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Funeral services will be held at Criswell Funeral Home, 2:00 Thursday, December 16 , with Rev. Jamie Perry officiating.
Read moreWhat age were you when you considered yourself “grown?” I was 16 and just got my driver’s license. I had, sometime back, fallen in love with cars. Especially those with a lot of horsepower under the hood. Dad had one of these “things.” But dad had little confidence in my ability to use one safely. So my ability to get my hands on his car was nil.
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Two Allen junior class students each earned $5,000 scholarships recently when they competed for the Pontotoc Technology Center in the Hot Rodders of Tomorrow National Competition. The national competition was held in Indianapolis.
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It was December 25, 1776, and destiny was in the making. We were at war for our freedom from the British. The cities were in the hands of the British . . . only the woods, the snow, and cold were ours.
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In 1944, Congress again considered canceling the game. Then the idea came up to use it as a fundraiser for the war effort. Scheduled to return to Thompson Field, the game was moved instead to the much larger Memorial Stadium in Baltimore. To purchase tickets, a buyer had to buy a war bond. The game pulled in some 100,000 spectators and $58 million. Scalpers got up to $1,000 for some tickets, and 15 private boxes on the 50-yard line rented for $1 million each.
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When Allen fans finally get to return to our own home gym next week they will see the new scoreboards and scorers table. Those upgrades, along with the new cement bus parking pads and the near completion of the upstairs hospitality/ weight room will help make the Allen gymnasium a showplace.
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