The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 6, 1959 Page: 1 of 8
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THE INJURED ARE SHADED BY QUILTS AND BLANKETS AS THEY WAIT FOR AN AMBULANCE AFTER HEADON CAR WRECK LAST THURSDAY
The Naples MONITOR
VOLUME 74
74 years old and new every week
NAPLES, TEXAS THURSDAY, AUG. 6, 1959
NUMBER 2
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Monitoring
MAIN
STREET
Total climbs to $10,183
$1,401 more given to hospital fund
Like Son, Like Father —
Lenoy Slider and his family
were on their way Saturday
night to his parents' home
near Simms when they met
that man, James C. Gee, state
highway patrolman.
The meeting will cost Slider
a fine for doing 80 miles an
hour.
Before the family could
have supper, Rich Slider, the
father, had to go to a nearby
store for a loaf of bread.
He also met Mr. Gee. His
fine was for making an im-
proper turn.
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The Easy Way —
There's one thing about
modern living: People don't
have as much trouble as they
used to dodging their credi-
tors.
Now they do it in new cars.
— Intm —
Double Dip —
And now they've put Bap-
tism on an assembly line basis.
It was the Rev. W. E. Wood-
son of Marietta, pastor of the
Center Hill Baptist Church,
who went modern in administ-
ering the holy ritual
Among the five candidates
for Baptism Sunday afternoon
were twins, Frankie and Mar-
gie Rucker, 12-year old chil-
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Johnny
Rucker.
Bro. Woodson doused the
two under the water at the
ytsame time.
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Feathering Your Nest —
Of course you know you
can't take it with you.
Hospitals, stripped of their
usual high-sounding and no-
ble dedications, are intended
to keep you and what is yours
together as long as they can.
Most of the time, that in-
stitution will finally become a
crossroads where we must
part with what we've accumu-
lated.
Doesn't it make sense that
you should send a little ahead
as far as you can in this old
world?
Or had you rather hold onto
it and count it?
Give as much as you will to
the David Granberry Memori-
al Hospital.
The David Granberry Me-
morial Hospital Association re-
ceived $1,401 more in contri-
butions during the week.
This brought the total so far
to $10,183 in cash contribu-
tions and about $1,800 in labor
and discounts by local people
who worked during the mod-
ernization of the hospital.
Those who gave during the
last week were Southwestern
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Electric Power Co. $1,000; Joe
Martin $100: Bun Hall $50;
and Morris Hampton $251.
A number of people donat-
ed labor or did work at a re-
duced rate to help when the
work was being done.
A1 Hummel, administrator,
said that group included Ikey
Harte, C J. Vaughan, Coaches
Fielding Huddleston and A. T.
Brian, Floyd Kelly, and the
Chester Coker Motor Co.
Coker donated labor esti-
mated at $350 for painting the
furniture.
Vaughan did extensive work
throughout the hospital and
saved it about $1,000 from the
normal cost for a similar job.
Harte furnished his truck
and labor to bring in air con-
ditioners from Shreveport and
saved the hospital about $75,
and the coaches installed them
at a total savings of about
$300.
Kelly did electric wiring at
about $150 less than a normal
charge.
Members of the hospital's
board of directors expect to
raise approximately $25,000 in
contributions to pay for the
purchase of the hospital from
private owners and for its
modernization.
four injured in
wreck near here
Three members of an Ar-
kansas family and a Saltillo
man were injured last Thurs-
day afternoon in a headon
collision east of Naples.
Injured were:
The Rev. Roy Davis Bunch,
36, broken ribs and several
cuts on both knees. A
Mrs. Sylvia Earline Bunch,
36, wife of the Rev. Bunch,
a broken right hip, broken
left shoulder, and a fracture of
the right ankle.
Mrs. J. G. Cook, 54, mother
of Mrs. Bunch, broken right
arm and leg, pelvis bone brok-
en in five places, and cuts on
her head and face.
Carl M. Roberts of Saltillo,
head and chest injuries. He
was released from the David
Granberry Memorial Hospital
here last week end.
The Rev. and Mrs. Bunch
are from Crossett, Ark. and
Mrs. Cook is from Hughes,
Ark.
State Highway Patrolman
Fred Minton of Daingerfield,
who investigated the accident,
said a felony charge of driving
while intoxicated will be filed
against Roberts as soon as the
district attorney returns from
a vacation trip.
Roberts was arrested follow-
ing his release from the hos-
pital here and lodged in jail
at Daingerfield. He was trans-
ferred later to the jail at Lin-
den because the accident hap-
pened in CasS county and then
freed on bond.
Roberts was alone in a west-
bound car on Highway 67 and
the Rev. Bunch was driving
the eastbound car.
Minton said the Roberts car
apparently swerved across the
center stripe and into the path
of the Bunch vehicle.
Witnesses said the Roberts
car had been weaving back
and forth across the road be-
fore it met the other vehicle.
The injured waited about 45
minutes at the scene of the
wreck for an ambulance to
bring them to the hospital
here. ■**>•* *
The Hanner Funeral Home
ambulance was in Daingerfield
for service and others were
called from Mt. Pleasant and
Atlanta. .
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Buddy Fleming, the young son of Mr. and Mrs. Kennard
Fleming, had an answer for the hot, muggy weather -- a
cool dip in a tub. Wouldn't you like to join him?
It's not the heat. . it sure 'nuff isn't
FRED MINTON, RIGHT, WELCOMES PEYTON EVANS TO THE COUNTY
New highway patrolman reports for duty
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A second highway patrol-
man was added at the Dainger-
field office this week.
Peyton Evans, 27, arrived
Monday and will share duties
with Fred Minton, who has
maintained the station alone
for more than two yfars.
Evans, of Mt. Enterprise,
completed his training in the
school for patrolmen on July
29.
He is a graduate of the Mt.
Enterprise high school and at-
tended Stephen F. Austin Col-
lege at Nacogdoches.
He served in' the air force
for four years, being discharg-
ed in 1956.
His assignment to the Mor-
ris county office marks the
first time that two state patrol-
men have been stationed in
the county.
It's not the heat so much.
It's the humidity.
You've heard that statement
many times but it's the truth
about the weather this week.
It's hot all right, but the
temperature is not as high as
it seems.
The mercury climbed to 97
last Friday, dropped to 95 on
Saturday and went back to
97 Sunday and hung there.
In this area where readings
of more than 100 degrees are
not uncommon, 97 ought not
be the wilting temperature it
was this week.
But that's where the humid-
ity — the amount of moisture
in the air — comes in. It has
GAS BILLS TO BE PAID
AT JOE MARTIN OFFICE
Joe Martin has been desig-
nated by the Arkansas-Louisi-
ana Gas Company to collect its
monthly gas bills.
Martin will accept payment
at Jus office on Main Street.
Joe Fulcher formerly accept-
ed payment at his store here.
been more than 50 per cent
tvery day, giving people that
muggy, depressed feeling.
R. L. Whitener, who keeps
accurate records of the weath-
er at Naples, showed one day
last month, on July 19, when
the temperature reached 97.
Most of the month, though,
:t was comparatively cool with
temperature readings mostly
in the upper 80's and the low-
er 90's.
July was a wet month. It
rained 11 of the 31 days and
Whitener's records indicate a
total for the month of 6.01
inches.
Slmke, rattle and roll
and then the Jail House Blues
The party started out as
a shake, rattle and roll af-
fair with dice as the center
of attraction.
Then an uninvited guest
arrived.
The party ended up sing-
ing "The Jail House Blues."
That social gathering was
a group of six Negroes who
were busy trying their luck
with the galloping dominoes
Saturday night at a Negro
cafe east of town.
The uninvited guest was
Constable Jim Presley. He
arrested the six crap shoot-
ers and landed them in the
city jail here.
Later Saturday night they
were released.
Who won the game? The
city.
Each of the six partici-
pants paid fines of $20 for
their part in the game.
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