The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 2, 1962 Page: 1 of 8
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The Nocona News
AMP
NOCONA RAIN RECORD
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
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North Texas' Award-Winning Weekly Newspaper
VOLUME FIFTY-SEVEN
NOCONA. MONTAGUE COUNTY, TEXAS, AUGUST 2, 1962
SINGLE COPY 10c
NUMBER TEN
■AMPS]
15-50
17.10
16.06
Total for week
Previous total
Total for year
Year ago ....
Conceit is God's gift to
little men.
L L CHAMPIONSHIP GAME FRIDAY NIGHT
Recent Rains Raise Lake To New
For Top Place
High Level; Now 18 Feet From Full For First Hau
" A nlav-off tonight (
[STAM I
stamps!
which
iC«een|
^Round
no
temperature read-
couple
months ago.
Rond As First Place
a front page boner
commercial about a
editorial contest.
for
And
4. 5, 8, 9,
intended
Itinerant, 71, Visits City With Burro-Drawn Covered Wagon
i hahv chirks which he is already Ratliffs only income is from ‘ It s mostly two and a half, 1
, , i baby chicks which he is already
Lives there a man who doesn 11 beginBing to train to stay by his
that's If—period.
and weekly news-
occupied by a num-
businesses. was this
Noconan, Dickie
of the entertain-
at Prairie
nine to re-
Service A-
Vocational
association
the North
association
a member,
a $25 gov-
certificate.
of those years we
oa back page)
this one
OP Bill
Boot ........
Soanish Fort
Rotary .......
Ringgold _____
Leather Goods
Within the last month,
level rose three feet, Smith
Barker reported.
STICK-TO-ITIVENESS — Having their cake and eating it. too. youngsters at Titles Park, in
St. Louis, Mo., “eat up” two minutes of messy fun as part of a cake eating contest.
Since recent rains ___
fered with cotton insect control times per week and apply control
in Montague county, Wylie Rob- measures as needed.
For the last few years every
time one of us gets a little
sick we’re either told that we
have a “virus” or we readily
come to that conclusion, but
who among us has ever learned
just what a “virus” is?
Wanta know?
It’s a word coined by a doc-
tor who couldn’t spell pneu-
monia.
he
jokingly said, “because so many
people keep stopping me to take
pictures.”
The itinerate does not have a
radio nor a television among his
mass of equipment, which includes
a cook stove and bales of hay
for the burros.
“I had a radio at one time,”
he said, “but all I could get on
it was politics so I drove away
one day and left it.” He keeps
up with the news, however, by
buying local papers at various
towns through which he passes.
Ratliff never travels in the heat
of the day. When interviewed by
The News cast of Saint Jo. his
burros were grazing under the
shade of a tree and the rest of
the animals and Ratliff wore laz-
ily lolling in the shade of the
covered wagon.
And he doesn't believe in work-
ing more than other people do—
he never travels on Saturday af-
ternoons or Sundays.
the expression and
thumbs down on "shin-
Won
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sociation’s shows to raise funds
for cemetery improvements and
upkeep.
Shine as It's
have to pay income and local
taxes, utility bills and rent?
Yes, there does, and he arriv-
ed in Nocona late this (Thurs-
day)
nique and colorful covered wagon
drawn by three burros with a
“spare” walking alongside.
He is Jack Ratliff, originally
from Pritchett, Colorado, but for
the last 22 years he calls “48
states” his home.
The 71-year-old white bearded
transient is en route to Phoenix,
Arizona, where, 22 years ago,
when he was afflicted with tuber-
culosis, he built the covered wag-
on upon an old automobile chas-
sis and started a tour which has
taken him into every state and
also into British Columbia.
Alto Animal Trainer
And he is an animal trainer.
He carries with him a dozen or
more Bantam chickens, two goats
and two dogs and currently one
of the Bantams has a box full of
Ratliffs only income is from
the sale of pictures of his wag-
on, complete with animals on top
of the burros, and from dona-
tions given to him from organiza-
tions which are sponsoring par-
ades during a time he is in that
community.
Recently, he drove his wagon
up and down a Kansas City free-
way in the midst of heavy motor-
ized traffic to advertise a new
super market which was opening
that day.
Ratliff doesn’t particularly care
where he is. or where he will
spend a night. He might head for
one destination and wind up at
another. An instance is now.
Going to Phoenix—Maybe
“I’m going back fo Phoenix,” he
told The News, which met him
east of Saint Jo Tuesday, “hut if
the desert is too dry and hot I’ll
turn around and head for New
Orleans to go to the Mardi Gras
again, then on to Miami.”
Ratliff travels between two and
a half and three miles on hour.
“Continue control measures un-
til the crop is mature. Bolls
should be protected from weevils
until they are at least 3 weeks
old. Bollworms are capable of
damaging bolls up until they
start to dry.”
For a list of insecticides which
will control cotton pests, a copy
of “Texas Guide for Controlling
Cotton Insects” can be secured
at the county agent’s office.
. .. ly by the Southwestern Electric final grand prizes after the con-
Inspect fields two to three p comoanv of Shreveport i test closes in August.” PA'-nhor
While on the subject of print-
ed errors, last Friday morning
we came upon the error of all
errors, perhaps the worst that’s
ever been put into print, and
it is an honest error.
Customarily, next week’s edi-
' torials are given to the print-
ers each Friday, the day after
press day (and, people think
weekly newsfolk work only on
Thursdays). Customarily, too,
we select the Bible thought
that appears weekly at the top
of the editorials. For 30 years
we’ve been selecting these
thoughts from a full page of
Bible thoughts printed twice a
year and distributed to hund-
reds of daily
papers.
During all
(Continued
A person in the newspaper
business walks on thin ice
when he as much as mentions
a television error in grammar
because the Fourth Estate, in-
cluding this newspaper, certain-
fly makes its share of errors.
Now that our hand has been
called on
we pulled a couple of weeks
ago, we'll blast off at our pet
television
shampoo that happily makes
milady's hair
never shined before."
That word "shined' should be
shone, but we had to be shown
to be sure, so we telephoned
such good grammar authorities
as Aubrey Mitchell and Evelyn
Sharp, both of whom double-
checked
turned
erts, county agent, warns that
farmers should consider the fol-
lowing points in continuing their
cotton insect control.
“If fields are too wet for ground
equipment, then use an airplane
to apply insecticides because a de-
lay might cost several bales of
cotton.
“If the infestations are heavy,
shorten the interval between ap-
plication to 3 to 4 days. Con-
tinue this short interval until
the infestation is brought under
control.
“If you have bollworms and boll
weevils, use an insecticide or a
combination of insecticides that
Ringgold Cemelery Show Draws
Record Crowd; $2,300 Is Cleared
side.
Ratliff has attracted wide atten-
tion across the country for an-
other reason. As he travels along
highways with three burros pull-
ing his covered wagon, one of
the dogs rides atop one of the
burros, a chicken rides atop an-
other and a goat on top of the
third one. Trucks and automobiles
whiz past the strange looking con-
traption, but the dog, the goat
and the chicken remain steadfast
on top of their burros
Never married, Ratliff does all
1 of his own “house work,” includ-
ing his own washing with water
he gathers from streams near
which he parks a couple of times
a day, especially during hot wea-
ther.
Now and then he buys food
fnom grocery stores which he
passes and now and then he eats
one of his chickens, which also
provide him with eggs. His goats
provide him milk.
day night, was today acclaimed a
complete success by members of
the ministerial alliance,
sponsored the program.
All services were held “under
the stars” at Nocona high school
football field.
An estimated total of more than
2.200 attended one or more of
the four services at which Melvin
TV Star Crawford
Visits Boot Factory
While In Vicinity
Nocona Boot company was host
Tuesday to a television star, John-
ny Crawford, co-star of The Rifle-
man, who was in the vicinity look-
ing for a location for a couple of
“shots” for a movie in which he
will star.
Crawford, 16, was accompanied
by his father, his co-producer, a
cameraman and publicity manager.
A bluff at Illinois Bend and sta-
ble at Saint Jo were visited as
possible sites for parts of the mo-
vie, "Indian Paint.”
The youthful star was besieged
here by teen age girls. During
his visit, Crawford was fitted for
a pair of Nocona boots.
I Full Text Of
Nin** Amendments
i In This Issue
j Full text of nine of the 14
I amendments to he voted unon by
Texas voters in the November
election annear this we<*k in The
Nocona New*. Thev will be re-
peated weeklv through August.
The News has boon authorized
bv the state to nublish the full
text of numbers 2, 3,
10. 13. and 14
Provisions, in brief.
Road To Lake
Is Underdoing
i Repair, Paving
used to acquaint people with the
facts concerning a small water-
shed flood prevention program, j,
Board members are local men
who own and operate land within >
the watershed. Members are Leo
Newland, president: Clyde Rus-
sell. secretary and treasurer, and ,
Richard F. Thomoson. vocation-
al agriculture teacher
i Valley, will be one of
, ceive a Distinguished
i ward given by the
• Asriculture Teachers
i of Texas.
I The award will be presented at
He the state wide in service education
a workshop and convention to be
held at San Antonio August 7-10.
one | Thompson will receive the a-
i, ward for his record with the Noco-
na F.F.A. chapter, which this year
i had the second largest number of
i i Lone Star Farmers in the state.
He wrll also receive jewelry pre-
! sented with the award
Lake Nocona is at its highest
level since it began filling after
a 6-inch rain in October. 1960,
but it still has a long way to go
to be filled.
Following runoffs of last week’s
rains, the lake is now 18 feet
Provi-ion* in are:
. jahntan 2—Ra>se9 the limit on use of
| state funds to assist needv aged,
of three American Legion Mer- needy blind and needv children
cury Awards for Americanism. It from forty-seven million dollars
is now heard over 290 radio sta-, to fiftv-two million dollars.
3— Permits creation of hospital
districts in Ochiltree. Castro. Hans-
ford and Hopkins counties.
4— Provides for a state program
of acquiring conservation storage
facilities in reservoirs.
5— Creates hospital districts and
limits their power.
8— Establishes a ceiling of two
million, five hundred thousand
dollars per year on the amount
that may be paid out of state
funds for assistance payments to
the totally and permanently dis-
abled.
9— Authorizes the construction,
equipping, maintenance and fin-
ancing of a home for the aged in
Titus county and permits the
legislature to authorize the cre-
ation of two hospital districts in
Brazoria county.
(Continued on back page)
"Winston tastes good
a cigaret should" even
has college professors aroused.
"Like" should be "as."
Now let's look at that front
page boner. A headline read:
"Any Katy Lease Adjustments
To Be On An Individual Bases."
"Bases" instead of
"basis.”
We got away with
for a few days until
Feryman of F and M bank and
the Hodge House asked us at a
city council meeting: "Which
base, first, second or third?"
Okay, Bill, when a waitress
makes an error she can correct
it in the kitchen and when a
banker makes one he can erase
Temperature
Readings For Week
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Estimated 2,200 Attend 4-Night
Outdoor Revival Services Here
Favored by fair weather until
the closing (minutes, when it
I sell, secretary and treasurer, and (rOad and the lake road its-alf is i
members Clyde Cash. Dovle Ice. , temporarily closed to traffic.
Charles Howard. Grady Fooshee. | The lake, however. can be
Roy Pollock. Neal Thompson and (reached by driving by way of |
I the Hoosier highway, thence north ,
The state highway department i
severall
Cotton Farmers Warned On How To
Control Insects After Recent Rains
I will control both insects,
have inter-1
Power company of Shreveport i test closes in August.” Poucher i
and judging is done by journal- wrote. (The contest was started |
ism professors of Southern Metho-1 in June.) Poucher added, “Your
dist university. The area covered | work in freedom's cause is com-
in the contest is all of North and ■ mendable . . . . ”
East Texas south to Houston,) Johnson was graduated_ from
which is embraced by
and East Texas Press
of which The News is
The award includes
emment bond and a
This is the third time The News
has won first place. It has also
won several second places for
editorials.
111V VlUOllIg W IXVll IV
from being full, according to of- began to rain. Nocona’s four-night
ficial readings made by Rab Bar- outdoor revival, which opened last
ker and Vernon Smith at the fil- Sunday night and closed Wednes-
A play-off game tonight (Thura-
----- day) and the championship game
Friday night will close another
Little League season in Nocona.
| The only other remaining game
I will be the usual end-of-season all-
star-champion game which hps
spoke. been 561 for 7:30 Saturday night
The Spanish Fort and Lions
I teams will clash at 7:15 tonight
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] ning team. The Boot team won
. top place in the second half.
night's championship
J game will be between the Boot
j team and the winner of tonight’s
| tilt. This game will also start at
7:15.
The boot team won top berth
in the second half by defeating
Spanish Fort. 5 to 0. in Tuesday
night’s playoff.
Other scores during the week
were: Friday—Leather Goods, 11,
Mercer. 3; Ringgold. 3, Boot, 3;
Saturday—Spanish Fort, 11, Lions,
4: Montague, 4. Rotary 4.
Here are the standings on the
' eve of the championship game:
| Larry Johnson, son of County
I Supt of Schools and Mrs. Henry
i W. Johnson of Montague has earn
ed an honoroble mention award
and a S10 prize from Life Line,
a non-denominational champion of
freedom which is carried over
America in printed form and by
both radio and television.
Notice of the award was receiv-
by young Johnson, a pre-
inuuivai aiuueui iiia.ivriiig in ui- ,
ology at Abilene Christian college,
from Wayne Poucher, Life Line’s
minicfar nrl nnmQje nt atOT.
“Your essay will be held for [
consideration in the judging for j
the show as best they could.
Jones served as master of cere
monies. One
Dyer, was one
ers.
Except for a
ing of nearly 100. perfect weath- | Lions ..
er provided the homecoming set- Montague
ting Sunday noon and afternoon, Mercer
when an estimated 1.000 or morel —
came and went during the home-' —
coming hours. Between 600 and InnmiKflTI If]
700 were served at noon by a1 X U
catering service. TA ■ HT*
Although an accurate check was ; £|,6C61V6 1 013
not possible, it is believed that __ __ r
F. F. A. Award
Drive Launched To Raise Funds
For Farmers Creek Flood Control
Discussion of finances to meet
local responsibilities for a flood
prevention program along Farm-
ers creek highlighted a meeting
last Thursday night of the board
of directors of the Farmers Creek
Watershed authority.
The amount needed for local
flood prevention costs, it was re-
ported. would be $2,100 annually
for a period of about eight years.
“This amount would he the max-
imum needed to fulfill all local
responsibilities for the program.
All construction costs of the de-
tention reservoirs is borne by the
federal government. Construction
costs are estimated to exceed
$600,000.” the board reported.
In order to raise the required
amount needed to meet expenses
requiring local funds, an election
will be held to vote a tax to pro-
vide for the expense.
Residents of the Farmers creek
watershed will decide in the elec-
tion whether a watershed program
is wanted. The board discussed a
tax of 15 cents nor hundred dol-1
lar evaluation. This is equivalent
to about 2 1-2 cents per acre. If
a person owned 200 acres, the tax
would amount to $5 per year. I
The total cost would be $40 j gpther to complete this worth-
over the eight year period. After I whjle project >«
About
Nocona
our oroject in Farmers Creek will (News GlV**n Another
provide around $2 benefits to the D . . pi___
people in our watershed. Thus. | Kond AS F irst r lace
all citizens will benefit by the im- I Editorial Winner
proved economy of our area. We
are all neighbors. Let’s work to- ( a Nocona News editorial. “The
Katy Railroad’s Unreasonable De-
I mands.” which was written and
i published June 7 after the rail- ed . . _ . (
road heavily increased its lease medical student jnajoring in bi- ■
j rates on land
ber of local
week judged first place winner minister and commentator,
in a monthly
The contest is sponsored month-
moming with his u-
Construction, which includes
. leveling, widening and hard-surf-
I acing, is now’ underway with com-
'ipletion date set for late Septem-
ber.
The work has been started at | DV tne nine ine snow sianea.
the west end at the Spanish Fort others stood outside and caught
T. Munn, Pampa layman,
Munn also spoke at Tuesday's Ro-
tary meeting. ,
Largest crowd of the four nights j determine^the^first half win
attended Sunday night, when it I
was estimated at 700 or more. , r—
Music was furnished by the I
combined choirs of member ohurch
es. which were led by Charles
Gregory. NHS bandmaster. Don
Sewell led congregational singing;
Mrs. James Daugherty accompa-
nied both at an organ and Dan
West, supply pastor of First Pres-
byterian church, presided.
Montague Youth Wins Prize For
Essay Contribution To Life Line
An essav submitted in June by ; honor roll in both semesters,
will return in September on
music scholarship.
In 1960. Life Line received
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So crowded was the school that ’ every graduating class since the:
j there was not even standing room ( first one in 1906 was represented
bv the time the show started. | by one or more persons. Among
(Continued on page eight)
Nocona high school in 1961 as
an honor student with a scholar-
ship to any state school. During
his senior year, he was president
of the National Honor society,
president of Mu Alpha Theta nat-
ional math society, and school
chaplain. During his first year
in college, he made the dean’s | tions.
tration plant.
Last week’s rains raised the ]
total 45 hundredths of a foot from j
18.45 the day before the week’s
rains.
the
and
It has been pointed out that
from here on the rise will be
slower because the lake has spread
into areas not heretofore covered
and a great amount of water will
be needed to cause an appreci-
able depth increase.
eight years, the tax would
longer be required or collected,
the board said.
To Meet August 24
The board announced that a’
meeting will be held in the Bo- j .
nita Community center Friday !. ,’n thpfp will be”'a "oaved f°r a star-studded variety show
night. August 24. when all resi-1 th*£ w,1‘. b* .^ brought to his home town by
dents of the watershed are asked i ‘ , ivnrona * I Bruce Jones of Shreveport, father
to attend. The meeting will be |1 C"strl|c(ion ’ which includes °f ‘he Ringgold Cemetery as-
Ringgold's most successful of
several cemetery benefit shows
and homecomings were held last
weekend when a combined crowd
of more than 1.500 persons visit-
ed the community.
A beyond-capacity crowd esti-
mated at around 700 packed the
of school auditorium Saturday night
Harold Lane.
I Newland, during the meeting.
pointed out some facts of a local approved the project
i flood prevention project to mem-
i hers and visitors.
I He stated, “Each dollar cost of
High
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