Honey Grove Signal-Citizen (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, March 26, 1971 Page: 1 of 12
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Duncan began his coaching career In 1962 as an assistant
tball coach at Dublin High School, and the following twc
rother, Hugh Terrell,
Anglin, Paris; Mrs.
l.C. Miles, Midland.
College In Stephenvllle. He became head football coach
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SATURDAY NIGHT
March 27th
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NATIONAL FHA WEEK
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Honey Grove. Fannin County. Tbu. 15446. Friday, March 26, 1971/
NUMBER 9
Inservice Training-Easier Holidays
The faculty of Honey Grove schools will begin a two day
session of inservice training on Wednesday, April 7. Students
will begin their Easter holidays on that date with classes to
resume Tuesday, April 13. The Easter holidays are being
extended through Monday due to the inservice training for the
faculty, Supt. D.E. Brooks said.
Band News
Twenty-six Honey Grove bandsmen went to U.I.L. Solo
and Ensemble Contest Saturday, March 13 at Nimitz High
School, Irving, Texas. Of these twenty-six, five won first
division medals and seventeen won twenty second division
certificates.
The music the students played is rated Class III (easier
music for junior high students), Class n (harder music for
junior and senior high students), and Class I (hardest music of
the three classes). When a student wins a first division in
Class 1 music, he is then eligible to enter a state contest at
Austin each June. This year we had no one qualify to enter
the state contest.
First division ratings are superior - the best conceivable
performance. Craig Bryant wort a first division on a Class III
Baritone Solo "Pied Piper" by Buchtel. Janet Hohenberger,
Shelley Mahler, Sarah Moss, and Myra Rodgers won a first
division rating on a Class n Saxophone Quartet "Bouree" from
the Suite in D by J.S. Bach.
<5ne £Iass I Solo was entered by Ross Luper. He earned a
second division certificate which signifies excellent - unusual
performance but not due highest rating. Students that earned
two certificates (for participating in two ensembles) were
Karen Meade, Dianne Strickland, and Tracy Lawhon.
Other students earning one second division certificates for
trio entries were Paula BoeSIer, Marianna Mathews, Vickie
Rannals, Sherri Taylor, and Becky Washburn. For quartet en-
tries - Linda Freeman, Vickie Slebenthall, Nikki Nunmelley,
and Vicky setter earned a certificate each.
A Class n clarinet quintet consisting of Fern Ivy, Coras
Luper, llorma Luper, Karon Srader, and Karen Meade also
earned second division certificates.
Other students participating in the contest were Jill Pirtle,
Gwen Hunt, Roger Joyce, and Gladys Leshaw. Pianist Jane
Pope and Myra Rodgers accompanied die soloist.
Compared to the last two years, this years results indicated
Athletic Banquet Saturday;
Duncan To Be Speaker
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a steady improvement.
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1970
1971
I Div. Medals
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II Div. Cert.
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20
Ill Div. Rating
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3
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TV Div. Rating
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1
V Div. Rating
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Class I Music
0
0
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Class n Music
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Class HI Music
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No. Students
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No. Events
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Ad-Gospel Singing At Monkstown
An All-Gospel Singing will be held at the Monkstown
Community Center Saturday night, March 27, beginning at
7 ;30«
The William Rogers Band will furnish the music. Roy Free
is band manager.
Singers from Paris, Bonham and die surrounding area are
expected to attend.
Everyone is invited to come out for an evening of enter-
talnment and fellowship._
Mrs. Dora Thompson Rites
Held March 23rd
Mrs. Dora (Terrell) Thompson, 93, widow of Silas Thomp-
son, formerly of 2366 Bonham St., Paris, died Sunday noon,
March 21. 1971, in Wilson N. Jones Hospital at Sherman. She
had made her home there since last July with a niece whom
she reared, Mrs. L.R. Locke, 1502 Brents.
The funeral in Paris, Tuesday at 10 a.m. was held at Le-
verett & Steele Chapel with burial In Oakwood Cemetery at
Honey Grove.
Daughter of Winston and Exia (Watson) Terrell, Mn.
Thompson was born near Mena, Ark., Nov. 1, 1877. She was
married in Ambia community, Mr. Thompson's death occur-
ring in 1932. She was a member in Paris of Garrett Memorial
Methodist Church.
Surviving besides Mrs. Locke, are a
Pecan Gap, and three sisters: Mrs. W. E.
H.T. Shipman, Honey Grove, and Mrs.
The annual sports banquet,
honoring Honey Grove High
school athletes and a highlight
of the sc hool year will be held
Saturday evening in the Red
River Valley Civic Center. The
affair is sponsored by the All
Sports Booster Club. Tickets
are still available at $2.50 per
person. The meal will be cat-
ered by Ernie's of Greenville.
Speaker for the event,
scheduled to begin at 7;30 is
Donnie Duncan, former head
coach in the Honey Grove
schools. Master of ceremonies
will be Joe T. Morrow, Sig-
nal-Citizen publisher. The
invocation will be by James
Allen. Following the dinner
Coaches Billy Bllderback,
Jackie Hendrix, Jerry Smith
and James Goode will present
players in the various sports. Trophies awarded the school
will be formally presented by High School Principal James E.
Fuller. Mark Milford and David Seale will introduce the foot-
ball and basketball sweethearts. Following Mr. Duncan's ad-
dress the benediction will be by Curtis Adams.
Winning has become a way of life for Donnie Duncan, head
football coach and athletic director at Navarro Junior College.
An outstanding athlete himself, he is one of the more success-
ful schoolboy coaches ever to graduate into the collegiate
ranks and instill winning pride into athletic teams.
Dedicated to the building of youth, Duncan took over the
Ouiidog reins in March, 1970 alter NJC experienced sagging
seasons of 5-5, 3-8, and 3-7, and in his first year at the helm
of the Bulldogs he brought the NJC fortunes to 11 wins and on-
ly one defeat, falling short of the perennial tough Texas Jun-
ior College Football Federation championship by only one-
half game.
Included also in Duncan’s freshman year-at NJC was a sixth
place finish in the nation for the Bulldogs and two post season
wins over Mexico City Poly, 59-0, and a 21-0 victory over
the nation's number three rated juco team from Grand Rapids,
Mich, in the fifth annual Wool Bowl classic In Roswell,
N.M.
After one season, his feat gained him Coach of the Year
by the Texas Sports Writers Association and a like honor from
The Dallas Morning News.
Although the youthful, personable Duncan Is a demanding
coach, he is fair, honest, well organized and ambitious. His
purpose is to win and demands a winning performance from
his players and coaches alike. He desires to have the best in-
ter-collegiate athletic program anywhere.
A traditional winner, Duncan came to Navarro following a
successful three year stint as assistant football coach and head
track coach at Henderson County Junior College In Athens.
While at Henderson, football teams attained a refcord of 24
wins and 6 losses, with two of the teams being conference
champs and bowl performers. His track teams were conference
champions all three years and twice participated in the nat-
ional junior college track meet in Garden City, Kansas.
The Celeste native was an honor graduate of Celeste High
School in 1958 and was outstanding in die school's athletic
program, achieving All-District quarterback honors in his sen-
ior year. Upon graduation he attended Austin College in Sher-
man and was a four year letterman in both football and base-
ball. He also performed well in the classroom as he earned
many honors, both academically and in athletics.
In 1962 he received the Gene Babb Trophy as the outstand-
ing football player of Auttin College and was named All-Tex-
Sidewalk Sale
Honey Grove Saturday
The retail merchants committee of the Honey Grove
Chamber of Commerce is arranging a sidewalk sale in Honey
Grove all day Saturday, March 27th. There'll be many spec-
ial features during the day including two musical groups
who 11 perform during the afternoon.
White elephant items will be featured by various stores
and Jim Adams, of the Chamber Merchant's Committee says
some of the participating firms' personnel will be wearing all
sorts of outlandish clothing making of the day "Tacky Day",
too.
” There *11 be many big bargains for the bargain seeker as
thousands of dollars of quality merchandise will he offered at
substantial savings by many stores.
Messrs. Adams and Weldon Collins endeavored to contact
all merchants, urging their participating so far as possible.
They supplied this newspaper with a partial list of partici-
pants. "We feel sure that there may be other firms other
than these we are listing who'll join us in this endeavor,"
Adams said Tuesday. Among those Tuesday who had defin-
itely announced participation in the event were Collins Pig-
gly-Wiggly, Honey Grove Paint Store, The Village Corner,
Hammack's Kold Kash Store, Ellis & Sons Furniture, Smith's
Clothing, Shelton Hardware, Phase II. Smith's AG Drive-In
Grocery and W&R Amo Parts.
Rogers Rites Held Tuesday
Harvey Eugene Rogers of Ft. Worth died at his home
there Sunday, March 21, 1971. He had been in ill health
for several years.
The funeral Tuesday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock was in the
Cooper-Sorrells Chapel in Honey Grove with the Rev. Elmer
Isaacs as officiant. Interment was in Oakwood Cemetery.
Named pallbearers were Curtis Simmons. Charles Melton.
Aiva Strickland, Robert uhaney, Gary Riley and R,W, Mills.
A native of Honey Grove, Mr, Rogers was bom Oct. 23, ,
1914. He was the son of A.J. Rogers and the late Mattie
Simmons Rogers. A carpenter by trade and a veteran of the
military service, Mr. Rogers was married first to Cora Fulfer
in 1933. She died in 1935. In 1956 he was married to Alice
Eldridge. .
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Alice Rogers of Ft. Worth;
his father and step-mother. Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Rogers of
Honey Grove; two brothers, Howard Rogers of Paris and J.D.
Rogers of Blossom; four sisters, Mrs. Jess Simmons. Mrs. Wal-
bert Houston, Mrs. Jude Strickland and Mrs. Mozelle Melton,
all of Honey Grove, and a step-daughter, Mrs. Rita Ann
Minix of Houston.
Dial United Presbyterian Church
To Have Revival
Dial United Presbyterian
Church will have a revival
March 30, 31 and April 1,
Tuesday to Thursday. The
Rev. F.K. Mullendore, pastor
of the Prosper United Presby-
terian Church will be the
speaker for the annual revival.
Mr. Mullendore is a native
of Fannin County, having beer
reared on a farm near Leonard.
He is a graduate of Trinity
University and McCormick
Theological Seminary. Dur-
ing World War II he served as
a Chaplain in the U.S. Navy.
Mr. Mullendore has organ-
ized two new churches, one
in Houston and the other in
Port Neches. During his min-
istry at Bethany Church in Dallas, the church was relocated
and a new building erected.
Rev. and Mrs. Mullendore have three grown sons, two of
whom are enrolled at North Texas State Teachers College in
Denton.
Mr. Mullendore was at Dial several years ago for series of
services and has been invited by the Church Session to return
for this years services. Special music will be provided at
each of the three services. The public is invited to attend.
Services will be held each night at 7:30. Arthur R. Osborne
is the local pastor.
Music for the services will be led by Mr. and Mrs. Mark
Short of Paris.
as. A guard on the Kangaroo team for three years, he served
his team as captain his senior year. At the end of his senior
year he was awarded the Pete Cawthon Award for the outstand-
ing athlete of the year.
At the annual Academic Awards Day at Austin College dur-
ing Duncan's senior year, he was named the outstanding senior
man at the college and was presented the Junior Chamber of
Commerce Award, which is given annually on the basis of pro-
minence in academic, civic and extra-curricular activities.
He holds both the Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts
degrees from Austin College with a major In physical educa-
tion and a minor in social studies. Currently he is working to-
ward the Ed.D decree at Past t*v>. CMMnR
and
Rites Wednesday For Mrs. Cox
Funeral services for Mrs. Ethel Cox of 727 South Brighton,
Dallas, died in a Dallas hospital Monday, March 22, 1971.
Funeral services were arranged for 10:00 o'clock Wednesday
morning in Lamar & Smith Chapel in Dallas with the Rev.
Jack D. McNabb and the Rev. Raymond Corrigan as offic-
iants. Interment was to be in Oakwood Cemetery in Honey
Grove at 3;00 o'clock Wednesday afternoon.
A native of Tallapoosa, Georgia, and a Dallas resident
of die past forty years, Mrs. Cox moved to Texas at the
age of 12 years. She was a member of the Brandon Avenue
Methodist Church and die Mary Burrus Sunday School class of
the church in Dallas.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Ralph Brumlee and
Mrs. R.M. Glasscock, both of Dallas; four grandchildren and
twelve great-grandchildren; four sisters, Mrs. Georgia Brown
and Miss Loula Robertson, both of Bonham; Mrs. Marie Skin-
ner, Honey Grove and Miss Alma Robertson, Phoenix, Ari-
zona and a brother, Homer Robertson of McKinney.
Golden Age Club Meets April 2nd
The Golden Age Club meets April 2, the first Friday In
die Civic Center for a lovely Easter program and covered
dish luncheon.
A miscellaneous shower will be given at die Windom
School Lunchroom from 7;00 until 9:00 o'clock Saturday even-
ing for the A.J. Thompson family. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson
and their son, Eddie lost virtually all their belongings in a
fire which completely destroyed their home in the Windom
area Thursday morning of last week.
athletic director at Honey Grove High School in 1965, com- ‘
piling a 20-2-1 record during his two year stay. Both of his
teams were bi-district champions and finished third in the final
state rankings in 1966 and sixth in 1965.
Duncan is also among the membership of Phi Delta Kappa,
an honorary men's education fraternity and of the Texas High
School Coaches Association. In 1967 he was selected as one
of the Outstanding Young Men of America by the Athens Jay-
cees, being one of only six in Texas so honored.
Soloist, Ensemble Enter Allen Festival
Within U.I.L. Music Region III there are several schools
that have recently started bands. They have not matured to
the point that they enter U.I.L. events. Among these are
Princeton, Farmersville, Pilot Point, and Allen. OtherClass
A schools in the Region attempt to help these schools in
any way possible. For this reason the Tri-District Band (that
gave their concert in Whitesboro February 27) was organized.
To help encourage students, Allen band director, Randy
Bartlet, organized a Solo and Ensemble Festival for all the
Class A and B schools that would participate. The festival
was Saturday, March 20. Honey Grove entered five events.
Three of these five earned First Division Medals. No awards
were given for a lesser rating.
Craig Bryant, Myra Rodgers, and Ralph Carter earned First
Division Medals for each of their solo entries. Craig was ac-
companied by Myra. Ralph and Myra played their solos un-
accompanied.
Other students participating in the festival but not earning
a first division were Marian Bass, Fern Ivy, Norma Luper,
Corma Luper, Karon Srader, and Dianne Strickland.
Richard Davis. Honey Grove band director, feels that if
more students would enter more activities such as All Region
Band, Tri-District Band, and Solo and Ensemble Contest and
Festivals, the total band program would show improvement
and the students could experience greater accomplishments.
Mrs. Campbell Rites Held
Thursday, March 18
Funeral services for Mts. Lawrence Campbell, Windom,
Route 1, were held at the Honey Gfove Church of Christ at
2 p.m. Thursday, March 18, 1971 with Wayne Daniells of-
ficiating. Burial was in Willow Wild Cemetery under the dir-
ection of Wise Funeral Home.
Mrs. Campbell died in a Sherman hospital Tuesday, March
16 following an illness of several months.
Survivors are her husband of the home; three sons, Bobby
Dykes of Tyler, and Allen and Clyde Dykes of California; a
stepson, Joe C. Campbell, superintendent of the Bonham
schools; a brother, Isaac Durham of Tyler; two sisters. Mrs.
Ruby Adams of Tyler and Mrs. Marie Anderson of El Paso.
____irday, March 27th
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