The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 20, 1983 Page: 1 of 28
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Thursday, October 20,1083
Vo 78 No. 21
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Officers from the DPS Drug
Task Force in Fort Worth assisted
in the search as it took officers
almost 10 hours to complete the
search and cataglog all of the items
Homecoming weekend officially got underway
with a flourish and a burst of orange color.
BOWIE — A speeding ticket
led to the uncovering of a major
drug lab just outside of Bowie ear-
ly Sunday morning.
As a result, four people are in
the Montague County Jail. Two
Parade. Several thousand people participated in
the three days of Homecoming activites and lin-
ed the streets to observe the parade.
Hundreds of Nocona High
School exes and their families
came home Friday and Saturday,
Home for the tri-annual NHS
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Circus to perform
Sunday at 2, 5 p.m.
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Thursday night’s Homecoming bonfire brought
out hundreds of NHS students and Exes as the
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Tom King, Class of ’60, makes doubly sure he
follows mother’s orders and washes between his
toes as his class float winds its way downtown
Saturday in the Tri-Annual Homecoming
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Dr. Paul A. Moran, 42, has ap-
plied for staff privileges at Nocona
General Hospital and will open his
practice at Nocona Medical
Facilities Dec. 1.
A native of Oklahoma, Dr.
Moran is a board eligible general
surgeon who did is internship in
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generations of NHS athletes who
were recipients of Storey’s con-
cerns and efforts through the
years.
"An avid football fan, he often
equipped entire Nocona High
School teams and by doing so once
kept baseball from being dropped
by the athletic department.”
noted, in part, the inscription on
his plaque. "He also designed and
made special equipment for local
injured athletes to enable them to
continue to participate with the
highest degree of safety.”
Ex-Students' Association Direc-
tors Carolyn McCall Perryman
and Rosemary McCall Wingate
made the present to Bob Storey J r.
NHS Board President Johnny
Richardson presented the five All-
State players with their Athletic
Hall of Fame induction certificates
during the halftime.
Class parties and gatherings
were held throughout the weekend
beginning Friday night while the
NHS student body held its
Homecoming Dance at the
Elementary School Cafeteria.
See Homecoming Page 2
home the spirit stick as being the
class or group with the most spirit
at the Homecoming pep rally held
in the Middle School Gym.
It was followed by a two hour
reception at the Nocona Public
Library — the first chance for
many Exes to get to see Nocona's
newest public facility. The Library
was opened just a year ago after 10
years of planning and fund rais-
ing.
A number of displays of old
NHS annuals, photographs and
scrapbooks were on display' for the
visitors to enjoy between visits
with old friends and classmates.
Friday night's football game
between Nocona and Olney saw
LaDonna Russell, daughter of
Don and the late Brenda Russell,
crowned Homecoming Queen for
1983.
Members of her Homecoming
Court are Dena Fenoglio, Kim
Taylor and Angie Uselton.
Also during the halftime
ceremonies, Bob Storey was in-
ducted into the Athletic Hall of
Fame — and special inducation
made at the request of several
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College of Osteopathic Medicine
doing his internship at East Town
Osteopathic Hospital in Dallas.
He was born in Tulsa, Okla.,
and he and his wife Barbara have
five children, Jennifer 12, Joel 10.
Jason, 8, Jarrod, 7, and Jamie, 5.
An Eagle Scout and a Silver
Eagle, he is a member of the
American Osteopathic Associa
tion.
He has taught as a professor of
surgery at Wichita Osteopathic
Hospital and served as a teacher
and lucturer at Veterans Hospital
in Wichita, Kan.
Dr. Moran will set up his prac-
tice at 100 park St. (Dr. Jerry’s of-
fice) beginning Dec. 1 at 8 a.m
Bank or from any of the 45
Nocona Rotary Club members.
Advance tickets are $2.00 for
children 2 to 13 and senior citizens
and $3.00 for adults. Children
under 2 are admitted free. Gate
tickets will be $3.00 for children
and senior citizens and $4.00 for
adults, said Rotary President
W.R. Tucker.
Sunday’s two shows will feature
The Aerial Astros, a young hus-
band and wife team, which have
astounded crwods with their aerial
cradle routine where Amy must
depend solely on her husband's
grasp as she performs her midair
maneuvers.
Acrobats, jugglers, wire walkers
and clowns add to the list of
talented circus performers with the
Circus.
Wayne Franzen, one of the na-
tion's foremost wild animal
trainers, will put Royal Begal
tigers and African lions through
their intricate performances in-
cluding jumping through fire
hoops.
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Nocona Ex-Students' Association.
Home to see Miss Enid Justin
and Dr. Donald R. Hankins in-
ducted in the NHS Hall of Honor.
Home to see Robert E. (Bob)
Storey receive a posthumlous in-
duction into both the NHS Hall of
Honor and the NHS Athletic Hall
of Honor.
Home to see baseball All-State
honorees James Patton, Phillip
DeMoss, Jeff Weaver, Tim
Richardson and Scott King be in-
ducted into the NHS Athletic Hall
of Honor.
The activites actually began
Thursday night with a paint-
blistering Homecoming bonfire
arranged by members of the cur-
rent NHS student body at the
Nocona Rodeo Grounds.
Several hundred residents at-
tended the affair which kicked off
the weekend of Homecoming ac-
tivities.
Friday afternoon, the Exes took
women and a man are charged
with unlawful possession of a
firearm. A second man is charged
with possession of a controlled
substance.
Dist. Atty. Jack McGaughey
said former deputy sheriff Harry
Walker, who now works for the
Bowie Police Department, attemp-
ted to stop a speeding car on U.S.
Bus. Hwy. 287 near the Bowie
Sale Barn about 3 o’clock Sunday
morning.
"He gave chase and the turned
around and rammed him head on
(with the car),” McGaughey said.
Walker fired several shots into the
sedan, forcing the two occupants,
Brenda Fairbetter and Marilyn
McGlothlin, from the vehicle.
Just after Walker ordered the
two suspects to lie face down on
the ground, a pickup driven by
Larry McGlothlin drove up
seconds before a second Bowie PD
unit arrived on the scene.
McGlothlin, driver of the
pickup, was arrested along with
Terry Nunn.
The two women and Nunn were
found to have pistols in their
possesion and were charged with
unlawful possession of a pro-
hibitive weapon. McGlothlin was
charged with possession of a con-
trolled substance.
Officers found a number of
chemicals on the car driven by the
women, and a search warrant was
secured from Justice of the Peace
Ollie Carriker of Bowie for
buildings on a 160 acre spread
three miles north of Bowie on U .S.
Bus. Hwy. 287, near the location
where the four were apprehended.
Chief Deputy Sheriff Jesse
Ramos led a search team to the
property where a number of
chemicals and other paraphenalia
for a drug lab was seized,
McGaughey said.
confiscated.
“We're waiting for the
laboratory analysis to see what all
we have,” McGaughey said.
Officers did recover Phynol 2
Propenalm an ingrediate used in
the manufacture of metham-
phetamines.
McGlothlin was charged with
possession of methamphetamines,
a controlled substance.
"There were a number of
chemicals recovered,” the district
attorney said.
He said there probably would
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fresh, hot popcorn; the sounds of
exotic animal calls and the flapp-
ing canvas of the big top; the feel
of sawdust under foot.
The circus is coming to townl
Elephants, tigers, lions, horses,
downs, trapeze acts — all the
thrills and spills of the Big Top will
come to life Sunday afternoon in
Nocona.
The Franzen Brothers Circus
and the Nocona Rotary Club, the
local circus sponsors, will be
presenting two shows Sunday at 2
and 5 p.m. at the Nocona Rodeo
Grounds under the Big Top.
The Franzen Brothers Circus
has been acclaimed by thousands
of circus patrons as a stellar arcus.
Carrying a large number of both
wild and domestic performing
animals and boasting a galaxy of
international circus stars, the show
is certain to entertain the young
and the old alike.
Advance tickets, which are 25%
off gate ticket prices, are currently
on sale at Gibbs Drug Store,
Farmers & Merchants National
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Mesler, Tracy R. The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 20, 1983, newspaper, October 20, 1983; Nocona, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1493920/m1/1/: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Friends of the Nocona Public Library.