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FROM THE
EDITOR’S
PEN . . .
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By EDGAR R. HAYS
The Nocona News
SINGLE COPY 10c
NUMBER TWELVE
VOLUME SIXTY-TWO
NOCONA, MONTAGUE COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1967
Controlling Interest In
Peoples National Sold
Bill Holman
temperatures have been
list of new sub-
3600-Acre Seay Ranch Is Sold
To California Horse-Breeder
Billy Taylor
ranch
(Continued on Page 2)
the majority of
from this im-
term because of the bet-
schooling available. At the
horse
which
Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Medlen
and Mac and Julia, accompanied
by Kay Thomas visited friends
in Whitesboro Sunday.
Way-
Mel-
Ruby
Har-
the ranch was named, became
a famous sire. In one race,
three of his sons finished first,
second and third. For this, he
was featured in Robert Rip-
ley’s Believe It Or Not. In
his prime the stud fee was
$10,000, the exact amount of
his purchase price. Newton T.
Keck of Nocona has a son of
Three Bars, Pokey Bar, which
won All-American Futurity at
Ruidoso, an event which Keck
has won three years. The noble
horse, an old man of the horse
world, is now in Quanah, still
active. He sired some 60 colts
last year.
For 66 years the Seay land
was owned and operated by one
family. About 2800 acres were
bought in the fall of 1899 by
two brothers, Jeff and Oscar
Seay, who were also partners
in cattle raising in Indian Ter-
ritory, presumably on leased
land. The purchase price was
$5.00 per acre and was ac-
quired from the Land Mort-
gage Bank of Texas. Approxi-
mately 800 adjoining acres were
purchased later. In the spring
of 1900, Jeff Seay with his
family moved to Texas while
the district contests.
Miss Lou Farr of Iowa Park
won the district queen contest
and will also represent this
district in the State contest.
She is a sophomore at Mid-
western University.
Buford Toon, columnist in
the Sanger Courier, pays tri-
bute to those who are growing
old. He says poetically:
“I can live with my arth-
ritis,
And my dentures, they fit fine,
I can see through my bifocals,
But I sure do miss my mind.”
Seems that there are all kinds
of ways to cheat people. Our
information is that some local
people have been taken in by
bn insect exterminator firm.
Again we urge you to investi-
gate the house-to-house ped-
dler if he is not already known
to you. There are so many
people who make their living
from the unsuspecting and the
trusting souls of this world.
In this light, there is always
some kind of a so-called ad-
vertising scheme being sold,
most of it being practically
worthless to the advertiser.
If you want to donate some ad-
vertising money to someone,
give to a local organization
who is sponsoring a worthy
cause or to a local institution
where you will have a chance
to get your money back. Send-
ing your money out of town
on a worthless advertising
scheme can’t be anything but
harmful to the community.
10 RIDING CLUBS ARE DUE
HERE FOR TRAIL ROUNDUP
The 1967 Nocona Indians will
engage in their first scrimmage
with an outside team Friday
evening of this week when they
take on the Electra high school
squad on the local field. The
scrimmage starts at 7 p. m.
and the public is invited to
attend.
No admission charge will be
made but Bob Bennett, presi-
dent of the Indian Booster Club,
has suggested that adults at-
tending bring along a bar of
soap for the Indians as a do-
nation.
The Indians were in good
spirits this week and are still
working out twice a day, polish-
ing their game and working on
assignments. There were no
serious injuries Monday al-
though bruises were slowing
down some of the squad.
Two new boys are out this
week, Dale Coffman on the var-
sity and Ricky Nelson on the
freshman team. In listing the
varsity last week, The News
unintentionally ommitted the
name of Jimmy Nix, a letter-
man and 136 pound center who
saw a lot of action last year.
Electra plays AA ball, as
do the Indians and they are
rated fifth in their district
The lady was seeking a di-
vorce, charging that her hus-
band thinks of nothing but golf.
“He doesn’t even remember
our wedding date,” she told
the judge.
**I certainly do,” the husband
shouted. “We were married
the day Gary Player won the
Masters.”
Most of you read the clever
“letter to the editor” from Mrs.
Mary Lee Nix in last week’s
News. We appreciate her feel-
ing of pride in her new grand-
son and just wish we could
comply with her request to print
a full color photo of the young
fellow. Of course, if we did
that, we would run a similar
photo of our own grandson side
by side. We visited Little Buff
last week on our vacation trip
and we could tell you some-
thing more about his accom-
plishments but hesitate to do
so because we realize we do
hfcve an advantage over other
grandparents. We will say that
he is not as smart as we
dreamed he was. In our dream
last week, he was talking in
sentences at six months of age.
But it was just a dream. He
isn’t talking yet.
’ Seay’s children began
schooling in Belcherville
two-story brick building
six classrooms. There
more than 100 students
The rains were scat-
however, with some
reporting up to four
and others no rain at
Mohair Payments
In County Total
Over §9,000
Government payments to mo-
hair producers in Montague
County have totaled $9,434.04
this year, according to figures
released by Wayne Matthews,
office manager of the Montague
County ASCS. By comparison,
payments to wool producers to-
tal only $145.33 and on un-
shorn lambs the total is $49.64,
Matthews said. This makes a
total of $9,629.01 paid out by
the local ASCS office to those
participating in the government
programs in these catagories.
Producers earning payment
under the mohair program to-
taled 19, they sold 55,718 pounds
taled 19, they sold 55,718
pounds, net sales were $24,-
926.63 and promotion fund de-
duction totaled $835.72, the re-
port showed. Only six partici-
pated in the unshorn lamb pro-
gram, with net weight of the
lambs being 11,155 and pro-
motion fund deduction totaling
$8.37. The same number par-
ticipated in the wool program
with 1,470 pounds of wool be-
ing sold for a total of $674.85
and promotion fund deductions
of $22.03.
The controlling interest in the
Peoples National Bank has been
sold, according to announce-
ment made to The Nocona News
Tuesday. The deal was effective
Tuesday of last week, August
15th, but was not revealed until
this week.
J. A. Cozby of Fort Worth,
owner of the majority stock
in the bank, sold it to James
B. Huff of Fort Worth, Bill
Holman of Henrietta, Bill Mc-
Harg of Fort Worth and E. F.
Abbott of Fort Worth, the an-
nouncement said. Huff is chair-
man of the board of the First
National Bank in Henrietta and
Holman is president of the Hen-
rietta bank. Huff lives in Fort
Worth.
No change in employee per-
sonnel of the local bank is con-
templated, The News was told.
However some change in oper-
ating policy will be announced
from time to time, it was said.
Local stockholders in the
bank did not dispose of their
stock in the transaction.
No change in bank officials
has been made with the ex-
ception that Huff and Holman
were elected as vice-presidents
and directors of the local bank.
Huff is the grandson of a
pioneer Clay County couple,
the late Mr. and Mrs. William
Huff. His father was the late
Jim Huff and his mother still
resides in Ada, Okla. Huff has
been associated with the Hen-
rietta bank since 1962, is a
veteran of World War II and
received a degree in account-
ing from the University of Ok-
lahoma in 1946. He and his
wife, the former Mary Lou
Tribbey, have two sons, age
9 and 13. He is also owner
of the Double II Chevrolet Co.
in Rockwall, Texas.
Holman, one time president
of the First State Bank of Cool-
idge, Texas, came to Henri-
etta in July to assume his
position there. He began his
career with the Citizens Na-
tional Bank, Waco, in 1946, went
to the Hubbard State Bank in
1947, and later was associated
with the West Texas State Bank
in Snyder and the Securitystate
Bank in Ore City. He served
with the Marine Corps from
1952 to 1954.
In Henrietta he is now serv-
ing as first vice-president of
the Henrietta Chamber of Com-
merce, is a member of the
Klwanis Club and the First
Baptist Church in that city.
He recently was named a direc-
tor of the West Texas Chamber
of Commerce from Henrietta.
Walter H. Richter, director
of the Southwest Region, Of-
fice of Economic Opportunity,
says that the recent story mak-
ing the rounds to the effect
that the OEO had made a grant
to a group to publish a weekly
newspaper in North Carolina
is false. “I can state flatly
that the OEO never has and
never will provide funds for
the establishment of a news-
paper to compete with existing
dailies and weeklies,” Richter
tfaid. We hope he knows.
We appreciate the fine re-
sponse to our recent subscrip-
tion promotion from people all
over Montague County. We have
added around 75 new subscrib-
ers to our subscription list in
the past two weeks. These are
paid subscriptions which means
that those people want The No-
cona News and are willing to
shell out the money to get it.
Since the present owners took
over The News, our paid cir-
culation in Montague has more
than doubled, and we have added
many other new subscribers in
Bowie, Saint Jo, Ringgold and
other parts of the county. We
feel that this indicates that Mon-
tague County people appreciate
a “newsy” newspaper and that
is what we are trying to give
you. Many of you have com-
plimented us on our newspaper
and we do appreciate it. See
our story on this page about
new subscribers.
The Editor and Missus went
^on their short vacation last
week end and while no rain
came while we were away, it
did come as soon as we re-
turned so we claim some cred-
it for it. It rained on us enroute
home tn the Vernon area. The
only area we found on our
trip which has had ample rain-
fall was the Amarillo area.
Everything is green there.
Improving
Mrs. M. Frank Russell, who
suffered severe burns when
boiling water spilled on her
feet while canning tomatoes, is
improving. Mrs. Russell has
been receiving medical treat-
ment in Major Hospital the past
three weeks but may get to go
home this week.
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Mr. and Mrs. Sid Vail of
Apple Valley, California, are
the new owners of the 3600-
acre Seay Ranch, west of Bel-
cherville. They arrived last
week to complete details of the
purchase and are now living
in the house located on the
ranch.
Former occupants of the
house, Mr. and Mrs. Hardy L.
Seay, moved into Nocona last
December. All cattle were sold
before that time and the land
was leased to Jeff Seay of Ar-
cher City until July.
Since July the ranch has been
a lonely place—no cattle to
nibble on the pasture grasses
and only one horse to wander
aimlessly near the house in
search of some remembered
companion.
Change always comes, some-
times gradually, sometimes
quickly. Change has now come to
Belcherville with the arrival
of the Vails who were owners
of the famous Three Bars Ranch
in Apple Valley, a horse breed-
ing operation.
Having worked with horses all
his life, Mr. Vail, in 1945,
found the prettiest horse he
The Nocona area has been
favored with showers of rain
and cool weather the past week.
A heavy shower falling just af-
ter noon on Monday dropped
1.3 inches of rain here, accord-
ing to Weatherman Dewey Hol-
comb,
tered,
areas
inches
all.
The
cool the past week, with the low
minimum coming Tuesday
morning of this week, that be-
ing 64 degrees. The high for
the past week was on Friday
when the thermometer climbed
to 93 degrees, a very pleasant
maximum for this area.
The News correspondent at
Spanish Fort, Mrs. Viola Blg-
bie, reported 2 1/2 inches of
rain tn that area with some
hail. The hail storm struck
from the southwest and did
only minor damage. It covered
the ground in a strip about a
mile wide. Considerable wind
accompanied the storm and the
wind did some damage to
houses, tractor cab covers, etc.
Some rain and hail fell at
Capps Corner, stripping flow-
ers but doing little damage
otherwise.
At the Bill Henley place,
north of Nocona, 2.2 Inches of
rain was reported, an inch fell
in the area southwest of Bel-
cherville and one report gave
up to four inches in the Bel-
cher area. Three inches was
reported from the vicinity of
the John Harper home, between
Nocona and Prairie Valley. A
total of 1.9 was reported at
the Andy Tipton place, but little
if any rain fell in the Bonita
area.
The rains will be beneficial
to pecan trees as well as grow-
ing crops in the farming areas
and improve grazing in the
ranch areas.
had ever seen. His marriage
and his purchase of the race
horse both occurred in that
year. The couple lived in Doug-
las, Arizona, where they raised
Hereford cattle and fine horses.
Five times they were drought-
stricken and the situation be-
came so bad at times that
Mexicans were hired to chop
cactus for cattle feed. A change-
over to the Brahma breed solved
that problem since it is a
hardier breed, readily taking
advantage of any available for-
age and ranging over a wider
territory. However the per-
plexing problem of how to keep
them within bounds became al-
most as great a problem as
the drought.
The couple moved their op-
eration to the 216 acre Apple
Valley Ranch in 1955. Three
Bars Ranch, at the time of its
sale a few weeks ago, had
115 acres divided into 39 pad-
docks, all fenced with eight
miles of chain link fencing.
In addition, the Vails bought
and own an 800 acre
in Oakdale.
Three Bars, the race
they had bought and for
At least 10 area riding clubs
will participate in the Nocona
Jaycee’s Chisholm Trail
Roundup here next week end,
Jaycee officials said this week.
These include the Saint Jo
Riding Club, always a favorite
here, as well as the Bridge-
port Riding Club, The Moslah
Shrine Temple Drill Team and
Riding Club of Fort Worth,
the Big Loop Riding Club of
Clay County, Bowie Riding Club,
the Burkburnett Riding Club,
the Cotton County, Oklahoma,
Riding Club, the Gainesville
Riding Club, The Wichita Coun-
ty Sheriff’s Posse, The Dean
Texas Riding Club, the Decatur
Riding Club, and possibly
others.
The riding clubs will parti-
cipate in the two parades, and
the rodeo performances, and
will be hosted by the Nocona
Chisholm Trail Riding Club to
a horseback church service at
Lake Nocona on Sunday night
and an old country style break-
fast Monday morning.
Then the riders will join
the trail ride into Nocona for
the noon barbecue on Monday,
Labor Day.
The Jaycee s are planning two
barbecues, one on Thursday
evening following the trophy
parade and another at noon on
Monday. The feast will be cater-
ed by Rohmer’s of Muenster
and the cost to the general
public will be $1.00 per plate.
In case of bad weather the
barbecues will be held at the
Nocona Jaycee Community Cen-
ter in air conditioned comfort.
OTHER FEATURES
Other features of the rodeo
here will be George Taylor,
rodeo clown, and his trained
bull, and Red Gordon and his
band. Taylor was here last
year and is very popular with
local fans. Gordon is also well
known in this area.
DECORATED BICYCLES
A section of the Monday
parade will be set aside for
decorated bicycles and a prize
will be given for the best decor-
ated boys bicycle and the best
decorated girls bicycle. All
boys and girls with bicycles
are invited to join in the parade.
AIR FORCE BAND
The 761st Air Force Band
from Sheppard Field, Wichita
Falls, will be here for the
rodeo and lead the parade on
opening day. The big band with
about 40 pieces will present
a selection of musical numbers
ranging from Bach to modern
jazz and including contempor-
ary concert music.
TICKETS ON SALE
Reserved seat tickets,
seat tickets and general
mission tickets are all on
Oscar remained In Oklahoma.
They later bought land south
of Ringgold and in 1912, divided
their property, Jeff taking the
Belcherville property and Os-
car the property at Ringgold.
The men were married to sis-
ters, the former Laura and
Clara Hardy, and the relation-
ship between the families re-
mained close.
Jeff
their 1
in a I
with
were
—and two teachers. The build-
ing was built during the boom
in Belcherville’s history and
was at the same location as
the one still standing. The more
prosperous years of the town
of Belcherville were sometime
between 1887 and 1900 when
it boasted a boarding school.
Clyde and Wilmer Seay, oldest
of the Oscar Seay children,
stayed at the Jeff Seay home
and attended school one win-
ter
ter
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RAINFALL
Total for Week .......
Previous Total........
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Year Ago ...............
box
ad-
sale
now from any member of the
Jaycee organization and they
are lower in price if purchased
in advance, Jaycee members
said this week. Local people
are urged to buy their ticket
in advance.
The Chisholm Trail Roundup
is sanctioned by the Interna-
tional Rodeo Association and
will be produced by Texhoma
Rodeo Co. of Madill, Okla.,
the same firm which produced
the rodeo last year.
Events in the rodeo include
bareback bronc riding, steer
wrestling, calf roping, Brahma
bull riding and barrel racing.
TEMPERATURES
High
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92
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, 90
We have a suggestion con-
cerning Mr. Johnson’s request
for a 10 percent increase in
taxes. Suppose the great Ameri-
can voters agree to a tax raise
to match any cut in spending
from the 1964 level. If the
government will cut spending
10 percent from that level, then
we will agree to a 10 percent
jfx raise. We might be able
to make some payment on the
national debt that way.
THE 7 FAST AIR FORCE BAND will be in Nocona next week end
for the annual Chisholm Trail Roundup. They will march in the opening
day parade and present a concert for the public. They are from shep-
pard Air Force Base at Wichita Falls.
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Showers And
Cool Weather
Comes To Area
Indians Bailie
Eleclra Here
Friday Evening
News Geis New
Subscribers
Around 75 new suoscribers
have been added to The No-
cona News subscription list
within the past two weeks and
more continue to come in. Most
of these have come from points
in Montague County and are
well distributed over the coun-
ty, although
course come
mediate area.
Here is a
scribers added within the past
few days:
Mrs. O. D. Carmichael, No-
cona; J. H. Holland, Saint Jo;
J. C. Green, Forestburg; Troy
C. Adams, Nocona; Wayne Den-
nis, Nocona; A. L. Cleveland,
Bowie; C. R. Reed Jr., Bonita;
Mrs. C. C. Dempsey, Ring-
gold; Alonzo Leaton, Nocona;
Ruthie M. King, Saint Jo; J.
L. Ivins, Saint Jo; W. C. Mont-
gomery, Saint Jo; A. H. God-
win, Saint Jo; Mrs. Vera Ho-
gan, Saint Jo; Kent Stewart,
Nocona; H. C. Rowland, No-
cona; J. M. Reeves, Nocona;
T. A. Oxford, Nocona;
mon W. Boyd, Nocona;
vin Buck, Nocona; Mrs.
Moenning, Nocona; H. S.
din, Nocona; Mrs. A. W. Cole-
man, Nocona; Levi G. Hogan,
Bowie; M. A. Stump, Saint Jo;
Ralph Winters, Nocona; Mrs.
Andy Miller, Nocona; John L.
Wilson, Nocona; Bud Hudson,
Nocona; Harold W. Marma-
duke, Nocona; Mrs. R. R. Swin-
dle, Saint Jo; C. 'W. Perry,
Bonita; E. D. May, Nocona;
Loyd Winter , Nocona; Mrs,
Henry A. Reynolds, Nocona;
Orville W. Reynolds, Nocona;
Donnie Eldred, Nocona; Flor-
ence McCubbins, Nocona; Mrs.
Jennie McNew, Nocona; Ruel
Cannon, Saint Jo; A. E. Coff-
(Continued on Page 6)
Billy Taylor, a junior the
coming year in Nocona High
School, won the District 3 Farm
Bureau Talent Find contest,
held at Vernon Tuesday even-
ing. He will enter the state
contest to be held in Austin
during the State Farm Bureau
convention November 12-15.
Billy won the Montague Coun-
ty contest only last week and
went on to the district where
he played an organ number,
“St. Louis Blues." He received
generous applause.
Billy is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Taylor of Nocona
and has excelled for several
years in music and art. His
parents accompanied him to
MANY NEW ENTRIES IN
"MISS PECAN" CONTESTS
Many new entries have been--
received in the Miss Pecan
contests, to be held here in
December in connection with the
North Texas and Southern Ok-
lahoma Pecan Show. Some 18
entries in the three divisions
were announced last week and
this week another 20 girls have
made entry. Each one is spon-
sored by a local business house
or organization.
There are three divisions of
the contest with girls ages 4
through 8 years entering the
“Little Miss Pecan” division,
girls 9 through 13 years, en-
tering the “Junior Miss Pecan”
group and girls from 14 through
21 years in the “Miss Pecan”
contest.
New entries in the “Little
Miss Pecan” contest and their
sponsors include Barbie Low-
rie, sponsored by Nocona Jew-
elers; Kristen Baxter, spon-
sored by Lipscomb’s; Marla
Foster, sponsored by Western
Auto Store; Denise Orrell,
sponsored by McNabb Feed
Store; Lee Ann Crenshaw, spon-
sored by Hodges Furniture;
Kerry Middleton, sponsored by
Ben Franklin Store; Laura Rob-
erts, sponsored by F. & M.
Bank; Tammy Lemmons, spon-
sored by Medlen Printing; Dar-
la Murphy, sponsored by Ad-
kins Furniture & Upholstery;
Sheryl Barwise, sponsored by
Ray’s Food Store; Carla Mur-
phy, sponsored by McNew Feed
Store; Lydia Vaughn, sponsored
by Gist’s Drug Store.
Additional entries in the
“Junior Miss Pecan” contest
include Linda Eldred, sponsor-
ed by Western Auto Store; Con-
nie Lowrie, sponsored by Fron-
tier Savings Stamp Store; Kim
Rolls, sponsored by White Auto
Store.
Other entries in the “Miss
Pecan” contest include Bar-
bara
Bill’s
yard,
Feed
sponsored by Medlen Printing;
Julia Medlen, sponsored by No-
cona Floral, and Gloria Foster,
sponsored by Frontiei Saving
Stamp Store.
Billy Taylor
Wins District
Talent Find
Billy Taylor, a junior
Lemon-Weaver
Bny Local Firm
Jack Lemon and Bob Weaver
have purchases the Interest of
Carl Hodges in Hodges Furni-
ture & Appliance here and took
charge last week. Final details
of the transaction are still pend-
ing.
Weaver will be manager of the
furniture and appliance store
and will be assisted by his
wife, Millie. Weaver was reared
here and has lived most of his
life in the Nocona community.
The store will continue in
the same location with no change
in policy, the new owners said.
Lemon is in the used car
business here.
Sawyer, sponsored by
Clothiers; Shirley Vine-
sponsored by McNabb
Store; Debra Chapman,
Ringgold Man
Is Robbed Al
Gunpoint Sat.
“Fudge” Thomas, operator
of Thomas Fina Station in Ring-
gold, was robbed of $47 in
cash at gun point early Satur-
day morning. No trace of the
bandit had been found Wednes-
day morning.
Thomas was alone at his
station on Highway 82 in Ring-
gold when a white man, thought
to be about 25 years old, came
into the station. He pulled a
pistol from his pocket and forc-
ed Thomas to give him the
money from the cash regis-
ter.
The gunman then instructed
Thomas to lie on the floor
until he was gone. No car was
seen but residents surmised
that he had parked a car at
the rear of one of the stations
there and made his get-away in
that manner.
Thomas believes that the gun
the man used was a short .22
calibre pistol, such as is com-
mon in this area.
Officers believe the hold-up
man is the same one who held
up Hawkins Funeral Home in
Henrietta the afternoon before.
They have a good description
of the man.
Thomas has made several
trips to Wichita Falls and other
points to look over suspects
but has not identified one as
yet.
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