The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1983 Page: 2 of 16
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Established June 6, 1906
Nocona, Texas
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He noted that both General
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have, as a result of recent com
plaints, made an effort to spread
their test flights across the entire
testing area and not concentrate
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awarded for the top chili cooks,
plus three for the best Show Team
A Saturday morning breakfast
will be held on Dec 3 for all cooks
at the VFW Post 8558 with a cooks
meeting at 11 a m and chili turn
in at 1:30 p.m
The Cookoff is once again
CAS I sanctioned with winners
earning points towards the World r
Championships.
The cookoff will be held in
downtown Nocona. Roberts noted
he already has four teams signed
up for the cookoff.
Reports from up and down the
river indicate that complete pump
ing units were covered in water
and silt: a Lone Star Gas pipeline
near Illinois Bend ruptured,
caught fire and had to be shut off
a hay barn belonging to Mavis
Heaton holding several thousand
bales of hay literally floated off
the Douthitt Ranch in Clay Coun
ty reportedly lost 600 round bales
of hay. and the list of losses goes
on.
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The Fourth Annual Chisholm
Trail Chili Cookoff is set for
Saturday. Dec. 3.
Cookoff chairman Lynn
Roberts announced the cookoff is
being sponsored this year by the
Nocona Rural Fire Department,
which will hold a Fire Dept. Fish
Fry on Friday, Dec. 2.
First place prize will be Nocona
Boots.
Entry fee is $10 plus a new or
used toy.
Ten Texas plaques will be
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filled pecan trees — only to have
12 of their numbers drown, leav
ing their bloated bodies hanging in
the vines and tree limbs when the
waters receded Monday.
“When I got up Saturday mor
ning, I only have 8 head up here at
the house," McGaughey said.
Through various rescue efforts, by
Monday that number had grown
to approximately 50 head out of a
herd of 150 cows and calves.
Due to next Tuesday's Texas
Constitutional Amendments Elec
tion, the DPS Driver's License
Office in Nocona will be closed.
One of the voting boxes will be
using the same room the License
Office uses, so the DPS license
trooper will not be in Nocona
T uesday.
The trooper will be back the
next week.
calves to high ground.
The four used a motor boat and
horse halters to haul the cattle
across the ever-growing expanse of
water, but three cows and a calf
died after they reached shore.
" We would have lost them all if
it wast for them," McGaughey-
said.
The floods reached such a level
that a number of the cows clawed
their way on top of grapevine-
Farmers and ranchers were launching their boats from the only field bridges for flood damage. The gate, pictured, is approximately 40
gate off the U.S. Hwy. 81 bridge approach Saturday in an effort to feet from the roadway.
locate missing cattle and check both the highway and railroad
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constituents, also lost cattle to the
flooding.
"They are in a patch next to a
hill and I just assumed they would
go up the hill. They always had
before," Parker said Monday.
"When I went back Sunday, only
the bull was left."
McGaughey noted that approx-
imately 60 head of the cattle run
by himself and his grandfather
were on high ground about a half
mile from the Crownover’s home
on a bluff overlooking the Red
River.
"It had never gotten that high
before," McGaughey said. "But
it did this time."
Thanks to the assistance of
neighbors John Ed Hinton. Casey
Don L'selton, Joe Bob Combs and
Mavis Heaton, they managed to
lead approximately 20 cows and
Airport
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The City Council will hold a
public hearing on the grant and
projected objectives at 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday. Nov. 8 in the council
chambers.
Plans currently call for TAC
engineers to help design the work
at the airport — saving the city
engineering fees. ’ They want us
to begin work in the spring."
Roberts noted.
Bowie received a $60,000 grant
to acquire land, expand the apron
and relocate its access road from
beneath the existing landing pat
tern.
‘‘ We are really pleased with get-
ting the grants," Roberts said.
"We feel with them, we will be
able to bring the Nocona Airport
back up to an acceptable
standard."
"The TAC noted on a scale of 1
to 100, with 100 being the very
best airports. Nocona rated a 11 in
its present condition." he said,
stressing the serious need for the
improvements in the airport.
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Poor weather conditions and
other commitments by an Air
Force bioenvironmental testing
unit have slowed plans to run
sonic boom level tests in Mon-
tague County.
Following complaints about the
strength of sonic booms in the
Nocona area, Maj. Michael
Madrid of the Air Force's liason
office at General Dynamics in Fort
Worth scheduled the tests for the
Nocona-Saint Jo area.
Friday. Maj. Madrid explaine
that a combination of poor flying
weather because of the recent rains
and prior commitments for the
bioenvironmental unit from
Carswell AFB in Fort Worth forc-
ed delays in the testing.
"We hope to be up their the end
of this week or the first of next
week." Maj. Madrirdsaid.
In an effort to gain the best test
data, the Air Force officer noted
strong booms would take place so
Tracy R. Mesler Pubfisher-Editor
Linda L. Mesler Publisher-Advertising
Brenda Winter Production
Karen Russell — Production
Jane Prather Typesetter
M irkey Frushour Photographei
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Mesler, Tracy R. The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1983, newspaper, October 27, 1983; Nocona, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1493921/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Friends of the Nocona Public Library.