Ambulance Service Holds Annual Meeting and Dinner
Collingsworth Volunteer Ambulance Service reported improved finances for 1984 with a 26 cent per call profit as 242 calls were answered. Officers Peters and Cudd led the meeting with four new members welcomed and Lexa Hamby introduced as the first baby transported in the service’s mobile incubator.
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Collingsworth
Hamby
Lexa
Collingsworth Volunteer Ambulance Service
Attack
Dennis Cudd
Marshall Peters
Jimmie Barber
Corky Bowen
Morene Childers
Kenneth Patterson
Jim Sikes
City Election Called and Pumps Bought in Wellington
Wellington city officials set the 1985 election for April 6 to choose a mayor and two council members. Mayor Ralph Owens and incumbents Sam McGill and Milburn Derryberry did not disclose re election plans. City Manager Glen Taylor said two new sewage lift station pumps cost about 4700 dollars, replacing 1929 equipment and reducing backups during ice storms.
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Wellington
Ralph Owens
Sam McGill
Milburn Derryberry
Derryberry
Lyndon Crelia
Willie Grayson
Gary Brewer
Glen Taylor
Ellison Park
Taylor
Dodson Co op files Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Dodson Co op Enterprises Inc filed Chapter 11 Friday morning January 4 after closing Thursday. Rayburn Hightower, manager for about 18 months, remains in charge as the office stays open 9 am to 5 pm to handle cotton in marketing. The firm did not buy grain sorghum this fall and reported 4,900 bales for the season with crop area about 60 percent out.
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Farmers Co-op Enterprises, Inc
Dodson
Rayburn Hightower
Hightower
Dodson Co-operative Enterprises, Inc
Polio survivor Gracie Michael leads Wellington March of Dimes
Gracie Michael, once a polio patient at Oklahoma City Children’s Hospital, co chairs Wellington’s first March of Dimes to March 25. She recalls a three month stay, therapy and an iron lung beside her father, crediting the charity with paying her medical bills and enabling her to walk again.
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Wellington
Gracie Michael
Michael
Aline
Okla
Enid
Oklahoma
Children’s Hospital
Oklahoma City
Mrs. Michael
March of Dimes
Wellington sees new area opened for home sites
Davis Opens New Area for Home Development Sites reports Steve Davis Construction expanding into 10 building sites in Wellington between 14th Street and FM 338 Ryde Addition. Development began in late 1984 with annexation hearings slated for January 21 and ongoing investigation into county tax office funds.
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Davis
Wellington
14Th Street
Ryde
Steve Davis
City of Wellington
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Panhandle
Northwest Texas Hospital
Amarillo
Peters
PEMSS
Jerry Don
Lisa Hamby
Lusanna Needham
Clifton Burrows
Dallas
Rick Fincher
Fundamental Baptist Church
Ambulance Service Board
Childress
Harmon Counties
Brent Chase
Ryan Het
Steve Davis Construction
Texas
Bill Baten
Pampa
Doug Wright
100Th Judicial District Attorney
John Rainey
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