Norwood Tournament Opens With Nine A.M. Games
The annual Summerwood basketball tournament begins Thursday at 9 a.m. with play through the day and continues Friday at 9 a.m. Saturday games start at 12 noon. Finals are 7 and 8:30 p.m. Saturday. Teams from Hedley Mobeetie Wellington Allison McLean Briscoe Summerwood and Estelline compete. Coach Kenneth Martindale urged fans to attend many games. Kids dislike empty gyms, he said, noting players practice all day.
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Summerwood
Kenneth Martindale
Hedley
Mobeetie
Wellington
Allison
McLean
Briscoe
Estelline
Martindale
Tournament seeds spark Eastern Panhandle interest says Mattindale
Mattindale notes the Eastern Panhandle will join the event and multiple districts may be represented if teams succeed in district play. He expects solid turnout given current seeds, though players still must win three games to clinch the tournament crown. A school meal plan for December 15–18 is listed.
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Eastern Panhandle
Mattindale
PTO Meets December 17 at Wellington School
The Wellington Parent Teacher Organization will hold its monthly meeting on Wednesday December 17 at 2 30 p m in the school cafeteria. First grade students will present the program with Mrs Adolf Schmidt president in charge.
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Wellington
Melvin Cardwell
Adolf Schmidt
Non sexist story books shift teachers faster than children
Tarleton State University expert says training changes teachers attitudes toward gender stereotypes quicker than preschoolers during a four week observation. Dr Dolly Thiem notes children already form gender role ideas before kindergarten from families stories TV and media images. The piece also recalls the Democratic Party convention in Baltimore in 1832 with Andrew Jackson as nominee.
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Stephenville
Tarleton State University
Dolly Thiem
Tarleton State
Texas A&m University
Thiem
Record Heat Hits Texas Cities But 1936 Still Tops
Texas cities endured a scorching summer with many 100 degree days and Wichita Falls reaching 117 degrees while Seymour’s 120 degree mark remains the state record set in 1936. The dust bowl era drought lingered with sparse rainfall as towns under 500 population slowly regained residents in the late 1960s.
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College Station
Texas
Seymour
Wichita Falls
Texas A&m University
Nutrition Not Top Factor for Fast Food Choices
A Texas A&M marketing professor reports that nutrition ranks low among factors families consider when choosing fast food. In a study of 60 women across income levels, taste often outweighed value, price, convenience, and cleanliness in meal decisions.
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College Station
Texas A&m University
James McNeal
McNeal
Notice of Intent to Change Greenbelt Electric Rates
Greenbelt Electric Cooperative filed with the Public Utility Commission of Texas to approve retail rate changes effective December 15, 1980. The plan covers residential irrigation small and large commercial and security lights, seeking about 126457 dollars additional revenue based on the adjusted test year ending March 31, 1980, reflecting a 7.28 percent operating revenue increase.
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Greenbelt Electric Cooperative
Finc. Tas
Public Utility Commission of Texas
Card of Thanks From Emett and Annie Ware
We thank everyone for kindness during illness with visits food flowers thoughts and prayers May God bless each of you Emett and Annie Ware A note on offshore oil platform cost estimates references a $2 billion figure for a deep water project off the Norwegian Continental Shelf
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Emett
Annie Ware
Norwegian
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