The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 4, 1981 Page: 1 of 14
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Bruce elected president
of Industrial Foundation
filed for another term, and for-
mer candidate Sonney Little-
field has also filed with school
northwest corner of the junior received “perfect" report cards
high campus. Monday through for the past six weeks, making
dally into the high 70s and even
low 80s, lots of area residents
Absentee voting in both elec-
tions is scheduled to begin on
Monday, March 16, to continue
through Tuesday,* March 3L
Absentee voting in the city
election will be handled at city
hall, Monday through Friday,
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Absentee
balloting in the school trustee
election will be handled by the
school business office, in the
JUST ONE B kept these stu-
dents from making all As on
their most recent report cards.
Peacock, completing his ninth
year on the board, had earlier
stated that he would not seek
another term on the board.
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Deadline for filing in both the
city and school elections is at
the close of the business day
today, Wednesday, March 4.
City candidates should file in
the office at city hall; school
trustee hopefuls at the office of
the superintendent (the school
business office).
will continue to take care of
most of his old customers.
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DISTRICT CHAMPS - The
Mineola seventh grade basket
ball team beat Brownsboro
28-17 last week and with the
victory clinched the district
title. Standing, left to right, are
this year
Other business will include a
discussion of finances and the
election of a president, vice
president, and secretary for
the 1981 year.
Patrick said that it is impor
tant that all coaches, parents
and umpires attend so they
may be informed of the new
rule changes.
He asked that officials of each
league bring an estimate of the
number of boys and girls they
are expecting to participate
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Baseball season is under way
at Mineola High School, and
plans are being made for an
eight team tournament at the
local Youth Foundation Park on
March 12. 13 and 14.
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The city and school elections
are statutorily set for the first
Saturday in April. The three
aidermen elected on that date
will join holdover aidermen
Ralph Bruner and Ray Short
ths team won the diutriet d
pionship with exeellent |
eye coordination that res
togetherness.
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Chorus will organize at a
covered dish supper starting at
6:30 p.m in the Meredith Room
An important meeting of the
Greater Wood County League,
which operates summer base
ball and softball leagues for
area youth, has been called for
Sunday, March 8, by league
president Jack Patrick.
The meeting is to be held in
the auditorium of Mineola Ju
nior High School, beginning at 2
p.m. Sunday. Carl Merritt,
state director of Texas Teen-
Age Baseball, Inc., will discuss
new baseball rules and other
planned program changes for
president for the past year, was
in charge of the business
meeting.
bers — Bob Bruce (current pre-
sident of the board), Mrs. Ray
mond George (the board’s
secretary), John Puckett. Eddy
Carr, and Tommy Jones — in
organizing for the year.
The city election will be held
at city hall from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
on April 4; the school board
election will be held during the
same hours in the cafetorium of
the Central Elementary School
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the Mineola Junior High students
ruary temperatures
issue. In case you missed read- have been oiling their lawn
ing the wording under last mowers, preparing their gar-
week's “photo that wasn't dens, and some even venturing
there," it was printed thusly: to plant. But the experts warn,
SPRING FEVER STRIKES - "Well see more cold weather
That's George Klepien, partner soon, so don't rush the season."
in Flynt's Jewelry, on the step- At the right in the picture is Le
ladder. An early victim of roy Vaughn, watering a fruit
spring fever, he was caught by tree planted by Klepien.
The Monitor camera while Vaughn says this year, because
working in his yard at 182 of poor health, he is going
Circle Drive. With unusual Feb- to have to cut down on his
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The membership received a
current financial statement
the Mineola
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Five candidates had filed by
noon Tuesday seeking places on
the city election ballot for April
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aidermen subject to election
this spring, a contest is guar
anteed for the city election.
Seeking re-election are E. M.
Bradshaw and Virgil Peacock.
Aiderman Dr. J. Carl Norris
has stated that he is not a can-
didate for re-election.
Also filing as candidates in
the April 4 city election were
former city secretary John V.
Yeager, Jimmy (Mrs. James)
Grant, and O. F. Blackstock.
At the same time Tuesday,
less interest had been evinced
in the school trustee election
scheduled for the same day
The terms of trustees Raymond
Curbow and Dan Peacock
expire in April. Curbow has
Five directors whose terms
Library. were expiring were re-elected
Chorus leader Betty Deu to three year terms, and a local
Pree says a concert is planned businessman was elected to fill
for this spring of summer to the remaining year of an unex
feature medleys from several pired term on the board, during
Broadway shows. She explain the course of the annual mem
ed that the Chorus practices bership meeting of the Mineola
once a month and there are no Industrial Foundation. Inc.,
tryouts "The Chorus is very Monday. March 2.
coach Mike Shimpock, Darvin
Brinkley, Brad Broughton, Billy
James, Stacy Gibeon, and
Ernest Buchner. Seated, left to
right, are John Bruckner, Mark
Ledkins, Jerry Saldana, and
Uhe Ainenla ammitnr
Coach Mike Shimpock said
that the Mineola nine will open
the season Friday against
Hooks, the game to be played
there starting at 3 p.m. On
Monday, March 9, the locals
will appear in their first game
before hometown supporters as
they host Rains, with game
time set at 4 p.m. at the local
park The Friday and Monday
dates are both doubleheaders,
with the same teams meeting in
two games to get more practice
in with a minimum of travel for
each visiting team
informal, just a fun filled
organization of people who like
(o sing," she said
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Work started Monday to
install new fronts and a roof to
the downtown burned out
buildings on each side of Lott
Insurance Agency, one facing
North Johnson Street and the
other West Broad Street. The
buildings were burned out
almost five years ago.
David Lott, who recently
purchased the property, ex
plains that he has no renters
nor any prospects. "My immedi
ate aim is just to improve the
downtown appearance of Mine
ola," Lott said.
Horace Cantrell of Hoard is
contractor for the job. The roof
will have a metal deck with
steel beams. The interior will
not be finished, so that if a
tenant comes along he can fix it
like he wants it.
weekend in Vancouver Island.
Canada He was seeing the new
McDonald’s Restaurant opened
by his son, Ron. he says they
were making a good hambur
ger, and that it was good to see
his six grandchildren again
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Fort Worth millionaire Cui
len Davis and his wife, Karen,
are scheduled to be in Mineola
March 22 giving personal
testimony on humanism vs
God They will be at the
Mineola Christian Fellowship
church in West Mineola.
Davis was acquitted of
murder and later of a plot to kill
a district judge in two of Texas'
most famous criminal trials
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Area singers are reminded
that Tuesday, March 10, affords
a good opportunity to join the
Mineola Civic Chorus The
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Dogwood Room of the Mineola from secretary treasurer Mollie
Civic Center's Meredith Hall. Fisher, and the report was
immediately following the noon unanimously accepted,
luncheon of the Mineola Rotary J Members were apprised of
Club. Joe Bulowski, Foundation actiensof the board of directors
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Robert Cox. Absent when the
picture was taken was team
member Brian Ferguson. Lead-
ing scorer was Gibson with 102
points netted daring the
season. <Coach Shimpock said
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Culp's Department
during the past year by the
secretary's reading of minutes
of all the directors' meetings
during 1980.
Clarence Barfield, chairman,
made the report of the nomi-
nating committee, that Tom
Boyd be elected to serve the re-
maining year of the unexpired
term of O. D. Moss, and that
outgoing directors David Lott,
Byron Leewright, J. C. Norris,
Coulter Templeton, and Joe
Bulowski be re-elected.
The nominating committee’s
recommendation was endorsed
unanimously and the six men
were named to the board for
were named to the board.
At the directors' meeting,
following adjournment of the
membership meeting, attorney
Bob Bruce was elected presi-
dent to succeed Bulowski; By
ron Leewright was named vice
president; and Mrs. Fisher was
re elected secretary treasurer.
wants everyone to know that
they are not discontinuing their
ladies' wear department. In last
week's Monitor it was reported
that Culp's was closing out the
ladies' department.
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The names of students on the
President's Honor Roll and the
Deans' List for the fall semes
ter at East Texas State Uni
versity were released last week
by the university's Office of
Communication Services, on
the campus at Commerce.
Two of the names were of
Mineolans, both of whom were
on the Dean's List for their re
spective college or school. The
Mineolans with grade point av
erages of at least 3.25 but less
than 4 0 (with the latter being a
straight A average) were Ka
ren F. Mensch and Patricia A.
Reeves.
THIS PHOTO was to have been
on page 2 of last week's issue of
The Monitor. Through an unfor-
tunate chain of circumstances,
when it came time to make a
halftone of the paired snapshots
the photo was not to be found —
and the loss was noted at the
place of business of the paper's
printer, in Gladewater, with
no time to run the picture down
and still get the paper in the
mail on time. After the paper
was safely printed, the photo
was recovered for |we hope!,
reproduction in this week’s
The meeting was held in the
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Fourteen Mineola Firemen
answered an 11:15 p.m. alarm
February 24 at 603 South
Pacific Street. An old house
occupied by Steve Pruitt and
his mother was a total loss.
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Society note: Mrs. Clara
Franklin of 1020 Kings Lane
married Carroll Foster of
Urbana. Missouri, February 19,
and has moved to Urbana
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Paul Ray, Jamie Harston, and wyn Donoho
Rhonda Cox. Seated, same Wright.
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Bobby Jones spent
The March 12 14 tournament
will be sponsored by the local
schools' athletic department.
Teams participating will be
from Mineola. Canton, Mabank.
Van, Whitehouse, Rains, Quit-
man, and T. K. Gorman.
Coach Shimpock says seven
starters from last year’s team
are returning, including pitch
ers Ken Clower and Mark
Johnson. “We’ll still be a young
team, but one with more exper-
ience," Shimpock said. He
added that he is expecting left
fielder Kevin White to lead the
team with his consistent
hitting.
"We started practicing Feb
ruary 22, and now with
basektball season over, we
have our full squad together,’
Coach Shimpock said.
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WWI Auxiliary
to meet Friday
The Ladies Auxiliary to
Wood County Barracks 1590.
Veterans of World War I, will
meet for a covered dish
luncheon Friday, March 6, in
the Pecan Room of Meredith
Hall
All members are urged to at
tend, says an Auxiliary spokes
woman. Starting time in the
Mineola Civic Center facility
will be 11 a.m
Oil leasing activity has been
reported southwest of Mineola
from near the city limits south
and west. Bass Enterprises of
Forth Worth and Rainbow
Resources of Kilgore have been
taking leases. Tracts leased
involved land belonging to
Byron Leewright, Bobby Riggs
and T. W. Mitchell.
In Hainesville. two more
locations have been reported
They are the No. 2 Lillian
Turbeville and the No. 2 Ruth
l avis
Completion rig is still at work
on the Turbeville deep test
Observers say it appears that
operators have given up on the
Cotton Valley and come up the
hole to test the Travis Peak
Observers also report that
completion rig on the Hobb
Pennington well seems finally
to have been successful in
getting the well to flow.
Completion rig has also been
moved on the Howard Moore
No. 3. The Carolyn Schmidt No.
1 was reported Monday drilling
below 2300 feet.
In Crow, the Gordon Duna
hoe No. 1 was reported
Tuesday noon drilling ahead
between 8500 and 8800 feet. A
couple more weeks of drilling
are expected until goal of
10,000 feet is reached
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Shirley Hudman of Haines
ville is now home after
undergoing major surgery in
Mother Frances Hospital in
Tyler
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Peacock, Dan. The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 4, 1981, newspaper, March 4, 1981; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1547938/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.