The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 32, Ed. 1 Monday, July 10, 1972 Page: 4 of 10
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The Winkler County News, Kermit, Texas Monday, July 10, 1972
Through The Years
25 YEARS AGO
Emory Spangler has
established insurance and tax
offices in the building directly
across the street north of The
Winkler County News, on the
corner of Oak and Austin
Streets.
Opening of the new
home-owned Read Food Store,
corner of Winkler and Cedar
Streets, is scheduled Friday.
The store will be operated in
connection with Kermit Food
Locker Plant.
Contest to name Kermit’s
new theater is drawing many
suggestions, Chamber of
Commerce officials have
announced. A year’s free pass
to the theater will be given the
winner.
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Burnett
and son, Butch, were in
Sweetwater visiting relatives
over the weekend.
Mrs. M. M. Donosky of
Dallas is a guest here in the
home of her daughter and
family, Mr. and Mrs. R. E.
(Dick) Dwelle, and children,
Donna and Dan.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Bone
spent the weekend in Lubbock
visiting their daughter, Virginia
Mae, who is attending band
school at Texas Tech.
Wink 4-H girls picnicked
Tuesday morning at Wink
Falls. The group was
accompanied by Sally Ferrell,
county home demonstration
agent.
Louis Edwards of Edwards
Appliance Company is a
business visitor this week in El
Paso.
Mrs. G. T. Gilligan and Miss
Ann Williams, daughter of Rev.
and Mrs. M. V. Williams, will
arrive home Saturday night.
Giligan, Kermit High School
band director, has been
assisting as band instructor at
McMurry College, Abilene.
20 YEARS AGO
Steel pipe is beginning to
arrive for a new 195-mile
pipeline that will follow a
torturous trail across
mountains, canyons and a river
between Wink and El Paso and,
almost double the volume of
cfude oil which is now flowing
into El Paso. The new line is
being installed by Pasotex Pipe
Cine Company.
A. O. Barnard, Winkler
County Tax Assessor-Collector,
has announced that Mrs. Ann
Smith has been appointed as
chief deputy in his office,
replacing Lillian Wright who
has moved to Salt Lake City,
Utah.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald
McGuire and childfen,
accompanied by her brother
and family from New Mexico,
visited Boy Scout Ranch in the
Davis Mountains the past
weekend.
Weekend visitors in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Irvin
Clayton were her father, Frank
Waggoner, and her
brother-in-law and sister, Mr.
and Mrs. Worth Cook and son,
Tommy, all of Olney.
Mrs. Carter Magendie, past
president of American Legion
Auxiliary, was elected unit
delegate chairman to the State
Convention in Dallas, Aug.
8-10. Other delegates are Billie
Curtis, Lillie Hopkins, Lois
McGillycuddy, Elise Alberts
and Tressie Flattley.
Asphalt topping of Kermit
streets is now under way,
according to County
Commissioners Bob Leese and
Tommy Mills. |
Mrs. E. G. Thomas was
honored with a pink and blue
shower Monday night in the
home of Mrs. B. F. Meek.
Co-hostesses were Mrs. D. S.
Hughes, Mrs. J. W. Brumlow,
Mrs. C. Casey, Mrs. W. T. Hair
and Mrs. H. D. Mitchell.
Mrs. Forrest Rumbaugh is
visiting in the home of her
mother, Mrs. C. R. Williams,
who is ill in Salem, W. Va. She
was accompanied by her niece,
Mrs. D. E. Huff, and Mrs.
Huffs son, Randy.
15 YEARS AGO
Winkler County
temperatures hit 100 degrees
or higher each day for the past
19 days. Highest was 112.
A Kermit landmark will be
sold or torn down soon. The
W. A. Priest home at 316
South Oak Street is one of four
buildings which will be sold to
the highest bidder Tuesday
night by Kermit Independent
School District.
Hungry burglars struck the
Lariat Drive-In Theater
concession stand early
Saturday morning and stole 40
hot dog wieners and a few
packages of cigarettes.
Miss Carolyn Sue Wilson,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. T.
Wilson, 733 Magnolia, is
attending twirling school at
Odessa College.
Winkler County has its first
juvenile officer. He is Bill G.
Hunnicut, who began his duties
this week as an officer with the
authority and support of the
juvenile court.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Handlin
Jr.l are the parents of a son,
born July 7, in El Paso. He is
the grandson of Mr. and Mrs.
D. L Handlin of Kermit and
Mr, and Mrs. Hugh Gates of
Duncan, Okla., former Kermit
residents.
Attend Funeral
Mrs. Sudie Turner and her
niece, Mrs. Jessie Woods, flew
to Sacramento, Calif.,
Thursday to attend the funeral
of Mrs. Turner’s brother, Dean
Sims. He was drowned July 4
while on a fishing trip. Services
were held Saturday in
Bakersfield, Calif.
Mrs. Turner and Mrs. Woods
will visit relatives in
Sacramento before returning
home this week.
THUGS TAKE CASH
AS WELL AS FOOD
Leaving a store with a bag of
food, V. W. Ludwig, 60, of
Galesburg, 111., was stopped by
two men who asked for his
food. Ludwig opened his
package and made sandwiches
for both men.
Apparently not satisfied
with the sandwiches, the
thieves robbed Ludwig of $2
and fled.
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Maikell, Elgin L. The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 32, Ed. 1 Monday, July 10, 1972, newspaper, July 10, 1972; Kermit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth980509/m1/4/?q=%22Texas+Normal+College%22: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Winkler County Library.