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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1968
Page
4
Texas DPS warns slow moving farm vehicles cause major rural highway dangers. Operators should use shoulders to let faster traffic pass and avoid all purpose trips. Rear visibility and mature handling urged to reduce collisions and road hog behavior.
Tony White returns to his hometown to serve as a full time pharmacist at C H Pharmacy. He began work Friday June 14 after completing a 1000 hour internship at Southwestern University and passing the Texas Pharmacy Board exam in Houston.
Troy Marsh former Collingsworth County deputy sheriff returned Wednesday June 2 from El Paso where he testified in federal court in the trial of Jerry Ray James and 13 other defendants known as the Mobeetie Gang. He aided investigations into the alleged bank robbery of the First State Bank at Mobeetie years ago.
Mr and Mrs Pat Bouchelle and their daughter Jennifer toured Missouri and Arkansas visiting Joplin Springfield and Bella Vista. The trip extended into southeast Kansas before turning south to see friends Clinton Richburg and others formerly from Estel.
Dennis Holland of Dodson 18th district vice commander attended the 4th Division annual convention at Kingsland. He joined Roy Beard Amario outgoing district commander Bill Brady Claude incoming commander Bill Bailey district adjutant Mrs Bailey Memphis 18th District Auxiliary vice president and Mr and Mrs Jack Flynt Dimmitt past Department commander and state Auxiliary president.
William Worth McClaskey, with banking roots in Wellington and Angleton, has been chosen president of Yorktown Community Bank. He and his wife and daughter Suzanne recently moved from Angleton where he led the Angleton Savings and Loan Association and served as executive officer of an Angleton bank. His early training began at the old First National Bank under Dick Wiley, with later posts in Lockney Kyle Lockhart and Aransas Pass.
Mrs. BagwellWillMove to Fort Worth after visits here and a funeral. She will relocate from Estelline to Fort Worth where she formerly lived. Her sister-in-law MrsCecil Masten and JohnMasten accompany plans from Dimmitt and Wellington.
The 1968 revision of weed control recommendations in Texas is now available from County Agent Sammy Helmers. The bulletin B-1000 covers herbicide costs versus hand labor, postemergence gains, preemergence treats for crops, spray equipment, and herbicide use on non crop sites and fallow land.
The Square Dance Club will not hold its regular dance this week. The next square dance is set for Saturday July 13 at 8 p.m. Knox Day of Amarillo will call. Location to be announced.
County Agent Sammy Helmers warns that bagworms, the larval stage of moths, attack arbor vitae juniper cedar willows maples oaks and more when populations rise. Winter bag removal and burning help control. early spring spraying with malathion carbaryl lead arsenate or toxaphene is effective once young worms hatch and are bags forming.
The Amarillo area forms the Area Diabetes Society with officers elected for the first year at the June meeting. Roy Pendergraft is first vice president and program chairman Marvin V. Fritts Jr. is second vice president and projects chairman. The group includes members from Clarendon Memphis Borger Panhandle Canyon and aims to support diabetics and diabetes concerns.
Balboa the Spanish explorer is noted as arriving in America at age twenty five. The second fact states bananas contain four hundred sixty calories per pound, claiming they exceed all other fresh fruits in energy value.
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