Fate of Guard Battery A Still Not Known Here
The Wellington unit Battery A, 2nd Battalion 13st Artillery, 49th Division faces reorganization by the Defense Department. Capt Jim Chappell said he knows only what the news reports state as Maj Gen Thomas Bishop outlines Texas gains of an airborne brigade a mechanized infantry brigade with additional army aviation units a 370 man engineer battalion and related forces. The reorganization is planned for the first of the year with new headquarters likely in Dallas and Austin.
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Wellington
National Guard
13St Artillery
49Th Division
Defense Department
Jim Chappell
Qard
Ft. Hood
Austin
Thomas 8
Bishop
Texas
Dallas
Larsons Attend Kin's Funeral in Fort Worth
Mr and Mrs James Larson and son Jamie traveled to Fort Worth on Monday to attend the funeral of Mrs Larsons uncle Ben Shircey age 63. Shircey worked with a construction company on the FM Highway improvement project between Wellington and Dodson several years ago.
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James Larson
Jamie
Fort Worth
Ben Shircey
Shirley
Wellington
Dodson
Teachers From Mexico City Visit Friends in Wellington
Dr and Mrs Homero Argudin and their son Ricardo visited Wellington in the home of Miss Hattie D Wells and Mrs Dick Wiley. Mrs Argudin formerly Opal Bratten who taught Spanish at Wellington High School in the early thirties and lived there.
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Homero Argudin
Ricardo
Mexico City
Wellington
Hattie D. Wells
Dick Wiley
Argudin
Opal Bratten
Texas Tech
University of Arizona
United States
Xochimilco
Bratten) Argudin
W A Green Dies in Calif
Wilson Allen Green of Downey California died Monday June 5 born March 19 1916 in Sulphur Springs. He was the husband of a former Wellington woman and leaves a wife two sons a grandson and three brothers. Funeral was in Norwalk with burial at Cypress Forest Lawn.
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Wilson Allen Green
Clark Avenue
Downey
Calif
Wellington
Sulphur Springs
Clarence N. Green
Hollis
California
Margaret Winifred Brown
Chapel of Memories
Norwalk
Edward Mieras
Bell Gardens
Origin of County Names Sought in Collingsworth Study
Residents are asked to help explain the origins of about 200 county place names for a Texas dictionary to be published by East Texas State University press. Dr. Fred Tarpley seeks readers in Commerce to contribute information before final manuscript submission.
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Collingsworth County
Texas
Collingsworth
East Texas State University Press
Fred Tarpley
Branson
Buck Creek
Crow Creek
Elm Fork
Red River
Friendship Church
Fresno
Fuller
House Log Crow
Needwood
Panhandle Oil Field
Pleasant Valley
Powell
Trimmina
West Salt
Cousins Creek
Tarpley
East Texas State University
Commerce
Shamrock Sets Golf Tourney June 23-25
Shamrock invites amateur linksters to compete for merchandise prizes and trophies in the Annual Invitational Golf Tournament scheduled Friday through Sunday, June 23 to 25. The event features 54 holes of play across multiple courses with several hundred dollars in prizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shamrock
Senior Golf Tournament Adds 55+ Flight at Shamrock
The Shamrock Country Club hosts a two day senior golf event with a special 55 plus flight for the second year. June 23 qualifying rounds precede 36 holes of match play on June 24 and 18 holes of medal play on June 25. Entry is $10 with a June 23 deadline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Frye
Shamrock Country Club
Frye
Wellington Visit Precedes Bonn Assignment for CWO Savage
Chief Warrant Officer Frazier Savage of the US Army and his wife travel with two children through Wellington en route to a three year post at the US Embassy in Bonn West Germany. Savage, a 27 year veteran and former embassy attache in Seoul, has served in NicaraguA El Salvador Vienna Moscow and Bogota. They will pass through Arkansas and New Jersey after Seattle arrival on May 30 before reporting July 1.
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Frazier Savage
United States Army
Sherry
Clifford
Wellington
Claud Savage
Cwo Savage
United States
Seoul
Korea
Bonn
West Germany
Nanagua
Nicaragua
el Salvador
Vienna
Austria
Moscow
Russia
Bogota
Columbia
Europe
Wellington High School
Seattle
Washington
Arkansas
New Jersey
Wellington Soldier Serves In Vietnam Finance Unit
Army Sergeant James W. Poteet 22 son of Mr and Mrs W A Poteet Wellington was assigned to the 91st Finance Section near Long Binh Vietnam May 23 He entered the Army in August 1965 a pay specialist in the section and is a 1963 graduate of Wellington High School.
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Long Binh
Vietnam
James W. Poteet
W. A. Poteet
Wellington
91St
Poteet
Army
Wellington High School
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Tie
Brenda Goleman
Sumnerwood
Galveston
W. A. Green
Catle
Parsons Drug
Wright
Wilson's Certified Wieners
Wilson
Chuck Roast
Coca-Cola
Kimbell
Borden's
Rinso
Oklahoma
Glade Sun Country
S&h
Raymond Patton
Luther Sullivan
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