The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 27, 1968 Page: 1 of 8
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Betty Thompson chosen Miss Omaha Expe(t 38 holiday deaths
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Miss Bettv Thompson is
| Miss Omaha of 1968.
She was chosen for the hon-
or Saturday night during Om-
| aha's Summer Festival from
the field of 15 girls from the
; Omaha and Naples areas.
Miss Dinah Anthony was the
r first runnerup, and Miss Beth
{ Ramsey was second runnerup.
Other finalists were Miss
Brenda Higgins and Miss Mary
Bob Ballard.
Miss Thompson, a Pewitt
f High School junior, is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Thompson of Naples.
She is one of Pewitt's most
active students, appearing last
•m in the district one-act
y cast, serving as an FHA
e president and an area of-
ficer, and as a member of the
annual staff.
She was a sophomore class
favorite, reporter for the high
I school speech club, and secre-
[ tary and treasurer of the band.
She also was a majorette,
a member of the National
Thespians, a regional science
fair winner, and first place
winner in the district poetry
interpretation contest.
Miss Ramsey is the daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Ram-
sey of Omaha. She graduated
this spring from Pewitt High
School.
Miss Anthony also graduat-
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Ernest Paul Pewitt with Ed
Thompson, Bobby Calhoun and
Randy G. Moore acting as
henchmen raised several hun-
dred dollars Saturday night by
auctioning pies at the Omaha
Summer Festival.
It was for park improve-
ments — as good a cause as
anybody can think of — but a
lot of the buyers didn't know
they were bidding until they
vere announced the high l.an.
Pies went for from about
S20 to about $50 and the un-
lucky ones bought more than
one.
Jimmy Brown paid about
$30 for one of them.
He knew what he was get-
ting. His wife made it.
The best time of the day
ends every morning when the
alarm clock goes off.
You can tell how old you
arc by climbing stairs, trying
to watch the late, late show
without nodding, or by check-
ing the notch where your belt
caught last year and finding
it two holes further back.
There are other ways, too.
You're getting pretty far
along if you can remember
when folks boiled coffee and
settled the grounds with an
egg.
When someone spoke of
"reds" then, they meant red
flannels, and a boy didn't
think that happiness was a set
cf wheels.
People then were more in-
terested in the contentment of
each other than they were in
ed from Pewitt this spring She
is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Anthony of Na-
ples.
Other contestants were Lin-
da Talley, Judi McCown, Sue
Waits, Amanda Hicks, Janet
Vissering, Deborah Hall, Vicki
Canant, Sue Simpson, Rebecca
Beasley and Debbie Morris.
Judges were Mrs R. B. Sto-
vall of Paris, Frank Rhoades
of Ft. Worth, and George Dob-
son of Texarkana.
In an earlier contest, Connie
Tucker, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Tom Tucker of Om-
aha, was chosen as Little Miss
Omaha.
Brenda Brown, the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Brown,
was first runnerup, and Holly
Huddleston, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Fielding Huddleston,
was second runnerup.
The judges for that event
were visiting beauty queens
from other area towns.
Other entries were Nancy
Jo Clayton, Angela Peek,
Cathy Richards, Angela Jean
Tuck, Jana Settles, Tammy
Boozer, Susan Joyce Brock,
Vanessa Carol Munkres, Lynda
Kay Mitchell. Mendy Jean Per-
kins, Cammie Jan Deaton and
Kathy Ann Joyner.
Randy G. Moore crowned
Miss Thompson as Miss Omaha
and Belinda Moreland, the re-
tiring Little Miss Omaha and
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Coy
Moreland of Omaha, crowned
her successor.
Ray Richey, a former resi-
dent of Omaha, was the mas-
ter of ceremonies.
Before the start of the beau-
ty pageant, Ernest Paul Pew-
itt, a professional auctioneer
and former Omaha resident,
sold pies by bid to the specta-
tors.
Rain interfered with the day
of activity. A tennis exhibi-
Bake sale planned
as baseball benefit
A bake sale for the benefit
of the Naples Pee Wee base-
ball association will be held
Saturday, June 29, starting at
8 a.m.
The mothers of the players
will bake pies and cakes for
sale to the public and all pro-
ceeds will go toward improv-
ing the Naples park.
Mrs. Hershel Welch will
take advance and special or-
ders at the Welch Butane of-
fice up to and during the sale.
Marietta trustees
meet Tuesday
Th-j Marietta school board
will hold its regular monthly
meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday,
July 2. at the school.
The meeting is open to all
Datrons.
lion between Charles Thomas
Moore of Omaha and Earl Rob-
erts of Mt. Pleasant was called
off, and an archery demon-
stration by Hardy Ward of Mt.
Pleasant was delayed.
cows.
Ladies rode sidesaddle, and
when the preacher said a truth
he people said "Amen". A
candidate had to be economy
minded to get elected to office.
Neighbors asked about your
family and nleant it.
And when a man dressed
for the evening, he put on
liis nightshirt. Folks used
toothpicks in public and were
still polite.
Two or three people could
meet without passing the hat
and parents and older sisters
and brothers were the only
baby-sitters.
You're old fashioned, and
maybe hopelessly so, if you
can remember those days.
Men then knew that the re-
ward of idleness was hunger
and want — not an unemploy-
ment compensation check.
They knew, too, that cheir
future security depended on
what they saved today, not
what their children and their
children would pay in taxes
from now on.
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ft
MISS BETTY THOMPSON WITH RANDY G. MOORE
Traffic accidents will claim
38 lives in Texas during the
long Fourth of July holiday
next week, the Texas Depart-
ment of Public Safety has pre-
dicted.
"Operation Motorcide", a
special emphasis program de-
signed to focus attention on
the added dangers of holiday
travel, will be placed in effect
from 6 p.m. Wednesday, July
3, through 11:59 p.m. Sunday,
July 7.
The forecast is for one per-
son to lose his life in a holiday
wreck every two and a half
hours.
NAPLES
MONITOR
32 years old ... and new every week
VOLUME 82
NAPLES, TEXAS THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1968
NUMBER 48
Left money behind
Trio foiled in Omaha theft
Three traveling thieves fail-
ed Monday afternoon in an
attempt to steal $570 in cash
from the Boozer Food Store in
Omaha.
They were spotted in the act
of taking the money about
2 30 p.m. by a clerk, Mrs An-
thony Richards, and fled after
stashing it away in the store.
The three were arrested a
iew minutes later at Mt. Pleas-
ant and taken to Daingerfield
to face charges of attempted
theft.
Officers identified them as
Geraldine McCain. 24 years
old, of Birmingham. Ala., An-
nie Pinkston. 27. of Nashville,
Tenn., and Robert Hayward
Allen, 26. also of Birmingham.
All three are Negroes.
Mrs Richards and Larry
Johnson were at work in the
front of the store and A. L.
(Budge) Boozer was in the mar-
ket at the rear of the store
when the suspects came in.
One of the women kept
Johnson, a Pewitt sophomore,
busy asking about milk prod-
ucts while Mrs. Richards wait-
ed on the other woman at the
register.
Mrs. Richards said she look-
ed over her register counter
and saw an arm of the man
HOLLV HUDDLESTON
CONNIE TUCKER WITH BELINDA MORELAND
BRENDA BROWN
above the top of the office
partition.
She walked closer, made
sure of what she saw and yell-
ed for help from Boozer.
When Mrs. Richards called
Boozer, the man left the office
space and walked rapidly from
the store.
All three of the store at-
tendants went outside but did
not see the suspects leave.
Mrs. Richards had Mrs. Mary
Witt notify Constable G. D
Patterson, and Mrs. Richards
called the Mt. Pleasant police,
giving them a description of
the man. She was able to get
additional information from
people on the street and she
gave that information to police
when they called her back.
Two cars of highway patrol-
men and a city police car
stopped the suspects near the
east edge of Mt. Pleasant.
The three were taken to the
Mt. Pleasant city hall and
held there for Mrs. Richards
to see them and make positive
identification.
Morris county Deputy Sher-
Mrs. Carlisle,
longtime resident,
dies Saturday
Mrs. Esther Carlisle, 85-
\ear old Naples resident, died
at the hospital here at 8 p.m.
Saturday after a lengthy ill-
ness.
She was a long time resident
of the area and a member of
the First Baptist Church here.
Survivors include a son, G.
W. Carlisle Jr. of Kermit:
three daughters, Mrs. Gladine
Robinson of Santa Fe. N. M„
Mrs. Martha Sage of Midland,
and Mrs. Dorothy Anthony of
Marietta; a sister. Mrs. Ella
McDonald of Greenville; and
17 grandchildren. 35 great
grandchildren, and a number
of nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held
;>t 2 p.m. Monday at the First
Baptist Church of Naples with
the Rev. Morris Hill and the
Rev. Norman Davis officiating.
Burial was in the Bryans Mill
Cemetery.
Class of 1948
will hold reunion
The Naples High School class
of 1948 will hold a reunion at
7:30 p.m. July 20 at the Na-
ples Motor Inn.
The class is inviting mem-
bers of the classes of 1945-50
to attend the reunion.
Those who plan to attend
should contact Mrs. 3. D. Cobb
at Naples by July 15 for res-
ervations.
iff Dick Lawing and Constable
Patterson took custody of the
Negroes and moved them to
tne Daingerfield jail.
They were charged with at-
tempted theft over $50 and
bond was set at $1,500 each.
It was Tuesday morning be-
fore Boozer and his son. Louis,
who operates the stor?, were
sure thsy had not been robbed.
Officers had been unable to
find the money in a search of
the car.
Louis Boozer found the mon-
ey still in the bank deposit
sack Tuesday morning stuffed
in a box of kites near the toy
display and only a few feet
fiom where it had been taken.
The Pinkston woman made
a statement to Texas Ranger
Red Arnold, claiming that she
took the money and hid it.
She did not say if she planned
to return for it. nor did she
explain why her male com-
panion was in the store's office
space.
The three are mspected of
other thefts in the area. Paris
police asked Morris county
officers to hold the suspects
for questioning in connection
with thefts in that area.
Officers from Paris picked
up the three Wednesday. De-
Kalb. New Boston and Clarks-
ville officers also want to
question them.
Pewitt student
at ET music camp
A Pewitt sophomore, Sally
Narramore. is one of more
than 60 area junior high and
high school students attending
the second annual choir camp
this week on the campus of
East Texas State University.
The director of the camp',
which began Sunday and will
last through Saturday, is Dr.
James Richaids, ETSU music
department head.
Conducting the camp are B.
R. Henson, Texas Christian
University director of choral
activities, and Robert Buchan-
an. director of the Brownsville
Boys Choir.
Miss Narramore. the daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Narra-
more of Naples, has been a
member of the Pewitt junior
high school girls choir for the
past two years.
NAPLES STUDENT ON
COLLEGE HONOR ROLL
Charles Edward Kennedy of
Naples was one of 281 students
who made the school of sci-
ences honor roll during the
spring semester at the Uni-
versity of Texas at Arlington.
He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Leonard Kennedy of Na-
ples.
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The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 27, 1968, newspaper, June 27, 1968; Naples, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth336083/m1/1/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Atlanta Public Library.