The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, July 4, 1952 Page: 1 of 12
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DDT SPRAYING HERE ASSURED
zRound
About
Nocona
We've had enough of
our
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Last Saturday afternoon we
had a very pleasant conversa-
tion in our office with Will
Click of Pasadena. Calif.
This may mean nothing to
Nocona today, but let us turn
back the pages of time to, say
1898.
Will Click was a school
teacher out at what was then
the Em*** school near Eagle
Jim Curlin and Harry Paine
and their wives experienced
One of those once-in-h-lifetime
thrills the day General Eisen-
hower virtually took over
North Texas on his way from
his Denison birthplace to Dal-
ias.
The Curlins and the Paines
had tickets for “Porgy and
Bess” at the State Fair Musi-
cals and, ready to leave No-
cona, they decided to go by
way of Denton in the hope
that they jnight get at least
a glimpse of the general who
z was scheduled to stop at Den-
ton before going into Dallas.
Arriving inrDenton the No-
cona party noticed large
crowds at the intersection of
their road and the road over
which the general and his
party were scheduled to ar-
rive in Denton.
A couple of cars rounded
the corner just as the light
turned green for the Curlins
and the Paines, whereupon
they proceeded in a matter-
of-fact way only to discover
within half a block that they
were in the Eisenhower par-
7 ade, third car back of the
general’s convertible Cadillac.
They made their discovery
when they looked ahead a
couple of cars and saw the
general standing up waving
to the crowds. When the par-
ade stopped downtown the
third car in the official wel-
coming procession also stop-
ped — naturally. After all,
why shouldn’t Nocona be rep-
' resented at such an auspicious
occasion,
The Noconans not only “got
a glimpse” of the general,
but they had front row posi-
tions while he talked and
Jim took several photographs
of the presidential hopeful.
The Curlins and the Paines
aq* still thanking a certain
ponceman at the intersection
for having turned around at
the particular instant the lo-
cal car swung into the pro-
cession. Cops can be very ac-
cdSmodatingT even if they
don’t Itnow it.
Nocona
Rain Record
Courtesy toil conservation
Total lor week
Previous total
Total for year
No telling! We can't ex-
plain it, but the hunk of ice
was so largo that it took more
than two hours in the hot
sun after the storm to melt
it.
One of those once-in-a-life-
time oddities in the lives of
newspapermen occurred Tues-
day noon during the first
rainstorm in more than three
weeks.
A story came to us instead
of us going to the story.
During the noon storm wat-
er came gushing down Oak
street Niagara-like fashion and
after it was all over, there
remained in front of the News
office a rather large hunk of
ice.
Where did it come from?
That's the $64 question.
One of our men suggested
that it was hail. Heaven for-
bid
that stuff for generations to
come. Another suggestion was
that it floated down Cook
street from the Boswell Ice
company, rounded the corner
and anchored in front of
Wl^nad a class of around
40 pupils. and In those days
40 pupils represented the
school •fotem from the first
to the twelfth grade.
Will now lives in Pasadena,
Calif, but now and then he
(Continued on back page)
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Scene: Mam and Elm
streets, Nocona, Texas.
Time: 7:13 a. m. to 3:31
p. m. Wednesday, July 2,
1952.
Synopsis: A pet wolf be-
longing to Mr. and Mrs. Floyd
Garner of F and E Leather-
craft, a pet which they had
raised from a pup a little
more than a year ago, es-
caped either by climbing up
and over a ladder or by dig-
ging its way out of Its wired
enclosure back of the Garner
home
oil
Try To Get
follow-
BULLETIN
valley
river
Lions Install
■am which . /"iff- -in
$230 and | (JlllCial COTPS
head-
For New Year
pro-
Drama In Nocona As Loose Wolf Defies Capture
— ___ e —» ——. ■ ■ • saw il
to
FALSI Fill ALARM
COUMTV
Barrett and Mr*. Dovle Fooahee
sent to
of Radio
and Doc
little
offset
new directors,
and Dr. How-
fogging
weeks,
definite
it was
benefit
by the
be
its
It ripped off the back
of the Daisy MeGlo’h-
leveled seven power
left Bellevue in dark-
in charge of
aslo reviewed
political rally
is sponsoring
July 21. The
to enable Bud
Sale of the Nocona livestock
sales barn was announced this
week.
The new owner is Earl Ward
of Gainesville, who bought out
Richard Thompson of Fairfax, Ok-
lahoma.
Thursday’s sale was held under
the new management.
Further details were unavail-
able late this week.
son, C.
Kansas;
Ad
the
What followed would have
tested even the ability of
Frank Buck of bring-’em-back
alive world animal fame.
As the hours passed the
neighborhood chase turned
into a community affair which
developed into an eight-act
drama.
Here it is act by act:
Act 1 — The Garner tele-
phone began ringing at 7:13.
Friendly neighbor* called Io
them that their wolf wa* on
the loose. Flint to call wa*
The Federal Housing adminis-
tration this week approved the
construction of 20 low-cost hous
es in Nocona’s Park View addi-
tion, it was announced Wednes-
day by Park View officials.
The houses will sell for a down
payment of $350, plus closing
costs.
W. F. Leonard, real estate brok-
er, has been designated as agent
for the sales and he has been fur-
nished sets of blueprints from
which house plans can be select-
ed.
W. F. Harlan, builder, expects
to start construction of the hous-
es within the next fen days or
two weeks. All houses will have
curb and gutter and black top
streets in front.
The houses are all engineered
and well designed. Drawn accord-
ing to standards of American in-
This was the impression left
late last week by H. D. Fox, CAA
engineer, following a further stu-
dy of the site both by on-the-
spot inspection and from photo-
graphs taken a week earlier by
a CAA aerial photographer.
Fox has asked the local cham-
ber of commerce for a con’our
man of the proposed site. The
chamber is to attempt to secure
such a man through the soil con-
servation department
Fox told chamber officers that
a further study will have to be
made before the CAA will an-
nounce its position in relation
construction.
Bill Doff. “I thought you’d
like to know that your wolf
is loose,” Bill said. That start-
ed it. Within minutes there
were 25 or more calls, all
with the same information:
"Your wolf is loo:<e.”
Hurry Out of House
Floyd and Ethel tossed on
enough clothe* to get by the
law and hurried out to find
the wolf roaming around the
neighborhood. Thinking he
could dope the animal into a
stupor and then nab it. Floyd
(Continued on page six)
Invitations have been
Murray Cox, farm editor
station WFAA of Dallas,
Ruhman, farm editor of station
WBAP of Fort Worth.
The fire department made a
false alarm run Wednesday night
at I o’clock to the vicinity of the
stockyard* No fire wa* found
in September, 1950.
Survivor*
He is survived by one
V. Peterson of Wichita,
three daughters, Mrs. W. T. Tomp-
kins of Nocona and Mrs. Wallace
Alexander and Mrs. Harry Schrie-
wer, both of Bonham; five broth-
ers, V. L. of Arlington, Texas,
Roy, Jason and Orville of southern
Ohio, and Virgil Peterson of El
Campo, Texas; one sister, Mrs.
C. A. Peterson of Eastland, Tex-
as; 13 grandchildren and 12 great
grandchildren and his daughter-
in-law, Mrs. Mary Peterson, widow
of his son, Dr. Don Peterson.
Another son. Robert, preceded
him in death at .the age of 10.
Mr. Peterson was a member of
the Christian church and of the
Nocona Masonic lodge and Royal
Arch Mason.
Last rites were held Thursday
afternoon at 4 o’clock in the Dau-
gherty Memorial chapel with Rev.
Weems Dykes officiating. Inter-
ment was in Nocona cemetery
with the Masonic ritual being
used.
A
vue
day
porch roof
lin home,
poles and
ness for about three hours. Sev-
eral other reports of damage to
property were made. In one home
it was reported that the freakish
winds ripped off the wallpaper
of the home, but the house itself
was not damaged.
All power was off in Nocona
for about half an hour Monday
af'emoon when lightning some-
where between here and Sherman
cut out a genera'or. A standby
diesel emergency unit here was
pressed into service to provide
local power, but full power was
restored shortly afterward
Further power interrupion- oc-
curred Tuesday, but all were
traced to somewhere around Sher-
man or Gainesville
Dr. W. L. Spivy took over the
reins of the Lions club as presi-
dent Tuesday night when install-
ation of officers was held during
a ladies night party at Hoffman’s
cafe. Dr. Spivy replaces Willard
Grigsby.
Other officers installed were:
First vice president, J. R. Bour-
land; second, J M. Johnson, third,
A. S Gilbert, who returned this
week from the Lions International
convention at Mexico City; secre-
tary, Rev. Weems Dykes, who ac-
companied the Gilberts to Mexi-
co; lion tamer. Joe Wise, tail
twister, Howard Morris; song lead-
er, Dr. Bob Evans;
J. D. McElhannon
■rd Wallis.
Installation was
Don Peterson, who
activities of the club during the
Grigsby administration.
" Retiring President Grigsby wel-
comed the wives as guests of the
club and thanked club member*
for their support during the year.
He then turned the office over to
President Spivy who presided for
the remainder of the meeting.
The speaker wa* Bullock Hyd-
er of North Texas State Teach ir*
college at Denton He spoke on
“Moral* and Religion” followed
hi* introduction by Tony Fenoglio.
Invocation wa* given by Rev.
Dyke* and benediction by J. M.
Johnson Guest* included Rotary's
stitute of Architects, the archi-
tectural designs were done by
Jim Vowell of Fort Worth. All
the residences are engineered and
said to be structurally sound. Re-
ported to be livable and attrac-
tive, the houses feature asbestos
siding and red wood and other
decorative trim plywood of the
superior quality, and materials
”•» the he=* quality in roof, sub-
floor and floors and walls, Park
View officials declared.
Nocona's airport site has struck
the favor of the civil aeronautic*
administration, but further stud-
ies must be made before the CAA
will declare its feasibility.
Nocona is going to be thorough-
ly sprayed with DDT to rid the
city of flies and other insects.
This was assured this week, but
the spraying will not be done for
about two weeks. However, when
it is done, it may be done with
modem fogging equipment which
will thoroughly spray the city in-
stead of nothing more than gar-
bage cans and alleys.
Assurance that the spraying op-
eration would be done came last
Monday afternoon when commit-
tees from the Rotary, Lions, and
Business and Professional Wo-
men’s clubs met with Mayor M.
K. Thrasher.
Faced with the necessity of
raising $230 to buy the DDT, which
the firemen had agreed to spray
the committee called in the may-
or and suggested that the city
pay for the DDT.
“We feel,” a spokesman for the
joint committees told the mayor,
“that inasmuch as everyone in
Nocona will benefit by such spray-
ing, the cost should be borne by
the people of Nocona.”
City Agree*
Thrasher agreed, provided the
other two commissioners would
agree. He was asked if he could
call the others into a special ses-
sion which he agreed to do and
within a couple of hours it had
been decided that the city would
pay for the DDT because the pro-
gram being undertaken was for
all of the people of the commun-
ity.
The mayor said he favored the
new spraying system, done by
fogging, over the previous sys-
tem which was the only system
available to the city’s firemen.
He said, however, that the fog-
ging system would cost around
$1,900 for the mechanism alone,
but he advanced the thought that
such a machine could be rented
from another city.
The Rotary committee immed-
iately made telephonic contacts
with Wichita Falls, Bowie, and a
couple of Oklahoma cities in
search of a fogging system which
could be borrowed on a rental
basis.
Tentative arrangements have been
made for the use of a
apparatus in about two
but there was no'hing
at a late hour Thursday
When the snraying is done No-
conans are advised io have their
yards mowed and weeds cut be-
cause the DDT is more effective
as it spreads over short grass
than it is Ln hlgli grass.
Gainesville
Han Purchases
Auction Barn
CAA Engineer Favors Airport Site
To Further Study Its Feasibiliiv
tion office reported
Monday night’s rain was the
first to fall in Nocona since June
5 when only a little more than
half an inch visited the ci y.
The rains here were accompan-
ied only by slight rumblings of
thunder, but elsewhere in the
area high winds, which rode in
with the rain did considerable
damage.
Twister at Bel'evuer
“little twister” struck B41e
shortly after midnight. Mon-
night.
would cost be*ween I
$240 for the DDT alone.
Dr. Cox cited three basic
grams. They are:
“1—Elimination of privies or
other unsatisfactory methods of
excreta disposal.
“2—Proper operation of sewage
treatment facili’ies.
“3—Es'ablishing satisfac'ory gar-
(Contlnued on P ge ID
Two Rains In Area, Bui Precipiiaiion Insufficient
To Benefit Parched Pasturelands; Corn Is Hard Hit
New Rotary
Officers Take
Over Tuesday
Gaylord P. Barrett today
ed Nocona’s Rotary club follow-
ing his installation Tuesday noon
at a meeting given over entirely
to the change in officers.
Barrett replaces Glenn William-
son, who was installed as first
vice president in keeping with a
local club procedure.
Othe» officers > installed were:
Second vice president, James Mc-
Call; secretary - -treasurer, Jess
Woods; directors, Doyle Powell,
Dr. John Major, Ralph Yeakley,
Glenn Wilson and the officers.
Williamson thanked the mem-
bership for individual and com-
mittee assistance during the last
year and Barrett outlined his
tenative plans for the year in
which he called for a continua
tion of committee support.
“Our club,” he said, “can
no stronger than the work of
committees.”
All-Day Old Seitiers Reunion
To Be Held Al Montague July 19
With a main speaker yet to be
announced, Montague County Farm
Bureau directors are completing
plans for the big Old Settler’s
reunion and political rally to be
held in .Montague July 19 Free
barbecue will be served to the
public.
Congressman Frank Ikard has
been contacted as a speaker, but
as yet he has not been able to say
positively if he can attend. It
is expected that the national con-
gress will be recessed around
July 5.
A full five-hour schedule has
been planned. A political rally
will start off events shortly after
10 a. m., followed by a barbecue
dinner at 12:30. '
At 1:30 entertainment by Mon-
tague county musical talent will
be given. Following this, there
will be • tractor demonstration,
several contests, and a farm im-
plement display. A ball game
between the Montague small fry
and a group of young Negroes
will be played, with no admission
charge.
out
__________________„ No-
the fly nuisance in keeping with cona wl*h DDT. a program which
the current drive against flies as
a line of defense against polio, the
city must first adopt all of the
rules of basic sanitaiton, first of
which is the elimination of out-
side toilets.
This was the advice received
this week from S’ate Health Of-
ficer George W. Cox, M. D. in a
letter to Dr. John W. Major of
Major Clinic-Hospital in response
to the doctor’s request for such
Although Nocona was given two
soakings by rain which fell Mon-
day evening and again Tuesday
noon, the fall was insufficient to
be of much benefit to parched
pastureland and corn, farm ob-
servers reported after *he rains.
The official precipitation in No-
cona measured only for'yeight
, hundredths of ?n inch. Followed
as it was by a hot sun,
believed that what
the rain did will be
sun.
Corn in the Red
is being hurt daily, observers
added. “Every day that passes
now without rain is shortening
the edrn crop,” the soil conserva-
BPW Changes Date
Of Political Rally
Nocona Business and Profes-
sional Women’s club has changed
the date of the
which the club
from July 19 to
change was made
Townsend to be here a* master
of ceremonies, Miss Louise
dington, who 1* chairman of
rally, said today.
Slate Health Department Advises
Nocona On Basic Sanitation Rules
(See editorial on page 2) I , .
advice. The request grew
If Nocona hopes to get rid of the current effort to spray
A. V. Peterson, Veteran Educator,
Former Superintendent Here, Dies
An illness of 10 days following a heart attack at his
home, 707 Grayson, proved fatal late Tuesday night to
A. V. Peterson, 76 year old retired educator and former
superintendent of Nocona’s school system.
Mr. Peterson died shortly after 10 o’clock Tuesday
night at Major Clinic-Hospital where he was taken
ing the attack June 22.
Mr. Peterson had spent his life-
time before retirement in educa-
tional work. During this period
he had served two terms a< coun-
ty superintendent in Gonzales co-
ounty and had been superintend-
ent at Mount Pleasant, Moulton,
Welder and Nocona. He retired in
1925 when he was head of the lo-
cal school system, but he taught
a couple of yeafrs after that in
Montague county schools.
He also served as a member of
the faculty of North Texas State
college during several summer
semesters.
Late in May Mr. Peterson was
a guest of honor at the 1952
graduation exercises in which his
senior class of 1923 was feted as
the first class to be graduated
from the new high school build-
ing.
Mr. Peterson was born in Low-
she in southern Ohio, March 5,
1876. He came to Texas when a
young man and gradually became
a part of the state’s educational
system. On July 12, 1900 he mar-
ried Mary Collins, who succumbed
FHA Okays Construction
Of 20 Low-Cost Houses
Believed to be a major oil
strike in Montegue county, is
the Texas company well of John
Ulbig, No. 1, six miles south-
east of Nocona, which flowed
oil shortly before noon Thurs-
Fog Machine
For Spraying
of speech
of the press
of worship
of assembly
The permanence of these heritages will be ours as long as we pro-
tect and defend them
Freedom
Freedom
Freedom
Freedom
The right to trial
The right to vote
The right to live as we want to live
within the limitation of laws passed
by our elected representatives
The Nocona News
The only newspaper interested first in the welfare of Nocona and vicinity
VOLUME FORTY-SEVEN
NOCONA, MONTAGUE COUNTY, TEXAS, JULY 4, 1952
SINGLE COPY 10c
THOUGHT OF THf DAY
A Good man make* no noise
over a good deed.
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