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VOLUME 96—NO. 50
MOUNT VERNON (FRANKLIN COUNTY), TEXAS
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1971
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liated
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Local Firms To
Observe Labor
Day Monday
Season Tickets
On Sale Through
September 7
have
Ham-
com-
but
scrimmage
they I
with
Final
summer
of Au-
and six
deaths were recorded in the
Justice of the Peace office
WITHOUT A
FATAL TRAFT1C
ACCIDENT IN
FRANKLIN
COUNTY
ucutt announced
that the regular
day night singing
at Hopewell tin
Xeryone is eordi-
to attend
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His advice,
a ride un-
less you have long hair and
look like a female.
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for the
of
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County Savings
Bonds Sales
36% Of Goal
Co..
No. 14
in Talco
County,
test six
1.320
Other major owners
been listed as Jake I.
on of Dallas, the Hinton
during the '
$458 million •
George
Jones,
Harris.
Gul
Boy Ship-
man. Mary Phyllis McLaugh-
lin. Saltillo; Myrtle Lee Hen-
son. Tracy, Calif.;
was filed on in
for possession
. a pistol
Cemetery
Memorials
tickets will be |1.75 if *ny
Pre-gsme
will be 50
admission
tickets, including students,
will b* 11.50 at the gate.
Tickets for Junior High
games will be 15 cents for
students end Bo cents for
adults.
Mrs
I Mrs
YOUR SUPPORT or ns
TIGERS will mal* * M.
ference in their succeta. Buy
a season ticket for >7.50 frosn
the cheerleaders and let the
players know you are behind,
them.
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the
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to the
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The cool water and pretty girls seemed to give most of
the players a lift.
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Fiery Show Monday
Hinton Production Com-
pany’s No. 1 Bert W. Davis
well blew in with a fiery show
of power Monday afternoon
and with an affirmation of
earlier indications of a prom-
ising Smackover gas produc-
er
The
A Winfield woman receiv-
ed injuries and was hospita-
lized and a Mt. Vernon high-
way patrolman suffered slight
cuts in a headon collision
northwest of Winfield Thurs-
day afternoon. August 26
Mrs. Charlene Gibson,
General Delivery
was
Campbell an-
President of Ro-
itional will visit
Club on August
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tat day and asked
rs wished to at-
‘muld notify him
ike arrangements
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it the local club
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THE MT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL CHEERLEADERS
seem to be trying to cheer the Tiger football players up
during a break in the Monday afternoon practice session.
nd
committee
that bargains to
are available tn
Shoppers will
bargains in groceries
seed, fertilizer
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tali
»re available,
student ticketa
cents.
All
and Claude
have staked
Only Eight
Cases Filed In
Local Courts
Only eight cases were tiled
in County and Justice of the
Peace court here during the
happy
That little Chevrolet then
decided to go back to Gener-
al Motors at Detroit to be
junked so its metal could be
used In the manufacture of
a Cadillac. When that little
old Chevrolet finally became
a Cadillac it waa really hap-
py
Jordan
Rev. J. J. Jordan, pastor of
the Highland Park Baptist
Church in Mt. Pleasant, spoke
at the meeting of the Mt.
Vernon Rotary Club last Fri-
day. He was the guest of Joe
Moseley who was in charge
of the program for the day.
Jordan said most of our
problems today are problems
of communication. He pointed
out that a breakdown in com-
munications leads to many of
the problems we have in the
world, our nation, our state,
our city and our club
He told the story of the
little old Chevrolet that was
unhappy because it wanted to
be like a Cadillac. The little
old Chevrolet decided to have
itself painted, its motor fixed
so it would smell good, look
good and would not smoke so
it would be like the shiny
new Cadillac.
The Chevrolet was parked
by a Cadillac in a parking lot
and realized it was still not
happy. A litle Volkswagen
came up and told the Chevro-
let to think Cadillac
The little Chevrolet
Roberts, Freeman, Land
Win In Tennis Tournament
Bonus Days In Mount Vernon Friday And Saturday
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accident,
highway patrolman,
another patrol car
Neabitt when the collision oc-
curred. Munsinger said the
two patrol cars had been
stopped under « underpass on
1H-30 when a truck illegally
crossed the median and climb-
ed the shoulder of the inter-
state highway into the service
road. The two patrol cars pur-
sued tlje violator and that’a
when the colliaion occured.
Both vehicles left signs on
the road surface showing they
applied their brakes in an ef-
fort to avoid collision. The
width of the pavement at the
point of collision was approx-
imately 12 feet, which requir-
Earl Roberts, of Mt. Pleas-
ant, added two more trophies
to Na large collection last
week end at the King’s Coun-
try tennis tournament Rob-
! erts, an experienced tourna-
ment player, captured the
singles championship with a
^finals victory over Itay John-
, son.
However, for the doubles
championship. the rugged
I Dallas combination of Fred
Irreeman and Curtis Land
prevailed over Roberts and
Johnson. In two hard fought
Idoubiou semi-finals, Freeman-
of
Winfield,
taken to the Franklin
County Hospital in Mt. Ver-
non where she was admitted
Thursday after the car she
was a passenger in, driven by
her husband, Harless Gibson
crashed into a Texas highway
patrol car on a narrow coun-
ty road west of Winfield -and
north of Interstate Highway
30
According to Sgt. Ralph
Robertson, who assisted pa-
trolmen in the investigation.
David Nesbitt, the patrolman
driving the involved patrol
car, was traveling north on
the county road in pursuit of
a traffic violator when the pa-
trol car and the Gibson car
met on a “blind’’ curve in the
narrow oiled road.
Nesbitt
Franklin
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the first set but then fell 5-3.
In the deciding third set,
the game count reached 6-6,
so the breaker (a tennis over-
time period) went into effect.
The more experienced Land,
who onee played tennis in
four different states in a
four-day period, pulled out a
narrow 7-6 victory.
Some of the players and
their families had never been
to the Mt. Vernon area be-
fore. All expressed a desire
to come again. One lady cap-
tured the general feeling
when she stated: “Just smell
that air. It sure isn’t like Dal-
las.”
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Yates said the scrim-
is conflicting with a
pre-season
'Hopkins Smackover
Blows In With
million
day
It was flowing Monday at a
rate of 7'i million feet
through a quarter-inch choke
Condensate was estimated
at 60 to 70 barrels per mil-
lion cubic feet of gas
The new discovery
scribed as much like
Schneider-Corey No. 1 M
I in the
mile
es meeting vehicles to get off
the hard surface in order to
avoid collision.
Officers said Mr. Gibson
and his 20 month old baby
were not injured, in the col-
lision
sible.
mage
Dallas
i. ime but urged Tiger fans to
com ■ to the scrimmage for
they will be able to see the
Cowboys the rest of the
He said the early start-
vey. A-275.
Dale Glass
Smith, Detroit,
No. 5 Ola Mae Jones. 1,826-
foot Paluxy test IV, miles
west of Bagwell, in the Buz-
bee field in Red River coun-
ty. 7,500 from north and 797
from west lines of William
Becknell survey, A-58.
Samedan Oil Corp, has ab-
andoned No. 1 Germany, G.
B Halvard survey, five miles
east and south of Pine Mills
and one mile east of Pine
Mills field, in Wood county,
halted at 5,970 feet, apparent-
ly in Woodbine. <Permit had
called for 7,800 to test Pal-
uxy. >
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Most of the Mt. Vernon
business firms will be closed
Sept. 6, In obser-
vance of Labor Day.
Offices in the court house,
city hall, post office, and the
First National Bank will also
be closed.
Walter Sears, superinten-
dent of the Mt. Vernon In-
dependent School District,
announced that there will be
no school on that day.
of a de idly weapon,
I’he Franklin County Sher-
iff's Department filed one
case against ,( minor for pos-
] session of alcoholic beverages
I in Justiee of the Peace P. R
I Gill s office
Service stations and garages
are located near the stores
where shoppers might hava
their car serviced while shop-
ping in Mount Vernon
Grocery merchants point
out that shoppers can find a*
large a selection in Mount
Vernon as one might find ua
much larger towns. They also
point out that prices of grocer-
ies in Mount Vernon are gen-
erally lower than in the larger
towns. During Bonus Days
these prices have been cut
even lower and many of the
stores are offering extra pre-
miums and trading stamps to
boot.
Season tickets for the
Mt Vernon Tigers five
home football games will
be on sale through Tues-
day, September 7, for
$7.50 This is a saving of a
$125 for the five games
and will assure the holder
of the same seat between
the 40-yard lines for each
game
Season tickets are avail-
able at the Superinten-
dents office at the school
and cheerleaders will be
taking orders for the tick
ets for the next few days.
They plan to contact peo-
ple in the business dis-
trict during the afternoons.
Quarterback Club pre$i-i
dent Lanny Ramsay says
that a large sale of season
tickets will give the boys
an indication of the sup-
port they will expect
throughout the season. He
said it will give the boys
a tremendous amount of
incentive to give a great-
er effort.
Reserved seat game tic-
kets will go on sale at
Crescent Drug Store on
Tuesday. September, 7
with student tickets also
being available there to
parent* of students in the
Mt. Vernon Independent
School District. Student
tickets will also be avail-
able from the principals
in the various schools.
Single game reserved seat Cadillac but it was’ stillI not
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Petit Jury Is
Summoned For
County Court
A panel of 25 Jurors is be-
ing summoned for petit jury
service in Judge Lanny Ram-
say's county court on Mon-
day. Sept. 13 at 1:00 p m.
Those who are being sum-
moned are:
Mrs. R. W McCowan. Eth-
el Imogene Phillips, Mrs. Ed-
gar Reynolds, Joe B. Bass,
Roger Irby, Anne Larkin
Tom, Eunice L. Padgett, Lar-
ry G. Davis, W E. Stanley,
Dorothy L. Ray, Jack R. Wil-
liams. Mrs W. D. Williamson.
Roger Beaty, Tinnie B.
Thompson, Mrs. Obie Har-
graves. Lee Dickson. John T.
Mullins. T. A. Newsom, Mary
Jo Hall, G. D Autrey, Mrs. C.
B. Cates, A. D Banks, Otis
Slaughter. Jr., Roger Banks,
Tommy Tower
Mount Vernon merchants!
are offering super bargains on
the Friday and Saturday de-
signated as Bonus Days each
month and many of them are
offering equally attractive bar-
gains every week
The merchants
points out
every line ;
| Mt. Vernon
find
drugs, feed.
| appliances, furniture, new and
i used cars and clothing for the
I entire family, hardwate, jew
i elry and toys
nd. Waco, a frf- •
rin aundmt of
spoke briefly
he fine school
i br. Vernon,
its contributions
it iMugram.
Joe Moseley an-
t four were afr-
F meeting Friday
rodtreed by Ed
udted Ray Rey-
r member: John
rt of James Ben-
zg, guest of Neal
1 Copeland, guest
pbell; Jan Ban-
rgsnist and Larry
it of Edson Ree
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even
had its registration certificate
changed from Chevrolet to
Lampassas
Murphy Oil Corp . El
rado. Ark . has staked No 7- |
2-Moncrief unit. 8.300-foot
| Pittsburg sand test 4‘z miles
Northeast of Winnsboro in
the W A Moncrief field in
Franklin County. 2.310 from
south and 375 from west lines
of M Oliphant survey, A-361.
American Petrofioa
Dallas, has staked
Jimmie Kate Terry
field in Franklin
4,300-foot Paluxy
miles west of Talco,
from south and 3,400 from
west lines of W. Lewis sur-
Admitted to Franklin Coun-
ty Hosp tai between
,nd Sep' 1 wi .■
Hague, E. 11? Br mt.
Holloway. Leon Waters, Ruby
France. Susan Rhodes. D R
MeCarrey, Edna Cates. Gull-
erma Cantu. Albert Howard
White. Jack Stinson. Patricia
Heath T ‘57'‘Boach. Alta Ila!
comb. Mt Vernon.
Tappan. Tommy
Winnsboro; Carroll
Gladys Shipman. Baby
Shipman.
The
Texas Department of Public
Safety filed on four for speed-
ing. one for driving on the
wrong side of the road and
on.e for being drunk in Jus-
tice of the Peace court.
During the month
gust eleven births
SUPPORT THE TIGERS—
Buy season tickets from
the cheerleaders. Five home
games $7.50, save $1.25 and
get a seat between the 40
yard lines.
little earlier than that if pos- , ing time was set so Cowboy
fans will be able to see most
of their game after the local
scrimmage is over
Yates said this week
’he coaching staff will make
the decision following the,
Friday night scrimmage as to I
which boys will be o.i the
varsity squ id and those w ho |
will be on th" B team.
Yates rev ealea that
had no serious injuries i
| Kent Cargile the only player.
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was taken to the
County Hospital
where he was treated and re-
leased. Sgt. Robertson said
the officer had cuts on his
chin.
Frank Munsinger, of
Pleasant, was a witness to the
Munsinger. also a
was in
behind
Mr I. D Lowry. Jr.. Chair-
man of the Franklin County
Savings Bonds Committee, re-
ported today that sales of
Series E and H United States
Savings Bonds in Franklin
county totaled $3,188 during
July Sales for the first seven
months were $21,713 for 36
per cent of the 197! sales
goal of $60,000.
July sales in Texas amount-
ed to $16,810,210
$15,454,922
Charlene
Gibson, Winfield; Betty Hen-
ry, Talco; Edward Jacobs,
Pacific, Calif
trouble-plagued
covery a mile south of Nelta
< sent a column of smoke high
n the air as its oil cushion
vas burned off and gas
oared out from deep in the
« jrth
A spokesman for the well s
wners said the open flow
potential was estimated at 15
cubic feet of gas a
Memorials Given
To Mt. Vernon
Cemetery Fund
Numerous cash memorials
were given to the Mt. Vernon
Cemetery Perpetual Care
Fund during the month of
August in memory of various
people Donations to the fund
may be made at the First Na-
tional Bank in Mt. Vernon
Memorials were given in
memory of: Mrs. Ruth Smith.
Bobbie Jim Foster. Mr. and
Mrs S. G Holcomb, J P
Nutt. S. G Brewer. Mrs For-
est Suggs. Mr and Mrs G W
Hogan.
Memorials
Miss Virginia Knox. Murrell
Knox. Mrs. W L. Nelson.
Mrs. John Howard. Mr-
Morris White. Mr
Cleo Satterwhite.
John Zeigler
Schulze.
For the third place double*
trophy, the power strokes of
Curtis Land were too much
for Milea Schulse of Dallas.
Land had previously dropped
« close semi-final match to
Ray Johnson and Schulze had
fallen to Earl Roberts.
The most thrilling match of
the tournament was • quar-
ter-final battle between Cur-
tis l^and and George Kokoru-
da, also from Dallas. The
_________w_____, match lasted for three hours
Land defeated Jack Jordan ( and fifteen minutes. Kokont-
and George Kokorud* while I da, a player with excellent
Rob arts Johna~* won over, form, overcame Land 6-2 in
Rev. J. J. Jordan
Speaks At Rotary
we don’t need a new paint
job and those other things,
we need to place ourselves in
the hands of the man that
was responsible for our being
here.
President Bill Campbell
urged members of the club
who miss meetings to make
up their attendance for the
club was down to number 18
in attendance in the district
for July which is far below
the usual standing of the
club. The club voted to meet
in Winfield for one meeting
in November or March or
once in each of the months if
the women who serve ap-
prove.
Glen Ray, serving as secre-
tary, announced that all but
one absent the previous week
made up while seven were
absent from the meeting Fri-
day
Guests introduced by Char-
lie Brown included George
Stone. Lon Batea, Earl Oak-
erson and Paul Arthur, visit-
ing Rotarians, Mt. Pleaaaat;
Charles Stretcher, guest of
Walter Sears; Billy Jack Rut-
ledge, student guest and Jan
Banman, guest organist.
The program for the meet-
ing this week will be under
the direction of Kenneth Bo-
lin.
HOSPITAJ NEWS Tigers To Scrimmage
Honey Grove Friday T\iight
| Ccach Bill Yates announc-
| od this week that the Mt.
Tiger football team
will scrimmage the
Grove W.irri >rs Friday night
o I at the local football field
1 >(•11 1.
1 he scrimmage is set for
7 30 but Yates said the B
tt un >crimniage will start a
One person
county court
Tremendous Bargains
Offered By Merchants
September Bonus Days in
Mt. Vernon are scheduled for
Friday and Saturday, Septem-
ber 3 and 4 with merchants
offering Final Clearance
prices on summer merchan-
dise. They are also offering
special prices on
school merchandise.
There will also be bargains
in other merchandise which
will be featured
Everyone is urged to take
advantage of these tremen-
dous bargains which are of-
fered by Mount Vernon mer-
chants <>» Bonus Days.
Several merchants are of-
fering free prizes to persons
who come to their stores and
register. No purchase is nec-
essary and presence is not
necessary to win
The committee points out
convenient
in Mount Vernon There is al-
ways plenty of parking just
a few steps from any store
where one might wish to shop
Dismissed were Media
Matthews, Elsie Barker. Vel-
va Morris, S. G. Thompson,
Mary Watts. Linda Wilson,
Bonnie Guynes, Curtis Stow-
ers. Velma Duncan. Horace
Birdsong, M. L. Pope. Freda
Harris. Howard Conley, Judy
Shelby, Dollie Barrett. Leon
Waters, Genie Hague, Susan
Rhodes, Tommy Jones. Char-
lene Gibson. Johnny Gilbert,
George Tappan, Everie Bry-
ant, Beth Holloway, Velma
Baugh. Gladys Shipman. Ba-
by Girl Shipman, Baby Boy
Shipman.
RAY REYNOLDS who
went on a little trip recently
ran out of gas out on the
highway a pretty good dis-
tance from a service station.
He was dressed in shorts and
saflgai* and tried to catch a
ride to the nearest service
station. He finally had to hoof
it all the way.
don’t try to hook
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ifctephens well
field about
east
The well was shut down
following the completion pro-
cedure and the rig was being
removed Tuesday
Leon Leggett, one of the
owners. said more testing
1 may be done before the of-
ficial production gauge is run.
The Davis is producing
; from the Smackover lim? be-
i tween 9,440 and 9,500 feet
Total depth is 9.550 feet
Original operators on the
I Davis are Louis Ardis and
I Leon Leggett of Sulphur
I Springs, who were assigned
I the lease on a farm-out from
| Sun Oil Company, which hid 1 ,, ,, ...
I U ia . r I 1 I Oi.en. Mr and Mr<
I held it for 30 years ,, ,, , ,,
ry Orren. Mr and Mrs
| Davenport, Mrs Ada Rodkey,
John Bradford Family, Mr.
and Mrs J W Carter, three
pany and Sylvester Lewis of , memorials; Mr and Mrs J L.
’ , u, icornb and Mrs Inez Bus-
sey -™—
Several donations were al-
so given to the Mt Vernon
Endowment Fund
were given in
memory of Mrs. Guy P. Hill,
Miss Minnie Green and Bob-
bie Jim Foster. All were giv-
en by Mrs. Geraldine Hill
Sty les.
Walleyes Show
Good Growth In
Lake Cypress
Biologists with the Texas
Parks and Wildlife Depart-
ment reported this week that
a check of the Walleye in
Lake Cypress Springs on Au-
gust 23 and 24 revealed they
had reached from four to 10
inches in length for an aver-
age length of seven inches.
The Walleye were placed in
the lake the latter part of
April this year and were
about 1/16 of an inch in
length at that time
K. P. Lester, a member of
the water district board, re-
ported this week the lake did
not rise any during the past
week with the level being 344
feet, nine inches on Wednes-
day morning.
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past week
compared [
jto $15,454,922 during the
same period of 1970 . an in-
cr< ise of 8.7 per cent Year-j
I to-date sales were $118,726,-1
731, while 1970 sale, totaled
$196.206,174 for an increase
i f 117 jier cent
National sales
monl h
16.3 per cent above 1970 July
Sales for the
month period totaled
17 4 per cent above
a year earlier. Exchanges of
Series E for Series H Bonds
amounting to $151 million
were reported for the first
seven months of 1971 com-
pared to $146 mil. exchanged
in 1970.
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