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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1968
Page
4
The annual FFA Junior Rodeo runs April 19 to 21 with events such as bareback bronc riding calf roping and barrel racing. Friday and Saturday shows start at 8 p m and Sunday finals at 2 p m with competitors age 18 and under. Stock contractors are Eroome of Childress and Cliff Campbell of Wellington.
Dividends totaling 7500 will be paid to Shamrock Federal Land Bank Association members. Manager Jack Williams announced the checks will be mailed to the association's 325 farmer rancher stockholders. The Shamrock group is one of 73 Texas associations served by the Federal Land Bank of Houston, with loans in Collingsworth and Wheeler counties. Directors include J C Emert president Robert Terry vice president Tom Cunningham Woodrow Wood C F Waters and H J Finsterwald.
Army Specialist Four Jon A. Carter 26 son of Mr and Mrs Orville T Carter completed a month of extensive field training March 8 with the 4th Armored Division near Grafenwohr Germany. The exercise tests combat effectiveness in winter conditions and stresses armor infantry teamwork in attack defense and live firing. Carter is a tank gunner in Company B 3d Battalion 37th Armor near Erlangen. Other notes mention Robert H. Christian visiting Ft Worth before an overseas assignment in Morocco and Private Jackie W Hunt 19 completing infantry radio maintenance training at Fort Benning Georgia February 20.
Partition deed transfers tract in sections 70 61 71 40 121 block 22 Rivest area 430.3 acres plus 54.8 acres in SE quarter of 71 and remaining parts. Transfers include Ruth Hess Magee estate to Margaret Hess Coleman and others and several other property movements among Wel lington Evans Jewell Gosnell and Jim Shaw.
The Soil Conservation Service urges plowing with terraces not across them to improve water distribution and reduce runoff. Contour farming and land forming keep furrows level, extending terrace life and improving soil moisture. Contact local Soil Conservation Service for terracing and contour farming guidance.
The menu lists daily meals from Monday to Friday including hamburgers with buns onions mustard pickles lettuce tomatoes cheese slices chips buttered peas fruit cobbler and milk on March 18. March 19 offers pinto beans with tomatoes oven fried potatoes cornbread and half pints milk with orange slush and brownies. March 20 features barbecued steak whipped potatoes buttered broccoli fruit juice hot rolls and milk. March 21 serves fish sticks and catsup fruit juice cauliflower green beans cornbread cookies and milk. March 22 presents fried chicken with cream gravy green pea salad steamed rice cherry cobbler hot rolls and milk.
Elbert Watts of Wellington owns an Oldsmobile sedan. D. L. Tate from Abra buys a Ford pickup. Lt. Dennis Cudd stationed at Fort Leonard Wood buys a Ford Tudor. D. F. Lacy of Wellington purchases a Ford. Roy K. Smith of Wellington owns a Ford pickup.
A Texas A&M report on a nationwide food consumption survey shows 21 percent of households have poor diets, with calcium and vitamin shortages linked to low dairy and fruit intake. Incomes do not ensure better nutrition, and calories per dollar favor low income households on average.
North Texas State University announced fall semester honor rolls. J A Spurlock says 106 students hold a 3.0 average with all A grades in coursework. A 2.8 list includes those midway between A and B. Jack Leon Bawcom makes the 2.5 list as son of Eugene V. and wife from Wellington.
In 1961 the Berlin Crisis led to activation of about 75,000 Army Reserve personnel for tours up to one year to augment the Regular Army. The callup reflected the heightened need for reserve manpower during the international crisis.
Mrs. George W. Davis a tax practitioner from the county’s north area was notified on March 4 that she is enrolled to practice before the Internal Revenue Service. She passed the IRS Special Enrollment Examination in Dallas on September 25–26 1957 and received the passing notice in December. The treasury card was signed by Commissioner Sheldon Cohen.
More than 21,000 attended U. S. Army Reserve schools during 1967. There were 357 such schools in the United States Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
The U S Army Reserve will celebrate its 60th anniversary on April 23 with Army Reserve Week set for April 21 through 27, highlighting the service and its members.
USDA scientists developed a paste that stays soft and spreadable and does not set. It eliminates the need for bakers to grind their own raisins and preserves the paste’s natural color for at least six months in storage.
Stephenville Tarleton State College reports two Collingsworth County graduates attending this semester. John R. Howard III is a freshman in animal husbandry and Tommy W. Yarbrough is a freshman in general agriculture.
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