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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1964
Page
12
May 11 to May 15 school lunch menu lists items each day including ham salad sandwich and milk May 11 barbecued beef on a bun and sides May 12 graduation day meal with chicken and gravy May 13 Vienna sausage cornbread and pineapple pie May 14 beef vegetable soup and cheese toast May 15 concludes with soup and jello. The note adds that the Republic of Texas never issued postage stamps.
Charles Crews 52, longtime banking figure with First National Bank in Childress, died of a heart attack Saturday afternoon while golfing in Las Vegas New Mexico. He had recently improved health after prior attacks and was aged 62 on Friday. Survived by wife Helen, a son in Albuquerque, a daughter in Lubbock, and two sisters Ozie Taylor of Childress and Willie McDonald of Houston.
The notice lists multiple oil and gas transactions including lease releases and ratifications involving H S Jondahl to Owie Pettitt Texaco Inc Frances Weaver to Texaco and Jim Berniece Wayne to Texaco among others. Crescent Oil and Gas Corp conveys interests to Livingston Oil Co. and eased rights are granted to El Paso Natural Gas Co. Other leases cover Texaco Gulf Oil and related entities across sections and blocks in the indicated townships.
Zelma Neese transfers lots 1 2 and 8 and the north 81 83 feet of lot 4 block 22 to Frances Weaver. Roy P Burton and wife sell NE 4 section 57 block 16 to Austin Cantrell. Mid-State Homes Inc transfers lot 12 block 62 Wellington to R W Scott. R W Scott and wife to Al Ja Armstrong lot 12 block 62 Wellington. Ernestine Scott Green and husband sell lot 9 block 218 Wellington to Bill Tarter. Cemetery deed: City of Wellington to Wren Hartman lot 14 block 36 addition to Wellington cemetery.
Mr and Mrs Neil Billingsley plan to move to El Paso to teach with their family The daughter of Mr and Mrs Stanley Whitson of Lutie is noted The Killingsworths spent a few days in Dimmit with their son and daughter in law Woodrow Killingsworth Mrs Woodrow Killingsworth is recovering from surgery Gary West a Howard Payne College student visited with his parents in Brownwood Randall Raburn and daughter spent the weekend with his parents Billy Britton and Diana joined a Sunday visit in Amarillo with Paul Weaver Mrs A B Hicks hosted two daughters Thelma Brewer of Los Angeles and Bernis Hicks of Washington DC Miss Hicks visited various Texas New Mexico towns Thea visit by Miss Susan Beyette of Dallas to the Horton home and John Alvin Horton visiting parents in Dallas over the weekend.
Robert Fulton’s first steam boat in 1807 traveled 150 miles from New York to Albany in 82 hours. Granite Mountain, an 866 foot pink granite dome spanning 180 acres near Marble Falls, is the largest quarry of its kind in the United States.
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