Legislature Ends 59th Session Sets Wide Texas Reforms
Texas lawmakers wrapped the 59th session with a $3.6 billion budget and expanded higher education, including a coordinating board and a $101 million teacher raise. Major reforms cover mental health and tuberculosis control, welfare, water development, redistricting, and potential constitutional amendments to enlarge the Senate and extend terms. Governor Connally is highlighted as powerful as tax measures lift cigarette taxes to 11 cents a pack.
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Coordinating Board For Texas Colleges and Universities
Senate
Connally
Texas
Permian State College
Higher Education Coordinating Board
Odessa
Congress
Wellington Area Family Visits Highlight Memorial Weekend Tour
Personal notices recount visits by Mr and Mrs Thomas Hedger of Bayton and granddaughter Anette Snodgrass from Brownsville touring Brownsville Uvalde Brownwood Seminole Big Spring and Dumas before returning home They left in 1941 Also mentions graduation trips by Joe Thompson Emory Hunter Steve and Jim Axe in Dimmitt and a Wellington commencement for Randy Wooldridge Here several families from Plainview Pampa Amarillo Wichita Falls and Lawrence Mass are listed as visitors to Wellington and area communities.
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Thomas Hedger
Bayton
Anette Snodgrass
Brownsville
Walter Needham
Gene Hedger
Hedger
Grace Clifton
Rio Grande Valley
Uvalde
Brownwood
Seminole
Big Spring
Dumas
Mrs. Hedger
Joe Thompson
Emory Hunter
Steve
Dimmitt
Jim Axe
Dimmitt High School
Axe
Suzanne Dickey
Floyd Dickey
Thompsons
Hunters
Amarillo
F. R. Hitchcock
Tommy Beam
Sarah Doyle
Lula Doyle
Wichita Falls
Wellington
Miss Doyle
James Richardson
Paul Williams
J. J. Richardson
Veda Short
Mike
Debbie Richardson
Plainview
Gerald Ray
Russell Strain
Paula
Relda
Qolton
James Sharp
Sandra
Pampa
Wellington High School
Jack Ford
Roger Tyscen
Bob Parolisi
Lawrence
Mass
Johnny Ford
North Texas State University
Denton
J. O. Warren
Grant Wooldridge
Randy
Wellington Leader publication details
Wellington Leader issued each Thursday from 913 West Ave Wellington Texas. Editor and Publisher H Deskins Wells. Publication enters second class mail August 25, 1909. Subscription rates four dollars yearly within trade area five dollars outside.
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West Ave
Wellington
Tex
Texas
H. Deskins Wells
Vinson church mission news and local notices
Vinson News reports missionary Bill Richardson and his wife Kathy will spend a year in language study in Campinas Brazil before full mission work. The couple, with two older sons enrolled in a Portuguese language school, described their travel by plane to New Orleans and a ship voyage to Sao Paulo. Rev Richardson previously pastored Vinson and Granite churches. Also noted were Jack Smith’s 80th birthday with family present, visiting relatives from Oklahoma City Houston and Maniguin, and Nathan Jones’s serious illness in Mangum Hospital. Other items mention travel plans and summer arrangements for Eunice Reynolds, Russell Overton, and Winston Wooldridge. A new granddaughter for Ben Stallings and visitors from Gordon, Texas are listed amid ongoing community notices and the Independence Hines Demonstration Club activity.
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Vinson Baptist Church
Bill
Kathy Richardson
Brazil
Campinas
New Orleans
Sao Paulo
Eunice Reynolds
Russell Overton
Mornhing
Burn Willianmis
Socorro
N.M
Arizona
Reynolds
Lubbock
Dankl
Winston Wooldridge
Mangum Hospital
Ben Stallings
John Oty
Kathy
Amarillo
Worthy project of a work day cleans Cave Creek Cemetery
A Thursday work day saw many workers from the locality and neighboring communities join in cleaning the Cave Creek Cemetery. The effort involved five youths supported by volunteers from surrounding areas.
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Cave Creek
Local Graduates Recognized From Hollis Reed and Reed High
Graduates from Hollis and Reed High Schools include Ple, Jimmy Kromer, Grover Kent Ellis, Vera Aldridge James Taylor, and others noted as finishing their studies. The report lists named students and their school affiliations.
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Ple
Hollis
Reed
Jimmy Kromer
Grover
Kent Ellis
Vera Aldridge
James Taylor
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Vern Sanford
Texas Press Association
Austin
Ing
F.conmg
Parks and Wildlife Commission
Bobby Rogers
Glen and
Danny
San Antonio
C. C. Wilkerson
Locklear Roofing CO
Houis, Oklahoma
Granite
Okla
Eddie Slays
Wash & Wear
Eddie Slay
West Side Square
Vinson News
James Smith
Maniguin
Carl Smith
Jim
Nathan Jones
Ban Segars
Gordon
Independence Hines Demonstration Club
Vinson
Farm and Ranch Loans
Oklahoma
Floyd Teutsch
Insurance Agency
Dodson
Sunray
Wright
Franks
Oleo Shurfresh
Usda Good
Chuck
Shurfine
Soflin
PUREX
Holly
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