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Jo Ann Dennis
NOTICE TO PARENTS
Th* article is being written in the interest and well being of unlicensed drivers. Number, of parents, school teachers and law enforce-
ment officers have exjvessed their concern about boys and girls driving in our town without a license or with a restricted license (with a
.censed driver in the front seat. The licensed driver must be 21 years of age or older and Vve at least one year's experience driving with
3 TT’ L 1Iteen’ fOUIteen and flfteen year old boys and 8irk are askin8 parents, "If So G So is driving why can't I?" "Look, " they say
astiiey re driving down the street with their parents, "there's Johnny driving and I'm six months older than he is. Why can't I drive?"
"TJere's Mary driving. She takes others driving with her. Why can't I drive?"
No dit to s teenager, one of the marks of growing up is driving a car. To any person who can remember their early driving days
it was a thrill that only driving could attain. The first time out in the family car repesents a giant's leap into the world of travel, power
and control over speed and power.
The sheriff of Gaines County, Ed Welch, said, "I always tell them if parents are riding in the car and an unlicensed driver is driving
parents are responsible."
The main thing that's wrong with an unlicensed driver - IT IS AGAINST THE LAW! If it is against the law for a 9 year old to drive a
car it is just as much against the law for a 15 year old unlicensed driver to drive. Parents are urged to show their respect of the law. L.
M. "Shorty" Blackmon stated "The city police are not out to harrass any young drivers. If we catch them or if they have an accident
we will havp to give them a ticket. Police will be doing some checking. If teenagers are found without a license and have been granted
permission by parents to drive the parents also will be subject to a ticket. "
Phil Upton, Texas Highway Pattolman, said, "We've had a lot of young people lately driving with only a learners permit. They must
be accompanied by a licensed driver, 21 years of age or older with one year's driving experience, riding in the front seat. If parents are
in the car with an unlicensed driver we simply give a citation to the parents. "
Parents of Seminole and Gaines County are asked to please cooperate in the spirit in which this editorial is written.
ISeminele News j.
malice toward none— With charity to all" Abraham Lincoln
Jo Ann Dennis, 16 year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Dennis, has been named Sweet-
heart of the 16th Annual West
Texas Twirling Festival, sched-
uled in conjunction with the
52nd Annual Panhandle Sout h
Plains Fair at Lubbock.
Jo Ann, a majorette for the
Seminole High Band, was chosen
from a field of nearly two dozen
candidates who submitted photo-
graphs to Buck Owens, one of the
featured F air Park Coliseum at-
tractions.
The Twirling Festival will be
Saturday, Sept. 27. The Sem-
inole High School band will par-
ticipate in the parade Monday,
Sept. 22, opening of the Fair.
County Tax
Evaluation
Mary Baldwin, County Tax
Assessor-Collector, released
the following figures for the
county-wide tax roll. The sur-
face for the county for this year
is $5, 961, 670.00, oil properties
$67,443,180.00 making a total
of $73, 404, 850.00. This is an
increase over last year of approx*
imately one quarter million
dollars or $227, 800.00.
Loop School District got the
big raise in the Adair Field and
the Cedar Lake Field or units.
The Seminole School District
suffered a loss of $1, 607,430.00
in valuation. A comparison of
these figures is shovffi below.
1969 1968
Surface $4,180, 620 $4,103,170
Oil 57,656.010 59.340,890
61,836,630 63,444,060
The surface evaluations were
raised in the school district but
Vol. Ill Page 1 No. 24 Pages 24 SEMINOLE, GAINES COUNTY, TEXAS 10<f September 17, 1969
Seminole Slaughters Denver City
— 21-6
ANNUAL FARM TOUR
Thursday, September 25, will be the annual Farm Tour of Gaines
County. The tour will be sponsored by the Gaines-Andrews Soil and
Water Conservation District in ocooperation with the extension crop's
sub-committee. The tour will leave by private automobiles at 9
a. m. from the west side of the courthouse.
Representatives of the Soil Conservation Service and members of
the Extension Service will be present at each stop to answer questions.
Charles Mickelson, head of the local U. S. Soil Conservation Ser-
vice Office, pointed out that the Outstanding Conservationist of the
Year will be presented on one of the stops. The Noonday Lions Club
will furnish the trophy.
2. Another stop will be at the Marion Bowers farm west of Sem-
inole where castor bean variety tests will be shown and explained.
The tests were grown in cooperation with the Research Center and
County Extension Service. A cotton test also will be seen at the
same stop.
3. The Willie Easter farm has a demonstration of broadcast cotton
that tourists may see.
4. For another stop at the Higginbotham Cattle Company a brush
control of destroyed mesquite will be seen.
Other points of interest (probably not to stop) on the tour will be
beans on the Herbert Hicks farm and permanent pasture on the Hig-
ginbotham Cattle Company Ranch.
"We hope to have as many as 100 people on the tour, " Mickelson
concluded.
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This is the one, the first one and the only one needed by the
Indians to beat Denver City. Final score 21-6.
POST 204
Last night the American Legion Post #204 in Seminole installed
^ _ v _________________ officers for the new year. The 19th District Commander, C. G, Me
oil properties lost the big amount Keraie from Lubbock, was the installing officer. Seated from left
This means that for the current to right are J. C. Harris, Sgt. at Arms; D. L. Nolen, standing in for
school year the Seminole system Billy Bond, Commander; Lee Tedford, 2nd Vice Commander;stand-
could lose between $35,000 and ing left to right are Frank Wolfe, Chaplain; McKenzie, O. C. Mikiel,
$40,000 in taxes. 3rd Vice Commander; and 1st Vice Commander Marvin Henry.
With coach Leland Caffey
furnishing the antics on the side-
lines and the Indian line furnish-
ing it on the field the Seminole
Indians overpowered Denver City
21-6 last Friday night. Neither
the Indians nor the Ponies could
put together a sustained drive
in the early part of the ballgame.
The early part of the contest was
marred by fumbles and poor play.
, The Indians grounded out on
the ground starting out in the
latter part of the first quarter
and made it 6-0 when Lavem
Bennett swept in from 3 yards
out. Danny Whisenhunt split
the uprights for the extra point
and Seminole was ahead for the
evening. I
The Denver City Mustangs,
showing the spirit that always
marks their ball club, returned
from their own 35 yard line and
marched goalward and scored
on a pass from their senior
quarterback, Richardson,to Larry
Clinton. The defender, Lavem
Bennett, missed on a sure 6point'
interception on the play when
file ball trickled through his hands
and fell into the hands of the
Denver City halfback. The
Mustangs missed their 2 point
conversion.
After an exchange of fumbles
in the 2nd quarter the Indians
leveled out again and scored
from 3 yards away with Frank
Gady carrying. Quarterback
Whisenhunt kicked an extra point
again and it was the Indians
14; the Mustangs 6.
Seminole's passing game of
0 for 6 must be improved upon
but their ground game was tough.
Their defense was tough. Ray
Hitch may not be able to go to
the side fast but he was a demon
against 2 men getting into their
backfield.
1 It was a real team effort on
defense. Frank Gady, Tommy
Harrell, Everett Haller and Bill
Hearae were tough when the
occasion called for it. Sophomore
quarterback Gary Don Ray looked
good on the roll-out and the op-
tions and added the final score
in the 4th quarter to ice away
a real victory. <
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Shelton, Madeline. Seminole News (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 24, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 17, 1969, newspaper, September 17, 1969; Seminole, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth578247/m1/1/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gaines County Library.