The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 20, 1961 Page: 1 of 8
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New local manager at SWEP
After 39 years, the South-
western Electric Power Com-
pany office in Naples will
have a new manager.
Noah Ellis will retire July
31 after serving as local man-
ager' for 39 years and nine
months.
James T. Welch, 34, began
Monday to familiarize himself
with the office. He and his
family moved to the H. R.
Hamilton house in the Vaugh-
an addition several days ago.
Welch was born in DeKalb
and graduated from high
school there. He attended
Texas Christian University and
Texarkana College.
The new manager began
his career with Southwestern
in September 1930 at Texar-
kana in the billing depart-
ment and remained there for
two and a half years. He went
to the Shreveport office for
five and a half years and then
was transferred to Mt. Pleas-
ant, where he worked until
his assignment here.
Mr. and Mrs. Welch have
two daughters, Cheryl, 14,
and Cindy, 5.
Club to select
site for arena
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An arena site will be select-
ed by the Naples Boots and
Saddle Club Friday night.
The newly re-activated club
will meet at 8 p.m. Friday at
Bohannan's Cafe. New mem-
bership cards will be distri-
buted then.
A meeting had been called
for last Friday night but hard
rain caused its postponement
when it flooded the cafe din-
ing room.
Officers have urged all
members to be present for the
meeting this week.
Local boy wins scholarship
Ennis Hawkins of Naples is
one of 89 high school gradu-
ates to win four-year Oppor-
tunity Award Scholarships at
Texas A & M College.
He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Howard Hawkins, route
1, and is a 1961 g'nduate of
Paul H. Pewitt high school.
Winners of the awards
were chosen by the faculty
committee on scholarships of
the college following state-
wide competitive examina-
tions given to more than 600
He finished in the top ten
students of his class.
candidates on April 29 and
May 6.
The awards are valued at
from $800 to $1,200, the recip-
ients receiving $200 to $300
a year for four years plus
part-time employment provid-
ed by the college.
Winners are chosen for
their scholastic record, char-
acter. ovidence of leadership
in high school, and financial
circumstances.
The plan was started in
1946 and has helped more
than 1,400 capable high school
graduates to enroll in college.
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JAMES T. WELCH, SEATED, AND NOAH ELLIS
Monitoring
MAIN
STREET
The Details —
Donald Boozer is a metho-
dical-type boy, and his moth-
er, Mrs. Sybil Boozer, rides
herd on him to keep him from
wasting his time.
A couple of weeks ago, she
allotted him enough time to
develop a roll of film, but just
barely enough.
He took the film tank and
filled it with developer, fol-
lowed with short stop, and
ended up with his fixer.
In all cases, that should
have done it — but he forgot
one minor detail.
He had forgotten to put the
film in the tank.
Cat Tales —
Mrs. Leona MacLean has
come to the defense of cats
with this letter:
"So you don't like Tom,
Puss, or any of their rela-
tions?
"Step on their tails and
they yell bloody murder.
God's night gown! Let some-
one step on your tail, and
you would yell, too.
"I heard over the radio this
morning down in Shreveport
a cat was found in the refrig-
erator with hie tail frozen stiff
and standing up, but when he
thawed out he was good as
new.
"Quit poking up the cats
and stay with Fido. He needs
you. Tom and Puss are self-
reliant."
Aw, come on, now.
The Longest Day —
Women who are old enough
to remember the old wash
pot, the punching stick, lye
soap and scrub board will tell
i that washday — always
Monday — was the longest
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They'll know, then, what
George Thomas Brabham had
in mind when he painted the
following sign on his automa-
tic laundry window at Omaha:
"Rain or shine, we wash
anytime. Open 25 hours."
Names and Places —
Really, we're a little dissap-
pointed with folks, around
Morris county.
The county gained distinc-
tion when Mrs. Helen Howell
was appointed sheriff.
Not only did Morris county
have one of the few women
sheriffs in the country but it
had one of the prettiest.
But what we're disappoint-
ed about is the failure of al-
most everyone to play games
with her name.
We thought surely that
wise guys over the county
would answer any and all
gripes by telling the coin-
plainer if he didn't like the
way things were going, he
could just go to Helen Howell
about it.
TOR
Susie is
a lady
Susie Shelton won't do to
monkey around with.
She's a golden spider mon-
key that hasn't bought that
old notion that man sprang
from the monkey.
If man really did, he didn't
spring very far because Susie
has pretty well kept up with
the higher animals.
She's a four year old mon-
key which the W. E. Sheltons
bought when she was three
weeks old at Shreveport.
The Sheltons and their
daughter, Dorothy Gean, 12,
live in a trailer house near
the Elsie Walls grocery and
service station.
Shelton is employed by
Brown and Root, Inc., now en-
gaged in construction of a big
new sulphur recovery plant
for Shell Oil Company near
Brvans Mill.
The Shelton family moved
here from Brownsville.
Susie and her playmate,
Tippy, a Pekingese dog, are
important members of the
Shelton family. Especially Su-
sie.
She's a well-mannered pet
which eats what the family
does, bathes and sleeps with
the children, and is humanly
vain enough to like being
photographed.
She won a first place in a
Ft. Stockton, Texas pet show
in 1959.
The Sheltons also keep a
wardrobe of clothes for Susie
?nd her dress up occasions.
Included are dresses, hats and
certain unmentionables.
When she was sick, the fam-
ily summoned an M.D. to ad-
minister medicine.
Appropriately enough, the
' ,,roc.pr wrote his prescription
for "Susie Shelton".
The Sheltons have been of-
fered $250 for the pet monkey
but they turned it down, natu-
rally. Who wants to sell a
member of their own family?
Steve Hummel
pitches no-hit,
no-run game
Steve Hummel pitched a no-
hit. no-run game Monday
night in .the East Texas Senior
League play.
He beat Winnsboro 9-0 with
a near-perfect effort over the
seven inning route in a game
played at Omaha.
Hummel walked two and
one other Winnsboro player
got on base on an error. Only
one player reached second
base and he was picked off.
The Pewitt Irigh school jun-
ior was aided in his victory
by his teammates' home runs.
Jessie Wright hit two round-
trippers and Robbie Surratt
one.
VOLUME 75
75 years old and new every week
Naples, texas Thursday, july 20, i96i
NUMBER 52
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No. 11 for Shell
Griffin well is completed
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SUSIE SHELTON AND PLAYMATES
Dorothy Gean Shelton, left, and Diane Pickle of
Shell Oil Company appar-
ently has its 11th producing
well in the Brvans Mill field.
The No. 1 I. L.-Griffin had
been completed this week and
was being tested Wednesday.
No figures were available
on the newest of the produc-
ers in the field.
Humble Oil i id Refining
Company's well on the H. C.
Fulcher estate also was near-
irig completion this week. It
was drilling below the 10.000
foot level and could reach the
production level at any time.
Shell also had a new try
underway, the No. 1 Leo Mc-
Coy, on the west edge of the
Bryans Mill field.
it was spudded in this week
and drillers were having min-
or troubles at the early stages
of drilling.
A wildcat near the Bryans
Mill field, the No. 1 Annie
PASTOR SPEAKS AT WSCS
MEETING MONDAY
The Rev. L. C. Orrick was
the guest speaker at the week-
ly WSCS meeting Monday.
Mrs. Fred Vissering and
Mrs. Amelia Vissering were
hostesses. Twenty-one mem-
bers were present.
Hancock, was at 9.134 feet at
noon Wednesday. The well is
Amerada's first try in the new
production area.
In Morris county, the No. 1
C. C. Davis, a wildcat being
drilled >)y Randy E. Moore
and LeCuno Oil Corporation,
had reached a depth of 4,675
feet by lato Wednesday.
Methodists plan
church canvass
The First Methodist Church
is currently engaged in its
every member canvass.
M. B. Hampton is serving
as general chairman of the
canvass, and A. T. Brian and
W. R. Ballard are serving as
co-chairmen.
Other committees are en-
gaged in the various phases
of the canvass.
H. R. Hamliton spoke in the
pulpit last Sunday on a lay-
man's views of the need in
the program. He emphasized
three> points of tithing — tal-
ent, 'time, and material pos-
sessions. and stressed the
need of giving systematically
to the needs of the church.
Delias
Pewitt teachers go fo school
in which Lone Star Steel and
East Texas State College have
to-sponsored the courses.
School days began early
this year for 135 East Texas
teachers who began classes
this week at Lone Star Steel
Company's third annual ex-
tension center for area school
teachers.
Five Pewitt teachers were
enrolled for the classes. They
are Mrs. Dorothy Loffer. Mrs.
Orene Slider, Mrs. Faye Huck-
abee, Miss Mary Ruth Pope
and Mrs. Bernice Cole.
Following registration Mon-
day, they were welcomed by
J. M. Brashear. works mana-
ger, at a buffet luncheon held
at the guest house.
Lone Star and East Texas
State College jointly sponsor
the courses and ETSC faculty
members are instructors.
Lone Star pays the tuition
and acts as host for a daily
luncheon throughout the term.
Teachers completing the
three weeks course will be
given graduate collcgc credit
for the session.
Courses offered are "Math-
ematical Structures of Arith-
metic", "Study of Geology ".
and "Introduction to Student
Personnel and Guidance Serv-
ice".
Teachers also are offered Five Pewitt teacher* who enrolled in the Lone
daily tours of the steel plant. Star Steel extension courses ere, left to right.
This is the second year Miss Ruth Pope, Mrs. Bernice Cole, Mrs. Faye
Cardinals win share of title
NO. 1 C. C. DAVIS
The Pewitt Pony League
Cardinals won a share of the
North East Texas baseball
playoffs by beating the Lone
Star Eagles Tuesday night.
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Huckabee, Mrs. Orene Slider, Or. Riley Smith
of East Texas State College, and Mrs. Dorothy
Loffer.
Pewitt and Lone Star fin-
ished in a tie for third place
in the regular season play and
Lone Star won on the flip of
a coin. Pewitt finished fourth.
The playoffs start Tuesday
night week with Pewitt play-
ing Daingerfield. first place
team, at Daingerfield. The
second game will be played at
Omaha and. if a third game is
necessary, it will be played on
a neutral field.
An All-Star game will be
played in Hughes Springs
Saturday night.
The Cardinals have five
players on the team. They are
Roger Edmonson. Danny Mun-
kres. Tim Henderson. Marvin
McGregor and Tom Brian.
The Daingerfield White Sox
won first place in regular sea-
son play with a 10-2 record:
tiie Linden Tigers were sec-
ond at 9-2: Pewitt and Lone
Star tied with 7-5 marks: the
I lushes Springs Tigers were
fifth with a 5-6 record; the
Daingerfield Braves sixth on
a 3-5 mark: and the Hughes
Springs Red Sox seventh
with a 0-io record.
TWO LOCAL MEN RETURN
FROM SUMMER CAMP
Hershel Welch and Ben
Grimes returned Sunday from
a two-weeks summer camp at
Ft. Hood with the 49th Arm-
ored Division.
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