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Contractor pours
part of Courthouse
Annex slab
... Page 1
Museum's Indian
Hall taking shape
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Booster Club
honors athetlic
achievements
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vol 107, issue 50
Proudly Serving Montague County Since June 6,1905
Thursday, May 17, 2012
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Vets, chrome fun for Nocona
By Tracy R. Mesler
If you look closely, you
can probably find a rod-head
somewhere polishing up the
chrome on their classic car
or truck this week, or maybe
they are washing their
motorcycles in anticipation
of Saturday's American
Hero Classic Car Show and
Nocona Fun Fest.
In either case, the interest
in this weekend's event, part
of Armed Forces Day Fun
Fest, is growing.
With a boost from the
American Hero Classic Car
Show, Saturday's Nocona
Fun Fest expected to see
record crowds and interest in
downtown Nocona May 19.
The Car Show and
Motorcycle rally are being
sponsored by Nocona VFW
Post 8558.
Randy Duckworth said
the post is anticipating in
excess of 100 motorcycles
and between 60 and 100
classic cars and trucks "if not
more, depending on the
weather."
"A lot of people are
involved in different events,
but whether it's the Poker
Run, the Car Show, eating
great vendor foods, enjoying
arts and crafts or something
else, there's a lot of things to
do for the kids. The bounce
house and rock climbing
wall are just two of the
events for the kids to have a
great day. It helps bring the
community together and
helps promote the downtown
area to tourists who might
not others have come to
Nocona," said Chamber
President Patty Fenoglio.
Downtown streets are
packed with vendors and
activities for all ages.
Those who come out can-
not help but notice charac-
ters dressed in cowboy gar
dating from the 1800s. A jail
is on site for honery charac-
ters sponsored by the
—See "Downtown" Page 3
Student broadcasters
take trip to KFDX to
see how they do it
MONTAGUE — The
Eagle News team wrapped
of a successful year of 24
weekly news broadcasts on
the Montague ISD website.
As a reward students trav-
eled to KFDX studio (pic-
tured right) in Wichita Falls
to see how it is really done.
The students had a wonder-
ful time and learned a lot
about what goes on behind
the scenes.
Mr. Freeman then treated
the students to Samurai of
Tokyo and Bahama Bucks
snow cones!
Thanks for a great year of
support!
Check at their last broad-
cast, the final broadcast of
the year will be a blooper of
all our mistakes in two
weeks!
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— Photo by Tracy Mesler
With the pad finally poured after the ground dried from sprint rains, workers are rapidly working on Pete and
Barbara Horton's downtown home. Theirs will be the third home to be located in downtown Nocona.
Precinct 1 uses cash reserves to make repairs
Oilfield wearing out roads
By Tracy R. Mesler
MONAGUE - Unable to
anticipate the depth of dam-
age the oil and gas industry
has inflicted on the roads in
his precinct. Pet. 1 Comm.
Jon Kernek sought permis-
sion Monday to use the bulk
of his unencumbered funds
to try and affect repairs to at
least keep his roads passable
for the landowners and resi-
dents of the precinct.
The court approved his
request to transfer $100,000
from the precinct's unen-
cumbered fund account to
his accounts for part-time
salaries, fuel and rock.
County Auditor Jennifer
Taylor said that effectively
uses all of Precinct l's cash
reserves. What remains is
what will be needed to
finance precinct operations
from the start of the fiscal
year, Oct. 1, until property
tax payments are deposited,
in late December and
January.
"There was no way to
anticipate the damage,"
Kernek told his fellow com-
missioners.
While Precincts 4 (north-
east quadrant) and 2 (south-
west quadrant) have seen
some of the heavy truck traf-
fic generated by the develop-
ment of the Barnett Shale, to
date the bulk of the activity
has been in the southeastern
fourth of the county -
Kernek's precinct.
Following the meeting
Annex activity .
Kernek noted some of his
dirt and gravel roads "have a
hundred (heavy) trucks a
day" driving on them.
"There's no way they can
stand up to that load. It's just
beating them to death," he
said.
Over the past several
years, Kernek has been
stock-piling the "road cut
fees" the oil and gas industry
has paid to lay temporary
water lines, frac-lines and
road crossings across the
— See "Road" Page 12
By Tracy R. Mesler
In gathering the data for
last week's campaign
finance story in the race for
97th District Court Judge
April's report for District
Attorney Jack McGaughey
was not found. The informa-
tion in that report changes
"the story" and exhibits
McGaughey has a much
broader base of support than
just the legal community.
For the filing period of
January through April 19,
McGaughey reported receiv-
ing $25,290 in contributions
of which $3,500 came from
attorneys which the vast
majority coming from other
professions from welders
and bail bondsmen to ranch-
ers, housewives, jewelers,
contractors, nurses, engi-
neers and firemen.
From the two reports,
McGaughey has received
$28,390 in contributions (a
total of $8,000 from attor-
neys) and $3,500 in personal
loans with cumulative
expenditures of $35,042.92.
A total of $5,850 in contribu-
tions came from individuals
who identified themselves as
attorneys.
Those contributing
$1,000 to McGaughey's
campaign for judge during
the January to April report-
ing period were: Montague
investor David Fenoglio,
Nocona oil producer Steve
Tettleton, Spicewood petro-
leum engineer David
Henderson, and Dallas sales-
man Lindsey McGehee.
Bowie rancher Bob
Hankins contributed $600.
Contributing $500 during
that period were: Montague
secretary Shelley Adkins,
Amarillo housewife Edith
Brandon, Henrietta attorney
Frank Douthitt, Nocona con-
tractor Darren Fenoglio,
Nocona real estate developer
— See "Help" Page 12
AREA WEATHER
0.07
May 9
May 10
May 11
May 12
May 13
May 14
May 15
70
80
81
65
69
79
80
51
53
59
50
56
58
53
0.15
0.03
Offical recording site at Nocona Hills
Tot Rain 2012 12.47
Tot. May 0.43
Thru May 2011 6.47
Thru April 2010 16.51
Contractors have beenworking weekends and after five to get the
Montague County Courthouse Annex back on scheduled after rains, and
by timing for watering the pad caused a 23 days delay in construction.
While one crew was busy pouting half of the slab Monday, others were
busy opening more footings while a third crew was setting footings.
— Photo by Tracy Mesler
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Mesler, Tracy R. & Mesler, Linda L. The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 107, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 17, 2012, newspaper, May 17, 2012; Nocona, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth439441/m1/1/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Friends of the Nocona Public Library.