Potest brothers set track records at Amarillo Dragway
Mike Potest won K Stock Automatic with 88.4 mph and 16.41 sec on the quarter mile, breaking the 83 mph record. Dwayne Potest topped K Pure Stock Automatic in 17.14 sec at 82 mph. Dwight Salisbury’s Smothers Brothers entry won its division at the Texas California Challenge with 208 mph.
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Potest
Mike
Dwayne
Amarillo Dragway
Mike Potest
Tulsa
Dwayne Poteet
Smothers Brothers
California
Dwight Salisbury
Four Collingsworth youths register for Selective Service
Four young men from Collingsworth County were registered for Selective Service during May. The registrant names are Gary A. Oldham, J. D. Wilson Atkerson, Gary Mark Brewer and James Woody Clark. Nerve impulses travel about 75 yards per second in humans, roughly 155 miles per hour, with speeds being lower in smaller animals.
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Collingsworth County
Bill Hatch
Gary A. Oldham
J. D. Wilson Atkerson
Gary Mark Brewer
James Woody Clark
Judy Carter Receives Pharmacy Degree At Southwestern State
Judy Carter graduated Friday night May 30 at Southwestern State College Weatherford Ohio with a Bachelor of Science in pharmacy. She was among 686 candidates, and joins 97 pharmacy graduates. Carter, a Wellington resident, works at Parsons Drug and relieves at Tindall and Corner Drug in Shamrock. She earned a 3.41 GPA and made the Dean’s Honor Roll. She is Texas-registered and pursuing Oklahoma licensure. Carter served as secretary of the American Pharmaceutical Association student chapter and belonged to Kappa Epsilon. she was Pharmacy Queen in her junior year and editor of The Apothecary.
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Judy Carter
Southwestern State College
Weatherford
Ohlo
Southwestern
Texas
Oklahoma
American Pharmaceutical Association
Kappa Epsilon
Pharmacy Queen
Pharmacy School
the Apothecary
UT Law Graduate Harold Pigg Receives JD at UT Austin
Harold Houston Pigg is among over 200 graduates earning the Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Texas at Austin Law School at the close of the spring semester on Saturday May 31. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Kelly Pigg who attended the ceremony. He joined the Delta Theta Phi legal fraternity and worked for Tracer in Austin last year. He previously earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Texas Technological College and belonged to Phi Kappa Phi and Delta Gamma Sigma. He will take the Texas bar exam June 24 to 26 in Austin.
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Harold Houston Pigg
University of Texas At Austin School of Law
Kelly Pigg
Pigg
Delta Theta Phi Legal Fraternity
Tracer
Austin
Texas Technological College
Phi Kappa Phi
Delta Gamma Sigma
Baylor graduate Jamie Johnson gains B S in chemistry
Jamie Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Johnson, received the bachelor of science degree from Baylor University at Friday morning commencement. He will join Texas Instruments in Dallas around June 9 in a supervisory role linked to electroplating research. He was valedictorian of Quitaque’s 1965 class and earned English honors.
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Jamie Johnson
C. V. Johinson
Baylor University
Texas
Dallas
Baylor
Quitaque
Johnson
TR. C. Franklin
David E. Pennington
Porter
Land donation return to district after 1846
The passage notes a 1846 action where land donated to the federal district by Maryland and Virginia for government buildings on the Maryland side of the Potomac was returned to the donors. It cites the linked efforts of Maryland and Virginia and the district’s postwar handling of the tract.
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Maryland
Virginia
Potomac
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Draft Board
Judy Cater
Harold Pigg
UT. Law Graduate
B.S
Ryou
Sn Horng
Pag
Jamie Jehhwen
Belton St
Wellington
Bordens
King Cokes
U.S
Coun
Keeblers
Poe
City Grocery
J. C. Hartman, Jr
James McDanel
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