Mt. Vernon Optic-Herald (Mount Vernon, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 17, 1968 Page: 1 of 8
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rate
or three weeks. They pointed
out that all membership fees
must be paid in full before
filing of the final application
for the loan.
Rev. Jack McGee, pastor of
the First Methodist Church at
Paris, spoke at the meeting of
the Mt. Vernon Rotary Club
last Friday. He was the guest
of Rev. Theo Wright who had
charge of the program. A. H.
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facility, which will be operated by Mr. and Mr*., Joe Jack JorckrtL is <
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County Auditor D R Mc-
Carley said this week the tax
roll'prepared by the Franklin
County Tax Assessor-Collec-
tor’s office and approved by
the state Indicates a slight in-
crease over renditions of the
previous year.
Total valuations amounted to
$15,851,750 compared to total
Democrats Open
Campaign Office
The Franklin County Demo-
cratic Campaign Committee
opened an office and campaign
headquarters in the building
occupied by the
Admitted to Franklin County
Hospital from October 0 to
October 16 were Mrs. Maxine
Leinert, Leonard; Annie
Groves. Peoria, Arizona; Edith
Edwards, Edwin Maxton. Per-
vis Young, Warren P. Klrbo,
Mary Stephenson, Howard L.
Edwards, and Jesse E. Haley
of Mt. Vernon.
Dismissed were Mrs C. B
Turner, Bill Savage, Maxine
Leinert, I. H. Harper, Dewey
Bailey, Ivey Jean Carrell,
Glenn Penn, Johnny Osborne,
Dora Clevenger, Essie Crump,
Leslie Johnson, Pervis Young,
Suzanne Turner and Baby Girl
Turner.
Dumping Trash
On Public Roads
Is Illegal
Deputy Sheriff Bobby Big-
gerstaff said this week that
the Franklin County Sheriff’s
office has received numerous
complaints recently regarding
the dumping of trash on
county roads.
Biggerstaff said the litter is
an eyesore and also a health
hazard.
He said state law prohibits
the dumping of trash within
300 feet of a public road and
anyone caught will be prose-
cuted. Offenders may be fined
up to $100 if convicted.
Ing built and will be equipped as an approved Type III nursing home.
Jordan said this week he has more than 50 applications from persons wish-
ing to live in the home. Each room is being equipped with telephone and
cable television connections.
TWO SIGNS HAVE BEEN ERECTED on Interstate Highway 30, under the
sponsorship of the Franklin County'Ohamber of Commerce, honoring Mt.
Vernon’s two pro-football players who are now actively engaged in the
sport. Don Meredith is quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys and Bobby
Maples is center for the Houston Oilers. The lighted signs which are being
Dr. Bradford will open the
meeting for a question and an-
swer session following his add-
res.s.
Ben A. Darby will be mas-
ter of ceremonies for the oc-
casion.
J. E. Lamas, County Chair-
man for the American Party,
extends an invitation for
everyone to attend regardless
of party affiliation.
Former Alabama Governor
George Wallace, the party’s
presidential candidate, is
back in Texas this week hav-
ing appeared in El Paso on
Wednesday at Burnett Park
in Fort Worth Thursday at
noon, will speak at a $25.00 a
plate dinner in Longview
Thursday night and then will
The weather Information
given below is for the 24-hour
period ending at 7 a m. on the
day listed for the period on
Oct. 11 through Oct. 17.
Day Max. Min. Rail
Friday ------ 72
Saturday----70
Sunday------78
Monday ---- 86
♦"Tuesday----87
Wednesday — 87
Thursday----84
3 Accidents Are ■
Investigated ’
During Week
Highway Patrolmen Dudley i
Thomas and David Nesbitt re- <
ported investigating three ac- ;
cidents heju? during the past i
week.
A 1962 Chevrolet, driven by 1
Orvin Ray LaForce, Mt. Ver-
non, struck the rear of a 1967 i
Chevrolet driven by Mrs. Mar- ’
ine Leinart, Leonard, as Mrs. '
Leinart was attempting a left i
turn into the Piggly Wiggly i
parking lot on Highway 37 on
Wednesday morning, Oct. 9.
The accident occurred dur- i
ing a rain shower. LaForce
told officers he saw the car
signal, applied his brakes and
Skidded into the other veh-
icle.
Both vehicles were travel-
ing, porth. Damage was exten-
sive to both vehicles but no
injuries were reported.
A 1967 Corvette, driven by
James Morrison of Quitman,
ran off a bridge on a county
road southwest of Mt. Vernon,
and overturned into a creek
bed Wednesday night, Oct. 9,
at about 10:30 o'clock. Kathy
Lloyd of Mt. Vernon, a passen-
ger in the car, was treated at
Franklin County Hospital for
minor cuts and abrasions. The
car was damaged extensively.
Shaun Bolin, driving a 1964
Ford, struck a cow on Farm
Road 21 at its intersection
with Farm Road 115 on Tues-
day night, Oct 8. Damage to
the car was moderate and the
cow was not killed. There
were no injuries.
iOnt><-Herald Stuff Photo,
paid for by donations from the public cost $1,500. Contributions at this
time total $1,000 with another $500 needed to complete payment. Persons
wishing to contribute may contact J. W. Shelton, president of the C of
C„ by calling 537-4142 of the C. of C. office 537-4365.
but the Queen's identity will
not be revealed until the pre-
game ceremonies at the Home-
coming football game.
Members of the Mt. Vernon
Tiger football selected Car-
olyn Condrey as Football
Sweetheart. She will also be
presented in the p:e-game
ceremonies.
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crest Rebels at 7:45 p.m.
Clarksville will play at
Winnsboro and Cooper will
play at Commerce.
Rivercrest was picked In
pre-season to win the district.
Jr. High Team
Defeats
Cheathum
The Mt. Vernon Junior
High Tigers took their fifth
win in that many starts Tues-
day night when they defeated
Cheathum of Clarksville 28-
2. The local team is tied with
Clarksville Junior High for
first place in the district.
Mike Evans scored two
touchdowns and ran over for
the extra points once. Evans
had one touchdown called
back in the fourth quarter due
to a penalty.
A. J. Bell scored one touch-
down and ran over for the
extra points once. James Jor-
dan scored one touchdown.
The local team scored 20
points in the first quarter and
eight in the third.
Ronnie Stephenson was
trapped behind the goal Tine
to give Cheathum their two-
point safety.
Randall Cargile intercepted
three Creathum passes and the
entire defense gave a good
performance.
The team will travel to
Commerce next Tuesday night
for the sixth game on their
schedule.
J. W. CARTER, an avid
World Series fan and always
a supporter of the National
League contender, received a I
letter this week with a clipp- j
ing of a picture of Detroit I
catcher Bill Freehan swinging I
pitcher Mickey Lolich aloft af-1|
ter the final putout that gave I
the American League Detroit ||
Tigers the championship this I
year. Attached was a package I
of two anacin tablets. The |
envelope was stamped, “Out
of Business,’’ “Fragile,” "First
Class,” "Perishable,” “Un-
claimed” and “Address Un-
known in St. Louis, Missouri.”
American Party
Rally On Saturday
Dr Melvin Bradford, profes-
sor of English and Political
Science at the University of
Dallas, will be the featured
speaker for the American
Party rally scheduled for Sat.
night, at 7:30, in the Mt. Ver-
non Community Center (old
school cafeteria).
Dr. Bradford is highly re-
garded as a teacher and speak-
e.”.
Accompanying Dr. Bradford
to Mt. Vernon will be a teen-
age group of 10 to 12 music-
ians from Irving who bill
themselves as “Young Ameri-
cans for Wallace’’ who will
furnish music and entertain-
ment for the occasion.
Dr. Bradford is expected to
explain the American Party
platform and give other facts , speak at a public rally at the
regarding the American Party Gregg County Fair Grounds
and its candidates. I Thursday night at 8 o’clock.
Tiger Passing Game Bogs
Down As Pirates Win 14-0 Nearer Reality
MV STATISTICS P
11____First Downs____16
7____ Passes Comp. _ 6
94____Pass Yards____ 124
78 __ Net Yds. Rushing __ 209 I 3____Passes Int. by----3
24____Pass Attempts____17 1 8 Avg. 28.1 Punts 5 avg. 38.6
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In District 16AA Opener
The District 16AA confer-
ence race will get underway
; Fiiday night with all confer-
ence teams seeing action. The
1 Mt. Vernon Tigers will travel
I. to Talco to meet the River-
First National Bank building
this week.
The office has literature
available on all Democratic
state and national candidates.
Plans are to keep the office
open six day8 a week through
, November 4.
i| Carl Newsome, chairman of
J the committee, said the com-
| mittee is going to attempt to
| contact as many voters as
> possible from now until the
general election on Nov. 5.
I Carl Majors has taken a
I leave of absence as manager
I of the Franklin County Cham-
I her of Commerce to work dur-
I ing the campaign for the
I Democratic ticket. He is serv-
I ing the committee as secre-
I tary-treasurer.
I Persons wishing any infor-
mation regarding any demo-
cratic candidate are urged to
call the local office at 537-
4249.
opponents. The Rebels were
defeated by Hughes Springs
21-14; Honey Grove 27-R;
Hallsville 54-13 and Jefferson
24-18. The Rebels won over
James Bowie 26-14.
Rivercrest has 23 returning
lettermen among which are 1ft-
offensive and eight defensive
starters. These include Full-
back Levene Norman, 20*
pounds; Halfback Joe Simp-
son, Wingback George Mar-
shall, Quarterback Jimmy
Wright, C e nt e r Raynard
Screws, Guard Stephen Gage,
6-1, 200 pounds; Guard Gary-
Don Savage, 6-1, 208 pounds;
Ends Corrie Minter and Ron-
nie Alford.
Fullback Norman is the type
of runner that just runs over
the other team if he wants tn.
The teams have met twe
common opponents Hughes
Springs and James Bowie. ML
Vernon beat James Bowie 51-
0 and Hughes Springs 20-l<
The Hughes Springs scores ii»-
dioete the Tigers are 13 point
favorites and the James Bowie
scores indicate the Tigers are
39 point favorites.
Comparitive scores haven’t
been worth a dime in this
football season and especially
in this area. Very likely there
will be no more than six
points difference in the score
on Friday night but if one
team or the other jumps to an
early lead and the other team
gets a bad breaks there is no •
telling what the score will be.
valuations last year of $15,-
723,470.
The increase In valuations
amounted to $128,280 despite
a drop in valuations for cer-
tain oil properties within the
county. New oil production
within the county more than
offset this drop. Total valua-
tion of oil properties within
the county amounted to $10,-
173,650 compared to $10,137,-
010 for last y$ar for an in-
crease of $36,640 in oil valua-
tions.
Valuations for other ' real,
personal property, railroads,
banks, pipelines, telephone
company and utilities amount-
ed to $5,678,100 compared to
$5,586,460 for an increase of
$91,640.
Taxes levied on the valua-
95c county tax
amounts to $150,601.54
compared to $149,376.63 for
last year for an increase of
$1,224.91.
Taxes levied on the valua-
tions for the special 30c state
road and bridge tax, monies
which are retained by the
county, amounts to $42,294.51
compared to $41,915.94 for
last year for an increase of
$378.57.
Charles Lowry and Dr.
David Stinson, members of the
for the
organization of the M & W
Retreation Facility, said this
week the Supreme Court de-
cision favoring the Franklin
County Water District brings
construction of the facility
nearer to reality.
They said completion of the
vorkable plan by the engin-
eers, land procurement and
filing of the final application
for the Farmers Home Ad-
ministration loan is expected
to be completed
next two or three weeks.
They said charter member-
■hips will be available at $100
per family until such time as
the three items mentioned '
above are completed.
They said the Supreme
Court TvHing hadin’ essence,
given, the committee the go
ahead for completing plans
for the facility.
They urged anyone who is
considering membership to
contact one of them immedi-
ately. Lowry said letters are
being mailed to everyone who
has expressed interest in mem-
bership, but have not joined,
informing them of the immin-
it dosing of charter mem-
bership.
They also urged those who
arp paying out their member-
ship fee to complete payment
on the fee within the next two
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0 for 0 Penalties --6 for 47
1 Fumbles Lost 1
A stong running game and
a defense that held the Tigers
to only 78 net yards rushing
and allowed only seven pass
completions out of 24 attempts
gave the Pittsburg Pirates a
14-0 win over the Mt. Vernon
Tigers last Friday night. It
was the Pirates first win in
five starts this season.
Fullback Gregg Carr led
the Tiger rushing game with
46 yards rushing who was
followed closely by Tailback
David Weatherford with 43
■.ards. Quarterback Keith Car-
gile was the only other Tiger
back to carry the ball on a
rushing play and he ended up
with minus 11 yards.
The Pirates utilized the
ushing of nine backs with
Fullback Terry Reeves leading
with a net of 64 yards followed
by Fullback Tommy Rape with
52 yards.
A pass interception and a
blocked punt in the first quar-
ter were the plays that broke
the Tigers backs. The Tigers
took the opening kickoff and
returned it to their own 34.
They drove in to the Pirate
nine yard line in eight plays
only to have Pirate defensive
back Lewis Brown intercept a
Cargile pass at the three yard
line to halt the drive.
Later in the period the
Tigers were forced to punt
from their own 34 and a hard
charging Pirate came in and
blocked Weatherford’s punt
which was batted back to the
Tiger 13. Quarterback Steve
Spearman went around right
end to score on the next play
Guard Micky Dysart’s kick for
the point was tipped and was
no good.
Early in the second period
the Pirates launched a drive
from their own 18. The Pir-
ates moved to their own 39
in four plays and Spearman
hit Tailback Marc Harrell
with an aerial that was good
for 61 yards pass and run
for the second Pirate touch-
down. Spearman hit Left End
Willard Hamilton over the
middle with a pass good for
the two extra points to wind
up the scoring for both teams.
The second half was a come-
dy of errors for both teams.
The Pirates launched a drive
at the opening of the second
half that carried to the Tiger
16 with Weatherford intercept-
ing a Spearman pass at the
Tiger three which he returned
to the Pirate 31. The Tigers
ran three plays with Carr's
fumble being recovered by
Hamilton at the Tiger 33. The
Pirates drove to the Tiger 10
See PIRATES, Page 5
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Duchesses, candidates for
Homecoming Queen and the
Football sweetheart were sel-
ected by the various classes
and the Mt. Vernon Tiger
football team this week.
The duchesses, the home-
coming queen and the foot-
ball sweetheart will be pre-
sented in pre-game ceremon-
ies at the Mt. Vernon-Winns-
boro Homecoming football
game to be played at Tiger
Field on Friday night. Oct. 25.
The Freshman class selected
Janice Sparks as duchess, the
Sophomore class, Pam Gandy
and the Junior Class, Janelh
Goode.
Three Homecoming Queen
candidates were selected by
the Senior class. They are
Lynn Reyonlds, Jeannie Davis
and Judy Borden The Homo- fonperly
coming Queen will be select- Franklin County Chamber of
ed from the Senior candidates
Plan Pancake
Breakfast For
Homecoming
Mike Edwards, president nF
the Quarterback Club of ML
Vernon, announced this week
that the club will sponsor a
pancake breakfast durian
Homecoming week end on
Saturday morning, Oct. 20,
from 6 a m. to 9 a.m.
Edwards said everyone is
invited to the breakfast espec-
ially all ex-students who are
here for homecoming activi-
ties.
The breakfast will be heM
in the cafeteria at the new
school.
Money raised by the break-
fast will be used to help par
for blazers which the club
has purchased for use by ML.
Vernon High School athletes.
and other club projects.
Tickets for the breakfast
will be available at $1.00 par
person from members of ttar
Quarterback Club at the-
Winnsboro-Mt. Vernon foot-
ball game on Friday night:
previous to the breakfast
Rev. Jack McGee
Speaks At Rotary
dent of Paris schools, was al-
so a guest of Wright.
McGee said you will hear
people talk about some bus-
iness being the oldest institu-
tion in a town. He said this is
not right for you will usually
find that the Christian Church
is probably the oldest institu-
tion in any town. He said his
only purpose in speaking is
to bring my audience the
gospel.
He said religion is some-
thing we need to quit ducking
or sweeping ’ under the rug.
The church needs to re-define
its role, we need to see what
the real new needs of today
are an our community, state,
nation and the world.
He said we need to take a
look at our resources to see
what we can do about these
needs. There are some things
we need to do away with in
our churches. He said we
should take our resources and
do what we can with them.
McGee said we need to look
at the forces of opposition our
church is facing. Our enemies
are the bigots and the self-
righteous within our churches.
There are a lot of ways to face
the problems outside the
church and they are fairly
easy to combat.
He said don t buy' every-
thing you hear for this is the
day of instant communication
and many of these people are
trying to sell us something for
a buck.
He said it would help us
all to dig a little deeper into
church history. The real dis-
covery we need to make
the twentieth century is
make these needs, found
history, relevant.
He said Wesley said to men
of all faiths, if your heart is
with mine, give me your hand
He said we can’t have world
government without some or-
ganization like the United Na-
tions. «
He said Vatican II takes
some authority away from the
Pope and the School of Card-
inals can now make some de-
cisions. He said you can’t fire
a Nun, you can't fire a Pope.
He said the Roman Catholic
church now recognizes minis-
ters of other faiths. He point-
ed out that Roman Catholic
services can now be held in
the language of the land. He
said there are still some areas
in which protestants and Ro-
man Catholics cannot work
together.
He said much of the division
is our attitude and lack of an
open mind and that he is con-
vinced this is a weakness of
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of
North Franklin Water
Supply Corporation met at the
Franklin County Court House
on Thursday night, Oct. 10
and elected a new president
and vice-president.
Gaines Hughes, who has
been serving as vice-president,
was elected president to re-
place Hershel Hooten who was
killed in a tractor accident.
Sam Harvey was elected vice-
president.
Jack Pope, county super-
visor for the Farmers Home
Administration. verified the
fact that funds are not avail-
able at this time for construc-
tion of the system. The com-
mittee filed a new application
for the loan.
’ Mr. Pope told the committee
to continue to make member-
ship applications. He pointed
out thatwpUns for the lines
can be revised until th« loafr z
application is approved by the ,
state office. >
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