The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 1, 1965 Page: 1 of 8
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OES honors district deputy City council, school board elections no contest
A reception will be held on
Sunday, April 4, at the Naples
Community Inn honoring Mrs.
Peggy Alexander, the Deputy
Grand Matron, District 1, Sec-
tion 9, Grand Chapter of Tex-
as, Order of the Eastern Star.
Calling hours are from 3 to
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MRS. PEGGY ALEXANDER
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Monitoring
MAIN
STREET
There will be a few old sore-
heads around this part of the
country who thinks that new
recreation area and swimming
pool are wasted money.
They have short memories.
Most folks old enough to re-
member FDR are also old
enough to know what it was
like in the good old days.
Nobody then ever went in
swimming in any fancy citified
pool. The chlorine would burn
your eyes, it was too crowded,
and a swimming suit was an
unnecessary restriction to free
movement in games of alliga-
tor.
Boys then always went in
swimming on April Fool's Day
even if it was a durn-fool stunt
and the water was cold.
They got serious about it
the day school was out, shed
their shoes and shirts and
spent every spare minute at
the widest and deepest hole in
the nearest creek.
In season, a swiped water-
melon thrown into the water
to cool and cracked open on
the banks was a pleasure that
was topped only by the fight
that broke out later when
someone chunked the first
hunk of rind.
Small boys then learned to
swim to survive. The bigger
ones picked them up by heeis
and head and slung them into
the deep water.
With the instinct of a puppy,
they always made it.
Most mamas would have a
conniption fit now if their sons
abandoned the television set
for the dangerous adventure
to the creek.
One day close to nature now
ings on complications kids
Ren didn't suffer.
The family returns home
now and papa swabs iodine
on one kid while mama scrubs
insect dope off another.
Sulphur dust and coal oil
aren't the miracle drugs they
once were, either.
Chigger bites need one med-
icine, tick bites another, and
band aids are used as if they
were going out of style.
That buttermilk formula
isn't sufficient for poison ivy
any more and you can expect
to pay ten bucks or more for
u treatment to dry it up.
Progress demands something
better than sulphur, coal oil,
and buttermilk remedies —
and wide places in a muddy
creek for recreation.
Better things cost more be-
cause they're better.
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5 p.m.
The reception is sponsored
by Maud Chapter No. 897 of
the OES. Members and friends
are invited to attend.
Mrs. Alexander, a resident
of Maud, has devoted much
of her time in service to the
Order of the Eastern Star and
for the past year has served
the Worthy Grand Matron of
Texas by promoting the pro-
gram for the year among the
20 chapters in this area.
She is a graduate of East
Texas State College and is
currently employed at Red
River Army Depot.
Omaha voters
will elect three
councr" nembers
Omaha will elect three city
councilmen next Tuesday.
Voters will have four candi-
dates to choose from.
Incumbents who have filed
for re-election are Millard
Kennedy, Robert Coffman and
David Giles. Also a candidate
for a first full term is C. W.
Johnston.
Voting will be at the city
hall with Charlie Wright and
Mrs. Q. Parrish serving as
election officials.
The three who receive the
largest number of votes will
serve with B. B. Brown and
Morris Melton, who have one
year remaining on the two-
year terms.
Mayor A. L. Boozer also has
one year to serve on his pres-
ent term.
Funeral service
held Sunday for
Mrs. Tenbrook
Mrs. Mary Ethel Tenbrook,
36 years old, died at her home
in Marietta Friday evening
after a long illness.
She is survived by her hus-
band, Forrest Tenbrook of Ma-
rietta; a daughter, Karen; ner
mother, Mrs. Ora Robinson of
linden; and a sister, Mrs.
Richard Ramage of Linden.
Funeral services were held
at 2 p.m. Sunday at the New
Hope Adventist Church at Ma-
rietta with Elder Lee Hadley
and Elder R. L. Winders of-
ficiating. Burial was in the
New Hope Cemetery under the
direction of the Hanner Funer-
al Home of Naples.
Pallbearers were Wendell
Tenbrook, Willie Wall, Alton
Wall, Grady Keener Jr., Earl
Brooks and J. C. Tenbrook.
Local voters will cast their
ballots in two elections during
the next week but the outcome
is pretty much certain already.
Only the two incumbents in
the Pewitt school board elec-
tion are candidates, and there
are two candidates for two
vacancies on the Naples city
council and one candidate for
mayor.
The school board election
will be held Saturday with
polling places set up at Oma-
ha's city office, the Naples
fire station, and Scott Elliott's
store in Bryans Mill.
Only candidates listed on
the ballot are Herman Wal-
ters, who is completing his
second term, and Jce Ful-
cher, who is completing his
first.
The Naples city council
election will be held Tuesday,
April 6, with voting at the
fire station.
Rex Allen is a candidate for
re-election as mayor and Lar-
ry Talley and W. J. Adams
Jr. are candidates for the two
positions on the city council.
The council terms of Sam
Hicks and Jack Coker expired
and they did not file for re-
election.
Members of the council
with a year yet to serve are
Jim Berry, Ed James and
Lewis Rogers.
On the school board, B. G.
Hawkins, Randy G. Moore and
Lee Narramore have one more
year to serve, and George
Frost and Berl Munn two.
The Naples MONiTOR
VOLUME 79
79 years old . . and new every week
NAPLES, TEXAS THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1965
NUMBER 37
New store opens here Friday
To b^ opened Tuesday night
A new department store
will open for business in Na-
ples Friday morning.
Garrett's Department Store
will be opened by Mr. and
Mrs. Leon Garrett in the store
building formerly occupied by
Mrs. S. T. Smith on the west
end of Main Street.
The store will hold its for-
mal opening Friday and Sat-
urday with the doors opened
each day at 8 a.m.
Garrett formerly managed
Garrett's Department Store,
Inc., here but it was sold sev-
eral weeks ago to Mr. and
Mrs. Bert Glaze.
Bids asked on Omaha pool
Bids on a new ten-acre park
and recreation area at Omaha
will be opened next Tuesday
night.
The area will be developed
and paid for by public contri-
butions and will include ten-
nis courts, a large swimming
pool, bath house, rest rooms
and concession stand.
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Lone Star Steel completes new addition
A major new construction
project was completed Sunday
at Lone Star Steel Company.
A battery of four new soak-
ing pits received the first hot
steel. Charging of the furnaces
greatly increased the heating
capacity for ingot steel in the
company's rolling mill com-
plex.
The four new pits are the
same size as the eight pits
which have been in use at
Lone Star since the company's
steel division went into op-
eration in June of 1953.
Added capacity of the new
pits will up ingot heating capa-
city 50 per cent and will en-
able Lone Star to utilize roll-
ing mill capacity more effi-
ciently by making additional
hot steel available.
The project began in Octo-
ber of 1964 when ground was
broken for the additional pit
capacity and extensions to
present buildings.
An additional 100 feet was
added to the stripper build-
ing where ingots are removed
from molds. An addition also
was built on the soaking pit
building to house the four pits
which measure 9x24 feet. The
pits are 16 feet deep and each
will hold approximately 150
tons of ingot steel.
The purpose of the furnaces
is to bring ingots to uniform
temperature for rolling in the
Lone Star slab mill.
The project also included
an enclosed control room with
separate, automatic controls
which maintain constant tem-
perature in the gas-fired fur-
naces, and other auxiliary
equipment.
First heat was put in the
furnaces in mid-week when
William Whitfield, superinten-
dent of Lone Star's rolling
mills, and Whetstone DeLoach,
a soaking pit heater, applied
an oil torch to temporary
burners. The temporary burn-
ers, which dried moisture
from the refractory lining and
bottom, were removed Friday.
Main burners were lighted
at that time and the furnaces
slowly brought up to heat to
receive the first hot steel.
R. C. MacDonald, vice pres-
ident, operations, said that
the project was completed on
schedule despite delays caused
by deliveries and weather.
"The people at Lone Star
who worked with the nianu-
iacturers and contractors de-
serve special commendation,"
he said. "The engineering de-
partment. purchasing, and su-
pervision coordinating the
project put in long hours or.
this to bring it to a successful
conclusion."
The furnaces were built by
Amsler-Morton Company of
Pittsburgh. Brown and Root,
Inc. was the contractor.
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Workshop for
Masonic officers
planned Saturday
A workshop for officers and
members of Masonic Lodges ir.
this area has been scheduled
at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 3,
at the Masonic Hal! in Avin-
ger.
Officers from Naples, Oma-
ha. Maud. Jefferson. Douglass-
ville. Linden, Atlanta, Kildare,
Hughes Springs, Bloomburg,
Marietta, Daingerfield, Pitts-
burg, Lone Star and Avinger
have been invited.
The workshop is part of a
statewide, semi-annual pro-
gram authorized by the Grand
Master of Masons in Texas, J.
Carroll Ilinsley of Austin.
The purpose is to enable
Masons to study common prob-
lems of Masonic Lodges and
their operations. The Avinger
workshop is to be conducted
by Robert F. Vickers of Pitts-
burg. who is with the Red
River Army Depot and is
chairman of a Masonic work-
shop area which includes five
counties.
Two baseball fields already
on the site will be improved
and made a part of the full
park area.
The finance committee re-
ported this week that it had
$32,272 in donations and cash
pledges to start the project.
The committee issued an ap-
peal to those who intend to
contribute but haven't yet to
make their donations as soon
as possible.
^f the bids are in order
Tuesday night, the contract
for construction will be let
and work will start immediate-
ly with a completion date ten-
tatively set for late May.
The sponsors hope to hold
the pool's formal opening on
June 1, in time for a full sea-
son of swimming.
The meeting Tuesday night
wiil be of the board of direc-
tors of the Omaha Park and
Recreation Association, Inc.,
which was formed to build and
see after the park after it is
in operation.
The meeting will be held at
the Omaha community cen-
ter.
Sketches of the area were
finished this week by Louis
Gohmert, Mt. Pleasant archi-
tect who also has agreed to
oversee the project and super-
vise construction and develop-
ment of the area.
The pool is to be the big
item in the area. It is planned
90 feet long and 60 feet wide
at one end. tapering to 35 feet
wide at the other. A wading
area is planned for small chil-
dren.
Mrs. Kay Hawkins
named sweetheart
of A&M group
Mrs. Kay Davis Hawkins of
College Station has been chos-
en as the sweetheart of the
Accounting Society at Texas
A&M University.
She will represent the soci-
ety in the 31st annual Cotton
Pageant to be staged on the
A&M campus this week end.
A Cotton Queen will be
chosen from among the 140
Texas beauties representing
clubs and colleges.
Mrs. Hawkins, a teacher in
the Bryan Public school, is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Davis of Omaha.
Her escort for the occasion
will be her husband, Ennis
Hawkins, a senior student at
A&M and the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Howard Hawkins of Na-
ples.
Calves hosts for trad meet
Superintendent William Whitfield and Whet-
stone DeLoach are shown above lighting the
first of four new soaking pit furnaces which
are going into service at Lone Star Steel Com-
pany Sunday. The pits, used for heating steel
to uniform temperature, will provide more
productive capacity for hot steel. Whitfield
lives in Longview and rolling mill employee
DeLoach is a Hughes Springs resident.
The Paul H. Pewitt Calves
will be hosts for a junior high
school invitational track meet
at the school Friday.
Running events will start at
3:30 p.m. and the finals in
both the running and field
events will start at 6:30 p.m.
An admission of IS cents
for students and 25 cents for
adults will be charged.
Invitations have been sent
to junior high schools at De-
Kalb, Liberty-Eylau, Clarks-
ville. Hooks, Pittsburg, Winns-
boro, Cooper, Mt. Vernon and
Talco.
Freshman tracksters will en-
ter in ten running contests
and five field events. Six
running events are slated for
seventh graders, and eight for
Ihe eighth graders. ;;
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The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 1, 1965, newspaper, April 1, 1965; Naples, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth336406/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Atlanta Public Library.