The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, May 8, 1953 Page: 2 of 10
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THE NOCONA NEWS, NOCONA, TEXAS, MAY 8, 1953
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High School
Honor Rolls
Announced
America’s Most
ivanced TV Set
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visit-
Ford’s 101-h.p. high-compression Mileage Maker
Six has become so popular Ford has now gone
to record production to meet the record
demand. Ford’s UO-h.p. Strato-Star V-8
is still stealing the show, too, as
the only V-8 in the low-price field.
And both Ford high-compression
engines offer the fuel-savings of
Ford’s Automatic Power Pilot.
Fifty years forward
on the American Road
FROM COAST TO COAST PEOPLE ARE SINGING THE PRAISES Ol THE MOST
MODERN HIGH-COMPRESSION LOW-FRICTION SIX IN THE INDUTRY!
R. B. STOUT
Electric
HOME DEMONSTRATION WEEK
IT would be impossible to enumerate the many worth-
while community programs and good deeds that are being
promoted day after day by the many Home Demonstration
dnbs of the country of which there are eleven in Montague
aocnty. During this week, the clubs’ annual week of nat-
ional recognition, public tribute is due all of the clubs for
the excellent job they have done and are still doing in pro-
moting all kinds of programs, each one designed for com-
munity improvement in one way or another.
Every community in Montague county in which a .Home
Demonstration club is organized is a better community by
reason of having such an organization of women dedicated
to the concept that a community worth living in is a com-
munity worth promoting. In addition to community pro-
motion, members of Home Demonstration clubs inconspicu-
•uafy carry on numerous other programs to better the lot
Both the A and the B _______
rolls for Nocona high school were
announced this week. On the rolls
are:
A honor roll — no grade below
90 and 90 in citizenship;
Freshmen — Janice Dodson.
Joan Geiser, Elaine Sell, Mary
Wolfe.
Sophomores — Linda Admire,
Retha Duncan, Jane Carminati,
Dolores Richardson.
Juniors — C. W. Chandler Jr.,
rica’s mothers sent their sons to foreign soils to fight a war
to end all wars. In both of these wars thousands upon
thousands of America’s mothers lost their sons or saw them
return human wrecks.
The “war to end war” over only a few years and again
America's mothers began giving their sons to another war
in Korea. They are still making their contributions and
they are still receiving after three years of “police action”
telegrams which start out: “We regret to inform----.”
Hardljr an issue of the Nocona News goes to press with-
out news from the county draft board that so many boys,
and they are boys, have registered with the draft board or
have been ordered to report for physical examinations or
ordered to report for induction. Today’s young mothers
are rearing their sons for the unknown. Something has
happened to America. It has not been many years ago
when America s mothers reared their sons to go to high
school and college and then marry and begin useful lives.
Todaythey are rearing them for the army and come what
comes in the army.
Among us there is no one who can do anything about it
except the international politicians. Meanwhile it’s one
big salute today to American -motherhood on Mother’s day,
1953.
of families which have met misfortune in one way or an-
other.
On the aiert at all times to keep informed on affairs of
the day, HDC officers strive to bring to their meetings ex-
perienced persons to speak on matters which are in step
with these affairs. Home Demonstration clubs have gone
a long way toward lifting farm women from a life of drud-
gery to a life of diversification, including relaxation from
farm chores and an opportunity to enjjoy the programs
which yesterday were enjoyed only by city women.
Immeasurable good has been done in many communi-
ties of the country, including those of Montague county, by
HDC participation in the rural improvement program. Last
year Bonita was awarded a prize for community im-
provement. Bonita is again in the running this year.
Whether or not a club wins a prize, it remains that most
of them strive each year for some kind of community im-
provement, This means more to rural America than can
be put into words. So long as we have s,uch organizations
we need not worry too much about communism in America.
The two cannot live together and informed American peo-
ple will stand by the HDC’s.
This year’s theme for HDC week is “Home—the Cor-
nerstone of Freedom.” Freedom has been kept alive in
America by the home, the church and the public school sys-
tem. This year the home underlies all else in HDC week,
and rightly so, because upon the home depends the atten-
tion that is accorded the church and the school. Upon the
home rests the responsibility by keeping America free. The
home has always been and always will be the cornerstone
of freedom. If the time ever comes that it is not we will
be a lost nation.
Ruth Janeway, Flo Dell Roper.
Seniors —- John Goble, JanelLa
Shackelford, Ralph Yeakley.
B honor roll — all grades above
80 and 90 or more in citizenship:
Freshmen — Bennie Fenner,
J. T. Farquhar and her
gson Randy spent Monday in
Ua Falls visiting Randy’s
nr, Mrs. oyce Covington,
w> employed at Wichita RJjJls-
50 YEARS OF1 AUTOMOBILES
FIFTY years ago Nocona and other housewives
doing their washing by bending over a back-breaking cor-
rugated washboard. They were cooking their meals on
the tops of wood-burning stoves at the rear of which were
reservoirs of hot water for the Saturday' night baths. Ame-
rican homes were lighted for the most part with kerosene
famps. Some of the wealthy had gas mantle lights. They
tad no electric washing machines, ironers, percolators,
dishwashers, gas or electric refrigerators, etc. Man had
not yet flown through the air and the phonegraph with
cylinder records, or the brass record music box, were the
•uly automatic home entertainers. Movies had just made
their appearance when, suddenly, a youthful Detroiter as-
tounded the nation and the world by boldly introducing a
.aamage which ran without a horse. This was in June,
t903L
«. The Detroit youth, Henry Ford, was laughed at by a
skeptical people. He was ridiculed and otherwise subject-
ed to that to which Christopher Columbus and Thomas
Edison had been subjected. But stout-hearted and con-
fident Henry Ford stood by’ his invention and his convic-
tion that he would put America on wheels. One Detroit
woman flatly refused to put $200 into Ford stock, but after
ebnsiderauik persuasion by her brother, she agreed to
“throw away” $100 to the Ford venture. In 1919, she
sofcf that $100 interest to the Ford family for $260,000.
Cmnr 1914 and Mr. Ford again astounded the financial
world by declaring that he would return from $40 to $60
to each customer who bought one of his cars during the
■ext 12 months if sales topped 300,000. They did and the
Sather of the automobile paid out fifteen and a half million
dbfiars. Many Montague countians will recall that in that
ytmc year Mr. Ford once more astounded the financial
world by announcing a $5-a-day pay for all of his employes.
Rankers and businessmen across the country thought that
Be had “lost his mind,” but, again, Henry Ford stood his
ground.
Thus was born a total change in the lives of the Ameri-
can people. Today, 50 years later, there are millions of
automobiles—some 5,000 to 6,000 in Montague county—
traveling the nation’s highways from coast to coast and
from Canada to Mexico, and in most foreign lands. Today,
too, thousands of trucks are delivering millions of appli-
ances which are the direct result of the Ford assembly line
system, as are the trucks thefrnselves. It was our distinct
privilege some years ago to have met Mr. Ford. To meet
tom was to know the secret of his success. He was
Bumble, human and thoroughly Christian. His name has
gone down in history as one of the greatest men in America.
Mr. Ford put America on the wheels upon which America is
•raveling today.
Can a homeowner be held res-
ponsible for accidents that happen
to other people while they are on
his property? Lawyers say it is
difficult to state a hard and fast
rule about liability for such acci-
dents because the facts differ so
much from case to case. However,
some conclusions can be drawn
by noting how the courts have
decided in specific cases which
have been brought before them.
A postman delivering mail slip-
ped on a child’s roller skate one
morning. He sued the homeowner
for damages. The court held that
the delivery of mail is for the be-
nefit of the homeowner and that
he must take care to remove any
conditions on his property which
would make delivery of the mail
dangerous.
Then there was the case of the
meter-reader who slipped and fell
on the basement steps and the
courts held the owner responsible
because the steps were' defective.
On the other hand, a guest sued
her host because she slipped and
fell when she stepped1 on some
beans strewn about the owner’s
living room. The host’s children
had been playing with bean-shoot-
ers on the day she chose to visit.
The court held in this case that
the host was not liable for her
injury.
Similar cases where social calls
resulted in disaster involved a
guest slipping on a small scatter
rug, and another overnight guest
who slipped and fell in a shower.
Both cases were found in
of the homeowners-not the
ors.
From these cases it may
that the law is usually more strict
about accidents befalling trades-
men and others who enter your
premises in the line of duty, so to
speak-postmen, laundrymen, meter
-readers, delivery boys and the
like - than it is in the cases of
those who enter your home for
purely social reasons.
Not •ntirely absolved
This does not mean that a home-
owner is absolved of all respon-
sibility for injury to his guests.
If he knows a dangerous condition
exists, he has a duty to correct
it and can be held liable for acci-
dents which might happen if he
doesn’t. For example, a rotted
tree branch fell to the sidewalk,
injuring a passerby. The general
rule here is that the owner was
responsible because he knew of
the defective condition and should
have remedied it.
Fortunately, not everyone who
falls down the front steps gets up
and rushes off to sue his host
1 MOTHER’S DAY, 1953
MOTHER’S day, like Christinas and Easter, is one of
those days that challenges any one to say or write anything
original about the day. Every conceivable tribute, has
been paid many times to the mothers of Montague county
and the rest of America on “their day.” If anything new
can be found it might be found in this year’s Home Demon-
stration clubs’ theme, “Home—the Cornerstone of Freedom.”
The cornerstone of all Montague county and other
American homes is the mother. The father is the provid-
er, but the mother is the steadying influence of the great-
est of all American institutions—the home. The mother
is the one to whom the kids look—the father, too, for that
matter—for guidance, sympathy, understanding and advice,
lhe mother is the day in and day out unsung martyr of
life m America.
America is the product of great men, men who would
not have been great without mother love and mother guid-
ance. Today’s American mothers deserve more sympathy
than our fast-living country accords them. Because of
°r shaH we say stupidity, of our international
down to an all-time war.
sons to foreign soils in 1917 and 1918 to “save the world
for democracy.
RIB^JJ THOUGHT
The workman is wo^y of his meat.
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THE NEW CITY ADMINISTRATION
UNDER the leadership'of Mayor Stone, Nocona’s public
affairs were put on a strictly business-like and dignified
basis last week when the first full meeting of the new city
•aun:il was held as council meetings should be held. Clus-
tered about a central table’ as a board of directors, which
•ouncilmen are of the biggest corporation of the community,
the council discussed one matter after the other without
Wasted time and without drifting into subjects far remov-
ed from the issue at hand.
At the outset, Mayor Stone told his colleagues that a
•ertain pattern was to be followed in conducting all council
meetings. The pattern calls for dignified, sensible and
business-like conduct at all meetings. One of the chief
filatures of the new program calls for hearing visitors at
•nee and then dismissing thorn, but with an invitation to
remain for the rest of the meeting. This is indeed sen-
sible. When a visitor comes before council he is entitled
to the floor as quickly as possible. He should not be re-
quired to sit around for one to four hours to be heard.
Mayor Stone’s announced system of putting council’s
work into the hands of nine committees is in keeping with
the system followed by councils from coast to coast. There
is no reason why any one matter should be discussed for
an hour or more by the full council when it can be handled
by a committee. The universal system of council proceed-
ings calls for a report to the full council by one of its com- :
mittees after the committee had studied the subject at hand. ,
Further discussion is, of course, in order by the full council, •
but, ordinarily, the committee’s report is accepted and action j
«n the matter is predicted upon that report.
Mayor Stone has within a couple of weeks displayed the
feadership Nocona needs in the city hall. It is already ap-
parent that system, dignity and business-like approaches
to all city matters will mark his administration. A
mayor and a good council can build a city. Nocona has
in Jerry Lerner, Patricia
bn, Shirley Rich, Elene
|e.
homores — Lucia Painter,
leed, Marilyn Spencer.
iors — Larry Dunbar, James
iersnn, Monte Walker, Bar-
Friddy.
iors — Wayne Hankins, Pat-
tlington, Lynn Pixley, Valen
Waters.
However, a substantial body of law
has grown out of this type of
negligence case. This is not sur
prising when you realize that more
fatal accidents occur in and a-
round the home each year than
from traffic accidents on the high-
ways.
(This column, based on state and
federal law, is written to inform
, , - ------- — MX uui imeruauonai —not to advise. No person should
leaders to live together as neighbors we seem to have settled i eYer aPP,y or interpret any law
•'A - ...... America’s mothers sent their 7lthout *he aid of an attorney who
‘---- > i i knows the facts, because the facts
Twenty years pai«i and agS Ze B the
BILL STOFFLE MOTOR COMPANY
P1>one» 425 or 511 Nocona, Texa.
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