The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 17, 1969 Page: 4 of 8
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VIEWPOINTS
Keep it dean
THE BIG ONE...GETTING BIGGER!
Spring cleaning has already started
for lots of families and much more
is yet to come.
With all the old clothes, worn out
toys, broken tools and junk in gereral
that has collected around houses and
yards in this area the Naples dump
ground should have one of its best
years.
The dump grounds here serve Naples
and some of its outlying neighbors
and it stays filled to capacity.
It stays so full most of the time that
well meaning folks who would like to
have a place to get rid of trash and
refuse can't.
They can't even get past the little
one way opening that leads into a,
what could be a usable, junk ground.
Thoughtless people, with no concern
for anyone but themselves, drop a truck
load of cans, bottles, old papers, this
year's tree trimmings and whatever
else they have to throw away right
in the middle of the road.
Then, along comes another man want-
ing to dump his trash. He has no
alternative but to stop in the middle
of the road to unload his. All it takes
is one poor citizen to block the way
with his mess for a town full of others.
The city officials have tried a number
of ways to cure the problem. They had
city employees with some help from
the county build a deep ditch at the back
side of the dump grounds for a sani-
tary fill two or three years ago.
A person could back up to the fill,
dump Ws trash and drive off on one
of the lanes graded out for traffic.
When the ditch was filled,
city employees went back, covered it
up, pushed out another hole and started
over again.
That worked for a little while. Then
people started dumping the trash near
the edge of the fill where a rail had
been built to keep cars from backing
into the hole.
That made it so no one could get
to the ditch. The roads that had been
graded out for traffic then became
covered in trash and the runaround
started again.
City fathers tried locking the gate
to the dump yard and letting anyone
who wanted it borrow a key to get in.
That gave the good citizens who were
in too much of a rush to go by the city
office for a key the chance to register
their gripes by not saying anything
to anyone about them. They didn't
take the time to offer solutions, they
just unloaded in the middle of the road
in front of the gate.
City employees are still fighting the
same old battle, all year long. They
push the trash back about three or
four times a month only to have it
pile up in the front door again.
It would probably take these junk
yard patrons thirty or forty seconds
more and an ounce or two more gaso-
line to drive that extra thirty yards
to the back side of the junk yard.
When you get your cleaning done
around the house this year, try driving
to the back side of the dump ground.
If you have never been there, you may
have missed something.
other views
better Televison
Television is by no means all bad.
This medium has done some yeoman
service in some areas.
Recent documentaries on hunger and
urban problems in the nation were note-
worthy efforts.
The glaring fault with television,
however, as with most news media,
as well as individuals, is that prob-
lems are pointed out but no solutions
are offered.
If the television moguls are genuinely
concerned about the poor people and
problems of our cities, why not turn
the spotlight on a cure?
Just spending more money isn't a
solution. We've been doing this since
the late 30's and poverty, according
to the TV statisticians, has increased
instead of lessened.
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Morris county
riding club to plan
trail ride
Riding club members
in Morris county are
asked to attend a meet-
ing at the home of Mrs.
Lee Ansley in Rocky
Branch this Saturday at
8 a.m.
Plans are to be made
for a trail ride during
the arts and crafts show
to be held later this
m onth.
More information may
be obtained from Sam
Higgins or Fat Hart of
Naples or Mrs. Ansley.
Sage of Sulphui
Bottom
Doubts civilization
Cornett
Church officers elected
We know there are some sub standard
conditions for an element in our society.
We have a little of this right here in our
own town. We deplore it and would like
to have the conditions eliminated. Most
Americans will grumble over higher
taxes, but deep down inside they're
willing to pay if their tax money is
channeled and used properly in
relieving human suffering.
But it isn't reaching the disadvantag-
ed. It is siphoned off by the bureaucrats
and through duplication, waste and mis-
management.
The television people could perform
an even greater service for this nation
by focusing the TV camera on the break-
down in our welfare programs and pro-
viding a workable solution.
LEWISVILLE LEADER
By Miss Daisy Heard
The Sunday morning
worship at the Methodist
Church had a good at-
tendance considering the
rainy week end. The Rev.
Cross brought his mes-
sage from the twenty-
fourth chapter and the
ninth verse of Luke. The
theme he spoke from was,
"Take Jesus off the
Cross".
Mr. and Mrs. James E,
Hall of Dallas spent Sat-
urday night with Mr. and
Mrs. W. O. Hall.
The pastor's wife, Mrs.
Cross was unable to at-
tend church. Their daugh-
ter, Melody, was ill.
There was a belated
birthday supper held Sat-
urday night at the Rev.
Curtis Halls. Mrs. Bell
Hall, the mother, was 84
years old on March 28,
and the family had not
been able to get together
any sooner.
Mrs. Weldon McCord of
New Boston spent Sunday
with her parents, the C. D.
Betts. Jack Betts and son
Kent, and daughter, Jill of
Tyler also were guests of
the C. D. Betts Sunday.
Visiting in the Arthur
L. Barnes home is Mrs.
Barnes' mother, from St.
Louis.
Mrs. Ellis Cornett and
Mrs. Roy Traylor visited
the Barnes farrdly Friday.
The W. S. C. S. met
Monday at the Fellow-
ship hall of the Metho-
dist Church. Some impor-
tant business was at-
tended to.
The Cornett official
board of the church met
Sunday morning before
The
Monitor
April 17, 1969
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March 3rd, 1879.
Notice to Public
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upon being brought to the
attention of the publisher.
services. All officers
were elected, except the
treasurer. We hope to get
a person to serve for the
new year soon.
We regret to report
that R. L. McCord has
been ill and unable to
attend church.
Mr. and Mrs. Tommy
Tigert of Pasadena spent
Saturday night with Mrs.
Minnie Hampton and Mary
Catherine. Mrs. Tigert
will be remembered as
Ann Penny.
The Hamptons, Tigerts
and the Elvis Wells family
joined for lunch at the
Wells home Sunday.
Need a Rubber Stamp
Call 897-2281
The Monitor
(Editor's note: The Sage of Sulphur
Bottom on his johnson grass farm
has run into some news he can't handle,
but it's not the first time.)
Dear editar:
Sometimes, do you get the feeling,
when you hear of something the world
seems to take as normal but you back
off and take a close startled look at,
that denization was a mistake 7
For example, I read a couple of items
in a newspaper last night.
One reported that the United States,
at the same place, is training fighter
pilots from Israel and fighter pilots
from Jordon.
That's right, they go to school at a
military base in this country, attend
the same classes, learn tofly and shoot
from the same fighter planes, and then
go home and fight each other.
Isn't this carrying civilization a little
far?
The other item reported that space
for mobile homes is getting scarce in
some areas and a bright thinker has
come up with the idea of a multi-storied
trailer camp for them.
That's right. One mobile house on top
of another, as far up as the situation
demands.
I'll tell you, our training pilots from
two warring countries to go back to their
homes better equipped to fight each
other, and stacking trailer houses,
made to be towed around the country,
one on top of another, boggles a man s
sense of reality.
On the other hand, there s something
to be said for civilization. For instance,
I read in another newspaper that there
is quite a stir in Congress about
radiation being emitted from color
television sets, and some Congressme-^^
ire demanding that something be don^^j
ibout it. , ' ,
Understand, I m not in favor of
anybody's being hit by x-ray radiation,
and the people I know who have color
sets seem about as healthy as(though
they were bored by radio, but it s good
to have this danger pointed out in a
house where there's far too much
clamor for a color T. V. set.
I knew a man who, a generation ago,
when canvas top cars were first
replaced by glassed-in models,
wouldn't buy one because he said there
was danger of the wind blowing it over.
He got by with this for years.
Yours Faithfully,
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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/m1/4/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Atlanta Public Library.