County Historical Committee Announced
The Commissioners Court appointed the Collingsworth County Historical Committee during its regular session Monday Jan 14. Members serve a two year term 1985 1986 and include Loretta Barnett Wright Willie Faye Heward Patrick Olivia Templeton Hill Donnitta Blain Ward Billy Hutch John R Heward Jr Lennie Coleman Sims Judge R L Templeton Louis Graham Margaret Hess Coleman Sneva Cudd Bowen Lois Ruffin Simpson Nora Cocke Drake and Virginia Robey. The committee mailed an application to the State Historical Committee for an official historical marker at the site of the property.
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Commissioners Court
Collingsworth County Historical Committee
Historical Commission
Loretta Barnett Wright
Lynn
Willie Faye Heward Patrick
Robert
Olivia Templeton Hill
L.C
Donnitta Blain Ward
Billy Hutch
John R. Heward, Jr
Lennie
Joe Ed White Wins Honors at Fair of Arts
Joe Ed White of Shamrock, formerly of Wellington, won top honors at Shamrock’s Fair of Arts. His oil portrait of a Shamrock Boy Scout and a watercolor of western horses each won first place, with his charcoal study of an aged woman in a bonnet earning Best of Show. Exhibitors hailed from multiple Texas towns and nearby states. White, a 1978 Wellington Schools graduate, works for Texas Farm Bureau in Shamrock with Wheeler offices.
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Joe Ed White
Shamrock
Wellington
White
McLean
Odessa
Miami
Perryton
Amarillo
Pampa
Austin
Fort Worth
Brownwood
Mobeetie
Wheeler
Winters
Panhandle
Memphis
Texas
Erick
Sayre
Butler
Okla
Clayton
New Mexico
Grande
Colorado
Texas Farm Bureau
Letters propose sweeping cuts to Social Security and government pay
A letter to the editor urges drastic national austerity including 10 percent cuts to Social Security, civil service, federal and state wages, pensions, and welfare programs for three years, plus eliminating revenue sharing and freezing medical costs. It also calls work requirements for food stamp recipients and broader freezes to farm subsidies, with exceptions for very low incomes.
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Postal Service
W.R. Breeding
Wellington
Texas
Reynolds Earns Auctioneering Graduate Award
George Reynolds completes Gregg School of Auctioneering winter session in Plainview and earns Best Ringman at awards ceremony. Col. Kenneth Gregg presides, with Col. Cecil Rhoades assisting in instruction of all phases. Summer session set for July 19 to 26.
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George Reynolds
Gregg School of Auctioneering
Plainview
Reynolds
Col
Kenneth Gregg
Cecil Rhoades
Marble Falls
Gregg
Wellington Calves Prep For Ft Worth Livestock Show
The first major show for the Wellington calves is the Ft Worth Livestock Show. Patricia will exhibit her heifer Saturday February 2 with steers shown on February 7 and 8 depending on class and breed.
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Istics
Shane Jones
Ft. Worth
Houston
Canyon
Tim Hartman
Ronnie Hartman
Tommy Thomason
Troy G. Thomason
Fidler
Montana
D’nae Keller
Elmer Keller
Missouri
Wellington
Patricia
Reeves
Shane
Tim
Tommy
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West Avenue
Henry W. Wells
Texas Press Association
Ania Wrally National Newspaper Association
County Historical Committee
Fair of Arts
Dozier School
Wright
Nicholson School
Sikes
Pearl Harbor
California
Navy
Paris
Arkansas
Deward Sikes
Russell Hill
Hill
Jim Sikes
West Texas Utilities Co
WTA
Morris Sullivan
Dennis Laster
Paul Hawkins
Cameron Beam
Don Welch
Jack Kennedy
Tommy Hudson
Collingsworth Volunteer Ambulance Service
Jimmie Kelso
Glynn Moore
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Frank King
American Legion
Lou Dorough
Cherry Hill
Ark
James Branch
Linda
Jim Crooks
Beth
Yucino
Calif
Brock Lewis
Nancy
Oklahoma City
Pauline Smith
Effie Nelson
Mary Saldiana
Beatrice McKinney
Lena Lindsey
Monroe Keys
Nellie Young
Linda Kilgore
Irene
Lila Russell
Ozette Rainey
Ann Ruth Dodson
Annie Ware
Ethel Bailey
Estell Stanley
Chris Smith
Herbert Bearden
Jim Lowe
Ethel Brewer
Davie Reynolds
Elsie Carter
Edda Easter
Will Jett
Otis Emmett
Brenda Kilgore
Denzil Peeples
Ardwell Smith
Betty Barbie
Virginia Gholson
Zeb Neeley
Juliana Baumgardner
Miss Baumgardner
Childress General Hospital
Carroll Nunnelley
Reed Souder
Bill Spillman
Dan Langford
Olan
Dorothy Farris
Helen Fires
Loretta Wright
Tommie Watts
Pizza Hut
Hollis
Childress
Kumar
Dr. Holcomb
Collingsworth General Hospital
Hazel McKinney
Wellington State Bank
RCON
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U.S. Treasury
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ACON
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Rita Owens
Board of Governors
Federal Reserve System
State Banking Authority
Miiary Public
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