The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 13, 1969 Page: 1 of 8
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Naples to vote on sales fax Ex-Omaha man gets rave review
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Naples voters will decide April 5 if they want to
pay an extra one per cent in sales tax on their pur-
chases in stores here and have the money returned to
the city by the state.
The city council voted last week to submit the
issue to the voters on regular election day.
Another proposal under consideration — that of
changing from the present form of city government
to one with a city manager — was dropped.
The filing of John Jamesonforthe office of mayor
settled that point at least for the time being. There
had been a sharp lack of interest in the job by anyone
until Jameson said he would serve.
The change would have cost Naples in the neigh-
borhood of $6,000 or more a year if a qualified man
could have been found.
The sales tax is expected to bring in about that
amount if it is approved by the majority of voters.
Merchants simply will charge the extra one percent
to the sales tax already collected for the state and
send the entire amount to Austin as they have done
in the past.
The state computes the city's share of the total
and returns it each quarter to the city.
Other East Texas towns about the size of Naples
have realized about $6,000 to $7,000 a year from the
sales tax. It has been approved in a big majority of
the towns in Texas where it was submitted to a vote.
A separate ballot will be offered to voters when
a mayor and two aldermen are elected April 5. Ab-
sentee voting on the sales tax will begin Saturday,
March 15, and end Tuesday, April 1.
ONITOR
Volume 83 Naples, Texas
82 years old and NEW
Thursday, March 13, 1969
Number 32
Redbud plans major expansion
A major expansion of Redbud
Retreat, Naples' home for senior
citizens, will get underway within
monitoring
main
street
It was time for the extermin-
ator to spray Mrs. C. E. Boozer's
house so she wasn't surprised a
few days ago when the truck drove
up and the man came to the door
with his spray can.
She let him in and he went about
his business. Mrs. Boozer com-
mented to him that he wasn't the
one who had been doing her work.
When he finished, she started to
give him a check for his service.
She learned then that the ex-
terminator was not the one she
expected.
He learned something, too.
The house he was supposed to
have sprayed was the Doyse Betts
house across the street.
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While you are scratching around
trying to get enough money to-
gether to pay your income tax
and fretting because the really rich
don't pay any at all, maybe you
get the notion that everything is
all bad and no one is doing well.
That isn't so.
One of the news wire services
reported last week on the raises
of two officials of a car manu-
facturing company.
One of them got an increase in
his salary of $232,500 — making
his total pay check now run to
$630,700 a year.
The other fellow didn't do too
badly.
He had been making $292,700 a
year but the company decided he
was worth $535,967.
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Clarence Stevens got his new car
a little late.
He and Leon Coker went to Tex-
arkana one day last week to get it
and Tommy Coker sent it to the
rgas pump to be filled up just before
the two men started back to Naples.
On the way, they noticed that the
gasoline gauge seemed erratic so
as soon as they got here, they had
the tank filled.
After the 45-mile drive, it took
16 gallons to fill up the tank.
Stevens should have gotten the
car before Willie Giles Smith had
his pumps checked at his service
station in Omaha.
Smith has operated the Gulf
station there for about six months
now and, as most small businesses
do, had trouble making his income
and his outgo balance.
They checked his pumps last
week and found out why.
The pumps were off and every
time Smith sold five gallons of
gasoline, his customer was getting
an additional six-tenths of a gallon
free.
the next few days.
An addition which will add 40
beds at a cost of about $150,000
is planned by the owner, Naples
Builders, Inc.
W. C. Sullivan and Lee Davis,
partners in Naples Builders with
Morris Hampton, were in Austin
Monday to meet with officials of
the State Department of Health to
get approval for the addition and it
was granted.
Redbud already has a 60-bed fa-
cility and it currently is filled.
The home was built to serve 48
residents in 1963 but was enlarged
in 1967 to take care of 60.
In 1968, an isolation room, doc-
tor's examination room and bath
required by the federal Depart-
ment of Health, Education and Wel-
fare was added.
Sullivan said work would start
almost immediately on the newest
addition.
He said the present building
would be extended to the east and
an entire new wing would be added
on that end. It will cover about
9,000 square feet.
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Joe Davis
Chamber banquet Tuesday night
Methodists plan pre-Easter services
Pre-Easter services will be held
March 23-27 at the First United
Methodist Church of Naples.
Dr. A. D. Lemons of Henderson
will preach at 10a.m. and 7:30p.m.
each day.
The Rev. Roger Schumate of the
Chapelwood Church at Texarkana
will lead the singing.
Dr. Lemons is one of the Texas
Conference's outstanding preach-
ers and has served as district su-
perintendent in several of the dis-
tricts.
Mr. Schumate has led group
singing for many conference meet-
ings.
The Rev. Bob Bishoff, pastor,
said, "We are fortunate to have
these two men for this week and
the public is invited to share in the
services."
The Naples Chamber of Com-
merce will hold its annual banquet
next Tuesday evening at the Naples
Motor Inn.
The banquet will begin at 7:30
p.m. and tickets are available from
Chamber members at $3.25 each.
New officers and directors will
be installed at the meeting.
Wayne Smith will be officially
installed as president, Dr. J. L.
Collier Jr., as vice president, and
Clayton Ingram as secretary and
treasurer.
Gary Buck, Buddy Carlile and
Wayne Smith also will be added to
the nine-member board of direc-
tors to succeed 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.
The new officers and directors
were elected in November and as-
sumed their new duties immedi-
ately but the Chamber traditionally
holds the banquet to mark the ad-
ministration change.
Others on the board of direc-
tors are James Welch, D. C. Enloe
and Dr. Collier with one year re-
maining to serve, and Hershel
Welch, W. C. Sullivan and Clayton
Ingram with two years to serve.
Guest speaker at the banquet will
be Charlie Flowers of Marshall,
an insurance man who has won
membership in the "Million Dollar
Round Table" every year in recent
times.
(The following story appeared in
an Okalhoma City daily newspaper.
The subject, Joe Davis, is a native
of Omaha, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. M. Davis).
The Boston Pops and Arthur
Fiedler and all the other symphon-
ic-pops take note: you have been
superceded by uhe Oklahoma City
Symphony and a talented young ar-
ranger named Joe Davis.
The first of the symphony's
"Adventures in Music' concerts
was not just a success — it was
a WOW! This concert, Sunday aft-
ernoon, featured the multiple tal-
ents of Joe Davis and his quartet.
Davis, who is more than com-
petent on about a dozen instru-
ments, also was responsible for the
majority of the arrangements the
symphony played, and the arrange-
ments showed a touch of genius.
Davis is so talented it is a shame
it all has to belong to one man.
This was a mod concert and some
of the costumes worn by members
of the orchestra were outstand-
ing.
The highlight of the afternoon
concert was a third-stream com-
position by Davis that combined
the forces of his quartet with the
full resources of the symphonic
orchestra. One of the difficulties
of writing for that medium is that
most of the time it doesn't swing.
Davis' composition surmounted
this difficulty readily, mainly be-
cause he used his own rhythm sec-
tion the pulse and beat were con-
sistently obtained.
Davis' bass man, Max Simmons,
has a good ear for chords and his
technique is outstanding. Paul
Bowman is one of the most con-
sistent drummers on the scene to-
day.
Davis scored ideally for the big
orchestra utilizing the French
horns for good effect.
The orchestra's playing of the
Davis' arranged "Mancini Bal-
lads" must have given the ar-
ranger great satisfaction. It was
well done. The string section of
the orchestra in the "Guys and
Dolls" medley was so lushitmade
Mantovani sound second rate.
In the Davis arranged "Salute
to Jim Webb", the quartet shared
the stage with the orchestra and it
provided Davis the opportunity of
showing his marvelous playing on
sax, flute, bass flute and vibes.
Davis in the second half of the
program introduced a talented
young singer who performed
brightly and in good pitch. You
might keep an eye out for Micki
Lynn. She is very good.
Local elections are minor contests
Chinchillas are home-grown
A slogan we like: The Tri-City
BEE'S "Sometimes the very things
that make a newspaper GRATE are
the things that make a newspaper
GREAT.
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A tiny little part of one of those
expensive chinchilla furs which
ends up in the wardrobe of the rich
matron and the chorus girls may
hive been roiled right here in
Naples.
The soft, furry little animals
?r? being raised here by Mr. and
Mm. Robert Skelton in a van-type
trailer behind their home on High-
way 77.
It is a sideline they started back
in May of 1967.
Mrs. Skelton spends a lot of time
• with the chinchillas. She checks on
them twice a day to clean the cages
and feed them.
Feeding them is no big problem,
though. Mrs. Skelton puts a bundle
of hay in the feeder built on the
cages and gives them some pel-
lets made especially for chinchil-
las.
A vitamin once in a while 1st add-
ed to their drinking water, and the
animals get an occasional raisin
for dessert.
' The Skeltons keep their 48 ani-
mals in a cool, clean and dry cage.
Even the baths the creatures take
are dry. They bathe in a special-
made pan with pumice dust in it.
They roll and tumble in the dust
until they are clean.
The Skeltons started their ven-
ture with nine females and two
males.
They breed them, raise them for
nine months, then either breed
them again or have them pelted
for the fur.
Mr. and Mrs. Skelton belong to
an international cooperative of
chinchilla breeders that takes the
pelts and markets them.
The group is known as the Em-
press Chinchilla Breeders Coop-
erative, and the branch to which
the Skeltons belong is the Miss-
Ark-La-Tex branch.
Raisers in the cooperative met
Sunday for a workshop at the Na-
ples Motor Inn. Breeders from
Longview, Texarkana, Tyler,Lone
Star, Marshall, Jefferson, Green-
ville, Clarksville and Mt. Holly,
Ark., came here for the day.
A Greenville official attended to
judge a show, and to give tips to
the breeders on raising the ani-
mals.
Enough candidates finally filed
to make the local elections minor
contests.
The city of Naples, Pewittschool
and Marietta school ended up with
contests for the offices, but at
Omaha, only the incumbent alder-
men filed as candidates for terms.
David Giles, C. W. Johnston and
Millard Kennedy offered them-
selves as candidates for new two-
year terms on the city council at
Omaha.
Barring a write-in campaign,
they will serve along with Mayor
A. L. Boozer and Aldermen Toby
Culver and B. B. Brown in the
Omaha city government. Bobby
Brock will continue to serve as the
appointed city secretary.
The Omaha election will be held
at the city hall with Charlie Wright
as judge and Mrs. Alva Parrish
as clerk.
At Naples, only John Ja^ason
filed as a candidate for mayor to
succeed B. J. Floyd, who did not
want to continue in the office but
there are three candidates for the
two positions on the city council.
Clayton Ingram is a candidate
for re-election, and Dr. J. L. Col-
lier and Ed James, aformer mem-
ber of the council, also are con-
tending for the two positions.
Q. B. Wommack has been a mem-
ber of the Naples council but did
not choose to run again.
The most crowded of the local
elections is the one for places on
the Pewitt school board.
Ray Thigpen did not file for re-
election from Omaha but two other
men, Cecil Keene and Frank Clay-
ton, did.
Glen Forrest is up for re-elec-
tion from Naples and he is opposed
by Troy Gibbs and G. A. Caraway.
Two candidates filed for the
lone place to be filled on the board
of the Marietta common school
district.
They are Willie James Wall and
L. E. Loffer, a longtime member
of the board.
The winners will be decided in
5. Those who want to vote absentee
may cast ballots beginning Satur-
day, March 15, and before 1 esday,
April 1.
Pewitt boys enter show
Bobbie Skelton with chinchilla
Thirteen members of the Pewitt
Future Farmers of America chap-
ter and two Pewitt 4-H members
will enter calves in the Morris
County Junior Calf Show Satur-
day.
The show will be held at the
Higginbotham Riding Arena locat-
ed on FM Road 1400 near Dain-
gerfield.
More than 60 calves will be en-
tered by youth of the Pewitt, Dain-
gerfield and HughesSprir;'sschool
districts.
Larry Johnson will enter the
hereford heifer that he won at the
Four States Fair calf scramble
in the breeding class.
FFA members entering calves in
the steer division are Bill Car-
lile, Robert Cook, Don Forrest,
Billy Don Frost, Darrell Frost,
David Harrod, Leslie Huddleston,
Greg Jordan, Tom Knight, Nathan
Nash, Jimmy Parker and Larry
Wright. Pewitt 4-H members to
enter calves are Rick Frost and
Dee F rost.
All calves will be registered
and weighed by 9 a.m. The judging
will start at 10 a.m. All calves will
be awarded blue, red and white
ribbons.
An auction sale for the steer
class will be held beginning at
1:30 p. m.
BAPTIST M*KE PLANS
FOR BIBLE SCHOOL
First Baptist Church Vacation
Bible School superintendents will
meet with their principal, Mrs.
W. C. Sullivan, Thursday to plan
the sc hedule and discuss the budget
for the school.
The school will be held
June 14-20. Teen Time and Youth
Retreat has been scheduled for
June 23-27.
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