The Howe Enterprise (Howe, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 14, 1975 Page: 1 of 6
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,50 Howe Enterprise
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THURSDAY AUGUST 14,1975 VOL. XII No. 5
Howe Teacher
R.T. Hutchens
Dies Suddenly
Raymond Thomas Hutchens,
58, a vocational agriculture
instructor at Howe High
School for the past two years,
died unexpectedly at his home
late Tuesday of an apparent
heart attack.
Hutchens was pronounced
dead on arrival at Sherman
Community Hospital at 11
p.m. Tuesday. He was taken
there after he collapsed at his
home at 900 Sunset Street in
Howe.
He had been in Community
Hospital several days the past
week for treatment of chest
pains, but had returned home
and was planning to attend the
in-service day for Howe teach-
ers Wednesday at the school.
He had just taken a bath about
10:30 p.m. when he collapsed
in the bathroom of his home.
The planned in-service day
for Howe teachers was cancel-
ed when school officials learn-
ed of his death.
Funeral services are sched-
uled for 2 p.m. Friday at
Richards Funeral Home in
Whitesboro, Tex. The Rev.
Sam Randolph of Howe will
officiate.
Burial will be in the Sadler
Cemetery near Sadler, Tex.
The family will be at Rich-
ards Funeral Home from 7 to
8:30 p.m. Thursday.
Mr. Hutchens was born June
4, 1917 in Carter,d Okla. He
attended Oklahoma State Uni-
versity, East Texas State Uni-
versity and Cameron Junior
Bulldogs Begin Workouts
—Lack of Depth a Problem
Rev. Tom Johnson Stands Beside 24-Foot Church Limousine
Preacher in a Limousine? Yes You Saw It
Pesky Fire Threatens
Hog Barns on Farm
A stubborn fire that destroy-
ed some 70 l^rge stacks of
bundled maize stalks on the
William Powell farm east of
Howe was finally put out Sun-
day after burning since Friday
afternoon.
Powell said the monetary
damage was fairly low, al-
though “the fire wiped out a
lot of hard work and we were
worried that it could blaze up
again and get to the hog
barns.’’ Powell has some 300
hogs in a complex of barns on
the farm.
The Howe Fire Department
made to runs to the fire Friday
afternoon and the Van Alstvne
department made one run.
However, the fire got into the
stacks of maize and smoulder-
ed slowly for several days
after the initial flareup.
Powell said it occurred in
mid-afternoon Friday in a low-
er field as he was pulling a
trailer with a bale of stalks
into the area to place with the
other bales. “I don’t know
exactly what happened but I
figure the fire must have
started from the wheel of the
trailer,’’ Powell said. Whop he
noticed it, he headed up to-
ward the barn area with the
trailer to get to the water
hose, and he asked Dennis
Whitfield and Phillip Farris to
put out the fire that had stared
near the stacks. A brisk wind
was blowing, and it got away
from them quickly.
Also, by the time Powell
reached the barn area the load
on his trailer was blazing
fiercely and he called the fire
department.
The only real damage was
that it burned two tail lights
off Powell's pickup truck md a
couple of tires on the trailer.
Powell said Tuesday that he
is nearly sure the fire is now
out. “I haven’t seen any
smoke since Sunday, but we
are still watching closely. Con-
tinuous fire is our big worry
because it could get to the hog
barns.”
70 Stacks of Maise Stalks Burn in Lower Field of William Powell Farm
School Census Steady
RAYMOND T. HUTCHENS
College at Lawton, Okla.
He was a vocational agricul-
ture teacher in Texas and Ok-
lahoma high schools for 33
years, serving at Vanoss High
School in Vanoss, Okla., Cad-
co High School at Caddo,
Okla. Sadler & Southmayde
Consolidated High School at
Sadler, Tex., and Whitesboro
High School at Whitesboro,
Okla. before coming to Howe
in 1973.
He was a member of the
Masons, Eastern Star, and
was an officer in the Howe
Lions Club. He was a member
of the First Baptist Church of
Howe.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Glenna Hutchens; a son,
Jackie Hutchens, of Veurcell,
Okla.; a daughter, Mrs. Jerry
Boston of Hooke, Tex.; and
three grandchildren.
(r.) Run Through Plays With Backfield
The Rev. Tom Johnson step-
ped into City Hall the other
day and inquired of Police
Chief Jerry Hallmark if it was
really true that you had to
park nose in to the curb and
not parallel in downtown
Howe.
Hallmark replied that nose-in
parking was the law downtown
and anyone who didn’t was
subject to a ticket.
“Then I think we have a
problem,” Mr. Johnson re-
plied,' and asked Hallmark to
follow him.
Howe is planning to field a
football team this fall of boys
in the 9 through 12 (4th grade
through 6th grade) bracket,
.and a schedule of at least
seven games is planned with
teams from other towns in the
area.
Larry Potts and Tom Gailey
are local sponsors of the team
through an area boys club that
includes teams Leonard, Van
He took Hallmark around the
front of the post office, and
there parked nose-in to the
curb, its rear extending half-
way across Haning Street, was
an eight-door limousine owned
by Bethel Baptist Church.
Hallmark chuckled, scratched
his head and allowed that
maybe some - type of special
parking arrangements would
have to be made for that
particular vehicle.
Mr. Johnson says he has had
a lot of fun with the car the
Alstvne, Tom Bean, Bells,
Whitewright and two teams
from Whitesboro.
Potts and Gailey said they
are hoping that as many as 40
boys will sign up in Howe,
thereby allowing Howe to form
two teams.
Signups are being taken
through Aug. 25 at The Howe
Enterprise office of interested
boys. Each boy planning to
past couple of weeks, although
its purpose is to serve a real
need for Bethel Baptist. “It’s
the kind of car people on the
streets stop and stare at.
The limousine is 24 feet long,
has a wheel base of 194 inches
and will hold 15 passengers.
The' 1070 Pontiac was origin-
ally owned, by NASA in Hous-
ton which used it to haul
dignitaries around the big
space complex.
It was later purchased by a
Houston Baptist Church for its
play must have had a physical
examination, worked out ar-
rangements for insurance and
have proof of his age at the
first regularly scheduled team
meeting on Aug. 25.
The cosj to the boys will be
minimal, the sponsors said.
The insurance will cost about
six dollars and they are now
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youth program, and when the
church outgrew it. Bethel
Baptist bought it as a project
of the Ladies of the Church.
Bethel, which engages heav-
ily in a bus ministry, had
found problems getting elderly
people to church, many of
whom were unable or unwil-
ling to board a bus. “If you
offer to pick them up in a car,
they feel like they are putting
you out,” said Mr. Johnson.
“But with a limousine that
says ‘Bethel Baptist’ on the
side we hope that changes,”
he said.
Right now the limousine is
sidelined by transmission
problems, but that will be
repaired soon, and the church
will put it in full use.
Oh, yes, says Mr. Johnson,
there’s one other advantage to
a car that size. “If a fellow has
a wife who is a back seat
driver he can put her all the
wav in the back and by the
time the sound of her voice
reaches the front, he’s already
where he was going.”
Pee Wee Football Launched Here
Workmen Fight Blaze Near Barns
Howe, schools will convene
for the 1975-76 school year
Monday with indications that
enrollment will be about up to
expectations based on the
count at the end of last school
year.
Monday will be a short day,
with classes scheduled to end
at 2 p.m. Buses will run at
that time. Tuesday the schools,
will go on a full-day schedule.
School Year Calendar—Page 4
Supt. Glen Mitchell’s office
announced this week that an
additional teacher, authorized
by the school board at its
August meeting, has been
employed to teach English and
last year for varsity football.
A lot of question marks loom
for the varsity squad as it
prepares for its first scrim-
mage against Lindsay here on
Aug. 22.
Early practice sessions are
concentrating mostly on of-
fense, and although the squad
is heavily dominated by sen-
iors with a fair amount of
experience, Dickey says his
main worry is lack of depth.
“If a few people happen to get
hurt, particularly on the line,
we could be in real trouble,”
he commented.
The Howe Bulldogs varsity
and junior varsity football
teams opened their workouts
under the hot August sun this
week in an effort to get ■ into
shape for their first rfegular
season games the first week in
September.
Twenty-seven showed up for
the first B-team practice and
23 for the varsity. Head coach
Norman Dickey said he ex-
pected a few more to report
later in the week for the JV
squad, but he figures the
varsity is at full strength at 23.
That’s two more than reported
Quarterback Candidates Sailing (!.)■ Reed
After losing such big men as
Joe Gray, David Davis and
Wendell Troxtell to gradua-
tion, the line this year will be
somewhat smaller, but will
still probably measure up as
an average-sized line for Dis-
trict 14-A.
The offensive backfield will
suffer from the loss of Jackie
Monk to graduation, but if
speedster Edwin Allison can
remain healthy this year, he
could take up much of the
slack. Allison got off to a fast
start last year, then was put
out of action for the season in
the third game, against Ce-
lina, when he suffered a brok-
en leg. ^
Two other experienced back-
field men are also returning—
Marvin Cate, who ended the
season as a regular at running
back, and David Sailing, who
started a number of games
last year as a,sophomore quar-
terback.
Experience has the edge
right now at most positions,
but Dickey isn’t committing
himself fully on any until the
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general business. The schools
also have contracted with a
piano instructor to continue
private piano iessons for stud-
ents on the same basis as in
the past.
High School Principal L.H.
Linker said that 213 students
registered last week on the
regularly scheduled registra-
tion days, and he knows of a
number of students who were
working and will not complete
registration until the opening
day. The total enrollment at
the high school should reach
220 or more next week, he
said.
Based on enrollment in the
eighth grade and the sopho-
more through junior classes at
for the seventh and eighth
grades. Principal Donal Gil-
strap said 62Registered for the
eighth grade, four less that!
anticipated, whereas 56 regis-
tered for the seventh grade,
two more than figures last
spring would have indicated.
Hired as an additional teach-
er at the high school this year
was Mrs. Tvnetta Wetzel who
taught English and French for
three years at Andrews, Tex.
She and her husband moved
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the end of last year, enroll-
ment would be 224. Linker
said about seven new students
who have moved into the dis-
trict this summer registered
last week, but some families
also have moved away.
The 213 registration figure at
the high school is up 23 from
190 who registered on regular
registration days last year.
Shortly after school opened,
enrollment rose to 201, but
later fell back to below 190 by
the end of the year.
At Howe Middle School, reg-
istration was held last week
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