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ON THE BROADWAY OF AMERICA
MOUNT VERNON (FRANKLIN COUNTY). TEXAS
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 30 1971
VOLUME 97—NO. 2
Bonus Days In Mount Vernon Friday And Saturday
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Approve R.O.W.
Water Easement
HAPPY DAY KINDERGARTEN, which is being taught
by Mrs Charles Lowry, has 17 children enrolled They
are. front row. left to right: Michael Bates, Anthony Bar-
rett. Stan Evans, Jimmy Laughton. Timothy Hall,
Quinlan 7. North Lamar 0.
Jefferson 30. H u g h e s
Springs 0
Rivercrest 49, Queen City
Vernon
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One Case Filed
In County Court
One charge of driving
while intoxicated was filed in
County Judge Lanny Ramsay's
court this week
Judge Ramsay also accept-
ed one plea of guilty to D W I
and assessed a find of $125.00
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revealed that the
not only works
game species but
with other
during the fi'st half
second fumble recover”
the Hornets on their n
yard line launching the
ing drive
Four pass completion » In
the Hornets Stanley for It. 13.
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in a
touchdown
Murdock
point
The Hornets had one fum-
ble recovered by the Tigcis md two lor nine j
jrty-Eylau 13.
Commerce 0-,
;s 46, Queen
back. 160 pounds,
Ricky Roquemore, no 37.
fullback and defensive back.
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A-5.0 and on a 19.8-acre lease
La Coastal Petroleum Corp
No 1 R. D Miller. Jasper CSL
survey, seven miles northeast
of Sulphur Springs and 6h4
miles south of Birthright
field in Hopkins County, quit
at 4,450 feet. (Permit had
7,000 to test the
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horses or
stocker cows they wish to sell
should bring them to the barn
on Interstate 30 previous to
the gale.
Lawrence said there will be
several hone buyers and
stocker cow buyers on hand
tha sain f ‘ t
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It has been suggested that
everyone attending the Mt.
Vemon-Rivercrest homecom-
ing football game on October
15 begin making plans now to
wear purple and white the
school colors.
Rainfall during the month
of Septemtx-r totaled 3.77 in-
ches at the weather station in
Mt. Vernon which is 58 inch
below the 4 35 recorded dur-
ing September l ist year,
on nine
Day
l'rnli\
Satu rd a y
Sunday
Monday
Tuesdai
Wednesday
Tim i sday
open for i
Iness that
to dlacuaa. ,
Electrical door prises will
be given away..
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non on Tuesday.
at the school which
changed considerably
hia tenure here and also
spent considerable time visit-
ing the offices at the Frank-
lin County Courthouse. He
remarked to Optics that his
name had appeared many
times in the Optic-Herald.
Fire Prevention Week which
in 1971 takes place from Oc-
tober 3 - 9. serves to re-em-
phasize the truth that FIRE
HURTS. NFPA reminds ev-
eryone that preventing fires
is the job of each citizen, not
only during Fire Prevention
Week, but throughout the en-
tire year.
(Optics’
Charles j
defensive end,
junior: Mayo
86. offensive end.
senior; Keith
also was livated
hospit al
accident was
Pat rolmen
and
land of Naples
rii<‘\ issiuhI i traffic ticket
to Law son for failure to vie! i.
the rii»ht of wav at a stop in-
tersect ion
Wood County Coop
Sets Annual Meet
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Hhth i*rade team
Winnsboro 6-0 on
14 while the
fell bo-
on the
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Lindale 1 4, \ aq 0
Cooper 7. Honey 1 trove I).
Commerce 26. New Boston
A 12,600-foot Smackover
test is to be drilled by Union
Oil Co. eight miles southwest
of Mount Vernon in Franklin
County and 2W miles north
of the Chltsey Smackover
field. Designation is No. 1 C.
D. Solomon. 487 from the
south and 1.035 from the east
lines of W. H. Lawson survey,
in Mount Vernon There is al-
ways plenty of parking just
a few steps from any store
where one might wish to shop.
Service stations and garages
are located near the stores
where shoppers might have
their car serviced while snap-
ping in Mount Vernon.
Grocery merchants
Last year alone, approxi-
mately 2,550,000 fires claimed
12,200 lives and cost the na-
tion $2.65 billion in property
destroyed or damaged.. Un-
derlying these figures was
the National Fire Protection
Association (NFPA) is the
tragic fact that much of this
waste of lives and property
is avoidable. If the basic
rules of fire safety were ob-
served at home and on the
job, the record could be far
different
h id t a i ill'll- ’erferenee call
liles recovered h.x the ilorueC i Tigers were kex mi
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The Wood County Electric
Cooperative. Inc., has sched-
uled its 33rd annual meeting
of members at the Jim Hogg
Memorial Park in Quitman
>n Thursday. October 7 be-
ginning at 2:00 p.m
The meeting will hear re-
ports of officers, directors,
manager and committees
The members will be asked,
to ratify any and all actions
heretofore taken or done by
the board of directors or the
By James T. Bass
STATISTICS
First Downs
Yds Rushir. ;
i Passes
Passes I nt
Pass Yanis
48 Kickoffs_3 avg. 51 7
Junior Varsity
Loses To
Rivercrest
The Mt Vernon Tiger Jun-
ior Varsity football team lost
their opening game to River-
crest. 20-6 last Thursday night
at Talco.
Scoring for
was J L. Wilkerson
made a
k.ckoff for the score
The remaining junior var-
sity schedule is as follows:
Sept 30. Rivercrest, here.
Oct 7, Lindale, there.
Oct. 14, Rivercrest, there
Oct. 21, Winnsboro, here.
Oct. 28, Commerce, there.
Nov. 4, Cooper, here.
Nov 11. North Lamar,
there.
AJ1 gamei start at 7.30 p.m.
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3 avg
3 ret 57 Kickoff Ret 3 ret 65
5 avg 27 8 Punts 6 avg. 36.5
3 ret 122 Punt Ret 1 ret 8
5 for 42
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He states that fire's toll
and every day in the
U. S is an average of 33 lives,
homes. 215 apartment
buildings. 30 schools, 10
churches, 215 stores, offices
and restaurants, 139 industri-
al plants and buildings on
127 farms.
Oiri
The Franklin County Com
missioners Court in session
on Monday approved an ease-
ment for the South Frank-
lin Water Supply Corporation
to build and maintain a water
line along the right of way of
a county road
Scott Rozell.
the Northeast Texas Council
of Governments, explained to
the court the functions of the
council and what they can do
to assist ’he various counli.?s|
I hex serve
Franklin County has not af-
filiated vx i’ll ’h-.- council at
1 this time
Moving Arena
The Mt Vernon Riding
Club, at their covered dish
supper meeting Tuesday
night, discussed moving of
the rodeo arena from its pres-
ent location to land owned
by Billy Rex Lawrence at the
Franklin County IJvestock
Commission barn on Inter-
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Punt Ret
Penalties. 8 for 65
Fumbles Lost ____ 2
The Ml. Vernon Tigers trav-
eled to Hooks
where tlley suffered the third
loss of the season to the Hor-
nets 15-6
The game was scoreless on-
i travel to Hughes Springs Fri- I rence King,
day night to meet the Mus-
tangs for their fourth outing
of the season The Mustangs
have two wins and one loss
for the season while the Ti-
gers have three losses.
The Mustangs have defeat-
ed North Lamar 50-0, Queen
City 46-0 and fell last Friday
to Jefferson 30-0 The Tigers | dtiv night
have lost to Quitman 27-14.
to New Boston 20-7 and to
Hooks 15-6.
The Mustang offense has
seven seniors who are start-
ers and their defense has six
-c.Hor starters.
Roy Allen,
is a
ilso
SLEEPY MORGAN, a for-
mer Mt. Vernon High School
coach and long-time fresh-
man coach for the S.M.U.
Mustangs visited in Mt. Ver-
He visited
has
since
Horse Sale To
Be Held Here
Billy Rex Lawrence
nounced this week that there
will be a horse sale at his
Franklin County Livestock
Commission on Saturday, Oct.
2 with the sale beginning at
7:00 p.m.
Lawrence said there will
be several good registered
horses offered for sale plus
100 stocker cows
Anyone having
Tigers Suffer 3rd Loss
til 45 seconds previous ’ > and the Tit’v
, halftime when Hocks Quarter-
back Rodney St anley Conner’-
ed with end Jerry Simjletou
nine yard pass for a
Tackle
kicked the
Mrs. Wilma
instructor
Ihe class will meet two
hours each night, two nights i
each week for twelve and one-
half weeks or a total of fifty |
hours.
A minimum of twelve ad-
ults was required before the
class could be organized
W ildlife Management
Is Rotary Program
included Owen
Charles Dunlap,
Walter Sears and
Ed Morrow; Billy Jaek Rut-
ledge. student guest, and,
Sherry CTrristenberry his
guest; Jerri Bass, guest organ-
ist and Carl Morgan. Long-
view. guest of FYed Stanley.
President Bill Campbell
announced that details had
been worked out regarding
the attendance contest with
Winnsboro and that the clubs
will meet jointly at Cypress
Creek Country Club this Fri-
day
There will be no official
program for the meeting
Uis | There will be no student tu k-
it the gate the night of
game
Mt. Vernon
Eighth Grade
Defeats Mineola
The Mt Vernon eighth
grade football team traveled
to Mineola last Thursday-
night where they defeated
the Mineola team 48-6 for the
second win of the season for
the local team
Jim Solomon, quarterback
for the team, completed seven
of eight passes, txxo of them
for touchdowns Troy Palmer
scored three touchdowns.
Sam Fountain, one. Terry
Eians, one. Doug Evans, one
led Mark Bi rd, one Tw >
| pi int conversions xvere scored
■ by Solomon. Terry Ex.ins and
Palmer
I'll.-
ieated
■ Tuesday. Sept
-eventh grade team
fi.re Winnsboro 12-0
..mu- date
The remaining schedule for
the teams will be as follows:
Oct. 5, Commerce.
8tb. here.
•Oct 12. Rivercrest, there
•Oct. 19. Winnsboro. 7th xt
Sth, here.
•Oct. 26. Commerce. 7th &
8th. there
•Nov 2, Cooper. 7th & 8th.
here.
•Nov. 9,
there
•Denotes conference game
Games start at 6:00 p.m.
Mt. Vernon
Resident Injured
In Omaha Wreck
An nnaha man and. a Mt.
Vvjrfrt, ^an were
hurt in a twrMjar wreck at
Omaha Wednesday. Sept. 22.
The injured were Eddie
Lawrence, 89-years old. of
Omaha, the driver of one of
the ears, and Mrs Louis Mel-
vin Posey, 78, of Mt Vernon,
who xua« a passenger in a
car driven by her husband
Lawson was alone when he
drove from Senter Street by
the Omaha State Bank onto
Highway 67. making a left
turn, when his car was struck
tn the left side by the west-
I bound Posey car
Lawson's car went out of
control after the collision
and tan into the sidewalk in
I front o| lhe MeKellar Depart-
; ment Store
Lawson was treated at tho
Naples hospital for chest
, lliries
Mrs Posey suffered rut 1
1 about the head and shoulders
and also xx as t i eated al ‘1’ »
Naph-
The
gated by
Si Il’CI t not II
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h!',f'he Adult Typing
"' Class Starts
The adult typing ela
begin Monday, Oct. 4, at 7:00
pm at the high school with
Ramsay is the
J was recorded
’"’'with the greatest
1 35 inches, being
on Sept .3 Rainfall for the
year is 3.57 inches below the
31 21 inches recorded for the
same period in 1970 and 12 12
inches less than the 39 76 re-
corded through Sept of 1967
The highest temperature
for the month of 95 degrees
was recorded on Sept 7 with
the high reaching 90 degrees
or above on 12 days The low
temperature , of 46 d. -grety*
was recorded on Sept 20 with
the temperature dropping to
49 or below on two days
Fog was noted on four days.
Twenty-one partlv cloudy
days, four cloudy days and
five clear days were noted
during the month
The weather information
given below is for the 24-hour
period ending at 7 a m on the
day listed for the period of
Sept 24 through Sept 31).
M t n
62
63
7T
70
70
67
60
The ’ b l" I quart or lies in
null the 'earns exchanging
pa'iLs, : hen lhe Hornets gaxe
lhe ball up o.i downs at the
Tiger 20. The Tigers drove
o the Hooks 43 where a tum-
I !>le by J C Fountain was re-
covered by Hooks.
Hie Hornets drove to the
Mt. Vernon 35. but a penalty,
two losses and an incomplete
pass moved the bad back >o
•he Tiger 48 where they were’
forced to punt
Fountain took the ball on
a bounce on his own five, cut
upfield to the far sideline
behind a wall of blockers to
around the l iger 45 and then
outran the Hornet defenders
to the goal line to score the
Tigers only touchdown with
1 06 remaining in the period.
Hooks was forced to punt
from their own 36 early in
the fourth period. 'Die Tiger
I acks were unable to field
Hie punt and it rolled to the
Ml Vernon two yard line
where it died. The snap was
tumbled on the first play by
lhe Tigers with a Tiger re-
toi a Hooks safety.
The ligers free kick from
20 was returned to the
Tiger 46 A five play drive
by the Hornets climaxed by a
15 yard scamper off right
'ackle by the lb'inels Calvin
II u bba r.l for the final t our 11 -
down nt liie game witn 631
I el'l \i Hillock s alt i-nipt to
I xx i> no good
Scores
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Robert C. Toon. District
Supervisor. Farmers Home
Administration, reminds us
that October 3-9, 1971 is Na-
tional Fire Prevention Week.
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members of the cooperativa.
Directors will be elected
for Districts five and six. The
nominating committee has
recommended the re-election,
of Clyde Brady from District
five and H. W. Carpenter
from District six.
The meeting will also b«
any otal or new bun-
No School Here
On Friday, Oct. 1
Superintendent Walter
Sears announced this week
that students in schools of the
Mt. Vernon Independent
School District will not attend
classes on Friday, Oct I
Teachers of the district will
participate in an in-service
education program during
the day
The in-service education
day which is sponsored by the
Region VIII Education Ser-
vice Center will have Dr C
W. Gray, of Science Research
Associates. Inc . as consultant
Topics to be discussed dur-
ing the day will include: test
rationale, types of tests. Mt.
Vernon testing program, ef-
fective use of tests including
planning instruction, curricu-
lum evaluation and benefits
to the student.
After lunch the Mt Vernon
Independent School District
Staff will have a meeting af-
ter which the teachers will--
return to their classrooms for ,
individual projects. special T
activities and consultation ----
Tigers Travel To
Hughes Springs
The ML Vernon Tigers will 165 pounds. junior,
no.
and defensive halfhack,
pounds, junior; Paul Philpot,
no. 6. quarterback. 175
pounds, senior and Steve
Samples, no. 12. defensive
back. 145 pounds, senior
The Tigers showed consid-
erable improvement in their
meeting with Hooks last Fri-
and. should be at
full strength this week
Tickets for the game are
available at the Superinten-
dents office and Crescent
Drug Store Reserved seat
tickets are $1.50 and general [ covering
admission is $1.25. Student
tickets are available from the 1 the
halfback on offense and j school principals for 50c eaeli
starts on defense
weight is listed on the prog- I ,.(s
rani al 165 hut it is felt by [ f|u.
those xx ho have seen the Mils- ;
’aags play that he is ‘
He i- ci nsidered one
out,' indmg play ers
mi
Other starters are:
Betts, no 84.
160 pounds.
Kashng. no
160 pounds.
Morgan, no. 11. offensive end.
120 pounds, sophomore. Wel-
don Hampton, no 77. offen-
sive tackle, 180 pounds, jun-
ior; Mike Pittman, no 73. of-
fensive and defensive tackle.
185 pounds, senior; David
Adams, no. 74, offensive and I
defensive guard, 170 pounds. I
senior;
Jimmy Tenbrook, no. 61.1
offensive and d e f e n sive
guard. 160 pounds. senior:
Bill Womack, no. 62, defen-
sive guard, 150 pounds, sen
ior; Dilly Adams, no. 52. of-
fensive center. defensive
guard, 160 pounds. senior;
Billy Parker, no. 22. defensive
junior: plus costs and 30 days in Jail
no. 37. | which was probated for one
Robert Sinclair, of the Tex-
I as Parks and Wildlife Depart-
ment. spoke at the meeting
of the Mt. Vernon Rotary
Club last Friday on game
I ^management and slides were
[ shown to illustrate his talk.
I He was the guest of Landon
Ramsay who had charge of
the program for the day.
Sinclair explained that the
state is divided into five reg-
. ions by the department with
Franklin County being one of
the 47 East Texas counties in
Region 3. with Tyler as head-
quarters.
He revealed that Bob Alex-
ander. of Mt. Pleasant, is bio-
logist in charge of the North-
east Texas game management
project He pointed out that
there are 10 regulatory pro-
jects in the state He said
the game management specia-
lists feel that regulatory pro-
jects provide for better game
management
He explained the various
methods used for determin-
ing game census which in-
fcluded census markers where
specialists walk a line and
count the various game spec-
ies along the line, aerial cen-
sus in open area and vegeta-
tive analysis
Sinclair
department
with pure
they also work
game such as woodpeckers as
they have been found to be
beneficial to vegetation and
other wildlife
He sajd the
( work includes the operation
‘ t»f .state parks, law enforce-
ment, gxm* raana<em««. and
game preseives He told of
the Qus Engling Game Pre-
sent* and the Angelina Wild-
11^ Management Area where
public hunts are being allow-
ed.
He said squirrel hunters
must sign in and sign out on-
ly during these public hunts
while deer hunters must sign
up ahead of time with a draw-
ing being held to determine
who will get the hunting per-
mits
Hr revealed that changing
land uae is one of the most
pressing problems being faced
in game management at the
present time He urged any-
one planning land clearing to
contact the department for
assistance in drawing a plan
which would allow land to be
cleared but at the same time
would allow habitat to be left
for game.
Secretary Joe Moseley
nounced that three yvere ab-
sent the previous week yvith
one making up He slid the
club had 1D0 percent atten-
’ dance Friday
Guests introduced by Char-
member witbM I
point
out that shoppers can find .►'■
large a selection in Mount
Vernon as one might find m
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 tiading stamps to
boot
Mount Vernon merchant#
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-end
The merchants committee
points out that bargains in
every line are available in
Mt Vernon Shoppers will
find bargains in groceries,
drugs, feed seed, fertilizer
... . .. new and
used cars and clothing for the
entire family, hardwaie, jew
dry and toys
Three Injured
In Accident On
Thursday A.AL
Three persons were injured
when a pickup truck t
inu east on I nt ers! it e 30
-ut J ci.nlrol shortlx I
8 00 a in Thursday l he
Hired were taken to
Counts Memorial Hospital
1 >. i\ er of the truck Ennis >
I Hemp. .fr. Greenville, said al
■pii
senior, no 48,
I Tremendous Bargains
: Offered By Merchants
October Bonus Days in Mt
* Vernon are scheduled for Fri- |
dhy and Saturday, October 1
j and. 2, with merchants offer-
ing drastically reduced prices I
‘ | on fall merchandise.
There will also be bargains
im other merchandise which
will he featured
Everyone is urged to take
advantage of these tremen-
dous bargains which are of-
fered by Mount Vernon mer-
chants on 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
that shopping is convenient
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kick the pciHt
Other
Pit I sburg I
Springs 6
Quitman 6. Wm.-ixboro D
Pleasant 27. Liberty
•lie blew out causing t he x e
hide to go out of control l he
P ckup overturned but ended
up on its wheels in the medi-
an on the shoulder of the
west hound lane
Injured were Willis Saddl-
er. Leonard Lewis and
other man whose first
was Joseph Two other
sengers and the driver
not injured.
The six are concrete fini-
shers and were on the way to
work in Mt Pleasant.
Investigating officers were
Highway Patrolmen Wayne
Foster, Mt. Vernon and Dar-
rell Pearce, Mt Pleasant
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