The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 23, 1964 Page: 1 of 8
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Monitoring
MAIN
STREET
If you think that report on
the cigarette as a health haz-
ard must have given a lot of
smokers the nervous jitters,
consider what the thought of
everyone swearing off at the
same time must do to state of-
ficials.
The State of Texas last year
Lcollected $90,300,000 on cigar-
te taxes.
The report did one thing for
sure — it put many of the best
minds in the country to look-
ing for solutions to the prob-
lem.
Only one of the ideas they
have come up with seems to
be acceptable to everyone.
Under that plan, a man
buys and carries cigarettes as
usual. But he never lights one.
When he feels the urge, he
takes out the cigarette, puts
it in his mouth, puffs on it,
and holds onto it for six min-
utes, the time it takes to burn
one up.
Then he flips it away.
At the end of the day, he'll
know how many cigarettes he
hasn't smoked that day.
That plan probably would
be okay with the cigarette
companies and the State of
Texas.
Another plan formulated by
some of the better brains in
the country patterns an or-
ganization of quitters after
Alcoholics Anonymous.
That, you know, is a buddy
organization. If one member
has an uncontrollable urge to
drink, he calls another mem-
ber who goes to him.
There he'll sit, talk, reas-
sure and maybe even have a
fraternal smoke with the agi-
tated new non-drinker.
The new organization would
be called Smokers' Anony-
mous.
If a man who has sworn off
finds the temptation to light
up a cigarette too much for
him, he calls in another mem-
ber of the fraternity.
Then they'll sit around, talk,
reassure, and get drunk to-
gether.
Talk about ZIP codes and
quick mail service.
Mrs. C. E. Warren of Na-
ples route 3, wrote a letter
to her son, Eugene, in Los
Angeles, Calif.
She mailed it one day. He
got it the next.
If Kristi Lynn White, a
great granddaughter of Mrs.
Irvin Floyd of Naples, isn't
spoiled rotten it will be little
less than a miracle.
The baby was born to Mr.
and Mrs. Bill White at Dallas
cr. Jan. 1.
To do the spoiling, there
are the two parents, four liv-
ing grandparents (Mr. and
Mrs. J. L. White and Mr. and
Mrs. C. O. Floyd of Dallas),
four living great grandparents
(Mrs. Irvin Floyd of Naples,
Mr. and Mrs. A. D. McCollum
of Honey Grove, and Mrs. F.
M. Pruitt of Bangs), and one
great great grandmother (Mrs.
J. H. McCollum of Kilgore).
Down at Bryans Mill (Oil
Town, USA) last week, when
land was leasing at $1,000 an
^-•e, royalty was selling at
fM-.same price and higher,
Sfott Elliott's Store was a bee-
hive of activity.
Scott was acting as store-
keeper, grease monkey, gar-
age man, fire stoker, and ad-
viser in general.
Lease brokers were stand-
ing in line for the phone and
when it rang, the answer was
"oil headquarters".
That was the situation after
the new Amerada well set off
a new boom there.
The stove in the store still
drew its regular crowd but
the main topic of conversa-
tion there wasn't oil but was
George Frost's cattle.
The concensus was that
George's cattle would already
have starved to death if it had
not been for good old faithful
L. C. Warren.
Naples council airs complaints against gas company
Top officials of the Arkan-
sas-Louisiana Gas Co. have
been handed a list of com-
plaints aired by the Naples
City Council at a rate increase
hearing last week.
The four major grievances
were sent to D. W. Weir, exec-
utive vice president of the
company, by J. N. Clayton,
manager of the rate and reg-
ulatory department.
The council had requested
that the complaints be made
known to top company offi-
cials and an answer be made
to the council by last Friday.
However, Weir was out of
the area and the answer will
be delayed.
Clayton's letter to Weir list-
ed these grievances at Naples:
(1) It was felt that there was
a complete disinterest shown
by the company in regard to
the industrial and commercial
development of the city. Com-
parisons were made with such
activities by the electric com-
pany which provides extensive
aid and advisement along
these lines. It was pointed out
that no calls were ever made
on city officials or business
leaders to help plan possible
The Naples MONITOR
78 years old . . and new every week
VOLUME 78
NAPLES, TEXAS THURSDAY, JAN. 23, 1964
NUMBER 27
Miss Paula Patterson named S1-04 "er share
Pewitt DAR 'Good Citizen' L$ Steel made profit in '63
Miss Paula Patterson, the Patterson of Naples, has been
Miss Paula Patterson, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul
, 4,
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PAULA PATTERSON
Pot stew planned
at Bryans Rftill
Pot stew will be served at
Brayns Mill Saturday night as
a March of Dimes benefit.
The stew will be served at
the Scott Elliott store starting
at 5 p.m
Stew, crackers, chips, pick-
les, pie, coffee or cold drinks
will be served for $1 a person.
Pies will be sold at $1 each
and stew a $1 per quart to
those who want to take it with
them
Patterson of Naples, has been
selected as the "DAR Good
Citizen" of Paul H. Pewitt
high school for the 1963-64
term.
She was chosen to receive
the award by members of the
Pewitt faculty on the basis of
first semester grade averages.
The award is given each
year to the highest ranking
senior girl by the Martha
Laird chapter of the DAR.
Presentation of the award
will be made at an assembly
program at the school.
As a Pewitt student, Miss
Patterson was a member of
the Brahma pep squad for
four years and served as pres-
ident of the group her senior
year.
She was a runner-up in the
"Miss PHS" contest, served a
year as editor of the high
school paper. The Brahma
Corral, was a member of the
National Honor Society for
two years, and was a member
of the FHA for one year.
Miss Patterson was a stu-
dent council representative
her freshman year and a class
favorite as a sophomore.
During her eighth grade
year in junior high school she
was valedictorian and was pre-
sented the DAR award for
achievements in history.
Miss Patterson and her
mother will be honored at a
tea at the February meeting
of the DAR in Mt. Pleasant
along with winners and their
mothers from other schools in
the Martha Laird chapter dis-
trict.
The financial picture im-
proved sharply for Lone Star
Steel Company in 1963 over
the year before.
Preliminary figures for last
year showed the company
earned $1.04 per share in 1963
compared to a loss of 64 cents
per share in 1962.
George A. Wilson, president
of the company, attributed the
Pewitt teachers
attend course
on administration
A group of teachers from
this area have recently com-
pleted an extensic arse on
school administration and or-
ganization taught by Dr. E. M.
Shepherd of East Texas State
College.
The class met weekly dur-
ing the fall school semester,
and was offered for graduate
credit to those already holding
degrees in the teaching field.
Among those receiving cred-
it were four teachers from
Pewitt school: Wayne Hucka-
bee. Miss Ella Warthan, Mrs.
W. J. Palmore and Mrs. Bob
Bearden.
SINGING CONVENTION TO
BE HELD AT MARSHALL
The Arkansas, Louisiana,
Texas and Oklahoma singing
convention will be held Feb.
1-2 at the National Guard Ar-
mory building in Marshall.
improvement to a vigorous
economy program along with
a modest increase in sales.
The preliminary report in-
dicated net income was $4.-
063.495 in 1963. This is after
federal taxes and a write-off
of capital equipment of ap-
proximately $1,575,000.
The bulk of this equipment
retirement cost grew out of
the closing of Lone Star's coal
mining operations in Okla-
homa, and amounted to about
20 cents per share net after
taxes.
The full impact of savings
resulting from payroll de-
creases was only partly realiz-
ed during the year since some
of the reductions did not oc-
cur until well into 1963.
Slider delegate to ag meet
Representative Lenoy Slider
has been asked to serve as a
delegate to the Southwest
LENOY SLIDER
Agricultural Trade and Farm
Policy Conference at Texas
A & M on Feb. 26-27.
The conference is jointly
sponsored by the Texas Agri-
cultural Extension Service,
the Agricultural Policy Insti-
tute of North Carolina State,
and the Department of Agri-
cultural Economics and Soci-
ology of Texas A & M.
Rep. Slider was selected by
agricultural leaders in this
area to represent a geographic
part of Texas as well as a seg-
ment of the agricultural indus-
try.
Attendance is limited to 200
delegates from Texas, Okla-
homa. Arkansas and Louisiana.
The conference w'll explore
the problems of U.S. agricul-
ture associated with foreign
trading, and the domestic
farm situation regarding spe-
cific commodity problems and
policies facing agriculture in
the Southwest.
These won their letters
Pewitt school not only turns out outstanding foot-
ball players, other athletes, and excellent band
members and majorettes — it also turns out stu-
dents. Sixty-two pupils from the fifth through the
eighth grade won their letters during the first se-
mester by qualifying for the "A" and "AB" honor
roll. Principal Wayne Huckabee said a dozen of
them were on the "A" list. Shown above are the
students on the two lists with those on the "A"
honor roll designated by an (A) after their names:
Left to right, front row, Linda Sue Talley, Betsy
King, Mike Penny, Brenda Higgins, Randall May,
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Janet Griffin, Jerry Pate. Jimmy Hart, Charles
Kesseler, Amanda Lou Hicks, Paula Walker and
Johnny Chadd'ck; second row, Lenora Sue Waits,
Beckv Beaslev, Ann Clawson, Sue Simpson. Sally
Narramore, siieri Slider (A), Paula Elrod (A). Betty
Thompson (A), Mary Bob Ballard (A), Vicki Canant
(A), and Becky Jacobs: third row, Danny Ham-
monds, Cindy Sandlin, Danny Bearden. Jimmy Vis-
sering, David Harrod, Glen Dale, Ronnie Lyles (At.
Dale Cobb (A), Jerry Garrett (A), Charles Moore
Pay your poll tax
(A), Allan Jones (A), Tom Wise (A), Janet Visser-
ing and Karen King; fourth row. Larry Stringer,
Terris Keene, Tommy Knight, Pat Penny. Arden
Franklin, Gary Huddleston, Tim Wise, Lunetta
Wommack, Karen Godwin, Deborah Hall, Doris
Shilling. Patricia Stevens and Sally Irvin; and fifth
row, George Caraway, Charles Hamilton, Wylie
Joiner, Bobby Clark, Mike Thigpen. Sue Wom-
mack, Paulette Vissering, Beth Ramsey, Glenna
Higgins and Sondra Bell (A). Janice Kirk and Steve
Kirk were on the "AB" honor roll but were absent
Tuesday when the picture was made.
industrial and commercial ex-
pansion of plants or business-
es. The company's decision
not to participate in the new
motel which is being built as a
project supported by the city
was pointed out.
(2) The town felt that its
residents and businesses did
not receive sufficient atten-
tion by sales personnel and
other representatives of the
company who could assist and
advise individuals in the selec-
tion of heating and air con-
ditioning equipment, design,
installation, etc. Again is was
pointed out that electric rep-
resentatives often spent con-
siderable time with new home
builders or those remodeling
a home or business and that
such advice materially assisted
the individuals in selection of
proper equipment.
(3) It was felt that the fact
that no company office or per-
manent company personnel
were maintained in the town
showed a relative disinterest
for the routine problems which
arise from utility service and
bill payments. The collection
office location has been chang-
ed several times in the last
ten years and none of the lo-
cations had been particularly
satisfactory. In comparison it
was pointed out that the elec-
tric company maintained a
permanent office with a man,
a girl, and a service truck
available to serve the public.
(4) The main extension poli-
cy in prior years had been too
rigid in requiring full non-
refunding payment by indivi-
duals who were required to
pay the cost of pipe laid to
extend the mains to a new
house lo ation while other
consumers tied on to the line
at no additional cost. This was
the actual experience of one
councilmen some nine years
•"go.
Two Hereford
sales planned in
East Texas area
Two registered Hereford
sales will be held in this East
Texas area within the next
two weeks.
The Northeast Texas Here-
ford Association Show and
Sale will be held Friday, Jan.
24. at the C. E. Gaddis farm
one mile north of Mt. Pleasant
on U.S. Highway 271.
The sale there starting at 1
p.m. will offer stock from the
herds of Adron Justiss of Om-
aha, McCoy's Hereford Farm
at New Boston, H. B. Under-
wood of Jacksonville. P. R.
Hereford Farm at Pittsburg,
Crescent Hereford Ranch at
Clarksville, L. J. Carter of Mt.
Vernon, and Lerov Allen of
Cookville.
The other sale is the eighth
annual Northeast Texas Four
Star Polled Hereford sale at
the Bentley and Calloway
Ranch one mile north of
Hughes Springs on FM 61. The
sale starts at 1 p.m.
Cattle breeders with ani-
mals at the sale include Bent-
ley and Calloway of Hughes
Springs. L. T. and Jo Camp of
Daingerfield. Adron Jusliss of
Omaha. Vernon Hampton of
Hughes Springs, Jack and
Woodie Talbot of New Boston,
and C. E. Gaddis of Mt. Pleas-
ant.
Mrs. Gholson
dies Wednesday
at Texarkana
Mrs. Martin Parolee Gorman
Gholson. 77 year old Atlanta
resident, died at a Texarkana
hospital Wednesday.
She was the grandmother of
Mrs. Doyse Betts of Naples.
Survivors include three sons,
Neuman Gholson of Splendo-
ra, Texas, Tech Sgt. James M.
Gholson Jr. of the Air Force
in France, and Calvin Gholson
of Houston: two daughters,
Mrs. Morris Griffin and Mrs.
Jessie Loper of Atlanta: two
sisters, Mrs. Susan Kranz of
Klamath Falls, Ore., and Mrs.
Vergie Holman of Natchi-
toches. La.; 25 grandchildren
and 32 great grandchildren.
Funeral services were held
at 3 p.m. Thursday at the
First Nazarene Church of At-
lanta and burial was at Pine-
crest cemetery in Atlanta.
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