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the Nocona News
By EDGAR R. HAYS
NUMBER FORTY-NINE
NOCONA, MONTAGUE COUNTY, TEXAS THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1969
SINGLE COPY 10c
Allied Telephone Agrees
be held Monday
A GARAGE on the Clowers Ranch was unroofed in the Tuesday storm.
High Winds Bring Damage
To Buildings In This Area
the
TEMPERATURES
//FATHER RfPORl
Field, Dallas on July
the same time as the
Japanese visitor, and
is the singer in
duo and he also
We expect to start publish-
ing a church page soon, as
we have told you before. In
it we need the schedule of
services for all the churches
of this area, including those
at Bonita, Spanish Fort, Ring-
gold, Belcherville and Mon-
tague. If your church schedule
has not been turned in please
see that we receive it this
week end. We feel that it will
be worthwhile to your church.
Visitors in the home of Mrs.
David Tompkins and children
Saturday and Sunday were
some friends who were sta-
toned at Tehran, Iran at the
same time Captian and Mrs.
Tompkins and family resided
there. Here were Mrs. John
Brazil and Jan of Hobart,
Okla., and Mrs. beyton Moses
and Michelle of Bryan, Texas.
STI VE BROWN is saluta-
torian of the Prairie Valley
graduating class.
Mrs. W. G. Horn over at
the Sears store called us late
Thursday afternoon and said,
“I just want you to know that
your advertising pays off. We
sold three of those riding
mowers before four o’clock.”
Just goes to show you that
if you have the merchandise.
The Nocona News can sell it
for you.
Miss Paula Hill is valedic-
torian of the graduating class
at Prairie Valley HighSchool,
according to Principal Weldon
Cowan. Salutatorian is Steve
Brown.
Miss Hill, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Adrain Hill of Span-
ish Fort, has a four year
grade average of 94.12. Brown
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bif-
fle Brown of Route 3, Nocona.
His average is 89.1.
Baccalaureate services will
be held on Sunday evening,
May 18, and the commence-
ment exercises on Tuesday
evening, May 20th both at the
school.
PAULA HILL is the vale-
dictorian of the Prairie Val-
ley graduating class.
TO BANKERS MEETING
Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Chap-
man of the Peoples National
Bank attended the Texas Bank-
ers Association convention in
Houston Monday and Tuesday.
CINDY CURLIN' . . . FFA
sweetheart.
FROM THE
EDITOR’S
PEN . . .
There will be no “Nocona
Day” at the State Fair ofTexas
this year, according to action
of the directors of the Nocona
Chamber of Commerce Mon-
day evening in a regular meet-
ing at Sands Restaurant.
“Lack of interest”andaques-
tlon as to whether the bene-
fits were equal to the work
involved were the reasons for
the decision.
In previous years, Nocona
Chamber of Commerce per-
sonnel have set up a booth at
the state fair for a one day’
period, hauling material from
Nocona to fill the booth, and
in connection with the special
day, a “Miss Nocona” has
been selected to represent the
city in the parade. Also the
Nocona High School band has
attended the fair on “Nocona
Day” and marched in the par-
ade.
Teddy McNabb reported that
the Merchants Appreciation
dinner at Prairie Valley was
“very successful, ” with a
very good attendance, good
food and a good program.
Kyle Wright gave an indus-
trial report, saying that anew
industry for the city has been
delayed because of SBA regu-
lations but that the matter is
being worked out.
Mrs. Anita Guinn reported
on plans for entertainment
for the wives of golfers who
are entered in the Nocona Golf
Club tournament on May 23 and
24.
A treasurer’s report show-
ed a bank balance of $1,053.59
with all current bills paid.
The directors voted to buy
an IBM electric typewriter for
a total of $450 from the IBM
company. This will be used
in the Chamber of Commerce
office.
Present for the meeting
were Richard Bailey, Bill
Yeargin, Grant Hoover, Ted
McNabb, W. J. Stone, Howard
Morris, Mrs. Anita Durham,
Dick Thomas, Edgar R. Hays,
Dwight Holcomb, Kyle Wright
and Secretary Linda Page.
JOHN GIBBS is the new
owner-manager of the Gibbs
Drug Store here, formerly
Gist’s Drugstore.
First Mother — What did
little Johnnie say when you
told him that there is no
Santa Claus?
Second Mother — He said,
•* Mother I’m ashamed to
learn you have been so long
in finding this out.”
Jane
age,
Notice where Land Com-
missioner Jerry Sadler of this
state has laid down a few
rules to his employees re-
garding appearance. He says
that ladies will wear skirts
no higher than the top of
their knees and men’s hair
must be trimmed above the
collar and sideburns no longer
than to the middle of the ear
lobe. Wonder how he will come
out with that kind of an ul-
timatum. May 15th is the dead-
line.
We hear that Rotarian Doyle
Powell and Lion Kyle Wright
cheated a little in their rounds.
Doyle sank an iron shot from
150 yards off the green on No.
6 for an eagle three on the —
par five hole. Kyle also chip-
ped in from off the green on
No. 9, but he didn’t get an
eagle on the hole, we hear.
That was in the Monday playR
Some of our congressional
people are opposing the anti-
ballistic missile system be-
cause they say it would of-
fend the Soviet Union and es-
calate the arms race. Here
is what Premier Kosygin of
the Soviet Union said about
that, “What weapons should)
be regarded as a tension fac-
tor — offensive or defensive
weapons? I think that a de-
fensive system which prevents
attack is not cause for an
arms race but represents a
factor preventing the death of
people.” We’re proud of Con-
gressman George Mahon of
Texas, chairman of the ap-
propriations committee, who
came out in favor of the ABM
system even though it is Re-
publican - sponsored.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Hoff-
man spent the weekend in Ver-
non visiting her mother Mrs.
Nora Key.
The Allied Telephone Com-
pany, with headquarters at
Little Rock, Arkansas, has a-
greed to purchase the common
stock of the Nocona Telephone
Company, according to a
statement from Joe T. Ford,
vice -president and treasurer
of the firm recently. The Al-
lied company took an option on
the stock of the local company
early in April. The date of the
completion of the transaction
has not been announced but
the option expires in 90 days.
The Nocona Telephone
Company, owned by the Gard-
ner family for more than 60
years, serves Ringgold, Bo-
nita and Spanish Fort com-
munities as well as Nocona.
They provide service for ap-
proximately 3,000 connections
in the area. The long distance
center in Nocona and the toll
facilities between the ex-
changes are included in the
purchase terms, Ford said.
The Allied Telephone Com-
pany presently has 78 exchan-
ges in Arkansas, Missouri and
Oklahoma. They are serving
.about 47,000 stations. The No-
cona exchange will be their
first venture into Texas. The
company was organized 20
years ago.
The company had operating
revenues totaling $4,672,564
in 1968, an increase of a mil-
lion and a half dollars over
1967. Their net income fdr that
year was $407 536 and earn-
ings per share of common
stock was 76 cents. Total as-
sets of the firm at the end of
1968 stood at $25,851,006, but
has increased islnce that time.
They had 315 employees at the
end of the year with 41,423
stations.
Nocona will be host to not
one but two Japanese young
women this summer. The Earl
Nunneley family will have a
visitor from Japan under the
Lions Club International Youth
Exchange program also. The
News carried a story last
Cemetery Working
At Spanish Fort
The annual cemetery work-
ing at Spanish Fort will take
place Friday, May 9. A basket
lunch will be served at noon.
Everyone is invited to at-
tend, according to announce-
ment by Lon Lee, president,
and Mrs. Hubert Shipley, se-
cretary - treasurer.
“The Worm Shall Squirm,”
a comedy in three acts, will
be presented Friday night,
May 9 at the High School
Auditorium' by members of
the Senior Class.
Curtain time is 8:00 p. m.
In the cast are Jack Mc-
Gaughey, Sue Davis, Rickey
Yeargin, Shelley Sunderland,
Glenna Fenoglio, Debbie Buck,
Suzan Cardwell, Marcia At-
kins, Barbara Sawyer, Ronnie
Hill, Mike Brown and John
Agee.
farmer. Mildred Brashear of
Bowie is the best town and
country conservationist in the
District for 1968.
James McCall, chairman of
the board of the Farmers &
Merchants National Bank, will
present the award to R. C.
Haralson, winner in Zone 2,
while H. D. Fields Jr., presi-
dent of the First National
Bank in Saint Jo, will make
the presentation to Howard
Sledge, Zone 1 winner.
Franklin Wilson, president
of the Bowie National Bank,
will present the award to R. L.
Wilson of Bowie, the best
come - back farmer of the
year and George Hoeldtke,
vice president of the First
National Bank, Bowie, will
present the award to Mildred
Brashear of Bowie, the town
and country conservationist.
Olie Carrlker of Radio Sta-
tion KBAN will narrate
colored slides.
The Nocona HighSchool Fu-
ture Farmer sweetheart, Cin-
dy Curlin, and the local FFA
talent team, Tommy Damas-
cus and Jack McGaughey, will
enter the Area V contests at
the area convention next Mon-
day at Denton.
Miss Curlin is FFA co-
sweetheart from this district,
she and Miss Reta Ford of
Era having won the honors at
the Texoma district conven-
tion in April She is the daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Cur-
lin of Nocona. The sweetheart
contest will
evening.
Damascus
the musical
plays the guitar. McGaughey
accompanies him on the piano.
Damascus is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Loyd Damascus and
McGaughey is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Arnold McGaughey.
Ricky Martin of the Nocona
.FFA chapter, is district nom-
inee, along with Freddie Wil-
liams of Forestburg, for area
president. There are eight
candidates for the office, with
the second place nominee get-
ting the vice - president slot
and other nominees getting
area offices according to
the number of votes they re-
ceive.
The area convention begins
at 3:30 p.m., takes out for
dinner at 6 o’clock, and then
goes into a night session to
complete their business. The
meeting will be held on the
Texas Woman’s University
campus.
All area winners will enter
the state contests which will
be held at the state conven-
tion in Fort Worth in July.
FFA Advisor Glenn Fer-
guson and a number of mem-
bers of the local chapter will
attend the area meeting.
will depart from the same post
on August 17th.
She states in her applica-
tion that she would like to
visit the United States of
America “not only to intro-
duce Japan but to make full
use of the nice experience."
Her hobbies and special in-
terests include music, books,
plays and movies, cooking,
knitting.
The Nunneleys have five
children, Karen, age 18, Bar-
bara, age 16; Jeffrey, age 13;
Beth, age 10, and Christopher,
age 2 1/2. They are all looking
forward to the visit at Miss
Akune.
ATTENDS FUNERAL
Mrs. E. R. Stoker, Mr. and
Mrs. E. B.O’Neal attended the
funeral of Mrs. Mary
Redwine, 99 years of
in Wichita Falls Mon
Soil District Awards
Banquet At Whitesboro
Whitesboro will be the host
city for this year’s 20th An-
nual Upper Elm-Red Soil and
Water Conservation District
Awards Banquet. The banquet
will be held in the Whites-
boro Junior High School Cafe-
torium which is located ad-
joining the High School. This
building is about five blocks
North of downtown Whites-
boro and two blocks West of
Union Street. It will begin
at 7:30 P.M., Thursday Night
May 8th.
A large crowd of 600 or
more is expected to attend this
year’s program. This annual
affair is sponsored by the
twenty banks, ten newspapers,
and six radio and TV stations
located in the three county
district. This is the third
time the annual banquet has
been held in Whitesboro. It
was first held there in 1958
and again in 1962. The Spon-
sors try to pass the program
around to different towns each
year so as to equalize the
driving and to maintain inter-
est throughout the district.
Persons to be spotlighted in
Whitesboro tonight are the
outstanding conservation far-
mers and . ranchers of the
District’s five zones. Others
to be cited are the outstanding
landlord-tenant of conserva-
tionists, the best town or coun-
try conservationist, and the
farmer doing the best job of
restoring productivity and im-
proving a run - down farm.
Zone winners this year are:
Howard Sledge, Forestburg,
Zone No. 1, R. C. Haralson,
Nocona, Zone No. 2, Werner
Becker, Route 4, Gainesville,
Zone No. 3, Hugh Collums,
Jr. Whitesboro, Route 3, Zone
No. 4, and J. P. Cave, Rt. 4,
Sherman, Zone No. 5.
Don Howeth from Gaines-
ville as owner and Wayne Sel-
by of Era were the winners
in the Landlord - Tenant divi-
sion. The farm is located near
Hood. R. L. Wilson of Bowie
is this year’s best comeback
FFA SWEETHEART, TALENT C-C Directors
TEAM IN AREA CONTESTS
Bands To Present
Spring Concert
Tuesday, May 13
Nocona High School Band
and Grade School Band will
perform their annual Spring
Concert Tuesday, May 13 at
7:30 p.m. in the high school
gymnasium.
Program will consist of a
series of light numbers in-
cluding “Hootenanny,” per-
formed by the Junior Band;
“Swing Low Sweet Saxes,”
performed by the high school
sax quartet with band accom-
paniment; to the more serious
music of Francis McBeth’s
Chant and Jubilo. Mark Mc-
Call will be performing on the
snare drum the number which
he will be taking to state con-
test in June.
Included in the program will
be presentation of scholar-
ships to summer music
camps. The Lions Club and
66 Study Club will be present-
ing their annual scholarship
award of $50 each.
Admission charges will be
25C for students and 75C for
adults.
High winds, a rain storm
and possibly a tornado brought
damage to a number of build-
ings, broke off tree limbs,
and disrupted power and tele-
phone line service in this area
late Tuesday.
Heaviest damage came to
the J. C. Clowers Ranch, two
miles northwest of Belcher-
ville, whena cloud which might
have contained a small tor-
nado, swept in to destroy an
implement shed, unroof a
house and garage, uproot a
large tree and generally play
havoc. This is the former
Bonnie Seay Rich ranch, on
the old Belcherville highway.
John Sellers, foreman on the
ranch, and his wife were at
home when the cloud struck.
They reported to Hilde Work-
man, The New Belcherville
correspondent, that they first
saw the garage roof sailing
through the air. It struck the
side of the foreman’s house
and dropped into the yard. The
garage contained a car and
boat but these were not badly
damaged.
Part of the foreman’s re-
sidence was unroofed alsoand
an implement shed, made of
sheet iron and 110 x 30 feet
in size was almost completely
destroyed but the implements
in the shed were not damaged.
Sheetiron was scattered over
an area surrounding the ranch
house.
A large hackberry tree in
the yard of the ranch home, a
big two-story brick residence,
was uprooted and leaned
against the house. However it
is not believed that the house
was damaged. A big diesel
fuel tank was blown off its
tower and rolled out into a
pasture. Trees were topped
and tree limbs littered the
place.
DISCOUNT STORE DAMA-
GED
In Nocona on Highway 82
west, the Underwood Discount
Store lost part of its roof
in the same storm. The Under-
woods were not there but Paul
Coker, who operates a ser-
vice station next door, saw
the cloud move in. It is be-
lieved that the roof of the
discount store was lifted up
and then dropped back into
place. There were four inches
of water on the floor of the
store following the storm.
The Bernice Buck resi-
dence, west of Nocona, lost
a number of window lights
as did the residence of Mrs.
Workman at Belcherville.
Several trees were blown
down and others damaged on
Belknap Creek where It cross-
es Highway 82 between Bel-
cherville and Ringgold. Ap-
parently the storm struck this
particular area very hard.
A large tank belonging to
T. G. Skinner was blown off
its stand and into the road
in weTst Nocona.
Water was running over the
spillway at lake Nocona a
foot deep Wednesday morn-
ing. This is the second high-
est depth on record for the
spillway. Last year the spill-
way depth reached 14 inches
at one time.
Rains totaling 3.7 inches
have fallen here the past week,
according to Weatherman
Dewey Holcomb. The skies
were still sodden Wednesday
morning and the weather fore-
cast was for more rain.
Rains falling last Saturday
amounted to .6 of an inch,
another 1.8 Inches fell on Mon-
day and the final 1.3 fell Tues-
day eveningand Tuesday night.
The total rainfall for the
year now stands at 15.55 com-
pared to 14.24 inches a year
ago.
Grand Jury
Returns 11
Indictments
Rains Total
3.7 Inches
Senior Play Is
Scheduled This
Friday Night
Paula Hill Is
Valedictorian
Of P. V. School
Nocona Will
Host Japanese
Young Women
The Montague Grand Jury
returned 11 indictments in a
meeting Friday of last week.
Indicted by the jury were:
Frank Bouldin, charged with
murder with malice in the
shooting of Bruce Sadler, also
of Bowie. Bouldin is free on a
$5,000 bond.
Three indictments were re-
turned against Diane L.
Stokes, address given as New
Mexico, charged with burg-
lary.
Three indictments were re-
turned against Floyd E. Hollis,
also of New Mexico, also
charged with burglary.
Roger Trevino and James
W. Swindell were indicted for
possession of marijuana. They
are in jail.
Charles Ray Andrews of
Dallas was indicted ona burg-
lary charge.
Bobby Ashbrook of Archer
County was indicated, charged
with forgery.
Jack Crain of Nocona was
foreman of the grand jury.
Other members were Ray-
mond Garrett, A. G. Yarbro,
Roy D. Sanders, Senter L.
Henry, all of Bowie; A. L.
Johnson , Ringgold; Velma
Freeman and Myrtle Denham,
Forestburg; Richard Bailey
and Robert Storey, Nocona;
H. D. Fields and R. C. Mar-
tin, Saint Jo.
We have another poem from
Josephine Keck this week. We
think it is good:
EVERY WEIGHT HEB. 12:1
If your thoughts drag heavily.
It’s time to sort your memor-
ies,
Tossing some of them away,
Keeping only those that
please.
Clear the mental attic out.
Brushing settled dust away,
Leaving only things that yot
might
Use some future rainy day.
Ancient sorrows, hurts and
pains,
Angers and resentments
too --
Stuff them in the can to go—
With everything that trouble
you.
Polish up what then remains,
Make them into bright dis-
plays.
Bring them out for all to see—
Antifacts of happy days.
1 know some people who have
tried
And proved this theory will
suffice.
What I don’t seem to under-
stand —
“Why can’t I take my owr
advice?”
Band Boosters
Club To Meet
Band Booster Club will meet
Thursday, May 15 at 7:30 In
the High School Auditorium to
nominate new officers and
make plans for the next school
year._____________________
Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Mc-
New attended the funeral at
Wills Point for James Hop-
kins of Fort Worth
Lori Rogers, five-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Rogers , asked her daddy
about Nocona’s new water sivTVTtinn'
tower. He explained that the VOLUME SIXTY-THREE
city people would get water
from both the old and new
tower. “Will one be hot and
the other cold?” she asked.
We understand that there
was quite a bit of competition
in the Lions - Rotary golf
f matches Monday and Tuesday
Of course, the Rotary Club
team was led by such stal-
warts as W. J. Stone, W. L.
Scott, and Grant Hoover so It
is hard to see how they could
lose. We’re sorry The News
Editor couldn’t participate.
We just don’t have time to
play golf on Monday and Tues-
day. Anyway a good time was
had by all , as far as we know,
and maybe all the players will
remember that old saying, “It
matters not whether you won
i or lost but how you played
' the game.”
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MISS TAKAYO AKUNE, center, front row, will be a guest in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Earl Nunneley and family for a month during July and August. She is with her family
here. They are, front row, left, Toru Akune, father; right Yorhiko Akune, mother; back
row, from left, Tomoko Akune, sister; Hideki Akune, brother.
week concerning a Japanese
young woman who will spend
a month in the Bill Yeargin
home under the same pro-
gram.
The Nunndley’s visitor will
be Miss Takako Akune, 21
years of age, from Yanagawa
City, Fukuoka Perfectfire, Ja-
pan. She is a sophomore at
Seinan Gakuln University and
is majoring in French. She is
sponsored by the Yanagawa
Lions Club of which her father
is president.
Miss Akune will arrive at
Love
19th,
other
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60
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... 77
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... 76
60
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... 80
58
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... 73
63
RAINFALL
Total for Week
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.. 3.70
Previous Total
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11.85
Total for Year
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15.55
Year Ago......
14.25
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