Honey Grove Signal-Citizen (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, January 24, 1969 Page: 1 of 6
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The annual alirsports ban-
quet, honoring Honisy Grove
High School athletes "Will be
held In the Exhibit*" Building
of the Red River Valley Civic
Center, Saturday evening, Feb
ruary 1, at 7:00 o’clock. The
affair Is sponsored by the Hon-
ey Grove, football mothers.
A limited ‘‘humber of tickets
are available to the public,
these being restricted to par-
ent* of the athletes and memb-
ers of the Honey Grove Quar-
terback Club and their families. *
Tickets arc |1.75 a&d may be
purchased at Owens Lumber
Co. Ticket sales will be1 con-
cluded at 5 p m., Thursday Jan-
uary 30th.
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ET Graduation
Tuesday
COMMERCE—WlnteT gradu-
ation exercises at East Texan
State University were held at
40 am. January 21 in the Uni-
versity Auditorium. Some 421
candidates received degrees at
the ceremony including four
Doctor of Philosophy degrees,
87 masters degrees and 330
bacctUaumate dagfeia
Candidates for degrees from
' Honey Grove ware; School of
Education Mast a r • degree,
Clayton Haynes Rlddlsspergsr.
School BualnaM Administration
Bachelor’s degree. Timothy Ste-
wart Erwin and William Wilay
Rowton. \
Mrs. Jacquelyn Self Neugent
of Bonham was one of 17 can-
didates for degrees Tuesday,
listed with superior academic
standing at East Texas State
University.
Verdelle George
Services Monthly
BONHAM — Funeral servi-
ces for Miss Verdelle George,
1008 North Main Street, were
at 4 p.m. Monday at. Wise Fun-
eral chapel following her death
early Sunday, Jan. 19, I960, in
a Bonham hospital where she
had bedn a patient for several
days. .
The Rev. Carroll Copeland,
United Methodist minister of
Greenville and former pastor of
the First United Methodist ch-
urch of Bonham, officated at
the services and Interment was
The annual banquet and in
'stallatkm of officers of the Hon-
ey Grove Chamber of Commer-
ce will be Monday evening,
February 3, at 7:00 o’clock in
the Exhibits Building of the
Red River Valley Civic Center.
Tickets to the affair are now
sale at $2,00 per plate, and
Chari t* Kuhn
Charles Kuhn
New Honey Grove
Clubmaster
Cub Pack No. 51 of Honey
Grove has a new leader, Charles
Kuhn. He will be working with
the Den Mothers. Wcbelos Den
Leader, and Pack Committee in
the administration of the Cub
Soooting Program in Honey
Grove.
- The neat meeting of the Cub
Scouts and their families will be
on Monday, an. 27th, ,7:00 P M.,
at the Civic Center. Scout Exe-
cutive Don Knecht of Bonham
will be present also for the
meeting. A training session for
Cub Scout leaders will be held
soon In Honey Grove.
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Roberts went on a 25?
spree Thursday
16 A
ard. Jerry uray
winning?- cause.
Honey Grove built up an 11-2
first period buldge and stretch-
ed its lead ,U> 24 points (31-7>
period, le<i 52-121 at the end of
thre6 qviartdrt.'Bob V$ui Sch-
oiM $
points. Honey Grom hoots Fan-
nindel next Tuesday.
Don Terry's 16 point shooting
paced Honey Grove’s 63-22 win
in the B game. Harold Green
and David Roberts had 12 and
11, respectively. '
may be purchased from Chamb-
er secretary-treasurer Alvin
Fields at the First State Bank,
or from several of Honey Gro-
ve’s retail stores who have the
tickets on sale.
Tioket sales will be halted
at 5:0O o’clock Friday, January
30th.
B. R. Hatley of Dallas office
of the Lone Star Gas Company
will be the principal speaker
at the affair. The meal will be
catered by Ernie’s. .
Brennon R. Hatley, manager
qf community developments
services for Lone Star Gas
Company’s Area Development
Department, joined the Comp-
any in 1947. Subsequently, he
has held various supervisory po-
sitions in the Company’s Sales
and Promotion Department.
Formerly of Austin, Hatley
received a bachelor’s degree in
mathematics from the Univer-
sity of Texas in 1947 following
service with the United States
Navy in the Pacific theater.
Hatley is a member of the
Industrial Development Insti-
tute Scholarship Committee of
the Texas industrial Develop-
ment Council, the |Mst and
West Texas Chambers of Com-
merce, and serves as the Exe-
cutive Committee "Vice Chair-
man of the Dallas Area Indu-
strial Development Association.
He Is active in the United Fund,
YMCA, Boy Scouts, Junior Ach-
ievement, and Masonic Lodge.
Hatley is a member, of St. >
Luke’s Episcopal Church in
Dallas, having served both as
a vestryman and a* church
school superintendent.
Hatley is married, to the for-
mer Josephine Rogers of Aust-
in. The Hatleys are the parents
of four sons.
BONHAM. — Fannin county
1 residents have'V bit less than
two weeks‘in which to register
and qualify ,as voters, Henry
Joe Fletcher, County tax asses-
sor - collector, reminded them
Monday* ~ '
Grove.
Bqm in McNairy county,
Terul., Miss George was a for-
mer employee of the Baptist
Standard and also a teacher.
She was a member of the First
United Miethodlet church.
Survivors are a steter, Mrs.
Katherine Finley, with whom
she mgdc her home, and sever-
al niesjes and nephews.
Pallbearers were Bush Bow-
den, J. W. Herndon, Gene Wil-
shtre, Choice Moore, Roy Owens
and Dan Barnard.
Members of the board of ste'-
4 wards of the First United Meth-
odl»it church were honorary
pallbearer*. T
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Warriors Best
Falcons
Jerry Gray banged home 25
points Friday night as the Hon-
ey Grove Warriors leveled their
District 16-A record at 2-2 with
san 80-34 trouncing of Fannin-
del.
The Warriors rushed out to
a 19-6 first period lend and held
He pointed out that Jan. 31,
is the deadline to register.
Fletcher pointed out that a
registration certificate would
be needed for Any one to vote
in any election held during 1969.
, “Such certificates will be
needed for participation in the
municipal and school elections
in April and in any special
elections that might be called
for any pdnscuse during the ye-
ar,” he said.
Fletcher also pointed out that
persons over 21* who desired to
vote must register.
“It matters not if you’re 60,
65 or 100, you must rogister,”
he said. , ’ • i
A man may register for him-
self and his wife or she may
register for both at the tax of-
fice, he said.
The tax assessor pointed out
that with 196© being an off year
for county, state and national
elections, the registration was
running below The 1968 figures
He also said that Texas law
requires annual registration pri-
or to Fobi 1, the same period
of time, as was allowed under
the payment of a poll tax be-
fore the latter was invalidat-
ed.
“Your registration for 1968
has expired and a new regis-
tration is needed for voting in
any 1969 elections," he said.
„ There is no charge for the
registration.
Honey Grove area citizens
may register locally through
this Friday. The Honey Grove
Chairlber.of Commerce has ar
ranged with Mr. Fletcher for
T. J. Lochridge to register vot-
ers this week.
Mr. Lochridge is in the Pro-
fessional Building on the West
Side of the Square, for the pur-
pose of registering voters, Citi-
zens desiring to register should
see Mr. Lochridge at the office
prior to 5 o’clock Friday after
noon.
Coach Jeyry Smith’s Honey
Grove Warriors basketball team
stretched their winning «kein to
3 with an 81-30 Win over the
Roxton Lions at Roxton Mon
day night. Four Warriors hit
4n- double figures. JerryGray
paced the Tribe with 16 and J.
C. Roberts, Freddie Pattison
and James Allen had ten points
each.
The Tribe also won the B
game, 61-44. David Seals net-
ted 30 points and Haroid Green
14.
The Warriors begin the sec
ond round of play Friday night
in the east zone championship
race when they host the zone
leader, Detroit at Warrior Gym.
Next Tuesday evening at War-
rior gym, the Tribe will host
the Wolfe City Wolves.
Tip-off in the B games each
evening will be at 7 o’clock with
the A game to follow.
Bailey Marine
Is Killed In
Vietnam
Notice
The Honey Grove Band st
dents, sold magazine suhsc
ptions last October, anyone whe
placed a subscription with them
and has not received the first
issue"- should contact Richard
Davis 378-7980 or Mrs. Robert
Shelton, Jr. 378-2945.
a 49-19 advantage at halftime.
Honey Grove was ahead, 62-25,
after t^iree periods.
Clonzell Sweet was the Fal-
cons’ leading scorer with 12
points. .
, Honey Grove also coasted to
a 54-41 victory in the Bjtcam
game. Harold Green paced
win with 20 points. John Gas
ncy led the losers with 13.
ATTEND FUNERAL
Mr* 'John
Mrs. Johnny
attended **■
uncle Jim
Monday.
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Employer
Deadline For
W-Zs,Jan,31
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i Dallas—Friday, January 31,
11969, ,1b the deadline for em-
give employees their
showing the a-
dng, Income tax
social security ln-
SGT. RUSSELL
ARRIVES IN
VIETNAM
CHING pHUAN KAlfo. Tai-
wan-Senior Master Sergeant
Winferd E. Russell, son of Mrs.
OO^ W. Ml. snut A«- /
dition. Honey Grove,,Tex,, has
Lance Corporal Jerry D.
Pearce, 22, U. S. Marine Corps,
was killed in Quang Nam prov
incc, South Vietnam, Jan. 15,
while in action against the en
emy,
pis parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Jesse D. Pfcarce of the Bailey
community, Celeste, Route 1,
were advised Of their son’s
death Friday by the Depart-
ment of Defense.
Funeral ] arrangements with
Owens Funeral home of Wolfe
City in • charge are incomplete
pending; arrival of the body.
Cpl. Pearce was bom Oct. 5,
1946, and enlisted the Marines
Aug. 5, 1967. ! ;„t, *
Seizing with 2nd- Battalion,
1st! Marines, Echo Co., 1st Pla
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arrived for duty at Ghlng Chu-
an Kang AB, Taiwan.
Sergeant Russell, ian.jairomft
maintenance superintendent, is
, Jr.,- a member of the Strategic Air
Internal Command. He previously served
jrrrr ftt aintx>n.
• qf the St ratal
. Me previously
-Sherman AFB, Okie.
The sergeant is a 1951 gradu-
ate of Honey Grove High
School. , i • —-t-tj j-
Hls wife is the former Irene
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Shopperd.
ving. Bobby P<
yrtght and
- celeste; throe
Glenda Newbot
. Compton and
T ‘ all of Garland.
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mmmk $
since July 1!*68.*- V’ > '.
1 He was a member of the Bai-
ley Baptist churhh.
Survivors are his parents,'Mr.
and Mrs. Joss* Pearce; five
brothers, Lyndell Thomas pf
Houston, J. C. Thomas of Jack-
sonville, Wayne Thomas of Ir-
of Wlute-
Fearce of
Mr*,
i. Patsy
Moore,
Highways
The Commissioners Courts of
Fannin. Grayspn and Hunt Cou-
nties l^elcf an" informal meeting
recently at the Fannin County
Courthouse in Bonham and dis
cusaed a highway proposal
which would be of great value
in this newspaper’s estimation
to a several county segment of
northeast Texas.
The proposal would be in a
joint resolution to the State
Highway Commission concern-
ing three roads in this area,
one of which is presently a
Farm tp Market Road (0000)
which presently travesrses the
old Cotton Belt Railway right-
of way from Commerce to Sher
man; the other State Highway
11 from Commerce to Ladonia;
stale highway 34 from Ladonia
to Honey Grove and FM 100
from Honey Grove north to
Monkstown. The other road is
state highway 50 from Inter
state 30 near Campbell to Com
merce.
A number of area business-
leaders who have studiod these
roads, feel that a re-alignement
of them fould be of great value
to a 15-20 county segment of
northeast Texas.
It is proposed that highway
11 which begins at Linden in
east Texas and goes in a north
westerly direction to Commerce
and then north to Ladonia be
redisgnated from Commerce
t>ver the present route of FM
.,0000 to Sherman, making its
jmtire route then northwesterly.
Highway 50 which now ends
at Commerce would be extend
ed north from Commerce thro
ugh Ladonia, over the route of
34 from Ladonia to Honey
Grove and thence north from
Honey Grove on the present
route of FM 100 on to Riverby
with a bridge to be constructed
across Red River to interect a
present highway which ends
south of Boswell, Oljla, just
north of Red River.
Very little if any right of-
way would be needed on FM
0000 to be redesignated as
state highway 11. The same
> would toe true for highway 50 to
Honey Grove. Some right-of-
t \Vay to widen 100 would be nec
evaary and a route from River
by to Red River would have to
be purchased.
This . re-alignmcnt should
prove of great value io Fannin,
Hunt and Grayson counties, It
will also be of great Value for
all cities and>"^oyfns on or near
the routes of the three roads In
other counties also.
It is hoped that the CYwn-
m-isstoners Courts of these throe
Phillip M. Price of Temple, a
native of Honey Grove, is i e-
tiring this wees alter a 34 year-
career with the Soil Conserva-
tion Service. Price, the State
Conservation Engineer, is tne
brother of Mrs. tsei lha Erwin
of Honey Grove.
As State Conservation Engi-
neer, Price lias been helping
direct SCS engineering woik
in lexas since l9oI. Prior to
that tune, he worked tor one
year as a watershed plannEXg
engineer for SC'S in fort Worth
ana 15 years as a zone engineer
supervising engineering wofk in
a four-state area. He was life
project engineer at the SCS
Garland Demonstration Project
from 1936 to 1938. His SCS
career started in 1935 when he
became camp superintendent of
the Civilian Conservation Corps
camp at Denton.
“Phil Price has been an ex-
cellent, dedicated engineer and
he will be missed" greatly,” H.
-N. Smith, SCS State Conser-
vationist, said in announcing
Price's retirement. "He helped
develop and design much of the
basic conservation engineering
practices now in use* in Texas,
so he has left his mark on the
landscape of this State. He has
also been in charge of the cn
gmeermg phases of our flood
prevention and watershed pro
work.'- ■
Smith said that as a result
of Price’s leadership, engineer- ,
ing practices installed on farms
and umpires in Texas with SCS
help are highly regarded by the
public for thcTr technical excel-
lence.
A graduate of Honey Grove
High School, Price is a 1927
graduate of Texas A&M Uni-
versity where he received a B.
S. degree in Architectural En
gincct mg. While at A&M, he
lettered two yeafs in football,
playing end on the 1925 Texas
Aggie team which won the
Southwest Conference Champ-
ionship. Football during that
era required such rugged two-
way players that Price was one
of 15 players who won letters
on the 1925 team.
Price received the coveted
Certificate of Merit for out-
standing work three times -—
I960. 196-1. and 1967. tfc* also
. earned| a. 30 year safe ’driving
award jn 1 tl6-5. He is a member
of the American Society of
Agricultural Engineers and the
Soil Conservation; Society of
America,
Before joining SCS, Price
worked -a year afc nn engineer
for the Arkansas Highway Dc
partment and worked five years
for a highway construction
company in Arkansas and New
York. He also he.ld other en
gineering jobs in Texas and
Arkansas.
Gene C. Vittetoe, formerly
State Conservation Engineer
Fannin's
Banks Show
Deposits Gains .
Fannin County’s seven banks
reported deposits totaling $30,-
850,687 as of Dec. 31, showing a
gain of $3,673,680 over the $27.-
177,077 reported^ year ago on
the same date,
■ While deposits were making i
significant gain, loans and di-s
counts of the seven banks al
so reflected increased borrow
ing and investing powei of their
customers — gaining almost $2
million.
File Dames showed ioan.s an ■
discounts totaling $16,908,432
as of Dec. 31, gaming $1,998,
324 over the $14,910,108 of a
year ago.
Statements a.s of Decr 31
.showed the seven Fannin banks
with the following deposits and
loans-discounts:
Bonham State Bank De-
posits $9,981,138; loans and Ui.s
counts $5,065,430.
First National of Bonham
Deposits $9,168,482; loans and
discounts $4,,695,433v
Fannin National, Windom
Deposits $1,884,064; loans and
discounts $1,254,844.
Leonard National Deposits
$2,470,631, loans and discount.-,
$1,446,847.
First National of Trenton
Deposit-! $2,160,156; :oar.. ana
discounts $1,197,395.
First State of Honey Grove
— Deposits $4,300,562; loans
and discounts $2,941,226.
Farmed and Merchants of
Ladonia -— Deposits $885,341.
loans an<j discounts.$307,257.
Baptists
Set Sunday
As "Men's Day"
Laymen of the First Bapti l
Church will be leading in its
Worship services this Sunday.
The morning message will be
delivered by Clyde M Pope, and
the evening message will In-
delivered by Hurl Stanford
Other men will be giving testi-
monies. leading in prayer. .Mi,g
ing, reading Scripture passage-,
etc. Men's dav is observed by
many Southern Baptist Church
es. For 39 years this day m
January has been set aside to
emphasize the value of dedi-
cated men to the church Any
one in the community who dr
sires to attend these services is
welcome to do so. and Will t> -
cordially received, reports the
pastor, Re\c Bob Hinson
a ~r •*
Golden Age
Club To Meet
February 7 th
The Golden ago club will
meet, at 10:00 o'clock. February
7. the regular meeting day, the
first Friday of the month.
Everyone come and invite a
new member.
Bring a covered dish and en
joy the day. Business and new
plans for a, new year began at
10:30 a.m.
Reported
Soviet' voters play a small
part in their elections. They nre
given a ballot with one name
on it, the candidate supported
by ,the party. The voter is al-
lowed to take the ballot froni
the -election official and drop it
in the ballot box
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. .f’M'-'M.’ "••J- V*.
of Mtneoha.
ftiteyuant will be in Provi-
dence cemetery at Mineola.
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counties ivill get the resolutions
completed soon so they may
present -it to the Texas High-
way Commission in the near
future. * * ■ -
is.
,
it'”'
j
for New Mexico, has bcon nam-
ed to replace Price.
After retirement, Mh and
Mrs. Price will continue to Jive
in Tempi* at 2210 North 15 th
Street - .
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Morrow, Joe T. Honey Grove Signal-Citizen (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, January 24, 1969, newspaper, January 24, 1969; Honey Grove, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth800359/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Honey Grove Preservation League.