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FROM THE
JAMES CARPENTER
RANDY NOBILE
Yes Mr. Warren upheld a
lot of individual rights alright.
So many that law enforcement
officers have their hands tied,
as FBI Director J. Edgar
Hoover has pointed out. It
makes us wonder if Mr. War-
ren was really on the side of
law and order, or on the side.
of crime, revolution and con-
fusion. At least he has en-
couraged a lot of the latter.
Well the d. yankees have
done it again. Just when we
had a good thing going, they
invalidated the whole bus-
iness. We who listen to wea-
ther reports all know that
Presidio, Texas, had the high-
est temperature in the nation
day after day. Thus they re-
ceived nation-wide publicity.
But we suppose the yankees in
the weather bureau got tired
of Texas getting all that free
publicity and now they are go-
ing to do away with the Presi-
dio weather station so we get
no more reports from Presi-
dio. It’s a conspiracy—that’s
what it is. We understand
Wichita Falls thinks they have
a chance to grab the glory
for being the hottest but we
doubt if they can match Presi-
dio’s record. The civil war is
still going strong.
Teacher: “If you had seven
pieces of candy and I asked
for four, how many would you
have left?’’
Student: “Seven.”
WILDCAT IS PLUGGED
Burk Royalty Co. No. 1
Thornton, one mile northeast
of Ringgold, section 7, H&TC
survey A-359, was plugged
at 6030 feet.
Postcard to weather bur-
eau: “Sirs, I thought you would
be interested in knowing that
I have just shoveled three feet
of ‘partly cloudy’ from my
front steps.
The Editor has received a
“letter to the editor” signed
with a ficticious name. It is
our policy, as well as that of
most newspapers, to refrain
from running letters which are
not signed or signed with a
ficticious name. This letter
was signed “Publius Cato”,
Which is Latin for public cen-
sor. We don’t know who ap-
pointed the writer to beapub-
K lie censor but we doubt if he
has a valid appointment. Any-
way the writer takes The Edi-
tor to task for our frequent
damnations of the Supreme
Court and Mr. Earl Warren.
He defends Mr. Warren and
points to Mr. Warren’s “hold-
ing the individual’s rights
more important than the
state’s efficiency.” We concur
that Mr. Warren upheld the
individual’s rights—the rights
of criminals to commit
crimes, confess to their
crimes and still go free be-
cause the Supreme Court
would not allow the courts to
use a confession. Also Mr.
Warren was quick to allow the
individual full freedom to dis-
tribute the most vile and filthy
literature through the mails
which is still being done, be-
cause to prohibit him to do so
would “abridge his freedom.”
Our writer says that Mr.
Warren never "doubted the
loyalty of those with whom he
jdid not agree.” He must have
been living with his head under
the covers when President
John F. Kennedy was shot.
Warren was quick to blame the
“conservative element” in
Dallas with the crime, even
before he knew any of the de-
tails, when actually one of his
own kind did the crime. (We
consider socialists and com-
munists as being first cou-
sins, since their ideals are
very close.)
The writer is a nice young
fellow but he sure is con-
fused about politics. We hope
he lives long enough to see
what kind of history the Su-
preme Court decisions will
bring to this country of ours.
48 Called For
Jury Duly In
District Court
A venire of 48 petit jurors
have been summoned for duty
July 14 at the District Court
of Montague County.
Among the criminal cases
scheduled to be heard are:
State of Texas vs. Kenneth
Burden; State of Texas vs.
Johnny Ray Wygal (3 counts);
State of Texas vs. R. B. Coug-
hran; State of Texas vs. Vonda
Burnett; State of Texas vs.
James E. Alexander ( 2
counts); and State of Texas vs.
James Ray Andrews.
Three civil cases on the
agenda are: T. B. McCord vs.
David A. Kaiser etux; Dwayne
Allen Belcher vs. Gulf Ins.
Co.; First National Bank of
Bowie vs. R. C. Cannedy.
Summoned for jury duty are:
Phil Howard, Mrs. Willard
Grigsby, Billy Mitchell, Wel-
don Parr, Francis McGaughy,
Leo Newland, Lesley Combs,
Myra Daugherty, James Gold-
smith, Mrs. James Skidmore,
Herman Marmaduke, Robert
Agee, Anita Leonard and Mrs.
Ralph Reynolds, all of Nocona;
Wayne Tipton, Bill Franks,
Robert Ryan, Mrs. GlenPrlb-
ble and J. C. Walker, all of
Montague; Shelby Surrette,
Mrs. Leon Garrett, David
Jameson, Mrs. Carl Shurt-
leff, Alton McNatt, Charles
Blanton, Weldon George, Mrs.
Gayle Bradley, W. A. Greer,
Mrs. W. M. Warner, Mrs.
J. W. Cure, Nancy Monkres,
Fred Gardner and Boyd Grif-
fin all of Bowie; Bob Stead-
man, David Boggess, Clint
Coventry, Tommy Collier,
C. E. Cole, Mack Thweat,
Jerry Wood and Joe Bailey,
all of Saint Jo; Paul Ingram,'
Keelan Tucknies, Robert Don-
ald, and W. T. Wade, Sunset;
Loyd Orrerr, Forestburg.
EDITOR’S
PEN .. .
By EDGAR R. HAYS
THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1969
NUMBER SIX
NOCONA, MONTAGUE COUNTY, TEXAS
VOLUME SIXTY-FOUR
SINGLE COPY 10c
Things are lively around
The Editor’s household. We
have all four of our grand-
children here for a visit and
that really makes a difference
in the climate around the house
when you are not used to a
lot of noise. But we are en-
joying the kids and when it
is grandkids you can put up
with a lot of tilings you are
not used to. There are two
girls and two boys and they
come in this order: Kathy,
age 13, and real little lady;
Nicky, age 12 and all boy;
Cayleen, age 9 and a nice girl
but don’t push your luck, she
might slug you, and Buff, 21/2
and thinks he is as big as any
of the rest.
The first three live in El
Paso where their dad is sales
manager for Frito Lay Com-
pany and Buff now lives in
Tulia where his dad will be
, line coach of the Tulia High
<* School team this coming sea-
son. We don’t get to see them
often so we are enjoying them,
noise, confusion, and every-
thing.
The generation gap is be*’*
illustrated by the man who re-
ceived a wrist watch when he
graduated from high school
and now has a son who wears
one to kindergarten.
Future Farmers Will Gel THREE-WAY TIE POSSIBLE
Lone Star Farmer Degrees IN NOCONA LITTLE LEAGUE
RICKY MARTIN
Three members of the Fu-
ture Farmers of America
from this area will receive
Lone Star Farmer degrees at
the 41st annual State FFA Con-
vention in Fort Worth July
16-18, They are Ricky Martin
and Randy Nobile of the Nocona
Chapter and James Carpenter
of the Prairie Valley Chapter.
A number of other members
of the two chapters will at-
tend the convention as will
the advisors, Glen Ferguson
and R. F. Thompson.
The convention will be held
in the Tarrant County Con-
vention Center and registra-
tion will begin Wednesday
morning. The first general
session will start at 8:45 a.m.
Wednesday and will include
an address by Ben Barnes,
Lieutenant Governor of Texas.
The fun night and FFA talent
contest will be held Wednesday
evening.
Awards of various kinds will
be made Thursday climaxed
with the Lone Star Farmer
awards program on Thursday
evening.
The convention will con-
clude Friday morning with the
torchlight ceremony and the
election of the state FFA
president and thq state FFA
sweetheart.
Martin is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Martin and
will be a senior in Nocona High
School next term. His projects
included range cattle and
small grain production. He
showed steers at the Fort
Worth stock show and clear-
ed about $1500 in his vocation-
al agriculture program the
past two and a half years. He
has been active in FFA lead-
ership, serving as district
secretary of Texhoma District
and was elected Area V sen-
tinel last Spring in the con-
vention at Denton. He attend-
ed the state convention last
summer at Lubbock.
Nobile is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Louis Nobile of Mon-
tague. His project program
has been mainly peanuts and
the past two years he has
cleared about $1100 on seven
acres. He also has some range
cattle. He has served as local
chapter officer the past two
years, this year as sentinel.
He was the voting delegate of
the local chapter to the Area
V convention at Denton and
attended the state convention
last year.
James Carpenter is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Car-
penter. His projects have been
in cattle and alfalfa and he
made a profit the past two
years of over $5,000. He has
developed a large herd of
cattle and was district winner
of the Southwestern Cattle
Raisers Association award.
He has served his chapter as
treasurer and secretary and
has an outstanding pasture
program in which he is coop-
erating with the Noble Foun-
dation, Ardmore, Okla. He
will apply for the state con-
servation award next year on
this program.
Other FFA members at-
tending the convention will be
Jack McGaughey, David Fe-
noglio, of the Nocona Chapter,
and Jimmy Ray Sanderson of
Prairie Valley Chapter.
Revival Slated
At Church Of
The Nazarene
A revival meeting will begin
Friday evening at the Church
of the Nazarene in Nocona,
according to announcement by
the pastor, Rev. W. J. Idell.
Preaching in the services
will be Rev. R. A. Isbell of
Corley, La. He has held meet-
ings here before and is a very
effective preacher, Idell said.
Services will be held each
evening at 7:30 and Sunday
worship services will be at
11 a.m. and 7 p.m. The meet-
ing continues through July
20th.
The church is located at the
corner of Grayson & Elm. The
public is invited to attend.
Youths Attend
F. F. A. Meet
Ricky Martin and Steve
Chapman attended the Annual
Area V Leadership School at
Denton Tuesday afternoon un-
til Wednesday afternoon. The
school is sponsored by Texas
Education Agency to provide
training in speech for the in-
coming FFA officers.
James Roden, Area Super-
visor of Texas Education
Agency , was in charge.
Chapman is Texhoma Dis-
trict sentinel and Ricky Martin
is Area V sentinel. They will
be accompanied by Glenn Fer-
guson, Vocational Agriculture
teacher.
The Nocona Little League is
coming up to its final game on
the regular schedule Friday
evening of this week with a
possible three - way tie for
championship of the second
half. Another possibility is a
two-way tie and a third pos-
sibility is that the Rotary team
will win the second half out-
right.
Rotary team won the first
half and if some other team
wins the second half, the two
teams will play for the league
championship. If a tie for the
second half develops, the tie
must be played off before the
first and second half winners
play for the championship.
Climaxing the season will
be a game between the cham-
pionship team and a team of
“all stars” chosen from the
remaining seven teams. But
this game comes after all the
other games relating to the
championship are played, of
course.
Supervisor Gary Howard
said Tuesday that in case of
a two-way tie, the play-off
for the second half champion-
ship will be held Saturday at
7 p.m. on the local Little
League field.
If Rotary wins the second
half championship in a play-
off the all-star game will be
held Monday at 7 p.m. If some
other team wins the second
half, the championship play-
off will be held Monday and
the all star game will be play-
ed Tuesday at 7 p.m.
In case of a three-way tie,
the first play off game will be
Saturday at 7, the second Mon-
day at 7 and the champion-
ship game will be Tuesday at
7. Then the all-star game will
be played after that.
If Rotary wins the second
half outright, no play-off or
championship games will be
necessary, and the all-star
game will be played Saturday
of this week at 7 p.m. on the
Little League field.
The standings after the
Tuesday night games found
Rotary team leading the lea-
gue for the second half with
5 1/2 games won and a half
game lost. Leather Goods was
a close second with five games
won and one game lost. Mer-
cer was also very close with
4 1/2 games won and 11/2
games lost. Either one of these
three teams could win the
second half championship.
Justin, who was in the top
bunch last week, dropped two
Mrs. Linda Page submitted
her resignation as Chamber
of Commerce secretary at
the regular meeting of the
board of directors Monday
evening at Sands Restaurant.
She and her husband and their
family plan to move to Dallas
about August 1st where his
company is establishing an
office. He represents a
Christmas lighting decoration
firm.
Mrs. Page has been sec-
retary of the local Chamber
for the past two years. She
succeeded her husband, who
was manager of the Nocona
Chamber of Commerce for
several years. Her resigna-
tion is effective July 31st.
The directors voted to “re-
luctantly accept”her resigna-
tion at the Monday night meet-
ing. They then passed a
motion, made by Director W.
J. Stone, that the president
and two others to be named by
him, be a committee to bring
a recommendation to the board
concerning a replacement for
Mrs. Page. Applications will
be accepted by President
Howard Morris.
Director Kyle Wright made
a report for the industrial
committee, pointing out that
the removal of the MK&T
railway schedule through No-
cona had apparently cost the
city a new industry, which
was seriouly consider ing
moving to Nocona. He also
said that, after talking with
Gainesville Chamber of Com-
merce officials, it appears
there is not much chance of
stopping the MK&T from aban-
doning their tracks through
Nocona. It appears that only
Nocona and Gainesville are
interested in fighting the peti-
tion, he said.
On another prospective in-
dustry, Mr. Wright reported
that apparently everything has
been done to comply with Small
Business Administration re-
quirements and the local com-
mittee is waiting on develop-
ments from the SBA at this
time.
The directors, at,4&e sug-
gestion of pecan grwwers of
the area, set the date for the
North Texas and Southern
Oklahoma Pecan Pageant as
games this week which eli-
minated them from conten-
tion.
Here are the results of the
week’s regular games:
Thursday night, Montague
romped over Lions 23-5 with
Tommy Romine taking the win
and Don McMahan posted as
the losing pitcher. In the sec-
ond game, Mercer won over
Boot Co. 8 to 1 with Tod Sachse
listed as the winning pitcher
and Edwin Fitts the losing
moundsman.
No games were played Fri-
day night but on Saturday,
Leather Goods wonover Ring-
gold 21 to 13. Donald Buck was
on the mound for the winners
while Chuck Lawson hurled
for the losers. In the second
game of the evening, Rotary
team kept up their winning
ways with a 11 to 6 victory
over Justin. Bobby Duckworth,
who hasn’t lost a game all
season, pitched for Rotary
while Greg Ward was on the
mound for Justin.
On Monday Boot Co. had a
field day, taking a 29-0 win
over the Lions team. Bill Hol-
comb pitched the shut-out for
Boot Co. and Don McMahan
was on the mound for Lions.
The second game was a
squeeker, with Mercer and
Leather Goods battling to a
3-3 tie, which had a big bear-
ing on the top standings. Todd
Sachse was pitching for Mer-
cer and Donald Buck was
moundsman for Leather
Goods.
On Tuesday night, Montague
gave Justin another shove
down the ladder, 9 to 8, with
Jimmy Jones claiming the win
for the county capitol boys.
Greg Ward pitched for Justin.
Rotary kept going in defeating
Ringgold 17 to 7. Duckworth
was again the winner while
Blane Campbell pitched for the
losers.
The team standings after
the Tuesday night games were:
Team W L
Rotary ...............5 1/2 1/2
Leather Goods ...... 5 1
Mercer..............41/2 11/2
Justin .................. 3 3
Montague .............. 3 3
Boot Co................ 2 4
Ringgold ............... 1 5
Lions ...................-9 6
The remaining schedule of
the regular season is:
Thursday— Lions vs Justin,
Leather Goods vs. Boot Co.
Friday — Mercer vs.
Rotary, Montague vs. Ring-
gold.
the weekend before Thanks-
giving. This is earlier than
usual but growers seem to
prefer this date, the commit-
tee said.
In this connection the dir-
ectors voted to pay$50 toward
the expenses of last year’s
Miss Pecan, Miss Kathy Cock-
rell of Henrietta, to attend
the Texas Pecan Queen
Pageant to be held in San
Antonio this month.
A letter from Phil Davis,
representative of the Texas
Tourist Bureau, who visited
Nocona recently, pointed out
many ways in which tourist
development could be effect-
ed in the Nocona area. He
stressed the many historical
points of interest in the No-
cona vicinity and said that this
area has a “great potential for
tourist development. He es-
pecially mentioned a museum,
and plans for such a museum
which Glenn Wilson, local at-
torney, has had for some time
At the suggestion of Dir-
ector Carlton Chapman, the
directors voted to pay dues
of $2 per month to the Texas-
Oklahoma Area Development
Association. Mr. Chapman
also urged that local business
firms become members of the
West Texas Chamber of Com-
merce.
The treasurer’s report
showed a bank balance of
$841.70.
Present for the meeting
were President Howard Mor-
ris, Secretary Linda Page,
Directors Ted McNabb, Rich-
ard Bailey, W. J. Stone, Carl-
ton Chapman, Bill Yeargin,
Kyle Wright, Edgar R. Hays.
TEMPERATURES
High Low
Wednesday ...... 102 75
Thursday ......... 99 74
Friday ............ 100 76
Saturday .......... 96
Sunday ............. 98 78
Monday ............ 98
Tuesday ........... 99 77
RAINFALL
Total for week .••*.«••••«••• .00
Previous total............19.65
Ij|l for year ............19.65
Total a year ago .........28.35
MRS. PAGE RESIGNS AS
C-C SECRETARY JULY 31
Legion and Auxiliary To Install
New Officers Monday, July 21
New officers of American
Legion and Auxiliary who were
elected Monday night, will be
installed at the American Le-
gion Hall Monday, July 21 be-
ginning at 7:30 p.m.
B. L. Gunter is the com-
mander. Other officers to be
installed in the Legion are
first vice commander, T. L.
Hadley; second vice com-
mander, Don Boutwell; ad-
jutant, G. B. Prather Jr.;
finance officer, Hollis Gay-
don; chaplin, Charles Milburn;
historian, Louis Russell; ser-
vice officer, Floyd Garner;
sgt. - at-arms, Ray Edwards.
Auxiliary officers to be in-
stalled are president, Ethel
Garner; first vice president,
Alma Lamascus; second vice
president, Mattie Powell; sec-
retary-treasurer, Agnes Pra-
ther; chaplain, Floy Geurin:
sgt.-at-arms, Ruby Boutwell.
Executive committee is Ethel
Teasley, Gladys Barbee and
Helen Weaver.
TO COLORADO
Mr. and Mrs. Bas Gist left
Monday for a six - weeks vaca-
tion in Colorado. They expect
to spend most of their time at
Glenwood Springs, Durango
and South Fork.
City Water Pumpi
Busy Monday
The city water pumps were
kept pretty busy Monday, City
Manager Bill Yeargin report-
ed to The News Tuesday. The
pumps pumped a total of 1,129,—
000 gallons of water during
the 24 hour period, which is
second highest in history.
One day in the summer of
1967, the pumps pulled through
1,149,000 gallons, Yeargin
said.
The city’s new tank holds
400,000 gallons so even in
case of high usage, as this
week, there is still lots of
water to reserve.
itead the classifieds!
YARD OF THE MONTH winners for June are Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Plumlee who
live at 101 Red River Street in east Nocona. Here Mrs. Plumlee stands in the front
yard of the attractive home. They have lived at this location for 15 years and just last
year added on to their home. Mr. Plumlee is employed by Josaline Oil Company.
Divorce Cases
Dominate Suits
In Montague Court
Divorce cases dominate all
cases filed with the District
Court of Montague County
during the month of June, ac-
cording to a report made by
the District Clerk to the Civil
Judicial Council at Austin.
Divorces also outnumber the
marriage licenses issued in
the county last month.
A review of June, usually
known as most popular time
for marriages, showed the
number of new divorce cases
filed numbered 19 while 14
marriage licenses were is-
sued from the County Clerk’s
office for the same period.
The District Court disposed
of 34 cases during June, 16
of which were divorce cases.
Seven criminal cases were
filed in County Court during
June.
Trade with your home town
merchants.
IMPROVEMENTS ON CLAY
Street are shown in these pic-
tures. At top is the big building
occupied by J. C. Pittman In-
dustries. The front has been
changed and made level with
the street, giving the firm
much more room inside. The
next picture is the building
owned by James McGaughy
at 316 Clay Street, which is
being completely remodeled
and renovated. It will be oc-
cupied soon by LaMar Furni-
ture. The lower picture
is the building at 311 Clay which
has been purchased by Elmer
Adkins. He is remodeling this
building and will move his
furniture and carpet store to
this location when the building
is ready.
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