The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 7, 1974 Page: 6 of 16
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Has Volunteer Worker
Elder Dennis,
Former Noconan,
Busied in N. M.
Chrysler Airtemp
air conditioning
Out-Of-Town People
Attend Funeral
Sprng
Sale
Randell Smith's
Rites Slated
At 2:30 Today
GET PICTURS MADE Of GRANDPA,
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Catfish
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Always fly your kite far
from electric or power
lines.
Capt. Idell and
Family Visit Here
Capt. and Mrs. William D.
Idell and children visited with
his parents, Rev. and Mrs.
W. J. Idell here last week.
They had just returned to the
states after 13 months of duty
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Thursday, Friday,
Saturday
March 7, 8, 9
1. Always use dry string ...
not wire or anything me-
tallic.
Starting times:
7:00 p.m. Friday
1:00 p.m. Saturday
2:00 p.m. Sunday
Continuous shows daily
Friday. Saturday
and Sunday
March 8 9, 10
Relatives from Nocona at-
tending the funeral were Mrs.
Bill Meekins, Don Meekins,
Patsy Meekins, Jean Cham-
bers, Mr. and Mrs. Bobby
Storey.
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About Our
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$1.19
Regular $1.50
4. Always fly your kite away
from TV and radio aerials.
"Nobody Makes ’Em Like Dairy Queen”
Galli Orders: 825-7301
Dairy Queen
2. Always use wood and pa-
per in your kite ... not
wire or metal.
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6. Always call your power
company if your kite gets
snagged in a power line.
Do not pull the string or
climb power poles.
5. Always avoid busy streets
and highways when flying
your kite.
Get that Chrysler Airtemp room air conditioner you ve always wanted . it s
on sale. Now is the time to buy.. we need the business and we II make it
really easy for you to own the one that best fits your need Come in and
let’s talk it over, we have a special payment plan just for you
Choose Chrysler Airtemp with Confidence
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7. Always keep away from
fallen wires.
Big Job
Cooling!
Turn it on and the hot air in
your extra-big rooms will
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Designed with extra cooling
\ power Makes short work
of hot, muggy air Has
3-speed fan Get yours
, while the price is
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Buy now... we'll
deliver later!
Dwight’s Electric Service
217 Clay Phone 825-3575
Extra
Charge
for
GROUPS
Buy now while prices are
specially low!
Look at this spring special!
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Those relatives and friends
from out-of-town who attended
the funeral of Luther Sewell
here last week included Joe
Fitts, Mrs. Tressie Lowry,
Mr. and Mrs. Foy Garrison,
Ms. Wilma Ritchie, Mrs.
Floyd Freeman, all of Wichita
Falls; Mr. and Mrs. John
Reed and Fauna, Bethany.
Mrs. Billy R. Sewell, Sheila,
Randy and Tyre, Waldo W.
Searcy* Dewain S. Burch,
James H. Horton, Grand
Prairie; Kevin Sewell, Austin;
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Pruitt,
Mrs. Dona Lewis, Mrs. Coe
Priddy, Mr. and Mrs. T. M.
Jordan, Fort Worth; Forrest
Martin, Arvil Martin, Mr. and
Mrs. Monroe Martin, Mrs.
Susie Martin, Comanche,
Okla.; Mrs. Annie Sewell.
Artesia, N. M.; Jim Hogland,
Arlington.
Okla.; Willard Shackelford,
David Moyer, Mrs. Lucy PUBLIC SHCOOL WEEK
Hodges, all Montague; Mr. and Visit your schools Thursday.
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* member of the Courtney Meth-
34. odist Church. She had lived
» in the Courtney community for
65 years.
* Survivors include two
* daughters, Mrs. Jean Good-
14- ridge, Dallas, and Mrs. Ber-
» nice Hamm, Mesquite, Tex.;
3 one sister Mrs. Mattie
" Kathey, Ringling; four grand-
* children and five great-grand-
* children.
LL M. K. Thweatt
Completes Course
Coronado, Calif. March 1 —
Marine First Lieutenant Mi-
chael K. Thweatt, son of Mr.
and Mrs. E. H. Thweatt of
Route 1, Saint Jo, completed
the Amphibious Tactical Air
Control Party Course at the
Landing Force Training Com-
mand, Pacific here. During
the three — week course
Thweatt received instruction
in the coordination of close
air support and artillery with
naval gunfire support for am-
phibious assault operations.
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lengthy illness.
* She lived at Route 1, Ring-
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Thursday. Friday
and Saturday
March 7, 8, 9
"The Man
Called Noon”
with Richard Crenna
and Stephen Boyd
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and Tuesday
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Xenos, Dick Goolsby, Jim
Cain, Bill Brown, Doyce
Brown and Jack Hunt.
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lace, brother of Claude Wal- minister officiating.
lace, Nocona on Nov. 16, 1916 Born Jan. 27, 1895 in No-
with Foy E. Wallace Jr., of- cona, he was engaged in oil-
ficiating while they sat in a field work and farming before
buggy. They lived in Nocona his retirement. He was a
until 1937. member of the Methodist
Survivors include her hus- Church.
band, of the home; two child- Survivors are his wife,
ren, Flavil Wallace and Mrs. Daisy Gathering; two sons,
Zona Gayle Kaplan, both of Beryl C., of Whitesboro, Tex.,
Fresno; five grandchildren, and. John Gordon, of Wichita
three great - grandchildren, Fallsi.. three daughters La-
two sisters, Mrs. Cora Ryan, vena W. Walls, Nocona, Doris
Porterville, Calif., and Mrs. G. Kimbell, Fort Worth, and
Alice Young of Memphis, Tex. Rhynah Lou Taley of Laurel,
Miss.
Burial will be in Nocona
Cemetery.
Pall bearers will be George
Happy Numbers
For anyone who still thinks
that cancer is always fatal, the
with the Army in Korea. They American Cancer Society re-
34 Tucumcari, N. M. hospital. left Monday for Oakland, ports that there are 1,1°
3 Services and burial was in Calif., where he will be sta- Americans alive today whoare
* Tucumcari. tioned. cured of cancer. They know
Born in Alvord, Tex., the Other Idell children present that cancer is most cu a
* son of the late Mr. and Mrs. for the family gathering were when, caught early ana you
* Scott Dennis, he moved with Mrs. Connie Bentley and should too.
34 his family to Montague Coun- childrenof Gainesville, Glenn -------------------------------
» ty and lived just north of No- Idell of Richardson and Kerry
. cona many years before mov- Jo of Gainesville.
* ing to Tucumcari where he
* became a successful rancher.
Mrs. Dee Wallace, former great grandchild.
Nocona resident, and sister- ------------------
in-law of Claud Wallace of . ,
Nocona died in a Fresno, Rites Set Today
Calif., hospital Feb. 25. Fu- ”
neral services were in the r. NIL. A..I.
Church of Christ and burial FOr ADert Appie
in Fresno Cemetery.
Born Lillie Grimsley in 1897
in Grayson Community north Albert Apple, 79, of 908
of Nocona, her schooling was Clay, lifelong resident of No-
at Long Branch southwest of cona died Tuesday morning at
Nocona. She was the daugh- Horizon Manor Nursing home
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Holt after a lengthy illness. .
Grimsley. Her grandfather. Services will be at 2 p.m.
the late J. L. Grimsley, was Thursday (today) at
a pioneer Church of Christ Daugherty-McGaughy Funeral
minister for years in Nocona. Home Chapel with Rev. Luther
She was married to Dee Wal- Wilson, retired Methodist
Services will be held at
2:30 Thursday (today)for Ran-
dell LeRoy Smith who operated
a dry cleaning plant here the
past ten years. Mr. Smith
died Tuesday morning at a
Bowie hospital after being ill
only a few minutes. He was
85 years of age.
Mr. Andy Burks, Church of:
Christ minister, will officiate:
at Scott Bros. Funeral Home
Chapel. Burial will be in
Nocona Cemetery.
Born Dec. 14, 1888 in Sher-
man, Tex., he married Iva J.
Smith in 1944. He moved to
Nocona in 1964 from Free-
mont. Neb.
Survivors include his wife,
Iva, of the home, 410 Grayson;
three sons, Randell L. Smith
Jr., Lewisville, Tex., D.H.
Smith, Nocona, Gordon C.
Smith, Irving; five daughters,
Mrs. Jas. E. Payne, Colorado
City, Tex., Mrs. J. J. Pat-
terson, Dallas, Mrs. Henry
Franks, Mesquite, Tex., Mrs.
LeRoy Hoffman, Dallas and
Mrs. D.H. Smith Jr., Irving;
four step - sons, Raymond,
Franklin, Cebert and James
Wilson, all of Nebraska; 40
grandchildren, 20 great
grandchildren and one great
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Be Sure These Rules
For Safe Kite-Flying
Are Followed
34 Survivors are a son, Scott,
» of Wichita Falls; two sisters,
" Mrs. Lura Paine and Mrs.
“ Missie Paine, both of Nocona,
* several grandchildren, nieces
34 and nephews. His wife and
» four sons preceded him in
» death.
* Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Tom-
* pkin’s guests Sunday were
* Mrs. Tompkin’s sister and
34 brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
» Harry Schriever of Fort
3 Worth, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Sul-
* levan of McKinney. They
* have a cabin at Lake Nocona.
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34. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Humph-
» ries and Joel were recent
" guests of her mother, Mrs.
* Homer H. Wyler. They were
4 enroute to their home at Mans-
34 field, Texas from New Mexico
F, where they had enjoyed the
5 winter sports.
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Elder Dennis, former No-
* conan, 89, died Feb. 28 in a
3. Always fly your kite on
days when there is no
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There is a gentleman, new on to Nocona in the summer E
in Nocona, that deserves the of "73/
title of “Volunteer Extraor- He is a man of many inter- ■
dinary". He walked into the ests. One of his hobbies is B
Nocona Public Library the paliontology, and when he’s ■
first of February and has not at the library he is hard ■
put in 119 hours since then, at work on the Crossword |
He was assisted by his wife Dictionary that he is writing. E
for eleven of these hours - “On the side” he invents! 2
and they are still working! At the moment he has a patent I
Mr. Clayton Phillips has cat- in process on a new casting
aloged 1,500 books, processed rod - one that can be used .
80, and mended 50 or more in a clearing of less than one E
old books that looked beyond foot (not an over-hand casting E
repair. In addition to all type). His “know how” with ■
this, he has donated and set books? It came from his i
up a display of fossils that library experience while at-
he has collected around Mon- tending college,
tague County, and has also set The Nocona Public Library
up our display of old books - Board takes this opportunity
dating from 1794 to 1930. He to publicly express its thanks
has written and typed up all and appreciation to Mr.
the identification cards that Phillips and his wife, Lorene,
are part of the displays, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.E.
Though this is more than Eakin, for the many hours of
enough for any one person to volunteer service they have
do, he has also set up nearly given and continue to give to CLAYTON PHILLIPS has done a tremendous amount
all of our new steel shelving the Nocona Public Library. of voluntary work at Nocona Public Library.
that we purchased for our new _______________ ____________________________
Naturally, this man is a Ricky Ballinger and Miss Kittie Meekins Akin
native TEXAN, being born in Linda Hamilton visited his _
Navarro county near Corsi- parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Former Noconan
cana. He entered the Navy Ballinger in Oklahoma City
in 1941 and was in the Re- during the weekend. D.a.. in ALI,
serves until 1953, making a -------------- uned In UKld.
total of 13 years of active
and reserve service. He at- Guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. Services were held Mon-
tended Baylor University in D. Allen Saturday and Sunday day, Feb. 25, for Mrs. Ira
1946 - 47, then went West were their granddaughter, (Mary Katherine) Eakin, 82,
and spent the next 20 years Mrs. Joellen Hicks, Harley at Courtney Methodist Church,
in Colorado and California, and Angela of Irving. Courtney community, Okla -
It was from California that 1 .---- .. homa. Burial was in Peters-
he returned to Baytown, Proper ly balancedtir esm- bur cemetery, Jefferson
Tex. in 1968 where he at- prove steering control. Un- County, Okla.
tended Lee College. From even weightdistributioncan Mrs. Eakin was born Jan.
there he went to Dallas, then cause tires to hop or shimmy 14, 1892, at Spanish Fort,
—Texas, and died Saturday in
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Hays, Edgar R. The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 7, 1974, newspaper, March 7, 1974; Nocona, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1493631/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Friends of the Nocona Public Library.