Stamford American (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 1, 1976 Page: 1 of 18
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Who will be Stamford's first
white Christmas
Reynolds Street. Under clear skies, however, most of
the snow was gone by the evening of Christmas Day,
having served its purposes in fulfilling dreams of a
White Christmas.-
world series matches and scores may
be' found in the pages of the calendars.
In the 1963 calendar, there is found
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WIREMAN AT WORK—
Stamford Fireman Alan Plumlee
quickly changes his air tank of
oxygen during a house fire here the
day after Christmas.. A buzzer
sounds when the firemen's oxygen
supply runs low inside a burning
structure, thus warffffig them to
retrace their air tanks with full
tanks. Investigation is continuing
in the cause of the blaze which
destroyed one room and its con-
tents.
the deliver*’ fees for the doctor in
charge is $200 This fee includes normal
delivery, monthly pre natal checkups
and one post delivery checkup -for
mother and baby. Added to this’is a
routine OB lab profile work fee of $32.
plus additional lab work: and $17 for
fetus X-ray This makes a total of $249.
plus a $5 per day medical fee for the
baby
In the event of a caesarian delivery^
the doctor's fee is $350. plus $70 for an
assistant's fee '
Thus, the total cost of having a baby
in Stamford Memorial Hospital aver-
ages about $650 for normal deliveries
and could range .from $550. to $750
Caesarian deliveries are higher
Making the majority of deliveries at
Stamford Memorial Hospital are Dr.
Tofyy Selmon and Dr Elmer J
Hawkins <jf the 155 births in 1975. Dr
Selmon is credited with delivering 99
and Dr .Hawking delivered 51 The
remainder were delivered by Drs Tom
Bunkiey and George Pryor whenever
the neither of the other two doctors
were available
DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS FIRE DAMAGE^ HOUSE—
Smoke billows from a house at 807 E. Wells as firemen bp tiled to bring the
blaze under control No one was home at the timeof the fire which was
reported at 12:37 p.m Friday, Dec. 26, and did considerable damage. The
James Howard family, residents of the house, had taken a child to the
doctor in Abilene at the time of the fire.
those 'with cotton remaining to be
harvested who frowned at the rain’s
arrival and those with their cotton
harvested who smiled as the rain fell on
thirsty small grain fields.
The precipitation can’t help but bene-
fit wheat and pat fields^
However, cotton harvesting has
halted as no cotton has been del^ered
to area gins in more than a weelc The
lull in harvesting, is providing cofcpn,
gins with an opportunity to thin their
yards of loaded cotton trailers and
emptied trailers, for the first time .in
more than a month, are outnumbering
filled trailers ___
At least two Stamford area gins
reported empty gin yards while one
other had less than 100 bales on trailers
Tuesday morning. *
Grantham Gin in Stamford, having
ginned 4200 bales, had an empty yard
Tuesday morning and Paymaster Gin
'Continued on Page 2)
Otherdiary entries range from com-
ments about the weathetUrain or snow 1
to family* rAlnions. .wedding# and theA
like .and other trips. •
The calendars chart Cozby’s activi-
ties as a Lion (be was installed as
president of the local club on June .6,
196?) and as a former city councilman ,
fhe was elected June 18, 1966. and
attended his first meeting as a city,
father on June 21, 1968 Others on the
council at the tim#W that first meeting
for Cozby were E. D. Harkens, Jimmy ,
A'hcroft. Famed Hasaen,. Clifford
Beggs and Pete Andrews.) . v •
HRcMEN CONNECT FIRE HOSES-
Stamford firemen go into action connection fire hoses to the fire truck last
Friday 0 they battled a house fkeat 807 E Wells, the residence of the
James Howard family. The Rouse/ owned by Alfred Shurley, haff-one
rdom destroyed along with its contents and water and smoke damage in
CHRISTMAS VISITORS— ”
White Christmases make snow-
men, and numerous Stamford resi-
dents answered the call to create
their icy visitors.
For a large number of years, Stam-
totd.has been a place for babies to be
born for a wide area of the surrounding
region . ’
. While hospitals in some other area
towns have started and stopped their
delivery facilities from time to time,
Stamford Memorial Hospital has known
continuous delivery service for years
And going into the Bicentennial year
will be no different
. Thus, a number of Stamford mer-
chants will be w atching the skies for the
first stork of 1976 with keen interest
since they will be offering a long list of
gifts for '76 s firstborn and his or her
parents
Participating merchants include the
Stamford American. First Federal
Savingsand U>an Association, Gibson's”
Discount Center First National Bank.
Social 1 Lion Hind's. Anthony’s,
Hassen's. Stamford Memorial Hospital.
Sav-X Pharmacies, Longlej Drive-In
Grocery and Bunkiey Drugstore "■
Gifts w ill
counts to diapers to toys to blankets
For more information on- the contest,
see the ad in this., week ? Stamford
American
Winner of the contest along with-the
mother will be' teatured in next week’s
Stamford American Chances wou'd
seem good that the year's first baby
will be bom in -the first week in
January
In 1975 a total of 155 babies were
born as of/earl) Tuesday: Dec 30.
making a monthly average of almost 13
babies a babe born a little over even
other dav Thus hv press deadline next
week statistics ci^jld enable two or
three babies to be'Ttorn .
.Of the 155 babies born this last vear.
Stamford area residents ’Will' join in calendar, Cozby can find where shortly
flipping Qve'r a new calendar page (his after entering business in the fall of 1945
week as the nation and the World mbvas the hobrs and wages of employees were
intg_19?6 . - ’ '-' jotted down as ’‘8 hr , $6 " Wages jotted
Grady Cozby, local businessman, will
join iiTTurning to a new calendar amf
Will ret jre * another calendar to hik
Cbhection of calendars carrying a week
to a page memo‘space/. ; //•'. /.
Cozby, owner and operator of Cozby
Plumbing and Heating (omprfky.tals.
been receiving one Of the calendars
from the Stamford American.ever sinOe
he went into business for himself 1bl~'
1946,- thus making, the\calendar be'
received this year number 3Q iff. ms
series.
In addition tp providing -a means of
determining the day ot the week and
month and yearJ Cqcby.’S’calendars ■
have’provided,for three decades a*
"ntare of keeping a diqry
Thumbing through (he^tack of used
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old calendars and putting up fresh, clean ones, Cozby
will be retiring the 1975 calendar with others that are
filled with notations from the past.
LIONS INTERNATIONAL
7»wld» lantnt Servin- ciut,
Over one MUlion Member. 4
•SUmlorrl Ijo*. meH {vtn U
Tumae, evening » ,t
Lion.T Building Always
•eeXing new nyemlwr. vial
lor.
With no additional precipitation fore
seen for t{je next few days. 197a appears
to prepare to make its exit showing an
annual rainfall slightly above normal
Cold winter rain, boosted by a two To
four inch ChrTSlmas snowfall, during
Christmas week moved the year's total
to 25 11 inches, or 1 72 inches above the
normal annual rainfall of 23 39
With raining beginning early Christ-
mas week, rainfall measured a total of
1 14 a week later, the only precipitation
measured for December The heaviest
amounts fell between early Wednesday
morning. Dec 24.-. and Christmas
morning, when a total of 88 was
measured
Normal December rainfall is ”1.12,
making the njonth near normal as far
as precipitation is concerned. Fore-
casts don't call for additional raipfall
between now and Saturday. *?'-
The late December precipitatjpn was
greeted by two types of farmers —
September was the busjest month with
18 births recorded The low month for
the year was June, when only seven
births were counted
A breakdown of other months
follows January ,17; February, 9;
March, 13. April, 12, May, 14 July. 14,
August. 10, October. 13, November. 13;
and December, is of Dec ,30, 15
March 30.1975. was the most popular
da'y for newborns last year with four
, babies sharing that birth date Three
babies were born on Sept 9, Nov 9 and
Nov 26 There were dual births on 15
days during 1975, The most coming in
January when there were two babies
born on five different days
The average stay in the Stamford
Memorial Hospital nursery for -new-
born infants in 1975 was 3 43 days per
baby The days mother'and child spent
in the hospital ranged from a few twd-
day stays to several four-and-a-half day
stays
The cost of having a baby has
range from saMng^*tf^w*rf**'increased in the last feW years, much
like costs in other’areas have been on
an increase However, the cost of
havrng.a’Tiatw born in Stamford is said
to remain slightly lower than costs in
hospitals in larger towns
The I oca 1 hospital requires a $300
deposjL paid by the seventh month of
pregnancy, for a normal delivery,
unless insurance covers that amount A
$500 deposit is required when a
caesarian delivery is anticipated
For most, normal deliveries, where
the mother and child stay about three
dats and there are no complications,
the hospital cost will be around $400
For a Litcsanan delivqgy. the hospital
cost can run upward to about $1000
In addition to the hospital charges.
TAMFORD AMERICAN
leader Volume 76,
CHRISTMAS CARD SCENE IN STAMFORD—
Dreams of a Wriite Christmas were realized in
Stamford last week as a wet snow measuring between
two and four inches descended on West Texas on
Christmas Eve, just in time for residents to awaken
Christmas morning to-scenes s.uch as this one on East
Cotton harvest halteid--
Wet weather brings
COZBY ADDS CALENDAR TO COLLECTION—
Grady Cozby, local plumber, adds a 1976 calendar to
his collection of weekly memo calendars he has
received from the Stamford American since he went
into business 30 years ago. While other's are discarding
Localbusinessman to retire ’75
made with a new suit Also, a notation-
van be found about a daughter leevii*
for Alaska in 1968.
The calendars also remind the Cotbyg
of holiday meals and company pn4
other personal memories.
Cozby. bom at Wolff City, moved to
Stamford in 1925 and later lived at
Tuxedo He married the former Mary
Hunt, of Waco, in Waco in 1932 and tlwf
moved to Stamford in 1936.
WH He wotted for other
Asports lovdr, Cozby ha^-kept track . ikJS to 1945. when he opMnd Ms owff
I many f hot ba 11 games dqnng the last * business \ a.
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Lammert, Danny. Stamford American (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 1, 1976, newspaper, January 1, 1976; Stamford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1215994/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stamford Carnegie Library.