The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 19, 1973 Page: 3 of 14
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Prof. Townsend Is A Rodeo
Announcer Of Note In Summer
ELDON, DONNIE, DALE and DAVID WOMACK
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On Our Customers Savings!
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CAPRICE Luxury
Our New Rates Are:
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Passbook Savings
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30 to 90 Days
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Chevrolet
Washing and Greasing
Fix Flats
Stop in now. See and drive our
full-size 1973 Chevrolets.
received
We do
Anyone interested in Can-
ning and Freezing Bulletins
may contact the County Ex-
tension Office in Montague.
the Library,
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Certificates Of Deposit:
($500 Minimum)
BEL AIR Roominess
and
DR. CHARLES (BUD) TOWNSEND, rodeo announcer,
begins his 1973 summer season of announcing rodeos.
He is a Nocona native.
DELTON STILLEY
Superintendent
You’ll like our friendly service and we will
appreciate your business very much.
This applies to all students enrolling
for the first time - those who will be 5 years
of age on September 1; 1973 , and others
through age 21 if they are enrolling in Nocona
Schools for the first time this 1973-1974 school
year.
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THE GRAND PRAIRIE ALL GIRL DRILL TEAM will
perform on horseback at the Chisholm Trail Roundup Fri-
day evening.
Bring these records by the Administra-
tion Building, 406 Grayson Street, and copies
will be made and the original returned to the
parent.
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Peoples National Bank
"Where People Come First"
Jim Hogue Chevrolet
& Oldsmobile, Inc.
200 Cooke Street - Nocona
Classes will begin for all students on
August 27, 1973.
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All students entering Nocona Schools
for the first time must have on file in the
school office copies of their birth certificates
and immunization records before they will be
allowed to enroll for school.
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supporters. They help keep
us open and operating with
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polish the writing of a book,
“San Antonio Rose, the Life
and Music of Bob Wills.”
Where he once traveled
across the country calling ro-
deos, Townsend now confines
himself to working shows in
the Rocky Mountain area.
“After all, if you spend
most of your time driving,
you don’t have time to fish,”
he says.
The money will come from
the Criminal Justice Council,
which administers the state’s
block grant from the Law En-
forcement Assistance Admin-
istration under the Omnibus
Crime Control Act.
The $16,053 award for police
training will continue the pro-
gram serving the 12 counties
of the North Texas Planning
Region. These counties art
Archer, Baylor, Childress,
booming out, “Well, here
come ... out of chute number
one. Look out, boys! send in
an ambulance.”
That is the excitement, the
color and the momentum of
a rodeo that the spectator sees
and hears.
But to Charles (Bud) Town-
send, Ph.D. and history pro-
fessor at West Texas State
University, it is the announ-
cer who makes or breaks a
rodeo.
Townsend, 43, is a quali-
fied authority on the history
and the operations of the popu-
lar rodeo in this country. He
has been sanctioned by the
Rodeo Cowboys Association
(RCA) as an announcer for 26
years.
Born at Nocona in North
Central Texas in 1929, Town-
send grew up in a ranching
community and learned to ride
and rope.
“We did what was natural
in our environment and that
was riding and roping, so na-
turally we began to ride in
rodeos,” he says.
His first experience with
the announcing part of rodeo
life came unexpectedly in 1946
His father had died nine
years before, when he was 8,
and his oldest brother, Bill,
then a mathematics professor
at the University of Texas,
was helping support the family.
’ ‘My mother told my brother
she wished he’d make me
quit riding,” Townsend says.
‘ So on Labor Day in 1946, the
announcer didn’t show up, and
he told me I couldn’t ride.
“The rodeo officials said,
What are we going to do now?
and someone said, Get Bud
to do it.”
During his early years as a
rodeo performer, Townsend
got a reputation as a great
mimic of rodeo announcers.
“I got up fool-like and kid-
like that day. No one but a
kid or a fool would try such
a thing, but I thoroughly en-
joyed myself and I’ve been
announcing ever since.”
Townsend was graduated by
Nocona High School in 1948, the
same year he gained profes-
sional announcer status with
the RCA. For six years he.
traveled the rodeo circuit,
booking his own jobs.
In 1955 Townsend decided
to go to college and in the
next 13 years he acquired three
degrees: a bachelor’s from
Midwestern Univers11y at
Wichita Falls, a master’s
The fifth annual Crippled
Children’s Livestock Auction
was announced by County!
chairman Judge Louis T. Hol-
land of Montague this week.
The auction, which benefits
the North Texas Rehabilitation
Center in Wichita Falls, is
scheduled for August 1 at the
Wichita Livestock Auction
Mr. W. A. Medlen and Mrs.
Louise Knussman.
We know that we will be
seeing and hearing from more
.and more of you as you be-
come aware of the Library’s
presence and service in the
community. We will soon be
in'our “new” building, but will
have the same hours. Re-
member, we are open
especially for you working
people on Monday evenings
from 7 until 9.
DUCKWORTH TRIP
Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Duck-
worth returned Sunday from
a weekend trip to DeSoto,
where they visited Mr. and
Mrs. Frank McCoy, former
residents of Nocona. They
also brought home their son,
Bobbie Duckworth, who had
been staying with the McCoy’s,
for a few days.
mm from Baylor University nd
E a Ph.D. from the University
E of Wisconsin.
E During those years he fin-
E anced his education and a
E growing family -- he had a
BB wife and three children —
EB through rodeo announcing in
E the summer.
E Townsend says his brother
E Bill talked him out of quitting
BE the summertime rodeo work
m after he completed his Ph.D.
E in 1968.
E “If I had something to do
E where I could get away from
I the college in the summer, I
29 think I’d be a better teacher
EV when I came back,’’Townsend
■ quotes his brother.
Kh “I went out to the rodeos
’’CT again,” Townsend says. “It
72 was a different life and I
BI enjoyed it. But by August I
MJ wanted to come back to my
MP students.
M4 “I think it makes a better
Ha teacher out of you. It seems
M% to keep me with a common
M3 touch.”
■ Townsend says the world
B of rodeos changes like every-
Ei thing else.
Pe “I have been amazed how
A the people have changed,” he
aad says. “They are better edu-
49 cated in rodeos today; most
s" are college graduates.”
The professor uses his lei-
ad sure time between rodeos to
Attend Reunion
In Oklahoma City
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Bennett,
their two sons, Mr. and Mrs.
Bob Bennett Jr’., of Fort Worth
and Mr. ahd Mrs. Mike Ben-
nett and Julie of Carrollton
were in Oklahoma City during
the weekend for a reunion of
Mr. Bennett’s family, seven
children and their families.
Approximately 35 were pres-
ent.
Among those present were
four sisters, Mrs. Ruth White,
La Jala, Calif., Mrs. Velma
Reiff, Abilene, Tex., Mrs.
Caroline Young and Mrs. Lois
Young, both of Oklahoma City;
three brothers, A. L. of
Shawnee, and P. L. of Okla.
City, and Bob Bennett, No-
cona.
AUSTIN — Governor Dolph 565,876, considered by the
Briscoe today awarded $40,- CJC Executive Committee
653 to continue the regional June 8.
peace officer training pro-
gram and support criminal p • ..I. AL:, _v
justice planning in the area vppied Children S
served by Nortex Regional ,
Planning Commission, Wich- Livestock Auction
Clay, Cottle, Foard, Harde- operated by the Collier Bro-
man, Jack, Montague, Wichita thers.
W ilbarger. and Young. Holland urged prospective
in addition to providing donors to contact him or one
basic police certification of his committee members
courses, it also will furnish and “give four good legs so
specialized training for some two can walk.” Holland can
officers in organized crime be reached at 894-2531.
control, narcotics, computer- Last year, auction sales
ization and crime prevention, passed $37,000 with under
The $24,600 planning aware $400 in expenses. Nearly all
will continue providing a full, proceeds go to operate the
time criminal justice coordin- Center which serves all those
ator, his secretary and oper- within a 100 mile radius of
ating expenses for Nortex RPC Wichita Falls. Forty persons
which will contribute a $7,265 from Montague have received
cash match. help at the center and three
The Nortex applications more are currently undergo-
were among 71 for action and ing treatment there.
planning money, totaling $4,- The rehibilitation center
The Library occasionally
gets a request for something
not yet on our shelves. May-
ba some of you would want
to help us with a recent re-
quest — Nocona High School
Annuals. If you would like
to donate one, or several,
we’d be glad to get them.
A book order was placed
last week, so four new books
will be arriving soon. If
you’d like to donate a new book
to the Library, you will find
a list to choose from posted
on the bulletin board in the
Library.
We now have 28 READ-
osauruses and they are busi-
ly reading to get a certifi-
cate for completing 12 books
by Aug. 15th. Also, there will
be a party for those that earn
the certificate.
It’s time a good word was
said for the adults that use
that comes in eyery two weeks -----------------
— sometimes more often —
and checks out his limit each GERALD LEES TO
time. And we have several VISIT IN NOCONA
women that do the same. We Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Lee
appreciate every single per- of Gillette, Wyoming are ex-
son that comes in. pected to arrive in Nocona
We also have non-reading (Saturday or Sunday for a visit
have much adult traffic too
—some coming in as regular
as the seasons. One family
comes in together every two
weeks — father, mother, and
3 daughters. We have several
other families (minus Dad)
that come together regularly
too. Then we have one man
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provides physical, occupa-
tional and speech therapy for
physically handicapped child-
ren and adults, those witl
speech and/or hearing diffi-
culties and children with
tearing disabilities.
AMARILLO — A cloud of clutching desperately withone
dust, a wild shout, a cowboy hand to stay aboard a writh-
ing animal.
In a few seconds it’s all
over, then it begins again with
the public address announcer
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Hays, Edgar R. The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 19, 1973, newspaper, July 19, 1973; Nocona, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1493592/m1/3/: accessed July 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Friends of the Nocona Public Library.