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The Monitor Naples, Texas 75568-0039 Thursday, August 30, 2012 Page 4
THROUGH THE PAGES OF THE MONITOR
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Dinah Anthony and her family visited in Houston ... Enrollment at
Pewitt High School had set a new record high ... Nearly 2,500
men, women and children filed past tables set up in Carver and Pewitt
school cafeterias to receive a small sugar cube saturated with polio
vaccine ... Sirloin steaks were 790 a pound at Boozer's Food Store in
Omaha.
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Rhonda Hammonds had been elected president of the pep
squad at James Bowie High School... Mrs. Marvin Ranes wanted
to find a good home for two medium-sized dogs ... A quart of salad
dressing was 490 at the Netco Store in Naples ... The Morris county
land for 0.885 mile stretch of Highway 77 and the overpass in Naples
brought the owners a total of $36,700 ... Jimmy Brown of Omaha was
the new president of the Brahma Booster Club ... Gena's Department
Store in Omaha was celebrating its first anniversary ... The Morris
County Senior 4-H Club met at the home of Janet Walters of Naples.
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Dusty Ranee Hawkins was born at Titus County Memorial
Hospital in Mt. Pleasant and weighed 7 pound and 3 ounces ...
Tina McCollum, three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Arthur
McCollum of Naples, was honored with a party at the Little Lambs Day
Care Center on her birthday ... A meeting had been planned at the
Naples Chamber of Commerce office to discuss proposed ambulance
service for Naples and Omaha ... Game management officer Larry
Willeford of Daingerfield was the guest speaker at a meeting of the
Omaha Rod and Gun Club ... The Jonquil Garden Club was to meet
at the home of Mrs. Mary McMichael.
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Robin Knowles was about to celebrate a birthday ... The Granberry
Insurance Agency in Naples had been sold to a Daingerfield-
based corporation by its owners, W.G. Granberry, Mr. and Mrs.
Eugene Falls and Kenneth Falls ... Buddy Carlile put the finishing
touches on lighting displays in preparation for the grand opening of a
new Naples store ... Plans to organize a volunteer fire department for
the Rocky Branch area were to be discussed at the Rocky Branch
community center... Lettuce was 290 a head at Vingo Foods in
Naples.
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Kenny Clubbwas dismissed from the David Granberry Memorial
Hospital ... Bill Watson, retiring postmaster, and M.V. Brock,
retiring maintenance man, were honored with a dinner at the commu-
nity room of the State Bank of Omaha ... Entered in the Junior Miss
Naples contest were Jyl Traylor, Christy Wright, Katie Lindsay, Jamie
Shew, Priscilla Johns, Connie Derrick, Jennifer Barnes, Kim Hall,
Kristi Clubb and Tabitha Mullins ... Harry Vissering wanted to sell eight
2x4s for 960 each ... Pewitt's Brahmas opened football season with a
33-19 win over the Cooper Bulldogs.
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Rex Hawkins of Omaha was to assume the duties of president
of the Brahma Booster Club ... As the pastor and congregation
looked on, the Naples First Baptist Church building and planning
committee members ceremoniously turned the first shovels of dirt for
the start of construction of a new educational and administrative
building ... A six-pack of Cokes was 990 at Northeast Texas Foods in
Omaha ... Traffic roadblocks and check-points were to be set up in
Naples by the police department to check for violators.
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Martha Jane Riner was celebrating her 48th birthday
... Paul Pewitt's Brahmas were gearing up for the first football
game of the seasons, by hosting the Mr. Vernon Tigers ... Oakridge
Baptist Church of Marietta has started a collection center in the
fellowship hall of the church to help victims of Hurricane Andrew ... A
five-pound bag of Gladiola Flour was only 890 at Vinyard's in Naples
... Paul Pewitt's varsity cheerleaders for the 1992-1993 school year
were Jamie Robison, Rusty Johnson, Misty Dale, Amanda Boyd, Kasi
Kitchens, Sherri Boyd, Amber Tasa, Jessica Kelly and mascot Chasity
Echo Cason ... Split chicken breasts were $1.29 at Kwik-Stop in
Naples ... "Single White Female" was showing at Cinema IV in Mt.
Pleasant.
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Kelsey Leanne Kumrow was celebrating her eighth birthday
... 68 students had enrolled for classes at the new Northeast
Texas Community College Naples-Omaha Education Center housed
in the former David Granberry Memorial Hospital.... Pewitt's Brahmas
were hoping for a third-straight trip to state play-offs and were to open
the season with a non-conference match-up with the Elysian Fields
Yellowjackets at Brahma Stadium ... Hunters were offered an oppor-
tunity to compete and "sight-in" their rifles at the Oakridge Baptist
Church's annual turkey shoot. Proceeds were to go to church missions
... Boosting the Brahmas for the 1997-98 school year were varsity
cheerleaders Erin Caraway, Candace Betts, Deidra Abston, Cassy
Cook, Lisa Tomlinson, Kelly Svrcek, Mackenzie Shirey, Patricia
Bosworth, Kamisha Sawyer and 'Buddy Bull' Brandon Waits ... Brandi
Derrick was having a garage sale ... "Air Force One" and "G.I. Jane"
were showing at Cinema IV in Mt. Pleasant.
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Deidra Shaddix, a Pewitt fifth grade student, was pictured looking
at one of the new 2001-02 Pewitt School yearbooks that had just
been received ... Pewitt's Brahmas were to open the football season
by hosting the Cooper Bulldogs ... Jerome Elder had been honored
with the Golden Trowel award, presented by the Belden Masonic
Lodge at Naples ... "Like Mike" and "Goldmember" were features at
the Morris Twin-Cinema in Daingerfield and showing at Cinema V
were "Signs", "Spy Kids 2", "Blue Crush" and "Feardot.Com",..
Homecoming time was to be observed at Floyd Hill Church ... A
"cousins reunion" was planned for the Roach and Tinsley family
descendants ... Brooke Betts was staying busy during the last of the
summer months attending stock shows and showing her prize ani-
mals.
2007
Brent Kiefer was a new ag teacher at Pewitt High School... Big Bad
Brad Caraway was making plans to host the Pit Rasslers state
barbecue competition in Naples at the Melon Patch ... Sharon Thomas
Moore was helping dispense school supplies to students during a
Naples Chamber of Commerce program ... Pewitt's Brahmas were to
play Teague in the football season opener... Remington Perry shed
some tears as his dad consoled the youngster on the first day of
kindergarten classes ... "Hairspray" was held over for showing at the
Morris Twin-Cinema and features at Cinema V included "Stardust",
"Daddy Day Camp", "Balls of Fury" and "The Nanny Diaries" ...
Barbara Sullivan had planned a pre-school storytime program at the
Naples Public Library ... Pewitt's Lady Brahmas opened volleyball
season with wins over James Bowie ... Plans were being made for the
annual Marietta Fall Fun Food Fest.
MEN'S COMMUNITY BREAKFAST
AT NAPLES METHODIST CHURCH
Meetings are at 6:45 a.m., on Wednesdays at the fellowship
hall of the First United Methodist Church in Naples.
All area men are invited to attend.
Guest speakers are featured each week.
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The David Granberry Memorial Hospital was built in Naples in 1948 and sometime during that time
period this group visited and probably discussed the present and future medical facilities for the
local area. Seated, left to right, were Dr. Charles J. Wise, Mrs. Olive Wise, a Daingerfield doctor,
Mrs. Marion Leeves, Dr. James S. Leeves, Mrs. Jean King and Dr. William A. King. B&Wphoto
by Bartee Haile
'Big Boy' Williams had eerie premonition of his death
Cowboy actor "Big Boy" Williams attended an invitation-only fu-
neral on Aug. 22, 1935 for polo pal Will Rogers, killed in an Alaska
airplane crash.
Guinn Williams, Jr. was born in 1899 at the North Texas town of
Decatur. He came home from the First World War in 1919 to find that
his father, an influential banker and cattleman, had obtained an
appointment for him to the U.S. Military Academy.
"I figured that I had already made second lieutenant and to go to
West Point and work my butt off just to become a second lieutenant
again seemed kind of silly," the younger Williams explained in an
interview years later. "So I told my father I'd sooner play baseball and
that I had an offer from the Chicago White Sox."
Junior left home and Senior entered politics. The son learned that
being the best baseball player in Decatur did not make him a major-
league prospect and fell back on his ranch skills to earn a living on the
rodeo circuit. The father won election to the Texas senate followed by
five terms as a congressman.
Guinn, Jr., who went by Tex at the time, wandered west to
Hollywood arriving with $2.50 in his britches. Coming upon a film
company shooting an outdoor scene and a laborer listlessly digging a
hole, he had a brilliant idea.
"I said, 'Say! Would you lend me your pick for just a minute?' The
fellow was glad to hand it to me and I tore into that hole like nobody's
business.
"Pretty soon everybody began to watch me. They thought it was
funny that anybody could be so enthusiastic about digging." Williams
was hired on the spot as a stuntman.
With his wavy brown hair, gray-green eyes and muscular build, it
was only a matter of time until the handsome Texan was in front of the
camera. Will Rogers chose him for bit parts in three comedies the
popular humorist produced out of his own pocket. The Oklahoman
also dubbed the youngster "Big Boy," a catchy nickname inspired by
his size — six feet two inches and 200-plus pounds.
As an authentic cowboy instead of the drugstore variety, Williams
decided he deserved the starring role in sagebrush sagas. Although
he landed the lead in The Jack Riders in 1921,, he soon wound up
trapped in so-called B-westerns as a supporting actor.
After having an unsuccessful go at moviemaking, Williams ac-
cepted his typecast fate and made the most of it. He developed his
trademark "puzzled squint" which he used with equal effectiveness as
a dimwitted cowhand or a tender-hearted tough guy.
As Williams' career picked up steam in the mid-1920's, he shared
the screen with four-legged performers Rex, King of the Wild Horses,
and Wolfheart, a Rin-Tin-Tin wannabe. His athletic looks occasionally
got him out of the western rut with parts in sports pictures with titles like
Brown of Harvard, Slide Kelly Slide, Forward Pass and Big Fight.
Even though he was one of the busiest actors in Tinsel Town
appearing in at least 76 pictures between 1921 and 1935, Williams
always found time for Will Rogers. The 20-year difference in their ages
did not keep the two from becoming the best of friends.
"Big Boy" was a charter member of Will's fun-loving inner circle.
Williams never asked where they were going or when they would be
back, when Rogers picked him up in his Pierce Arrow. All he knew for
sure was that everyone was bound to have a good time.
The folksy comedian introduced Williams to polo, the rich man's
game that became his passion. The dirt field on Rogers' ranch was the
scene of many rough-and-tumble matches featuring the host's cow-
boy cronies, serious polo players and motion picture people like Walt
Disney, Hal Roach, Darryl Zanuck and Spencer Tracy.
Hard-riding "Big Boy" was the best of the Hollywood participants.
He was, in fact, a world-class polo player known as the Babe Ruth of
the sport.
The tragic death of Will Rogers in a 1935 plane crash shocked all
Americans, but no one took it harder than "Big Boy." He never seemed
to come to terms with the loss.
Williams made no bones about the fact that movies were a well-
paid means to an end that included 125 polo ponies and a 5,500-acre
ranch in South Texas. "I worked all the time, 12 pictures a year, but
I hated every one of them. I never studied a script. I'd glance over my
part just before a scene and bluff it through. I lived to drink and play
polo."
When the movie studios started calling less often in the 1950's, "Big
Boy" switched to the small screen. He was a cast member of two early
television series playing the village blacksmith in "My Friend Flicka"
and Pete the canvas boss in "Circus Boy."
Wlliams had just finished a pilot for a new show "Button and Bows,"
when Joel McCrea paid him a visit in 1962. The actor was surprised
to find his old friend, who should have been on top of the world, down
in the dumps.
"The last three nights I dreamed about Wll Rogers," Wlliams said.
"He is riding Soapsuds, and he says, 'Come on, Big Boy, get on your
horse and go with me!'"
"I don't feel good, Joel. It's like he was calling me." Less than a
week later, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams died of uremic poisoning at 62.
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