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Monitoring
MAIN
STREET
Judge Evans discusses roads, court house> airport
County Judge Peyton C. Ev-
ans told Naples Chamber of
Commerce what the county is
doing and hopes to do in a talk
here Monday night.
He discussed highways, a
new court house, and the coun-
ty airport.
He described the county's
rural road system as "tops —
among the best in Texas", and
listed improvement projects
underway or planned in the
county.
For north Morris county, he
There's a woman in your
me'Mpry who could thump you
hs'el r on the head with a
t'«W" >le than anyone could
imagvne.
She's the one who wore her
shoes a little bit longer so
you could have new ones to
scuff up at school.
That woman always was out
of washpot wood just when
the perch were biting or when
the rest of the gang headed
for the swimming hole.
Or she needed too much
water drawn from the well too
quickly and then fussed when
you dropped the bucket and
it came out muddy.
She could be a merciless
slave-driver, expecting you to
chip the lye soap into the pot,
stir the bluing into the rinse
tub, and wring out the heavy
clothes while all she did was
rub the dirty places until her
knuckles were raw from the
rub board.
That woman could sew the
straightest seam on the treadle
machine and convert a flow-
ered feed sack into a party
dress or a school shirt.
But somehow or other, she
never could believe that her
son might be one of those
wild ones stealing watermel-
ons from a neighbor's paich,
or the gang that swipe'.! a few
stalks of sugar cane.
She never had any money
because that was a man's to
supply, but she always could
scratch around in a sugar bowl
or a coffee can and come up
with enough for a Saturday
picture show.
That woman had never been
j -to a doctor herself, but she
knew that sulphur and molass-
es would cure the seven-year
itch, that lye soap lathered on
in a thick coat would keep
the red bugs off. and that
sour buttermilk was the best
treatment for poison ivy.
Her jelly always jelled and
her cakes always rose but she
expected a lot of things that
no woman had a right to ask
like someone else oecassional-
ly making a bed, washing the
dishes or sweeping a floor.
Her world began at the
front gate and ended just be-
hind the barn, bordered on
, one side by a vegetable garden
| and the other by a chicken
f pen.
Yet she always knew where
■ you were, where you'd been,
; and what you'd been into.
They've set aside a day each
I year to pay homage to that
i woman who was these things
to vou.
I They called it "Mothers
Day".
NAPLES
MONITOR
81 years old .. . and new every week
VOLUME 81
NAPLES, TEXAS THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1967 NUMBER 42
Beys invited to Pewitt
The football program at Car-
ver high school was ordered
discontinued by the Pewitt
school board Tuesday night
and boys on the squad were
offered another opportunity to
transfer to Pewitt high school.
H. R. Hamilton, superinten-
dent, met with the Carver
football boys Wednesday aft-
ernoon and explained the
choice to them.
Of the 27 who met with him,
12 expressed a choice to at-
tend Pewitt and 20 or more of
them might transfer.
They were to consider the
matter and reach a decision
later.
Football has not been a fi-
Flash fire burns local woman
Mrs. J. W. Harrison was
severely burned early Sunday
morning in a flash fire in the
bathroom of her home on
Highway 77 in Naples.
The fire apparently started
from a leaking gas jet where
a bathroom heater had been
disconnected.
Fumes from the leaking jet
apparently caught fire when
the hot water heater ignited.
Quick help from her hus-
band probably kept damage to
the house at a minimum and
his wife from suffering even
more serious injuries.
When her gown caught fire.
Mrs. Harrison ran outside.
Harrison ran to his wife, fin-
ished tearing off her gown and
turned on a water hjse to
ease the burns.
He took a wrench, turned
off the gas at the meter and
extinguished the fire in the
bathroom before the volunteer
fire department could reach
the home.
He put her into the car and
brought her to the David
Cranberry Memorial Hospital.
She was burned about the
face, arms, shoulders, and in
places on her legs.
Doctors at the hospital de-
scribed the burns as first de-
gree on about 20 per cent of
her body. They bandaged all
of the burns except on her
face.
V
TEACHER OF CHAMPIONS
MRS. VIVIAN LASATER
said the contract would be let
this month for Highway 77 im-
provement from Naples into
Cass county, a contract to
build the overpass at the in-
tersection of Highways 67 and
77 would be let in June, and
a staffed roadside park costing
an estimated $150,000 would
be built in the county along
Interstate 30.
Judge Evans also said the
Texas Highway Department
has tentatively agreed to build
a roadside park probably in
the Rocky Branch area. The
county now has no such road-
side parks.
Most expensive of the up-
coming highway jobs. Judge
Evans said, would be the work
on U.S. 259 from Daingerfield
to Lone Star.
That will cost the county an
estimated 3300.000 but plans
are tc do the job in three
phases.
Regarding a new court, house
for the county, Judge Evans
said Bintliff and Bell Archi-
tects of Texarkana has been
engaged to make preliminary
studies and plans and advise
the commissioners court.
Congressman Wright Pat-
man has been asked to assist
in getting a federal grant to
help pay the cost of approxi-
mately $700,000 for the build-
ing.
Judge Evans indicated the
court house was not an imme-
diate project but "we need to
start thinking about a new
one."
"I hope that we can, not in
the next one or two years,:>•
nail down all the things wei
need to get in the process of!
building a new court house."
The airport apparently is;
nearer a reality.
Judge Evans said the Hous
ton engineering firm submit-
ted a set of plans to the Fed-
eral Aviation Agency office in
Ft. Worth last week, and the
FAA this week returned them
to the engineers for three or
four minor changes, indicating
the plans would be acceptable
when the changes are made.
FAA approval in Ft. Worth
and Washington is necessary
before the funds will be re-
leased to the county.
Judge Evans said the con-
struction would require about
eight weeks with each precinct
furnishing labor ana equip-
ment for two weeks.
The airport will cost about
During its business meeting,
the Chamber nominated J. W.
Garrett Sr as its candidate
for Morris county's outstand-
ing senior citizen.
t Carver
nancial success at Carver.
The board also approved the
hiring of two Negro teachers
for the Pewitt system, and one
of them likely will be an assist-
ant coach.
Lights from the Carver foot-
ball field probably will be used
on the Pewitt practice field
and the seats at Carve" may
also be moved.
The board also hired Mrs.
W. A. Gile^f Jr, to teach Eng-
lish and speech in Pewitt high
school to succeed Miss Juanita
Koon, who will become librari-
an at Pewitt.
The school calendar was
amended and the current term
will end Tuesday, May 23. It
was changed because no days
were lost this term and two
extra days were provided for
in the calendar.
Ninth graders
will pre-register
at Pewitt Friday
Students who will be in the
ninth grade at Pewitt high
school next fall will pre-regis-
ter at 1 p.m. Friday, May 12.
A. T. Brian, high school
principal, and Mrs. Mary
Bearden, counselor, will ad-
vise the students on state edu-
cational requirements and the
school's available elective sub-
jects.
Parents may meet with the
group if they have questions
regarding the high school pro-
gram.
JUDGES AND VISITORS TAKE A LOOK AT ROCKY BRANCH
Rocky Branch fops in community progress
Rocky Branch did the best
iob of any community in its
division last year and was re-
warded for it.
A $100 cash award already
has been won by the communi-
ty and there may be more
ccming to it in the state con-
test now underway.
Judges visited the commu-
nity last week and picked it
for the top prize and as a can-
didate for state honors.
Record books submitted by
the state entries are being
judged Thursday of this week
and the top four communities
will be looked over by judges
to determine the winners.
Cash awards of $450, $350,
$250 and $150 will go to the
four.
Rocky Branch has been
working feverishly for the past
year to improve.
Its citizens have planted 250
dogwoods, 250 crepe myrtles.
50 redbuds, planted 2.000
acres in crimson clover, 500
acres of Coastal Bermuda, and
cleared more than 300 acres
of brush.
The community boasts 18
new houses ranging in price
from $5,000 to $20,000, and
12 mercury yard lights and
several gas yard lights have
been installed.
Natural gas is now serving
42 families for the first time
Farming is progressive, too,
with J. C. Traylor and his son,
,T Roy Traylor. and Kenneth
Hampton pioneering in the use
of chemicals for weed control
in peanut fields.
And Clyde Kennedy furnish-
ed a communis pea patch.
A community center is be-
ing built. The lot has been
fenced, the walls are up and
the plumbing set in with th?
labor being donated It is to
be finished by July 1.
A 4-H Club with 39 members
has been organized, and the
community has an active rid-
ing club, home demonstration
club, garden club, and wildlife
club which released 250 quail
and set up feed patches for
them.
The community is planning
now for a new rodeo arena on
the Lee Ansley farm
Morris county's new airport
will be located just north of
the community.
Mrs. Lee Ansley has served
as president of the improve-
ment association, Troy GibbS
as vice president, Mrs. Thom-
as Stevens as secretary, and
Mrs. George Gilliam as treas-
urer.
Active as committee chair-
men are H. B. Knight, Olen
Smith. Mrs W. O. Dodson, R.
O. Sims. Mrs Travis Morris,
Mrs. ,J C. Traylor. Oscar Park-
er. Lee Ansley, Mrs. Dan Fos-
ter. George Gilliam, Troy
Gibbs and Mrs. Audrey Mae
Childress.
Naples teacher has «i hvhll a* w^rmig
Mrs. Vivian Lasater didn't
have a district winner in typ-
ing or shorthand contests in
1946.
She didn't have an entry.
And that's the last time ex-
cept for three years when she
did not leach the commercial
subjects.
Mrs. Lasater almost certain-
ly is the champion at training
Interscholastic League entries
for the two events.
Since she took her first win-
ner, Audrey Mae Lindsey, to
the district typing contests in
1947, she has had students win
first place in either the typing
or shorthand contests — or
both.
They have taken home at
least 23 blue ribbons. Maybe
more, hut recalling 20 years
can be erratic.
All of that time, she was
on the James Bowie faculty
except 1965 and 1966 when
she taught at Waskom and
had winners there.
After her initial success in
1947, two boy students won
first and second places in the
district contest. Thomas Haw-
kins was first but he moved
away before the regional meet.
The other one, Dale Wal-
raven. didn't go to regional
either. As Mrs. Lasater re-
members it, Dale was a boxer
and didn't like the teasing he
took for iiis typing so he
wouldn't compete after the
district meet.
There was a winner in 1949
but that's too long ago to re-
call who it was and the school
records don't show it.
Joyce Daniel and Nina Hef-
ley were one-two in typing in
1950, and Joyce went on to
compete in the state meet.
Dorothy Firth in shorthand
and Sue Lindsey in typing
gave Mrs. Lasater a pair of
winners in 1951, and Polly
Johnson took the typing blue
ribbon in 1952.
James Bowie made a clean
sweep in 1953 when Vinnie
Hazelwood and Rosie Culpep-
per finished at the top in the
shorthand contest, and Mary
Nell Hawkins and Delma Shaw
in typing.
It was a repeat for Mrs.
Lasater's pupils in 1954 with
Charlie Hefley winning in
shorthand and Donna Nash
winning first in typing in the
district and region, and sec-
ond in the state.
Carol Hawkins kept the win-
ning string going in 1955 by
winning district and going on
to place fourth at state.
There's no record of 1956
but Wanda Baugh went to the
state contest in 1957 after be-
ing first in district and one
of the top two at regional.
There were years when the
James Bowie entries did not
go to the regional contests
even though they qualified
and 1958 may have been one
of them. Lynn Duren won the
typing contest that year.
And in 1959, Mrs. Lasater
had her only double winner
of her career.
Pauletta Daniel, now Mrs.
Cully Vaughan of Naples, won
first places in both typing and
shorthand but did not go to
regional.
Mrs. Lasater bowed out of
the classroom for awhile in
1960 with Violet Baugh win-
ning in shorthand and Mar-
garet Williams winning in typ-
ing.
She came out of retirement
in 1965, going to Waskom to
teach, and made her debut
successful by having winners
in both events and repeating
the next year in typing.
Mrs. Lasater is back at her
familiar place this year and
doing what comes naturally
for her.
Freddie Baugh won first
place in the district meet in
shorthand, and Cheryl John-
son; won first in the district,
first in the regional, and
lourth in .the state in typing.
Mrs Lasaten hasn't yet turn-
ed out a state- champion but
she may have become one her-
self in the number and con-
sistency of her district win-
ners.
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