The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 19, 1962 Page: 1 of 8
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OSCAR E. MILLICAN
Monitoring
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Any lesson that hits a famil-
iar note can be more effective
and longer lasting.
That's the kind Dick Wise,
the young son of Dr. and Mrs.
C. J. Wise, got in his kinder-
garten Sunday School class
last week end.
The teacher was telling the
story of Daniel, his troubles
with Lions and men.
She told how those around
him tried to get something on
Daniel to use against him and
to discredit him.
Did she get the message
over to the youngsters? Ap-
parently so.
"That's the way I do Jackie
Coker," Dick told her.
Columbus set the pat-
tern for the modern day
vacationer — he made
his trip on borrowed
money.
If you suspect that small
towns all are alike, you may
be correct.
In Central Texas is the
town of Cross Plains. It's
about the size of Naples.
Here and there are^Country
Kitchen cafes and Foster gro-
ceries.
The number of per-
sons unemployed is only
a small fraction of the
number not working.
A Chevrolet mechaflic could
have done worse in referring
to a competitor.
Ford has that little Falcon
in the compact car line.
A Chevrolet mechanic, call-
ed on to inspect one and put
a sticker on the windshield
noted that he had inspected
a "FORD FALCUM".
When a man answers
the phone, he reaches for
a pencil. A woman reach-
es for a chair.
Everyone who has worn
the olive drab and had a dose
of the army's system of sup-
ply rnd demand may be able
to fquaje this.
prmy will turn loose
Armored Division of
) £TJ}e Texas National Guard on
ling. 9 and th^t will mean a
homecoming for seven young
men of the area.
They will be Hershel Welch,
Ben Grimes, Jerry Skelton,
Bobby Presley, Billy Williams,
John Hanes and Buddy Booz-
er.
Their release, of course,
will leave our military power
at something less than the
maximum.
Maybe it isn't to balance
that drop at all but the draft
board has called one-third of
The Monitor s<aff, Morris
Craig, to report for duty next
Wednesday.
He'll leave unhappily and
involuntary for the big job of
plugging the hole the release
of the 49th will leave.
If you dial our number aft-
er Craig leaves and a woman
answers, don't hang up.
Mrs. Clois Hicks will be-
come a member of the staff
which has been all-male for
more than a year.
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Population change studied Poor driving risks get lower insurance
A study is being made of
Morris county and nine others
in Texas to determine efforts
of communities and outside
interests to affect population
changes.
The ten counties generally
are those where agriculture
is a declining source of in-
come and there have been
losses in population.
Oscar E. Millican, research
associate for the Population
Research Center, Department
of Sociology of the University
of Texas, made the study.
He began a few weeks ago
and returned Monday to com-
plete it.
Other counties in the study
are Andrews, Austin, Brazo-
ria, Comal, Gray, Hudspeth,
Live Oak, Palo Pinto and Run-
nells.
Morris county, the survey
shows, had a loss of 471 em-
ployed in agriculture from
1950 to 1960 and gained 878
manufacturing employees.
^he study is intended to
show what the counties and
communities in them are do-
ing to stem the population
and employment loss.
New insurance rates effect-
ive Aug. 1 generally will cost
the safe driver more and
those with poor driving rec-
ords less on automobile poli-
cies.
The state insurance board
has dropped the merit rating
plan as unsatisfactory be-
cause too many people with
poor records were going un-
insured rather than pay the
high penalty rates.
The comprehensive rate, not
under the penalty point sys-
tem in the past, will go up
from $32 to $35 on Aug. 1.
Both liability and collision
rates will be increased or re-
main the same for those with
no penalty points and those
with penalty points will get
reductions up to more than
half of the old rate.
Colllision policies for the
$100 deductible plan will go
up for the driver with no pen-
alty points from $31 to $35.
The $35 rate also will apply
after Aug. 1 to those who had
been penalized for poor rec-
ords in the past.
The old $100 deductible col-
lision rate was $39 for a driv-
er with one penalty point, $47
for two, $55 for three, $62 for
four, $70 for five, and $78 for
six.
Thus, the poor risk — the
driver with six or more in-
fractions on his record — will
pay less than half of his old
rate for similar coverage in
the future.
There are similar savings
for those now under penalty
when they buy liability insur-
ance.
The driver with no penalty
points and no operators un-
der 25 years of age will con-
tinue to pay $29, the new rate
for all drivers.
Under the merit plan, sim-
Naples MONITOR
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NAPLES, TEXAS THURSDAY, JULY 19, !Vo2,
Estimate high on
tax from gas field
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Shopper survey
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The estimates of tax reve-
nue to Pewitt school from the
Bryans Mill gas field were
scaled down sharply Tuesday
night.
An appraiser hired by the
school board said his esti-
mates sent to the school ten
days ago had errors in them,
and a representative of Shell
Oil Company submitted a
much lower figure than antic-
ipated.
Sam Reeves of the Pritchard
and Abbott appraisal firm at
Henderson, and H. J. Killian,
representing Shell, met with
the school board and tax
equalization board to discuss
renditions of the gas proper-
ties for tax purposes.
Earlier figures furnished by
Reeves indicated the school
district had 4.4 wells within it
but he lowered that to 4.16
Tuesday night.
His earlier estimate on val-
uation per well for tax pur-
poses was $395,833, based on
the school's policy of render-
ing property at 25 per cent
of its real value.
The figure per well propos-
ed by Reeves Tuesday night
was $185,000. That is based on
the nine months of production
this year.
That lowered figure would
make Shell's tax bill for this
year $11,535.
The earlier figures would
have made the bill $19,593.95.
Reeves said the figures had
been arrived at by estimating
production of the wells for
the nine months they were
producing this year.
Reeves said the $769,975
valuation was recommended
by his company "for this year
and this year only."
The tax equalization board
discussed the rendition with
Reeves and Killian and took
the proposal under advise-
ment.
J. W. Spencer, chairman,
asked for a higher rendition
and Killian agreed to discuss
it with his company and noti-
fy the board by telephone this
week of its decision.
If the tax board does not
get what it considers to be a
fair rendition, it may set its
own value and then attempt
to resolve the issue at the
meeting of the board to hear
protests on July 30.
LOCAL PEOPLE ATTEND
SCOUT OFFICIAL MEETING
Joe Fulcher attended an
executive board meeting at
the Girl Scout camp at Sum-
ner last Thursday.
Mrs. Fulcher and Mrs. Cliff
Brock attended a neighbor-
hood leaders meeting also held
at the camp.
Naples people will get
an opportunity next week
to tell local business peo-
ple what they think of
them.
A survey questionaire
will be mailed early next
week to all persons who
get their mail at the Na-
ples post office and on
Naples rural routes.
It will be in a third-
class envelope and pa-
trons were requested by
the Chamber of Com-
merce committee to be
on the look-out for it and
not mistake it for "junk
mail".
The purpose of the sur-
vey is to find out what
local people think of Na-
&
pies businesses and their
shortcomings, and what
can be done to improve
the businesses.
An addressed envelope f|
will be included and the ||
postage on it will be paid 1
by the Chamber of Com- ||
merce. §
Those who fill in the |l
questionaire will not be §|
asked to sign it.
The information com- §j
piled will be released for jf
publication and furnish- ||
ed to Chamber members, i
Those who originated ||
the survey idea hope the U
local merchants will ben- §f
efit from the information l
and find it of use in busi-
ness management.
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Demonstration agent hired
Morris county has a demon-
stration agent again for the
first time since January.
She is Miss Betty Garner,
formerly of Saltillo, who has
been employed by Commis-
sioners' Court to fill the va-
cancy left by the resignation
of Mrs. Rose Morriss in Jan-
uary.
Miss Garner, 22, assumed
the duties Monday of this
week.
Miss Garner is a graduate
of Saltillo high school in the
class of 1958. She received a
degree in home economics
from East Texas State Col-
lege and has been employed
as assistant home demonstra-
tion agent-in-training for the
past three months at Long-
view.
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Wreckage of Mrs. Duke's car
School board hires two teachers
Two teachers were hired driver for the Lone Star
Tuesday night by the Pewitt route.
school board and two other
The two vacancies left un-
faculty vacancies were left fnied are the two units earn-
unfilled until next month.
ed this year because of in-
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MISS BETTY GARNER
Virgil Wayne Tate, 24 year creased average daily attend-
old Oklahomin, was hired as ance.
a high school science teacher. School administrators are
and Mrs. Edna Pearl Swatzell studying needs in each depart-
of Mt. Pleasant was hired as ment to determine in which
homemaking teacher. fields the teachers can be used
Tate received his degree at most efficiently.
Southeastern State College in The board also approved an
Oklahoma and is presently at- expense of $75 each for the
lending East Texas State Col- three coaches to attend the
iege on a science foundation coaching school at Lubbock,
scholarship. He has one year pUt the homemaking program
ol experience at Carnegie, a ten-month instead of a
Okla. high school. twelve-month basis, and con-
Mrs. Swatzell has eight sidered bids for painting the
years as experience and last outside of Pewitt and Carver
taught at Talco for three schools.
years. jhe contract was not let to
The school board also offer- do the painting until painting
ed Tate a contract as a bus of the inside, now underway,
has been completed and it is
determined whether or not
the school has the money to
pay for it out of the current
budget.
Clvde Walker was low bid-
der with $1,690 for Pewitt
school and $1,068 for Carver
for a total of $2,758.
Jim Witt bid $1,559.80 for
Carver and $2,950.50 for Pew-
itt for a total of 84,510.30.
All-Stars play Monday night
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Little Leaguers of Omaha
and Naples teams will play
boys from three teams in the
Greggton area in an All-Star
game next Monday night.
The game will be at the
Omaha park beginning at
7:30 p.m.
Buddy Johnson will manage
the All-Stars and Herman
Luttrcll and W. L. Dodson
be coaches.
Members of the Omaha-Na-
ples team are Wiley Joyner
and Lanny Luttrell of the
White Sox; Danny Hammonds
and Wayne Hammonds of the
Cardinals: Richard Boozer
and Charles Thomas Moore of
the Pirates: Don Belyeu and
Terry Roach of the Tigers;
David Coffey and Terry Mc-
Collum of the Indians; and
Connie Mills and Donnie Sur-
ratt of the Braves.
Extras and alternates are
Scottie Thomas, J. P. Jones,
Mike Thigpen, I^slie Huddle-
ston and Wayne Bell.
ilar coverage cost the man
with one penalty point $36,
two $43, three $50, four $58,
five $65, and six $72.
In cases where there is a
driver under 25, the rate will
be $52 after Aug. 1.
It was $48 for those with no
penalty points, $60 for one,
$72 for two, $84 for three,
$96 for four, $108 for five,
and $120 for six.
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Mail boxes must
be on the right
Rural mail boxes must
be on the right-hand side
of the road for the car-
rier. Naples postmaster
Bill Watson said this
week.
The requirement is not
new but it has not been
enforced on rural roads.
He requested that rural
patrons comply with the
regulation so service can
be continued without in-
terruption.
George Cornett,
Cass native, dies
here Monday
George Cornett. a member
of a pioneer Cass county fam-
ily, died Monday in Naples.
He was 65 years old.
The Cornett community was
named after his father.
Survivors include three sis-
ters, Miss Sally Cornett of the
Cornett community, and Mrs.
Lunie Smith and Mrs. George
Bradford of Marietta: and
three brothers, Ellis Cornett,
E. B. Cornett and Opal Cor-
nett, all of the Cornett com-
munity.
Funeral services were held
at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at the
Cornett Methodist Church with
the Rev. Charles Perkins and
the Rev. J. W. Reeder offi-
ciating. Burial was in the Cor-
nett Cemetery.
Active pallbearers were H.
C. Arnold, Vance Gibson, Mil-
dred Betts, Larry Bob Gibson,
Otice Betts and Woodson
Walker.
Doctors urge
patients to get
polio vaccine
Local doctors are recom-
mending that their patients
get booster polio shots and
take Sabin live virus vaccine
as a precautionary measure.
Several Texas cities have
had outbreaks of polio this
year and some are planning
to dispense the Sabin vaccine
to all residents of their areas.
One patient at the hospital
here is being tested as a pos-
sible mild polio case.
Doctors at the Naples hos-
pital are recommending that
local people take the booster
shots even tht^tt^h (the normal
time between jsfcpts may not
have passed. , '
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