Tom Bean Happenings Budget and Arson Reward Approved
Tom Bean city council approved the 1977 78 fiscal year budget and passed an arson emergency ordinance with a 250 reward for information leading to arrests and convictions. Fire insurance rates may drop two percent. First readings covered firearms, tire spinning, and noise prohibitions. Second reading December, final January 13 1978. Next meeting December 9 at 7 p.m.
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Tom Bean
Joyce Stephens
Tom
Thanksgiving Services Set at First Methodist Church
Community Thanksgiving services will be held Sunday at 5 p m at the First Methodist Church. The Rev Harry Stanley will deliver the message. The service is open to all denominations.
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Tom Bean
First Methodist Church
Harry Stanley
PTO To Dedicate Elementary Library
Tom Bean fourth graders present Off the Shelf at PTO meeting. The dedication and open house celebrate a new elementary library, with Joy Reynolds presenting an unabridged dictionary and Fred Shearer who remodeled the library. Visitors from Oklahoma City and Walnut Ridge toured the Ozark Mountains during Childrens Book Week. Velma Hollensed is a patient in Sherman after a leg injury at a college game.
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Tom Bean
Betty Madison
PTO
Charles Counts
Jess Thomas
Oklahoma City
Tressie Clinton
Walnut Ridge
Ark
Clinton
Ozark Mountains
Velma Hollensed
Wilson N. Jones Hospital
Sherman
Austin
Sherman Public Library
Joy Reynolds
Fred Shearer
Bells Lions Hear State Rep Bob Bush On Politics
State Representative Bob Bush spoke to the Bells Lions Club, noting limited voter interest in constitutional amendments, highlighting urbanization, and discussing education funding, highway plans, crime penalties, and school programs. He pledged to assist Lions and thanked the club for the opportunity.
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BELLS
Bob Bush
Bells Lions Club
John Wayne Ramsey
Sherman
Bush
United States
Austin
Plainview
Houston
Western Week Activities Close
A week of Western Week events will end with a Junior Class assembly on Friday where candidates compete for honors. A rodeo rama starts at 1 p.m. at the football field, a western dance crowns the Western Week queen at 7 30 p.m., and a hayride plus a stew supper and Bingo are also on the week’s schedule.
Bells Church Plans Weekend Revival in Bells
Weekend revival services are set for Friday and Saturday nights November 25 and 26 at Calvary Baptist Church in Bells. Services begin at 7 PM each night with speaker Larry Washburn of Longview. The Rev. Roy Hill serves as pastor.
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Bells
Calvary Baptist Church
Larry Washburn
Longview
Roy Hill
P.E. Classes To Participate In Jazz Routines
Mrs Mary Gibson's fifth period class will take part in jazz exercises to music over the next weeks to prepare for gymnastics. The routines follow techniques from health studies under supervisor Mrs Joy Reynolds. New athletic mats have been installed in the gym for the program.
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Tom Bean
Mary Gibson
Joy Reynolds
Beta Club Sells Holiday Candles Fundraiser
Members of the Beta Club are selling holiday decorative candles as a fund raising project. Large candles cost 2.50 and small ones 2.25. The sale ends November 21 with delivery in the first week of December. Candles come in a wide variety of colors.
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Beta Club
Workshop attendees study ABE program themes
Tom Bean and Mrs Bruce Yarbrough joined Sherman night class teachers aides and clerks at the Coop 24 ABE workshop in the Sherman Library Community Room on Saturday. The program titled The Good Bad and the Eager was presented.
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Tom Bean
Bruce Yarbrough
Kenneth Freeman
Sherman
Ing
Coop
Sherman Library
School Menus TOM BEAN November 21 Recipe Summary
Nov 21 includes chili with beans cheese sticks crackers peas cinnamon rolls and milk. Nov 22 features turkey and dressing with gravy green beans glazed carrots cranberry sauce fruit salad hot rolls with butter and milk.
Students Hold Mock Wedding at Tom Bean High
Tom Bean High School home and family classes staged a mock wedding at First Baptist Church. Students studied marriage meaning and religious dating aspects as Rev. Harry Stanley spoke. Laurie Armstrong and Don Thorpe acted as bride and groom, with the male fifth period class planning the reception.
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Tom Bean
Tom Bean High School
First Baptist Church
Harry Stanley
Laurie Armstrong
Don Thorpe
Navy Seaman Apprentice Carl Cravens Stationed At Pearl Harbor
Carl N. Cravens, son in law of A C Quinn of Tom Bean, recently returned from a Western Pacific deployment as crew member aboard USS Richard S Edwards, home port Pearl Harbor Hawaii. The destroyer trained with Seventh Fleet units and allied ships including Readiex 2 77 off California and Rimpac 77 in the Pacific, crossed the Equator and earned the title Trusty Shellback. The ship visited Australia New Zealand Samoa and Japan. Cravens is a Tom Bean High School 1976 graduate who joined the Navy in July 1979.
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Navy
Carl N. Cravens
Jeana
A.C. Quinn
Tom Bean
Western Pacific
Richard S. Edwards
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
U.S. Seventh Fleet
Seventh Fleet
Tom Bean High School
Senior Spotlight Honors Tom Bean David Simmons
Tom Bean and David Simmons named in senior spotlight. Simmons, son of Ray and Mrs. Simmons, starred on varsity football this year, hitting 3500 career yards, and will join basketball while pursuing track events. he is senior class president and aims to study coaching after college. Shirley Bradley tea hosted by United Methodist Women drew ten attendees.
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Tom Bean
David Simmons
Ray Simmons
David
United Methodist Women
Shirley Bradley
Baptist Youth Volleyball At Tom Bean Bells First
Youths from Tom Bean and Bells First Baptist Church competed in Sunday night volleyball after services with both sides winning a game each. A puppet show on Bible reading was presented and refreshments were served while Troy Stevenson announced the program. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Spence served as youth sponsors.
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Tom Bean
Bells First Baptist Church
Troy Stevenson
Jack Spence
Women Hold Retreat at Bells First Baptist Church
The Baptist Women of Bells First Baptist Church held a prayer retreat after a salad supper. About 50 attendees, led by president Mrs. Fred Shearer, shared prayer requests. Girls Auxiliary led by Mrs. Barbara Reynolds performed, while Girl Acteens led by Mrs. Joe Witherspoon read the missionary birthday calendar. A church conference followed during the prayer hour.
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BELLS
Baptist Women of the Bells
First Baptist Church
Fred Shearer
Ollie Layman
Shearer
Barbara Reynolds
Joe Witherspoon
Bel ls Meek and Cass French Welcome David Allan Herm
A boy named David Allan Herm was born Oct 28 1977 to Terri French and Robert Herm, weighing ten pounds seven ounces and measuring 22 inches. Great grandparents Rev and Mrs Charles French of Texas City, formerly Bells, attended. The report notes church activities including Grayson Associational meeting plans, a high school game night, a Baylor Rice rally, and church committees for deacon oversight insurance youth and social work plus a Lottie Moon prayer goal of 350 dollars.
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Bells
M.G. (Morris) Ramsey
Austin
Josh Michael Ramsey
O.V. Barker
Michael Ramsey
Seaton Hospital
Ramseys
Mrs
Otis Bass
Barker
Fred Meek
Cass French
David Allan Herm
Robert Herm
Terri French
Charles French
Texas City
Alvin Martin
J. T. McBroom
Mearl Johnson
Joe Witherspoon
Monte Layman
Charles Shearer
Geneva Layman
Jean Lansford
Ollie Layman
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Bells News
Delores Meek
Bells Lions
Lion Club
Bells Church
P.E
Carl Cravens
New City Hall
Texas Agriculture
Reagan V. Brown
Perry Adkisson
Texas A&m University
Texas
Brown
A&m
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Grayson Associational
Danny Whitlock
Ras
Waco
Baylor Bears
Rice Owls
Lottie Moon
Bells Beauty Boutique
Cathy Waildrip
Cindy Johnson
Felix D. Robinson
Whitewright
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