Wood Lake Girl Scouts to Open Fourth Year Camp
Heart of Texas Council announces Wood Lake Camp near Brownwood in Division State Park opens for its fourth year on June 7. The 73 acre site offers swimming boating and a dining hall craft center and units with showers. Two week sessions run for girls from fly up to seniors with a unit camping plan teaching self governance and citizenship under staff supervision.
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S. A. C. Robbins
E Heart of Texas Girl Scouts
Wood Lake
Camp Lake
Brownwood
Division State Park
Ips
Woodee
Girl Scouts
American National Red Cross
American Camping Association
Heart of Texas Council
Ray A. Hoyle
Wayne Holland
Twirler Try Outs Set for May 10 at High School
Junior and senior high majorette tryouts will be held on Saturday May 10 starting at 10 a.m. on the high school front lawn. Judges Odis Claxton and Fred Steffey will rate performances on I L fundamentals showmanship and poise. Results announce at the spring concert May 14.
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Robert Gans
Odis Claxton
McMurry College
Fred Steffey
South Junior High
Abilene
Winters FFA to Host Parent Son Banquet Monday
The Winters FFA chapter will hold its annual Parent Son banquet in the school cafeteria Monday evening May 4. Guest speaker Frankie Burkhart FFA state vice president Area IV from Stephenville will attend. Roeneal Boles outgoing president will install the 1959 60 officers.
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Winters
Future Farmers of America
Frankie Burkhart
FFA
Area IV
Stephenville
Roeneal Boles
Crews HDC Members Exchange Programs and Local News
Crews Community notes an exchange program at Mrs. Enoch Johnson’s home with Mrs. M R Petrie presiding. The Friendly Neighbors discussed table linen nutrition and recipes while recreation was led by Mrs. Owen Bragg. New officers were elected at a later meeting and several locals attended funerals and visits across Winters Abilene Dumas and Brownwood areas.
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Friendly Neighbors Home Demonstration Club
Crews Hdc
Enoch Johnson
M. R. Petrie
Crews Club
Friendly Neighbors Club
C. T. Moonen
Ruby Russell
Owen Bragg
W. J. Curtis
Leon Russell
Chas. Stubblefield
Roy Tyree
Hugh Vogelsang
J. J. Wessels
L. S. Nunn
W. S. Caudle
Ollie Chenoweth
Chester McBeth
Obed Fuller
S. J. Brevard
Wilmer Gerhart
Marion Wood
Redwine Family Visits Father Convalesces at Home
E. S. Redwine father of Jackie Redwine is convalescing at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bates after a Brownwood hospital stay for a heart condition. Eddie Redwine of Bangs W. H. Redwine of Colorado City Mrs. E. B. Carey of Moro and Mrs. T. L. Hollis of Abilene visited him over the weekend.
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E. S. Redwine
Jackie Redwine
Arthur Bates
Brownwood Hospital
Eddie Redwine
Bangs
W. H. Redwine
Colorado City
E. B. Carey
Moro
T. L. Hollis
Abilene
Restocking Rewards and Deer Harvest in 1958
Deer restocking on the Cedar Creek area yielded 68 killed by licensed hunters in 1958, with 33 on leased land and 35 on non leased land. The Cross Roads Area produced 62 deer with 44 on leased land and 18 on unleased land. Henderson County's total legal harvest was 132 deer, plus minor counts of near LaRue and highway incidents. About $5,000 was paid.
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Cedar Creek
Director of
Wildlife Restoration, Game and Fish Commission
Cross Roads
Henderson County
LaRue
Neches
Mrs J R Baker Dies At Slaton After Illness
Mrs J R Baker age 82 sister in law of Joe and Hugh Baker of this city died Wednesday in a Slaton hospital after a long illness. Funeral services are set for Friday at 3 PM at Slaton Methodist Church with burial at her husband’s gravesite who died in 1947. She had lived near Slaton since 1920 and in town 16 years. Surviving: H R Baker Fall Brook California Mrs W L Dawes Yale Oklahoma L K Baker Amarillo and H E Baker Meadows Texas.
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J. R. Baker
Joe
Hugh Baker
Slaton
Slaton Methodist Church
Yale
Okla
L. K. Baker
Amarillo
H. E. Baker
Meadows
Texas
Loyalty Day Observed With Flags Flown Nationwide
Local VFW chapter joins national effort for Loyalty Day May 1 with merchants urged to display flags. The VFW marks a full Loyalty Means Liberty week under the 1959 program slogan.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW
Glover Returns to Houston Family Visit
Mrs. Willis Glover and her husband visited relatives over the weekend in Houston staying with her sister and brother in law, Lonnie Burton and wife, and Bill Millorn and wife.
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Houston
Willis Glover
Lonnie Burton
Bill Millorn
Henderson County Hunt Leasing Notice
Landowners in Henderson County were urged to review lease offers for hunting privileges. The notice highlights eligibility, parcel boundaries, and deadlines for submitting agreements to the county office.
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Henderson County
Home Town Talk on Statehood Splits and Proposals
A columnist notes 368 702 acres representing 9 percent of 4 000 000 and 21 percent held by eleven families. The piece speculates on littoral areas or estates seeking statehood to access federal aid, roads, and dams. It ends mentioning Hawaii joining and a carmaker’s new models to fit the slogan See the U S A.
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Rhode Island
Hawaii
Rock
U.S.A
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T. O. Nalley
Coleman
Ralph McWilliams
Orville Pearce
E. W. Bridwell
Bobby Bridwell
Dumas
Neysa Petrie
McMurry
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Drasco
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