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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1990
Page
1
Wellington Elementary plans Centennial Day on Friday September 14 with frontier costumes. Collingsworth County Centennial is highlighted in classrooms since the school year began. Rooms display centennial banners and students’ arts and crafts reflect the theme with history readings from county books.
More than 100 terrapins train for the annual Lions Club Terrapin Race set for Saturday Sept 15 at 1 PM on the park’s northwest corner. Lions Club president James Shepherd leads the training with a vegetarian diet and cantaloupe. Carl Wischkaemper and his grandson Jason provide champion catching help, with track tracing by Glenn McLain and play by play by Marshall Peters for spectators.
Jack and Margie Scott of Memphis Texas raise llamas and become local curios. Their herd, led by Millie the mother llama and Lucinda the baby, brings visitors to their ranch. The couple, rooted in Quail and Wellington, praise the animals’ hardiness and easy births while consulting Dr. Benjamin Carson for veterinary questions.
Parade judges will be Amarillo weather man Roy McCoy of KAMR TV and two Amarillo Globe News representatives. Entrants should sign up at the fire station before 1 30 Friday Sept 14. They receive an entry number and then move one block south of the post office prior to the parade.
Collingsworth County begins peanut harvest with Tommy Coleman of Quail delivering the first Valencia load on Sept 5 to Quail Peanuts Inc. Don Allred and Jerry Lewis brought the initial Wellington load Sept 7 to Warrick's Inc. Most crops are Valencia with some Virginia and flow runner. Export markets planned for Europe, Spain, and Brazil. Coleman expects harvest to finish by mid November, with yields around 2,000 pounds per acre and irrigation-based growth since 1948. Weather and disease are ongoing considerations as harvesting ramps up.
The Wellington Skyrockets meet Hollis Tigers in the second game of the season at Powell Field on Friday. Hollis lost their opener to Tipton but upset Waureka, ranked fourth in Oklahoma Class A, 19-18 last week. Coach James Williams notes Hollis relies on the passing game and has speed in the backs. This is the Skyrockets’ first home game of the season.
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