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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1963
Page
6
A reader recounts advice from former county agent Jake Tarter about harvesting Sun Gold peaches to protect future yields. The column blends local chatter about weather, neighbors, and a humorous meditation on clocks and time, noting visits from the Alingham family and a planned courthouse necktie party joke.
Wellington high school seniors traveled May 26 to Colorado Springs for a tour including ice skating at Avon Lodge Manitou and visits to Garden of the Gods and Cave of Winds. They rode Pikes Peak, toured amusement centers, and returned after a Mexican dinner at Colorado Springs and a stop at Royal Gorge.
Morris Wells, agent for Occidental Life Insurance Company and partner in Wells & Wells, received a certificate of achievement for outstanding leadership in life insurance covering 1960 through 1962. He earned a $500 bonus. Wells began in business in 1928 and is among Wellington and Southeast Panhandle’s oldest agents. He notes shifts in view of life insurance and emphasizes estate protection amid rising land and investment costs.
Glen Warrick joins his father Velman Warrick at Warrick Feed Store and will work in the elevator office. The couple, Zenith Warrick and Glen, earned West Texas State College degrees May 24 with Glen in economics and Zenith in business education. They reside at 1406 Bowie Street with their son Marty. Zenith is daughter of Mr and Mrs Toga Swift.
Robert Blevins of Quail will work on the Kiowa Camp staff this summer. He joins the kitchen crew and is a Quail Boy Scout troop member who earned Eagle Scout last year. Farmers report rainfall with scattered totals from 2.5 to 8.7 inches, many fields unplanted. A possible tornado near Lacy farm caused no damage. hail noted at Wren Hartman place nine miles west.
The North West Texas Conference of Methodist Churches completed appointments in Abilene on May 1 settling pastors for three county churches. The Rev. Davis B. Edens begins his third year as pastor at Trinity following the conference action.
Peggy Wildman of Dal Jag joined about 370 George Peabody College graduates at the 182nd commencement in Nashville. She earned the specialist in education degree in special education, holds a BS from Texas Technological College and an M Ed from Southern Methodist University, and plans a PhD next year. The piece also notes clergy assignments in Wellington and surrounding churches.
Jack Morgan of Quail has taken a managerial role at Henard Beathers Equipment Company per an announcement by owners Dean Henard and John Robert Henard. Morgan, a senior education major at Sam Houston State College Huntsville, is married with a baby son Norman Patrick and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Morgan.
The Adobe Walls Council announces Scout Executive Brantley Hudson will leave his post to become Scout Executiveship at Beaumont, effective July 1, 1968. Hudson has led the council since August 1960, overseeing a development campaign for a new Council Service Center and Camp Kiowa expansion. The service center moved to 815 N. Sumner, Pampa, in 1962, and Camp Kiowa is now being expanded with eleven new troop camps ready for about 1,000 Scouts this summer.
The Vacation Bible School for colored children sponsored by First Baptist Church ended with a May 31 picnic. Average attendance 111. Dr. Glenn Hickey supervised. Helpers included Mimes Hickey, Lanc ey, Morrow, Ca Hutt, Sting Crawford, Lower, Burt, Horton, and Alvin Horton. Four women from Purth Baptist aided, with teachers Mixace Phonda Cason, Sanden Cason, Jackie Barton, Marshal Elbert, Pam Marehant. Continued from page one.
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