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'OLUME 95—NO 29
MOUNT VERNON (FRANKLIN COUNTY), TEXAS
THURSDAY, APRII 9, 1970
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Council Advised To
Present Sewer Plan
Physical Fitness
Demonstration Site
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Bonus Day Prize
Winners Are
Announced Here
Mt. Vernon merchants this
.week announced winners of
prizes given during the April
Bonus Days promotion last
Friday and Saturday.
Winners, gifts and
received two write-in
Elwyn Carr and Max
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Country And
Western Music
At Hagansport
A country Arid western
music show will be' staged at
the Hagansport Community
Center Saturday beginning at
7:30 p.m. The community cen-
ter group is attempting to
raise funds so they can tie
the center onto the rural wat-
er line and pipe the building
for natural gas.
Admision to the show will
be $1.00 for adults and 50
cents for students.
Pie, coffee and cake will be
served in the cafeteria at ex-
tra charges. The committee
asks persons who will donate
pies and cakes to bring them
to the cafeteria previous to
the show.
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Covered Dish Supper
The Mt. Vernon Riding Club
will have its regular covered
dish supper Tuesday. April 14,
at 7:30 p.m. at the Key Cen-
ter fold school cafeteria). All
members are urged to atend
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WITHOUT A
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ACCIDENT OV
FRANKLIN
COUNT!
Superintendent W. M. Strib-
ling has received a letter from
Captain James A. Lovell,
USN, Consultant to the Presi-
Maples, Young And Clinton
Elected In City Voting
with a write-in vote as his
name did not appear on the
ballot. It was the first time in
2 number of years, if not the
first time, that a Mt. Vernon
city official has been elected
with a write-in campaign.
the President’s
Physical Fitness
in thia important
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lin^'more valuable to the cus-
tomer but results in fewer
'busy' signals for customers
trying to phone in".
Bishtp said at a meeting
here last week that the up-
grading of Service is a must at
such time aS Idng distance
dialing is available here.
Five persons were
Friday night at 11 p.m. in a
head-on collision approxima-
tely two miles south of Mt.
Pleasant near the Cypress
Creek bridge on the Pittsburg
Highway.
Involved in the accident was
a 1969 Ford pick-up driven by
Aaron Poole of Paris and a
1966 Chevrolet driven by Billy
David Johnston of Mt. Ver-
non.
The pick-up.
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know is why, he reasoned. If Morhart. guest of' ft«d Stan-
—; L‘. 2:1 1 ley; Lanny Ramsay, guest of
they art not going tojet Landon Rainsay; Janie Till-
man. guest pianist and Traylor
Russell, visiting Rotiriah, Mi.
be program for t^r meet-
J. D. Maples, was elected
mayor; Joe Young and Arion
Clinton were elected as Coun-
cilmen with heavy voting in
the Mt. Vernon City Official
election held Saturday.
Maples was elected Mayor
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speak and if they do they
n’t hear, he declared.
We have somd of the finest I Pleasant. ,
>ung people there has ever Tk —
Hugh C. Yantis, executive
director of the Texas Water
Quality Board, advised the Mt.
Vernon City Council at an in-
formal meeting Wednesday
morning they should be pre-
pared to present a report on
plans for putting the city's
sewer treatment plant back in
operation at the April 23-24
meeting of the state board.
Yantis told the council that
the quickest partial solution is
to repair, maintain and up-
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“Play Day” Set
By Riding Club
The Mt. Vernon Riding
Club has scheduled an open
“Play Day’’ for Saturday,
April 11, at 5:00 p.m. at the
Riding Club Arena. Events
will be Clover Leaf Barrels,
Pole Bending, Flag Race and
Ring Race.
Trophies will be awarded
winners, and
for second
mer-
chants making the gifts were
as follow*:
Tish Baas received 7K
pounds of Host Carpet Clean-
er from Banister Floor Cov-
ering
Mrs. Frank Carr received
a $5.00 caMi award from Cres-
cent D-ug Btcra ’’
Mrs L. W. Bridges.
Joe Gkxver, Route 1.
and Mrs. Rachel Carruth
reived prizes frong Rutherford
Rexall Drugs.
Mrs. George Sides and Mrs.
Lottie Roberts received $7.50
gift certificates from M. L.
Edwards Department Store.
Mrs. L. Roy Emerson, Sul-
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[Rural Water
Meeting Set
In County
I Meetings have been
Iduled at Purley and Hopewell
Ito discuss the possibility of
putting in a rural water sys-
Eem in the south part of
■Franklin County.
I T. J. Davis announced this
[week that a meeting has been
[scheduled at the Purley Com-
Hunity Center for Thursday,
[April 16 at 7:30 p.m.
| Carl Majors announced that
|a meeting has been scheduled
nor the Hopewell Community
[Center for Monday, April 20,
|at 7:30 p.m.
Everyone who lives in the
south part of the county is
urged to attend at least one of
the meetings.
Jack Pope, of the Farmers
Home Administration, will be
on hand at both meetings to
explain the procedures to be
followed in establishing a ru-
ral water cooperative.
FIVE CRITICALLY INJURED - A head-on collision two. miles sooth of Mt. Pleasant
on U. S. 671 sent five persons to various hospitals Friday night. Passengers of thia ve-
____ hide, Including driver Billy David Johnston of Mt. Vernon and Brenda Whitney of
I Frufo- ■ Longview, wmu iu nvafiimt after wreckers fiaaiiy ircea BUSS'
ready a -jgaM by winching the vehlde apart. — (Photo Courtesy Tatf'deMli) Mtl IBbuant
county earlier that day.
Boswell revealed that he
saw good progress on the dam
for Lake Franklin County,
beautiful
dent for Physical Fitness and
Sports, stating that the Mount
Vernon Elementary School
has been certified by the Tex-
as State Department of Edu-
cation as a Demonstration
Center for 1969-70.
The letter stated further,
“I congratulate all of you on
this fine recognition and
thank you for your coopera-
tion with
Council on
and Sports
project.”
The Demonstration Centers
offer an opportunity for pro-
fessionals and the general
public to observe a high-qua-
lity program of health and
physical education in which
full attention is given to phy-
sical fitness outcomes. This
service, we feel, is a very ef-
fective way of multiplying
good programs, Lovell conclu-
ded.
injured i Louisiana to Paris, was hit on
the passenger side and occu-
pied by Poole who was pinned
in the pick-up. his 28 year old
wife, Florena, and their three
year old son Kevin. The fami-
ly was taken to a Mt. Pleasant
hospital, with Poole later be-
ing transferred to Paris with
a broken leg, cuts and bruises
Mrs. Poole was transferred to
Parkland in Dallas and said to
have suffered severe head in-
juries, a broken leg, broken
pelvis and internal injuries.
aid
the Paul Hawkins Funeral
Home in Henrietta when fun-
eral arrangements are pend-
ing. Grose, a lifelong resident
of Henrietta, was a son of Mr.
and Mrs. Jeff C. Groee. Be
wu b veteran of the Vletngm
war having been dischargM
from the service < ”
P.T.A. Officers
Named At March
11th Meeting
The Mt, Vernon P.T.A. met
Wednesday afternoon, March
11, with the president, Mrs.
Pat Lindley, presiding.
Mrs. Sue Orren, chairman
of the Nominating Committee
presented to the P.T.A. the
slate of officers to serve the
coming year 1970-71. They
were Mrs. Billy M Jordan,
president; Mrs. James Cauble,
Jr., f|rst vice president; Mrs.
Otto Walling, Jr., stcond vice
president; Mrs. James Yleln-
by, third vice president; Mrs.
Minnie Laughton, focretary;
Mrs. Frank Hicks, treasurer;
Mrs. Robbie Jones, parliamen-
tarian; Mrs Kenneth Meek,
historian; and Mn, Harold
Moore, reporter. The slate was
accepted by acclamation. '
The program, “Education
For What," was presented by
the F.F.A. boys under the dir-
ection of Charles Stretcher
and Tommy Welch, vo-ag tea-
chers. The boys gave an In-
teresting and informative ac-
count L_ 2—1 ______.
ments throughout this School
year.
Dr. Calvin Tom and Harold
Stephenson were elected as
members of the Mt. Vernon
Independent School District
Franklin
homes with well-
kept yards and this beautiful
new school building is out of
this world.
Boswell described water as
one of the four elements that
is indespenrible for life. Bos-
well declared that man has
blessed the rain when it comes
at the right time but probably
has cursed it when it comes in
for first place
ribbons awarded
through sixth places.
Age groups for the events
will be eight years and under,
ages eight to eleven, ages ele-
ven to fifteen, fifteen to eigh-
teen, and adults.
Everyone interested is in-
vited to attend and enter the
events.
The concession
be open.
Stribling, Carraway, Bolger And
Weatherford Receive CofC Awards
I Bill Stribling, Cecil Weath- Weatherford
brford, Rufus Bolger and R.
k. (Bob) Carraway were reci-
pients of the annual awards
presented by Charlie Brown
kt the Franklin County Cham-
ber of Commerce banquet last
Thursday night.
Stribling was cited as the
"Outstanding Citizen” of 1900,
Rosa Elliott was elected
trustee of Commissioners
Precinct 3 with 170 votes.
G. L Gilbert was elected
Trustee of Commissioners
Precinct 4 with 44 votes.
Board of Trustees in heavy
voting Saturday.
There were more than 400
voters casting their ballots in
the election but election of-
ficials said it was hard to de-
termine how many cast votes
as some voted for only one
trustee while they were eligi-
ble to vote for two.
Dr. Tom received 269 votes
in the Mt. Vernon box, 10 in
the Hagansport box and 13 in
the South Franklin box for
a total of 292 votes.
Harold Stephenson received
243 votes in the Mount Ver-
non box, seven in the Hagans-
port box and 22 in the South
Franklin box for a total of
272 votes.
Jerry Swarts received 203
votes in the Mt. Vernon box,
13 in the Hagansport box and
15 in the South Franklin box
for a total of 231 votes.
Bill Rich and Marvin Bell,
each
votes;
Simons received one write-in
vote each with all being cast
in the Mt. Vernon box.
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Kevin, was also transferred td
Parkland with head injuries.
The occupants of the 1966
Chevrolet hit on the drivers
side were Johnston and Bren-
da L. Whitney of Longview
They were taken to M &■ S
Hospital in Pittsburg, with
Johnston later being transfer-
red to Tyler and Miss Whit-
ney being transferred to a
Longview hospital with a
broken leg, broken pelvis, cuts
and bruises.
Pilot Youth
Program Sought
By N.ET. j
N.E.T, Opportunities of Mt.
Vernon has announced the
proposal of a pilot youth deve-
lopment program for this sum-
mer in Titus. Rains, Hopkins,
and Franklin counties. Actual
formation and implementa-
tion of this program will be-
gin as soon as the program
is approved by OEO of which
N E T. is the designated agen-
cy for this area.
This program would re-
place the old summer youth
program in that it will con-
cern itself with developing the
social and economic aspects
of the participants and will
not be merely a recreational
program for the summer. It is
hoped that with the success of
the pilft program the concept
can be developed into a-year
round program for the dishad-
vantaged ' youth in the foufr
counties. . i
The program would deal
mainly with developing skills
and the mental awameu that
is necessary to secure and hold
employment in our society.
The youth would be aided in
skill development, job place-
ment, and in the ability to ad-
vance into better paying and
more meaningful positions.
In order to implement this
program NET pi*<A>oses to
of ""their"” accomplish- hire two youth advlsohf “Who
would be responsible for co-
(See YOUTH, Page 5) [
Heavy Voting
In County School
Trustee Election
Heavy voting was noted In
the County School Board
Trustee election even though
there was no opposition for
either of the three places to
-be filled. Voting was conduct-
ed by the same officials that
held th* Mt. Vernon Indepen-
dent School District election,
however, and Interest had
built up In it due to tSve fket
that three people were seek-
ing two places on the board.
There were v_>tes cast
in the County Trustee At
Large race, with heaviest
voting in Commissioners Pre-
cinct 3.
H. C. Guthrie was elected
County Trustee At Large with
301 votes. (Hulan D. Benson,
Leo Lawrence, Rex Sinclair
and Bill Gill each received
one write-in vote.
Elliott
of
Registration In
County Surpasses
jQuota Assigned
Franklin bounty inters leg-
istration of A,687 0ebp|t for
1970 Is L31.13 percent of/the
quota assigned by ■'Opera-
tion: Everybody!”, a voter
registration promotion spon-
sored by the State Democrat-
ic Executive Comjmlttee.
Franklin County was elev-
enth in Groupl eight which in-
cluded 33 counties in thq phur received 1,000 SA
state. t’ -
Jack County was first In
Group eight with 3.703 voters
registering to give them 153.
33 percent of their goal
Other counties that
Franklin in Group eight were
>Tri*ty, Llano, Baylor, Hood.
Childress, Marion, San Jacin-
to, Live Oak and Hamilton.
Rains county led group nine
by registering 156.9 percent
of their goal.
grade the present plant, but
stressed that this will only be
temporary for the plant, if
operating at top efficiency,
will not be adequate to treat
the city’s sewage.
Bob Fix, with Wisnebaker.
Fix and Associates, the city’s
engineers, presented a cost es-
timate to the council for put-
ting the plant back in opera-
tion. Total cost was estimated
at $16,300.
Mayor Pro-Tern Otifl Slaugh-
ter, Jr., told the group that
the city is not in a financial
i position to begin reconstruct-
ion of an adequate sewer plant
at the present time and will
not be in the near future un-
less additional revenue is ava-
ilable to the sewer fund. Esti-
mated cost of an adequate
i plant to »erve Mt. Vernon and
i Meat Packers, Inc.
as the “Out-
standing Dairyman” of 1969,
Bolger as the ‘‘Outstanding
Teacher" of 1969 and Carra-
way as the “Outstanding Cat-
tleman" of 1969.
The speaker Howard K.
Boswell, Executive Director of
the Texas Water Development
Board, who was introduced by
State Representative Neal
Solomon, told the more than
200 attending that he was
greatly Impressed with what
he saw on his tour of the
them if we help them, listen
to them and encourage them,
Watson reasoned, but there is
a break in the line of commu-
nication with our young peo-
ple.
Basically our physical being
is hereditary but environment
has much to do with what a
person becomes, Watson stat-
ed
We had the home a few
years ago and today we don’t
have much home, Watson said.
Many parents are looking
for ways to get their children
out of their hair, Watson as-
serted, but the kids don’t want
out of our hair, they want to
be listened to and help in
shaping their lives.
He declared that the four
basic things the young want
is a home, discipline, under-
standing and integrity and the
home must maintain its spiri-
tual values.
Secretary Harold Moore an-
nounced the club had 100 per-
cent attendance at the meet-
ing and the club was fourth in
the district in attendance for
February with attendance of
97.13 percent.
Visitors introduced b y
Charlie Brown included Van
Stanley, student guest; Paul
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Donald Ray Grose, 23, 501
Bridge, Henrietta, was elec-
trocuted Tuesday at about
3:10 p.m. about 100 yards east
of Highway 37 on the south
[side of Farm Road 71 at Hag-
I insport when 7,200 volts of
I electricity passed through his
I body.
Grose had climbed the pole
Ito make a conversion to furni-
sh more electricity to the
I North Franklin Water Supply
(Corporation pump and pres-
sure station east of Hagans-
port.
Grose was an employee of
Dkvid GUI Centric Service
Compaag of Hanrietta. fte
wae member «f c erew of
which Derid Offi «m fore-
* $•••*■ rwhoe BMmbeio of toe
Newsom
has been placed In excess of
$200,000. —
$90,000 in bonds available for
sale for this Work.
Slaughter told the group
that Newsom has been consul-
ting with an engineer in re-
gard to upgrading their pre-
treatment of waste before it
I is put into the city system.
He said he did not know
what Newsom’s plans are but
told the group he would con-
sult with them previous to the
council's meeting on Tuesday,
April 14.
Slaughter told
the council would go as far as
(See SEWER. Page ft)
crew were present when the
accident occurred.
Grose was pronounced dead
at the scene at about 3:30 p.
m. by Justice of the Peace P.
R. Gill. Investigating officer
was Deputy Sheriff Bobby
Johnson.
The body was brought to
Sam B. Harvey Funeral Home
here and later transferred to
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There were 378 votes cast In
the mayor’s race, a record for
the past several years. Maples
received 212 votes, Curtis
Pens, the only candidate
whose name appeared on the
ballot,
while
write-in candidate,
11 votes. Penn originally filed
as a candidate for councilman,
but shortly before the dead-
line for filing, withdrew and
filed as a candidate for mayor.
Arion Clinton, a newcomer
to the council, received 264
votes; Joe Young, who is cur-
rently a member of the coun-
cil, received 258 votes; Ever-
ett Shelby, Jr., received 199
votes and Lloyd Meek receiv-
ed one write-in vote.
Newsome, Morris
Are Re-elected
To Water Board
Carl Newsome and Horrls
Morris were re-elected as
members of the Board of Dir-
ectors of the Franklin County
Water District in light voting
on Tuesday. They were unop-
posed.
Each received a total of 98
Newsome received 53 !
votes in Mt. Vernon, nine at
Hagansport, 28 at South
Franklin and eight at Winns- 1
boro. Morris received 52 in j
Mt. Vernon, 10 at Hagansport, J
28 at South Franklin and eight ,
at Winnsboro.
Laverne Krantz and Park
Grave* received one write-in 'I
vote each tn the Winnsboro
box. Herman Graves and K. 9.
torrents and floods.
Too often man neglects
keeping the water unpolluted,
Boswell said and continued,
man has let his streams and
lakes become
with sewage
waste.
In many instances man has
stored it for hydro-electric
power, for municipal and in-
dustrial water supply and re-
creation, but too much of our
water is continuing to run ofi
into the ocean, when many
sections of our state need it
badly, Boswell declared.
He explained that an ample
supply of good quality water
is necessary for the develop-
ment of our state, our towns
and our communities, and
continued, that is the reason
for our Texas Water Plan to
develop our water resources
so all in Texas will have ade-
quate water.
People of this area are un-
duly blessed with an ample
supply of water, he pointed
out, and I commend you for
your public spirited support
and development of water for
use here and elsewhere and I
want to thank you for your
support of the Water Bond
Amendment.
Boswell described State
Representative Neal Solomon
as a top notch member of the
Texas Legislature who has a
statewide outlook as well as
an insight of the needs of his
area.
He revealed that the Texas
Water Development Board,
which is a 50 percent partner
in Lake Franklin County, is
very pleased with the mana-
gement by the local Water
District Board of the project.
He continued, the district is
(See AWARDS, Page 5)
Watson Speaks On
Our Young People
Rev. Phillip Watson, pastor
of the First Baptist Church,
spoke at the meeting of the
Mount Vernon Rotary Club
last Friday on our young peo-
ple. Mike Edwards, program
chairman for the day, intro-
duced Watson.
Watson declared that some-
times he stands in the middle
of what is termed the genera-
tion gap He argued that our
young people of today demand
attention, and continued, our
children today are the best
•quipped mentally, physically
and otherwise of any previous
generation.
Their minds are being shar-
pened, they are smart and
they have more training than
Nve had at their age, Watson
said and continued, our young
people today have money and
in many ways shape our fash-
ions.
Another group of our youhg
people are frustrated, yet they
are smart, but they do not
know where they are going or
if they do not know why, Wat-
son indicated.
If these kids are saying
something it might be well if
we listen and hear what they
have to say for all we want to
Telephone Company
Service Improvement
Nears Completion
General Telephone is near-
ing completion of it's service
improvement program to eli-
minate residence fbur-party
and business two-party ser-
vice within the Mt. Vernon
city limits The elimination
will be completed by the last
of May, according to Don
Bishop, division manager for
General Telephone Company
of the Southwest.
Tht Mt. Vernon City Coun-
cil on December 13, 1966, au-
thorized General Telephone to
upgrade all residence four-
party service to residence two-
party service, unless indivi-
dUai-line service was request-
ed by a customer. And to up-
grade business two-party ser-
vice to business one-party
service The monthly charge
for residence twO-pafty ser-
vice is $5.50 and one-party
service is $6.75. Business one-
party service is $12.75 per
month.
“It is an industry trend to
provide this upgrade tele-
phone service for all custo-
mers”, Bishop said, "and re-
ducing the number of parties
on a line not only makes the
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