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NINETY-FIFTH YEAR - NUMBER FORTY-EIGHT
MINEOLA, TEXAS 75773, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1972
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I i er this year to aft' Chamber1 Carl I.
Black of Quitman, Judge will be Democratic primary. Sheriff Ar-
nnrv^cau m k.. D i i _ r *
sponsored jointly by the Savings las area schools) district. and
Memorial Cemetery, Mid-
Noland. who moved here
Midland after retirement
Kai/fman count-
announced GOP
opposed for nomination in the
Democratic primary, and will
presumably be unopposed in the
general election in November.
In other county races, there
will be contests in the May 5
at
7,
in
spe-
iritro-
is to fit the needs to a building
that's already there-
It's certainly gratifying to us
old fuddy-duddies to find out,
once again, how nice — not to
mention how smart — some of
the “young'uns" are!
Thursday, February 10:
Lions Club, noon, Harm's
Rebekahs
Masonic AF&AM
Monday, February 14:
Rotary Club, noon, Harm’s
Tuesday, February 15:
Mineola Book Review Chib
Volunteer Fire Department
Annual banquet and member-
ship meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce, 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, February IS:
Optimist Club, 6:30 a.m.
Delphian Literary Club
Fannie Marchman Garden Club
Mineola- Civic Center association. Show,n
in the photo are (from left) Hardy Hamm,
site investigation chairman; president Sam
Curry; Carl Hartman, building functions
and usages chairman; Rapp; and Bill
Knight, school superintendent and Civic
Center director.
The above comments remind
us that the Jacket Buzz staff
has begun a "Good News" fea-
ture on their weekly page in
The Monitor, providing just that
— good news-
The first such feature is carried
in the Buzz this week, on the
second page of the second sec-
tion.
Six o’clock Monday afternoon,
Feb. 7, was the deadline for
candidates to file for positions on
political party primary ballots for
1972.
And when the deadline for fil-
ing had passed, only two Repub-
lican candidates had filed for
the May primary; and only one
of the incumbent county officers
had escaped opposition to re-
elecion in November-
Walter E- Judge of Mineola,
who had made an unsuccessful
bid for election as county judge
in 1970, filed on Monday with
Republican chairmen in Wood,
Having said something nice, a
couple of paragraphs back, we’ll
once again say something nas-
ty: Why must so many people
exhibit morbid curiosity when a
disaster hits? Late Saturday
afternoon, there were so m a n y
people "turned out" to watch
the home of a woman and nine
children burn to the ground on
McWhorter Street, that almost
unnoticed was an auto collision
See MISCELLANY, page 5
Black, like his Republican
counterpart, also filed for re-
election as county chairman —
and for just about the same rea-
son, that "no one else was inter-
ested.” He has reported however
that there will be a contested
race for precinct chairman in
the Democrats’ election precinct
1-2 at Yantis, where incumbent
Linda Earle is being challenged
by’ Marie Nolen.
In the county .races, attorney
Belker D- Paschall. Jr- is un-
lin Ray Harris is being challen-
ged by O. T. Taylor of Mineola
and Alvin (Ted) Prince of Haw-
kins for the party’s nomination
for a new 4-year term beginning
Jan. 1, 1973.
Incumbent W- R. Blalock will
have to withstand the challenge
of former county clerk Lamar
Shamburger in the Democratic
primary, to win the nomination
for a 4-year term as county
tax assessor - collector. And the
winner of this two-man race will
face Mrs- Haneline, the Repub-
lican candidate, in the general
election.
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Terms of the county commis-
See CANDIDATES, page 5
Van Zandt and
ies as the only
candidate for State Representa -
five, District 11.
According to Wood County’s
Democratic chairman, W- T.
members, with the request that
tickets be paid for or returned
Jo the Chamber office no later
than Thursday, February 10-
Hardy Hamm is general chair-
man for the annual banquet.
Assisting him were the following
committees:
— Arrangements:
Sid Cox, vice chairman
Knight, Louie Fulgham,
Gorman, Virgil Peacock.
— Decorations: Edith
Chairman
Bill
D. K.
Mrs. Kenneth Wagner, distri -
butive education teacher at Min-
eola High School, and school
principal Walter Hinson accom-
panied local DE students to East-
field College at Mesquite last
Saturday, for the students to
compete in Area contests.
And five of the MHS students
won Area honors, with one stu-
dent taking-two different “pri-
zes.”
Michele Pegues wa£ chosen
Girl Student of the Year among
the 102 high schools in the north-
east Texas area (including Dal-
DECA student contest winners iri-the Area
competition last’ Saturday include these
three Mineola High coeds. From Ipft ter-*
right are Sherry Hanson, Cecilia Dyess
‘•And Michele Pegues., each holding a
«& Loan Association and the Cham-
ber.
Jim Carll, in his capacity as
a director of the Wood Soil .and
Water Conservation District, will
make the presentation of a spe-
cial Citation for Outstanding Ac-
hievement in the Teaching, of
Conservation, awarded late last
year by the Texas Education
Agency to MHS vocational agri-
culture instructor Lester Cole
(who is a past Man of the Year
award winner in Mineola).
The Woman of the Year will
be introduced by Jesse Jones,
won a First rating in Advertis-
ing at the Area level and a trip
to the State meet.
Vicki Cox was elected Area
vice president, and Debbie Love
won the post of Area secretary,
after spirited campaigning among
the various candidates for each
office. Mrs- Wagner said that it
was highly unusual for one
school to take two Area offices,
as Mineola had done through the
efforts of Misses Cox and Love.
And, says Mrs. Wagner, both
Miss Cox and Miss Love are
“threatening” to campaign for
state DECA offices at the March
convention that is to be attended
by high schools from a 11 over
the state. Last year, ..Mike Love
of Mineola won the state parlia-
mentarian’s post after vigorous
campaigning at the state conven-
tion.
Tim' Glasscock, president of
the DECA Chapter at Mineola
High, placed second, m the Boy
Student of the Year competition
in this Area, losing to the state
first vice president.
Harman Kitchens was the oth-
er-local entrant in Area compe-
tition, in the Public Speaking
contest-
opposed in November by Bill
Hollowell of Grand Saline, a
former state representative who
is the only Democratic candidate
to file for the office in Wood
County.
A surprise filing in t h e GOP
primary wh that of Mineola
housewife Helen Haneline for the
office of Wood County tax asses-
sor-collector. The filings of Judge
and Mrs. Haneline were the only
ones received by Wood County's
Republican chairman Carol (Mrs-
Robert Carlisle, other than the
one she file^jjith herself for
re-elecfl'dft as county chairman.
Carr I
and other garden club members,
Flowers by Lois, and Mineola
Flower Shop.
— Food and Service: Chair-
man. Doyle Starnes, vice chair-
man-■James Dear, Ed Burden,
Carl Hartman and Vernon Odom.
— Hospitality: Chairman John
Horton, vice chairman Danny
Culp (who has moved to Ennis),
Ralph Bruner, Wayne Collins
and Frank Carl.
— Tickets and Publicity:
Chamber manager J i m Carll,
secretary Mollie Fisher, Sam
Curry and Dan Peacock. ■
— Program and Invitations:
Tommy Minter, Culp and J i m
will be entered in the state DE-
CA (Distributive Education Clubs
of .America) competition in Mar-
ch.
Miss Pegues, who is employed
at Collins in _Mineola( was also
wmner of a First rating in sales
demonstration contest at the
Area DECA meeting.
Cecilia Dyess, who works part
time at Buy-Rite in Mineola
won a First in Window Display
competition, and like Miss Peg-
ues will compete in the State
contest.
And Sherry Hanson, a DE
student who works at Mallory’s,
SUGGESTIONS for civic center uses were
the topic of a meeting at which the above
photo was taken by the editor (see com-
ments in Miscellany column, at left). Mel
Rapp, a graduate of A&M who is now an
employee of the Dallas parks department,
gave his views to representatives of the
Mrs. Ida Penix
Buried Monday
Mrs- Ida Penix of the Haines-
ville community died on Friday,
Feb. 4, "hr a Quitman nursing
home after a lengthy illness.
Furreral services were held
2:30 Monday afternoon, Feb.
in the English Funeral Chapel
Mineola with the Rev. Duncan
Graham and the Rev. Perry
Richardson officiating.
Burial was in the Concord
Cemetery, under direction of the
English Funeral Home. • •
Mrs. Penix, 91, had resided in
Wood County for 78 years. She
was a member of the Hainesville
United Methodist Church and of
the Jim Hogg Grange
She is survived by a son, Ros-
coe Penix of Mineola; a daugh-
ter, Mrs. Estelle Turner of Min-
eola; two,sisters, Mrs. Decie
Williams ahd Mrs. Ruby Brown,
both of Mineola,- two brothers,
Earl Laminack of Lindale and
Henry Laminack of Quitman;
and three grandchildren.
Pallbearers were C. W. Hines,
Budd/ Tucker, Clarence Bridges,
Homer Turner, Preston Bridges
and Tom Flournoy.
Members of the Jim Hogg
Grange served aa honorary pall-
bearers.
Annual Chamber Banquet Is
Scheduled For Tuesday Night
trophy signifying having attained a First
rating in a contest. Miss Pegues holds,
in addition, the larger plaque signifying
her having won the Area title of "Girl
DE Student of the Year."
Incidentally, Carl Hartman is
still seeking answers to the Civic
Center Questionnaire- So . . .
we’re again carrying a copy of
the questionnaire in this week's
Issue, on the front page of the
second sectrdri. Why not fill it
out, so that YOUR views (and
they don't have to be "favorab-
le" to be welcomed by Hartman
and his fellow committee mem-
bers) will be reflected in the
community “survey"?
Miscellany
by Dan Peacock
Just to the reader’s right is a
Rites On Sunday
For Mrs. Walton
' 'Mrs- Cecile Iree Walton, 50, of
Mineola died Wednesday, Feb.
2. In a Galveston hospital after
a lefethy il ness.
Funeral senrices were held at
2 p m. Sunday, Feb- 6, in the St.
Paul Baptist Church with the
Rev. C. C. Colquitt, Elder Ollie
May and the Rev. V. L Brown
officiating.
Burial was in Mineola City
■t Cemetery under direction of the
White Funeral Home,""Mineola.
Mrs, Walton, who had attended
Mineola public schools, was a
member of St. Paul Baptist
Church.
Survivors include her husband,
Edward Walton of Mineola; two
sons, James Russell of Mineola
and Eddie Ray Walton of New
Jersey; a daughter, Mrs. Shirley
Hunter of Mineola: one brother,
Weyland Spring. Houston; three
sisters, Mrs. Monovee Hornsby
i and Mrs. Zella Mae Tuck, both
of Mineola, and Mrs: Leia Stow-
ers of El Paso; an uncle, Alfred
Arnold of Houston; four aunts,
Mrs. Alberta Gunter and Mrs-
1 Leia Malone of Mineola, Mrs-
Nettie Walton McDowell of Fort
Werth, and Mrs. Ester Oats of
Corsicana; and 5 grandchildren.
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‘Master Mason’
Degree Work Set
The Mineola Lodge. No.
502 AF&AM will confer the Mas-
ter Mason Degree on Monday
evening, Feb. 14, with the Texas
Highway Patrol Degree Team
doing the work.
Phifi and cold cuts will be
served at the Lodge Hall at 6:30 ,
pm., with the degree work to
begin at 7:30 p/n.
All Master Masons are urged
to attend, says Lodge spokesman
C- E. Barbee.
~ On the following Monday night,
Feb. 21, Mineola Lodge No. 502
AF&AM will confer the Master
Mason Degree with the Sharon
Temple Shrine Clown Master
Mason Degree Team conferring
the degree. Work will begin at
7:30 p.m., with refreshments to
be provided after the degree
work. All Master Masons are al-
so invited to attend the Feb. 21
degree work.
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Mrs. Alvin Plunk
Buried On Sunday
Mrs. Alvin Plunk of the Provi-
dence community died Friday,
Feb. 4, Tn a Grand Saline
pital after a brief illness.
Funeral services were held at
2 p.m. Sunday in the Providence
Baptist Church with the Rev.
B. J. Works and the Rev. Cliff
Niles officiating. Burial was in
Providence Cemetery under the
direction of the Bartley Funeral
Home of Grand Saline.
Mrs. Plunk, 60, was a native
of Smith County, Tennessee, but
had lived most of her life in
Smith County, Texas- She was a
Baptist.
Survivors include her husband,
Alvin Plunk of Mineola; six sons,
Jimmy Plunk of Irving, Wesley
Plunk of Mesquite, Frank Plunk
of Grand Prairie, Jerry Plunk of
Dallas, Harold Plunk of Mineola,
and Carey Plunk of Van; one
daughter, Mrs- Vernie Neely of
Mineola,- two brothers, Franklin
Webb of Wichita Falls and Ar-
thur Webb of Fort Worth; one
sister, Mrs. Vemell Neely, Fort
Worth; and 11 grandchildren.
Serving as pallbearers were
Raymond Webb, James L Plunk,
Michael Webb, Robert Plunk,
Phillip Plunk and Carroll Plunk.
Mrs. Scott Rites
Held On Tuesday
Mrs. Mary Loudella Scott, 85,
of' Wineola died Monday Feb. 7,
in a Tyler hospital after a long
illness- Funeral services were
held at 2 o'clock Tuesday after-
noon, Feb 8, in the English Fu-
neral Chapel with the Rev. Leo-
nard Brown officiating.
Burial in the Sand Springs
Cemetery was under direction of
English Funeral Home, Mineola.
Mrs Scott, a housewife, h^d
lived in Wood County for eighty
years. She was a member of the
First United Methodist Church of
Mineola.
Survivors include her husband,
Tom Scott of Mineola; two sons,
Thomas C. Scott of Mineola and
Louie Scott of Tyler; one daugh-
ter, Mrs. James B. Toland of
Winnsboro; two brothers, Henry
Curl of Dallas and John Curl of
Fort Worth; one sister, Mrs.
Ethel Willingham of Mineola; 12
grandchildren, and nine great-
grandchildren.
Grandsons were pallbearers.
Humble Baptists
To Host Singing
The regular “Second Saturday
Singing" will be hosted by the
Humble Baptist Church at 7:30
Saturday evening, Feb. 12, says
a church spokeswoman. .
Everyone is invited to attend,
and to participate and enjoy the
old fashioned gospel singing.
Danny McMahon will be song
leader for the monthly event.
' The Rev- Arlis Banks is pastor
of the church, located on East
McDonald (the Hainesville high-
way) near Peachtree Drive, in
northeast Mineola.
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Clayton Binford
Buried Saturday
Clayton Binford, 70 who lived
on Star Route, Mineola, died in
his' sister's home in Quitman on
Thursday, Feb. 3, after a sudden
illness-
Funeral services were held at
2 .o'clock Saturday afternoon in
the Cain Funeral Chapel in Quit-
man with the Rev. James Edge
and the Rev. Perry Richardson
officiating. Burial was in Sand
Springs Cemetery under direc-
tion of Cain Funeral Home.
Mr. Binford, a retired • farmer,
was a native and lifelong resi-
dent of Mineola.
He i| survived by his mother,
Mrs. Elizabeth Binford, Mineola;
and three sisters, Mrs. Pansey
Thomas of Mineola, Mrs. Daisey
White of Quitman,'and Mrs. Lou-
ise Murphey of Uvalde-
Pallbearers were Doc Roberts,
Doyle Starnes, J. A. Williamson,
J. A. McDade, Cecil Roberts and
Dr. Doyle Starnes Jr.
noon when a "hqmegrown” Min-
eolan offered his assistance to
present residents in their efforts
to define the functions and uses
of a civic center for Mineola.
Mel Rapp, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Norval Rapp of Mineola and
a graduate of both MHS and
Texas A&M, offered his help
after having read of proposals
for a new civic center in the
Monitor which is sent to him
each week in Dallas.
Mel is the director of the Red-
Bird Park Recreation Center in
Dallas, located in Oak Cliff,
where a new center building is
to be dedicated this coming Sun-
day, Feb. 13. He offered his
advice to the local Civic Center
directors and advisers not only
as a paid, trained recreation dir-
ector, but also as a young adult
who could still remember what
recreation facilities are available
to a youngster In Mineola. He
met with the Mineotens for
around 1V5 hours Saturday after-
noon (long enough for - m o s t of
us to get parking tickets!) and
provided valuable information.
He stressed that the uses of the
center be well-defined before a
building is planned, since it’s so '
Rites In Midland
For ‘Jim’ Noland
Janww-S "Jim" Noland,J75, a
Mineola resident for the past
four years, died at 2:30 Friday
afternoon, Feb- 4, following sur-
gery at Scott-White Clinic in
Temple.
Funeral services were held at
10 a.m. Monday, Feb. 7, in Mid-
land with Ellis Funeral Home of
Mtdland in charge of arrange-
ments. Burial, with Masonic
graveside rites, was In the Rose-
lawn
land.
Mr.
from
from oil exploration and produc-
tion, had resided on Lake Bren-
da north of Mineola with h i s
wife, Keith- He was active in the
local Chamber of Commerce, as
chairman of the Oil & Gas Com-
mittee; was a member of the
Wood County Riding Ctub; was
an active member of the Mineola
Lions Club; and taught a Sunday
School class at the First United
Methodist Church of Mineola..
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Keith Noland, of Mineola,- a son,
James G. “Jimmy” Noland of
Midland; a stepson, Dr. Dennis
Rhodes of Joplin, Mo.; four
grandchildren and two step-
grandchildren.
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Ths Week Ahead
president of the Mineola Lions
Club- The Lions will be making
their presentation of the award,
won last year by Mrs. John"
Scott. ~---
And the Mineola Rotary Club,
through club president Hardy
Hamm, will offer its recognition
of the city’s Man of the Year at
the banquet Tuesday night-
Hamm will present the club’s
18th annual award to this year's
honoree, successor to 1970 win-
ner James Dear.
Featured speaker for the 1972
Chamber Banquet will be David
R. Braden of Dallas, who will
be Introduced by Chamber man-
ager Jim Carll. Braden, a nat-
ionally known humorist, has
been active in the Oak Cliff
Chamber of Commerce and in
the “Goals for Dallas" program.
Following his address, the ben-
ediction by “Monty” Montgom-
ery, local Church of Christ minis-
ter, will conclude the 27th annual
membership banquet for the
Mineola Chamber of Commerce.
Tickets for the event are $4
each. They were distributed ear-
The 27tK annual Membership
Meeting and Banquet of the
Mineola Chamber of Commerce
is scheduled to get under way
at 7 p-m- Tuesday, Feb. 15, in
the Multipurpose Room of Min-
eola High School.
Local DE Students
Win Area Honors
1 Byron Leewright will serve as
master of ceremonies for the
event, which will begin with an
invocation by the Rev. Bill Lee-
diker, pastor of the First Metho-
dist Church of Mineola.
The meal will be served by
members of the Future Home -
makers of America chapter at
Mineola High School, under sup-
ervision of sponsors Dorothy
Patrick and Nelda Shipp.
Entertainment following the
meal will be presented by mem-
bers of the Mineola High School
Speech Club. The students of
speech instructor Pat Penn have
assembled a special 15-minute
program of song and comment
which they will give for
Chamber membership.
Leewright will introduce
cial guests, and will also
duce Chamber officials and t h e
four awards presenters at the
annual banquet.
John Horton, retiring Chamber
of Commerce president, will re-
view accomplishments of the
year ended Feb. 1, 1972, and will
introduce the outgoing directors
before formally turning over
his office to the incoming presi-
dent, Dr. Bill Knight.
Knight will introduce his board
of directors, and also the staff
of the local Chamber office, and
offer his remarks on the planned
program of work for 1972.
Retiring directors are Sid Cox,
Danny Culp, Sam Curry and
Tcmmy Minter. New directors
are Frank Carl, D. K. Gorman,
Vernon Odom and Virgil Pea -
cock; and holdover directors in-
clude Ed Burden, Ralph Bruner,
Carl Hartman, John Horton, Bill
Knight, Louie Fulgham, Hardy
Hamm and Dgyle Starnes.
Ralph Bruner, president of the
Mineola Federal Savings & Loan
Association, will present the sec-
ond annual Peace Officer of the
Year award. Last year, Mineola
police chief Clarence Willingham
was winner of the initial award
much easier to fit the building __ __
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