Mt. Vernon Optic-Herald (Mount Vernon, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 31, 1963 Page: 1 of 10
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MOUNT VERNON (FRANKLIN COUNTY.
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8. No chairs, b
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patient hall ways at
Milton Kelly, adm
that hospital emplo
be contacted during
Honor 1
Vernon Hl
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The course will include orienta-
tion on highway signs, signals add
road, and defensive driving proce-
dures. In addition, the group will
See DRIVERS, Page S
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Driver Clinic Application
Must Be Submitted At Sheriffs Office By
5:00 p.m. on Nov. 4
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f j Merchandise certificates may be
exchanged for merchandise only
and can be used only at participat-
ing merchants.
root of the mooting wae
up with reports from tthe
superintendent concernine the be-
ginning of school activities.
players will be ann
week’s issue of the
Rev.A.W.
Minister 0
God, Mt Vi
may not be brought
pital for patient cot
0. Visitors are enci
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of the bosrd
inklin County
lerce or any
ediate family
» not eligible
to receive;dtfy of the certificates.
No purchase to accessary to re-
gister and persona way register at
one or all of the ^participating
merchants. Registration will be
only oq toelFrteaV^Jad SeturiWy.
Mt Vernon School
Board Meeting
ifo
Per Copy
for a net of M yards, completing
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are allowed o
•nd nursery
BO yards roshing^cau
was credited!
surfacing
Texas, and T. L. James Company, and fron
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low bid to the Texas Highway De- eight in
•d oonci
the fron
asphalt i
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for the 1
at Mount V<
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, God psi
For Trades Days This Weekend
Rawing "employees, member.
4f directors of the Pgs
Chamber of CjM
member of the Mg)
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Benefit Ball Game
For Cub Scout I
school age. Men wh<
part in the game an
taet any member tf
UXn-..,
rto Morris to Assist
And rnm—man
Harvey, Glen Ray i
gram.
Admission to the
80c tor adults and SI
The local Cubl
r
Contract Let o
‘Of Interstate
on the expressway lanes
age roads. Surfacing for
lanes will consist of
placing ee-
iterlals. and
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Mount Vernon To Meet
Daingerfield This Friday
The Mount Vernon Tigers will
take on the strong Daingerfield
Tigers at the local field Friday ’
night with game time having been
wt at 7:30. Daingerfield to strongly
favored to win the district and are
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Hospital Board Adopts
Laws, Procedures For He
2. No children under 10 years
of age are allowed to visit matern-
•nd approved By-Laws and proce- Ity cases.
8. Visitors—On*” two visitors
during visiting hours are allowed
dures by which the hospital will
operate in the future at their meet-
ing on October 22.
The By-Laws sets out laws, rules tent to in a privi
and regulations which will be
followed by the board in the opera-
tion of the hospital, .nd rules un-
der which the board will oper-
ate. The By-Laws also set out the
authority and duties of the admin-
totrato/. w
Also adopted were policies re-
garding the public which will be
observed by the hospital. ~
under 12 years Of ago
nly in the lobby area
viewing corridor.
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The • Bosrd of Managers of
Franklin County Hospital adopted
s predictions for the week are:
xaa AAM over Artanadl
xaa over S.M.U.
xaa Tech ovqr Rtoo.
ylor over TAUT,
iburn over Florida,
my ovqr Air Force.
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Canadv and Mr.. .Wittite iBlack- m,
of Oklahoma titty:* eight grand- <
children. One eon died in Infancy.
One sister, Mrs. L. M. Walsh of
Winnsboro survives.
nine of 17 passes for 141 yards,
Intercepting two Mount Vernon
passes which he returned 51 yards
kicked off seven times for an aver-
of 43.7 yards, returned one
. . 1 Vernon kickoff 88 yards,
punted four times for an average
of 40.7 yards, scored one touch-
1 two extra points,
£0 taekto
.Midway of the third quarter Mt.
ally fell to pieces in the fourth Vgmon received three successive
five yard penalties for Illegal for-
mation and later in the period a
18-yard penalty for clipping that age oi
took all the fight out of the Tigers. Mount
I inden Kildare scored 26 points punted
<ntarter of the game, of
Md Hargett, (juarterback for down and kicked
W < *"d also account
Ths Cub Scout Pack Committee
announced this week that there
will be a benefit football game at
Tiger Fteid on Monday. Nov. 1
with all proceeds going to the [
Cub Scout Pack treasury.
Teams to meet will be the Mt.
Vernon Cowboys and the Franklin
County Ollers and will be made
up of men who are above high
onorRoll
studrate of Mount
School for the first
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'SEX ’SrXcSX: 5t’**'^-“»**^*^*' -rAttends Comm
ridge. Marilyn Gnu and Ann New.
sotne, twelfth grade.
Drivers Training Course
Set For Mount Vernon
Driver Traning school for
persons 16 or older who desire to
secure a drivers license will be
taught by Texas Department of
B>ublic Safety Officers at the Court
House in Mount Vernon, Texas on
November 4, 8, and 6 at 7:00 p.m.
Sheriff John E. (Junior) Tittle
is sponsoring the clinic, first of
its kind in Franklin County, and
those desiring to attend must sub-
mit their name and address to the
Sheriff’s office by mail or in per-
son before 5:00 p.m. on November
4. Three sessions, of three hours
each, will be held to complete the
fWMnlntf end n-remtnefton’ given
on the last night to complete the
course.
The Texas Department of Pub-
lic Safety !• cooporating in spon-
sorship of the clinic, and instruc-
tors will include License Examin-
ers, Highway Patrolman, and Safe-
quarter as they were defea
0 by the Unden-Kildare
gp ■a.a^alrara asmraraUA is
Unimu for 23
Mount Vernon
K» touchdown,
frith three tackles
f End Wallace Hall was a favored
pass reeeiver with five recepttona
to hta credit good for 74 yards
and two touchdowns.
junior eiMi EHcpnvn Mcivciiar,
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' Mmt play of the game by Atting
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yards, lost one fumble and re- "
covered a fumble by Hargett. He
returned three kickoffs for a to-
tal of 58 yards, was credited with
4 and one eft-
i a rat of 14
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Ronny Broach
yards rushing, o
Sunnyvale,
s visitor in
nd also visit-
parents Mr.
Mount Ver-
imith visited
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four passes for nine yards, re-
turned one kickoff 25 ysrds, punt-
' five times for an average of
__.7 yards, returned two punts for
58 yards, was credited with three
tackles and one effective pass de-
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Dickie Burns was credited with
21 teokla^ tMSragMMf
TMrJy-three Mount Vernon
merchants are offering outstanding
bargains on many items for Fri-
day and Saturday «f this week for
their second monthly Trades Days.
The two-day event will be cli-
maxed Saturday 'afternoon at 3:00
o'clock srtth a drawing, sponsored
THE SALTILLO CHAPTER OF THE NATIONAL BETA CLUB initiated five new
monies at Saltillo High School on Thursday. October 24. New
front row, left to right: Holly Whitten, Lou Jane Rogers, J*nL. .
Other members and officers of the chapter are. second row: Betty Tully. Unda Mitchell, Susanne
Rogers, reporter; Mararet Sparks, Sue Byrd, Kathy Whitten, secretary; Lonnie Tully; third row: Frank
Stretcher, sponsor; Linda Poor. Donald Rose, president; Suzanne Bennett. Jimmie Peugh, vice-preai-
dent; Patty Wiles, Richard Fite. Diane Gilbert, and Llndn Whitten, treasurer. To qualify for member-
ship in the National Beta Club students must have a scholastic average of 88. be of good character and
possess leadership ability.
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Merchants Offer Big Bargains
Mount Vernon has won over;
Pittsburg 18-12 and Talco 24-14.
•uttrinto)
... ......ers, to ore- a
members initiated are adated tn the
Vick. Kathy Poor and Kenneth Crump
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i) THURSDAY, OCTOBER II?
the buainose office>"ril,,Ml"
The board atoo adopted 1
and Rules and Regulations
medical staff of Franklin
Hospital.
Also adopted were es
benefits and procedures 1
hospital.
Any. or all of the abovi
mrats will be available for
Inspection at the office
Franklin County Hospital
about two weeks, the tlmo tl
be required for printing.
The Borad at a meeting i
ober ll ^dtocuaead rid acroi
partment on October 14 for the
construction of a portion of In-
’ and Franklin Counties. The tow
! bid .ubmitted by t^ree ownpantos
was in the amount of 33,238,067
The length of the project to ap-
proximately 11.3 miles, of which
62 miles is in Hopkins County and
’ 3.1 miles to in Franklin County.
The project begina approximately
J of Weaver and
print south of Mount
i intersection of F.
I M. Highway No. 888 near the Lan-
don Ramsay home.
The construction wori
slst of reshaping and <
the existing roadbeds, i
ment stabilized base mat
Final Rites Hdd
cates totaimg 350. First prize
325, second prize to 315 and third
prize is 810- __________
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ticFootballContest;
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•Id In l»t 2^? n
y picking the win- Winnsboro 14. Hughes Springs “
the sta gpMes Hat- 0. . , “
ited 40-
Tlgers
at the Case County school last Fri-
day night j
Mount Vernon's Tigers played
a strong game for the first three in the final
periods srtth the first quarter
County Gives $778
to Cancer Society
A recent letter of congratula-
tions to the people of Franklin
County was received here express-
tag appreeia'lon for the fine re-
sponse given by the‘people of the
county for the great effort that
was made in going beyond all ex-
pectations this year in the amount
of money raised. The total amount
raise in the county was 8778.75.
more than has ever been given to
this cause before.
The county was one of 89 coun-
ties that “Bettered their Best.”
The Countv has been on the “Hon-
or Roll” for the past few years,
during which time it has always
rracnea oeyond tne goal that was
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The American Cancer Society
expressed its very great apprecia-
tion
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Mount Vernon Tiger Team Falls To Pieces In 40-0 Loss
irds and was credited with two
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to bee any one patient. If the pat- quiet as possible at all
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persott will be p
during the night.
A Visiting Hours—Morning: No
visitors (Husbands) only may visit
mteemity cases from 10 to 10:80
^».bf.). Afternoon. 2 to 4 p.m. l^ven— Bn* ~
torn- 7 •« a P m P for **><
5. Dismteaal from the hosiptal
must be by 2 p.m. The hospital re-
They are: Braves the right to charge for an
ears of age extra day for checkouts after 2
iP-m- I'*-.. *
I 8. One parent may Btay with hto
K'?* Mi
am,! ii iwra sarararare
D R S. says he got seven out. of
nine games correct last week. He
must have had one tie in his pre-
dictions for he predicted 10 games.
tancer Film Is
Mown Here At
Rotary Meeting
I Alfred LeDoux, field representa-
tive of District 14 American Can-
ker Society of Texte spoke to the
Blount Vernon Rotary Club last
wriday and presented a film ot col-
Bn and rectal cancer. Bill Meek,pro-
tram chairman for the day intro-
klueed Richary Perry, local Can-
^er Society chairman who In turn
| The film told cd cancer of the
Irolon and rectum and pointed out
khat all such cases can b. cured
If discovered in its early stagn.
pt stressed the necessity of ex-
amination once a year for both
men and women for any signs as
Where are no noticeable symptoms
in the early stages of cancer in
this area. . ...
LeDoux pratoed Franklin County
[for their generosity in recent can
cer drives and told the group that
of each dollar taken in here,
33c goes for research in Texas
20c goes for professional educa-
tion and services, 23c for publie
education. He for services to pat-
ients, 5c for development of pro-
gram and administration and 8c for
campaign expenses.
Milton Kelly, administrator at
Franklin County Hospital, was In-
troduced as a new member. Dwight
Elledge, student guest for the
month was present. Visiting Rotar-
ttans were J. R. Mason, Winnsboro,
and Paul Arthur, Mount Pleasant.
Secretary Charles Teague an-
nounced 100 percent attendance
for the previous week’s meeting
and that Glen Ray was the only
one absent Friday.
The program this week will bo
under the direction of J. Frank
Lewis. 5 .’.'-Jv7 - '■
Mount Vernon School Board mot
in regular session on October 28
at 7:20. Only matters of a rounttne
„. . nature wmre discussed by the board
omciawo. Expenditures were studied and ap-
Llberty proved.
The superintendent was instruct-
ed to look into the matter ot the
purchase of a small tractor with
mower att achment for the keep-
ing of the school grounqs during
the summer months
The board discussed the select-
ion of a school '
fill the vacancy
bignation of J. I
Attends Commodity
Meeting In Paris
Warren Smith, commodity re-
presentative for Franklin County,
attended a meeting of commodity
representatives from the northeast
Texas area at Paris Tuesday and
Wednesday.
William H. Herndon, of Austin,
was in charge of the sessions which
were held to better acquaint the
county representatives with pro-
per procedures in issuing the sur-
marklngi, traffic Jaws, rules of the plug commodities.
re.d .nd defensive driving nrooe- gpeclflc quertlons by varlolu
pxesentatives were answered dur-
ing the sessions.
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For Sarah Arry
Morris Wednesday
Monday Nidrt
Final rites were hold at Purley ' '■*
Baptist Church Wedneaday. Octo-
ber 30, at 2:00 p.m. Rev. Roy H.
David, Rev. P. G. Hightower and
Rev. W. D. Peterson
Interment was in the
Cemetery.
rniii:rairi> wvi <7 nvuvi 1 vvuii
tryman, Ray,'Elmer, Boyd, Austin
and Loyd Joyrar.
Mre- Morris was boHL in Wood
County, Texas. July 30, <884.
Survivors Include three sons.
Lisbon Morris o< Mount ternon.
Robert B. Morris ot Kansas City
and Ernest Morris M Flint Mlchi-
RegUB-ation for the d^aw;..B
Is at all of the 33 participating
merchants and will close at 2:45
pjn. on Saturday in order for each
merchants to get his registration of any the B*
cArds to the plaza where the draw- "-----
tag will be held.
^Participating merchants, their
our freedton.
n take safis-
tdge he Jias
nation’s de-
1 may me
or through
plan wbGr*-*
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Bass, James T. Mt. Vernon Optic-Herald (Mount Vernon, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 31, 1963, newspaper, October 31, 1963; Mount Vernon, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1277678/m1/1/: accessed July 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Franklin County Library.