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MINEOLA, TEXAS 75773, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1971
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PRICE 10*
To Harrisons
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Election To Fill
Three Council Seats
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February Yard of the Month — W. T. Harrison home, Circle Drive
vice president;
Willis,
the.outtanding common stock, to
holders of record,on Feb. 18.
W. C. Swearingen
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Anti-HD Fund Drive,
together on Feb. 16.
Rev. 'Joseph Pettit
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UGas Declares
First Dividend
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Oratorical Contest
Expense oaid trips to the na-
tion’s capital City will be awarded
winners of an oratorical contest
L. B.
Walter
Steve- Pegues, a senior at
Mineola High School and the
son of Mr. and Mrs, Ben B. Pe-
Monday, February 8, 1971, was
the day to kick off the East
Texas campaign to raise money
for research for the Committee
Feb. 15-19, at 7 p.m. The Papal
Benediction will be imparted at
' the. final service Friday night.
Father Pettit, who entered the
seminary after four years in the
U. S. Navy, was ordained to the
priesthood in 1955. He is now
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In the forefront of the qilest-ta
’71 Mineola Chamber Banquet
Scheduled For Tuesday Night
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the door of the Meredith Room,
two kick-step stools, and books
and cushions for the Story Hou/.
During 1970, around 100 books
five officer. . ,
A-quarterly dividend of twenty
cents per share was declared on
shift to be filled is that from
midnight to 8 a.m.
Mills requested permission to
forward specifications for a new
fire truck to two commercial
builders and. two custom builders
(LaFrance and Seagraves), with
bids from the builders, to be-pre
sented at a later council meeting.
He recommended a custom La.
France, at" a cost of some $32
to $34 thousand.
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DMA Clubbers
To Meet Tuesday
The DMA's will meet Tuesday,
Feb. 16, at 11:45 a.m. for a cov-
ered dish luncheon at the Fellow-
ship Hall of the First Christian
Church of Mineola, with games
and fellowship to follow during
the afternoon.
Everyone is invited to attend
briefly review the past, year, and
incoming Chamber president
John Horton will point out high-
lights of the’ 1971 proposed pro-
gram of work.
Ralph Bruner, president of the
Mineola Federal Sayings & Loan
Association, will announce t h e
Mineolans Start
4-H Foods Study
- Two 4-H Foods and Nutrition
projects groubs began their study
in Mineola this week.
ten largest natural gas distribu-|ftreCtor °* *
• He has preached at Catholic
churches throughout.the midwest
and California and, in' recent
Feb. 14, at St. Peter the Apostle
Church, -20TtMeadowbrook Road
in Mineola.
good baromete'1 of the growth
and economiic progress being
made in the Mineola area."
And this year’s directory is lgr-
ger than the one a year ago.
The new Mineola directory will
Rev. Joseph Pettit of the Pas?
sionist Order willypreL-.. .
Sunday Mass, andagain nightly
" from Monday through- Friday.
winner and present the award to
the Peac Officer of the Year,
the first such presentation'of a
proposed annual award.
Clifford Dodson, president of
the sponsoring Mineola Lions
Club, will enumerate the accom-
plishments of the. 1970 Woman
of the-Year, and present a pla-
que to her.
Mineola Rotary Club president
James Haley will in similar
fashion reveal the identity of the
Man of the Year, whose identity
has been kept secret, and present
tion companies in the country,
was formerly a division’of Penn
zoil United, Inc. It became-a
Mrs. Joel Price was formally
elected president of the Mineola
Public Library Association dur-
ing the group's annual meeting,
held Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 9,
in the Meredith Room of the
library.
Also elected for the year be-
Bingo Party Set-
By Altar Society
Khat’s what will be heard Sat-
urddy, night in St Joseph’s Hall,
the parish hall of St. Peter the
Apo5fle~Tatholic Church-in Min-
eola, as the church’s Altar So-
eiety sponsors a Bingo Party.
The public is invited to attend.
In addition to games of Bingo,
there will be homemade pie and
cake, along with coffee and cold
drinks, for sale. • ..
Officers And Directors
Named For Foundation
‘Yard’ Award
lisle had made report to the
Governing Board of the library,
annual Texas Electric Coopera -
fives Government- In- -Action
Youth- Tour to Washington D. C»
All exbenses of the -12 day trip,
beginning June 12, will be paid
by Wobd. County Electric Cooper-
ative.. "
. Each entrant will be required
to give an. 8 -.to - 10 minute talk
on Rural Electrification, a n d
will be judged ’on. the basis of
genes. The only way one may
contract the disease is by here-
dity. Even then there is only
a 50-50 chance one might co n-
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gues, is heading out the campaign
as authorized by Marjorie GuTh"-"
rie.
Mrs. Guthrie formed the Com-
mittee to combat Buntington’s
Disease in 1967 when her, hus-
band, the late famd folk-singer
Woody Guthrie died from the
disease. Now Mrs. Guthrie de-
votes her time to lay groups,
informing them about the illness.
Dr. Andre Barbeau of Montreal,
Canada, has defined the illness
as “8 hereditary disorder of the
nervous system, manifested- by
abnormal movements, apd in the
mental composition of the persgn
in question." Huntington’s^chocea
-has been "the forgotten iriess."
be. .said. “Pegple tend not to
talk aboutvit. We're trying to
bring it out into the open and
look at it in scientific terms."
There are 25,000 known cases of
HD in th United States, a nd
there are ’ an • estimated 100,000
cases. ' . -
The disease was first properly
described by Dr. George Hunting-
tan of New York in 1872. It af-
lets the victims through, certain-
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Brownies, Scouts
To Sell Cookies
Thursday, February 11, is the
opening date of the annual Girl
Scout Cookie Sale, reminds Mrs.
Paul Furrh, newly elected Wood
County Neighborhood Chairman.
Members of the' Browrw and
Girl. Scout troops in Mineola, as
well’as those in Quitman and
Winnsboro, will be selling s‘i x
different kinds of cookies at a
price of 60 cents per box. Most
of' the proceeds will be applied
to development of the Tejas Girl
Scout Council's campsite, with
5 cents per box to remain with
the individual troops for their
own use. .
‘Mrs. Furrh and4other Girl
Scout’ leaders earnestly" solicit
patronage of the community for*
the Cookie Sale.
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Humble Baptists
To Host Singing
The Humble Baptist Church, on
East McDonald (the Hainesville
highway) near Peachtree Drive,
will host its monthly Old - Time
Gospet Singing Saturday night,
Feb. 13, beginning at 7:30.
Pastor Ariis Banks and song
leader Austin Stanford have ex-
tended, an invitation, to everyone
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Gateway to the Hines —
Five directors were re-elected
to three year terms of office
during the annual Mineola
Industrial Foundation Member-
ship meeting, held Monday, Feb.
8, at Herm's.
Nominated and reelected were
Wayne Collins, Carl Bruner, Har-
dy Hamm, Ratpt- Bruner and
Walter Judge; Directors John
Horton, Otho McKaig and Coul-
ter Templeton served as the no-
mintirg committee, with Horton
making the committee report.
Carl Bruner, serving his second
consecutive year as president.
presided for the annual meeting
i during which a brief report of
Officers Chosen
I By Altar Society
At its recent monthly meeting,
St Peter’s Altar Society elected
officers for this year and made
1 plans for a Bingo party at 7:30
| Saturday evening, .Feb. 13.
Lillian Dworaczyk was chosen
president of the Altar Society for
[ the Catholic Church for the year.
Assisting her will be , secretary
Mavis DeLaRosa and treasurer
Helen Deibert.
Parish Mission SlatedT
At St. Peter’s Church
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the first dividend to be paid by
the newly formed company.
The board’s action was an-
nounced by James A. Wilson, the!
board chairman and chief execu
2,500, listings. A total press run
of 5,455 will be made, and the
book will be delivered starting
February 16.
Adams said he hped all South-
western Bell customers would
use the new directory for all
The 26th annual membership
‘meeting of he Mineola Chamber
of Commerce will be held Tues-
day night, Feb. 16. in the multi-
purpose room of Mineola High
School, beginning at 7 o'clock.
For at least three members of
the community the highlight will
come with announcement of win-
ners of the Man of the Year,
Woman of the Year, and Peace
Officer of the Year-awards.
For the outgoing directors and
presidents of the Chamber and
the Ladies Division, the highlight
may well be the official turning
over of duties to their successors.
And for many, the hignlight
may be the talk by the featured
speaker, Carroll Swearingen, act-
ing general manager of the Sa-
bine Authority of Texas, who
will speak on the expected im-
pact of the tri-lakes cpnstruction
on the Mineola area.
" For all the membership, the
chairrhan; . Otho McKaig, vice
bepaid.on March "22 toshare-chairman: Walter Judge, secre-
! tary; Leon Hoseck, endowment
fund treasurer; and Mrs. Carlisle,
past -twelve months included a
catalog card unit, a magazine
rack, a photocopier. curtains for
in over $500 for library improve- - ,
ments. Purchases during the - United Gas, Inc., one of the:
whose members include represen.
tatives from the city, school
district. Library 'Association, and
the Meredith Foundation.
AL that meeting, all officers
were re-elected:1 J. C. J u d g d?
by voca selections f r.o m First
Baptist music minister Danny
Bopne; accompanied by his wife.
Deorations for the tables will
have” been .prepared by the .La-
dies Division of the Chamber.
Outgoing presidents Danny
Culp and Barbara Meads will
trie Cooperative. -
The contest is open to any
boy or girl at least 16 years
of age but not. 18'years of age
prior to Seotember 1, 1971, Ni-
chols said. Winners will joi,n
winners of similar contests spon-
during his post - graduate, werk
at Northwestern University in
Evanston, III.; Catholic University
In Washington, D. C.; and at the
University of San Francisco. .N
"The public is invited to hear
the series of instructions on
Christian doctrine." , says Rev.
announced by J. D. Nichols,
include 15 pages of alphabetical -Manager of Wood County Elec-
the Texas Water Quality Board,
in order for the city to qualify
for a federal grant to assist in
construction of the new sewer
plant. —-
■ A representative of Wisenbaker,
Fix & Associates, of Tyler, was
present to explain the terms to
be used in the Mineol formula.
Also attending the council meet-
ing were Jim Flynt and J i m
Pickett, city attorney and assis-
tant, who will prepare the ordin-
ance amendment.
Flynt also had drawn up for
the council's adoption a warranty
deed from the city to the Mineola
Industrial Foundation; conveying
most of Block 236 to the Foun-
dation for addition to an indus-
trial park site along the Old*
Katy tracks near the city dump.
After a 10 • year reversionary .
clause was stipulated by the
council, approval was given to
the property transfer.
Reports to' the council were
made by two department heads
— police chief Clarence Willing-I
ham and fire marshal Paul Mills.
One applicant for a police
vacancy was* interviewed, a h d
two more applications were con-
sidered by the council. The chief
and the mayor were asked to
delay hiring until more-applica-
tions could be received. The
t,e ras: years, throughout the Southwest,
lach at the He prepared for his assignment
were added and catalogued in
the Mineola Public Library, Mrs.
Carlisle reported, with the year's
end t o t a I ’ of volumes having
reached 12,552 — a record high.
Memberships have reached a
record total, too. with 473 Mineola
families and 73 out-of-town fami-
lies having library cards.
rt W. Chagnon M.S., pastor
it Peter’s parish. to attend and participate.
conquer HD is Arlo Guthrie,
son of Woody Guthrie who is
known, for his movie, "Alice's
-Restaurant." Also- such -person-
alities as Robert Ryan, Country
Joe McDonald, Tom Smothers,
Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Richie
Havens, Theo Bickel, Joe Stien,
Robert Culp and Arthur Penn
•have been involved.
The first activity to raise
money will be a door to door
contribution drive. All are urged
to give. Says Steve Pegues, “We
are going to meet the people
face to face and’tell them about
the disease.4 Pegues is Known
for his song, "Lera, Peace and
Happiness Too." Commented Pe-
gues, "Research is a groovy
cause."
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Look Who’s New!
Mr. and Mrs. Wade Matthews
proudly announce the birth of
their first child. Natalie Melissa,
on Friday, Feb. 5, at Baylor
Hospital* in Dallas. The young
lady weighed 7 pounds. 4 ounces,
and is the granddaughter of Dr.
and Mrs. Charles Cox Jr. of Tem-
ple and Mr. and Mrs. T. W.
Matthews of Mineola.
A Parish mission, or revival, stationed at Holy Name Retreat
will begin at 10:45 a.m. Sunday, .House, Houston.
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sored by other electric coopera-
it's worth. "With a new .directory,tives aeress Texas on tbejuxth.
banquet meeting will affuid an
opportunity to review the Cham-
ber's accomplishments during
1970, and to inspect the detailed
program of work laid down for
1971.
Byron Leewright will serve as
master of ceremonies for the
banquet meeting, and will make
introductions. The invocation ahd
benediction wit begivenrespec-
tively by. First Methodist Church
pastor Bill Leediker and Church
of Christ minister David Lusk. •
Entertainment will be provided
The Board of Directors of Oni- _—,--
ted Gas, Inc., on Feb. 5 declared . Earlier in the day, Mrs. Car-
Six girls from the Mineola 4-H
—Stosscrndeadeyosrssiomnotetheneinning Feb.-were Mrs
industry changes in. the past
year were given by secretary
Jim Carli. '
At the’ directors meeting which
followed, Dan Peacock was elec-
ted president of the Foundation
for 1971. Carl Bruner was elected
vice president; and Carli was
re-elected, secretary-treasurer.
Other directors, in addition to
those previously named, are Da-
vid Lott, Ocie Fair, T. W. Ben-
ham, Leon Hoseck, Tom 'Pegues'
and Buddy choellkopf.
. Last month, the board approv-
ed a grant of $3,000 to the Min-
eola Chamber of Commerce to
assist the Chamber in purchasing
its headquarters- building from
the First National Bank of Min-
eoia,-
The Foundation's official head-
quarters are in the Chamb.er
office, and all bookkeeping and
reports are handled by C of C
• the club's plaque to the winner.
Outgoing directors of the Mm- —---
(1) knowledge qf. subject, 40%;
(2) speaking ability, 30%; (3),
pqise, 10%; (4) personality, 10%;
and (5) appearance, 10%.
Interested young people may.'
obtain an official entry blank
from their school or the offices
of Wdbd County Electric Coop-
erative. The deadline for sub- 3
mitting entries will be Monday.
March 1, 1971.
As. participants ih the Texas
Electric ' Cooperatives Youth
Tmir, inf^l contest winrtars will______
travel by chartered bus to Wash-
ington, D. C.‘ where they will
spend four days visiting places
of historical interest and seeing
the nations government in ac-
tion. V
Members of the immediate
family of an employee of Wood
County Electric Cooperative are
excluded f rom entering the con-
test.
Judge, secretary and Dan Pea-
cock, treasurer.
Preceding the election of offi-
cers, reports of the past year s
accomplishments were made by
retiring president “Mrs. H.. C.
Douglas and by library director
Mrs. Robert Carlisle.
Receipts from the Tasting Bee
held last July, and from sales of
recipes from the event, brought
Election of three alderman will
be the object of the annual
election set by the City Council
for Saturday, April.3.
The election was formally call-
ed during the council's regular
meeting on Monday night, Feb.
8, to be held from 7 a.m. to 7
p.m.in the city hall. ..
Terms of Adolphus Vandiver,
Virgil Peacock and J. S. (Sebe)
Smith expire this year. Neither
of the threq has indicated wheth-
er he Will seek another term.
During the council meeting
Monday night, most of the meet-
ing time was taken /up in con-,
sideration of a workable formula
for determining practica] sewer
charges-for industrialwastes
with the formula to be'incorpor-
ated into the special ordinance
adopted last month. Need for
such a formula was expressed by
separate' investor-owned com-
pany on July 1, 1970.
L This initial dividend was de
[ dared in "the company's third
quarter of operation.
ford, began the six-week project
on Saturday. These girls , all in
their first year study, are Donna
Malone, Tammye Crawford, Re
gina Green, Becky Estot, Mitzi
Godwin and Cathy Carr.
Mrs. Betty Richey is working
with the second-year Foods and
Nutrition 4-H’ers on Tuesdays.
Her group consists of Cthy
Walker, Marian Gasmichael, Mary
Lewis, Cindy/--Walker and Sherry
Caston. * > 7
Study of th Foods and Notri-
tjon projects WU be cuimihated
with the Wood Cuhty Foods
Show on March 25th.
edia Chamber of Commerce are
Don Hawkins, Frauline Gresham,
Adolphus Vandiver and Coulter
Templeton. They will be replaced
on the board by Louie Fulgham,
Hardy Hamm, Bill Knight (who
is general chairman for the ban-
quet), and Doyle Starnes, all d
whom were recently elected to
serve three years on the board.
HoTdover difectors include-Ed
Burden, Ralph Bruner, Carl
Hartman and John Horton, a 11
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personnel with monthly reim-
bursement by the Foundation.
SW Bell Mailing
New Directories-
Southwestern Bell Telephone
Company on Feb. 16 will begin
distributing new telephone direc-
tories to all Mineola customers,
says manager Dan Adams. '
Adams said the new directory,
as might be expected, is "a
Regian, Woods
Earn ETLetters
COMMERCE — Mark Regian
and Jackie Woods of Mineola are
among the 39 East Texas State
University Football lettermen, re-
cently announced by Coach'Er-
nest Hawkins.
Regian, a junior place kicker,
earned his third letter by kicking
28 extra points-on 31 attempts
and two field goals on-12
attempts. He wesETSU’s second
leading scorer with 34 points.
Woods, 6’2", 215-pound line -
backer, earned his first letter as
a freshman.
The Lions were 5-6 last year
and tied for fifth in the 10-rnem-
ber Lone Star Conference.
ETSU’s list of lettermen in
- eludes st* seniors, 11 juniors, 13
sophomores and nine freshmen.
virtually all the numbers in
Mineola are listed, and we
hope everyone will use it’to avoid
wrong numbers."
The cover on this years
Mineola directory is an attrac-
tive four-color photograph at a
lake near twilight, with- auburn
and purple hues interrupted by
a silhouetted couple enjoying a
typically Texas sunset. ’ ,
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I The home of Mr. and Mrs.
I * W. -T. Harrison, on Circle Drive,
p was"isingled out last week for
■ February - "Yard of the Month"
S ’ honors by/the Fannie Marchman
I “Garden.dub of Mineola.
The Harrisons’ home was chos-
. on by the team of judges whose
. members represent-eivie-clubs
of Mineola, and whose chairman [
... was a member of the sponsoring
Fannie Mrchmfan Garden Club,
only after the committee had
made many tours around the city |
to screen possible prize winners. )
Anoth East Mineola home,
- the residence-, of Mr. and Mrs.,
J. E. Salmons on . Peachtree ,
Drive, was given an Honorable
Mention by the judging commit-
tee for February.
The decorative sign proclaim-
ing it as Yard of the Month has
been erected in the front lawn
Of the Harrison home, to remain
until the March selection is made
by another committee.
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