The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 2, 1964 Page: 1 of 8
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Rodeo to be held here late this month
A rodeo will be staged in
Naples this month for the first
time in ten years.
A brand new rodeo arena
is being completed and the
first performance in it is to be
held July 30-31 and Aug. 1.
Clyde Crenshaw of Ft. Worth
will furnish the stock for the
U show, an amateur perform-
ance sanctioned by the Inter-
national Rodeo Association.
All of the usual events of
a rodeo — bareback bronc
ij4ing. brahman bull riding,
wrestling, calf roping
and women's barrel racing —
will be included on the pro-
gram.
A riding team from Texar
kana has been invited to per-
form before the competitive
events start.
There also will be clowns
and a string band to furnish
entertainment.
The show here is expected
to draw some of the best ama-
teur talent in the four-state
area.
The rodeo will be sponsor-
ed by the Naples Boots and
Saddle Club, owners of the
new arena.
The arena will seat about
3,000 people and is all steel
and concrete. It has eight
metal chutes for the bucking
stock and 16 other stock pens.
Seats were being poured in
concrete on the west side of
the arena last week and the
work will be completed well
Union calls for strike vote
Monitoring
MAIN
STREET
Some time ago, County
Judge Cartlon Robison and
E. G. McMillan Sr. went with
a party of fishermen to Caddo
Lake and the party formed a
little pot to go to the two who
caught the most fish.
Robison and McMillan found
a likely spot and really caught
the fish. That lasted for about
an hour and a half when Rob-
ison decided they had enough
to win the kitty so they head-
ed back to the dock.
When they got there, Robi-
son started to show their catch
but there wasn't a fish in the
boat.
McMillan confessed he had
thrown them back into the
lake so he wouldn't have to
help clean them.
Kenneth Alexander, Hanner
Funeral Home man here, took
off a couple of week ends ago
for a fishing trip on a lake
near Atlanta.
The fishing was good and
Kenneth brought in 35 big
bream to the home of his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Russell
Alexander, in Atlanta.
The senior Alexander also
works for Hanner and they
live at the funeral home there.
Kenneth took his fish to the
rear of the building where he
knew there were some buckets
used to wash cars. He dumped
the fish into one of the buckets
and called the family down to
see them.
His father gave Kenneth the
bad news: The bucket he used
wasn't one of those kept for
car washing. It was one used
in the embalming process.
If you miss out on a good
thing, don't say we didn't tell
you so.
We've been harping for sev-
eral years on the need for a
public swimming pool here.
And now other areas with
public swimming pools will be
able to keep a first-hand check
on the topless swim suit fad.
A friend of ours here who
is a close observer of such
things said the topless suit
will never really be accepted:
Too many topless women.
But if it does — and you
miss the whole show — we've
been trying to tell you Naples
needs a swimming pool.
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Jerry Millers of Piano
(she ^ the former Joyce Crump
or Naples) bought a new sta-
tion wagon and had to have
the horn moved away from the
air conditioner.
A Dallas garage did the job
for them.
That solved the problem of
a faulty horn caused by too
much moisture from the air
conditioner but it started a lot
of others.
En route here last week, the
Millers had the radio and the
air conditioner on.
When they used the signal
lights, the radio and the air
conditioner both went off. The
air conditioner went on and
eff at other times without any
apparent reason.
Maybe gadgets are about to
write their own declaration of
independence.
Union employees at Lone
Star Steel Company voted
Monday to conduct a secret
ballot strike vote under the
direction of the Texas State
Labor Commissioner, it was
announced Tuesday by Jim
Ward, assistant director of the
United Steeiworkers of Ameri-
ca.
The secret vote to be con-
ducted in an all day election
Tuesday, July 7, was recom-
mended by the international
RELATED STORIES
ON PAGE 5
union and the local union
committee of which M. L. Ang-
lin of Longview is chairman.
Balloting will take place
from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the
union hall at Lone Star.
"The purpose of this pro-
cedure is to determine exact-
ly the wishes of the rank and
file employees. Every member
is urged to vote his conviction
whatever it may be. The worst
thing is to neglect to vote and
thus leave this important de-
cision to someone else in the
plant," Ward said.
The issues now being dis-
cussed between Lone Star
Company and the union are
improved vacation benefits,
greater insurance coverage,
better supplemental unemploy-
ment benefits and improved
pension benefits which have
been granted by the United
States Steel Corporation and
many other basic steel com-
panies to the same union.
Under the terms of the Lone
Star contract, the union is eli-
gible to bargain for the same
benefits for Lone Star em-
Harry Oliver
of Douglassville
dies at Atlanta
Harry Oliver, 91 year old
lifelong resident of Douglass-
ville, died in an Atlanta hos-
pital about 2:30 a.m. Sunday
after a long illness.
He was born at Douglass-
ville and lived there all of his
life. He was a retired farmer
and rancher a d a member of
the Masonic Lodge.
Survivors include two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Charles Nicholson
of Kansas City, and Mrs. L. D.
Sikes of Dallas; one son, Mur-
phy Oliver of Ruston, La.; two
brothers, A. C. Oliver Jr. of
Marshall and W. Brooks Oli-
ver of Bastrop, La.; and five
grandchildren and three great
grandchildren.
Funeral services were held
at 2 p.m. Monday at the Doug-
lassville Methodist Church
with the Rev. C. C. Johnston
officiating, assisted by the
Rev. L. L. Burkhalter. Burial
was in the Douglassville Cem-
etery.
Simms revival
planned July 5-12
A revival will be held July
5-12 at the Simms Baptist
Church.
The evangelist will be the
Rev. Alvis Dowd of the Anti-
och Baptist Church at Queen
City. Music will be under the
direction of Don Bates of At-
lanta.
Prayer service will begin at
7:10 p.m. and preaching at
7:30 p.m. each evening.
BOND SALE REPORT
MADE FOR MONTH OF MAY
May bond sales amounted
to $1,443 in Cass county and
$8,793 in Morris county.
Cass county now has reach-
ed 34.5 per cent of its 1964
quota and Morris county 37.1
per cent.
Total sales so far this year
are $48,369 in Cass county and
$78,043 in Morris county.
ployees and to strike, if neces-
sary, in support of its posi-
tion.
So far, Lone Star has made
no offer to the union nego-
tiating committee.
before the show.
The Boots and Saddle Club
has been building the new
arena for two or three years
now as it could afford to pay
for the work.
The old arena, on the same
site about two blocks from
Highway 67 downtown, was
built of wood and rotted away
by the time the rodeos were
discontinued here in the mid-
I950's.
At the present, Ikey Harte
is serving as president of the
club, Danny Joe Mills vice
president, and Monte Hale sec-
retary and treasurer.
Other members of the board
of directors are J. M. Lasater,
Buddy Carlile, Fred Harte,
Jerry Foster, Jack Vissering
and Jim Berry.
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The Naples MONITOR
VOLUME 78
78 years old . . and new every week
NAPLES, TEXAS THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1964
NUMBER 50
Trapped in burning pickup
Most stores
close Saturday
Most of Naples will be
closed Saturday in observ-
ance of the Fourth of July.
There will be no rural
mail delivery from the
post office, and The Mor-
ris County National Bank
will be closed.
Most retail businesses
in town also will close for
the holiday.
Naples man dies in wreck near here
Aaron Almorine Spence, 62
year old Bowie county native,
was killed Tuesday night when
his pickup truck struck a high-
way bridge railing, turned
over, exploded and burned
with the victim trapped inside.
Spence was alone in the ve-
hicle when the accident occur-
red about 10 p.m. five miles
northeast of Naples on High-
way 67.
He was pronounced dead at
the scene by Justice of the
Peace M. B. Tidwell of De-
Kalb
The Hanner Funeral Home
ambulance and the emergency
crew from the Naples fire de-
partment were called to the
scene but could be of no help.
The body could not be re-
moved from the vehicle until
the fire had been extinguish-
mm
Douglassville
woman killed
early Wednesday
Mrs. Floyd Holt of Douglass-
ville was killed and Mrs. Nao-
mi Anthony of Marietta injured
early Wednesday morning in a
wreck three miles north of
Linden.
Their car, driven by Mrs.
Anthony, struck another ve-
hicle as the two sisters were
en route to Linden.
Mrs. Holt was dead on arri-
val at the Linden hospital and
Mrs. Anthony was admitted to
the Linden hospital but was
not believed to be critically
injured.
Mrs. Anthony had spent the
night with Mrs. Holt at Doug-
lassville and was driving Mrs.
Holt to Linden to see a doctor.
Mrs. Holt became ill en route
and Mrs. Anthony, attempting
to tend to her, lost control of
the car and it struck the other
vehicle.
The accident occurred about
7:30 a.m. on State Highway 8.
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Smoldering pickup where Naples man died
Insurance rates to drop in local area
Morris and Cass county car
owners generally will pay less
for bodily injury and property
damage insurance and more
for $50 deductible collision
coverage beginning Aug. 1.
The new rate schedule was
announced late last week by
the State Board of Insurance.
For the two counties, the
common $100 deductible col-
lision coverage will be un-
changed but there-are reduc-
tions in the bodily injury and
property damage coverage pre-
miums, and increases in the
cost of the $50 deductible col-
lision policies.
After the new rates go into
effect, the owner of a private
passenger car with no male
operator under 25 years of
age will pay the same for his
coverage as he has in the past
year.
If there is a male operator
of the car under 25, but he is
not the owner, the premium
will remain the same for the
$50 deductible policy but will
drop for the bodily injury and
property damage coverage.
If an unmarried male under
25 owns or is the principal op-
erator of the car. bodily injury
Douglassville gets grant
A federal grant of $34,300
for an improved water system
al Douglassville has been ap-
proved.
The entire project will cost
$83,600 and will include a well
supply, storage and distribu-
tion system.
The work is to begin within
120 days and require about
40 man months of work.
A Farmers Home Adminis-
tration loan will be used to
pay the cost not covered in
the grant, rtnd an election will
be called this summer to vote
revenue bonds to repay the
loan.
The town has been working
toward an improved water sys-
tem since the fall of 1962.
insurance costs will go down
and the $50 deductible policy
will go up.
The same is true when the
car is used for business and
there is no male operator un-
der 25.
If the automobile is owned
by a farmer, both types of in-
surance will be increased.
There is a drop in bodily
injury and property damage
premiums but no change in
the $50 deductible policy if
the car is owned by a farmer
and there is one or more op-
erators under 25.
If the owner is under 25
and a farmer, the rates for
bodily injury and property
damage will be lowered but
the premium for $50 deducti-
ble policies will go up
ed and the vehicle cooled off.
Spence apparently was re-
turning home after visiting
with relatives in the area at
the time of the mishap.
Spence had retired the first
of June from the United Gas
Pipe Line Co., where he was
chief district dispatcher for
the Tyler district. He and his
wife had lived in Carthage be-
fore moving to Naples after
his retirement.
Before moving to Carthage
three years ago. they had lived
in Dallas for eight years.
He is survived by his wife;
two daughters, Mrs. Ray Shook
or Irving, and Mrs. Kirk Ho-
bart of Hampton, Va.; one
brother, Ed Spence of Naples;
his father. A. A. Spence of Na-
ples: and two granddaughters
and one grandson.
Funeral services will be held
at 4 p.m. Thursday at the
Hanner Funeral Home Chapel
in Naples with the Rev. L. C.
Orrick officiating. Burial will
be in the Naples Cemetery.
Jack Coker named
area director
of car dealer group
Jack Coker of Naples has
been appointed as an area di-
lector of the Texas Automo-
bile Dealers Association.
His appointment was an-
nounced by Cecil H. Elder of
Midland, president of the state-
wide organization of more
than 1.400 franchised new
car and truck dealers.
Coker will serve as an area
director until the association's
3965 convention next May.
As an area director, he will
advise with the TADA officers
and board of directors on leg-
islation, highway safety, and
research designed for the ben-
efit and protection of the
motor vehicle buyers of Texas.
Pewitt teacher
at UT institute
Don L. Nance, Pewitt high
school science teacher, is one
of 82 teachers enrolled in the
University of Texas' ninth
summer institute for seconda-
ry school science and mathe-
matics teachers.
The nine-week courses will
end on Aug. 6.
BOOTS AND SADDLE CLUB
TO MEET MONDAY NIGHT
The Naples Boots and Sad-
dle Club will meet at 7:30
p.m. Monday at the Country
Kitchen.
Monte Hale, secretary, urged
all members to be present for
the meeting.
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