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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1963
Page
1
An essay argues that abundant jobs hinge on expanding markets and lowering prices through automation and productivity gains. It urges understanding between management and unions, wage growth aligned with productivity, fair distribution of gains, and revived exports to avoid unemployment, labor strife, and a slide toward socialism.
Warren Carter and his sisters granddaughter Mrs Alva Carter visited Abilene with Mrs Carter returning home for extended visit. Tom Crabtree and wife in Tulsa with niece Mrs Charley Mitchell and family. Mitchell hospitalized there. Ramona Mason remembered in Abilene by relatives. J R Longino and family from Columbus Ohio visit relatives in Jal New Mexico and with Willie Estes family. A 78 year old Syracuse Sicily man learns to read and is promoted to second grade.
Three students Elmer Joe Price Betty Earline Meadows and Robert Carney will graduate from Hooker Washington High School in the commencement exercises Thursday evening May 23. C. J. Harper superintendent of Wellington schools announced. J. D. Wilson supervisor will deliver the address Supt Harper will award diplomas Mack Saied Jr will present the American Legion Citizenship Award. The high school mixed choirs will perform and the octet will sing Let There Be Music. Orations will be given by Valedictorian Elmer Joe and Salutatorian Betty with Joyce Nickleberry also participating.
G T Blevins Dodson Stephens, born April 14 1901 in Wilbarger County, died May 8 in Tucson Arizona after living there three years. He came to Quail as a child, married Ruby Nell Daves in 1922, farmed in Quail, then San Bernardino and later moved to Tucson. Survived by wife, four daughters, eight grandchildren, three brothers, five sisters. funeral held May 11 in San Bernardino.
A poem in tribute to the seniors features Miss Francine Childs presenting the eighth grade, Miss Péggié Randle for the seniors, and historians Mrs. W. L. Franks and Miss Mary A. Rider. Eighth grade diploma recipients include Jim mie Lee Barber Bowden Jones Virgil Massey Bobby Joe Pow et Calvin Thomas Lou Helen Moore Sally Anne Meadows Nellie Sue Sange Beatrice Powell and Dorothy Thomas. Baccalaureate services were held May 18 at Greater Mt Zion Baptist Church with Rev. J. P. William Rev. C. D. Dunwood Rev. R. L. Washington and offertory by Lorenzo Person and Travis July. Principal W. E. B. Franks introduced the speaker and music was by the junior high chorus the mixed chorus and the octet.
Dozier Cemetery Association announces a cemetery working on May 30. All interested residents should bring power lawn mowers and land rakes. Work starts about 8 a.m. and continues until the grounds are cleaned. Jim Ray serves as president and Mrs Wood Coleman as secretary-treasurer.
A California lumber worker allegedly handed a cashier a 9000 dollar paycheck to the teller who screamed. The event centers on the large sum and the dramatic reaction at the counter. Further details on dates or names are not provided in the readable text.
A driver responding to a Honolulu police inquiry stated his birthdate as April 18, 61, meaning 1861, reflecting a possible confusion or misstatement in a historic context. The exchange highlights issues of accuracy in self reporting of personal details to authorities.
Mrs Newt Price and Mrs Leia Terry visited in Memphis on Tuesday with Mrs Kate Brown, sister of Mrs Terry, as reports describe a Hartford store burglary where the thief cut the glass of the front door, disconnected the burglar alarm, and stole four cents.
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