The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 17, 1969 Page: 1 of 8
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Brahmas bid for regional title Page 7
Union says, 'NO!'
Miss Holiday in Dixie
Miss Naples in contest
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Miss Naples of 1968, Suzan Gail
Womack, will be among some 30
Ark-La-Tex beauty queens com-
peting for this year's coveted title
of Queen Holiday in Dixie.
The annual pageant, scheduled
for 8 p.m. Thursday, April 24, at
Shreveport's Municipal Auditori-
um, is just one of more than 50
events lined up for the 21st annual
edition of Holiday in Dixie, April
18-27.
Suzan is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Womack of Naples.
She is sponsored in the Louisiana
pageant by the Naples Chamber of
Commerce.
The 17-year old brown-eyed,
brown-haired beauty is five feet,
six inches tall and weighs 120
pounds.
She will sing "My Favorite
Things," introduced by a reading,
during the talent division of the
pageant.
Suzan is a senior at Pewitt
High School where she is head
majorette and a member of the
stage band, National Honor
Society, National Thespians and
the Spanish Club.
She also holds the titles of
Atlanta Forest Festival Queen and
Texas Forest Queen.
She was named the Texas Forest
Festival Queen in September of
1968 and was crowned Miss Naples
only a month earlier.
She is a member of the First
Baptist Church of Naples.
The new queen will receive a
monitoring
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Some people have outstanding
qualities that make them easy
for others to remember them by.
Some pick them up as they go
through life, others are born with
them.
Bobby Minton stopped in for a
short visit with his father, Robert,
last week in a Shreveport armature
shop.
Bobby walked up behind his
father. Without even a glance be-
hind or waiting for his son to say
hello, Robert said, "hello son".
Bobby thought his dad was a
mind-reader or had eyes in the
back of his head until his father
explained.
The younger of the two Mintons
wears a size 14 AA shoe or a size
15 AA boot. All his dad had to do
was look down at the floor to recog-
nize his son.
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Mrs. Morris Craig purchased
a new one of those fancy ice making
refrigerators from Thompson's
Furniture Store a couple of weeks
ago.
The new appliance was installed
by Lloyd Jolly and he said that
the ice maker would be slow to
start but would get faster as it
went through a short breaking-in
period.
A check on the ice maker the
next morning showed only five or
six cubes of ice. That afternoon
only a few more had shown up.
Jolly said probably all that was
needed was to turn up the dial on
the temperature so the ice would
freeze faster.
That was tried too withnotmuch
more success.
A closer check on the installation
proved an old theory wrong.
Hot water, in this case, doesn't
freeze faster than cold water.
He had hooked up a water line
to the ice maker from the hot
water line under Mrs. Craig's
sink.
number of valuable prizes, in-
cluding a $1,000 scholarship to
Centenary College, and will rep-
resent Holiday in Dixie throughout
1969 and during the summer
months will represent the festival
in other beauty pageants.
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Miss Suzan v\omack
Carver first grade
to register May 2
Carver school first graders this
fall will register at the school
F riday, May 2.
Children who will be six years
old on or before Sept. 1, 1969
and a parent are to be at the school
cafeteria that day.
Registration will begin at 8:30
that morning and close at 4 p.m.
The parent should take the im-
munization record and birth certi-
ficate for the child to the meeting.
Brahma baseball
to be formed
A new summer baseball league
is being formed for the East Texas
area for boys that are between the
ages of 15 and 18.
A team for boys in the Naples
and Omaha area is being formed
and will enter the league with
teams from Atlanta, Linden, Dain-
gerfield, Hughes Springs, Avinger
and Sulphur Springs.
The team here will play under
the school name of Pewitt Brahmas
and is having workouts on the
old school baseball field.
Kerry Hicks is coaching the team
but a manager has not been named
for the team.
Boys that signed in for the first
practice Monday of this week were
Johnnv Chaddick, Jerry Garrett,
Rick Giles, Gary Godwin, Darrell
Green, Danny Hammonds, Leslie
Huddleston, Larry Johnson, Jack
McCoy, Bill Merriman, Connie
Mills,' John Pearce, Mike Penny,
Pat Penny, Scotty Thomas, Johnny
Worn mack and Jimmy Wyninegar.
Members of the United Steel
Workers at Lone Star Steel Com-
pany turned down, virtually unani-
mously, an offer of a new contract
by the company Saturday night.
The vote, taken at a meeting in
the union hall, came on a voice
ballot. A union member said there
was virtually no opposition to the
turndown as the members stood
pat against the company offer.
The offer, first received in the
six-month-old strike that has been
brought to a vote, was described
by union officials as "an absolute
insult" to the working men.
Both the union's executive board
and the union negotiating commit-
tee recommended the turndown
after explaining terms of the con-
tract offer to the meeting of the
strikers.
The vote on what the company
called "a final revised offer"
came 179 days after the violence-
ridden strike began.
After the contract was turned
down, H. S. "Hank" Brown, presi-
dent of the Texas Council of the
AFL-CIO, said he "pledged to
mobilize the entire state labor
movement behind the steel
workers' strike."
C. L. Wimberly, president of the
local, told the 2,300 members that
packed into the union hall and
spilled out into an adjoining parking
lot that the company's offer was
"unworkable and disgraceful."
ONITOR
Serving North Morris County and its neighbors
Volume S3 Naples, Texas
Thursday, April 17, 1969
Number 37
County produces yams, peanuts
County rabies clinic this week
A county wide five-day rabies
clinic will be sponsored by the
Morris County Program Building
Committee starting Tuesday of
next week.
The program will last through
Saturday and cover seven stops.
Mrs. Katherine Monden from
Daingerfield will be in charge of
the clinics.
Vaccinations for each pet will
cost S2.00 and the fee includes
certificate and vaccination tag.
The first stop will be in Jenk-
ins at the courthouse from 1 p.m.
until 1:30 p.m. From 2 until 5 that
afternoon the clinic will be held
at the Monden Veterinary Clinic
in Daingerfield.
On Wednesday afternoon at 2:30
vaccinations will be given at the
Rocky Branch Community Center
until 3 p.m. Then at 3:15 the clinic
opens in Omaha across the highway
from Boozer's Grocery Store for
pets there until 4:30.
Only one stop will be made on
Thursday and Friday. The one on
Thursday will be at the Fire
Department in Lone Star from
3 u .ril 5 p.m. Then on Friday it
moves to Naples at the fire station
for two hours beginning at 3 p.m.
Saturday will be the last day
for pet owners to have pets
vaccinated by the clinic. The
program will be located at the
Monden Clinic again on that day
from 8 a.m. until 10:30 a.m.
Morris county's row cropfarm-
ing has shifted now to sweet po-
tatoes and peanuts.
The value of those two crops
Marietta giri attends
Angel Flight Conclave
Miss Amy L. Clarkson, daughter
of Mrs. Anna M. Clarson of Rt. 1,
Marietta, attended the 14th Na-
tional Angel Flight Conclave just
concluded in New Orleans.
Miss Clarkson, a student at
East Texas State University, rep-
resented her Angel Flight unit
at the conclave. The Angel Flight
is a national women's organization
which supports objectives of the
Arnold Air Society, an honorary
association for Air Force Reserve
Officers Training Corps cadets.
The New Orleans conclave was
held in conjunction with the 21st
annual meeting of the society
named for the late General of
the Air Force Henry "Hap"
Arnold.
Miss Clarkson is a member of
the class of 1971 and is working
toward her B. S. degree in math-
ematics.
REFRESHMENTS FOR FIRST GRADERS
Pewitt elementary school will have forty-six new
first graders next year. That's how many showed
up Tuesday of this week for pre-registration at
the school. Mrs. Lola Hamilton is fixing a tray of
refreshments for Brenda Brown in the left photo
and Mrs. Janetta Brown helps Lisa Richardson.
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accounted for about 75 per cent of
the total farm income for the county
in 1967.
Sweet potatoes sales brought in
$247,500 and the peanuts brought
$158,112 during the year.
The total farm income from row
crops was $572,365.
The trend during the last gen|
eration is graphically shown in the
income from cotton. Lint brought
in $593 and cottonseed $110 last
year.
Grain sorghum sold for $20,000,
corn $12,000, hay $50,000, fruits
and vegetables $32,000, timber
products $40,000, watermelons
$7,500, and green house tomatoes
$4,550.
Livestock brought in more than
three times as much money as
all of the row crops combined.
Sales of livestock and livestock
products amounted to $1,912,000.
Cattle for beef sold for $520,-
000, calves for $997,500, } ,gs for
$90,000, pigs for $90,000, broil-
ers $75,000, old birds $12,500,
eggs $180,000, replacement pul-
lets $32,000, and quail $5,000.
The row crop income increased
Charles Moore
in fraternity
Charles Thomas Moore, the son
of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Moore
of Omaha, will be initiated into
Phi Eta Sigma, an honorary scho-
lastic fraternity, April 22 at the
University of Texas in Austin.
The fraternity requires that a
student make grade averages of
at least 3.5 points in a minimum
of twelve hours of work during
their first semester of University
attendance.
Moore, a 1968 graduate of Pewitt
High School, achieved a 3.824 grade
point average in seventeen hours
of credit in his first semester.
He is majoring in biology.
by $91,087 from the year before
and livestock income was $209,-
500 more than in 1966.
The federal government also was
a source of income for farmers
with total payments during 1967
amounting to $102,923, a drop of
$3,552 from the year before.
The ACP program brought in
$58,812, soil bank $18,108, feed
grain program $18,678, cotton
$879, honey loans $2,894, and the
cropland adjustment program $3,-
552.
During 1967, the county had
13 acres in cotton, 500 in grain
sorghum, 200 in corn, 1,000 in
hay, 732 in peanuts, 400 in fruits
and vegetables, 4,000 in timber
and 200 in sweet potatoes.
Contracts awarded
for highway work
A contract for seal coat work
on 101 miles of highways in the
Atlanta district has been awarded
by the Texas Highway Commis-
sion.
Chester R. Martin of Hender-
son was awarded the contract with
a low bid of $464,816.50.
Included in the work are these
area projects:
State Highway 8 from Maud to
the Cass county line, a distance
of 5.1 miles, in Bowie county.
State Highway 8 from the Bowie
county line to State Highway 77 in
Douglassville, a distance of 4.7
miles, in Cass county.
US Highway 259 from the Sulphur
River to FM Road 44, a distance of
12.3, in Bowie county.
State Highway 77 from the Cass
county line to near Naples, a dis-
tance of 0.7 miles, in Morris
county.
State Highway 77, from Morris
county line to near FM Road 1766,
a distance of 4.0 miles, in Cass
countv.
Omaha man killed in car accident
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Game of names at Redbud Retreat
We hope this doesn't confuse you
too much but the name of the Nap-
les Reservoir has been changed.
It has been changed to "Marvin
C. Nichols Dam and Reservoir".
In case you are already confused,
the dam is the one proposed on the
Sulphur River north of Naples and
might be built within the lifetime
of some of the younger people in
the community.
The name change was made in
House Concurrent Resolution 54 in
the state legislature.
Now is that clear?
Well, Mr. Nichols is a Ft. Worth
engineer.
That should clear it up.
Redbud Retreat, the home for
senior citizens in Naples is a
castle during the spring for some
of the residents there.
The names of some of the resi-
dents could be used to relate a
fairy tale so they say.
A castle surrounded by a spring
setting is a beautiful place to be.
Take a castle of olden days
with two kings to be the head
of the kingdom with one knight
to help.
A towering, beautiful hill near
the courtyard covered with berries
and a brook running through the
countryside fed by the waterfalls
adds the artist's touch to the scene.
The cook is the only other per-
son living in the castle and she
gets her flour for the royal kitchen
from the mills located on the
brook near the falls.
The kings and the knight watch
over the vault where their only
valuables are kept.
The chest is a velvet lined
box inside the vault and it con-
tains three pearls and one
diamond.
The setting is one that could
be portrayed by a broadway cast
of players in a theatre, or as a
scene, could be painted by a famous
artist. But that isn't the case in
this familiar story book kind of
tale.
Some of the senior citizens at
the Redbud Retreat rest home in
Naples make up the cast for this
fairy tale.
The kings are Gus King and
his wife Tina. Mrs. Pearl Knight
makes up the rest of the royal
family and Mrs. Georgia Cook
is the head of the kitchen.
Mrs. Knight is also one of the
pearls along with Mrs. Fearl
McCollum and Mrs. Pearl Brook
who is the brook near the falls
that is played in the story by Mrs.
J. Nl. Falls.
The two mills are Mr. and Mrs.
Oscar Mills and the hill is Mrs.
Mattie Hill.
The berries are Mr. and Mrs.
I'at Berry and the diamond is
a nick-name that has been with
Dowman Wallace ever since he
can remember.
Richard Wayne Boozer, 19-vear
old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Boo-
zer of Omaha, was killed in an
automobile accident early last
Wednesday morning near Tenaha,
T exas.
He was a member of the Baptist
Church at Omaha and a 1968 mem-
ber of the Paul H. Pewitt High
School graduating class. He was
active in school affairs and was
named F.H.A. Beau his senior
year.
After graduation he joined the
Merchant Marines and was
stationed at Port Arthur with the
Atlantic Oil Comapny.
Funeral services were held at
3 p.m. last Thursday at the First
Baptist Church of Omaha. The Rev.
Bill Beckham and the Rev. Morris
Hill conducted the services. Burial
was in the Omaha cemetery.
Survivors other than his parents
are a brother, Louis Boozer of
Omaha, his grandmother, Mrs.
Lee Lackey of Naples, a number
of uncles and aunts and two
nephews.
Pallbearers were Wiley Joyner,
Jimmy Jacobs, Johnny Chaddick,
Ricky Knight, Wendell Frost, Doug
L offer, Stanley Witt and Leslie
Huddleston.
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Narramore, Lee. The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 17, 1969, newspaper, April 17, 1969; Naples, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth329599/m1/1/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Atlanta Public Library.