The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 12, 1968 Page: 1 of 8
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★ ★
Don't
shoot
Paul (Buddy) Patterson of Naples
believes that advertising pays —
and he also believes in safety first.
He's one of the 2,700 members of
United Steel workers of America
on strike at Lone Star Steel Com-
pany. Frequent violence worried
the sign writer so he decided to
tell the world which side he is
on. The back of his car now
carries this message: "Firearms
Prohibited! In, On, Or Near This
'55 Chevy. STRIKER INSIDE!" The
sign also shows that Patterson has
maintained a sense of humor dur-
ing the troubled times.
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'Hs/DE /
Smith to head Chamber
Wayne Smith, vice president of
The Morris County National Bank,
will serve as president of the Na-
ples Chamber of Commerce next
year.
He was elected Monday night
at the regular monthly meeting
of members held at the Naples
Motor Inn.
Dr. J. L. Collier Jr. was elect-
ed vice president, and Clayton
Ingram, administrator at the East
Texas Clinic, was chosen to be
secretary.
Three new directors also were
elected to the nine-man board.
They are Buddy Carlile, Gary
Buck, local manager of the Ar-
kansas-Louisiana Gas Company
office, and Wayne Smith.
Those three directors replaced
B. C. Wyninegar, Dan Hampton
and Gene Falls, who also is the
retiring president.
D. C. Enloe is the retiring vice
president and Dr. Collier has been
secretary for the past year.
Remaining on the board of di-
rectors are James Welch, D. C.
Enloe and Dr. Collier with one year
to serve, and Hershel Welch, W. C.
Sullivan and Clayton Ingram with
two years to serve.
A policy was established by the
Chamber that a director could not
be re-elected as a director until
he had been off the board for
at least one year.
The new directors were elect-
ed by members attending tfie meet-
ing Monday night and the six mem-
bers of the board present then
chose the new officers.
The new officers and directors
will be installed at the annual din-
ner meeting of the Chamber, prob-
ably to be held in January at the
Naples Motor Inn.
Money taken in safe theft
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Thieves broke into the Lewis
Rogers office here last Wednesday
night and took a large sum of cash
and checks from a safe.
Neither Rogers nor investigating
officers would say how much the
loss amounted to but it was in the
thousands.
Another safe in the main busi-
ness office wasn't bothered. It also
held a substantial amount of money.
Texas Ranger Red Arnold and
Deputy Sheriff Dick Lawing inves-
tigated the burglary.
They said the thieves apparently
entered the building through the
side door from Highway 77 but
the door was not damaged. A small
object such as a screwdriver may
have been used to release the
latch and open the door.
monitoring
main
street
Omaha and Naples people have
put in a considerable amount of
work already in decorating their
homes for Christmas.
It's a nice break from television
to drive around the neighborhoods
of both towns to see the bright lights
and stars and Santas.
Take a few minutes and
the fruits of others' labor.
••
Dick Dixon has one of
little foreign cars that he
to do his pasture work and cacue
rounding up.
He has had the car for about
four years or more and has never
had it washed.
He parked the car last Saturday
in front of Jim Berry's Sinclair
Service Station as he often does
and left with his wife.
Thad Betts and Dale Cobb, who
work at the station, decided to wash
the car while Dixon was gone.
They moved the car into the
wash area.
A short time later, a woman
driving west on Highway 67 went
to sleep, ran off the road and
smashed a sign that stood right
where Dixon had left his little car.
The wash job he didn't expect
kept him from getting his car
smashed.
"X" is the unknown.
It also shows up much too ..ten
in the shortened reference to one
of the favorite holidays of the year,
the most holy of all.
If Christmas means anything at
all to an enlightened world, it
ought to mean the celebration of
the birthday of Jesus Christ.
Why then, in the name of all
that's decent, should the Christ be
dropped from Christmas and be
rr placed with the ugliest of ab-
bi-eviations to come out X-mas?
Why?
••
In trying times like these, it is
best to maintain some sense of
humor.
That wasn't what Carl Wren, the
capable young editor of the Hughes
Springs paper, intended last week
in his placement of headlines but
it came out that way.
Carl had his usual thorough cov-
erage of the strike situation at
Lone Star Steel positioned on his
front page alongside a story of
Santa Claus's coming.
The headlines together read:
"Peace descends as strike enters
eighth long week HO! HO! HO!"
Once inside, the thieves used
their own tools to open the huge
safe in the office. The damage
indicated a sledge hammer and
pry bars may have been used to
batter it open.
Merchandise stored in the build-
ing such as tires and batteries
were not bothered, nor was a
30:06 rifle with ammunition left
by Rogers in the building.
Another Naples business was the
victim of an attempted but un-
successful burglary last week.
Someone knocked a lock off the
rear door of the Naples Farm Sup-
ply Store last Tuesday night but
were unable to gain entrance to
the building because of another
well-secured door inside the first
one.
There was no loss and damage
was confined to the broken lock
and hasp on the door.
k looks at safe
33 win aie in accidents
A warning that 33 persons may
be killed in traffic accidents in
Texas during the Christmas and
New Year's holiday periods was
issued by Colonel Wilson E. Spier,
director of the Texas Department
of Public Safety.
Spier said the DPS will acti-
vate a special "Operation Motor-
cide" in an effort to remove un-
safe drivers from the roads and
to the lower the holiday traffic
toll.
Operation Motorcide will be in
effect from 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec.
24, to midnight Wednesday, Dec.
25, and from 6 p.m. Tuesday,
Dec. 31, to midnight Wednesday,
Jan. 1.
The DPS estimate is that 19
persons will be killed in traffic
accidents in the state during the
Christmas period and 14 additonal
deaths will occur during the New
Year's period.
Purse robber
gets money
A thief picked the purse of Mrs.
C. C. Mills Jr., last Thursday
morning and got away with more
than $200 in cash and checks.
Her drivers license and at least
two credit cards also were taken.
Mrs. Mills was at work at Spen-
cer's Grocery and Market and had
put her large purse on the floor
at the checkout area. Her billfold
was inside the purse, which ap-
parently was open.
Someone took the billfold con-
taining the cash, checks and credit
cards from the purse between 9:30
a.m. and 12:30 p.m. without being
noticed.
Mrs. Mills reported the loss to
Deputy Sheriff Dick Lawing.
Speir said all available DPS offi-
cers will be on duty during the
two holiday periods.
Radar, helicopters and a visual
average speed computer and re-
corder system will be put into use
in order to keep the toll as low
as possible.
Church names
building group
The First Baptist Church has
elected a building committee to
lead the church in the construc-
tion of a new auditorium.
Those elected are M. V. Brock,
C. E. Coker, chairman, Dr. J. L.
Collier, R. W. Kennedy and Wayne
Smith.
The committee has started its
study of previous plans and will
continue the study in preparing
a recommendation to the church.
PTA MEETS THURSDAY
The Pewitt PTA will have its
regular monthly meeting Thurs-
day, Dec. 19, at the school cafe-
torium.
The program will be by the chil-
dren from the first seven grades,
the high school, and the Stylettes.
The fourth grade will have the
devotional.
An executive board meeting will
be held at 1 p.m. and the program
will begin at 1:45 p.m.
HOUSE JUDGING DEC. 20
Naples houses will be judged
for their Christmas decorations
Friday night, Dec. 20.
The contest is sponsored by the
Naples Chamber of Commerce.
ONITOR
Volume 83 Naples, Texas
82 years old and NEW
Thursday, December 12, 1963
Number 20
Naples Santa parade Saturday
The biggest and best parade ever
to usher Santa Claus into Naples
for his annual pre-Christmasvisit
will be held here Saturday after-
noon beginning at 2 p.m.
The parade will include out of
town bands, floats by groups at
I awitt school, a bicycle brigade
of local youngsters, and local beau-
Time to write
Santa Claus
Hey kids!
It's time to get those letters off
to Santa Claus. Christmas is only
a few days away.
The Monitor would like to have
copies of the Santa letters to be
printed in the Christmas edition
to be printed on and mailed
Thursday, Dec. 19.
Letters must be received by not
later than noon Tuesday, Dec. 17,
to be included in the paper.
SCHOOL OUT DEC. 20
FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Pewitt and Carver schools will
be dismissed Dec. 20 for the
Christmas and New Years holiday.
Classes will be resumed at the
schools Thursday, Jan. 2.
ty title holders.
The parade will form on the
parking lot immediately west of
the Naples Motor Inn, proceed east
on Highway 67 and loop back to
the parking lots near the Metho-
dist and Baptist churches.
There Santa Claus will pass out
small gift packages to the children
who meet him.
The parade is sponsored by the
Naples Chamber of Commerce.
Cash prizes will be awarded for
winning floats and to the young-
sters with the best decorated bicy-
cles.
Prizes for floats will be $25,
$15 and $10. Each youngster enter-
ing a bicycle will be given a dollar
and additional prizes will be given
for the three best decorated.
Mrs. John Bird is chairman of
the parade committee and is mak-
ing the arrangements.
Three beauty title holders, Mary
Bob Ballard, who is Miss Dell-
wood of 1968, Betty Thompson,
who is Miss Omaha, and Suzan
Womack, who has the three titles
of Miss Naples, Miss Atlanta For-
est Festival and Miss Texas For-
est Festival, will be in the parade.
Connie Tucker, Little Miss Om-
aha, and Randa Ranes, Little Miss
Naples, also will ride in the pa-
rade.
Youngsters wanting to enter the
bicycle brigade have until Thurs-
day afternoon, Dec. 12, to sign up
at the Welch Butane office in Na-
ples.
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Two Naples youngsters prepared
last week end to take part in the
bicycle brigade of the Santa parade
in Naples beginning at 2 p.m. Sat-
urday by decorating a bicycle. Al
Ingram, right, and Chuck Teeters
cooperate in getting their bicycles
ready for the parade.
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Omaha choir
to present cantata
The Omaha Baptist Church Jun-
ior Choir will present a Christ-
mas cantata at 7p.m. Sunday at the
church.
The cantata to be presented is
"Lot A Star" by Robert Graham.
Youth of the church will pre-
sent a nativity scene during the
cantata.
Mrs. Gerald Ellis will be the
organist, Jerry Pate the pianist,
Mrs. Johnny Thompson the cantata
director, and Mrs. C. W. Forsyth
in charge of the nativity scene.
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Narramore, Lee. The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 12, 1968, newspaper, December 12, 1968; Naples, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth329582/m1/1/: accessed June 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Atlanta Public Library.