For What It’s Worth From Melanie Oren
Melanie Oren shares a family tale about football picks, a local contest, and the postman selling banquet tickets. Greg Hampton wins with nine correct guesses while Oren rues a nine point gap and hopes for the Alamo Bowl prize. Birthday wishes wrap the piece in a light, local tone.
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Charlie
Dad
Sally
Sheriff's Office
Dallas
Oakland
AG News
Greg Hampton
Wheeler
Postal Service
Rodney Reeves
Collingsworth Chamber of Commerce
Betty
Ray Stone
Dallas Cowboys
Stone
Stone Oren
Joyce
Lavon
John Glen
It All Starts With Newspapers Says National Week Theme
Editors emphasize newspapers as community recorders from birth to death and as catalysts for fundraising education and literacy. The piece celebrates coverage of meetings, investigations, classifieds, ads, and opinion writing as essential to civic life and local discourse.
Salt Fork sub five supervisor election set at Lutle Gin
A meeting on September 30 1948 will elect a new supervisor for Salt Fork Soil Conservation District subdivision 5. The vote is open to landowners 21 or older in the county. Alfred Knoll is the current supervisor. terms will be staggered over five years with one new supervisor elected annually. The meeting will review district work and purpose.
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Salt Fork
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Wellington Leader
West Avenue
Wellington
Texas
Henry Wells
Virginia Robey News
Melanie Oren
Priscilla Sullivan
Panhandle Press Associations
Texas Press Association
Neil Wilbur
Belly Winslett
Shelly Long Darkroom
Kathy Southerland
Collingsworth County
Shamrock
Franklin Knoll
Wayne Johnson
Ronnie Gooch
Don Knoll
John Gordon Thomas
John Thomas
Dalhart
Powell Field
John Bray
High Plains
Clarendon
State Line
Fleet Pruden
King Antonio
Pesky Rita
John Holton
Holton
Pesky Gal
Pesky Molly
Cliff Campbell
Pesky Shelia
Boy Scouts of
Troop 31
Explorers of
Post 31
Jack
Ford
American Legion
Collingsworth
Millard Brown
ASC
Soil Bank
ASC County Committee
Jimmy Brown
Texas Tech
Sumnerwood High School
Robert Dwight
John Dwyer
Wellington High School
Brown
Sean Mae Underdown
Dodson Jones
Tech
Las Vegas
Longview
City State Bank
Billy Moseley
Jeff Wilson
Bank
Thayne Amonett
Danny West
Teddy McLain
Jimmy Bohannon
Teddy Martin
Larry Kane
Jerry Wooldridge
Chuck Wilbur
Iowa Park
Amonett
Rockets
Andy Lowe
Nicky Watts
Gary Brewer
Ricky Brown
Ricky Nall
Charles Mauldin
Tony Hurst
Don Martin
Larry Robinson
Bobby Saied
Danny Watts
Mark Killian
James Jones
Danny Brooks
Reece Bowen
Lester Robinson
University of Texas
Austin
Willl
Larson
Anne Langford
Carter Holcomb
First United Methodist Church
Bura
Tom Thomson
Richard Nall
Jean Burchett
Childress
Erma Bombeck
Panhandle
David Baumgardner
Ingore Bet
Conmputes
Reverenen
Lynn Bert
National Newspaper Week
Wellington State
Benk - P.O
Wallington
Wheeler Benking
Tavotsena
Farrene
Gal. Co
Pati
Idea
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Se & Oan
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