The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 6, 1972 Page: 1 of 8
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Last day buck
Emmett Riner III of Naples put off
and put off killing a deer this year
until the last day of the season then
MONITORING
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If ycj were up and about last
Saturday and watched the television
report on the Cotton Bowl Parade
you may have seen a relative of
Mrs. Charlie Talley's of Omaha.
The Maid of Cotton, Miss Debbie
Wright of Tahoka, Tex., who was
riding on the Texas Cotton Gin-
ners Association float in the New
Year's Day parade, is a niece of
Mrs. Talley.
Miss Wright was crowned last
Thursday night in Dallas and given
the title of 1972 Maid of Cotton.
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Most kids nowadays think a well
balanced meal is a hamburger in
each hand.
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Almost everyone likes to make
pictures of the kids and relatives
at Christmas gatherings.
Gerald Hampton is no exception.
He shot pictures for years as a
staff member of The Monitor and
knows the proper camera pro-
cedures. He purchased a new fancy
camera and slide projecter with
some added gimmicks to make
pictures with not too long ago.
Everything was going real good
for him during the holiday picture
taking. He was shooting pictures
right and left of everybody. He just
kept snapping and snapping the
shutter. Finally, he decided that
he had taken about all the film on
the roll and checked.
The film counter showed that
there was still film.
He didn't believe the automatic
counter and took the camera into
a dark closet to check.
The film counter had lied. There
wasn't anymore film to be exposed.
In fact, there wasn't any film in the
camera at all.
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Since you have had time to
look at the New Year a little
and think about world problems,
it might be well to remember
that a child can ask a thousand
questions a wise man can't answer.
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The mail service was back in
full swing Monday morning after
the holidays and you should have
gotten one or more of more than
seven and a half million motor
vehicle license renewal applica-
tion forms.
A release from the Texas High-
way Department said the registra-
tion "season" at county tax of fices
does not begin until Feb. 1, but
that you can order plates by mail
now for $1 more.
You will have until midnight on
April 1 to have the new plates on
your car.
Community Council gets federal funds
bagged himself a real nice nine-
point buck. He killed the deer last
week near Bryans Mill.
Public hearing set
for Highway 259
at Lone Star
A public hearing on the geo-
metric design of U.S. Highway .
259 from FM 250 in Lone Star
to 0.2 miles south of the south ,
city limits of Lone Star has been j
set for Jan. 6, according to Gilbert 1
Youngs, Texas Highway Depart-
ment District Engineer at Atlanta, j
The meeting is scheduled for
1:30 p.m. at the city hall con- I
ference room in Lone Star.
The design proposed by the state
is for a four lane divided highway
with a full crown width grade
separation structure at the Texas
and Northern Railroad crossing.
A flush median 16 feet wide will
permit left turns throughout the
project.
Existing right of way will be
used with some additional right
of way to be acquired to provide
for the proposed construction. No
relocation is proposed on this 2.15
mile project.
Maps, drawings showing the pro-
posed geometric design and draft
environmental statement will be
on display at the hearing. This
and all other available informa-
tion about the project will be on
file and available for public in-
spection and copying at the office
of Supervising Resident Engineer
J. H. Crawford at Mt. Pleasant.
Drawings showing the proposed
design have also been placed on
file with the county judge at Dain-
gerfield and with Mayor Gilbert
Alcorn at Lone Star.
The state's relocation as-
sistance program will be explain-
ed at the hearing, and tentative
schedules for right of way ac-
quisition and construction will be
discussed.
All interested citizens are in-
vited to attend this public hearing.
Naples Lions Club
to sponsor
master hypnotist
The Naples Lions Club is spon-
soring, once more, the master
hypnotist, Dr. Kit.
The great Dr. Kit will perform
Thursday night, Jan. 13 at 8 p.m.
at the Pewitt High School cafe-
teria.
Under the hypnotist's sugges-
tions, twenty or more local volun-
teers will be placed in a hypnotic
spell at one time.
The show drew a large crowd
last year and Lions members ex-
pect the show to be even better
this time.
Members of the club will have
advance tickets on sale for $1
each. Tickets at the door that
night will be $1.50 for adults
and $1 for children.
A grant of federal funds in the
amount of $156,314 has been ap-
proved for the Community Council
of Cass, Morris and Marion
counties.
Governor Preston Smith made
the announcement and said that the
grant is for operation of the
agency's programs.
The grant, funded under Title II
of the Economic Opportunity Act,
also involves $96 in unexpended
funds making a total of $156,410,
and is effective Dec. 1, 1971,
through Nov. 30, 1972.
Program accounts and the
amount of new federal funds al-
lotted each are: CAA Administra-
tion, $25,110; Family Planning,
$16,579; General Services, $109,-
015; and Youth Development,
$5,610.
Operation of the Family Plan-
ning program has been delegated
to Texas Department of Health,
Public Health Region 7. The major
purpose of this program is to
implement a coordinated and
patient-oriented program capable
of identifying, contacting, educat-
ing and offering family planning
services to the medically indigent
women of the three counties. As a
result of this program, there will
be a reduction in the incidence of
unwanted pregnancies and pre-
maturity; infant, maternal and pre-
natal mortality rates; and the in-
cidence of birth defects, abortions
and illegitimacy. Also, partici-
pants will be provided an entry
into the general health care serv-
ices.
Outreach workers will be em-
ployed in the General Services
program to inform low-income
persons of services available
through the agency and other com-
munity organizations. They will be
assisted with general self and com-
munity improvement projects such
as clean-up and paint campaigns.
Individuals will be assisted to be -
come owners of their own
businesses, and a job placement
service will be maintained. Also,
the agency will work cooperatively
with local resources to assist low-
income persons.
The council has openings for
three part-time Outreach Workers
and is asking for applications.
Dave Buford Jr., Morris County
Coordinator of the council said
that applications would be accepted
only from Morris county residents.
Information about the Jobs and
applications can be had at the
council's office in Daingerfield.
Objectives of the Youth Devel-
opment program are to provide
economic, educational and recrea-
tional development projects as re-
quested by youth council members,
and to improve the youth's com-
munity awareness and pride.
Projects include clean-up and
paint campaigns; establishing aid
stations where a call could bring
help to elderly and handicapped
persons with such activities as
lawn mowing, ironing, washing,
housec leaning, baby-sitting and
car washing; tutoring young chil-
dren in math and reading; typing,
cooking and sewing classes; and a
summer library project.
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ONITOR
Volume 85
Serving North Morris County and its neighbors
Naples, Texas - 75568 Thursday, January 6, 1972
Number 20
More work on Highway 77 due
Part of Highway 77 may be
modernized now after almost two
years since a group of interested
Cass and Morris county citizens
appeared before the Cass County
Commissioners Court urging the
court to go ahead with the neces-
sary right of way purchases for
the needed project.
Richard H. Tuck, Texas High-
way Department District 19 engi-
neer, said the contract for the im-
provement of the 5.1 mile section
from FM 995 to 3.5 miles west of
Douglassville will be let in
February.
He said that the 5.1 mile section
is almost half of the total Highway
77 modernization project and the
remaining 5.4 mile section will
extend west and the contract on it
Omaha Masonic Lodge
to confer degrees
The David Elliott Lodge of Oma-
ha will confer two Entered Ap-
prentice Degrees on Saturday, Jan.
8, beginning at 3:30 p.m.
Receiving the degrees will be
the Rev. Dale Reed and James
M. Martin.
All Entered Apprentice, Fellow-
craft and Master Masons are in-
vite- to attend.
should be iet next summer.
The announcement of the con-
tract letting was welcomed by many
citizens of eastern Cass county
and northern Morris county.
Cass County Judge Bennett Hill
has appointed a special committee
to begin work on the right of way
purchases.
Hill said all negotiations have
been completed on the 5.1 miles
between the county and the state
except for the removal of a few
fenc |s and that the contract would
be let by the state after the county
is reimbursed $6,000, its share of
the more than $12,000 in obtaining
the right of way.
Monitor changes hands
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Craig of
Naples have purchased The Moni-
tor from Mr. and Mrs. Lee Nar-
ramore, who owned the newspaper
since Oct. 1, 1952.
The transaction was effective on
Saturday, Jan. 1, 1972.
Craig has been a member of the
newspaper staff since November of
1956. He started work with The
Monitor soon after his graduation
from Paul H. Pewitt High School
and has been with it continuously
since that time.
Until he became owner last week
end, Craig was editor of the paper.
His wife, Melba, now a member of
the Marietta School faculty, also
has been a member of the news-
paper staff.
During the 18 years Narramore
was publisher of the paper and
while Craig was a member of the
staff, the newspaper won every
Naples rainfall
is heavy
last two months
Rainfall at the Naples city water
department's warehouse measured
4.75 inches in November and 9.72
December.
The heaviest rain in November
was 4.2 inches on Wednesday, Nov.
17.
December's heaviest total for
one day came on the first Monday
of the month when 2.2 inches fell.
There was 1.8 inches on Dec. 9,
1.5 on Dec. 2 and 5, 1.4 on Dec. 8,
1 inch on the last day of the year
and smaller amounts on five other
days to add to the total.
Temperatures in the area weit
above the normal during the month
of November according to the
weather station at radio station
KIMP in Mt. Pleasant.
The average temperature for
the month was 57 degrees or 2.2
degrees above normal.
The month's highest reading was
83 degrees and that was on the
first and second days of the month.
The low came on the fourth day
of the month and was a 32 degree
reading.
The highest reading this year
was 103 degrees back in July and
the lowest was last January when
the temperature dropped to 15.
November rainfall measured at
the station totaled 5.14 inches
with the heaviest rain coming on
Nov. 18.
award offered in Texas for small-
town newspapers. It also won a
national award in the only contest
it ever entered and numerous area
honors for excellence.
Craig is a native of Naples, the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Hardman
Craig, and Mrs. Craig is a native
of Mt. Pleasant.
Mr. and Mrs. Narramore have
no immediate plans for the future.
Two businesses
sell at Omaha
Two Omaha businesses have sold
and both were under new manage-
ment at the first of the new year.
The Omaha Furniture and Ap-
pliance store, owned and operated
for the past eleven years by Ray
and Harris Thigpen, has been sold
to James H. C off man of Omaha.
Coffman is a native of Bowie
county and is the son of Bob
Coffman of Omaha who is a former
partner in the business.
The Harris Thigpen Insurance
Agency, aninsuranceagencystart-
ed in 1930, has been sold to Thig-
pen's son, Ray Thigpen.
Both of the businesses were
under one roof but preliminary
plans are to keep the insurance
office where it is and partition off
the rear portion of the store for
Coffman's use as part ofthefurni-
ture store.
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Craig, Morris G. The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 6, 1972, newspaper, January 6, 1972; Naples, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth329738/m1/1/: accessed July 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Atlanta Public Library.