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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1961
Page
4
The Dallas ISD must double its bilingual teaching staff to serve 11 700 limited English speaking students and 1 300 unauthorized migrants. It faces up to five years to recruit or train teachers and may revive foreign language requirements to grow its own bilingual educators.
The wheat harvest this year is very poor due to a year long drought. Custom harvest crews work quickly and move on, unlike earlier days when Perryton bustled with harvest hands and machinery. Farm wives shopped at Hudson Grocery to feed workers. Harold Hudson in the Perryton Herald.
Wellington OH S graduates from the 1941 class plan a 40th anniversary gathering on Saturday August 1 at Carrolls dining room from 3 to 5 pm with no program. Mrs J B King Evelyn Ball coordinates and seeks missing addresses and married names of several members and teachers for invitation.
The class of 1951 begins plans for its 30th anniversary reunion with events July 31 and August 1 led by Patsy Harper. A July 31 dinner at the VFW, morning coffee at Heritage Room, and a noon luncheon are scheduled, plus a general meeting at Burn Handley Community Center.
The excerpt names several alumni including Boyd Derryberry Margie ORear Mary Anna Bledsoe Helen Maxwell Alliene Lentz Shanks Cecil Shanks and Carthel Lewis. It notes seven have died: Bob Allbright Jimmy Wayne Cook Florence Langford Mary Dell Longino Billye Smith Evayl Wallace and Royce Walters. Other plans will be announced later.
The El Paso Exploration Co. completed a gas well in Collingsworth County three miles north and three west of Dozier. No. 14 McDowell, section 107, block 22 spudded October 12, 1980 with initial potential of 342 MCF. Depths 1878 to 2112 feet. total depth 2293 feet in east Panhandle field. Byrd Station in Antarctica noted as a mountain of ice.
Wellington resident Mrs. Frank Jones died at home June 19 at age 89. Funeral services were held at Fundamental Baptist Church with Rev Howard McCann officiating. Burial followed at Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Survivors include two sons Frank Jr. of Amarillo and Pete of McKinney, along with sisters Olene Bussey and Odessa Kizer and brother Calvin Stevenson.
Priscilla Berggren Parker earned the doctor of dental surgery at Baylor College of Dentistry in Dallas on June 13. She is wife of Dr Star Parker and daughter in law of Mrs Lorraine Parker. She also received four awards including Scholastic Honors and the Professionalism Award from the Texas Section of the American College of Dentistry.
The obituary notes the passing of a mother figure who left four great grandchildren behind and was preceded in death by two sons Willie Burt Jones in 1927 and Dale Jones in 1968. Her family lineage spans multiple generations, reflecting a long life and enduring family ties.
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