De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 24, 1983 Page: 2 of 12
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Second Class Postage Paid at De Leon, Texas 76444.
W. W. PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC.
”• EDITOR-GAYLEE. WILKERSON
CO-PUBLISHERS
WILLIAM B. AND JUDITH WILKERSON
Business &
Professional
Directory
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MONIES IN THE MEMORIAL FUND WILL BE USED TO
PURCHASE NEW EQUIPMENT FOR THE HOSPITAL.
starvation type of diets.
Diabetics should follow
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JOHNNY C. SMITH,
D.D.S.
General Dentistry
70S Fannin Street
De Leon, Texas
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If electric
bills are tak-
ing too big a
bite out of
your budget,
consider
equipment
with a higher energy-
efficiency rating. The higher
the rating, the less electricity
it takes to heat and cool your
home. And using less elec-
tricity will help hold down
your bill.
High-efficiency equipment
costs more, but when the
equipment qualifies, Texas
Electric will give you a bonus
check to help pay the
IN North Patrick, Dublin, Texas
Pheue 817-445-4111
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Optometrist
VISION CARE
Monday - Friday
Closed Thursday Afternoon
4N North Austin Street
Comanche, Texas
Phone 915-356-3266
The De Leon Free Press, Box 320, De Leon, Texas 76444
(Publication No. 150060) is published weekly every
Thursday at 101 North Texas, De Leon, Texas 76444.
STEPHEN’S STUDIO
IN South Patrick
Dublin, Texas
CALLFOR
APPOINTMENT
Phone 445-3765
Closed on Mondays
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Optometrist
At N ata tana Care Center
Each Thursday From
1:66 to 5:66 p.m.
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MOBILE
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Mobile Homes
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D.D.S.
Family Dentistry
Orthodontics
Phone 893-6116
IM West Reynosa. .
De Leon, Texas
UBLIN ZERO
LOCKER
BoMla, Texas
PHONE 117-445-2424
DISMISSED
February M
Gladys Perry
J. E. Lawrence
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H.C. Floyd
Theron Flatt
May Killion
February If
Sidney Bruton
Billy Pippin
James Duncan
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tell me before I know.
Talk to you next week.
CARD OF THANKS
We want to thank
everyone for the phone
calls, visits, cards, and
flowers during the loss of
our mother.. Thanks to
Rev. Darrell Dossey and
Rev. Mike Paterson for
their words of comfort and
the beautiful music of the
choir.
opposed to It The bin was
J also not referred to the
County Affairs Committee,
the Committee on which I
sit and which is made up
primarily of rural-orientod
representatives. Obvious-
ly, the Urban Affairs
Committee has little or no
rural representation. lean
only draw the conclusion
that the Speaker desires
that the bill have favorable
Committee treatment and
it
HOSPITAL NEWS
Jim Dendy
February 11
Pam Whittacker
Ida Frasier
February 17
Roland S wanner
Zola Loveless
Anna Bingham
Bernie Martin
Santiago (Jim) Peres
Rebecca Sewell
Inf. Male Whittacker
FebruaryU
Vera Allen
Alane Leach
Inf. Male Leach
Kathleen Capps
Inf. Male Capps
February 12
Eula Martin
Inf. Male Bingham
FebruaryN
Esteen Piper
Ida Frasier
difference.
So If you’re
planning to
install a
room unit, or
x replace cen-
tral air condi-
tioning or a year-
round heat pump, ask your
dealer about equipment that
qualifies for a bonus check
from Itexas Electric.
And put money
back in __ >-zr
your |
pocket.
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cHouse of
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DESDEMONA NEWS
Ilves in Desdemona. Our
sincere sympathy goes out
to this family.
Joe Lee Dupuy was
buried in Breckenridge on
February 10. He attended
school in Desdemona
during the ’40*s.
Amy Koonce, daughter of
Scotty and Pat Koonce,
celebrated her 1st birthday
on Sunday, February 20, in
the home of Granny Billye
Koonce. Sherry Brown
make the cake. Others
attending were Tom and Jo ,
Freeman of Little Rock,
Arkansas, Brad, Lori, and
Derek Koonce, and Joe Ben
Koonce.
D€ £Eon rxee press
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races. Tim assignment of
***: this bill to the Urban
• Affairs Committee Is
• revealing In that it was not
; assigned to the State
“ Affairs Committee where it
• is rumored Representative
>• Pete Laney, the chairman
of the Committee, would be
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= Senior
i Citizen^
Friday, February1 25
Birthday Celebration
Gospel Singing - Sliced
turkey/dresslng, giblet
gravy, English peas; sweet
potatoes, fruit cocktail, ice
cream, birthday cake
Monday, February 28 -
Steak, spinach, buttered
potatoes, fruit salad,
cheese stick.
Wednesday, March 2 -
Beans & franks, turnip
greens, pickled beets,
mixed fruit, cheese sticks.
DM You Know?
Did you know,...that
smoking can make you look
DUBLIN SERVICE
CENTER
Phone 445-2250
Located Between Dublin And
Stephenville On Hwy 377
2 Miles From Dublin
COMPLETE MUFFLER AND
RADIATOR SERVICE
Featurii
Complete Dual
New Shipment Of
Spring Merchandise
Ladies Tops and Blouses
Men’s A Beys’Short Sleeve Shirts
MANY SALK ITEMS -
Including Down Jackets
“First Line Merchandise At
compeutive rnces
The Family of
Lera Bey
CITY COUNCIL
MINUTES
The City of De Leon
called a special meeting for
Thursday, February 17, at
5 P.M. at the City Hall to
set the tax rate for 1962.
The motion was made by
Kent Boswell and seconded
by Bill Jackson for the rate
to be 42* per $100 valuation
as set by Jack W. Harris,
Chief Appraiser,
Comanche County
Appraisal District, with all
council members attending
voting for.
ultimately come down to a Vonnie Guthery and
choice between a general Angela Cr®®*1 attended the
tax increase and pari- wedding of Sandra Newton
mutual wagering, I would and R®X Paul at St. Joe
probably fool compelled to Baptist Church in De Leon
choose the latter for the last Saturday night,
reason that I do not think Paul Skinner of Gorman
my constituents can stand was buried Thursday at
a tex increase and for the Howard Cemetery. His
additional reason that I daughter, Helen Collum,
cannot, in light of my
current understanding,
conceive of a major
wagering facility being
located in my district, ___________
since the bill is on a local older? ’ According' to Dr.
option basis. Lawrence E. Lamb,
I will do what you want medical columnist for
Newspaper Enterprise
Association, it can even
make you look old and
wrinkled!
Information furnished as
a courtesy of Cross
Timbers Health Clinic.
Is your heating/
cooling system,
gobbling up
too much money ?
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Things are beginning to pari-mutuel wagering. This
beat up hut in the House bill would create, generally
assignment of bills speaking, a condition in the
continued Possibly one of State of Texas where
Subscription Rates: $10.95 per year in Comanche County; mogt , ......"
$11.96 per year elsewhere in Texas; $13.96 per year referrala was t_
elsewhere. Cards of Thanks and other messages charged ^ignmont hy th- gp-f b-Z option, ~ wager on horse
at classified advertising rate of $4.00 minimum charge for H.B. 440 dealing with races, and perhaps, dog
twenty-five words or less. Each additional word is 5 cents. “
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Postmaster: Send address changes to Free Press, P. O.
Box 320, De Leon, Texas 76444.
MEMBER 1983
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
win omit that I am, tea p,t Buckley is in Kermit
great extent, in a quandary wlth her mother, Mrs.
as to how I should react to M,r> Williams, who
the Issue. Should it suffered a stroke recently.
ultimately come down to a Vonnie Guthery and
ADMITTED
February 14
Lula Pittman
Ira Frasier
Anna Bingham
Bernice Stokes
Jim T. Dendy
Nell Timmons
PoUleBoen
Gene Grisham
Inf. Male Bingham
Charlie Nance
Pam Whittacker
February If
Alane Leach
Gordon Murray
Inf. Male Whittacker
Bessie Martin
loss Geneva Anderson
not Hettle B. Mahan
for Inf. Male Leach
diabetics. Diabetics should February II
avoid all nutritionally C.G. Morton
unbalanced diets, Enla Martin----
especially those high, to DoUie E. Harrelson
protein mixtures Kathleen Capps
containing low quality TlinmasC. Garrett
protein for use in mofified Mary Newton
Rebecca Sewell
Vera B. Allen
only the diet recommended S. L. Snider
by a physician. _ Inf. Female Capps
February 17
Robert Wilson
William Shoemaker
Mamie Hanson
February If
William Cardwell
Mattie Lee Dickey
Colbert King
February If
Fay Knight
Hope Nowlin
Lynn Jackson
Inf. Male Jackson
Becky Underwood
BUI Gonsales
February 21
Flossie Lester
Esselle Eaton
Monday - Shepherd Pie,
buttered carrots, English
peas, peach slices
Tuesday - Meat loaf,
baked beans, celery sticks,
hot rolls, JeUy
Wednesday - Mexican
casserole, squash,
vegetable sticks, crackers,
applesauce cake
Thursday - Fish sticks
with tartar sauce, potato
rounds, cole slaw, pear
half, hot rolls
Friday - Barbequed
turkey, • potato chips,
lettuce and tomato salad,
oatmeal cookies
Quick weight
schemes are
recommended
poUdng offorta would te
jand away exceed any
benefita derived.
tagialetton grip nasi1 ***■ ®nd Mrs. Chubbie
would earmark funds Foreman of Irving, Mr.
received on taxation of Hillary Seay and
wagering operations for Tommy Lyn of Gorman,
dependent children and Angela, and Sonja Martin
education, both areas h«d dinner last Sunday
desperately in need of with Mrs. Nannie Guthery.
funds. Murry Stroud of
In fulfilling my offer Longview visited recently
repeated promise of his parents, Mr. and
trankneas and I Mrs. Glyn Hiibaud.
will omit that I am, to a Pat Buckley is in Kermit
_____ Feb. 23
Community TV
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De Leon, Texas
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Wilkerson, Gayle E. De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 24, 1983, newspaper, February 24, 1983; De Leon, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1248114/m1/2/?q=%2522dewey+redman%2522: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Comanche Public Library.