The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 14, 1964 Page: 1 of 8
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Second producing well is
completed near Bryans
A second producing well
was completed Sunday in the
new oil-gas field north of the
Bryans Mill field.
The successful completion is
the A. E. Frost No. 2, which
showefV production from the
formation at 9,810
feelW ^Irada owns the well.
D™/^rs continued the hole
to l(/060 feet with no other
show of pay but no salt water.
Style show to be
PTA program
The Pewitt PTA will hold
its regular monthly meeting
at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 19,
at the school.
Mrs. Roy Witt will give the
devotional and the program
will be a style show of cos-
tumes made and modeled by
the girls of the homemaking
department of the school.
The incoming officers for
the new year will be installed
following the program.
Mrs. Talley will
present recital
Mrs. Carl Talley will pre-
sent her students in a spring
recital at 7:30 p.m. Thursday,
May 14, at the First Baptist
Church in Omaha.
Monitoring
MAIN
STREET
Casing was being set in the
hole this week.
The A. E. Frost No. 1 was
the first producer in the area
but one other is nearing com-
pletion now and two other lo-
cations are being prepared.
Barnhart was preparing this
week to begin drilling the A.
E. Frost No. 3 about one-
fourth mile north of the first
Frost well, and Shell Oil Com-
pany's McDonald No. 1 was
drilling at 8,000 feet after be-
ing shut down for two weeks
because of high water.
Shell also plans a second
well on the McDonald land
and was getting permission
this week to build a road to
the site north of the McDon-
ald well now being drilled.
Fund started
for ag teacher
A fund for the Bob
Bearden family has been
started here.
Donations to help the
family pay medical ex-
penses for the Pewitt agri-
culture teacher will be ac-
cepted by the State Bank
of Omaha, Pewitt school,
The Morris County Na-
tional Bank, and Lowery's
Drug Store.
Bearden has been in a
critical condition at a hos-
pital in Shreveport since
he was kicked in the head
by his horse three weeks
ago last Sunday.
The family had very lit-
tle insurance for medical
care — less than enough
to pay for two days in the
hospital.
mmmmm
Mother of the bride (and a groom) missed the wedding
MRS. ROGERS, WALLER HICKMAN, THE TOM ROGERS AND THE JOHNNY MONNAHANS
The Naples MONITOR
78 years old . . and new every week
VOLUME 78
NAPLES, TEXAS THURSDAY, MAY 14. 1964
NUMBER 43
School will be out pretty
soon now and youngsters will
settle down to the long bore-
some summer vacation.
The first day or two will be
exciting and busy ones but
from there on it becomes a
constant search for something
to do.
Things were better organiz-
ed a generation ago.
There was no monotony all
summer long.
Overalled boys then whiled
away the vacation months in
the swimming hole, morning
and afternoon seven days a
week.
That may sound monoton-
ous but it wasn't. There was
plenty going on to keep the
interest up.
The first few days were de-
voted to instruction. There al-
ways was a new crop of boys
whose mothers trusted them
to go for the first time to the
swimming hole with the bigger
boys.
The bigger boys did the in-
structing.
The course usually consist-
ed of a few minutes of talk-
ing and begging and pleading
for the beginner to jump in.
That failing, the lessons
were stepped up.
The big boys grabbed the
little ones and threw them in-
to the creek, dressed or not,
and kept them shoved away
from the banks until they
emerged sputtering and swim-
ming as well as any veteran.
y who had to be help-
ednut didn't come back. He
found chores to keep him busy
at home.
Diving from stumps, swing-
ing from muscadine vines and
games of tag killed a couple
of weeks until the watermelon
reason came on and then
things took care of themselves.
The boys stopped by the
nearest patch that was out of
sight of the farmer's house,
borrowed a melon or two and
toted them to the swimming
hole and tossed them in the
creek to cool.
An hour or so later, the
boys chugged the melon on
the ground, stem end down,
until it split, gouged out the
heart and ate it, and rounded
out the afternoon chunking
the rinds at each other.
The watermelons usually
carried through to possum
grape season and then it was
time for school again.
Annual athletic
banquet will be
held here May 23
The annual Pewitt school
athletic banquet will be held
at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 23,
at the Naples Community Inn.
All sports fans of the area
will be invited to attend.
Coach Fielding Huddleston
said a speaker will be provid-
ed, award and scholarship
winning athletes will be rec-
ognized, all boys who partici-
pate in school sports will be
introduced, and the captains
fi r the football team this fall
will be announced.
Tickets at $2 each will go
on sale this week end at the
Omaha Furniture and Appli-
ance Store and Lowery's Drug
Store in Naples. They will con-
tinue on sale until noon Fri-
day, May 22.
Naples Cemetery
calls for donations
The Naples cemetery has
been worked and cleaned and
funds are needed now to pay
tor the work.
Annual donations are being
accepted now by Mrs. C. V.
Henderson and Mrs. O. A.
Walls.
NIECE OF NAPLES PEOPLE
DIES AT VICKSBURG, MISS.
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Franklin
and Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Frank-
lin have received word of the
death of their niece, Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Pitts of Vicksburg. Miss.
Mrs. Pitts died Tuesday
night in Vicksburg. She was
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Jim Moore of Tallaluh, La.
Money provided for Cornett road
Money has been made avail-
able by the Texas Highway
Commission for the construc-
tion of a Farm to Market road
from Cornett to Naples.
That project was included
in a $760,100 authorization by
the department last Wednes-
day for construction in Dis-
trict 19 comprising nine coun-
ties.
The 1964 program covers
28.8 miles of new construc-
tion in the district, according
JOE PARRIS AND CECIL MILLER IN CORN FIELD
to District Engineer Gilbert A.
Youngs of Atlanta.
Construction of the Cornett
road is now authorized and
the right of way data already
has been turned over to the
county for the purpose of ac-
quiring right of way.
Many property owners along
the route already have signed
right of way deeds and indica-
tions are the land will be pro-
vided with a minimum of trou-
ble.
The project was approved
originally last year by the
highway commission and Cass
Ronnie Lyles wins
Davis award
Ronnie Lyles, an eighth
grader at Paul H. Pewitt jun-
ior high school, won the
Charles Palmer Davis Medal
with a grade of 96 on a test
given by Current Events on
Current Affairs in the World.
The medal is given to a stu-
dent who is outstanding in his
knowledge of current affairs.
Corn-growing demonstration plot planted
Joe Parris and Cecil Miller
are cooperating with the coun-
ty agent's office in conduct-
ing a five-acre corn growing
demonstration.
They fertilized the land ac-
cording to soil tests which
recommended approximately
500 pounds of 10-20-10 per
acre and side-dressed with 200
pounds of Urea (45 per cent
nitrogen).
This fertilizer is the suggest-
ed amount of need. 1 chemical
to produce 100 or more bush-
els of corn per acre on the
soil where the demonstration
is conducted.
The fertilizer for this dem-
onstration is furnished by Lone
Star Producing Company in
cooperation with their dealers,
L & W Farm Supply at Naples
and Leslie's tarm Supply.
Texas hybrid No. 28 was
selected for seeding this plot.
This hybrid has produced max-
imum yields on experiment
station plots over the past
five years on soils similar to
those in Morris county.
Records of yields and cost
returns will be kept on this
demonstration plot. Such dem-
onstrations as this are a part
of the BET iBuild East Texas)
program currently being im-
plemented in a 40-county area
in Northeast Texas.
county with the stipulation
that the right of way would
be given by landowners.
The road has been designat-
ed FM 2888 and covers 7.9
miles. It extends from State
Highway 77 at 2.8 miles west
of Dalton south and southeast
to FM 250 at Cornett.
Youngs has assigned the en-
gineering supervision of the
road to Guy Gullion, senior
resident engineer at Atlanta.
Homemakers and
farmers to meet
Tuesday night
The Pewitt Young Home-
maker and Young Farmer
chapters will hold their regu-
lar monthly meetings at 7:30
p.m. Tuesday. May 19, at the
school.
The homemakers will hear
a discussion of fire prevention
by Gerald Hampton. Naples
fire chief, and Monte Hale will
be in charge of the Young
Farmer's program.
Jonquil Club
to install officers
The Jonquil Garden Club
will hold its annual dinner
meeting at 7 p.m. Monday,
May 18. at the Naples Com-
munity Inn.
Officers elected in January
will be installed for two year
terms.
The new officers are Mrs.
M. B. Hampton, president;
Mrs. Herman Young, vice pres-
ident; Mrs. Elsie Smith, secre-
tary; and Mrs. Reuben Cole,
treasurer.
Community Inn honors press with banquet
One of the most impressive
groups of news people ever to
gather in an East Texas town
was here Friday night for a
press party opening the Na-
ples Community Inn.
Radio, television and news-
papers had representatives
here as guests of the Inn for
a reception, dinner and an
overnight stay for those who
would.
First arrivals were Mr. and
Mrs. Maune Wayne and their
two children from KTBS tele-
vision (Channel 3) at Shreve-
port.
The Bowie County News
party from New Boston, Mr.
and Mrs. Ed Laney, J. E. Lan-
ey Jr., Mrs. Dixie Ezzell and
Mrs. Florence Kestler, were
the first of the newspaper
people. They toured the mod-
ern new motor hotel but were
unable to remain for the rest
of the press party.
Ken Elliott of radio station
KWKH at Shreveport was the
first in his field and he imme-
diately went to work with tape
recorder in interviews broad-
cast that evening over his sta-
tion. He telephoned the inter-
views back for early coverage.
By later afternoon, the
crowd began to swell with the
arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Morris
C. Barton, chief engineer at
KSLA (Channel 12) and the
brother of Mrs. W. C. Sullivan
cf Naples, Mr. and Mrs. Bob
Dunn of KSFA radio at Nacog-
doches, and Joe Callicoatte of
the Citizens-Journal at Atlan-
ta.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Mahaffey
of the Texarkana Gazette ar-
rived for a "second honey-
moon", and the Marshall News-
Messenger was represented by
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Maddox and
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Whitfield.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bradley of
the Mt. Pleasant Daily Times
completed the field of daily
newspaper visitors.
To make it unanimous in
the area's most popular three
of the television stations. Mr.
and Mrs. Orland Dodson of
KSLA (Channel 12) and Mr.
and Mrs. George Dobson of
r"-
Pity Mrs. Tad Rogers.
A herd of wild horses can't
normally keep a mother away
from her child's wedding.
Yet she missed the wedding
of a son and a daughter Friday
evening.
The double ceremony for
daughter Peggy and her bride-
groom, Johnny Monnahan of
Boston, Mass., and son Tom
and his bride, Lonnel Barber
of New London, was perform-
ed at a Kilgore Baptist Church.
And where was the mother?
Busy, busy, busy in her new
job as catering manager of the
Naples Community Inn.
Mrs. Rogers was preparing
snd serving a press party at
the time of the wedding and
trying to make plans for the
Inn's first week end.
The children salvaged the
Mother's Day week end for
Mrs. Rogers.
Tom and his bride drove
to the Naples Inn immediately
after the ceremony and be-
came the first honeymooning
guests at the Inn.
Mr. and Mrs. Barber waited
a day and came Saturday for
the night and Mother's Day
with Mrs. Rogers.
The two couples returned to
Kilgore Sunday evening and
will make their homes there.
Services held for
H. H. Cromer,
Dalton resident
H. H. Cromer, 86 year old
longtime resident of the Dal-
ton area, died at his home
there Sunday morning.
He was born in South Caro-
lina but came to Cass county
as a young man and remained
here the rest of his life. He
was a retired farmer.
He is survived by four sons,
Clarence and Herbert, both of
Naples, Morris of San Diego,
Calif., and Claud of Mt. Pleas-
ant; one brother, James C.
Cromer of Hamilton, Ala.; and
ten grandchildren, four great
grandchildren, and a number
cf nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held
at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at the
Dalton Baptist Church with
the Rev. T. P. Lee and the Rev.
Bill Harty officiating. Burial
was in the Dalton Cemetery
under the direction of the
Hanner Funeral Home.
Pallbearers were Lawrence
Shankles. M. V. Brock, Wil-
liam Simmons. H. D. Brock,
Tom Knighton and Herman
Wommack.
Rules set
fcr Inn pool
Here are the rules for
use of the Naples Com-
munity Inn swimming
pool:
Families of stockhold-
ers and Inn Club mem-
bers may use the pool
from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m.
from Monday through Fri-
day. They may not take
guests.
Guests at the Community Inn Saturday, especially the young
ones, were fascinated by an old East Texas institution — the
mule and the slip. Sam Dale of Daingerfield used the mule
in his work leveling the patio area and preparing it to be
planted with grass.
KTAL (Channel 6) were pres-
ent for an overnight stay and
to shoot film footage of the
Inn.
In the weekly newspaper
field, there were Mr. and Mrs.
James T. Bass and Mr. and
Mrs. Rip Loftis of the Mt. Ver-
non Optic-Herald. Mr. and
Mrs. Tom Hicks and Mr. and
Mrs. Dwaine Dennis of the
Jefferson Jimplecute. A. M.
Bower and C. L. Reavis of the
Morris County News at Dain-
gerfield, and The Naples Mon-
itor staff.
Other radio people were Mr.
and Mrs. Bob Howell. Mr. and
Mrs. Winston Ward, Ruby
Stanley, Allene O'Neill and
Mrs. J. M. Lasater of KIMP
at Mt. Pleasant.
Following the press party
Friday night, the coffee shop
and its new staff was swamped
Saturday and Sunday with un-
expectedly large crowds.
Mrs. Wommack
honored at dinner
Mr and Mrs. Bill Kesseler
were hosts for a Mother's day
dinner at their home Sunday
honoring her mother, Mrs. E.
D. Wommack.
Those present were Mr. and
Mrs. E. D. Wommack, Mrs.
Loise Crouch and children of
Dallas, Mr. and Mrs. J. D.
Proffer and children of De-
catur, Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Crouch and family of Denton,
Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Phillips
and family of Alto, Mr. and
Mrs. Pete Wommack and fam-
ily and Mr. and Mrs. Roland
Shaw and family.
WATSONS HOSTESSES FOR
FAMILY REUNION HERE
Mrs. Thelma Watson and
Martha Ray were hostesses for
a family get-together Friday
night at their home for din-
ner.
Present were Earl Strick-
land of Dallas, Mr. and Mrs.
C. N. McMichael of Haynes-
ville, La., and Mr. and Mrs.
Gordon Goodwin and Mrs. Mil-
dred Boozer of Longview.
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