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Thursday, March 13,2008
Serving Montague County Since 1906 Copyright 2008
Volume 102, Issue 40 Seventy-five Cents
Ten Pages
Founded 1858
Only 1 race contested
Reynolds wants
eck's board seat
Winter Wonderland
For a few brief hours Thursday, Nocona turned into a winter wonderland complete with large, fluffy snow flakes, clear streets but
plenty of pretty to look upon. — Photo by Steve Ross
Former NISD Supt. Harold
Reynolds wants to help oversee
the operation of Nocona's
schools, and to do so he filed in
opposition of the current board
president Monday.
Reynolds was the lone chal-
lenger on the May 10 ballot.
Every other local race, all nine
of them, is uncontested.
Mrs. Keck, who was elected
board president last May, is
completing her second term of
office.
Reynolds, a Nocona native,
spent most of his professional
career in Nocona including
stints as middle school and high
school principal and superinten-
dent.
In the only other school
board set up for election Board
Vice-president Dr. Len Dingier
in unopposed for his Place 5 seat
and a three year term of office.
There are three candidates
for three seats on the Nocona
City Council - Councilmen
Jimmy Hadley and Tracy
O'Neal and newcomer Steve
Tettleton.
Mayor Pro Tem Don
Armstrong has chosen not to
seek re-election to a sixth term
of office.
The three incumbents up for
re-election to the Nocona
Hospital Board are also unop-
posed — Rick Lewis, Charles
May and Todd Peterson.
Like city councilmen, their
terms of office are for two years.
The two incumbents for the
North Montague County Water
Supply District Board, Board
Chairman Bill Crowe and
Donnie Fenoglio, are also unop-
posed. Their terms of office are
for four years.
Other area school board elec-
tions will not be until
November.
When federal law forced
Please See "Local" Page 2
Runoff voting starts March 31
By Tracy R. Mesler
Early voting for the April 8
Republican Primary Run-off for
county sheriff begins March 31
and concludes on April 4 in the
County Clerk's Office in
Montague.
Paul Cunningham of Saint
Jo, the Wise County Fire
Marshal/ Emergency
Management Coordinator, led
the three candidate field in last
week's Republican Primary
with 813 votes. Incumbent
Sheriff Bill Keating made the
runoff by a 63 vote margin 666-
603 over Bowie resident Glen
Neff.
Persons who voted in the
March 4 Democratic Primary
are ineligible to vote in the
Republican Run-off, according
to Democratic County
Chairman Greg Underwood and
Republican County Chairman
Gary McAlister.
Only those who voted in the
Republican Primary, or who did
not vote at all on March 4, may
vote in the Republican Primary
Run-off
Keating, a first term incum-
bent, found himself fighting for
his political life as he lost 13 of
the 16 voting boxes to his two
opponents.
The sheriff won only three
boxes - Box 2 in Bowie with
49.7% of the vote (96 votes to
52 for Cunningham and 45 for
Neff), Forestburg with 66.9% of
the vote (87 to 21 to 11) and
Sunset 68.5% (87 to 32 11).
Neff actu-
ally won more
boxes than
Keating, five,
taking the five
remaining
boxes in
Bowie
Boxes 3, 4, 5,
6 and 16.
Meanwhile Sheriff
Cunningham Bil Keating
swept the
north half of the county. He car-
ried all three boxes in Nocona
plus the boxes in Ringgold,
Spanish Fort and Saint Jo pick-
ing up 68%) of the vote 385 to
104 votes for Neff and 77 for
Keating.
In fact the incumbent sheriff
carried just 13.6% of the vote in
the northern half of the county.
Cunningham also carried the
early voting box 248 to 190 for
Keating and 126 for Neff.
On the Democratic side of
the ledger, Ronnie Reynolds of
Forestburg won the Democratic
Party nomination for sheriff
with 55.6%) of the vote defeating
Bowie Patrolman Bob
Blackburn 1,175 to 939.
A total of 4,693 voters cast
ballots in the two party primar-
ies with 2,458 voting
Democratic ticket and 2,235
voting
A total of
37.83% of all
registered vot-
ers in the
county,
12,741, cast
ballots in last
Tuesday's pri-
mary elec-
tions.
There were
three other
contested local races on the bal-
lot.
Steve Howard won the
Republican Party nomination
for County Commissioner
Precinct 3 taking 53.7% of the
vote in defeating Donald
Cheshier of Nocona and Kevin
Pullen of Montague.
Nocona Patrolman Scott
Parker won the Democratic
Please See "Run-Off Page 5
Paul
Cunningham
Planning to make best out of worst
Let EMC know where your safe room is located
By Tracy R. Mesler
A major part of emergency
management is planning - plan-
ning for what you hope and pray
will not happen, explained
Montague County Emergency
Management Coordinator Kelly
McNabb of Nocona.
Should a tornado or such dis-
aster strike a part of the county
where a number of buildings are
destroyed, locating the inhabi-
tants is a time consuming,
intense life-or-death effort. One
where every minute counts.
McNabb is hoping property
owners will take a few moments
to fill out a "safe room" survey
so the county's emergency
response teams - police, fire,
ambulance - will know where to
start looking for survivors fol-
lowing a disaster.
"This is strictly voluntary,"
McNabb stressed.
But what the County's emer-
gency management office wants
to know is if your home has a
storm cellar, baseball or "safe
room" where is it. That way they
will know where to start digging
Emergency Management Coordinator
Montague County
Kelly McNabb
P.O. Box 342 Nocona, TX 76255
Cell: (940) 841-1646 ■ Phone: (940) 825-3306 ■ Fax: (940) 825-3308
kelly@menabbfeed.com • Amateur Radio: KE5NQZ
Radio ID: 763
This project is strictly voluntary.
This information will be used only in emergency situations when there is a possibility of
people being trapped in cellars or safe-rooms. This information will not be disclosed to
anyone unless it is needed for an emergency situation where lives could be in danger.
This information will not be sold or available to the public.
Please fill out and return bottom portion.
Name
Address
City, State, Zip
Phone Numbers
Cell Phone
Numbers
E-Mail Address
Number of People
in Household
Cellar/Safe-Room
Locations
N
GPS Coordinates
(Coordinates need to be
taken at the cellar or safe-
room door.)
If you can't take GPS Coordinates return form incomplete and someone will
come take the coordinates for you with your supplied information.
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Local burn victim sees irony
:ast-0ff's TV ads don't
follow its own warnings
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By Tracy R. Mesler
With the fourth degree chem-
ical burn scars still blotching her
forearms, Brenda Hickman
yelled at her family Saturday
night, "Come here! Look at
this!!"
What she
was seeing on
television was
the model for
an Easy-Off
Oven Cleaner
commercial
doing just exactly why the man-
ufacturer says not to do! Clean
her oven without wearing pro-
tective gloves.
Mrs, Hickman is living proof
of why someone "should follow
directions". And yet here was
the firm showing its consumers
what not to do!
Three weeks
ago Mrs.
Hickman, owner
of Whit's Cafe in
Nocona, was
cleaning 'the
black' off her Label's
buffet line Warning
warming pans with Easy-Off
Oven Cleaner where suddenly
her arms started burning. The
primary
ingredient in
Easy-Off is
lye, a caustic
chemical.
And her skin
took excep-
tion to the
abuse - and
the paid for
it was pain
and scaring.
For a cou-
ple of weeks
her right arm
was
wrapped,
and she went in daily for
debreeding - where the dead tis-
sue was removed from the
burns. Her left arm suffered
less damage.
On each can of Easy-Off, in
bold type is this warning:
"Wear long rubber gloves. Do
not get on skin, clothing or in
eyes."
Please See "Burn" Page 2
Victim's
burn scars
Under Construction
City Manager Lynn Henlery started turning dirt on the new 50-
by 60-foot fire hall Tuesaday next to the Police Station. The new
structure will be large enough to house all of the city's emer-
gency services equipment.
Three streets
may become
one; under
consideration
For approximately 20 proper-
ty owners along the Austin-
Flynt-Wall Street corridor, a
public hearing on March 26th
will have an impact on them.
The Nocona City Council has
scheduled to hearing to consider
changing the street with three
names in just five blocks to a
street with just one name. And
that will effect the property
owners, how they get their mail,
but just as critically how they
receive emergency services.
The Nocona City Council
will hold a public hearing at 5
p.m. on Wednesday, March 26
in the City Council Chambers at
City Hall.
City Manager Lynn Henley
said problems have occurred
with 9-1-1 dispatching and diffi-
culty people unfamiliar with the
unique street with three names
have in finding the location
needing assistance.
Paring the street down to one
name would possibly alleviate
some of those problems, Henley
explained.
AREA WEATHER
nm
Day
Hi
Lo
Rain
Mar. 5
58
28
—
Mar. 6
60
35
--
Mae. 7
38
27
0.10
Mar. 8
54
18
—
Mar. 9
49
22
--
Mar. 10
67
36
0.69
Mar. 11
68
37
—
24 Hour period ending at 7 a.m.
Offical recording site at Nocona Hills
Tot Rain 2008 3.35
Tot. Rain Mar. 1.38
Through Mar. 2007 11.36
Through Mar. 2006 7.12
Burn Ban
Still In Effect
No outdoor burning
by order of County
Commissioners Court
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Mesler, Tracy R. & Mesler, Linda L. The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 13, 2008, newspaper, March 13, 2008; Nocona, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth439388/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Friends of the Nocona Public Library.