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THE NOCONA NEWS, NOCONA, TEXAS, AUG. 7, 1953
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THE NOCONA NEWS
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Last year on Texas highway*
were killed in 2,067 fatal accident*.
altered as second class matter at the postoffice at Nocona, Texas
under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879
ing,
sooner we might realize that our very lives are at stake
every time we drive. Were every Texas driver to read this
little booklet, all of us might be safer on our streets and
highways.
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BIBLE THOUGHT
The viper’s tongue shall slay him.
In a pretty homi
urday evening, A
Freda Gayle McCo
Mr. and Mrs. Getl
came the bride ol
son of Mr. and]
Brown. The vows ]
before the picture!
lovely new home!
uncle and aunt, 1
R. Bourland. The!
vice vWs read bjl
stead Cooper. I
Two pedestal bl
flanked the wind«
Giv^ft I
the bride was atfl
in a navy nylon stB
She wore a corsaB
nations and earrig
topped with a eg
The bride’s a'tg
Cotton of WichiN
grey dress and H
of white carnati.H
Bob Cotton sg
groom as best
Subscription rates payable in advance: Montague and surrounding
counties. 1 year, $2.50; other po.nts, 1 year $4.00
Big Revival
Al Sloneburg
Ends TonigU
r-ou.l ' Montague county Methodists «*-
ary rea i j mmnlete satisfaction this
Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Kibler of Gil-
mer were in Nocona on business
over the weekend.
Published every Friday at The Nocona News publishing office,
117 East Oak St., Nocona, Montague county, Texas
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Montague News
Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Freeman are
visiting their son-in-law and his
wife. Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Moss in
Wichita Falls this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Willard Shackel-
ford and daughters, Norma Sue
and Jennelle Shackelford, left
August 30th for a three weeks va-
cation in Minnesota. Norma Sue
and Jennelle will attend a Metho-
dist encamnment while there.
Mr. and Mrs. L. D.
sons of Bowie visited
of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Fenoglio
last Thursday night.
Mr. and Mrs Melvin Fenoglio
visited relatives in Louisana last
week. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Wil-
fong of Fort Worth accompanied
them. They are Mrs. Fenoglio’s
parents.
Mr and Mrs. A. E. Cooper and
sons of Saginaw visited Mr. and
Mrs. Glen Pribble Saturday. I
Mrs. Dora Cornett of Wichita
Falls visited her sister, Mrs. J. W.
Barnes over the week end.
Guests in the home of Mrs.
Florence Pribble and her father,
A. J. Brumbaugh Sunday were
John Brumbaugh, Warren Pribble
and children, all of Fort Worth,
Susie Brumbaugh of Saint Jo; Mr.
and Mrs. A. J. Brumbaugh and
family of Dallas.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Giaketti and
children left last Saturday for a
two weeks vacation in North Da-
kota.
Mrs. Fred Wall is visiting rela-
tives in Houston this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Hobart and
children of Houston visited her
father, L. W. Burkenbile Saturday
of last week.
Mrs. Boyd Barjenbruch is visit-
ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M.
Pigg in Wellington.
Mrs. Milton Morrison and chil-
dren of Dallas visited Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Morrison this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Morrison of
Demmitt was also a visitor in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mor-
rison.
Mr. and Mrs. Loyd Current of
Irving visited her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. J. Cox over the weekend.
W. T. Minor was taken to the
Nocona hospital Sunday night,
suffering from a heart attack, but
is resting well.
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Dunbar of
Wichita Falls visited his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Dale Dunbar and
Mrs. Leia Rogers Saturday.
, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Cox have
bought a home in Nocona and are
planning to move this week.
J. J. Haralson of Paradise and
•on. Earnest Haralson of Houston,
visited Mr and Mrs. A. J. Fenog-
lio last Wednesday.
Mr and Mrs J. R. Coriee of
Baird, Mr and Mn J. B Stillwell
of Nocona Mr and Mrs Ike Mit
chell of Bowie, Mrs. Mary Dodson
of Dodson and little Amy Fitts of
Duncan, Oklahoma were visitors
la the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. L
A CHALLENGE TO TEXAS AND TEXANS
Aside from the Bible, the most important book distri-
buted in Texas during the last couple of weeks is the Texas
department of public safety’s annual motor vehicle accident
report booklet, but it will probably be the least read of all
other books. It is the most important book because within
its 50 pages there are various charts and facts and figures
which show all of u* in Texas what horrible drivers many
of us are. Were we to shake off the standing belief that
"accident* happen to the other fellow," and pay more atten-
tion to the contents of the department’* book, we might
rudely awaken to the fact that we are "the other fellow."
2/W8 "other fellowe"
SELLING AN EYE
WE Americans are the greatest and most progressive
people in the world because we are free to do as we choose—
God grant that we always shall be—but now and then some
one coimes along with a front page sensation which makes
the rest of us wonder if limited restrictions are not in order
to prevent our putting a price on one of God’s greatest gifts
—the human eye.
One of the most tragic accidents that can befall any one
is one which necessitates the removal of an eye, yet Mon-
tague countians have read quite a bit lately about a young
Texas mother who is offering one of her perfectly good eyes
for *10,000 in cash. Under our glorious system of free
enterorise and freedom of people generally, she has that
constitutional right, but is it a moral right? We cannot
sell babies, why should we be permitted to sell eyes?
The American Optometric association and the Texas
Optometric association have spent years and countless
thousands of dollars for research to find ways to protect
Americans’ eyesight, but here we find a woman willing t<
give away one of the most precious gifts of the Creator.
We would not for a moment advocate relaxation of any
of our constitutionally-guaranteed freedoms, but we are
carrying those freedoms too far whin we put a dollars and
cents price on one of our God-given eyes, or any other part
of our bodies. Legislation against our selling any part of
our healthy bodies is in order on the grounds that we are
carry’ing freedom too far when we make such offers.
CITY WORK IN NEW ADDITIONS
AN incident at the last city council meeting points tc
the need of a better understanding of what a city should
<and should not do for individual citizens with publicly-<
owned equipment. Dewey Sewell, who is planning a new
addition on the southwest side to be known as the Sewell
addition, asked council to drag the laid-out streets. Mr
Sewell did not ask the city to build the streets, but merely
to drag them for identification purposes.
The question that was posed before council is one which
practically every council m the country has faced. Wf
have observed it before other councils, which approached
the same question with the same hesitancy that the local
council approached it, for no real reason. Councils gener-
ally are cautious about using the public’s equipment to de
a job for any one citizen, and they should be. Councils
should not permit the use of public equipment for the con-
struction of driveways or other home improvements foi
any one citizen. There are, however, those councils which
do such work and charge the citizen for the labor and mater-
ial cost.
A different picture is offered when the city assists in
the early development of a new addition. Any new addi-
tion which gives promise of additional homes and streets
becomes at the outset an asset to the city. Such an addi-
tion means more residents, more taxes, more buying power
among our merchants, more utility usage, more school and
church enrollment, more population, more everything.
The more a city can do to help in the development of a
new addition or in meeting the needs of a new industry the
more that city contributes to its own good. No city coun-
cilman needs to apologize for voting for the reasonable use of
city equipment for the development of a new 'addition.
Meadowbrook has cost the city a few thousand dollars, but
it should not be too long before the city will get back many-
fold that which it has spent for the development of this ad-
dition. When the Nocona city council provides its already
purchased equipment for the development of a new addition,
within reasonable bounds, it is promoting the Nocona of
tomorrow.
McCool and Allred Feed Store
PHONE 491 W. Oak & Baylor
THE CITY BUDGET
WHEN city council next Monday night adopts, which
it is expected to do, the budget system of operating muni-
cipal government and the budget itself for 1953-1954, it
will place the city of Nocona as a business upon a business-
like basis. Under the budget system all departments of
government will know from day to day just where the fin-
ances of that department stand. There is no better way to
operate governiment at any level. The budget which is
scheduled to be passed provides *10,000 for the water works
department.
This is foresight. Sooner or later, Nocona is going
to have to tackle its water problem on a big scale. When
this time comes, the wisdom of putting aside water fund
money will be realized. The budget is today some *15,000
short of paying its way, but an equalization board is being
asked to equalize city tax valuations to make up the differ-
ence. There is no other course before council. Nocona
will progress as its council permits it to progress, and coun-
cil is on the right track.
more persons killed ‘han there were fatal accidents).
Montague county contributed 10 of those deaths in
seven fatal accidents. This is>a decided increase from
Montague county’s 1951 figures of two killed in two fatal
accidents.
One of the most shocking facts revealed in the depart-
ment’s report is that during the 865 days of 1952 there were
only seven during which no one was killed on a Texas street
or road. One of these days was in February; two in
March; three in April, and one in September.
In its book, the department coins a new word, “Motor-
cide,” which gives preanise of becoming accepted English.
All accidents caused by traffic are booked by the depart-
ment as motorcide.
It is significant that speed “too fast for conditions”
proved the number one killer. The department wisely dif-
ferentiates between speed and “speed too fast for condi-
tions.” There is a difference. It is significant, too, that
the number two killer is the drunken driver.
Most of these potential and actual murderers could be
removed by more stringent state laws, but they will keep
on killing as long as there are in state legislatures those
legislators, of whom there are too many, who are scared to
death, so to speak, to vote for a law which might cost them
a few votes.”
Were drunken drivers forced to lose their driving
rights for as much as three to five years and were they,
upon conviction, forced to serve a jail sentence, it would
not be long until drinking drivers would disappear from the
highways. There will be those who will say that an auto-
matic jail sentence and suspension of driving rights for
three to five years is “too drastic.” Which is the more
drastic—automatic jail sentence and three to five years’
loss of driving rights or the murder at the hands ‘ of a
drunken driver of one, two, four or six innocent highway
users ?
Ohio recently passed a new law which bears watching.
After fiddling around with drunken drivers for years__
being from Ohio we know the Ohio story—the legislature
has made it mandatory that all convicted drunken drivers
must serve three days in jail, and no court has the right to
circutnvent this law.
Some of America’s newspapers have not served the
public in dealing with drunken drivers. Too many editors
have listened to the old story, “I had two beers,” instead of
listening to arresting officers who found the driver so
on delinquent taxpayers who are
non-residents of a county.
Other Decisions
/A county commissioners’ court
may make valid county tax levies
even if one of the commissioners
is absent from the meeting be-
cause of duties in one of the re-
serve branches in the armed for-1
■ ces.
1 A county commissioner serving
■mH two thi’rdc ------r ‘a “!'UItu cvc,7 luur ’n a military reserve capacity is
u?’th -j . te ’ ,hcFe 18 an accident every 132 entitled to his salary during his
<ts, accidents are costing *293 each minute of the absence on military duty.
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swerve over to the other lane in order to pass the parked I e
car, two wheels of which are on the highway against all, i
parking laws. 1
The department’s report further shows that:
it Some one is killed on a Texas street or highway every i'
iree hours and 30 minutes; some one is injured every four i
ment’s book are: 3-driving on wrong side of road;, 4^dm-
passing; 5—disregard for warning or stop sign;
6—-did not have right-of-way; 7—following too closely,
and 8—improper highway parking which forces cars to
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Attorney General Opinions Of
General Interest Received Here
County Attorney Boyd Barjen- ery and printing for the legislature
bruch this week received from
Attorney General Shepperd a list
of recent attorney general opin-
ions, several of which the county
official believed would be of in-
terest in the county.
Opinions of general interest in-
clude the following:
A real estate dealer may offer
premiums to a property owner who
lists his property with the dealer
but may not offer premiums to
persons who submitted a “lead”
which results in the dealer’s get-
ting a listing.
A county judge may place defen-
dants convicted of drunk driving
on probation for not less than
six months in lieu of a mandatory
jail sentence.
The minimum amount of the
bond required of the tax assessor-
collector of an independent school
district is twice the amount of
taxes collected in the largest
single collection period of the pre-
ceding year.
Justices of the peace who get a
____ regular salary may keep fees col-
drunk fhat he couldn’t stand up after beimr nuHed from' his Ilected f°r pet?°rmin8 marriage
Most arresting officers usaaiiy hea"? the -tXr^| “""S “
S i j- - ., Fees may not be paid to a sher-
Otner leading causes of accidents listed in the depart- ’n advance for serving citations
by feed dealers and feeders everywhere
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ye*r; almost half of the vehicles involved are two years
old, or less; one-third of the drivers in accidents are in iheir
twenties; half of all rural accidents involve drinking; one-
fourth of rural pedestrian deaths occur on a Saturday; 53
per cent of rural deaths occur at night; 70 per cent of last ■
year’s’ deaths occurred c | rural highways, and 63 per cent
of the rural fatal accidents involved only one car. I
The department’s book might be classed as ‘ ary r«s<i-| “-y-mplcte MtirfactioB thia
but the sooner we go in for such “dry reading tne; ^eek with their county-wide re-
vival being held at Stonehurg.
The old-fashioned revival open-
ed last Sunday night in a tetitj
and has been attracting crowdfl
upwards to 400 or more each
night. . ZWffi
The revival closes tonight with
Warren McSwain of Bowie dig,
livering the sermon and Dr. B<M
Evans of Nocona leading in songs.
Tonight’s special music will be
provided by the Nocona brass
chair.
The service tonight will begin at
7:45 with a prayer service, follow-
ed by the revival itself at 8:15
o’clock.
Lee Vaughan Motor Co
117 Waft Walnut Phone 41* Nocona. Torn-
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