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NAPLES OLDEST BUSINESS INSTITUTION — ESTABLISHED IN 1886
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VOLUME 71
NAPLES, MORRIS COUNTY, TEX., FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1956
NUMBER 5
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Brahma Outlook:
Light, Aggressive
The 1956 version of the Pewitt
Brahmas will be light but aggres-
sive.
That was the impression of
Coach Fielding Huddleston after
he and his two assistants sent the
squad through its first workouts
this week.
Huddleston and assistants A. T.
Brian and Wayne Huckabee began
their training of the squad Mon-
day. There were 28 candidates
for the team on hand for the first
training periods.
The squad was made up of 11
juniors, nine seniors, and eight
sophomores.
The senior candidates are Kerry
Hicks, Larry Richey, Lowell Mc-
Michael, Perry McMichael, Gerald
Presley, Billy Morgan, Rex Ranes,
Wendell McCord and Roy Apper-
son.
Juniors on the squad are Jimmy
Brown, Austin Doolittle, Donald
Deaton, Louis Boozer, Jackie Skel-
ton, Jimmy McCoy, Gaynor Mc-
Cord, Earnest Smith, Joe Parham,
Ray Johnson and Billy Joe Smith.
Sophomores are Billy McCoy,
Sonny McNatt, Vestal Trumble,
Mike Roberts, Wayne Henderson,
Mike Dale, William Pope and Vir-
gil Wilson.
The squad includes eight letter-
men back from last year's team.
They are Doolittle, L iton, Booz-
er, Skelton, Presley, Perry Mc-
Michael, Johnson and Apperson.
Monitoring
MAIN
STREET
The Will to Win — The football
season brings up the point that
winning anything in life is largely
a matter of spirit . . A few words
of encouragement are worth a
thousand doubts but one doubt
can tear down what a thousand
words of praise has built up . .
Few people will try harder be-
cause they fear criticism but most
anyone will break his neck trying
for a few words of praise . . The
Pewitt team this year will make
some mistakes and do some out-
standing playing . . Whichever you
remember longer and talk about
more will help determine how
successful they are this season.
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Homeless Pigeon — Anybody
lost a parakeet with an inferiority
complex? . . Mrs. Joe Sullivan
has one that either thinks he is
a sparrow or just decided to go
slumming . . The bird showed up
last week at the Sullivan home
with a flock of sparrows . . He
kept his distance from people and
stayed with the sparrows until
someone called Wendell Smith
and he showed up with a cage . .
The parakeet went to the cage
and Mrs. Sullivan trapped him
with a sack . . The Sullivan's have
him now and anyone who is miss-
ing a blue parakeet with a liking
for sparrows can have him by
identifying him.
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Day of Retribution — Back dur-
ing the rodeo, Dick Lowery and
several other businessmen pitched
in to help the Little League base-
ball boys operate the concessions
, stand at the arena and sell drinks,
hamburgers and hot dogs . . They
didn't always give the customer
his change, figuring any way they
could get the profit together for
the Little Leaguers was all right. .
Mrs. Gene McCoy of Marietta was
one of Dick's customers . . She
ordered ya drink, paid with a dollar
bill and got nothing but a "thank
you" in return . . Dick's chickens
came home to roost last Thursday
. . Mrs. McCoy went into his drug
store, selected about $10 worth of
cosmetics, pitched two dollars by
Uie cash register, said "thank
you", and left.
CO-CAPTAINS NAMED
FOR BRAHMA SQUAD
Three co-captains were elect-
ed for the 1956 season by mem-
bers of the Pewitt Brahma
football squad Monday.
Those elected were Roy Ap-
person, Donald Deaton and
Jackie Skelton.
'All three of them are letter-
men from the team last year.
Deaton and Skelton are juniors
and Apperson is a senior.
Five Injured
In Accident
Sunday Night
Five persons were injured Sun-
day night when a car and a pick-
up truck were involved in an
accident west of Naples near
Leeves garage.
The injured were Dianne and
Deette Witt, twin daughters of Mr.
and Mrs. Jim Witt of Omaha,
Dottie Wommack of Naples, May
Jean DeVore, Omaha, and Mrs. P.
W. Lewis of Naples.
All of the injured except Mrs.
Lewis were passengers in a car
owned by Mr. and Mrs. Witt and
driven by Deette Witt. Mrs. Lewis
was a passenger in the pickup
truck driven by her husband.
The Witt car struck the Lewis
truck from behind shortly after
the truck had entered highway
67 from a side road.
The car was en route to Naples
after the girls had attended
the Sunday evening services at
the Omaha Baptist Church.
Legion To Install
New Officers
Tuesday Night
Members of the Naples Ameri-
can Legion post and the Auxiliary
will meet Tuesday night at the
American Legion Hall here for the
Legion's installation ceremony.
A covered dish supper will be
served at 7:30 p.m. before the
installation service.
All members of both organiza-
tions and their families are in-
vited to attend and bring a cover-
ed dish.
The new officers of the Legion
who will be installed are Bill Wat-
son, commander, Lenoy Slider,
first vice commander, Houston
Brown, second vice commander,
Frank Lee, adjutant, Ellis Shirey,
finance officer, Dan Watson, chap-
lain, Bud Williams, sergeant at
arms, Leman Foster, historian,
Billy Ted Coker, bugler, and Dr.
James S. Leeves, service officer.
YARBOROUGH, WILSON LEAD IN COUNTY
Howell and Williams Win In Local Races
. Harry L. Williams of Dainger-
field won the Democratic nomi-
nation for district attorney and
A. E. (Abb) Howell won the nomi-
nation for Morris county sheriff
in the only two local races de-
cided in the runoff election last
Saturday.
Both the runoff winners ran
second in the first Democratic
primary held July 28.
Williams defeated Alford Flana-
gan of Mt. Pleasant for district
attorney of the 76th judicial dis-
trict, which is made up of Titus,
Camp, Franklip, Morris and Ma-
rion counties.
Williams' vote was 6,543 and
Flanagan's 5,982. Williams had
trailed in the first primary by al-
most a thousand votes in a three-
man race that included Joe Mc
Casland of Jefferson.
Flanagan carried Titus and
Franklin counties while the vot-
ers in Morris, Camp and Marion
counties favored Williams.
In Titus county, the vote was
2,767 for Flanagan to 1,526 for
Williams. In Franklin county, the
vote was 823 to 730, favoring
Flanagan. -
Williams carried Morris county,
2,361 votes to 1,048, Camp county
1,241 to 834, and Marion county
685 votes to 510.
Howell won over the incumbent,
Garrett, in the sheriff's runoff by
a vote of 1,800 to 1,597.
Garrett had led in the four-man
field in the first primary by eight
voles over Howell but two other
canuidatcs, Sam Black and Lee
Fields, got a total of 1,660 votes.
Garrett carried the Naples box
by one vote and the Omaha box
by 50 but trailed in all other
boxes in the county.
In the governor's race, won by
Senator Price Daniel over Judge
Ralph Yarborough, a three time
loser for the office, the two runoff
opponents apparently split the
first primary vote of W. Lee
O'Daniel, who led in both boxes
in July.
In Naples, Daniel increased his
votes over the first primary from
141 to 224 while Yarborough gain-
ed from 151 in July to 262 Satur-
day. O'Daniel had polled 210 votes
at Naples in the first primary.
At Omaha, Daniel increased his
votes from 134 in the first pri--'
mary to 242 Saturday while Yar-
borough increased his from 188
to 367. O'Daniel had polled 309
votes there in July.
Businesses To Be
Closed Monday
Naples business houses will
be closed Monday, Sept. 3, in
observance i the Labor Day
holiday.
The post office, bank and
most other business houses will
be clqsed.
The holiday is one of seven
approved for observance by the
chamber of commerce.
There will be no rural deliv-
ery from the post office but
mail will be distributed at the
office on the regular Sunday
schedule.
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Governor
PRICE DANIEL
604
61
242
224
87
29
148
80
1,475
RALPH YARBOROUGH
755
145
367
262
133
39
154
53
1,908
Attorney General
TOM MOORE
500
73
233
172
62
19
116
39
1,214
WILL WILSON
774
118
330
279
130
40
175
66
1,912
District Attorney
ALFORD FLANAGAN
348
74
225
171
84 _
24
85
37
1,048
HAKRY L. WILLIAMS
1026
130
385
315
134
44
215
112
2,361
Sheriff
A. E. HOWELL
754
118
281
242
110
35
175
85
1,800
BEN B. GARRETT
612
84
331
243
106
34
121
65
1,597
Commissioner (Pets. 1 and 5)
ARCHIE FOMBY
648
157
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37
878
GARLAND MORRIS
706
75
78
859
1. 8. Moore Dies
VOTING IS LIGHT
Monday Night
After Long Illness
James Burl Moore, prominent
Naples merchant and cotton buyer
for many years, died Monday
night after an illness of several
years.
Mr. Moore was a member of
one of the pioneer families of
Northeast Texas. He was born
near Naples on Sept. 23, 1876, and
had spent his entire life in the
ar£a. He was preceded in death
by his wife, Mrs. Maud Griffin
Moore.
|The funeral services were held
at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the First
Methodist Church in Naples. The
Rev. J. A. Smith, pastor of the
Omaha Methodist Church, was in
charge. Assisting were the Rev.
E. L. Vance, pastor of the Omaha
Baptist Church, and the Rev. R.
B. Bates, pastor of the Naples
Methodist Church.
Mr. Moore is survived by two
sons, J. B. Moore Jr. of San An-
gelo, and Randolph Edward Moore
of Omaha; one grandson, Ran-
dolph Grady Moore of Omaha;
one brother, Charles Allen Moore
of Lake Charles, La.; two neph
ews, James Richard Moore of
Omaha and Chester E. Coker of
Naples.
Pallbearers were Homer Cole,
Samuel Robison and Wendell
Smith of Naples; Carlton Robison
of Daingerfield; C. V. Knight,
Harold Wallace, David Giles, W.
C. Stevens and John Hugh Ellis
of Omaha. *
Burial was at the Galloway
Cemetery at Naples under the
direction of the Hanner Funeral
Home.
LONE OAK SCHOOL
HOMECOMING PLANNED
Former students and teachers
of the Lone Oak school near
Bryans Mill will hold their annual
homecoming at the Marietta
school lunch room Sunday, Sept.
2.
The group will gather for the
homecoming activities at 10 a.m.
A covered dish lunch will be serv-
ed.
Yarborough Leads
In Cass County
Cass county voters favored
Judge Ralph Yarborough for gov-
ernor and Will Wilson for attor-
ney general in the second Demo-
cratic primary Saturday.
The county gave Yarborough a
margin of 2,089 votes to 1,893 for
Senator Price Daniel, who appar-
ently won the office of governor.
Wilson got 2,565 votes in the
county against 1,280 for Tom
Moore of Waco for attorney gen-
eral. Wilson, of Dallas, won the
Democratic nomination with a big
state-wide margin.
Voting was extremely light in
the county with no local races to
whet the interest of voters.
Shep Loveless of Linden said
the number of ballocs cast Satur-
day was only about 60 per cent of
the number cast in the first pri-
mary on July 28. There were over
6,000 ballots cast then and the
number last Saturday was less
than 3,900.
In the northwest section of Cass
county, only one box gave a ma-
jority of its votes to Senator Dan-
iel. Douglassville voters cast 57
votes for the senator and 35 for
Yarborough. The box gave Wilson
a margin of 56 votes to 32.
Dalton, Marietta, Cornett and
Bryans Mill favored Yarborough
and Wilson. |
At Dalton, the vote was 27 to
24 for Yarborough and 30 to 19
for Wilson. At Marietta, it was
GO for Yarborough to 36 for Dan-
iel and 51 for Wilson to 35 foi*
Moore. Yarborough got 52 votes
at Bryans Mill to 44 for Daniel
and Wilson got 69 votes to 23 for
Moore. Cornett gave Yarborough
a 35 to 15 margin and Wilson a
25 to 22 edge.
Cass was one of the counties
which switched from Daniel to
Yarborough since the first pri-
mary.
The senator led the six-man
field in the July voting while Yar-
borough ran third behind W. Lee
O'Daniel. The first primary totals
in the governor's race gave Dan-
iel 1,960, O'Daniel 1,751, and Yar-
borough 1,593.
Wilson led in the county at the
first primary with 2,809 votes and
Moore was second with 1,513.
All local races were decided in
the first primary and there were
only two contests on the ballot.
SAGE OF SULPHUR BOTTOM
Something In Common
(Editor's note: The Sage has i and Stevenson give for losing
made a strange discovery, but we money is that they don't have the
doubt his conclusions will stand | time to devote to farming that
Methodists Plan Extensive Improvements
The First Methodist Church will
hold a kickoff dinner next Thurs-
day night at the Pewitt school
cafeteria to begin a fund-rising
drive for an improvement pro-
gram that will include all of the
property of the church.
The campaign, to extend over
a three-year period, will be de-
signed to raise a total of $65,000
for the improvement program and
to increase the church's annual
budget from its present $10,000
level to $15,000.
L. D. Williams of Bryan has
been employed by the church to
furnish professional direction of
the campaign at a total salary of
$1,755.
The proposed $65,000 fund will
be used to pay off the present in-
debtedness of the church, mod-
ernize the present sanctuary and
air-condition both the sanctuary
and educational building, refur-
nish and repair the parsonage, re-
roof and insulate the sanctuary,
pay for youth recreational facili-
ties, modernize the church kitchen
and remodel the basement.
The present indebtedness of the
church is $23,000 on the recently
built educational building.
The air-conditioning and mod-
ernization program of the pres-
ent sanctuary and educational
building is expected to cost about
$30,000. Other estimates are for
$2,000 for the parsonage improve-
ments, $2,500 for re-roofing and
insulation, $2,000 for the youth
recreational facilities and $6,000
for the kitchen and basement im-
provements.
M. B. Hampton is general chair-
man for the campaign.
Other committee chairmen are
Jamie Griffin, steering, W. G.
Granberry, campaign committees,
Carroll Hess, general prospect!1,
Joe P. Taylor, selective prospects,
Weldon Ballard, organizational
prospects, H. D. Moore, training
chairman, and S. T. Smith, group
chairman.
Other chairmen are Bill Hen-
derson, attendance and account-
ing, H. R. Hamilton brochure, Mrs.
Wendell Smith, rally dinner host-
ess. Mrs. M. B. Hampton, facilities.
Group leaders are Joe Fulcher
and R. P. Lowery and S. T. Smith
is group chairman.
up, as he's had little practice him-
self in standing up).
Dear editar:
The last thing I'd ever want
would be to be accused of want-
ing to run for office, I'm not even
good justice of the peace timber,
not to mention congressional or
presidential timber, but I have
been reviewing the presidential
campaign situation and have dis-
covered that in one department
Eisenhower, Stevenson and me
are on the same level.
That is, all three of us have
farms we're losing money on.
As I understand it, Eisenhower
loses about $25,000 a year on his
Gettysburg farm, Stevenson loses
about $10,000 on his Libertyville
farm and while
I'm not in that
bracket due to the
Naples bank's ti-
midity, you could
still classify my
farm out here as
on the presiden-
tial candidate lev-
el when the books
are closed at the end of the year.
Understand, I'm not saying I'm
as smart as Eisenhower and Stev-
enson, all I'm saying is that when
it comes to farming, I'm right up
with the best brains in the nation.
I understand one reason Ike
they should, and I can report 1
qualify on that test too. That is,
all three of us have 24 hours a
day all right, the same as every-
body else, and while I don't know
what system they use, I have al-
ways managed to find something
to interfere when the crops need-
ed working the most. I recognize
that in their case, they don't have
to hunt for something to keep
them from farming, their impor-
tance in other fields takes care
of that, but in my case I'm on my
own, I have to dig for mine, and
it's with considerable pride that
I point out that never once have
I been caught short on an excuse
for avoiding going up one row and
down another. v
You'd think that with the three
of us with farms and each one
losing money, one of us would
come up with a solution to the
problem. I know I don't havv- one,
and if either one of them has, I
don't believe he's gotten around
to mentioning it yet, except in
general terms. Some things you
just have to learn to live with,
and the farm problem must be
one of them. At least, that's what
Ike and Stevenson and me have
concluded.
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Yours faithfully,
J. A.
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Strickland, Mrs. E. A. The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, August 31, 1956, newspaper, August 31, 1956; Naples, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth336743/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Atlanta Public Library.