Mt. Vernon Optic-Herald (Mount Vernon, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 8, 1974 Page: 4 of 12
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Thomas Tower
Mt. Vernon Service Parts
Dial 537-2228 To Report Local News
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Write, Phone 537 2517, Or See Me Before Sept. Vth.
SAYS
Mrs. Frank Burns
Welcome Students
Teacher of Piano and Theory
Studio — Mt. Vernon School Building
ACK TO SCHOOL!
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Someone whose greatest joy is to watch a
child's mind expand and flower.
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Weather
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ADAMS OFFICE
EQUIPMENT COMPANY
Piano Students Who Plan To Study Plano With Me
Will Please Contact Me So That They May Be
Scheduled For Lessons Which Will Begin Monday,
September 9th.
manager
says the
The weather information
given below was recorded at
the weather station in Mt.
Vernon for the 24-hour period
ending at 7 a m on the day
listed for the period of August
1 through August 7
Day
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday 84
88
92
90
85
88
91
65
66
65
65
69
64
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BILLY REX LAWRENCE, OWNER
MT.VERNON
KENNETH CASON, OWNER, MOR.
NORTHEAST CORNER OF SQUARE
TYPEWRITERS
SALES & SERVICE
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Meek's Gin & Feed
Mt. Vernon —
BOKAY FLORIST
COMPLETE
Floral Service
Phone 537 4575 Day Or Night
MT. VERNON
70
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PH S3? 2232
FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN'S SAKE
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Phone 537 2933 Mt. Vernon
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And We Open
At 10:00a.m.
Mon. Thru Sat.
And 12:00 Noon
On Sundays
Our Telephone No.
588-2295
his spare time
outdoors. He and his wife,
Rita, have one daughter
The third member of the
Mt. Vernon team is Thomas
Tower, who has been with
the Company for 28 years He
started to work in 1946 as a
lineman's helper in Mt
Pleasant In the spring of 1947
he was named troubleman in
cation of Southwestern Elec-
tric Power Co., which
featured Mt. Vernon, and the
company’s three employees his present position
The Marshall native gradu-
ated from Harieton High
School in 1961. Before joining
the Company he worked in the
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years ago
The feature article which
appeared in the magazine
follows:
Located in Franklin Coun-
ty, where there are 81 dairies
and the income from livestock
production totaled almost
$11.5 million in 1973, is the
town of Mt. Vernon The three
employees in SWEPCO’s
local office make sure the
1,038 residential customers
and the almost 200 commer-
cial customers receive the
electricity they need, both in
Mt. Vernon and in the
neighboring Saltillo.
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"Now Taking Applications For Employment"
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Safe Wv&rfi
Spare Children 's lives
MT. VERNON
Dairy
Queen
k INT 30 AT
HWY. 37
The wedding will take
place in the First Vnited
Methodist Church in Mt.
Vernon, Friday, August 23
at 8 p.m. Friends and
relatives are invited
through the press.
annua) service awards dinner
in Mt Pleasant on June 11
They were local manager
James Benson, for 10 years of Rotary Club and president of
service, and Kevin Long, for the Franklin County Salvation
Army
Benson is also a member of
the Masonic Lodge and the Carthage, and kept the same
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uribe.it.ible i onjbinnfions.
Students Register August 16
almost
HERE-,
You Could Not Do As Simple A Thing As Read
MR. AND MRS. JOE
GRIFFITH announce the
engagement and ap-
proaching marriage of
their daughter, Rebecca
June, to Kim Overby
Drummond, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Larkin Drummond.
who work in the Mt Vernon
office of the company
Two of the Mt. Vernon
office employees received
service pins at the company ’s Marshall National Bank and
is very active in the civic
affairs of Mt Vernon In fact,
he is past president of the
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"The Cow House Fashions"
OF
MONTICELLO
Someone who shapes tomorrow
Someone who kindles and makes grow.
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Meter reader-clerk Kevin
Long is a native of Mt
Vernon Prior to coming to
work for SWEPCO in 1972,
Long was employed by
Shellenberger Construction
Company and Home Town
Food Store
I-ong is active in the March
of Dimes campaign and in the
Franklin County Cancer Soci-
ety. He also serves as a
Local manager James reporter for the local Fire
Benson says the major Department He attends First
industrial customers include Baptist Church and enjoys
a dress factory, a meat spending
packing firm and a manufac-
turer or mobile home furni-
ture. He adds, however,
“most of the activity is
concentrated around Lake
Cypress Springs’’ — a new
lake in the area
Benson started his career at
SWEPCO in 1963 as a meter
reader in Gilmer The next
A teacher is someone who may very well be doing the most
important job in the world. And, today, a difficult job, because the
world is more complex, knowledge is more complex. How much
simpler it must have been one hundred years ago to be a teacher,
when you taught the same thing in the same way that had been used
for centuries . . . when a slate, a primer, and a dunce cap were the
main teaching tools. But how many fewer children went to school,
and how much less they learned! Today's teachers on the other
hand, keep up with the changing world. If you are a parent, you are
well aware of this.
You need a book on the new math to understand what your
children are learning, x
i 365 days a year, we take our teachers for granted. Today,
however, is a good day for us to remember, and by this word, to
honor teachers . . . today's, tomorrow's and yesterday's teachers.
Wood Co. Electric Coo0. would like to say thank you to all the
teachers of Franklin Cq. We would like to say thank you for
ourselves as a part of this great area of Texas. Thanks to each of you
for the wonderful job you are doing.
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one year of service Thomas
Tower, who has 28 years of
service with the company,
received his 25-year pin three Baseball Association. He has position when he transferred
ben elected to serve his third to Henderson later that year,
term as President of the In 1948 he became troubleman
Cancer Society. He is a in the Mt. Vernon office.
Cubmaster for a local Scout Tower is a graduate,of Mt.
troop and belongs to the First Vernon High School and a
Baptist Church. He is the U.S. Army veteran. He is a
father of two children and member of the Masonic
lists coin and stamp collecting Lodge and the Fire Depart -
as hobbies. ment and attends the First
Baptist Church. Much of
Towers free time is spent
Wl,h a fishinS P°,e in hand He
and have
one son
| SAM B. HARVEY'’
| ^FUNERAL HOME___
Dear friends,
Most funerals include over to separate
items of service. Many of these are never
observed by the family. A partial list Includes
notifying relatives, death and burial
certificates. clergyman arrangements, fu-
neral plans, music, obituaries, notices,
transportation, flowers, acknowledgments
and honorariums, coordinating with your
attorney and banker on joint property
requirements.
Mt. Vernon Featured In Magazine Pa*<4
A feature article appeared year he became a senior clerk
in the July issue of ‘‘The and served in that positiondor
Southwestern/’ official publi- five years In the spring of
1969 he was named office
manager in Mt. Pleasant, and
was moved later that year to
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The weather information
below was recorded at the
weather station at Lake
Cypress Springs for the
24-hour period ending at 7
a m on the day listed for the
period of August 1 through
August 7.
Day
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
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Bass, James T. Mt. Vernon Optic-Herald (Mount Vernon, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 8, 1974, newspaper, August 8, 1974; Mount Vernon, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1278175/m1/4/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Franklin County Library.