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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1971
Page
4
Quail News details a string of visits and travel among area residents. Pfc Shields completes training at Ft Ord California and embarks on three week leave then heads to New Jersey before Germany. Multiple families from Went Cliff Dodson Plainview and Wellington host and visit kin with various trips to Paris Texas Lugert and Lugert recreation.
The spring dean's list at Texas Tech University includes Wellington students Alan J. Fires Gary I. Killian John S. Scott Lynn McLain Kathy Cox and Olan Moore. Recipients must have at least a 3.0 GPA and up to 12 semester hours, as announced by eight Texas Tech colleges and schools plus the Graduate School and Law School.
Mr and Mrs Donald Curry attended the University of Texas at Arlington commencement where their daughter Mrs Donna Tarver received a B A in psychology She plans graduate study for a master in social work and was a member of Alpha Chi She will spend the summer in Germany and volunteered with Dallas death by own action prevention program.
John T. Forbis, County Bond Chairman, reports May sales of Series E and H United States Savings Bonds in Collingsworth county totaled $2,867. Five month total is $16,213, a fraction of the 1971 goal of $100,000, with Texans statewide at $86,134,682 or 47 percent of the $181.9 million target.
Don Reeves left Tuesday morning June 22 for Rock Springs to buy several cross bred calves for 4-H members show projects. He notes the stock will be cross bred. Laughing sickness or Kuru is 100% fatal and affects only the Fore tribe in New Guinea.
Mrs. John McClure 80 of Wellington origin died Friday in Santa Clara California. Burial was Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. in Brea California. Survived by four sons three daughters a husband two brothers and several sisters with three children predeceased.
Walter Abney of Friona and son of Earl and Mrs Abney, who once lived southwest of Wellington, visited friends Friday June 25. He attended school here and worked at the Ritz Theatre from 1955 to 1997. The family moved to Lubbock in 1989 and he later lived in California before joining Paco Feed Yard in Friona.
Long reader list records names and places across Texas Oklahoma and California with numerous resident moves. It includes addresses for Vernon Duncanville Lubbock Amarillo Fort Worth Wichita Falls and other communities plus military APO listings and interstate transfers.
A new stage production titled They Came From Spain is set for September 2 at Palo Duro Canyon State Park open-air amphitheater. Directed by Eddie Thomas of El Centro College, the show follows Texas in the season and uses mixed media to tell the 1541 Coronado expedition story amid Labor Day and Columbus Day weekend performances.
Mr and Mrs Ernest Crown have moved to Vernon to establish residence only briefly noting they lived in Wellington from 1927 to 1955 then moved to California before returning in February 1970.
On Sunday June 20 Bishop Lawrence M DeFalco of the Amarillo Diocese administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to 15 Catholic children at Our Mother of the Church. The ceremony was part of a Holy Mass attended by an overflow congregation with Father Pat Burke and altar boys Gabriel Aguirre and Trini Cantu Jr. present.
A dedication ceremony for the Texas A M University Vegetable Research Center at Munday is planned for July 16 at 10 00 a m. The facility will strengthen vegetable and pollution studies and, when fully equipped, become one of the finest Texas Agricultural Experiment Station centers in the Southwest aiding regional agricultural development.
A partial list of marriage licenses shows couples from Shamrock Wellington Crowell and surrounding areas. Names include Lary Glin Waters and Mary Ruth Scbarty, James Ead Packet and Barbara Jean Vines, Elvis Pitts and Gray, Claude McKinney officiating. Additional couples listed: Roy Franklin Dyer with Alice Jean Mann Edwards, James Emnett Blakemore with Cresse Floried Bell Erwin, Gary Mac Thomas with Elizabeth Emily English, John W. McGann with Bernice Marie Jefferson Wiggins, Robert Tracy Avera with Linda Mendez, David Lee Pehl with Susan Elaine Lee Storey, and Kenneth Wayne Patterson with Helen Marie Finley. May and June marriage dates are noted.
Fragmentary OCR lists names and dates for multiple events and marriages. It mentions a large coral formation claim, the Great Barrier Reef, described as the world’s largest and 1,500 miles long.
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