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Ohp Ainpulat MMmitor
Attend Tuesday's Open Hovue
Buford Taylor To Bring
At The Mineola Public Library
A "Black Republican" to Mineola
Free Coffee To All Guests
See As We See And Hear It
Morth Ano East Uexas Foremost Tfecklp Nthspaper
MINEOLA, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1959
EIGHTY FOURTH YEAR - NUMBER FIVE
TWELVE PAGES TODAY
$50,000 Library Building to Be Built Here
City Will Provide
TERRELL WORK STARTING TOO
Construction on New
Maintenance Costs
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U.S. 80 East Starting
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Brotherhood to Hear
Methodists to Hear
Jim Crawford Speak
Open House Planned Tuesday
Garrett
2 to 5 p.m. Mondays through
Employee of Month
To Be Chosen Here
Dan Peacock Elected Head
of Commerce
Of 1959 Watermelon Festival
committee
rectly, the City of Mineola. the cording to E. A. Reeves Abstract
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Peacock, Mrs. B. A. Parrish, Jr.,
Track Team Lists
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Grass Judging Plans
Announced for Show
District Contenders
B. Clonts, chairman ol the Wood
Week End Tournaments
New Sgt. Arrives
At Mineola Armory
operative and stood on top of track events except the high
Sergeant E-5 Frank Hollowell
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Man Electrocuted
about $25, police chief
Willingham reported.
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month's
more director is to be elected.
Holdover directors are James
By Mineola Public Library
starting with April.
Chamber manager Julius
DeuPree said that a secret
recognized
Chamber
Mineola's outstanding em-
ployee of the month will be
YOUTH CLUB ROBBED
The Youth Club building in
West Mineola was broken into
The library is a member of
the Mineola Commuinty Chest.
Last year total income was $1.-
Mineola aree golfers, male and female, adults and
youngsters, will enjoy tournament time this weekend
at the Mineola Country Club course.
Epuu"c.
Mincola high school’s track
team will go to New London
Saturday to participate in the
District 15-AA track and field
meet.
Schools entered in the meet
are Mineola, Wills Point, Pine
Tree, New London, Grand Sa-
line and Van.
The Jacket team w h i c h is
strong in the running events,
will have an entry in all the
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Sgt. Hollowell, formerly Hom
Electra, Texas, started his duties
accidential fire. Ninty per cent
of fires are caused by careless-
ness, the others by damn fool-
ishness.
Insurance companies don't pay
fire losses. Your neighbor pays
it in higher insurance prem-
iums.
Every year 11,000 Americans
die in fires and about 1,000 fire-
men are killed fighting fires.
There is not a man on the
Mineola fire fighting force who
hasn’t been burned rather ser-
iously. And, four out of the five
burns suffered by firemen are
from the little grass fire which
does little damage.
At the present time, when
Mineola firemen leave the city
limits to fight a fire, they are
legally responsible for all equip-
ment and they have no insur-
ance protection. The fire de-
partment would like a contract
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Good Neighbor Commission of Texas, one of
the PASF aims is the teaching of the Spanish
language in Texas schools as a basic factor
in fostering better relations with Latin Amer-
ican countries.
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guests. | F ridays. Membership is $1 per
The local library is open from ■ year which includes all members
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boys will be sponsored by the ■
Wood Soil Conservation District ।
Supervisors again this year and
construction of a five room cot-
tage on W. Patton St. Contrac-
tor is H. E. Brown.
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IMPROVING HOME
Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Collins are
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726.67 and expenses were $1,-
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each library has on hand $1,061.85.
Danny Craver will run the 220
yard dash, the 440-yard dash,
and will run on the mile relay
team.
Steve Watts will enter the
100-yard dash and will run on
the 440-yard relay team and on
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comb, Mrs. Homer Chappelle,
Mrs. Tom Castloo, Mrs. J. p.
English and Mrs. W. R. King-
caid.
This year’s watermelon festi-
val will be held the Friday of
July 17. The date of the coro-
nation has not yet been set.
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$10,000. for “religious, charitable,
scientific and literary purposes i making extensive improvements
which benefit, directly or indi- ' to their home on Hogg St., ac-
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a transformer and tried to con-
nect his house wiring. He touch-
ed a 7200 volt line and was
stantly, and was taken to the
talk Grand Saline hospital where he
eoil course.
In monetary terms.
Angelin was not killed in-
The church has a membership
of 100. Serving on the building
committee have been Pratha
Caffey, chairman, Gaston Owens
Louie Fulgham, Marvin (Hootie)
Mitchell and Bruce Smith.
has been
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Saturday morning, starting at 9:30 a.m., a junior
handicap tournament for these 14 years of age and
First work started Monday
on the $408,000 four lane divid-
ed Highway U. S. 80 from Min-
eola east to Lake Fork.
Construction workers of the
H. V. Caver Construction Co.,
arrived over the weekend. First
work will be on a one and a
half mile stretch from the Road
Side Park east, and will involve
clearing of timber and con-
A modern public library building for Mineola is definitely
in the immediate future.
Ground for its location has been purchased, and a contract
has been entered into for plans for the structure.
The building, expected to cost between $45,000 and
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administrative supply
has, been appointed new per-
Records ol the Country Club
for the year 1958 show that
Howard Angelin, about 50.
was fatally electrocuted in Van
Zandt County Sunday morning
when he climbed a pole of the
Wood County Electric Coopera-
tive and tried to connect wiring
to the house into which he had
just moved,
Angelin and his family had
moved into a farm house in the
Round Flat community north-
west of Grand Saline. He climb-
ed a 35 foot pole of the Co-
Vandiver. One
keeping faith with its warning robbe
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started on the new south lane.
Commenting on the progress
being made to develop High-
way 80 into a four lane divided
highway, County Commissioner
B. A. Holbrook reported this
week that he had learned that
work will soon start on U. S. 80
from Terrell west to the inter-
section of the interstate high-
way.
Holbrook said that the state
has let a contract for $576,559.05
covering the three miles of con-
struction involved. Type con-
struction will be the same as
scheduled for Wood County,
four lanes divided by a wide
center strip.
Contractors for the Terrell
work are the Uvalde Construc-
tion Co. and Joe Davidson of
Terrell.
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homecoming, Rev.
stated.
A dedication service and open
house for the new sanctuary at
Smith’s Chapel, six miles east of
Mineola, will be held this Sun-
day, pastor Rev. Guy Garrett
has announced.
The sanctuary, valued at $14,-
000 replaces the old 1916 struc-
ture. The building has been paid
for in advance by contributions
from members and friends of
the church, Rev .Garrett said.
With the educational building,
which was completed several
years ago, the church now has
seven Sunday School rooms. The
main sanctuary will seat 120
people. It is of. brick veneer
courtesy, personal appear-
ance, knowledge of merch-
andise, and over all sales
ability.
Sunday afternoon, starting at 1:30 p.m., a Scotch
outstanding em-
Plans for financing this year’s
festival are to sell advertising in
the watermelon catalogue as
was done last year.
The directors of the festival
will meet next week to com-
mence planning for the event
which annually wins nationwide
publicity for Mineola.
will be given to all boys who
qualify for the Regional Meet
which is to be held at North
Texas State.
Other boys who place but
pn‘t qualify for regional will
I rceive ribbons.
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National library week will be
observed here by the Mineola
Public Library next Tuesday
with an open house from 2 to 5
p.m., Library Association presi-
dent Mrs. M. E. Pcppeard has
announced.
Coffee will be served to all
By Neil Harle
Minola fire marshal PAUL
< BUSTER > MILLS gave an in-
teresting and hard hitting talk
to the local Rotary Club last
Monday. Some exerts from his
talk were:
The fire marshal’s job is pri-
marly fire prevention. This area
will average 120 fires per year,
and with 1500 families in the
c one can see that the
chces of having a fire are
pretty high. The tragic thing
six years in the National Guard.
He is married.
Mr. and Mrs, Hollowell have
three children and will make
by the local dictionary.
of the family.
At present the library has 3,-
693 books catalogued. During
1958. 169 books were donated '
and 36 new books purchased.
Given as memorials were 26
books.
The library has the Encyclo-
pedia Britannica and also the
Merriam Webster unabridged
Dan Peacock was elected
president of the 1959 Mineola
Watermelon Festival at this
year’s organizational meeting of
the new board of directors.
Elected new directors were
customers at the Country Club
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construction and all furnishings
are new. Builders were Marvin
Mitchell and Bruce Smith. It
is planned to air condition the
sanctuary later.
Dr. A. D. Lemons, district su-
perintendent of Tyler, will
preach at the 11 a.m. Sunday
dedication service. At noon a
covered dish dinner will be serv-
ed on the grounds with the
WSCS in charge.
Open house for the public will
be from 3 to 5 p.m.
Many former church mem-
bers are expected to be present,
making the day a reunion and
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while fighting rural fires.
MILLS concluded his
to move his family
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make their insurance valid
though his work hours are long
and the pay is low, he still
wouldn’t trade jobs with any-
one he knows.
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West Texas Attorney
Jack Hightower, district at-
torney of Vernon, Texas, will
peak Monday night at the
Brotherhood meeting of the
First Baptist Church.
Monday’s program will start
at 7 30 p.m. and will be ladies
night. The meeting will be in
the church’s main auditorium.
Hightower is a former mem-
ber of the Texas House of
Representatives. He is president
of the Texas District and Coun-
ty Attorneys Association and
president of the District 11 Bap-
tist Brotherhood.
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BUILDING COTTAGE
R. H Whitten has started
Rappe is given to the fairways
and greens. Directors of the
Country Club this year purchas-
ed a new tractor, and a new
greens mower has been ordered.
from Jan. 1 to March 31 there
were but 157 to play on the lo-
cal course. For the same period
, this year, a whopping 815 golf-
Show at Mineola on May 6. D ersnav been enjoying the Min-
The police department is Sunday night and the juke box
with the comment that al- s died Monday night.
Haley, Otho McKaig, Irving
Hirsch, Alvin Mallory, Ralph
held in connection with the
Sabine Dairy and Livestock
A golfing renaissance appar-
ently is taking place in Mineola
and surrounding towns, and for
the financially hard pressed
Mineola Country Club it is prov-
i my to be a bonanza.
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under will be held. Handicaps will be assigned players ,
I depending on skills so that all will have an equal chance
of winning. A 25 cent entrance fee will be charged. .
here Wednesday. He has spent Non-members will also pay the regular greens fee.
Jim Crawford, son of Rev.
Nace Crawford, former pastor of
the First Methodist Church, will
return here this Sunday and
preach at the morning 1C: 50
a.m. service.
Jim Crawford was licensed to
preach from the Mineola
church. He is now student pas-
tor at Noonday while attending
Perkins School of Theology
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2.2 INCHES OF RAIN
Wednesday morning’s heavy
thunder shower brought 2.2
inches of rain, according to the
guage of Mrs. Martha Milner.
with the county to remove them
of legal responsibility and to knocked off the pole.
struction of drainage structures.
Mineola resident highway
engineer Sid Cox said that the
job will take about a year to
complete. On the new highway
from Lake Fork to Hawkins,
work is due to start in the im-
mediate future putting down
the asphaltic concrete surface.
Then the present highway will
be salvaged and construction
Interest Shows Increase
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are now comm”, from Longview,--
Tyler, Dallas, Quitman, Winns-
boro, Van, Grand Saline and
Hawkins.
Credit lor tiie surge in golf
interest is given to the excellent
condition which the course is
now in. and the careful atten-
tion which manager Gene
terest has also held true. For
the first three months of 195:;.
green tees totaled but $64.25.
This year during the same per-
iod. $308.25 in green tees have
been paid.
Last Saturday proved to be
the biggest golfing day in a
number ol years at the country
club with 49 playing the course .
Last weeke nd, 86 golfers played
The interest in golf is not
just in Mineola alone. Regular
The annual grass judging
and low hurdles. The Jacket
crew is very weak in the field ,
events.
Steve Watts will enter the I
broad jump for the Jackets.
Vincent Colvin will throw the
discus.
Buddy Miller and Tommie
Bowdoin will enter the shot put.
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the mill relay team.
Bruce Welsh will run the 100-
yard dash and will run on both
the sprint relay team and the
mile relay team.
Paul Cowan will run on both
relay teams and will also run
the 440-yard dash.
Leland Bertillion will run the
100-yard dash and the 220-yard
dash.
W. C. Forsyth will run the
880-yard run and Vincent Col-
vin will run the mile run.
Bob Bruce will either enter
880-yard run or the mile run.
Larry Aaron, who came out
for track last week will run on
the 440-yard relay team and
will run the 220-yard dash.
A team trophy will be given
to the winning team. Medals
Meredith Foundation, recently
established by H W. Meredith,
local banker-philanthorpist.
Two lots, at tiie northwest
corner of Blair and Pacific
Stieets, will be the location for
the building. It will face Pacific
Street.
The lots were purchased by
the Mineola Library Association
from Adolphus McDaniel and
The First Methodist Church for
a consideration reported at $6,-
GOO. The purchase price was
provided by proceeds from the
sale of 200 shares of El Paso
Natural Gas stock which J. C.
Judge had given the Library
Association.
When completed .the building
and grounds will be deeded to
the City of Mineola. The Min- |
cola City Commission recently |
adopted a reslution agreeing to I
provide maintenance for the
library, estimated at $2,500 a
year.
The library will continue to
be operated by the Library As-
sociation.
Preliminary drawings are ex-
pected to be shown to the Mere-
dith Foundation trustees, pro-
bably later this week. They are
being prepared by a Dallas
architict, with whom the foun-
dation trustees last week enter-
ed into a contract for prepara-
tion of plans and specifications
for the library building.
Calling for bids and letting of
contracts for construction is
expected to follow immediately.
No date has yet been set for
beginning of construction, and
estimates are not yet available
for length of time needed to
complete the building.
Harry W Meredith established
the Meredith Foundation last
SCD announced this week.
The supervisors making this
event possible are D. B Clonts,
Hawkins, Claude Mullinax,
Winnsboro, James Wright, Quit-
man. W. H. Attaway, Yantis and
Byron Leewright, Mineola
The Soil Conservation Service
will be responsible for selecting
and providing the plants to be
judged, supervising the contest
and selecting the winners. They
say, “arrangements arc under-
way to accommodate 150 con-
testants."
Attractive prizes will be fur-
nished by the SCD and present-
ed to the first, second and third
place winners by Byron Lee-
wright SCD Supervisor.
Emphasis will be placed on
range plants this year to fami-
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RECEIVES GOVERNOR S CONGRATULATIONS
— Buddy Miller, center, is congratulated by
Gov. Price Daniel, left, soon after he was
elected state president of the Pan American
Student Forum of Texas. Looking on at right
is Rep. George T. Hinson. Sponsored by the
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foursomes to be mixed with men and women.
their home at 307 W. Patton St.1 Entrance fees wiil be $ 1. All entrance fees will be
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Harle, S. Neil. The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 9, 1959, newspaper, April 9, 1959; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1547471/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.