The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. [1], Ed. 1 Thursday, June 3, 1971 Page: 1 of 12
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TEMPERATURES
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Wednesday 90
Thursday 85
Friday 85
Saturday "0
Sunday 80
Monday 88
Tuesday 87
The Nocona News
NOCONA, MONTAGUE COUNTY. TEXAS
SINGLE COPY 10c
VOLUME SIXTY-SIX
Mini-Bike-Auto Collision Claims
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imprint of the Impact can be seen on the front of the
JIMMY YARBROUGH
Revival Now On At
returned home Monday.
Chamber Members Invited To
Members of the Nocona
Rotary-Lions
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last year but on some nights
there will be only one game
instead of two. The first game
This will be a split season
with a winner named for each
Cowdrey.
Nocona Athletic Goods Co.:
Charles Reed, manager; Jim-
my Smith, Mike Mills, Tim
Crabtree, Shannon Combs,
In addition to the high school
library hours Mrs. Dean will
have the North Ward library
open from 9 a.m. to 12 noon
and students desiring books
suitable for junior high read-
ing, are urged to visit this
it was reported to The News.
Also crop damage was re-
ported in the Red River area.
Jackie Crenshaw had a fine
crop of wheat in the Red River
Station vicinity which was da-
maged to some extent by the
hail. Hail fell around Lake
Nocona also.
The rainfall the past week
brings the year’s total to 9.80
Inches for the year, much bet-
ter than some other areas,
but still well below the nor-
mal for this area.
day, June 13th with services
at 7:30 each evening.
Rev. Yarbrough is a power-
ful preache.-, according to
tlst Church, Bowie. Terry Is
president of the Montagu?
Baptist Youth Association and
Is full time -ellgious worker.
Rev. Saxon and members
of the church invite the public
to attend.
dropped out, Robbins said.
The teams will play five
Pennington, Shawn Lemons,
Kenny Hudson, Klminy Rob-
Rainfall Here
Totals 1.65 In.
For Past Week
Rainfall in the Nocona area
Absentee balloting on the
Road District No. 3-4 bond
election is now underway and
those wishing to vote absentee
may do so with County Clerk
Glen Pribble at Montague.
The road bond election is set
for June 12th. The bonds must
be approved by a two-thirds
majority, officials say, and the
money will be used to pay for
one - half the right-of-way
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about 7:30 or 7:45 when the
business meeting will begin.
The practice of having an
open meeting every three
months when the public gener-
ally is invited to meet with
the Chamber directors and
and participated in all the
traditional Hawaiian fes-
tivities.
Vacation Bible
School* Planned
At Local Church
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sey.
Mercer Co. : William Fow-
on March 1st. Chamber offi-
cials are hoping that a size-
able crowd-will be present
for the meeting next Mon-
day.
Purpose of such a meeting
is to maintain communications
between the directors and the
membership generally and
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on Highway 82. Plans are to
widen this road to four lanes
all the way through Montague
County.
Three voting boxes will be
set up, one at Nocona, one
at Ringgold and one at Saint
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Mr. and Mrs. Grant Hoover
attended the musical recital of
their daughter-in-law, Mrs.
Jimmy Hoover, at the All
Saints Episcopal Church,
Wichita Falls, Sunday after-
noon.
Mr. and Mrs. Grady Knight Bell 1
and granddaughter, Cindy music.
Knight of Lubbock, arrived Services are being held at
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suggestions, ask questions or
otherwise comment during
this meeting.
Reports of Chamber com-
mittees will be heard and such
other business as may be
brought to the attention of the
THE WRECKED MINI-DIKE on which two youngsters died Monday night lies in
the foreground while the 1969 Chevrolet with which they collided is in the background. The
imprint of the impact can be seen on the front of the car.
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District Riding Clubs To Have
Playday Here Saturday Night
Chisholm Trail Riding Club
will host District 27 American
Association ofSherlffs Posses
and riding clubs playday at
Nocona Rodeo Arena Satur-
day night, June 5.
The playday is open to Dis-
trict 27 Association members
only and will begin at 6:00
p. m. There will be no ad-
mission charge and spectators
are urged to attend and watch
riders of all ages perform in
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Miss Kathy Merrell of
Hobbs, New Mexico is here
spending the week with her
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Edgar Hays. She will leave
Friday to spend a week in
Marshall, Texas before re-
turning to Nocona.
MERCHANDISE of all kinds was sucked on the sidewalks for convenience of the
shoppers here Saturday at the sidewalk sale.
will be held at 9:30 each Wed-
nesday. Certificates for read-
ing as many as 15 books will
be awarded to all wishing to
participate, Mrs. Dean states.
Knight of Lubbock, arrived Services are being held at
Saturday to visit Mrs. Knight’s 7;3o each evening and the
aunt, Mrs. Ray Beal. They meeting will continue through
returned home Monday. Sunday, June 6th.
the various playday events.
Area riders will be com-
peting for points to ride in the
National Playday Finals to be
held at Ft. Worth in August.
The annual battle on the golf
links between the Nocona Ro-
tary Club and the Nocona Lions
Club has been set for Thurs-
day. and Friday, June 10 and 11,
it was announced this week.
It will be 18 holes match
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Library Is Open To Children
And Adults At High School
The library at Nocona High ing. ....
School will be open this sum-
mer to adults and children
of all ages, according to Mrs.
Mary Dean, librarian. ----------------------—
The High School library will each Tuesday J^ursday
be open each Monday, Wed- " ’ -
nesday and Friday from 9 a.m.
to 12 noon and from 1:00 p.m.
STORY TELLING HOUR _
To inhance the library ac- - , n ..
tivities a story telling hour Absentee Balloting
On Road Bonds
A dally vacation Bible
School will begin Monday at
the Church of Christ, Cooke
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Church will begin a revival continue through Friday, June
meeting next Monday even- uth The se8Sions start at
Ing, June 7, with preaching by 9 a m- and run untu u a. m.
each day.
Classes are available for
children from four years
Chamber of Commerce, and be given opportunity to offer McGaughys Win
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Trip To Hawaii
From Packard Bell
ches, according to Weather-
man Dewey Holcomb with .85
of an Inch falling early Thurs-
day of last week, another .3
on Saturday and .3 on Sunday.
Some hall fell in the area
north of Nocona Sunday night
with roof damage and some
the new players. The ler, Lee Roy Kindsfather, ?“age1report??.>Ho?^,
weuiiD nun vuuipwic «i«l managers; Sammy Howard, C'{~,™6onan„,j
managers have been working Scott Sachse, Robert McNew, Breeze
their players for some time. Tommy Price, Paul Grover, " "“~'"
There was still some doubt
about the official schedule
Tuesday but The News was
told that the following will be
the schedule for the first week
of play:
Monday, June 7, Leather
Goods vs. Rotary; Justin vs.
Boot Co.
Tuesday, June 8, Mercer vs.
Montague.
Thursday, June 10, Boot Co.
vs. Rotary.
Friday, June 11, Mercer vs.
Lions, Montague vs. Leather
Goods.
Saturday, June 12, Rotary
vs. Montague.
The News will attempt to
have the complete schedule
next week.
Following is a roster of the
teams and their managers:
Boot Company: Mike Henry,
manager; Preston Honeycutt,
Danny Thomas, BUI Hplcomb,
Red Noel, David Arnett, Ear-
nest Patton, John Mark
Wright, Jimmy Tipton, Lynn
Scrogum, Johnny Long, Stu
Chapman, Bret Taylor, Ronald
Reed, David Cooper, Timmy
Reed, Eddie Walker, Troy
Skinner, Brad Breeze, Cary
the general public as well are
invited to attend an open meet-
ing of the Chamber of Com-
merce directors next Monday
evening, June 7 at the Sands
Restaurant.
The directors will be ser-
ved at 7 p.m. and those who directors will be attended to
wish to come and eat with the at this meeting.
Chamber officials may do so The road
by paying for their own meal
Open Meeting Monday Night
members of the Chamber will ~ 7
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McGaughy returned Monday
from a i
Hawaiian Islands where they
did a lot of sight seeing and
attended a Packard Bell Con-
vention.
The McGaughys wonthetrip
with their Packard Bell sales
record and saw aU the new
models of television and
stereo sets for 1972 at the
meeting.
7 J1^1from.°a?a8 ?n a P«*y PU^rs7rom" wch
747 jet plane, the local couple club matched with a
pU*cr ®*ia! c‘Ubr«- The
players may play the 18 holes
either on Thursday or Fri-
day or may play nine holes
each day.
Entry foe if 81.00 per player
and those who are not mem-
bers of the Nocona Golf Club
must also pay green fees of
11.50.
A trophy will be given the
club which wins the most
matches.
Mr. and Mrs. JoeSudderth’s
guests last week were Mrs.
Jerry Davis, Dana, Oren Lee,
and Claudia Davis of Leonard,
Texas, and Buster Sudderth,
brother of Mr. Sudderth,
Sherman.
Lives Of Two Nocona Youngsters
Tragedy struck suddenly
about 9 p. m. Monday when
a mini-bike-auto collision on
the road to Lake Nocona
claimed the lives of 15-year-
old youth and his 10-year-
old half sister. They were
the children of Mrs. Connie
Avina of 10U Young Street,
Nocona.
Killed instantly in the crash
were Gregory Paul Richard-
son and Carla Dian Gee, both
riding the Hondo mini-bike.
Driver of the 1969 Chevrolet
which collided with the mini-
bike was Onis Davis of U06
Cooke Street, Nocona. He
was absolved of blame in the
accident by investigating of-
ficers.
Davis and his family had
been fishing on Lake Nocona
They ran out of bait and went
to a bait house west of the
lake to buy more. As they
returned, traveling on Farm
Road 2634, they took the curve
at the Y of the road turning
off on Farm Road 2953, which
leads around beyond the lake
dam. The two youngsters were
traveling on the mini - bike
from the Jaycee Park road
toward Nocona and thus were
meeting the Davis car. The
bike had no lights, Davis said,
and he did not see it until
it came Into the glare of his
headlights. For some reason,
the mini-bike pulled off Farm
Road 2634 and collided with
the car on the curve, wit-
nesses said.
Davis locked his wheels
when he saw the bike and his
car skidded completely around
and was facing the other
direction when it came to a
stop. It almost turned over,
Davis said, when it struck the
shoulder of the road. Davis’
wife and children were in the
car with him and none of them
were hurt although all were
suffering from shock.
Daugherty - McGaughy am-
bulance picked up the victims.
Investigating the accident was
Highway Patrolman Don
Frazier of Bowie.
Double funeral services
were held for the boy and
girl Wednesday at 2 p. m. at
the Daugherty - McGaughy
Funeral Chapel with Rev.
Jerry Kirby, pastor of the
Bethel Baptist Church, of-
ficiating. Intermant was in
Nocona Cemetery. Pall-
bearers for the two were
Charles Swearingen, Jim Car-
penter, Roger Arnett, Randy
Swearingen, Carey Stewart,
Dan Fenoglio.
GREGORY PAUL
RICHARDSON
Gregory was born February
4, 1956 at Carnr, Illinois,
but had lived at Nocona most
of his life. He was a fresh-
man the past year In Nocona
High School and was well
known here. Survivors Include
his mother, Mrs. Connie
Avina; his father, Cleatus
Richardson of Henrietta; one
half-brother, Kenton Gee of
the home; his grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hooker,
Nocona; Mrs. Ben Richardson,
Henrietta; and his great-
grandmother, Mrs. Susie
Black, Nocona.
CARLA DIAN GEE
Carla was born January 29,
1961 at Bowie but had also
lived here most of her life.
She was In the 5th grade In
Nocona schools and had num-
erous friends among her
schoolmates. Her survivors
include the mother, Mrs.
Avina; the father, Carl Gee
of Electra; her brother, Ken-
ton; grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Kenneth Hooker, Nocona;
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Gee,
Electra; and the great-grand-
mother, Mrs. Susie Black of
Nocona.
Rev. Richard T. Perry was
re-assigned to the First Unit-
ed Methodist Church of Nocona
In appointments read at the
North Texas Annual Confer-
ence Wednesday evening.
Bishop W. Kenneth Pope read 1
the appointments to conclude
the three day meeting.
New appointments in this
area included Richard S.
Adams to Alvord-Sunset, C.
Jack Meyers to Archer City,
Raymond A. Brooks to Belle-
vue-Vashti-Joy, Ernest Walt,
to Bridgeport, H. V. Caraway
to Henrietta-Bluegrove, Billy g
W. Murray to Montague-Dye I
Mound. I
Re-assigned to the same ap- I
pointments were H. NoelBry- I
ant, Wichita Falls district I
superintendent; Merwin K. I
Turner to Bowie, William I
Penn to Burkburnett, Arthur I
F. Renfro to Decatur, Lee I
Lucas to Shady Grove-Ring- *
io ix noon <uiu ii um i.uu p.m. -■=> — —— —-- — gold, Robert B. Pinckney to REV.
to 3:°° p.m. Monday, Tuesday, 1Ibr^,Saint Jo-Forestburg.
Wednesday and Friday. Mrs.
Wall has moved books to this
library from the grade school
which are available to second,
third and fourth grade stu-
dents and she urges adults
to bring their children to check
out books for summer read-
Baptist Church
At Montague
Begins Revival
The Montague Baptist and Walnut Streets, and will
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meeting next Monday even-
Rev. Jimmy Yarbrough, pas-
tor of Calvary Baptist Church,
Vicksburg, Miss. The meet- __
ing will continue through Sun- through high school with adult
i. —u>. classes meeting from 9:30 to
10:15 a. m.
All children are invited to
——, —" attend, according to S. W.
Rev. Douglas Saxon, the Mon- pr|verf director of the school,
tague pastor, and more than Anyone needing transportation
50 men have been called to 8hould call Mr. Driver,
preach under his ministry.
The music will be directed
by Terry Rogers, youth choir
leader of the Southside Bap- Nazarene Church
A revival meeting is now
underway at the Church of
the Nazarene in Nocona and the
public is invited to attend,
Rev. W. J. Idell, pastor, has
announced.
Preaching the revival is
Rev. James Bell and Mrs.
Is providing special
The road district bond
election will be stressed at
as the directors do. Those who the meeting.
do not wish to eat but want to flcials point out that a two-
attend the meeting may come thirds majority Is required in
the approval of the bonds and
an all-out effott will be made
to get voters to turn out for
the election.
Also an amendment to the
constitution and by-laws
authorizing the president to
have their say or listen to the appoint two members to the
proceedings of the meeting board of directors will be sub-
was begun this year with the mitted to this meeting of the
first such meeting being held membership.
Those wishing to eat with
the directors are asked to call
Chamber of Commerce Sec-
retary Ann Embry at the
Chamber office sometime
Monday and make reserva-
tions for ths meal so that the
Restaurant will know how
LITTLE LEAGUE PLAT
BEGINS M0NDAT EVENING
Nocona Little League be-
gins regulation scheduledplay
next Monday evening, accord-
ing to announcement this week
by Bob Robbins, League
supervisor. There will be only Clifford Morse, Steven Mil-
seven teams playing this sea- ler, David Yeargln, Yancy
son Instead of the usual eight Bell, Tom Crabtree, Eddie
because the Ringgold team has Waldrip, Jim Howard, Bobby
dropped out, Robbins said. Storey, Scott Pepaluna, Jerry
‘ " Howard, Michael Clary, Mlch-
nights each week as they did ael Waldrip, Doug Crabtree,
Joe Leeper, Terry Farquhar,
Robert Weaver.
Justin Leather Goods: Ray-
starts at 6 p.m. each evening, mond Hudson, manager; Bobby
Pennington, Jim Lee, Allen .-----—- . - - , ., ,
Gann, Terry Newland, Jerry tbe
half and the two meeting in Newland, Mike Gann, Marcus ~ ~~ “
a play-off for the champion- Hulse, Charles Hulse, John
ship If the same team does Shelton, Ray Hudson, Tommy
not win both.
Ameeting of managers and w
league officials was held Mon- bins, Ben Veach, Ronnie Ram-
day evening at the school of-
fice with managers bidding
for C_ _
teams are now complete and
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Terry Gunter, Tommy Hill,
Russ Sachse, Carl Kinds-
father, Delton Stuart, Joe Mc-
New, Tyon Camp, James
Goldsmith, Cash Langford,
Don Towery, Jeffrey Wynn,
Melvin Leon Caldwell, Johnny
Price; Ricky Lynn Towery,
bat boy.
Lions Club: Phillip Webb,
Donnie Rogers, managers;
Chris Webb, Perry Rogers,
Don McMahon, Mitch Holland,
Jimmy Yarbrough, Todd
Wright, Jim Hancock, Brad
Richardson, Monty Rogers, V
Gary Webb, Andy Cowan, Bar- HAV PfiTTV IS
ney Ball, Mike Burk, Dean ’ ® I *
Gilmore, Michael Pounds, ‘L. t a _ J
B. Rainbolt, Paul Ice, Barry *161111116(1 1 0
Ice.
Rotary Club: Otis Tettle- W am>«1 f<l«a«e*f>la
ton and J. M. Kirby, mana- JLOCal 1*11111611
gers; James Robinson, Robert
O’Neal, Tom Skinner, Buck
White, Jerry Kirby, Jeff Tay-
lor, Gordon Ferguson, Chris
Tettleton, John Taylor, Craig
Johnson, Steve Tettleton, Gary
Linn, Mike Embry, Allan
Robinson, Timbthy Stephen-
son, Mark Waldrip, C. W. Lee,
Chris Russell.
The Montague roster was
not available here Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. James Wade
week’s trip to the Golf Match !•
Set June 10-11
RAINFALL
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Total for week ......... L65
Previous total eeeooeeeeoe 8.15
Total for year 9.80
Total a year ago ••••eoe 14.60
DRIVE FRIENDLY1
In talking with local mer-
chants concerning the side-
walk sale last Saturday, The
News Editor found that most
of those who really put out
an effort, were well pleased
with their sales for the day.
Of course, results varied with
the lines of merchandise but
we did notice quite a few
strangers In town and every-
one seemed to enjoy the affair
whether they bought or not.
Maybe we’ll try it again some-
time.
Our local weatherman Is
improving right along. If he
keeps up the good work he
may get back In favor with
the local populace. Right now
we’re hoping to continue to
get an inch and a half each
week until it dries up. By
that time we ought to be back
to normal rainfall.
Nocona Industrial
Foundation Elects
New Officers
New officers of the Nocona
Industrial Foundation were
elected at a recent meeting of
directors. M. A. (Dick)
Thomas was elected presi-
dent, Roger Sawyer was named
vice-president; Kyle Wright,
secretary, Caddy McCall HI,
tr os stir pt
Dwight Holcomb, Bill
Thomas and Grant Hoover
were re-elected to three year
terms as directors and Bill
Yeargln was elected as a new
director for three years re-
placing W. G. Horn.
An industrial prospect has
been in contact with the
Foundation recently, officials
said, and is especially im-
pressed with this location be-
cause of the new airport fa-
cilities. The prospect is look-
ing at three towns for a lo-
cation of a new plant but has
not make a selection as yet.
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The re-districting fight in
the Texas Legislature con-
tinues with the foes of Mr.
Gus Mutscher getting the
worst of the deal. We do not
think that the Legislature Is
the place to “get even’’ on
personal grievances and we
sincerely hope that Mr. Muts-
cher is not the Speaker of the
House at the next session of
that body. We’ve seen all of
him we want to see.
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The mother was perturbed
that she had a report from the
nursery - school which said
that her small daughter was
emotionally Immature. She
wrote back: “If you can’t be
emotionally Immature at
three, when can you be?’’
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Note to parents with report
card: “Please examine, sigh,
and have your children return
their report cards promptly.’’
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An ugly rumor concerning
local business men and also
Involving some high school
students has been running wild
in this community this week.
This Editor has gone to some
trouble and contacted various
officials who should know and
we are unable to find any truth
to the rumor at alL The rumor
concerned dope and it was
mentioned that the F. B. I.
was investigating. Most of
us know that the F. B. I.
does not normally work on this
type case. This investigation
would come from the Nar-
cotics Division. Thosepeople
deny any knowledge of such
actions as has been rumored
here. It is too bad that any
person has to be subjected to
such rumors and it is com-
pletely unfair. We trust that
the people of this community
will give the principals in this
case the benefit of being in-
nocent until some evidence
comes up to the contrary.
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Have you seen the display
of counterfeit bills at the F & M
bank? With all the bad bills
circulating in this area in re-
cent months it might be prof-
itable to study these bills
carefully. You may even try
your skill at picking the bad
ones—no charge.
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Last week’s qulzz: The
Washington Monument is 555
feet tall while the Statue of
Liberty, counting the pedestal
it stands on, is almost 300
feet tall. Question of the week:
In the Great Seal, what is the
bald eagle carrying on its
talons?
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By EDGAR R. HAYS
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