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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1965
Page
11
The Texas Almanac new edition adds sections from space age to historic towns for tourists and researchers. It highlights Collingsworth County information and remains a popular household reference with accurate, concise, well written content.
A local letter writer critiques modern welfare work requirements and federal education reforms, laments history rewriting, and questions weapons strategy. He cites neighbors opinions, a 72 year old man jailed for defending a girl, and debates McNamara defense cuts versus modern missiles.
Texas Tech student Thomas Alf Thomas, Vega high school, and mentor Frank Kennedy led Vega FA to first in district contests at Dumas with four teams also placing. In Area 1 leadership at Plainview the team finished third.
John L. Hilgenfeld, a former Wellington man aged 79, died at his Canyon home on Saturday December 11. Born in Valley Falls Kansas he lived in Colorado after leaving here and moved to Canyon in 1947. He was a railroad engineer and later ran a lawn mower and bicycle shop. Surviving are his wife two sons four daughters 22 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren. Funeral services and burial were in Canyon.
Thomas family notes present at Lela with Mrs Zook Thomas teaching there again as he finishes his degree. The couple plan to join their small daughter and return for Christmas at their home.
Wilhelm Roentgen, a German physicist, first discovered X rays in 1805. Iris is identified as the Greek goddess of the rainbow in classical myth.
A brief note on bottle tracing describes submerged experiments using sealed bottles to map currents. The article hints at the method's simplicity and limitations for tracking ocean movement.
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