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FROM THE
EDITOR’S
PEN . . .
By EDGAR R. HAYS
WITH THE district track and
field meet Saturday, the district
literary meet Tuesday, inter-
spersed with various other In-
terscholastic League events, we
wonder how the students find
The Nocona News
VOLUME SIXTY THREE SINGLE COPY 10c NOCONA, MONTAGUE COUNTY, TEXAS THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 19«« NUMBER FORTY-THREE
Industrial Foundation Drive
Reaches Almost $9,000.00
GETTING READY
JOHN H. BANISTER
880
put,
high
DRIVE SAFELY!
V
WEATHER REPORT
April 14th, it was an-
this week by Teddy
chairman of the com-
Montague County Cancer Crusade next month are,
and Mrs. Travis Fore, co-chairman of the county,
WELL RON, we weren’t real-
ly trying to defend the Commis-
sioners. We think the Commis-
sioners Court is a little dilatory
at timesand perhaps should take
a little more interest in what’s
happening in Montague County.
For instance, the only member
of the Court who takes The No-
cona News is Belve Wood of No-
cona. Some things happen over
this way that are important to
the county as a whole and The
Nocona News, in most cases, is
the only newspaper which car-
ries a story about those hap-
penings. We think the Commis-
sioners should be interested
enough in the whole county to
keep up with th? happenings.
Low
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48
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AREA BANKS must of neces-
sity follow the lead of major
banks in increasing prime in-
terest rates. This has long
been a fact of life in the pro-
fession and there doesn’t seem
to be much chance of evading the
issue. You probably read where
the prime rate was upped from
7 to 7 1/2 percent only recently
and not many loans meet the re-
quirement for the prime rate.
That means that everyone will
be paying more interest on bor-
rowed money. We hope this bus-
iness of fighting inflation does-
n’t start too much of a trend
the other way.
The Ministerial Alliance of
Nocona, emphasizing the unity
of all Christians in the one body
of Christ, is sponsoring three
Holy Week Services, March 31,
April 1 and 2.
Monday evening the service
will be held at First Presby-
terian Church with the Rev.
Roy Sanders of the Christian
Church preaching. Tuesday
evening, Bethel Baptist will host
the service with the Rev. Floyd
Kinser of the Presbyterian
Church preaching. On Wednes-
day evening, April 2 services
will be held at First Baptist
Church with Rev. William Penn,
pastor of First Methodist
Church as speaker. Molsbee
Chapel Church of the Brethern
will have charge of the music
at Monday evening services.
The Christian year is divided
into special periods of time em-
phasizing the life of Christ in-
cluding his birth, his ministry,
his suffering, his death, and his
resurrection and ascension.
Two other distinctive emphasis
are Pentecost and the King-
dom age.
The Lenten season is the forty
days associated with the pre-
paration of Christian people
for the celebration of Easter.
Holy Week, the oldest and most
sacred of the Christian cele-
brations, usually includes spe-
cial services and a celebration
of the Lord’s Supper in many
Christian churches.
The two referendums on the
City of Nocona election ballot
are attracting some attention
and will probably bring out ad-
ditional voters in that election
which is set for Saturday, April
5th.
One of the referndums deals
with giving the City Council
permission to sell some city-
owned land to the Industrial
Foundation for industrial devel-
opment purposes. Mayor E. J.
Johnson said this week that the
land in question is some 30
acres located on the road to the
Nocona Cemetery, and used at
one time by the American Le-
gion for a baseball field. The
Ni'cona Chamber of Commerce
The Nocona Indian girls have
won the District 11-A volley-
ball championship and will play
the District 12-A winner, Boyd
at Bowie this Friday afternoon
at 2 o’colck. The girls played
Tuesday of this week defeating
three other district teams to
take the title. Mrs. Billie Yea-
ger is coach. This is the second
year in succession the local
girls have been volleyball
champions of the district.
The district tournament was
held at Crowell. The Redskins
played Munday in their first
game, defeating them in
straight games, 15-2 and 15-12.
Archer City was the compe-
tition for the Nocona lasses in
the second game and they de-
feated that team as easily, 15-
7 and 15-5.
The final game, to determine
the championship was different.
The Indian girls dropped the
first one 15 to 5, but came back
to take the next two by 15-13
and 15-10 scores.
Members of the team are
Patti Reynolds, Jackie Yarbro,
Libby Fenoglio, Cathy Fenoglio,
Debra Rich, Rhonda Gunter,
Glenna Fenoglio Martha
Thompson, Pam Skinner, and
Melinda Minor.
MRS. F. T. FENOGLIO at-
Ringgold send us a clipping from
The Cappers Weekly that really
speaks sense. It is titled * ‘Smart
Spider” and says:
When Mark Twain edited a
newspaper in Missouri, one of
his subscribers wrote him that
he had found a spider in his
paper and wished to know
whether it meant good luck or
bad.
Twain answered: “Finding a
spider in your paper is neither
good luck nor bad. The spider
was merely looking over our
paper to see which merchant
was not advertising, so that he
could go to that store, spin his
web across the door and lead a
life of undisturbed peace ever
afterward!”
is supporting the referendum,
and is urging voters to approve
the matter, which will expedite
the Industrial Foundation’s ef-
forts to secure additional in-
dustry.
The other referendum deals
with giving the City Council
permission to use up to five
percent of city tax money for
promotion a 1 purposes. The
Chamber of Commerce is also
supporting this referendum.
For city offices, the present
incumbents have no opposition
and have all filed for re-elec-
tion. They are Mayor Johnson,
Councilman Hollis Gaydon and
Councilwoman Mary Blevins.
John H. Banister, minister of
the Skillman Avenue Church of
Christ in Dallas will begin a
four-day meeting at the local
Church of Christ next Monday.
March 31st. The church is lo-
cated at Cooke and Walnut
Streets.
Services will be held at 9:30
a.m. and 7:30 p.m. each week
day Monday through Thursday
The minister’s evening sermon
topics are announced in an ad-
vertisement elsewhere in this
issue of The News.
Mr. Banister was at onetime
minister of the local congrega-
tion, in 1932, and has held sever-
al meetings here since that
time.
He has been at Skiilman Ave-
nue church 21 years and has
preached over Radio Station
KRLD every Sunday. In addition
he has been on KRLD-TV every
Sunday morning at 8:30 for the
past 14 years.
Mr. Banister has conducted
meetings in 32 slates including
Hawaii, and in 1963 made a
preaching tour of the Orient,
holding meetings in Manila,
Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Bankok.
He has served on the board
of Abilene Christian College
since 1950.
His services are much in
demand for meetings and lec-
tureships at local congregations
and Christian colleges over a
wide area. He began his minis-
try in Clay and Montague Coun-
ties in 1930.
The public is invited and
urged to attend hear Mr. Ban-
ister, members of the local
congragation said.
C-BOY” FITTS came in first in the 120 yard high hurdles Saturday at the
Indian Relays.
INDIAN GIRLS WIN DISTRICT
VOLLEYBALL TITLE TOES.
The Nocona Indians will field
a strong track and field team in
the District 11-A meet to be
held at Holliday Saturday of this
week. Coach Jim Rogers, now
in charge of the track team, re-
ports that he will take 17 boys
to the Saturday meet, some with
outstanding records in their
events.
Both High School and Junior
High meets will be held Satur-
day at Holliday with the Junior
High field events starting at
9 a.m. followed by the High
School field contests.
Preliminary track events will
begin at 9:45 a.m. and the finals
will begin at 2 p.m.
Munday and Holliday track
and field teams will be the
schools to beat in the district
meet, it appears from the in-
vitational meet here last Satur-
day. They finished one and two
in that meet.
Coach Rogers has announced
the members of the track and
field team and the events they
will participate in as follows:
Ronnie Hill, 100 yard dash,
220 yard dash, sprint relay,
broad jump.
Randy Duckworth, sprint re-
lay, open 440 yard run.
Ricky Yeargln, shot put, in-
termediate 330 yard hurdles,
100 yard dash.
Steve Womack, mile run, 440
yard relay, 220 yard dash.
Roy C. Fitts III, 120 yard
high hurdles, 330 yard interme-
diate hurdles, high jump, broad
jump, discus.
Alvin Michael, mile relay,
open 440 yard run, pole vault.
Jack Ramsey, mile relay,
880 yard run, pole vault.
Chan Major, mile relay, open
440 yard run.
The Nocona Industrial Foun-
dation drive for funds took a
big jump the past week and stood
•at $8,915.00 Tuesday of this
week,- according to a report
from Caddy McCall, drive
chairman. A substantial part
of the increase over last re-
port came from the two local
banks.
The goal for the fund drive
is set at $50,000 since this
amount will be needed to create
a loan fund for possible new
industries here. Industrial
Foundation officials empha-
sized the fact that the fund will
not be given to any firm or
person J)ut will be loaned out
with substantial security to as-
sist industries in settling in
Nocona. Detailed questions and
answers concerning the Foun-
dation will be found elsewhere
in this issue of The News.
Donations to the Industrial
Foundation to date were an-
nounced by McCall aS follows:
Nocona Floral, $200.00.
Sawyer Insurance, $200.00.
Charlie Burnett, $10.00.
McNabb Feed Store, $100.00
Gilbert Department Store,
$200.00.
Dwight’s Electric, $200.00.
Hinds Clark Co., $1,000.00.
W. G. Horn, Sears Catalogue
Store, $200.00.
Nocona News, $200.00.
Boydston Pump Co., $50.00.
Nocona Independent Lumber
Co., $25.00.
Painters Supermarket, $100.-
00.
Anonymous, $5.00.
Curlin & Sewell Insurance,
$300.00.
T. & R. Construction Co.,
$500.00.
Dude’s Duds, $25.00.
Sands Motel, $200.00.
Nunneley Ford Co., $200.00.
Farmers & Merchants Na-
tional Bank, $2,500.00.
Peoples National Bank, $2,-
500.00.
Cecil’s Pharmacy, $200.00.
Total $8,915.00.
time for it all. Of course, it’s
been a long time but we don’t
IhlnK ’ they kept us that busy
when the News Editor was in
school. There were some other
differences also. We don’t re-
member seeing anyone, not even
the teachers nor the adminis-
trators, ride to school, though
there were probably some
rural people who rode. And it
only seems like yesterday.
The City of Nocona was found
to be “not negligent” in a dam-
age suit in district court at
Montague Tuesday and Wednes-
day. Plaintiff in the suit was
Mrs. Janie Benton of 301 Bay-
lor, who charged that the city
was negligent in working the
street in front of her house and
has diverted water onto her pro-
perty causing damage. She
asked $7,000 damages.
Judge Louis T. Holland pre-
sided and the case was tried
before a jury.
Frank Gibson of Wichita Falls
was the attorney for the city
while Mrs. Benton was repre-
sented by Jack Connell and Paul
Donald of Bowie.
BUT GETTING back to Ron,
that old boy mis-read our arti-
cle a little. We did not say that
Bowie paid only about 40 per-
cent of the county taxes. We
said that Precinct 2 paid only
about 40 percent of the county
taxes and that’s a big difference.
Precinct 2 takes in a lot more
than the City of Bowie. And we
still say that forcing a Com-
missioner to keep up more than
his share of the county roads
with only one - fourth of
the county road money is not
exactly fair. And Ron didn’t
mention our main point — that
Precinct 3 had carried the
county from a tax standpoint for
30 years. That ought to be worth
a little notice.
INDIANS TO FIELD STRONG
TEAM IN DISTRICT MEET
Johrt Hill, 880 yard run.
David Paine, mile or
yard run.
Norman Waters, 120 yard high
hurdles, 330 yard intermediate
hurdles, mile run, discus, high
jump.
Jimmy Shields, pole vault.
Randy Stilley, 100 yard dash,
220 yard dash, sprint relay.
John Bowerman, shot
discus throw.
Neal Meeks, 120 yard I
hurdles, broad jump.
Harry Morse, high jump.
Wednesday ••••••••
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COMPLETED — The new 400,000 gallon water tank
was completed Wednesday, and all that remains for work-
men to do is to air test it and paint it. It will be painted
aluminum.
Local Nursing Home
Sells To Corporation
Monterey Nursing Homes,
Inc. have purchased the Hori-
zon Manor Nursing Home in No-
cona and the Westview Manor in
Seymour from Mr. and Mrs.
Lindell O’Neal , according to
a news release Ln an area daily
newspaper. The new owners
have assumed ownership of the
two homes.
There will be no change in the
management of the local nursing
home, The News was told.
for the
from left, Mrs. Melvin Harrison
and Mrs. Robert Linker, who is assisting. These will distribute supplies to the various
community chairman in preparation for the county wide drive on April 14th.
TEMPERATURES
High
85
68
70
66
57
51
56
RAINFALL-
Total for week
Previous total.............
Total for year ••••••••••••<
Total year ago............
Boys’ Prose Reading, Ronnie
Hill.
Girls’ Prose Reading, Debbie
Sharp.
Journalism, Suzan Cardwell.
Ready Writing, Jack Mc-
Gaughey and Jane Thomason
with Melinda Minor as alter-
nate.
Spelling and Plain Writing,
Jo Ann Spivy and Joan Tomp-
kins.
Typewriting, Lee Dean, Beth
Allred, Debra Chapman and
Cindy Curlin.
Shorthand , Cathy Fenog-
lio and Jane Winingham.
Number Sense, Neal Meeks,
Pam Skinner, Debbie Morgan
and John Womble as alternate.
Slide Rule, John Womble and
Mike Brown.
Wells Couple
Retire On Lake
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Wells
have retired and moved to Lake
Nocona to live. Mrs. Wells is
the former Kate Bratcher, and
was reared in the Nocona arqa.
The couple has bought the
Dick Thomas place on the east
side of Lake Nocona and moved
there the latter part of January.
They have been very busy paint-
ing and arranging things to their
own taste.
Mrs. Wells worked at Texas
Instruments before her retire-
ment and Mr. Wells was em-
ployed by the Dallas school
system.
RON TAYLOR, columnist for
the Bowie Times - News and
Jim Winter’s chief cohort,
thinks we are trying to defend
the Montague County Commis-
sioners because we don’t agree
with The Bowie newspapers
campaign on re-districting. Ron
says this:
A NOTE TO EDGAR HAYES
IN NOCONA. We noted with in-
terest in your Thursday edition
of the Nocona News that is was
your opinion that Bowie would be
paying only about 40% of the
taxes in the county, and this fig-
ure might be high. We were
amused at your statement. “To
, be real honest about it, we
Wonder how many people in
Montague Couiny are much con-
cerned about how many people
live in their precinct.” We
really don’t blame you for try-
ing to take up for the com-
missioners in the north section
of the county. Believe me they
need all the help they can rake
up.
Farmers-Merchant*
Annual Dinner
Set April 14th
The annual Farmers and
Merchants dinner, sponsored
by the Nocona Chamber of Com-
merce, will be held on Monday
evening,
nounced
McNabb,
mittee.
The Noble Foundation of Ard-
more, Okla., will present a
program on fertilization at the
meeting.
The dinner will be held in
the Prairie Valley gymnasium
with the Prairie Valley cafe-
teria workers preparing and
serving the dinner.
Local merchants will pur-
chase tickets and pass them out
to farmer and rancher friends,
McNabb said.
BESIDES ALL THAT, he mis-
K" 1 The Editor’s name. That
orgiveable.
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11.05
Farm Home Is
Raided By Thieves
The farm home of Mr s. Woody
Henson, the former Mrs. Clin-
ton Bailey, at Belchervllle, was
raided by thieves some time
Monday. Stolen were a portable
television set, a clock radio,
a transistor radio, an electric
skillet, an electric can opener,
and other appliances.
Sheriff Howard Middleton,
Deputy W. F. Conway and other
officers are investigating but
no trace of the culprits had
been reported Wednesday. Some
finger prints and -foot prints
were found.
The thieves broke in the front
door to gain entrance.
Meeting Set
At Church Of
Christ Here
Dist. Tennis
Eliminations
Next Week
Local Churches
Join In Holy
Week Services
The District 11-A tennis meet
is coming up next week, Coach
Billie Yeager said Monday. The
zone competition will be held
Monday of next week at Holli-
day and the district eliminations
on Wednesday at the same place.
Nocona High School will be
represented in the boys singles
by either James Morris or Nor-
man Waters, and in the boys
doubles by Phil Barron and
Roy C. Fitts III. In the girls
division, Beth Spivy will play
singles and the doubles team
will be Amy Fitts and Sonya
Bell.
Nocona Junior High entries
will include:
Boys singles, Jeff Nunneley;
boys doubles, Don Womble and
Stanley Ferguson. In the girls
singles, Kim Rolls will repre-
sent Nocona and Kris Mercer
u }ai u i un. and Kilcrease will play
Randell Robertson, mile run. doubles.
City Wins fa
Damage Suit
Referendums Are Attracting
Attention In City Election
Plans are complete for the
appearance of the Dallas Cow-
boys basketball team in the No-
cona High gymnasium on Fri-
day evening, April 4th, Lions
Club officials said this week.
Such noted players as Dan
Reeves, Pete Gent, Ron Wid-
by, Jc ry Rhome, Lee Roy Jor-
dan, Malcolm Walker, Tony
Liscio, John Nilar-1 aqd Obert
Logan will play in the game
against a Nocona team. Named
to play on the local team are
Jim Rogers, John Hulse, Robert,
Linker, Melvin Harrison, Tom
Foster, Tom Hancock, Phillip'
Webb , Roger Sawyer, Melvin
Chapman and Willard Grigsby.
The game starts at 7:30 p.m.
and admission will be $1.50
for adults and $1.00 for stu-
dents.
A football autographed by the
Dallas Cowboy team members
will be given away during the
contest.
Fitts Is Ho. 1
I
In Stale Class
'A' Basketball
Roy C. Fitts HI, star bas-
ketball player for the Nocona
Indians, has been again named
to the all-state Class A bas-
"ketball team and was, in fact,
1 the leading vote-getting among
all the all-state candidates. He
received 112 votes for the top
position.
Other members of the all-
state Class A team are Tom
Long, Friendswood; Harold
Walker, Kennard; Joe Colbert,
Paducah; Mike Pate, West Sa-
bine.
Dallas Cowboys
Coning Here
On April 4th
Hew Auto Tags
Must Be On Car
By Tuesday
New 1969 license plates must
be on motor vehicles by next
Tuesday, April 1st, and the
county tax assessor-collector’s
office as well as his deputies
in county towns are bracing for
a rushing business.
Tax Assessor - Collector
David Moyer said this week that
his office in Montague will re-
main open all day Saturday of
this week for the convenience
of those who have not registered
their motor vehicles.
Mrs. Roger Sawyer, who sells
the tags here, said that her
office will also be open Satur-
day.
DISTRICT 11 - A LITERARY
MEET IH KH0X CITY TOES
Nocona High School students, noglio as alternate,
perrenial winners of literary ~ ‘ ~
meets in past years, will try
to add another trophy to their
collection next Tuesday, April
1st, when they enter the Dis-
trict 11-A literary meet at
Knox City.
The district science contest,
however, will be held Friday
of this week, also at Knox
C ity. Nocona High entries in this
event are Farrell Ward, Jane
Thomason and John Womble.
David Sharp is alternate.
The literary contests and
Nocona High entries each have
been announced as follows:
Debate, Barbara Barr and
James Morris with Jerry Paul
Smith as alternate. In practice
meet last week end, the local
team won three rounds and lost
three.
Boys’ Informative Speaking,
David Sharp, with Jimmy Walk-
er as alternate.
Girls’ Informative Speaking,
Joan Tompkins with Jo Ann
Spivy as alternate.
Boys’ Persuasive Speaking,
Jack McGaughey.
Girls’ Persuasive Speaking,
Jane Thomason with Jo Ann
Spivy as alternate.
Boys’ Poetry Interpretation,
Ray Swearingen, with Robert
McGaughey as alternate.
Girls’ Poetry Interpretation,
Elaine McNew, with Glenna Fe-
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