The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 21, 2010 Page: 1 of 14
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Heritage Day event
gives students
chance to learn
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Granny G presents
the life of Cynthia
Ann Parker
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Indian offense
unable to convert
inside red zone
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Vol 106, issue 21
Proudly Serving Montague County Since June 6,1905
Thursday, October 21, 2010
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Fourteen Pages
Exes coming home . . .
II Event Saturday
By Tracy R. Mesler
The Indians are coming!
The Indians are coming!
By the scores, by the hun-
dreds and possibly by the
thousands they are coming ..
. home.
This weekend is the "Big
Event", as the Nocona High
School Ex-students
Association has labeled it,
where once every three years
alumni of Nocona High
School return to their school
day roots to visit friends,
visit family and enjoy each
other's company once again.
This year the graduating
classes of 1958, 1959 and
1960 will be recognized as
the Honor Classes - those
who are conducting their
50th anniversary high school
reunion.
Homecoming activities
actually got underway
Wednesday morning when
the Senior Class of 2011,
and their sponsors, spread
across the landscape gather-
ing up brush, tree limbs,
trees and other burnable
debris and trucking it out to
Coaches helping coaches
The coaching fraternity is closely knit, no more so
than when tragedy strikes one of their own.
That was evident by the emotion in Indian Head
--See "Help" Page 14
the old Landfill - well not
"The Old One" that was
located off Dixie School
Road - but the old one in
terms of it has been closed
for neigh on 20 years and
was located off Airport
Road.
There the brush and trees
were stacked, piled and
pushed into place for
Wednesday night's
Homecoming Bonfire coor-
dinated by the NHS Student
Council, Cheerleaders and
Band.
—See "Events" Page 14
Three sites to cast ballots Looking for heritage .
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Honoring:
All CUSSES FROM 15M5B - 2010
Honor Classes:
195 E, 1959,1960
Parade Theme:
"THE BIG EVENT"
WHAT 8*G EVfrfT OCCUWlEO THE "fE« YOU GHACUATEO?
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Early voting
polls open
By Tracy R. Mesler
Polls opened in Nocona,
Bowie and Montague for
early voting in the Nov. 2nd
General Election to choose a
successor to County Judge
Ted Winn and determine
whether Gov. Rick Perry
will enjoy the title of
longest-serving governor in
Texas history.
Any registered voter in
Montague County can vote
at any one of the three sites -
the first (basement) floor of
the Montague County
Courthouse, the Nocona
Community Center or the
City of Bowie's Community
Room from 8 a.m. to 5 .m.
now through Friday, Oct. 29.
While there are a number
contested races on the state-
wide level, the only contest-
ed district race - that for
Congressman 13th District
— fell through last week
with the announcement that
independent John T. Burrell
was ineligible to seek office
Helping hand . .
as an independent since he
voted in the March
Republican Primary. He had
chosen to challenge Cong.
Mac Thornberry for the 13 th
District seat.
St. Rep. Rick Hardcastle
(R-Vernon) is unopposed in
his bid for re-election.
Besides governor, other
state-wide offices up for
election are: lieutenant gov-
ernor, attorney general,
comptroller of public
accounts, commissioner of
General Land office, com-
missioner of agriculture,
railroad commissioner, three
seats on the Supreme Court;
three seats on the Court of
Criminal Appeals.
One half of the state's
senators are also up for elec-
tion as well as all 150 state
representatives.
Locally only one race is
contested on the ballot that
for county judge. There for-
mer County Clerk Lynn
—See "Decision" Page 3
— Photo by Tracy Mesler
A young brave lends a helping hand to a fellow student
Friday as the students at the Little Country School went
on a heritage trip to the Tales 'N' Trails Museum.
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— Photo by Tracy Mesler
After walking to school in the dew carrying their lunches in pails and sacks, doing their school work on slate tablets
writing with chalk by cnadle light and kerosene lantern, working a hand pump to get their water to drink, the Little
Country School students rode a wagon to the Tales 'N' Trails Museum to show off their fashions from the 1890s.
6I feel the earth move
Oklahoma quake rattles dishes9 shakes ivalls in Nocona
By Tracy R. Mesler
"Did a truck just hit the
building?" Wednesday
morning at 9:06 that was the
prevailing thought in
Nocona as literally scores
and hundreds had the same
thought at the same time.
But rather than a truck,
what was being felt — as
dishes rattled and walls
shook and most eerily floors
vibrated — was a 4.3 earth-
quake which struck just
southeast of Norman, Okla.,
pulsating vibrations across
most of that state and into
portions of North Texas.
"I thought a truck hit the
building?" was repeated over
and over and over again.
Even more often than the "I
didn't feel anything!"
What struck in Norman
was rated as "light" trembler
with "moderate" resonances
to the east and south causing
light to very light damage.
In Nocona and Montague
County the effects were
rated as "weak" with no
damage being reported,
although there were lots of
reports of "was that just what
I thought it was?"
Police and sheriffs office
dispatchers fielded a number
of calls asking "What was
that?" as residents - long
accustomed to the occasional
sonic boom emanating from
flights out of Carswell Naval
Air Station - realized that
was not a sonic boom.
Two people were reported
injured in Oklahoma where
light damage occurred
including some minor cracks
in walls and concrete slabs
and broken dishes.
According to the US
Geological Service's
Earthquake Hazards
Program, "Most of North
America east of the Rocky
Mountains has infrequent
earthquakes. Here and there
earthquakes are more numer-
ous, for example in the New
Madrid seismic zone cen-
tered on southeastern
Missouri, in the Charlevoix-
Kamouraska seismic zone of
— See "Quake" Page 2
A**
AREA WEATHER
Oct. 13
Oct. 14
Oct. 15
Oct. 16
Oct. 17
Oct. 18
Oct. 19
78
74
71
83
82
79
82
54
42
45
49
54
59
61
24 Hour period ending at 7 a.m.
Offical recording site at Nocona Hills
Tot Rain 2010 31.10
Tot. October 1.16
Thru Oct 2009 39.96
Thru Oct 2008 31.91
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11tradition
Band 6Superior? again
DENTON - "The
Tradition" has officially
begun. Saturday the Nocona
Indian Marching Band
earned its second, consecu-
tive "Superior" rating in UIL
Marching Contests - the
only two such accomplish-
ments in school history.
"I'm so proud of the stu-
dents and what they have
accomplished," praised
Band Director Richard
Knabe." They have repre-
sented Nocona with pride
and dignity. Last year proved
we could do it, and this year
proves that we are legiti-
mate!"
Knabe would also like to
thank the parents and com-
munity for all the support
and praise.
—See "Band" Page 4
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Mesler, Tracy R. & Mesler, Linda L. The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 21, 2010, newspaper, October 21, 2010; Nocona, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth439353/m1/1/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Friends of the Nocona Public Library.