The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, October 26, 1956 Page: 3 of 10
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Payload leader! Ford'a T-800 is
rated to carry up to 2 H tons more
payload than other comparable
tandems. You get a choice of two
V-8*s, 200- and 212-horaepower.
A. BILLINGS, PROP
take
so
few
The average man doesn’t
chances with his health,
don’t ycfti be one of the
who do! See your family physi-
cian at least once a year for a
complete checkup ... if he
should prescribe for you, bring
hijfcprescription to us with com-
plete confidence.
SCHOOL BARK
PRAIRIE
SCHOOL
Mary Uselton had a birthday
last Saturday. Mrs. Uselton serv-
ed cup cakes and orange juice to
the first and second grades on
Friday afternoon in honor of
Mary’s birthday. Mary was seven
years old.
with 12.
The Prairie Valley boys were
defeated 61-34. Pope was high
for PV with 12 and Agee with 11.
High point for Ponder was Bill
Pope with 21 and Carol Pope
with 14.
Grades Third and Fourth
We are decorating our room for
a Hallowe’en party on Wednesday,
October 31.
Belcherville News
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IZIDS CLARK COMPANY
NOCON A, PHON! 4 IB
M-Sgt. and Mrs. M. C. Swearin-
gen and baby Cezanna of Okla-
homa City spent from Thursday
until Sunday at the home of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. C.
Swearingen.
Mr. and Mrs. Buster Moss, and
Sue Ann of Ringgold and Nocona
were Sunday callers of Mrs.
Mabel Miles.
Miss Birt Leans Seay, Rev. and
Mrs. Lannie Parnell and Mrs.
Ralph Abbott and Wanda all drove
to Denton Saturday for the foot-
ball game and to spend the night.
The Parnells have a son, John en-
rolled there. The party returned
home the following day.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Crenshaw at-
tended the funeral of an aunt,
Mrs. Ivor Lunn of Bowie last Mon-
day.
Visitors in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. A. V. Corpening Friday
night were Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Pippin, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mills
and Jimmy, Mr. and Mrs. Stevie
Miller, Glenda Mae and Gary,
Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Ritchie and
Mrs. Pearl Lawler.
John Reeves visited Pete Work-
man Saturday night.
Mrs. R. C. Vannoy and Mrs.
Mabel Miles were Nocona and
Montague visitors Wednesday.
Linton D. Campbell Jr. of Fort
Worth spent from Wednesday un-
til Sunday at his grandparents’
home, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Crenshaw
and family. The Campbells came
Sunday and took their son home
after spending the day.
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Reeves
Sr. visited Mrs. Bernice Buck and
infant son at the Major Clinic
Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. Elmer Atkins and Judy were
visitors in the Mabel Miles home
last week.
Miss Colleen Kennedy spent
Friday night with Carla Gammon
i in Nocona and attended the foot-
' ball game.
; Mrs. Lewis Hutson of Bowie and
Mrs. J. M. Hutson of Fort Worth,
were dinner guests of Mr. and
;' Mrs. R. C. Vannoy on Sunday.
Mrs. J. M. Hutson is a sister of
R. C. Vannoy and will stay indefin-
itely to visit friends and relatives.
11 C. P. Nabors of Montague visit-
[ ed Belcherville and Saint Jo Fri-
day on business.
Mr. and Mrs. James Deatherage
and daughters and Miss Edwina
Deatherage of Henrietta visited
Mr. and Mrs. Weldon Hewitt and
children Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Ritchie and
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ritchie of
Memphis, Texas spent from Fri-
day until Wednesday the follow-
ing week at El Dorado, Arkansas.
' They were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
■ Bob Ritchie and Debbie and Mr.
‘and Mrs. Jessie Cottrel. They
stopped at Camden, and Shreve-
port enroute home.
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Reeves
visited her sister, Mrs. Grace Keck
of Nocona Friday.
Mr and Mrs. Albert Croxton,
Miss Minnie Belle Manley and
Virgil Manley all were in Bowie
Sunday to visit Mr. and Mrs.
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• BMvflfol MyUng and
Our room yill play a kick ball
game for the Hallowe’en Carnival.
One team is the Black Cats and
the other is Jack-O-Lanterns.
In aM&metic the fourth grade
is studying time and the calendar.
The third grade is beginning read-
ing of three and four place num-
bers simple fractions.
Grade* Fifth and Sixth
The fifth and sixth grades are
mending the library books. They
are getting the Grammar grades’
library up in good shape.
F. H. A.
The F.H.A. is sponsoring the
Fall Festival Queen contest. The
contestants are as follows: Fresh-
man—Loretta Grant; sophomore—
Mickey Uselton; juniors—Janie
Moore; senior—Eva Hutson; bas-
ketball club—Pauline Bellah; F.
H.A. chapter—Ruby Yarbrough.
Escorts selected for Queen Con-
testants are: Freshmen—Jerry
Don Towery; sophomore—Robert
Uselton; junior—W. A. Grant;
senior—Billy Tettleton.
Basketball
The Prairie Valley boys and
girls played Ponder, October 18.
The girls won over Ponder 72-30.
Dixie Yeargin was high point with
24, and Pauline Bellah was sec-
ond with 23.
Ponder high had two players
who were high point and they
were Swafford with 13 and Page
We Give S A H Green Stamps
WttT AFRICAN PlfiMV
ELEPHANTS ARE OH ANAVERAM
AROUND FOUR FEET HIGH-
THESE UTTLE FELLOWS ARE VERV
PIAMFUL AND have an AFFECTION
ate DieRoemoN.
If It's Insurance -■ -
We Write If.
NOCONA.INSURANCE
AGENCY
Peoples National Bank Building
.small jobs
.all jobs
THE NOCONA NEWS, NOCONA, TEXAS, OCT. 26, IMA
Milk
•• Meat substitute available.
to
in
grand
champions
year, too,
(Pol. adv. paid for by Texas Democrat, for Eisenhower, Weldon Hart. Director.)
may be required. It takes
iobs
last longer, too!
run
The big fleet* buy more Ford
the
FOR
NOVEMBER 6, 1956
Weaver’s recognization
country has come since
training horses here.
he makes
from May
shows are
walk,
but
until
years
Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Menasco of
Nocona visited Mn. Mabel Miles
Butter
Peaches
Catsup..
Peas
Milk
more loadspace than any other )4-tonner.
6H-foot box has full 45-cu. ft. capacity.
the
1 to
held
money
oaly
has won so many rib-
they would well cover
of a good-sized room
Up to now,
Pinto Beans
Cheese Salad
Milk
Baked Beans
Bread Butter
walking horse. They are
on the lot four times a
walk, slowest of
and with a speed
to five miles an
diagonally-opposed
the feet. The gait
and comfortable
It all started for Weaver k
tn Wartrace, Tenn, twenty yeK
ago when he went to work for K
veteran hone trainer and he set
his sights high at that time for
Cookies
Friday—
Creamed Ham**’
Buttered Rice
Fruited Slaw or Mustard Greeau
Butter Ice Cream Milk
Tenn.,
are
Clyde Croxton.
Mn. Della Jo Ritchie of Nocona
spent Tuesday evening at
home of Mrs. Mabel Miles.
Sunday evening and night
ers at the home of Mr. and
R. C. Vannoy were Mr. and
Jessie Hewitt of Wichita Falls,
Mrs. Romie Noel of Nocona, Mn.
T. H. Miles and Mn. Jaeger of
Ringgold and Mrs. L. H. Hutson
of Vernon.
Mr. and Mn. Bernice Buck are
the parents of a baby son, born
Saturday, October 20 at 2 a. m..
He weighed 0 pounds and 10 oun-
Weaver Holds
Many Awards As
Horse Trainer
Blackeyed Peas • Whole wheat or enriehed bread.
Corn Bread
call-
Mrs.
Mn.
One of the strongest Eisenhow-
er men in our town is Doc Brown.
Doc says he just can’t put up
with Stevenson's socialized medi-
cine program; there are a lot of
other things he doesn't like about
Adlai, but that one is enough for
him, he says. Doc is a pretty out-
spoken cuss, but he’s a good doc-
tor. At least, he’s the i>est one in
town, being the only one, and our
people always call him when they
get sick whether they like his
politics or not.
The other day several of us
were standing around in front of
the post office, talking politics—
some Eisenhower men and some
for Stevenson—when Doc walked
up looking glum. One of the
Stevenson men said: "Hey, Doc,
what’s the trouble, did Ike just
call you in some bad news?”
Doc Brown said no, he hadn't
heard from Ike this week, but he
was worried.
"Not about Ike, you under-
stand,” he told the Stevenson fel-
low. "Ike has got it made. Even
the Stevenson people are begin-
ning to admit that. Poor old
Adlai isn’t going to get any far-
ther in this race than he could
throw Kefauver’s coonskin cap
with the tail cut off.
“The ones I am worried about
are these out-of-state senators
who are coming down here to
Texas to tell us how to vote. 1
sure feel sorry for those boys. It
must be tough to face life with
their attitude.
“To hear them tell it, this
country is in a terrible shape.
All the farmers are starving, all
the day when he, too, would be
a recognized trainer. After four
years in war service during which
the Weavers man-fed, he and Mrs.
Weaver moved to Sudan, Texas,
where he went into the training
business in 1946.
His big break came when one of
his horses won first prize at Los
Angeles in the still and gelding
class, first prize in the junior
stake and went on to win the
grand championship at the same
show.
Encouraged by hitting the jack
pot so soon after going into busi-
ness for himself, Weaver return-
ed to Sudan for a short time and
then moved to Winchester, Tenn.,
where he set up a Tennessee walk-
ing horse stable. Some time later,
the Weavers opened a stable in
Fresno, Calif.
Head* big ranch
Still later, he was chosen by
Senator Jesse Martin to operate
Martin’s Hilltop ranch near Fort
Worth. When Martin sold the
ranch in 1950, the Weavers came
to Nocona where they are now
permanently located.
Most of
around the
he began
Practically every top national,
horse magazine carries one or
more pictures of him in almost
every issue, and he frequently
runs full page ads in these maga-
zines.
Since coming to Nocona, Weaver
has trained horses for owners in
Colorado, New Mexico, Alabama,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma,
Arkansas and Texas. Today, he
has twenty under training.
Some of the top shows in which
Weaver has entered horses trained
by himself, or for others, include
the famous American Royal at
Kansas City, the National Western
at Denver, the Dixie Jubilee at
Baton Rogue, the Fort Worth Fat
Stock show, the Eugene Oregon,
Horse show and he always enters
the national walking horse cele-
bration at Shelbyville,
where
chosen.
Each
Southwest Circuit
June 10. These
in Beaumont, Shreveport, Houston,
Dallas, Oklahoma City and Tulsa.
Judges horse shows
When not engaged in showing,
Weaver is engaged as a judge. He
is a licensed judge for the Nat-
ional Walking Horse association
with headquarters at Lewisburg, i
Tenn.
Buttered Potatoes
Bread* Butter
Milk
nir^
are »
trucks
rugged
Look
Doleful Senators Due Shock
When Ike Wins, Fears Doc
Here Are Next
Week's Menus
In The Schools
Monday—
Tamales
Green Beans
Cookies
Tuesday—
Chicken Salad
Pineapple-Cottage
Bread Butter
Chocolate Cake
Wednesday—
. Scalloped Pork with
Buttered Corn
Hot rolls ]
Sliced
Thursday—
Vienna Sausage
Waldorf Salad
(Continued from page one)
state fair.
Weaver
bons that
the walls
with a few left over,
he has around 100 blue ribbons
(firsts), around 100 red ribbons
(second place), some 50 third place
ribbons and at least 40 fourth ban-
ners as well as a few fifth to sev-
enth place ones.
And, in addition to the ribbons,
Weaver has around 25 trophies.
All of the ribbons and trophies
attest to his skill in the art of
“monkeying around with horses,”
both his own and those belonging
to others who turn them over to
him for training.
Ribbons and trophies include
cash prizes, which run from $50
to $100 at most shows, $1,000 at
the Nashville show and $5,000 for
grand champions.
Tray* for prize*
Within recent years, walking
horse associations have been giv-
ing sterling silver trays instead
of the old-fashioned trophies.
The Weavers have several such
trays in addition to trophies.
Their prize possession today is
a large silver tray which Weaver
won last June at Los Fresnos,
Texas. He must win this parti-
cular tray two more times, how-
ever, before it becomes permanent
property. Weaver is confident that
some day the tray will be his
own.
Although Weaver and his wife,
Wanda, formerly Wanda Harris of
Nocona and former teacher here,
live in Nocona at 111 Broad street,
both are away from the city much
of the time. Mrs. Weaver plays
no part in training horses, but
she plays an important part at all
horse shows where she serves as
her husband’s assistant and also
handles all secretarial duties inci-
dent to the show in which he has
entered a horse.
All of Weaver’s horse training
is done at a barn he operates in
the southeastern part of Nocona.
Alongside the bam, he has a train-
ing track where walking horses
are put through their paces for
around one year before they are
ready to enter a show. Not just
any horse can be so trained. Only
walking horses by breed are ac-
ceptable.
Train* own horses
Weaver often trains his own
horses, but most of his training is
for other persons who may live
in a dozen or more states. They
pay Weaver $80 a month, which
includes feed and care, but does
not include whatever veterinary
service _ . 7
around one year to thoroughly
train a
worked
week.
The many trophies and ribbons
the Weavers hold today were won
by their own horses. Whatever
prizes are won by horses trained
by Weaver for other persons go
to the owners.
Most horse shows are produced
for some charitable purpose,
whether amateur or professional.
Weaver’s own horses are entered
only in professional competition.
He does not enter a horse until
he is sure it will win at least one
prize, and Weaver’s horses always
win.
Two’ of the best mares of all
time. Midnight Merry Legs and
Go Boys Rocket, won national
grand championships in Tennes-
see, and both were trained by
Weaver on his Nocona (raining lot.
The owner of Midnight Merry
Legs was recently offered $15,000
for her, but he was so pleased
with the way Weaver had trained
her that he turned down the of-
fer.
Weaver usually takes three or
five horses to each show. He trans-
ports them in a- three-horse van
and a twe-herse trailer.
the businessmen are going broke,
and all the working people are
just barely making enough to
keep body and soul together. The
only reason some little country
doesn't step in and whip us to-
morrow is that they know they
can just wait a few days and the
United States will fold up of it*
own accord. That’s what I under-
stand from listening to the visit-
ing senators.
“Of course, they know how to
correct the situation overnight.
Elect Adlai, and let him abolish
the draft and do away with the
H-bomb, and let Estes establish
the Atlantic Union which he has
made speeches about all over the
country, and everything will be
all right.
“These things are too impor-
tant, of course, for these sena-
tors to waste time telling us Tex-
ans why they voted against the
Texas tidelands bill.
“As a medical man, I am. wor-
ried about the great shock these
senators are going to get, after
the election is over and Ike is re-
elected and this country keeps on
being peaceful, prosperous and
progressive. ' It’s liable to put
them all in bed.”
And Doc Brown walked on off,
shaking his head. Of course, the
Stevenson man caught on that
Doc was hurrahing him, and he
didn’t like it much, but he’ll still
have to call him the next time
one of the kids gets the croup,
because like I said he’s the only
doctor in town.
Truly,
Walking horoes-r-not to be con-
fused with trick hones—must be
shoed by a blacksmith who knows
how to handle such hones. AU
Shoes are handmade and the sb
tog is dpna by an expert
Hillshore who is brought %
Tenessee State fair at Nashville. So
far this year he has judged shows
in other cities in Tennessee, Ken-
tucky, Arkansas, Louisiana, Geor-
gia and Mississippi. Two weeks
ago he judged the big show at
Lake Charles, La. on November 3
and 4, he will judge the Dallas
Futurity show.
Recently, Weaver and other
horsemen of Texas organized the
Texas Walking Horse association
of which he is secretary-treasurer
and Glen Turney of Dallas is pre-
sident.
Tennessee walking horses have
three natural gaits, flat-foot
running walk and canter,
cantering is not attempted
the horse is around three
old.
The flat-foot
the three gaits
of from four
hour, is a
movement of
is bold, even
riders.
The running-walk is born
walking horses, not developed. It
is a faster gait of six to eight
miles an hour. As speed is in-
creased the hind foot oversteps the
front track from a few to as much
as 18, inches.
Canter is a rise and fall move-
ment with a great amount of
spring and rhythm without jar or
jolt to the rider. It is the canter
that has made Tennessee walking
horses known as “nature’s rocking
chair.”
Around humans as walking
' horses are from the time they are
i born, they are recognized as the
Three weeks ago, Weaver served mos* £en*Je horses, and they
as the walking horse judge at the ^affectionate and unusually in-
“ telligent.
THE REXALL STORE
PNC'NES 9/ AND 630
NOCONA TEXAS
■RUAWARE z
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