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Steel talks
continuing
Union and company negotiating
teams were continuing to meet this
week in Tyler to try and settle
the two months old strike at Lone
Star Steel Company.
The talks were being held this
week in Tyler but both sides were
withholding information regarding
the progress of the talks.
Gene Zimmerman, commission-
er of the Federal Mediation and
Conciliation Service, called for the
first meeting last Tuesday since
the strike started on Oct. 15.
The first session was held in
Dallas but other sessions have been
held in Tyler Wednesday of last
week and resumed Monday and
Tuesday of this week.
Zimmerman said progress in the
talks made a continuation worth-
while and both sides were bar-
gaining in good faith.
TRADES DAY DEC. 28-29
AT ROCKY BRANCH
The Morris county trades day
at Rocky Branch will be held
Dec. 28-29.
The trades days are being held
the last Saturday and Sunday of
each month during 'hs winter sea-
son.
monitoring
n ^ main
street
It's really too bad that Zip Code
doesn't work.
Sometimes it would be a bless-
ing.
The Internal Revenue Service of-
fice at Dallas sends out a consid-
erable amount of mail and faith-
fully uses the Zip Code.
Most of their mail is highly
unwelcome.
Some of the mail they send to
Naples has Zip Code 75457 on it.
The right number, you know, is
75568.
Maybe it was the Christmas
spirit.
The First Baptist Church of Na-
ples sent out their little blue
packages of offering envelopes to
members last week.
Those peep windows in the post
office boxes showed the packages
and it looked like another flood
of samples.
Some patrons who didn't get one
of the packages in their boxes felt
that they had been shorted.
One faithful church-going lady
approached Bill Kennedy, a clerk
at the office, and demanded her
"sample".
Kennedy offered to give her one
but explained that her member-
ship in the Methodist Church might
dampen her enthusiasm for giving
to the Baptists.
She declined the offer, feeling
in that case it would have been
better to receive than to give.
Santa Claus is for the kids and
any pleasure an adult should find
at Christmas time is the joy of
youngsters on their special holi-
day.
With that in mind, we prepared
the Christmas greetings in this
issue of The Monitor around draw-
ings by first graders at Pewitt
School.
We think you'll find their art
interesting and their thoughts re-
freshingly different.
Here s hoping you find some
little pleasure and an inner warmth
by seeing Christmas again through
the eyes of the young.
May this be your happiest holiday
season yet, and best wishes from
all of us to all of you for a most
prosperous and happy new year.
ONTOR
Volume 83
Naples, Texas
82 years old and NEW
Thursday, December 19, 1968
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Hello, Santa
Santa Claus came to Naples last
Saturday and a large crowd of his
young friends met him to place
their orders for Christmas morn-
ing. At the upper left, Kelley Hicks
visits with the old gentleman, Tina
Tenbrook gets to know him in the
center photo, and Milton Morris
waits for the parade to go by at
the right atop the shoulders of his
father, Jerry Morris. Below, Alic-
ia Watson gets in a word with
Number 21
Morris county exceeds UF quota
The Morris County I nited Fund
drive for 1968 has exceeded its
goal.
The final total of gifts when all
pledges are in will be about $17,-
300. The quota for the county for the
year was $16,000.
Nativity scene
The youth of the First United
Methodist Church of Naples will
present a live nativity scene on
the church lawn Sunday from 5 until
7 p.m.
At 7 p.m., the junior choir will
present a Christmas cantata.
The nativity scene will be re-
peated from 7 until 9p.m. Monday.
MYF members invited the pub-
lic to drive by and view the scene.
Pledges received from Day and
Zimmermann, Inc., and Red River
Army Depot living in Morris county
will give the drive the push to
NO MONITOR
NEXT WEEK
This will be your last copy ot
The Monitor this year.
The paper will not be published
next week and the office will be
closed most of that time for a
staff vacation.
The next edition of the paper
to be printed will be for Thursday,
Jan. 2.
The staff will return to work
Thursday, Dec. 26, to begin work
on that issue.
Car burns after wreck
A collision here last Thursday
morning which caused a car to
catch fire was a family affair.
A car pulling a trailer was
struck from the rear by a pickup
truck after the driver of the truck
apparently fell asleep.
Driving the car was Mrs. Betty
L. Prichard, 36, of New Boston.
Passengers with her were Frank-
lin H. Prichard and Gloria Wedge-
worth.
The driver of the pickup was
Richard A. Strachan, 53, of Tex-
arkana. Roger Dale Prichard was
a passenger in the pickup.
Both vehicles were traveling
east and moving the Prichard fam-
ily's furniture from Mesquite to
New Boston.
They were three miles northeast
of Naples about 4:45 a.m. Thurs-
day when the pickup rammed the
rear of the trailer. The trailer
tongue came loose and punctured
the car's gasoline tank.
The car caught fire and the car
and trailer were burned. The Na-
ples Volunteer Fire Department
was called to put out the fire.
Highway Patrolman Rickey Sil-
vertooth of Daingerfield investi-
gated. He filed charges on Stra-
chan for failure to control speed.
Mrs. Prichard also was charged
for having no driver's license.
The Hanner ambulance from Na-
ples was called and it took Strachan
to the David Granberry Hospital
in Naples.
An examination showed him not
to be seriously injured.
exceed the quota. Th -se pledges
will be paid in full over the next
several months.
Omaha, Naples, Lone Star and
Daingerfield all will meet or ex-
ceed their goals when all of the
pledges are completed.
The UF board of directors ex-
tended congratulations and appre-
ciation to all volunteers who had
a part in the campaign.
As a result of their efforts, all
ten participating charity and youth
agencies will receive the full
amount of their requests.
Cantata Sunday
at Naples church
A cantata, "Glory to God", will
be presented at 7 p.m. Sunday,
Dec. 22, at the First Baptist Church
of Naples by the combined choir
of 40 members.
The cantata was written and
composed by J. T. Adams of Sul-
phur Springs. It will be conducted
during the presentation here by
Douce Lee, music and youth di-
rector of the church.
Solo parts will be by Nan Pearce,
Jim Pearce and James Welch. A
duet will be presented by Dr. and
Mrs. J. L. Collier.
BAND TO GIVE CONCERTS
Two Christmas music concerts
will be presented by the sixth
grade band and the Pewitt High
School Friday at the school.
Director John Bird said the
sixth grade band will begin a
Christmas program at 9 a.m. and
the high school concert will start
at 1 p.m.
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IH 30 contract revised
The Texas Highway Commission
has revised an Interstate 30 con-
struction project in Morris and
Titus counties.
Originally, construction of grad-
ing and structures in Morris county
was authorized from the Titus
county line northeastward to US
Highway 259, a distance of ap-
Omaha Baptists
plan cantata
The adult choir of the Omaha
First Baptist Church will present
their annual Christmas cantata at
7 p.m. Sunday at the church.
The program is entitled "Night
of Miracles" by John Teterson.
Parts and specials will be sung
by Mrs. C. W. Forsyth, Roger
Hammonds, William A. King, Mrs.
Louis Boozer and the Rev. Bill
Beckham.
Bobby Brock will be the nar-
rator, Mrs. Gerald Ellis the or-
ganist, Deborah Hall the pianist,
and Mrs. Johnny Thompson the di-
rector.
Youth of the church will form
a nativity scene while the choir
sings The Christmas Story.
An invitation is extended bv the
church to all to attend.
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proximately five miles.
The revision provides for con-
struction from 0.7 mile west of
the Titus-Morris county line to
1.4 miles northeast of the county
line, a total distance of apporxi-
mately 2.1 miles.
Also provided for is the con-
struction of right of way fencing
from 1.4 miles northeast of the
Titus-Morris county line north-
eastward to US 259, a distance
of approximately 3.3 miles.
The estimated cost of the re-
vised project is $2.5 million.
Ex-pastor moving (
to Sulphur Springs
The Rev. Morris Hill, former
pastor of the First Baptist Church
of Naples, has resigned as pastor
of the Westside Baptist Church at
Atlanta and is moving to Sulphur
Spring?.
He is entering fulltime even-
gelistic and interim-pastor work.
He and Mrs. Hill will move late
this month to 514 Oak Avenue in
Sulphur Springs.
Mr. Hill has been pastor of the
Westside Baptist Church for the
past three years and three months.
Before that, he was pastor of the
church at Mt. Enterprise for three
years.
He went to Mt. Enterprise after
serving the First Baptist Church
here for almost 12 years.
His son, the Rev. Maurice Hill,
is pastor of the First Baptist
Church at Royse City.
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