Letters To The Editor And Alumni Seek Skyrockets All-Staters
An editor thanks a hospital board and urges county residents to back the hospital, denying a rumor of nursing home closure. A separate note seeks information on past WHS Skyrockets football players from 1937 who earned all-stater honors, asking readers to respond to the Wellington Leader or Rocket House records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McLean
Collingsworth County
Beatrice Thomas
R.N
Wellington
WHS
Collins
Henry Sullivan
Rocket House
Floyd Hood
Clyde Ingram
Douglas Duncan
Gene Baird
Charlie Johnson
Vesta Lee Orr
Hood
South
Ingram
Distinguished wrestler VanBebber tied to Collingsworth area
This portrait recalls Jack VanBebber a 1932 Olympic gold medalist from Oklahoma whose roots reached Kellerville McLean and Collingsworth County. A three time NCAA champion at Oklahoma State he later served in WWII and worked for Phillips Petroleum. He taught wrestling to company families and Boy Scouts and was named a National Wrestling Hall of Fame Distinguished Member in 1976.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Jack VanBebber
Oklahoma
Kellerville
McLean
Collingsworth
VanBebber
Julia Eleanor Slough
Wellington
Phillips Petroleum Co
New Forum
Lost Angeles
Oklahoma State University
Phillips Petroleum Company
U.S
National Wrestling Hall of Fame
Julia VanBebber
Fleeting Moments and Community Notes From Wellington
Memorial services honored Lieut. Glynn Moore of the United States Army Air Corps at First Baptist Wellington after his fatal Hawaii crash. The column also covers Christmas shopping in the county, cotton quotas approval, terrace farming plans, Skytrocket football honors, Nativity Scene construction, Wellington fire with new pumps, Sumnerwood Lions fundraiser, Area Redevelopment plan, Kiwanis installation, museum building donation, and Father Pat Burke earning a Cambridge University doctorate in sacred Theology.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glynn Moore
United States Army Air Corps
First Baptist Church
Wellington
Lieut. Moore
Hawaii
L. A. Moore
H. H. Kinkeade
E. W., Jones
C. C. Bishop
Clark Anderson
American Legion
Grand Old Oprie
Sgt. Carter
Amarillo Air Base
Roy. Horn
Henry Sullivan
Zook Thomas
Bill Hajek
Frank Jones
Jim Williams
Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church
Father Pat Burke
Cambridge University
England
Pat
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West Avenue
Texas
Panhandle
Henry W. Wells
Nell W
Sonya Bouldin
Hollie Wilbur
Texas. Press Association
Betty Winslett
Virginia Robey News
Priscilla Sullivan
Sherry Cromartie
Bee Ford
The
People
Wellington Leader
J. C. Emmert
AAA
Fred Squyres
Soil Conservation Service
PMS
Troy Marsh
Farmers Co-op
Sam Hollingsworth
Sumnerwood Lions
Civic Club
Crippled Children's Fund
Sumnerwood
Doug Coleman
Lions
Cortez Barnett
Bill Kirkland
First Methodist Church
Wayne Doty
FDIC
Frank Duncan
Assembly of God Church
Jerry Settle
West Texas Utilities
Neal Roberts
C&h Pharmacy
Bob Watson
Kiwanis
R. H. Tyler
Olney
Fifteen Street
Collingsworth County Museum
Clyde Drake
Museum Board
R. H. Tyler Company
Jack Vanbebe
Mnie Tite
Oy Duck
Henry and
Carol Wells
Virginia Robey
Nell Wilbur
Sherry Cromarlig
Allie Wilbur
Betty “Winslet
Virginia Fourment
Kirby Campbell
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