 70.1 percent of the 110000 dollar goal.
In Paraguay a firefly known as the railway beetle emits a red glow at the tail and a green glow along the sides as it flickers nightly.
Rev and Mrs Davis Edens and their children from Denver City spent Friday of last week visiting friends in the area.
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