The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 22, 1965 Page: 1 of 8
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Mike
McCoy
Stanley
Runk
Lynn
Riner
Wesley
Charles Thomas
McCoy
Skelton
Moore
Brian
Roger
Edmonson
James Boyd
Gibbs
10 Pewitt Brahmas
in regional meet The Naples MONITOR
Pewitt will have entries in Those are the events in | ^ ^
12 athletic events at the re- which a Pewitt boy placed first
gional Interscholastic League
meet this week end at Denton.
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STREET
Did you notice last week
that our ungenerous General
Telephone Company had start-
ed an economy move naturally
not designed to save the sub-
scriber money?
Up until that time, the com-
pany sent a postage-free en-
velope for the payment of
bills since the company has no
office and no employees here
to receive the money.
Not any more. Now you pay
the nickel postage.
Pretty soon, we expect the
company will economize fur-
ther by quitting furnishing the
envelopes.
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Skelley brought in a new
Smackover well on the George
Frost land north and east of
Bryans Mill and George natur-
ally was happy about it.
His brother, Carl, told just
how happy:
The day it was completed,
George stood in his front yard
waving to everyone who drove
by. "I thought he was one of
those wooden Indians standing
there," Carl said.
The two brothers, who spend
a good part of their time spoof-
ing each other, were at the
calf show at Atlanta last week
end and Carl got someone to
bid on a calf for him.
In the back of the crowd,
another man kept bidding un-
til he pushed the price up to
30 cents and then let Carl buy
the calf at that high price.
The man pushing the price
up was George.
Cowboys paid more than
spectators at the rodeo held
here last week end.
Contestants paid $2,205 in
entry fees to compete in the
show.
Spectators paid $2,045.57 to
see the three performances.
Postmaster Bill Watson is
concerned that somebody in
Naples is not able now to give
his teeth the care they de-
serve.
^ An electric tooth brush was
R mailed from here some time
ago and the mailing label was
torn off. It came back to the
Naples post office last week
from New York.
Watson would like for the
owner to identify and claim
the gadget.
Hanner Funeral Home's am-
bulance is used to going to
wrecks.
There was none to go to
Tuesday morning so the am-
bulance made its own.
It was being washed and
greased at Gamble's service
station here when it rolled off
the wash rack, across the
street and into the wall of the
post office.
Damage to the post office
was negligible, to the ambu-
lance about $200.
or second in District 13AA
competition.
The Brahma track and field
team won the district title plus
championships in two lesser
known sports, tennis and golf.
Charles Thomas Moore, a
freshman, will go to Denton
Friday to vie for the regional
title in tennis as the first place
winner in the district.
Roger Edmonson, a star of
the track and field team, also
will be in Denton Friday to
compete for the golf cham-
pionship. He also won first
place in that event in the dis-
trict.
Edmonson will compete in
four track and field events
Saturday.
He qualified by winning first
places in the 100 yard dash
and the 220 yard dash, and
running as a member of the
first place 440 yard relay team
with James Boyd Gibbs, Tom
Brian and Wesley Skelton.
Edmonson also will compete
in the broad jump, an event
in which he finished second in
district competition.
Gibbs will run in two other
events, the 180 yard low hur-
dles which he won in district
and the 100 yard dash, in
which he finished second.
John Kirk will run the 880
yard dash as the first place
winner in the district, and Ted
McCoy will go into the region-
al competition in the discus
throw as the district champion.
Lynn Riner qualified in the
120 yard high hurdles by plac-
ing second in district.
Riner and Ted McCoy will
team with Mike McCoy and
Stanley Runk in the mile re-
lay. They placed second in
District 13AA.
VOLUME 79
79 years old . . and new every week
NAPLES, TEXAS THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1965
NUMBER 40
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First quarter report
Lone Star earnings climb
Lone Star Steel Company's
earnings per share climbed to
51 cents for the first quarter
of 1965.
The net almost doubled the
26 cents for the same three
months of last year.
The quarterly figures were
announced Wednesday after-
noon at the company's annual
stockholder meeting.
George A. Wilson, president
and chairman of the board of
directors, said net income for
the three months this year
rose to $1,997,000 from $1.-
025,000 for the same period
last year.
Wilson forecast continued
good business, at least through
the current quarter, and that
1965 would be a better year
than 1964 for the company.
He listed a number of "im-
ponderables" facing the com-
pany during the last of 1965
with bearings on the financial
picture for the year.
Among them were the cost
of labor and materials as they
may be affected by current
union contract negotiations,
product prices, foreign im-
ports, the decline of oil and
3,3 years in Sunday School
The foui children pictured above have a combined Sunday
School attendance record of 18 year? and 6 months. They
are the sons and daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Buck Perkins,
who moved a few days ago from Omaha to Naples. Regena
Lee and William Harold have attendance records of six
years each, Ronnie four years, and Mendy Jean six months.
They have attended the First Methodist Church at Omaha.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wallace of Omaha and Mrs. E. C. Per-
kins of Simms are the children's grandparents.
Naples council asks direct
telephone link to Marietta
East Texas may get water navigation
Public hearings were sched-
uled this week on a compre-
hensive plan which may bring
water navigation and a net-
work of canals and reservoirs
to East Texas.
The Red River is the main
artery under study but the
plan under consideration has a
number of other related proj-
ects tied to it.
A possible future develop-
ment would be a huge reser-
voir north of Highway 67 on
Sulphur River extending from
the Highway 67 crossing of
the river west for several
miles.
That planning has progress-
ed to the point where the pro-
posed reservoir already has
been tentatively named the
Naples Reservoir.
Also under consideration is
a system of canals that would
link Red River, the reservoir
and the Cypress Creek area
near Daingerfield to a naviga-
ble loop circling back to Red
River near Shreveport.
New site chosen
The public hearings were
set for Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday of this week at
Shreveport, Texarkana and Hu-
go to be conducted by the Dis-
trict Engineers at New Or-
leans.
The notice of the hearings
this week said "Investigations
specifically relating to the
feasibility of navigation and
bank stabilization, and associ-
ated improvements for recrea-
tion, have been conducted and
a plan developed therefor.
"Briefly described, the plan
provides, through channel im-
provement and a series of
locks and dams, navigation
from the Mississippi River
through Old Red and Red Riv-
er to Shreveport, La., thence
via Twelvemile and Cypress
Bayous to the vicinity of Dain-
gerfield, Texas.
"Bank stabilization will be
provided along the navigation
route to Shreveport and above
the Denison Dam.
"Access to navigation pools
and cutoff lakes, and the de-
velopment of several park
areas for recreational pur-
poses are included as part of
the overall plan."
The engineers were author-
ized in 1959 to make a survey
determining the desirability of
developing the plan of im-
provement.
Telephone subscribers on
the Naples and Marietta sys-
tems can dial direct without
making a toll call by late this
year.
The Naples city council last
Thursday passed a resolution
asking the General Telephone
Company, which has the Na-
ples franchise, to install the
direct dialing service.
Mayor Rex Allen said the
work would be started soon
and it would require about six
months before the service is
available.
The cost of the service will
be applied altogether to the
Naples business phone rate. It
will amount to about $3 each
month.
The names and numbers of
subscribers to the Marietta
telephone system will be add-
ed to the Naples directories.
The expansion plans were
started here after similar di-
rect dialing programs were put
into effect between the Mari-
etta system and other Cass
county towns. Linden was the
first town to propose the ex-
pansion.
A survey was made here last
week for the Chamber of Com-
merce to check sentiment on
the proposal.
Thirty-seven businesses an-
swered with a majority favor-
ing the expansion of the serv-
ice. Two were indifferent to
the proposal and five favored
expanding the service but ap-
plying a smaller charge to all
of the telephones on the Na-
ples system.
The expanded dial service
without toll charges will be
available to both business and
residential subscribers.
Water well test is dry hole
A test water well drilled for
the City of Naples failed to
produce enough water.
W. L. Dodson said early this
week that the test well just
south of Highway 77 had pro-
duced only about 40 gallons a
minute. A rate of 75 gallons a
minute is the minimum to be
worth completing.
The Layne Texas Company
was to move its drilling rig
this week to a new site at the
southeast edge of Naples near
the new Highway 338 for an-
other test.
The first one was abandon-
ed at 485 feet.
Completes
25 years
with Braniff
Captain A. A. Speegle, Braniff International pilot who now
lives at Naples, was recently honored for completing 25
years of service with the Dallas-based airline. Capt. Speegle
is shown receiving his diamond-studded pin from Capt. Dan
Hughes. Braniff's vice president for operations.
gas well drilling, and high in-
ventories being maintained as
insurance against a strike.
All members of the board
oi directors were re-elected.
Services held for
Emmett Fleming,
Naples merchant
Emmett Fleming, 72-year
old longtime Naples grocer,
died Sunday afternoon at a
Dallas hospital.
He was a member of the
First Baptist Church of Na-
ples and the Belden Masonic
Lodge.
He was born in Naples but
left when he was a child. He
returned to Naples in 1917 and
went into business for him-
self here in 1932, «>
Mr. Fleming remained act-
ive in business until his health
failed recently.
He is survived by his wife;
a daughter, Mrs. Lenoy Slider
of Naples; a son, Kennard
Fleming of Naples; two sis-
ters, Mrs. Beulah Hayes of
Los Angeles, and Mrs. Ethel
Thornhill of Oklahoma City;
two brothers, J. A. Fleming of
Bogata, and Jess Fleming of
Thornton, Colo.; and four
grandchildren.
Funeral services were held
at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at the
First Baptist Church here with
the Rev. Carter Lyles, the
Rev. L. C. Orrick and the Rev.
Morris Hill officiating.
Burial was in the Naples
Cemetery with a Masonic serv-
ice at the graveside.
Pallbearers were Leon Gar-
rett, L. L. Mills, R. J. Welch,
Chester Coker, E. E. Shirey,
Richard Towler, Arvie Barnes
and M. V. Brock.
New well added
to Frost Field
Skelley Oil Company com-
pleted a new producing Smack-
over well in the Frost Oil Field
north and east of Bryans Mill
this week.
The well is located on land
owned by George Frost in the
Sulphur River Bottom at the
northern edge of the Frost
field.
Drillers topped the Smack-
over at 9,730 feet. Tests were
continuing this week but the
well is considered to be an ex-
tremely good one.
DISASTER CONFERENCE
PLANNED AT MT. PLEASANT
A "Government in Disaster
Operations" conference for 18
counties is scheduled May 4 at
the Alps Cafe in Mt. Pleasant.
Participants are expected to
attend from Cass, Morris, Bow-
ie, Delta, Franklin, Gregg. Har-
rison, Hopkins, Lamar. Marion,
Rains, Red River, Smith, Titus.
Upshur, Van Zandt, Wood and
Carson counties.
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