The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 9, 1979 Page: 1 of 14
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Mineola, Texas 75773, Wednesday, May 9, 1979
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Fourteen Pages
104th Year, No. 10
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Threatening skies, rain dampen
early enthusiasm of May Days
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Reunion date set
Dowell elected president as
Alba-Golden board reorganizes
Center’s board
seeking manager
Auction to raise funds
for center at New Hope
Flynt's jewelry
r-remn-
The Mineola Volunteer Fire
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downtown
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school and church, and laundry, sympathetic understanding of
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anxious
exchange programs when there
6-month periods, under the is no cost involved.
broadening the horizons of the
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Humble Baptist
to host singing
Saturday night *
Kindergarten
pre-registration
at Alba-Golden
Reorganization of the board
and election of officers was the
first item of business when the
Alba-Golden school board met
in regular session Thursday
A 15 year reunion of the
Mineola High School Class of
International Fellowship, Inc.
seeks homes for visiting students
Over twenty-five hundred
foreign students will come to
the U.S. in September for the
"79-80 school year, or for 3 or
John's Western Store, Wolfe
Drug. and Waldon’s Western
Wear, among the store entries.
Threatening skies Friday
And it is from their ranks that
the foreign leaders of tomorrow
manager for the Mineola Civic
Center who relinquished the
post voluntarily on the first of
this year, is back on the job on a
temporary basis while the Civic
Center board proceeds with in-
terviews designed to find a
successor to Vernon's original
successor.
Everett Smith, who had re-
turned to his former home town
after early retirement from
Southwestern Bell. had sue-
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fee.
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Plans for a giant community
auction to raise funds to build a
community center have been
announced by residents of the
New Hope community.
Joe Haggerton said that the
auction will be held at the Wood
proficiency. Bobby Madsen,
right, took first place in soil and
water management proficiency.
Both will compete in the state
contests to be held in Austin
the first week in June.
Mineola since 1876. Employees
are Mesdames Evie Ponder,
Mary Nelson and Doris Mose
ley.
Inwood Drive, Mineola, phone “otherwise you could learn a
569-3085. vety expensive lesson!”
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Power Company office on West
Broad Street, downtown, and
at the City Hall.
Last week, Mrs. Haneline
had said to potential renters for
any local housing units, “Your
answers to the rental housing
night, April26. —
•Johnnie R. Dowell
Bost, 10114 Laingtree, Dallas, company! Be extremely careful
Texas 75243, -phone 214 about doing business with these
235-6916; or Gloria Moody, 103 types of firms," Pegues warns.
grand opening for the new
store is planned in the near
future, but people are welcome
now to come visit and inspect
the new quarters.
Flynt's has been continuously
Exchange program, in a small ' *
way, may further the cause of
clinic set
by Firemen in quarters
children of the neighborhood agrees to provide a bed, three international relations depends
go. High schools, as a rule, are meals daily, transportation to more and more on one nation's
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Monday morning, Flynt's was
open as’usual for business, but
it will take several days before
the big moving job is complete.
Flynt's new home has been
under construction for almost a
year. The completely re model-
ed building, next door to the
Chamber of Commerce, featur
es all new fixtures and cabinets.
Much new stock has been
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WIN AREA FIRSTS-Two
Mineola FFAers won first place
in Area VI FFA competition
held this past week in Mt.
Pleasant. Greg Carr, left, won
first in fruit and vegetable
dergarten will be held Thurs 1964 is being planned for June
day May 17, from 1:30 to 3:00 9. The event will feature an
morning kept attendance below
expectations for the Wood
County Senior Cjtizens Festival
at Meredith Hall (the first time
the event had been held outside
Quitman, where Arnold Holley
Hall had been filled to capacity •
the past few years). But the .
turnout was considered good by
the Wood County Extension
Homemakers Council and the
County Committee on Aging,
the event's co-sponsors.
In-store- contests at partici-
pating stores were received
well on Friday, and the first
• Disco Dance and Contest in
Please turn to Page 6
center to be constructed on the
site of the old New Hope school.
In conjunction with the
auction, a stew will be served at
noon.'
Church of Alba to use the
school cafeteria on July 24 for a
churchwide social; motion by
Hooton. second by McKenzie.
•Accepted the resignation of
custodian Ken Monk as of April
18; McKenzie, Jim Certain.
•Employed the following for
cafeteria work: head cook
Gerda Owens, assistant head,
cook Nadine Phillips, Bobbie
Dees, Margie Gaby, and two
HECE students and Jacqueline
Fowler for half-day subject to
assignment by the adminis-
tration with salaries' as in
1978-79; Hooton, Thompson.
•Rehired all bus drivers at
guests, and also canceled ap- (Mrs. Carl) Meckstroth. She fashioned costume contest, held
Vernon Odom, the
According to a spokesman for for rental housing units in the
the Mineola Civic Center board community!"
of directors, i is anticipated She also pointed out that
that a new manager will be completion of a survey form
hired in time to relieve Odom of does NOT in any way obligate
his temporary post by the the respondent to the Housing
middle of June. . . Authority. s
sponsorship of International
Fellowship, Inc. This non-profit , The students range, from 14
organization is now in its 27th to 18. They are recommended
Flynt’s Jewelry started ordered for the new and larger
Department will hold its annual moving last Saturday night into store.
dog vaccination day Saturday, the firm's new store building Contractors for the big L
May 13. just west of the old location. > re modeling job' were Kenny f
Employees and owners and Sonny Karch and Jim /L
"7 ' hi* Stidham.
Owners Meyer and Klepien •
to participate
first n knee had forced him to submit survey will aid the Housing
" ' .....his resignation to the Center Authority in determining what
board earlier this spring, and" type and size of project would
Odom formally replaced Smith be most practical for Mineola."
on Tuesday, May 1. Eloise This week, the Authority
Cunningham, the assistant chairman commented, “If there
manager, was credited with isn’t a reasonable response to
helping make a smooth tran- the request for completion of
sition in the managerial change, the survey forms, we can only
conclude that there is no need
business in
________- College and is a graduate of the
12, starting at 7 p.m. manager, in addition to his Dallas Institute of Mortuary Dallas Institute of Mortuary homes, says Edna Patrick, . .
"The' Golden Boys" from other duties, by owner J. M. Science. He has been a Science. He has been with the Area I.F.I representative. They own money for personal Box .1212, Sedona, Arizona
Golden, along with several Cathey. At the right is John T. part-time employe of the local J. H. English Funeral Home want to live with U.S. families expenses and are insured 86336, or call Edna Patrick at
other well known singers, will Cathey, who will join the funeral home for the past 18 since 1976. for 3,6 or 9 months, and attend against accidents, illness, pres Alba Golden High School. „
be present., funeral home on a full-time " the high school to which the criptions. The receiving family “In an era when peaceful international peace.
Beware of
‘flim-flam’
repairmen
The Beautification Commit-
tee of the Mineola Chamber of
Commerce, through chairman
Ben Pegues, has issued a timely
warning to all area residents.
“With the damaging winds
_________. ___ and rain of the past week,"
£g. (Igg 4 94 Pegues notes, "Mineola will be
I U f UU33 U) UH hit by out-of-town construction
• ar ’ and remodeling people with
Anyone knowing the ad paint up, fix up proposals.
dresses of any of the above is “CAUTION: do not sign a
asked to contact Sharon Moody contract- unless you know the
Maybe the Retail Committee the first Mineola May Days of the First National Bank of Honorable mention in the
of the Mineola Chamber of Style Show at Meredith Hall, Mineola, was successful in iden- dress contest went to Ruth Orr
Commerce should have had' Thursday night, where Sandi tifying Mrs. Meckstroth and at Culp's, Ruth Dillard of The
Barbra Streisand around last Miller (Miss Texas) and Gina won $15 in gift certificates for Mineola Monitor, Pauline Fow-
week to sing “Don't Rain on My Pounders (-Miss Mineola Lake her guess'. ler at Buy-Rite, and Peck
Parade." The threat of rain, Country) DID appear. Sidewalk sales were held Collins at Collins, among the
which held off until a five-inch The threatening weather in during the day by most of the ladies; Don Lay, at Gorman's
downpour with high winds late the early afternoon also forced stores which normally stage the Jewelers, among the men; and
in the afternoon and early the planned Historical Tour to event as part of May Days, but
night, canceled the May Days be taken in cars instead of on most merchants kept a wary
Parade which was to have been foot, and cut down participation ye toward the skies and kept
an afternoon highlight last considerably. their racks of merchandise
Thursday. It also canceled the One thing that went right on under protective awnings or
open house planned at Moss Thursday was the identification storefronts.
Ford, where Miss Texas and of the "Mystery Shopper," who Employees at Collins won the
Miss Mineola Lake Country turned out to be Chamber of Chamber's prize as "Best
were to have been special Commerce secretary Ruth Dressed Store” in the old
pearances for the two at was identified — from some all day Thursday. Corda Woods
Harder-Jones Chevrolet Olds in fairly skimpy clues, we might at Collins was deemed to be the-
the "after the parade" hours. add — shortly after noon of the best dressed woman, and Jim
And the torrents of rain kept second day of the contest. Loyd at Wolfe Drug the best
all but a handful from attending Sharon Flanagan, an employe dressed man, in the contest.
Housing
survey
lagging
Initial response to an appeal
by Mineola Housing Authority
chairman Helen Haneline for
rental housing survey sheets
has been poor, says Mrs.
Haneline.
A slightly reduced survey
form was printed in last week's
issue of The Monitor, and the
printed forms are available at
the Southwestern Electric
Students may share a room. another's culture and problems,
. For each foreign student such programs can be valu-
attending a U. S. high school, able," says Mrs. Patrick. “The
that school is eligible to send a foreign 'student who gets a
student abroad. The scholar- chance to sample family and
year and is the largest by their own schools, screened ship fee includes transportation school life here will return-to
exchange student program in by the foreign chapter of I.F.I.,, both ways, room, board, his own country with a better
Latin America. I.F.I. also and, for the most part, speak tuition, insurance, and the understanding of our nation,
maintains chapters in Europe English. They come not as services of the I.F.I. chapter in
PROMOTIONS - George K. basis after graduation from months. Crenshaw, a 1975 and in the Orient. guests but as members of the the foreign country.
Regular monthly singing will Crenshaw, left, funeral director Alba-Golden High School later graduate of Mineola High' These youngsters, scheduled family, sharing in the tasks; Families willing to host a
be held at the Humble Baptist in charge at the J. H. English this month. In September, the School, attended Tyler Junior to arrive between September 1 and the family hosting them student may call collect to the may come. So in addition to
Church Saturday evening, May Funeral Home, has been named younger Cathey will attend the College and is a graduate of the and January 1, will need host may claim them for income tex Western Office of International broadening the horizons of the
- .......... ~ J " ’ homes, < Edna Patrick purposes'. Students have their Fellowship, Inc., Post Office visiting student and the people
' ------*' " ‘ • ■ he or she meets, the Student
current salary; McKenzie, Cer- Paula and Brent Billingslea; p.m. in the Elementary School afternoon picnic and dinner at
tain. Hooton, McKenzie. Cafetorium. the Mineola Civic Center and
•Approved .payment of a ^Approved payment of $35 to To register a student, Meredith Hall.
bonus of one month’s salary at each of the election officials; parents must have a copy of the Those arranging for the
the end of the school year to Certain. Galyean. child’s original birth, certificate reunion say addresses are
each bus driver who has served •Approved the calendar for and a complete immunization needed for classmates Billie
wsi for-the entire yearGalyeany —the—1979-80-schoofyear, as- record. — 1) " Jean "Smith Graham, Carolyn
elected president; Don McKen- McKenzie. ’ ' presented by the administra All enrolling students must Johnson. Mary Nell Calicott,
zie, vice president; and Ronnie •Postponed hiring custodians tion; Hooton, Galyean. have had a DPT and polio Gurtis Null, Phyllis Wolfe, Ann
Galyean, secretary. McKenzie until'the board ,-ehecks into •Approved payment- of gen booster since their fourth Gray, Glenda Mayo and Jo Ann
had served as president for the contract work for custodial eral operating expenses;' Me birthday. Brown.
past year; he and fellow mainenance service; McKen- Kenzie. Certain.
SS wruterceamed £ 2": In-
the April board election, and surance with Jim Strange and ementary.chidrenheanowed
। . , A • . » . 2R, to continue using the multi-
last years vice president. Associates, Inc at $571 per purpose room for gross-motor
Barney Hooon, administered year; Galyean. Hooton. skills, and that all cheerleaders
the oath of office to both eSet the student fee for ... "raticn „ • h.
Thompson and McKenzie. Driver Training at $42.50; Me gjmPGtctnotinutcidssrroin. His
All board members were Kenzie, Certain. mrrinn o:11 , -iu. «
present for the meeting, held in .Renewed contract with Don d d brought to
the board room at the Alba Hightower as attendance of- J™ an" waS no bouh 10
Golden School Also present ficer for 1979-80 under same ‘ A citizen who had requested
were Supt. Aubrey Humphrey, conditions as for.1978-0; a meeting with the board was •
Wright prineipalsLKundhiggn H.Apprcvrdinonations of $50 unablet"qcome because of auction win be held at the Wood Haggerton said that area
hot ham and five visitors to Gehe Murdock and $100 to iliness in the family County Livestock Commission merchants will be asked for
After outgoing (sitont Me- City of Alba for use of the fire The board agreed that the Barn an the last Saturday in donations for the auction along needed Odom as manager on
w 8° 8P .■ A , Io S o h 4e school coul purchase ribbons May. All proceeds will go to a with articles which residents of January 1, 1979. But a
Krnriesallonkmmestngtte scHci nhen burning At the molbetsawarded " J henEle building (undjor . community the communty will contribute, recurring problem with . bad
opening prayer. Minutes of the grass; Thompson, Hooton, moncession standdtSopen . '
last regular meeting and the- •Approved installation of that day • •
called meeting were approved two fire hydrants on school It was recommended that a- V accination
asread. ‘ / . Property; Hooton, Galyean , plaque commemorating
In connection with board .Approved purchase of five those students who have died
action at the March meeting, it new Singer sewing machines, • be purchased and placed at the
was reported that the Yantis style «482, for the Home- school. The plaque would be
ISD had approved cooperation making Department, at a cost .such that names can be added
with the Alba-Golden ISD in of $1,691.25; Thompson, Cer- in th. future if needed
hiring John Abbott ass part-time tain The board also"agreed that
•counselor. He will be at7 •Dire 10,0 in Jbeginning the school tractor should be
Alba Golden school three days with the 1979-80 school year, added to the liability insurance
a week, and at Yantis two, days each department set up book- coverage .
a week, beginning with the keeping records for all monies 8 ’ . ' • Vaccinations for dogs and Employees and owners
-1979-80 school year, brought into or spent in that Board meetings will begin at other pets will be at the Fire -George Klepien and John
After the board was re- department, with records for 7:30 p.m. until further notice. Station starting at 3:00 p.m. Meyer workecT late Saturday.
organized, the following action audit purposes and to be set up .Adjournment of the April and continuing until all are night and Sunday afternoon. By * have announced that a gala
items were disposed of on votes under the guidance and ap- board meeting came on motion vaccinated. •
of 6-0 (the board president not proval of the administration; by Hooton, seconded by Charge will be $3 per head,
voting), with the names of Hooton, McKenzie. Galyean. Veterinarian Dr. Rob Pruitt
trustees making and seconding •Accepted resignations of —Sue Reed, reporter will administer the vaccine,
the motions listed at the end of
each action item:
•Allowed the First Baptist
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FOR TORNADO VICTIMS — cheek was sent to the Salvation. First United Methodist Church
Barbara Murdock (right], as- Army’s disaster relief center in of Mineola. At the left in this
sistant cashier at the First Wichita Falls. The money was Monitor photo is Sheriff’s
National Bank of Mineola, contributed by Wood County Deputy Ed Hunt, who was
presents to Wood - County residents to a special fund es- instrumental in organizing local
Sheriff Bill Edd Jones (center) tablished at the Mineola bank relief activities to aid the
a cashier’s check for $826. The by the Fellowship Class of the Wichita Falls tornado victims.
Pre-registration for the
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Peacock, Dan. The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 9, 1979, newspaper, May 9, 1979; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1547847/m1/1/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.