The Humble Echo (Humble, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 31, 1963 Page: 1 of 11
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Jackpot Cash Total Climbs To $250 For Saturday Drawing
YOUR BEST
ADVERTISING
MEDIUM
THE HUMBLE ECHO
lOd
More Than 3,600 Readers Every Week
SCHOOL BOND ELECTION SET NOV
s1.5 Million Issue
For New High School
Floor Plan Of Proposed New Humble High School
$1.5 Million
Bond Issue Breakdown
5:15 p.m. Start
Halloween Parade,
Carnival Thursday
Humble Jaycees’ annual Halloween downtown parade
is on tap for 5:15 p.m. Thursday with a carnival at
Humble High School slated to follow.
The parade, with costumed marchers and floats,
will form at the west end of Main St. at the rail-
road tracks and travel east on Main St. to Houston
Ave. and wind up at the high school.
A contest for the best dressed Halloween spooks
will be held at the high school immediately after
the parade. Prizes of $5, $3 and $2 will be given to
the top three picked by judges.
Games will be held on the high school grounds
with the Jaycees serving hamburgers, hot dogs and
french fries in the cafeteria. FHA girls plan a cake
walk. Coffee, snow cones, soft drinks and popcorn will
also be sold.
Taking A Peek
• • •
OVER THE FENCE
Mrs. Betty Kirkpatrick
and her daughter, Mrs.
A.J. Hall, both of Nash-
ville, Tennessee, spent
last week visiting here with
her sister, Mrs. H.P.
Berry.
Mr. and Mrs. Buddy
Wisenbaker are the parents
Self-Help
Medical Talks
Slated Here
A series of talks on
medical self- help is to
start Tuesday and continue
through the next three
weeks. The talks, to be
given by the Harris County
Medical Society and Red
Cross, will be held at Hum-
ble High School auditorium
each Tuesday and Thursday
night.
Lectures are planned on
Nov. 5, 7, • 12, 14, 19 and
21 from 7 to 9 p.m.
Information is designed
for adults and high school
age students for use in case
of emergencies when no
professional medical help
is available. The lectures
are free.
of a new baby girl, Donna
Jo, born Oct. 24 at Webb
Air Force Base in Big
Springs. She weighed in at
6 lbs. 7 ozs. Both Mr. and
Mrs. Wisenbaker formerly
lived in Humble.
Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Hollo-
way Jr. are the maternal
grandparents and Mr. and
Mrs. M.G. Wisenbaker are
the paternal grandparents.
All are from Humble.
Mr. and Mrs. Hayne
Sheffield left Friday to visit
their «son, Hayne who at-
tends the University of
Texas in Austin, and to take
in the Texas vs. Rice foot-
ball game.
J.D. Brown entered
North Houston hospital last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Walk-1
er and son, Chris, spent
the weekend visiting her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Grimes in Goodrich.
Mary Jane Lee entered
St. Joseph’s hospital in
Houston last week.
Ralph Hudson left Mon-
day for Lackland Air Force
Base in San Antonio for
Continued on page 2
Local Scouts
Prepare For
Good Turn Day
Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts
and Explorers will begin
distributing Good Turn Day
bags in Humble and sur-,
rounding areas this week.
During the drive, to be
held on Sunday, November
10, the Boy and Cub Scouts
of this area will collect
bags of repairable clothing,
shoes and household arti-
cles from Humble homes.
In 1962 the Boy and Cub
Scouts of this area collect-
ed many bags of material,
thus helping to make itpos-i
sible for Goodwill Indus-
tries to hire, train, coun-
sel and pay wages to more
than 515 handicapped people
in 1963.
At 1 p.m. on Sunday, Nov-
ember 10, Good Turn Day,
the Scouts will return to
collect the bags which each
householder is asked to
place on their front porch.
United Fund
Final Push
This Week
The final push in this
year’s United Fund drive
in Humble is on this week,
according to Chairman
C.E. Patton.
“We’re going to try to
wind it up this week if we
can,’’ Patton said. He said
workers will be handling
the last of canvass cards
in an attempt to close out
the campaign here.
The Humble area goal
this year is $2,500. Patton'
said Monday about $1,500
is accounted for.
Courthouse Bids
Due By Monday
Bids on the planned
•Harris County courthouse
substation in Humble are
scheduled to be opened by
the county Commissioners
Court. (See editorial, page
4.)
Site for the planned
courthouse is between W.
Main St. and W. Higgins
St. just east of U.S. high-
way 59.
LAND COST
HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING
EQUIPMENT
STADIUM & FOOTBALL FIELD
FIELD HOUSE
RENOVATION OF EXISTING
HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING
SITE WORK, PAVING
AND IANDSCAPING
ARCHITECT & ENGINEER FEE
$35,000.00
1,025,000.00
65,800.00
170,000.00
35|OOO.oo
70,000.00
20,000.00
79,200.00
TOTAL
$1,500,000.00
Drawing Saturday
Jackpot Up To
$250 This Week
Buckalew
Sets Mark
In Contest
Ted Tipton missed only
two winners to take first
place in last week’s ECHO
football contest while Don
Buckalew became the first
contestant to place in the
money six times in one sea-
son.
Tipton was out ahead of
the field with only two
wrong. He wins $8' first
place money.
Buckalew , with four
wrong, placed second ahead
of Dave Tullos on the ba-
sis of the tie breaking
score. Tullos also missed
four. Buckalew was five
points off the actual score,
picking it Humble 14, Day-
ton 12. Tull oswaslOpoints
off with his pick of Humble
27, Dayton 12.
Buckalew receives $5,
Tullos $2.
Prize money is ready at
The ECHO office. This
week’s games are on page
10.
A $1.5 million bond issue
election was called for Nov.
16 by the Humble School
Board at a special meeting
Monday night. Petitions
bearing 174 signatures ask-
ing for the election were
presented.
Principal item in the
bond issue is a new high
school building, to cost $1,-
025,000. Also included is
land cost, football field and
stadium, equipment, reno-
vation of present high
school building and site
work ( see breakdown on
$1.5 million, this page).
Polls will be open from
7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Nov.
Absentee
Voting To
Be Held Here
Absentee voting in the
Nov. 16 school bond issue
election will be held in the
office of Superintendent of
Schools George Turner
from Thursday through
Nov. 12.
Balloting will be held
from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m
each day except Saturday
and Sunday. Turner has
been appointed absentee
voting clerk for the bond
election.
School Board To
Meet Tuesday
The Humble School Board
is scheduled to meet in
regular session at 7:30
p.m. Tuesday in the school
business offices at Humble
High School.
Wreck On 59
Injures One
A New Caney man, James
Barton, was injured in a
two -car wreck at 5 p.m
Monday at the intersection
of FM 525 and U.S. high-
way 59.
He was taken to Ben Taub
hospital by Humble Funeral
Home ambulance.
16 at Humble High School.
Eligible to vote are pro-
perty owners on the 1963
Humble School District tax
roll who have a current poll
tax receipt or who are
exempt.
In setting the election,
the board called for the use
of voting machines. Absen-
tee balloting will be held in
the school business office
(see adjoining story).
The proposed new high
school building, with floor
plan shown at left, is plan-
ned on a 35-acre tract on
the east side of Wilson
Road. Plans call for a
building of about 100,000
square feet with accommo-
dations for 650 students.
Major facilities are de-
signed for a maximum pro-
jected enrollment of 1,200
students.
The board estimates that
if the bond issue carries,
property taxes will go up
16 cents the first year from
the present $1.21 per $100
valuation to $1.37 per $100
valuation.
Giving an example of a
16-cent increase, Superin-
tendent of Schools George
Turner pointed out that a
house in the district worth
about $10,000 would be on
the tax rolls at about $2,-
500. An increase of 16 cents
in the tax rate, he said,
would mean an increase in
tax on the property of $4.
Voters in the Nov. 16
election will vote for or
against this proposition:
“Shall the Board of
Trustees of Humble Inde-
pendent School District
have the power to issue the
bonds of said school dis-
trict, in one or more series
or issues, in the aggregate
principal amount of $1,-
500,000 bearing interest at
rates not to exceed 5 per
cent per annum, with said
bonds to mature serially or
otherwise in such install-
ments as are fixed by said
Board of Trustees, for the
purpose of the construction
and equipment of public
free school buildings in
Continued on page 2
This week’s jackpot cash
total climbed to $250 for
Saturday’s Jackpot Days
drawing in downtown Hum-
ble after last week’s win-
ning ticket for a $200 jack-
pot was not presented. The
drawing this week is set
for 2:30 p.m. in the 200
block of Main St.
A ticket registered by
Ruth Gray was drawn for
the cash prize last week,
but the matching stub was
not presented. The entire
jackpot, plus a $ 50 addition,
carries over to this week’s
drawing.
In the cash drawings, the
winning ticket must be pre-
sented to win. Only one
drawing is made^achweek
for the cash.
Merchandise prize win-
ners in last week’s draw-
ing were M. R. Johnson,
ham from Schott’s Gro-
cery; Norma Lockwodd,
reel from Blair Hardware;
Shirley Sitton, car polish
from Humble Auto Supply;
Mrs. Roy S. Smith, 12 cokes
from Humble Food Market;
and Doris Pritchett, Elsie
Moonen, Mrs. G.R, Surratt,
Rachel Smith and Shirley
Sitton, Halloween candy.
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DAMP DRAWING - Showers greeted the 200 hopefuls at the first Jackpot Days cash drawing Saturday in
Humble. Most of the crowd, like the ones shown above, found a dry place to check their ticket stubs. This
week’s jackpot is up to $250 cash with the drawing set for 2:30 p.m. in downtown Humble. (ECHO Photo)
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Pundt, John. The Humble Echo (Humble, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 31, 1963, newspaper, October 31, 1963; Humble, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1036318/m1/1/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Humble Museum.