Wellington Texas brochure inquiry from Festindig correspondent
Alice Bartlett of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce received a letter from Festindig Wales by Mr Cadingan Jones requesting brochures showing Wellington Texas with city pictures and material history. He notes the Battle of Waterloo anniversary and praises the Duke of Wellington as leader. Bartlett sent a brochure with pictures and a marked copy of Decks Didactics discussing Waterloo and Wellingtons worldwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Bartlett
Wellington
Cadingan Jones
Texas
Mr. Jones
Duke of Wellington
Alrs. Bartlett
Deck
Waterloo
Moseley Announces Cancer Crusade In Tonw This Week
Moseley county chairman says the 1965 Cancer Crusade will be conducted in Wellington this week. Funds support public education service and research. He cites rising survival rates and urges public education, annual physicals, and early doctor visits to catch cancer early. The seven danger signals are listed and include unusual discharge lump changes and persistent sores. See back page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellington
Billy Moseley
Mr. Moseley
American Cancer Society
Wellington Dodson Road widening completes major Texan link
Work on Farm to Market road 338 known as Wellington Dodson road was finished last week, creating a wider heavier highway joining Wellington and Dodson. The Highway Department resurfaced 15th Street from Highway 83 through town and FM 338 west to Swearingen. Surfacing contracts for Quail road west of Wellington were let in June and are due to finish this summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellington-Dodson Road
Texas
15Th Street
Highway Department
Swearingen
Wellington
Virginia Robey Tours Mexico on NEA Assignment
News editor Virginia Robey of The Wellington Leader is vacationing in Mexico with the National Editorial Association tour. The itinerary includes Acapulco Taxco Querétaro Mexico City and other famed sites as she travels from late June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Robey
Wellington
Mexico
National Editorial Association
Acapulco
Taxco
Querena' Aca
Mexico City
NEA
Miss Robey
Texas Press Association
Dallas
South Vietnamese Girls Find Texas Weather Tough
Three South Vietnamese students at Texas Tech, Pham Van Nga Tran Thi Tu Hien and Le Ta Bich Dao, visiting Wellington last weekend, found West Texas weather rough and miss rice and seafood. They speak English French and Vietnamese, plan to teach home economics back home, and study on a four year scholarship. They live in dorms here and attend First Methodist Church, wearing Vietnamese dresses for formal occasions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellington
Texas
Pham van Nga
Tran Thi Tu Hien
le Ta Bich Dao
Beverly Singley
Texas Tech
Carol Blain
Tech
United States
Van
Saigon
South Vietnam
Hien
Dao
Hue
Washington
Ness
West
First Methodist Church
Pham van Nga, Tran Thi Tu Hien and
Funeral Services for Mrs Lamb Held Tuesday
Funeral services for Mrs Lu la Lamb 86 of Buck Creek were held Tuesday June 22 at Friendship Baptist Church Elder Elvis Pitts officiating. She died June 20 after 44 years in Collingsworth County and is survived by three half brothers J H Wade Ben Wade and Guy Wade. Burial followed at Quail Cemetery with Kelso Funeral Home in charge. Pallbearers were Roy Canada Edd McGill Dick Campbell J C Hartman Jr Marshall Peters and A C Pendergrass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lula Lamb
Collingsworth County
Friendship Baptist Church
Buck Creek
Elvis Pitts
Lamb
J. M. Lamb
Quail
The
Baptist Church
J. H. Wade
Ben Wade
Guy Wade
Quail Cemetery
Four Collingsworth County Girls Attend Bluebonnet State
Three Collingsworth County girls participate in the American Legion Auxiliary Bluebonnet Girls State in Austin at the Texas School for the Blind. Sandra Kay Purkey of Sumnerwood is elected National Party Chairman of Precinct 3, County Left, daughter of Mr and Mrs B A Purkey, sponsored by Sumnerwood PTA through Unit No 249.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Collingsworth County
American Legion Auxiliary
Bluebonnet
Austin
Texas School For the Blind
Sandra Kay Purkey
Summerwood
County Left
B. A. Purkey
Girls
American Legion Auxiliary Unit No
Sumnerwood Pta
Carolyn Christian
Wellington
Dick County
Clifford E. Christian
American Legion Auxiliary Unit
Business and Professional Women's Club
Linda Sue Peters
Quail
Federalist Party
Richard Peters
Quail Young Home Makers
Linda Lou Ford
Edwin Crowder
Dodson
Girls State
Vmtee
TWU scholarship list includes Linda Blain in 1965
Denton Texas Woman's University announces Mary Gibbs Jones scholarships for 1965 86 with emphasis on home economics nursing and music. Recipients include Linda Carol Blain 1606 Graham Lin Wellington a 1964 Wellington high school graduate who will enter TWU as a sophomore majoring in German and Music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denton
Mary Gibbs Jones
Texas Woman’s University
TWU
Lynda Carol Blain
Graham Lin Wellington
Blain
Wellington High School
Texas Tech
Salt Fork Dam gets Texas Water Commission approval
The Texas Water Commission granted a permit for a Salt Fork Dam in Collingsworth County. The approved plan includes a 110 foot high dam, a 4 000 acre flood surface, and an irrigation allocation of 40 000 acre feet annually for about 27 196 acres across five tracts. The holding reservoir would sit two miles north of Wellington with an open canal to reach fields southeast of town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Fork
Texas Water Commission
N. M. Higdon
Chamber of Commerce
Austin
Collingsworth
Wellington
Collingsworth County Water Control and Improvement District No. 1
The
Water Board
Henard
John Coleman
Zook Thomas
George Shadid
N.M Higdon
Hiram Cudd
Dan Howard
Cortez Barnett
Ralph Owens
Woodrow Wood
Henry Sullivan
John Holton
J.T. Slay
James Stavenhagen
W. R Breeding
E. W
Buddy) Carter Jr
Cliff Hartman
A. H. Wolverton
Miss Karen Childress Crowned Collingsworth County Queen
Miss Karen Childress daughter of Mr and Mrs Herman Childress holds the county title and will reign until the fair queen is chosen. She also receives a National Guard honor as Battery A 131 Artillery Wellington selected her to represent at the battalion meeting in Wichita Falls this past weekend. Set. Jack Frost re-
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Karen Childress
Herman Childress
Collingsworth
Childress
131 Artillery
National Guard
Wellington
Wichita Falls
Jack Frost
Miss Childress
Shamrock
Vernon
Ft. Hood
Ft Hood
Elaine Tate Joins Wellington High School Faculty
J L Harper Wellington superintendent announced Elaine Tate daughter of Mrs Ernest Tate Sumnerwood has been added to the Wellington High School faculty as a commercial teacher to replace Mrs Lonnie Roberson who resigned Miss Tate earned a BS from West Texas State University Canyon this spring and attends summer sessions Schools reopen Aug 30 with all district children in their grade aligned Enrollment requires birth certificates for first time students.
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J. L. Harper
Wellington
Elaine Tate
Ernest Tate
Sumnerwood
Lonnie Roberson
Miss Tate
West Texas State University
Canyon
Harper
Weather updates show June moisture and year totals
The report lists 35 hundredths of an inch moisture for the week, 1.77 inches for June, and 10.47 inches for the year, indicating ongoing dryness or rainfall accumulation.
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Moseley Chairman
Dodson Road
Manele Be Ngoton
Salt Fork Dam
U. of T
Greenbelt Electric
Mary Frances Bowden
University of Texas
Miss Collingsworth
WHS
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