The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 11, 1969 Page: 1 of 10
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Simms nurse named to state board
Mrs. Melba Jo Thom-
as of Slmms, a nurse at
the David Granberry Me-
morial Hospital, has been
named to serve on the
State Board of Vocation-
al Nurse Examiners.
Three other women and
two men were appointed
to the board, last week
by Governor Preston
Smith.
Mrs. Thomas has been
a Licensed Vocational
Nurse for five years. She
trained at Texarkana Col-
lege and at St. Michael's
Hospital in Texarkana.
She took her state board
examination at Little
Rock and is licensed to
work in both Texas and
Arkansas.
Mrs. Thomas has been
on the staff of the hos-
pital here ever since she
completed her training.
She and her husband,
Gerald, are the parents
of a son and a daughter.
Her son, Gerald Dan,
is a senior mechanical
engineer major at Texas
A & M University, and
her daughter, Patricia,
is a junior at James Bowie
High School.
Her husband is employ-
ed at the Red River Army
Depot as a welder.
She is a member of the
Simms Baptist Church.
Highway given to city
The Texas Highway Department
has given the City of Naples 0.489
mile of old Highway 77 since the
completion of the overpass and the
new route of the highway within
the city limits.
The Highway Department long
has wanted to get the stretch of
road out of the state system, in-
sisting the crossing of the Cotton
Belt Railroad is unsafe.
The portion given the city was
re-sealed and re-striped just be-
fore its abandonment by the state.
It begins at the railroad cross-
ing near the Jim Berry Service
Station and extends to the inter-
section with Highway 338.
Even though the state no longer
hr an interest in the road, G. A.
Youngs, district engineer, repeat-
ed his contention that the traffic
patterns through Naples regarding
the railroad are unsafe and sug-
monitoring
Omain
STREET
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P. A. Thomas, the football and
basketball official from Mt. .* 'ea-
sant, is busy calling fouls on the
basketball court now and has the
chance to get into conversations
with coaches all over this area.
He says that a lot of football
games are brought into the conver-
sations but most people want to
talk about the Pewitt-White Oak
game played in Kilgore this year.
The thing that most of them want
to discuss is that last play of the
game when Pewitt was denied a
touchdown and the right to advance
to the state playoff quarterfinals as
the clock ran out of time.
Thomas can probably understand
why the officials didn't give the
Pewitt boys their score and maybe
his reasoning will clear things for
some of the Pewitt fans.
He says it must be the widest
goal line in the history of football.
Thomas says that everybody that
he talks to, whether or not they
agreed with the call, says that
they were standing "right on the
goal."
Somebody's conscience may
have gotten the better of them or
maybe a purse belonging to Mrs.
Elton Brown hitched a ride back
to Naples from Kilgore.
Whatever the case may be,
Mrs. Brown's purse was returned
to her last week.
She was among several others
who lost purses at the Pewitt and
White Oak ballgame at Kilgore a
couple of weeks ago.
A highway department worker,
Richard McCasland, found the
purse last Wednesday morning in
some of the shrubbery near the
drive at the Naples Motor Inn.
He turned it in to the desk clerk
and Mrs. Brown was notified.
Everything was in the purse
just like it was when it was taken
at the ballgame including a $50
savings bond and 27(5 in change.
So far the purses of Mrs. Travis
Thomas and Mrs. Lenoy Slider
haven't found their way home.
gested the closing of all but the
overpass route and the crossing
at Highway 161 in the middle of
the town.
"It would appear that additional
safety could be added for the
benefit of local traffic if the old
railroad grade crossing in the
vicinity could be eliminated en-
tirely and the old road connected
to the street paralleling the rail-
road on the southeast side, thus
giving two streets through Naples
on either side of the railroad with
the grade separation of the new
highway on the northeast end of
town and FM 161 grade crossing
on the southwest as being the only
two railroad crossings, ' Youngs
suggested in a letter to Mayor John
Jameson last week.
Youngs' letter made it clear that
the suggestion was offered only as
from an observer since his depart-
ment no longer was responsible
for the crossing.
Pewitt choir to
sing Dec. 18
Pewitt's High School choir will
present a program of Christmas
singing at the school Thursday,
Dec. 18.
The 50-member choir, under
the direction of Mrs. John Bird,
will begin its program at 7 p.m.
in the cafeteria and admission
will be 25 cents for students and
50 cents for adults.
Some of the music presented
will be by the entire choir with
piano accompaniment by Paula El-
rod and the program will also
feature special numbers.
Special solo numbers will be
presented by Sue Simpson, John
Pearce and Nathan Collins. Duets
will be sung by Sally Narramore
and Becky Jacobs, Mike Dodson
and Sheri Slider and Ramona
Hodges and Yvonne Hodges.
House judging
set for Dec. 18
The annual Christmas house
decoration contest for Naples will
be judged on Thursday night, Dec.
18.
Judges from out of town will
pick the three top winners and
also name honorable mentions.
The three top choices of the
judges will receive cash prizes of
$25, $15 and 10.
Santa Claus to visit Naples Saturday
Santa Claus Is coming to Naples
this Saturday, Dec. 13.
He will be here for the annual
Christmas parade along with
others who will try to usher in the
spirit of the Christmas season.
A number of floats will be
entered in the parade and there
will also be area beauty queens
riding in the afternoon event.
The parade will start at 2 p.m.
that afternoon and children can
meet and talk to Santa Claus at
the end of the parade.
Santa's parade route will leave
the Naples Motor Inn and wind its
way down Highway 67 to town then
turn and go up through the business
district and turn again and make a
stop on the parking lot near the
fire station.
Santa will ride a fire truck in
the parade and will chat with the
Counties called
disaster area
Cass and Morris counties are
among 27 in East Texas which
Governor Preston Smith has rec-
ommended be declared disaster
areas because of prolonged drouth
during the summer and fall.
The federal government's de-
partment of agriculture approved
the designation and the counties
are entitled to relief in the pur-
chase of feed.
children and give out candy on
the parking lot.
Cash prizes will be given again
this year for the three best floats
and cash prizes will also be given
for the three best decorated
bicycles in a bicycle brigade that
will ride in the parade.
Prize money of $40, $25 and $15
will be awarded to the three top
floats in the parade and prizes
of $5, $3 and $2 for the youngsters
with the best decorated bicycles.
Each youngster who enters a
bicycle in the parade will be given
onp dollar.
Boys and girls must register for
the parade to receive their dollar.
They can register at Welch Butane
or >vith Mrs. Gary Simpson.
Mrs. Hershel Welch and Mrs.
Billy Batchelor are in charge of
taking entries in the float division
of the parade contest.
ONITOR
Serving North Morris County and its neighbors
Volume 83
Naples, Texas
Thursday, December 11, 1969
Number 19
Thieves steal school machines
School was out for students and
teachers over the week end at
Pewitt school but at least one
person was there to see what
they could pick up—and not in
the ways of knowledge.
A thief went through the offices
of the school superintendent, the
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Truck damaged but driver unhurt
A Memphis, Tenn., truck driver
escaped serious injury Saturday
morning when his truck went into
a ditch and hit a culvert.
M. L. Smith, driver of the truck,
said he lost control of the truck-
trailer rig on a rain-slickened
curve on the east edge of Naples.
Smith said he realized he was
going into the ditch but thought
he could ride the truck to a safe
stop until he saw the concrete
culvert in the ditch.
The truck hit the culvert and
turned over on its side. The trail-
er was knocked loose and the tilt-
ing cab of the truck was knocked
forward with Smith inside.
He was taken to the David Gran-
berry Memorial Hospital and
checked for possible back injuries.
Highway Patrolman Marvin Ma-
berry investigated the 7 a.m. acci-
dent.
Cass, Marion get tederal grant
A federal grant in the amount
of $126,062 has been approved
by Governor Preston Smith as a
community action grant to the
Community Council of Cass and
Marion Counties.
Program administration account
funds will be used to operate the
community action agency's anti-
poverty programs not only in Cass
and Marion Counties but also in
Morris County.
The grant, under the Title II of
the Economic Opportunity Act, in-
cludes $24,738 in carry-over
funds, allowing a total of $150,800
for the operation of the agency's
program accounts during its pro-
gram year which will begin on
Dec. 1 this year.
Program accounts included in
the grant and the amount of new
federal fui.ds assigned to each are
as follows: Program administra-
tion, $30,196; community organi-
zation, $60,998; planning and job
placement, $9,274; family plan-
ning, $14,012 and credit union and
financial counseling, $11,582.
Under the Community Organi-
zation program, the CAA will spon-
sor groups in at least 10 com-
munity centers throughout the
area. Each group will plan and
operate a minimum of one com-
munity improvement project.
Adult education classes will be
held in five of the centers.
PTA MEETS TUESDAY
The Pewitt P^X will meet next
Tuesday, Dec. 16, at the school.
Students will present a Christ-
mas program at the meeting.
The trailer was loaded with gen-
eral merchandise and Smith was
westbound. Another truck-trailer
was dispatched from the company's
headquarters and the load was
removed from the wrecked trailer
to the other one. The wreckage
was moved Saturday night.
Smith re-elected
Chamber president
Wayne Smith, executive vice
president of The Morris County
National Bank, will serve again
as president of the Naples Cham-
ber of Commerce.
He was re-elected at a board
of directors meeting held last
Thursday at the city office.
J. P. Stone was elected vice
president to succeed Dr. J. L.
Collier Jr., and Gary Buck was
elected secretary and treasurer
to replace Clayton Ingram.
Stone, Doyce Lee and G. A.
Caraway were chosen to serve on
the board of directors for three
year terms.
Already on the nine-man board
are Ingram, W. C. Sullivan and
Hershel Welch with one year to
serve, and Smith, Buck and Buddy
Carlile with two years to serve.
The new officers will assume
their duties at the next meeting.
school secretary, the school tax
assessor-collector, the high
school and junior high school
principal's offices and made off
with some office equipment.
Deputy Sheriff Dick Lawing and
Texas Ranger Red Arnold investi-
gated the week end burglary and
said that three electric type-
writers, two electric calculating
machines and one electric copy
machine were missing.
The office equipment was taken
from the offices of the superin-
tendent, the school secretary and
the school tax assessor-collector.
The burglary w as discovered
by custodian Emil Buckland when
he opened the school Monday morn-
ing.
Lawing and Arnold said that
no windows had been broken and
that none of the doors appeared
to ha- been forced open.
The officers said that a win-
dow or door could have been left
open over the week end and the
burglar could have gained entry
that way.
Houses to
be judged
at Omaha
Homes in the Omaha area will
be judged for their Christmas
decorations id cash prizes
awarded for t .a best three.
The judging will be held Tues-
day night, Dec. 23.
The first prize winner will be
given $30, second prize $15 and
third prize $10.
All homes inside the city limits
will be considered in the contest
and aay home outside the city
limits may be entered if the oc-
cupant will contact the Omaha
Chamber of Commerce, sponsor
of the event, and let the Chamber
know he would like to compete.
Time to write
Santa Claus
It's time now to write to Santa
Claus.
With the old fellow older than
ever and probably slower, too,
as mortals are, he needs all the
time he can get to shop and plan
to fill orders.
The Monitor would like to have
copies of the letters for printing
in its annual Christmas edition.
We will accept the letters be-
ginning now and must have them by
not later than noon Thursday, Dec.
18, in order to print them.
Help the old fellow and be early.
Maybe then he'll be better to you
than you deserve.
One killed, 3 hurt at Lone Star
Naples Chamber attendance loMsy
One man was killed and three
others Injured in an accident at
Lone Star Steel Plant shortly after
9 a.m. Tuesday.
All were maintenance men doing
repair work In the coke plant by-
products area.
Killed at the scene was Joe D.
Scudder, 43 years old, of Route 1,
Pittsburg.
Injured and taken to Good Shep-
herd Hospital at Longview for
treatment were James W. Larson,
57, of Route 1, Daingerfield, and
Charlie Lane Jr., 46, of Route 2,
Hughes Springs.
Treated and released at the
plant hospital was Sam Fowler Jr.,
47, of Daingerfield.
Scudder and Larson, both mill-
wrights, were working with Lane,
a welder, when they were involved
In an explosion.
No damage estimate has been
made but the explosion was con-
fined to a limited area.
An inquest was conducted by
Judge Ira Russell, Justice of the
peace for Precinct 2 of Morris
county.
Attendance at the monthly
meeting of the Naples Chamber of
Commerce was lousy, with a
capital L, according to John Jame-
son, newly appointed membership
chairman.
The meeting Monday night was
attended by only eight members
out of a possible 50 dues paying
members.
Due to the lack of attendance,
the meeting was short.
The members who attended the
regular monthly meeting discussed
the annual chamber banquet to be
held early next year.
A date hasn't been set for the
banquet but it is usually held in the
early part of the year.
The only other business of any
importance was to appoint Jameson
as membership chairman.
Wayne Smith is president of the
group for the second straight year.
The group meets the second
Monday night of each month and
Jameson urged the members to
attend. He said that any citizen
in Naples is invited to attend and
to join the organization.
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