The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 30, 1962 Page: 2 of 8
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VIEWPOINTS
Job well done
Occasionally something is accomplished
so quietly and efficiently that no one notices.
The Jonquil Garden Clubs' project of see-
ing that the grounds around the David Gran-
berry Memorial Hospital are kept neat and im-
proved is an example.
The grounds never were the eyesore that
some areas have developed but neither were
they always kept as attractive as they should
have been.
The Jonquil Club began a couple of years
ago with an unspectacular general plan to take
care of the area surrounding the publicly-own-
ed institution.
The club started out to have the grass cut
regularly but the hospital itself later assumed
that obligation.
The women bought litter barrels, placed
them on the grounds, had them painted and
hired help to pick up trash.
With their first efforts successful, mem-
bers of the club expanded their efforts a little
bit this year.
They have planted 20 young pine trees at
the rear of the building. When they grow a
few years, the pines will form a beautiful
background for the building.
The women had flowering plants put out
and spent from $40 to $50 of club money for
shrubbery.
That isn't a lot of money but the club got
it the hard way. It sponsored a book review,
a movie, and candy and cake sales. That $40
or $50 is the profit that dribbled in from sev-
eral hours of effort by many women.
The hospital grounds, as a result of this
quiet, steady drive by members of the Jonquil
Garden Club, is a more attractive, better kept
area than it was three or four years ago.
The women deserve credit for this civic
accomplishment.
Past imperfect
Once upon a time a man died. He had so
few friends the funeral parlor had to hire six
men to act as his pallbearers.
An onery, mean old reprobate?
Nope.
His major vice was accepting and doing
all of the free jobs that were asked of him.
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"Isn't it lucky I wanted HI-TEST?"
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
Karen Hicks is
honored at party
Karen Hicks was honored
cn her second birthday Mon-
day evening with an ice cream
supper at the home of her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Kerry
Hicks.
Members of the family were
present. They included Mrs.
Glynn Davis, Mr. and Mrs.
Bobby McEntire and Lynn.
Mrs. L. A. Carroll, Mike and
Janet, and Mr. and Mrs. Clois
Hicks.
EDITOR:
The Board of Directors
of the Community Center
has recently made a drive
to raise money to com-
plete the center.
Most people did not
know that it will lake al-
most $2,000 to finish the
interior of the center.
There is to be a room
for the Scouts, a kitchen,
and rest rooms. All of
this needs to be done,
plus wiring.
The youth of our com-
munity will have priority
at the center.
We are grateful to those
who contributed on this
present drive and on the
drives in the past but we
are still approximately
$1,40*/ short of our goal.
This is your project. It
will benefit you and your
children.
If you have been over-
looked during the drives,
or if you feel you can con-
tribute more, please take
your donation to the treas-
urer. Mrs. Norma Ellecige,
or to W. J. Adams Jr. at
The Morris County Na-
tional Bank.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Madge Walters
Oh, Mv Achin' Back!
SAGE OF SULPHUR BOTTOM
Baffled by city writer's
solutions to farm problems
(Editor's Note: The Sage of
Sulphur Botton on his John-
son Grass farn. has gotten
hold of another big city news-
paper, with the following re-
sults.)
Dear editar:
If I lived in a city surround-
ed by all of those unsolved
problems like traffic, lack of
tax money, crime, congestion,
crowded schools, parking, etc.,
I'd devote my time too to
solving the farm problem, and
it was with considerable inter-
est I ran into a newspaper
which a puff of August wind
turned up out here on this
Johnson Grass farm the other
day with an article in it by a
big city columnist discussing
the farm problem. He has a
brand new explanation far
the farm surplus.
Now up to now, I've been
contending all along the farm
surplus was due to the fact
us farmers are just more cap-
able than say for example the
space scientists. Everybody
from President Kennedy on
down admits the Russians are
ahead of us in space, just as
everybody from Mr. Krush-
chev on down admits that us
American farmers are ahead
of the Russians in food pro-
duction. I don't want to brag,
but there are the facts.
But this big city columnist
lias a different explanation
altogether. According to him,
"all this productivity in our
American agriculture is not
necessarily the result of prog-
ress." He claims that "federal
Dr. C. W. Cromer
OPTOMETRIST
Phone PA 4-4322
212 N. Madison
MT. PLEASANT, TEX.
IN NAPLES
EVERY THURSDAY
juuvwvri- ~ -
policies have been drawing
into agriculture the small-
town banker, the small-town
doctor and anybody else after
a fast buck."
In other words, it's all those
small-town doctors and law-
yers who have bought up the
farm land and produced the
surplus in order to make some
fast bucks. Wasn't us farm-
ers at all.
Now I don't want to criti-
cize this city columnist, and
after all, you've got to remem-
ber that one of the most invit-
ing things about the farm
problem is that anybody can
offer a solution to it. safe in
the knowledge that nobody
else has found the right an-
swer either, but what I'd like
to know is where are all these
bankers and doctors and law-
yers who are making all those
fast bucks by farming?
Now I know some bankers
and doctors and lawyers who
own some land, but it has
been my opinion that all of
them together haven't added
over two inches to the mile-
high surplus, and as for mak-
ing any money, fast bucks or
slow ones, I'm afraid that city
columnist hasn't had an op-
portunity to examine their
farm ledgers. And I notice
very few of them are giving
up their jobs in town to really
go whole-hog after those fast
bucks out in the country.
Another nice thing about
the farm problem is that it
puts city columnists in the
same class with country col-
umnists when it comes to
finding a solution, and if I
lived in a big city with all
those city problems closing in
en me, I'd attack the farm
problem myself at least twicc
a week and sometimes on
Sunday.
Yours faithfully,
J. A.
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AVOID THIS LABOR DAY HITCH-HIKER!—(Reproduced by the Governor's Highway
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DOUGLASSVILLE
Attend revival meeting at Queen City
By Mrs. B. W. Swint
We are enjoying the cool
nights that we have been hav-
ing recently even though the
hot days are still with us.
A former pastor, the Rev.
Harold Fagan of Houston has
been in a revival in Queen
City this past week. The Rev.
and Mrs. Johnson, A. B. Mor-
riss, Mrs. Inez Heath, Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Frost and Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Willis attended
the services at the First Meth-
odist Church in Queen City
Thursday evening to hear the
Rev. Fagan.
Several friends and rela-
tives attended the funeral
services for Mr. Doughtery at
the First Baptist in Linden
Sunday afternoon. He had
been ill for several weeks.
His death was a shock to his
friends here. We sympathize
with Mrs. Doughtery and chil-
dren.
Mrs. Allie Robertson, Miss
Susie Robertson and Mrs. Clif-
ford Anderson of Navasota
joined the Wilson travel group
in Houston Saturday for a trip
to Mexico City and other
points for ten days.
Mrs. Inez Heath had open
house for her granchildren
this past week. There were
eleven who attended the par-
ty. Ronny Looney of Dallas
was the only one absent.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Parrish
and children, who have been
vacationing in Milwaukee and
Ft. Bend, Ind., and other
points, returned this past
week. Mrs. Evelyn Parrish,
who has been visiting with
her daughter, Bettye Jean, of
Washington, D. C., also re-
turned this week. They visited
Niagara Falls and places in
Canada.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Lane of
Miami, Fla.. were Wednesday
evening guests in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Swint.
Mrs. Viola Swint left for
Houston Friday to visit* in the
Carter Swint home and to vis-
it in San Antonio with her
sister. Miss Bess Carter. She
will visit in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. B. W. Swint and go
on to McAllen to attend the
wedding of her grandson, Jim
Swint, and Miss Rebecca Lav-
ender of McAllen at 5 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 1, at the
Methodist Church.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lanier
of Kingsville, Texas were
guests in the Weaver McCoy
home Saturday evening. They
visited with Mr. and Mrs. Watt
McCall Sunday morning and
attended services at the Meth-
odist Church Sunday morning,
they were dinner guests in
Ihe home of Mrs. Willie Mc-
Call and will visit his sister,
Mrs. Pilcher, in Marshall Sun-
day evening before returning
home Monday.
Mrs. Nell Eitel was Sun-
day dinner guest in This re-
porter's home. Mrs. Tobe Mc-
Coy and Mrs. James Swint
were afternoon guests.
Several from here attended
the dinner at Hickory Grove
cemetery Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jordan Baker
visited in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Johnny Sharrer of
Ft. Worth over the week end.
Mrs. Annie Rutland of Cali-
fornia will return with them
for an extended visit in the
Baker home.
Mrs. Paul Baker, Mrs. Jor-
dan Baker, Mrs. H. S. Gran-
berry, Mrs. Metta Swint, and
Mrs. Nell Eitel shopped in
Texarkana Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. James Swint
and Nita, and Mrs. Marie
Swint and boys left Wc\ies-
day for McAllen and Elsa to
visit in the home of their
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Jones
of Elsa, and to attend the
Swint-Lavender wedding in
McAllen on Sept. 1.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Smith
and LeAnn were visitors in
Covington, Okla. last week.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. McCoy
visited in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Melvin McCoy of Mar-
shall Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Foster
of Redwater visited in the
Charles Warrington home last
Friday evening.
WmTENER '
RADIO SERVICE
— Dependable Repairing —
Now home every day
Bring your radio and TV
troubles to me.
BOB WHITENER
I should say not!
My homo is cool in the summer ancL^
warm in the winter with electrici;|| )
from the electric cooperative njP *
master and mistress helped to
organize. They borrowed money at
interest and they built their own
electric system. Now my blanket is
washed in an electric washer, my
bath water is heated electrically and
even my bones taste better when the
roast is cooked on an electric range.
We still romp ir. the fields occasion-
ally, but we do most of that romping
now by the TV set.
Me Chase Rabbits? I'd as socn bay
at the moon. Either way, I'd have to
go outside and that kind cf life is
for the birds. Give me an oil olcclric
home everytime. It s a doggone good
way to live.
BOWLE-CASS
Electric Cooperative, Inc.
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