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VOLUME XXXI.
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BOWIE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1952
NUMBER 35
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Is Expected All
Over the Nation
Dr. Jno. Wright
To Preach In
New 1953 Dodges
Arouse Interest
Lions' Turkey
Shoot Scheduled
For November 8
1953 Chryslers
Are on Display
At Hancock's
Car Dealers Offer
Ride to Polls If
You Need It
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to set up
lasses in
le Bowie
there is
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>er week
a course
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dition is
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a Faulk-
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That there is a real lion, des-
cribed as large as a huge dog and
of the appearance of a Mexican
lion, in the hill country about
eight miles south of Bowie, has
A&P FOOD AD
IN NEWS TODAY
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__"Your Hom« Town and County Newspaper"
time will be 8:00. The Cubs may
prove to be as hard toTieat as
Jacksboro. For this week’s pre-
diction turn to where they play.
BAD NEWS — Hickman and
Hunt are doubtful starters
against Olney tonight.
of the
d Stude-
’ie, was
Tuesday
High Interest In Big Election Tuesday, Nov. 4
Unusual Vole
organized
namely:
ookkeep-
carry no
:>r school
only for
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mmercial
sol, will
rate of
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mber of
take the
interest-
requested
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. October
desiring
may call ’
intendent
date. The
Russell's Observes
Second Anniversary
Russell’s Second Anniversary,
Oct. 31 through Monday, Nov. 10,
is announced in this issue of the
News.
The announcement includes this
statement: “To old friends and
new, we thank you for your pa
tronage which has made possible
the success of our store.” Many
special values are advertised for
all departments.
Rabbits Meet Cubs;
issue carried a sample
showing how one may
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new
here, which has
off with a large enroll-
Jaycees To
Get Charter At
Banquet Nov. 5
At a meeting of the newly or-
ganized Junior Chamber of Com-
merce officers Monday nighty
plans were completed for tte-
Jaycees first banquet to be held
Wednesday night, November 5, at
7:30 o’clock in the East Ward
Cafeteria.
M. D. Carter, secretary, said
tickets are selling well for the
event. At that time an executive
The A&P Food Store in
Bowie started a series of ads in
the Bowie News, first of which
appears in this issue, offering
much information, with prices^
on wide range of foods.
Elton Hill is manager of AltP
in Bowie, who announces im-
provements and important food
price changes.
fall and winter merchandise in
every department”, says the
announcement. And continuing it
says: “We are grateful to our
many friends and customers who
make this sale possible.”
A special attraction during the
| sale will be “giving free a 100%
I wool blanket.’”
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A special service to persons
wanting to vote but who have
no means of reaching the polls
is offered by automobile dealers
in Bowie, members of the Na
tional Automobile Association.
The offer, made in an ad else-
where in this paper says any
person not having a way to go to
the polls to vote may call anyone
of the following:
Co., Phone 468; -Edwards Motor
Co., Phone 389; Hancock Motor
Co., Phone 43; J. C. Gregory
______ __ ____ ____ Motors, Phone 357; Quinn Holder
stock of cake meal, and meal and Motor Co., Phone 207; or F & M
Motor Co., Phone 149.
The showing of “The Brand
New ’53 Dodge” cars at the Quinn
Holder Motor Company’s show
rooms at 108 East Wise street is
attracting unusual interest this
week—the first 1953 automobile
showing in Bowie. . '<•
“Meet the loveliest, liveliest,
goingest action car of America”
is the slogan greeting thousands
who are inspecting the new 1953
Dodge automobiles throughout
the country. And a lot of them
are agreeing, too, when they have
inspected the 1953 models.
The 1953 Dodge is presented in
ten different designs and beau-
tiful colors. And now they are in
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WEAVING WITH A REAL LOOM, in front of Jackson’s Dept. Store
Vfras one of the most interesting demonstrations in the Bowie Art
League’s annual. Sidewalk Art Show in Bowie Saturday. At the
loom weaving is Mrs. Meda Parker Johnson weaving a 42 inch
width drapery whiph will sell at $35 and which ordinarily requires
about three hours to weave. A loom like this may be bought for
about $35, Mrs. Johnston said. It is similar to what our grandmothers
used to make clothing and rugs, and is operated by hands and feet.
Others in the photo include Mrs. Fred Bloom, Mrs. Epperson, Mrs.
Becky Stern, Paul Donald, an, Art Instructor at Midwestern Uni-
versity, Wichita Falls, and Mrs. Billy Lunn.
The Style Shop
Features Famous Brands
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In a large ad elsewhere in this
issue of the News, The Style Shop
calls attention tb their Nationally
Advertised lines of merchandise
including many famous brands,
and their pre-Christmas lay-away
plan they are now putting into
operation.
There are many nationally ad-
vertised brands now carried in
this store in dresses, suits, under-
wear, hosiery, blouses, girdles and
brassieres. Well known lines of
jewelry, also silverware, clocks,
china and fountain pens are
listed.
The Turkey-shoot season of the
Bowie Lions Club will get under
day Saturday, November 8. Geo.
Martin of the Remington Arms
Co. will be present with some of
his company’s best equipment in
guns and ammunition to help the
“Turkey-Shoot” get off to a suc-
cessful start. «
The shooting starts after din-
ner on Saturday, November 8
and will continue until da^k in
the Pelham Park Rodeo Arena.
Many of the sharpshooters who
last year walktyi off with a
number of the fowl are sharpen-
ing up their shdoting eyes in the
hope of bringing home the turkey
again this yeaa
Chairman of the Turkey-Shoot
event this year again is Scott
Whaley under whose . direction
last year’s event evolved into a
big success.
Various types of shoots will
again be employed this year. For
the amateurs, still targets; for,
the experts, skeet and live tar-
gets will be arranged.
Star Backs Injured
By GLENN WILSON
' T^ie Bowie Jackrabbits will
meet the Olney Cubs on the lo-
cal field tonight (Friday). Game
Dodson Celebrates
Fourth Anniversary
Dodson’s Department Store on
Wise street is celebrating its (
fourth anniversary, starting to-j
day (Friday) with an unusual
sale.
A page lid elsewhere in this_
paper announces the big event, ,
I carrying a long list of special
prices. “Never before have we
Evans Motor
READY FOR PARADE—The 80-ptoce bend of Bowie High School is reedy to show some peppy
marching when they parade at the 30th Birthday Homecoming celebration at Midwestern Univer-
sity in Wichita Falls November 15. The fancy-stopping drum major to Miss Gall Wood who to flanked
by four majorettes. This appearance pf the band at Wichita Falla to sponsored by PerHns-Tlaaber-
lake of Bowie. Donald Mann, manager. The band to also honored, aa invited guest band, thia Satur-
day night November 1. at N. 8. T. CM Denton.
Mayor Pictures
Water Situation;
Waste Deplored
Facts concerning Bowie’s wat-
er supply were given straight
from the shoulder in an address
by Mayor D. .M. Major, guest
speaker at the Rotary Club on
Wednesday.
He declared there is no occa-
sion for citizens to fear as to
water supply for the immediate
future, but there are certain
problems to be met and asked
for common sense viewpoint on
the situation. “I am glad we are
in no extreme danger," he de-
clared.
He pointed out these facts:
The Bowie Lake has 2,000 acre I offered lower prices on qualitj
feet of water capacity. Bowie
uses about 500 acre feet a year,
but three times as much escapes
by evaporation and leakage as is
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The Bowie Chamber of Com-
merce installed as its new presi-
dent, Lum Lovette, Thursday
night, in City Auditoniurri base-
ment, when the scheduled speak-
er was Jeff Williams famous for
his humor and inspiration. More
than 200 attended the banquet.
The outgoing president is H. L.
Turns. The four new directors
are W. E. Hancock. Elton A. Hill,
Fred Hoeldtke and Scott Whaley-
Excels with paid clrculailo*
coverage and reader interval
in four-OQunty trade area-
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Country South of Bowie Recently
been declared by several men
recently.
W. E. Farrell, head of the U. S.
Soil Conservation office in Bowie*
saw it the other evening about
sundown, while fixing the fence
between his pasture and the
Ewing ranch south of his place.
It was in a gulch, near some
rugged cliffs. As Farrell took
hold of the reins to mount his
horse he heard a coarse growl
and looking quickly saw the lion
in about twenty feet of him. Hi*
horse almost ran from under him
and was hard to control for *
mile or two. After mounting the
horse he looked back and the big
animal was walking leisurely on
its way. >
Donald McDonald is reported
to have seen an animal of similar
description recently also, in the
area south of Bowie. Others have
seen its tracks.
inch recorded' in August. Only
inches total this year. The
Inormal rainfall here is 36 inches
plus.
Tex-O Feed Market
Formal Opening
Scheduled Monday
A new feed store in Bowie, The
Tex-O Feed Market, has been
established by Thomas Ayres,
who owns the Ayres Gin, on the
Bellevue Highway.
Formal opening of the new
establishment will be held all
day Monday, November 3, and
that evening, at the new concrete
building located on the Bellevue
Highway in front of the Ayres
Gin, and across highway from
Service Pipe Line plant. Dough-
nuts and -coffee will be served
and officials of the Burrus Mill
will be here and experts will b<
on hand to answer feeding prob-
lems to dairymen and cattlemen,
Ayres announced.
A complete line of TeX-0 and
Five-Star feeds for poultry and
livestock will be carried, in this
new company’s new building,'a
concrete block structure 30 b?
40 feet. Also Ayres will carr
Unusual interest is running
high in the last few days pre-
ceding the national general elec-
tion to be held next Tuesday,
November 4, when "the ’biggest
total of votes is expected to be
cast in this county and in Tex-
as seen in many generations.
Various organizations are urg-
ing that every citizen eligible,
vote, and some firms and or-
ganizations are offering service
if automobiles to carry any to
the polls who have no means of
transportation. A larger absentee
vote has been cast than was an-
ticipated, and the total vote in
Montague county may run above
5,000.
Both the Stevenson forces and
the Eisenhower supporters have
this week been showering the
whole nation, especially in Tex-
as, with literature and speech
making.
The polls in Montague county
will open at 8 " o'clock Tuesday
morning and close at 7 p.m. Both
political parties may be repre-
sented at the polls, under the
new state law. The ballot is
about., the size of a newspaper
page, .with eight columns.
Various ads in this issue of the
News recite some of the major
issues and explain how voters
may mark their ballots. The
Bowie News in its October 17
ballot
vote—
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to hear him in Port Arthur where , . _____________
he has made an exceptional rec- Tickets may be had at the Bowie
ord as pastor. News office, Patterson’s Studio,
The services will be held at Carter and Whitecotton or from
10 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. and will any Jaycee.
be a part of a simultaneous ' ---------------—
evangelistic campaign the Bap- C. of C. Officers
The new Chrysler cars for
1953 are on display all over the
nation today, and two of the
beautiful new automobiles are
on the showroom floor of Han-
cock Motor Company, 204 West
Wise street. '
A complete new body is
shown in the 1953 models—new
inside and out and more attrac-
tive and comfortable, with the
numerous new appointments.
And it is claimed for the 1953
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Minisiers Call
For Election Prayers
Bowie Ministerial Association
held its October meeting Saturdays
and voted to call the people to’^
prayer next Sunday afternoon, to
pray for the National Election
November 4.
The suggestion is made that.
the church buildings be kept
open all afternoon for people to
come and go at their convenience.
The pastors may vary the obser-f
vance in their respective
churches, it was announced by
Rev. C. A. Tucker, secretary.
Rev. J.W. Burgett, pastor at
the Cumberland Preabytariw*
Church, new president ot F
Association, presided.
A series of special services will
be started at First Baptist church
in Bowie Sunday, November 2
and continue through November
14, with some unusual preach-
ing and inspiring music promised,
according to the pastor, Rev. G. B.
Bradshaw.
He announces that Dr. John
M. Wright, pastor of the church
at Port Arthur, will do the of the National organization will
preaching, starting Monday night, deliver the charter to the
Nov. 3. Charles W. Jones of De-1 Jaycee group
catur, who led the music in a started c" ...... -
revival here last year, will lead ment of aggressive young busi-
the singing for this meetiiig. ' nessmen of Bowie.
Dr. Wright is a very interesting Bob Patterson is president. Paul
speaker who draws large crowds Taliaferro, principal of the High.
School, will be toastmaster.
DAIRYMEN HOLDING
HELPFUL MEETINGS
Dairymen of Bowie area
now holding meetings every
other Thursday night, under
general direction of N. E. Lewis,
vocational agriculture teacher, in
his school class room, at which
time they discuss various prob-
lems and opportunities.
Lewis is furnishing educa-
tional material on dairy subjects.
The subject for the meeting on
Thursday night this week was
feeding.
—
If a man first sees himself
he’HJikely pursue no farther any
desire to deal harshly.
¥ ¥ ¥
Forty-four days until Christ-
mas—and that should remind us
ftljzheck up on our standing with
Santa Claus.
¥ ¥ ¥
I AM NOT TELLING YOU
WHO TO VOTE FOR. BUT
VOTE! Vote TuesdayL See edi-
torial, page 2, second section.
¥ ¥ ¥ *
If we just think we can fre-
quently think of something new
to make money. A guy in an-
other state received over $73,000
for earth worms last year. Ad-
vertising brought his customers.
¥ ¥ ¥
Miss Reba Burright, County
Home Demonstration Agent,
wore broad smiles Monday aft-
er receiving free two gallons of
Kemtone paint for being a lucky
signer at one of the many booths
-in the State Fair, Dallas, the pre-
* vious week.
¥ ¥ ¥
Uriel. Randolph, horticulturist
in charge of the State Experi-
ment Farm, who keeps official
weather instruments there, has
not been able to scratch for two
months, so far as moisture is
concerned. Not even a trace of
■rain to record in September and
J Vtober, and only one-fourth of
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A great many have called the
News office, confused over the
radio and television appeals for
men and women to register, so
[they can vote. The register ap-
peal applies only to other states.
In Texas a poll tax receipt is
required if you are under 60
rears of age. If 60 or over, in
Montague county, if you have
resided the required time as a
citizen in precinct and county,
you do not need a receipt of any
kind to vote.
¥ ¥ ¥
I will vote against both of
the proposals for State constitu-
tional amendments on the ballot
next Tuesday. It is our opinion
cities and towns already have all
the power they need, without
the first proposal, to enable cit-
ies and towns to provide Work-
men’s Pompcnsation Insurance.
The Constitution already fives
the Legislature authority to pass
such laws as may be needed.
Second proposal would authorize
the Legislature to create another
board and provide funds for
Itens, grants and scholarships
fof medical students, who would^
agree to practice in rural areas.
As we see it, this would write
into our Constitution an entirely
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Last week's prediction was pret-
ty close and as predicted that
Bowie line was one of the big
factors in the victory. The Cubs
have back six lettermen from
last year’s team that defeated
the Rabbits 30-0. Those Cubs
may be in for a surprise this
year for these Rabbits are going
to be out for a victory. Olney
has a smaller but more experi-
enced team than Jacksboro.
Jacksboro used only one man
most of the night for their run-
ning play? and he was pretty
well taken care of. All you Rab-
bit fans that journeyed over to
Jacksboro and those of you that
didn’t get to go, let’s all go out
and whoop it up for those fight-
ing Jackrabbits. You had bet-
ter be prepared fAr this week’s
game promises to be just as
much a thriller as last week’s.
And I for one sure needed
something to sit on for my legs
felt weak a few times.
Those of you that missed last
week’s game sure missed a bang-
up knock-down good ball game.
Just ask any of the several hun-
dred fans that went. Before you
could turn around Jacksboro had
intercepted a Bowie pass and
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I “The world is too prone
Iforget the thousands of crippled
veterans and the large numbers
lin mental hospitals,” declared
iBill McGraw, speaker before the
Iv, F. W. convention Sunday in
iBowie. And how truthful were
his words. It is a shame and
(disgrace that there has been so
(great neglect of our men who
(gave their health and lives for
pur country—a country so read-
ily forgetting.
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Regardless of who is the next
^sident of the United States,
|.. 11 have my whole-hearted
| upport as a citizen as long as
he is honestly making a diligent
effort to serve the country well.
He’ll have my prayers to be a
great executive. And he’ll need
support of all of us. Everybody
should strive now to forget ani-
mosities that have grown out of
the campaign and pull together
to bring the nation to a fine new
day.
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Trout, H. I. The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, October 31, 1952, newspaper, October 31, 1952; Bowie, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1367774/m1/1/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bowie Public Library.