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A Rare Medium Well Done
Serving North Morris County And Its Neighbors
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Established in 1886 • Naples' Oldest Business Institution
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Hometown Newspaper of Martha Sue Martin of Atlanta, Texas
Thursday
September
Volume 126
500
Number 29
1,057 attend opening day classes
Pewitt School sets attendance record
Known for setting athletic
records, academic records, band
playing and marching records, and
gaining other accolades, Pewitt
School has hit a new high mark for
attendance growth in the history
of the education facility.
When the doors opened Monday
of last week for the first day of
classes, the total attendance
jumped to 1,057 and that was more
than the 1,044 of the previous year.
It was the fourth consecutive gain
in opening day attendance.
This year's figure was the fifth
time for first-day attendance to
surpass the 1,000 mark. It was
1,020 in 1972; 1011 in 1973, 1027
in 1974 and 1,026 in 2010.
From that point, attendance
hovered around the high 800s and
900s until 2010 when 1,026 showed
up on the first day of classes.
After opening the doors to the
1,057 students on Monday of last
week, the enrollment figures grew
to 1,072 by Thursday when 15 more
students registered for classes.
The biggest jump was in kinder-
garten, from 86 to 89 but four other
elementary classes showed gains
of one or two each. At the junior
high level, the eighth grade was
the only class to show a change,
from 82 to 84. Each high school
class had a gain of one each from
opening day to Thursday.
Class size ranged from 90 in the
ninth grade to 57 in Pre-K for regu-
lar classes. The PPCD class had
two and the 'head start' group
showed 17 students.
The elementary school total of
552 on Thursday was the highest,
while high school had 296 and jun-
ior high reached 224.
Friday night motorcycle accident
One killed, one injured
A motorcycle accident in Cass
County late Friday night of last
week resulted in the death of a
Marietta woman and the hospital-
ization of her husband.
A spokesperson with the Texas
Department of Public Safety said
Tami Huddleston Loewen, 52, died
early Saturday morning at Titus
Regional Medical Center in Mt.
Pleasant, after being transferred
from the accident scene by medical
emergency personnel.
The driver of the motorcycle,
Randy Loewen, 54, was in inten-
sive care at a Tyler hospital in
serious condition with internal
trauma, according to the DPS
spokesperson. He was taken to the
Mt. Pleasant hospital after the
accident, then transferred to the
Monitoring
Main Street
ILnewsJ?"
School is back in session and
we're going to offer some history
trivia for the students. The lesson
was sent by a friend who had a lot of
time on his hands and said he hoped
they were all correct in case a teacher
uses it on a quiz.
ALABAMA Was the first
state to have 9-1-1, started 1968.
ALASKA One out of ev-
ery 64 people has a pilot's license.
ARIZONA Is the only
state in the continental U.S. that
doesn't follow Daylight Savings Time.
ARKANSAS Has the
only active diamond mine in the U.S.
CALIFORNIA Its economy
is so large that if it were a country, it
would rank seventh in the entire world.
COLORADO In 1976 it
became the only state to turn down
the Olympics.
CONNECTICUT The
Frisbee was invented here at Yale
University
DELAWARE Has more
scientists and engineers than any
other state.FLORIDA
At 874.3 square miles, Jacksonville
is the U.S. 's largest city.
GEORGIA It was
here, in 1886, that pharmacist John
Pemberton made the first vat of Coca-
Cola.
HAWAII Hawaiians
live, on average, five years longer
than residents of any other state.
IDAHO TV was
invented in Rigby, Idaho, in 1922.
ILLINOIS Had or has a gover-
nor in jail, one pending and is the
most corrupt state in the union. Illi-
nois is the only state where ex-gover-
nors make the license plates.
INDIANA Home to
Santa Claus, Indiana , which gets a
half million letters to Santa every
year.
IOWA Wnnebagos
get their name from Winnebago
County. Also, it is the only state name
that begins with two vowels.
KANSAS Liberal,
Kansas , has an exact replica of the
house in The Wizard of Oz.
KENTUCKY Has more
than $6 billion in gold underneath
Fort Knox .
LOUISIANA Has par-
ishes instead of counties because
they were originally Spanish church
units.
MAINE It's so big,
it covers as many square miles as the
other five New England states com-
bined.
MARYLAND The Ouija
board was created in Baltimore in
1892.
MASSACHUSETTS The Fig
Newton is named after Newton , Mas-
sachusetts .
MICHIGAN Fremont,
home to Gerber, is the baby food
capital of the world.
MINNESOTA Bloom-
ington's Mall of America is so big,
that if you spent 10 minutes in each
store, you'd be there nearly four days.
MISSISSIPPI President
Teddy Roosevelt refused to shoot a
bear here ... that's how the teddy bear
got its name.
MISSOURI Is the
birthplace of the ice cream cone.
MONTANA A sapphire
from Montana is in the Crown Jewels
of England.
NEBRASKA More
triplets are born here than in any other
state
NEW HAMPSHIRE Birth-
place of Tupperware, invented in 1938
by Earl Tupper.
NEW JERSEY Has the
most shopping malls in one area in
the world.
NEW MEXICO Smokey
the Bear was rescued from a 1950
forest fire here.
NEW YORK Is home to
the nation's oldest cattle ranch, started
in 1747 in Montauk.
NORTH CAROLINA Home
of the first Krispy Kreme doughnut.
NORTH DAKOTA Rigby,
North Dakota , is the exact geographic
center of North America .
OHIO The hot
dog was invented here in 1900.
OKLAHOMA The
grounds of the state capital are cov-
ered by operating oil wells.
OREGON Has the
most ghost towns in the country.
PENNSYLVANIA The
smiley : ) was first used in 1980 by
computer scientists at Carnegie
Mellon University.
RHODE ISLAND The
nation's oldest bar, the White Horse
Tavern, opened here in 1673.
SOUTH CAROLINA Sumter
County is home to the world's largest
gingko farm.
SOUTH DAKOTA Is the
only state that's never had an earth-
quake.
TENNESSEE Nash-
ville 's Grand 01' Opry is the longest
running live radio show in the world.
TEXAS Dr Pepper was
invented in Waco in 1885. The ham-
burger was invented in Arlington in
1906.
UTAH The first Kentucky
Fried Chicken restaurant opened here
in 1952.
VERMONT Montpelier is
the only state capital without a
McDonald's.
VIRGINIA Home
of the world's largest office building,
The Pentagon.
WASHINGTON Seattle
has twice as many college graduates
as any other state.
WASHINGTON D.C Is the
first planned capital in the world.
WEST VIRGINIA Had
the world's first brick paved street,
Summers Street, laid in Charleston in
1870.
WISCONSIN The ice
cream sundae was invented here in
1881 to get around Blue Laws prohib-
iting ice cream from being sold on
Sundays. Also the American Water
Spaniel was created there and is the
state dog.
WYOMING Was the first
state to allow women to vote.
Tyler medical facility.
The couple were returning home
from a football game in Texarkana.
Loewen was driving a 2008 Honda
motorcycle about 11 p.m., Friday
on State Highway 77, with his wife
as a passenger, said the DPS infor-
mant.
TAMI HUDDLESTON LOEWEN
4-6-1960 • 9-1-2012
The motorcycle was traveling
east on the highway when it veered
off the roadway and hit a culvert
after apparently attempting to
miss a vehicle that had made a u-
turn. According to the DPS, both
were wearing helmets.
Ms. Loewen's body was trans-
ferred to Dallas for an autopsy.
She is the daughter of Dorothy
Huddleston Bell of Naples, and
the late Fielding Huddleston.
Funeral services for Mrs. Loe-
wen are pending with Harrison
Funeral Home of Naples.
NTCC trustees
approve tax rate
and budget figures
The Northeast Texas Commu-
nity College Board of Trustees ap-
proved a tax rate and budget for
the 2012-2013 year at its meeting
Tuesday evening of last week.
The tax rate remains at its cap
of 10 cents per $100 valuation and
is projected to generate $3,182 mil-
lion in revenue.
The budget was set at $17,922
million, and included reductions
in planned deferred maintenance
and in the growth of reserve fund-
ing.
"Given the dramatic enrollment
increases of the last several years,
the college has been able to make
some progress in critical areas like
fund balance, plant infrastructure
(HVAC and emergency notifica-
tion systems), and expansion of
instructional programs," said
NTCC president Brad Johnson.
"However, further enrollment
growth may prove difficult and the
decline in tax valuations in our
district suggests we are facing sev-
eral more years of challenge."
This fall the college will enroll
its first class of Mount Pleasant
High School students into the In-
dustrial Technology Program.
These students join the Shelby
Automotive Technology students
as a unique group of high school
students with the opportunity to
complete an industry certification
before graduating from high school.
Other plans for this year call for
a new strategic plan focused on
improving the success of NTCC
students, once enrolled. "Motivated
and prepared students do excep-
tionally well at NTCC," Dr.
Johnson said." "We want to find
ways to m ove many more of our
students into that successful
group."
PEWITT
OPEN1N& n
DA Y
enrollment
CAMPUS
2005
2006
2007
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2008
2009 2010
2011 2012
Elementary
436
459
471
459
486
511
525
543
Junior High
197
216
232
217
214
234
230
222
High School
291
298
277
270
276
281
299
292
GRADE
2005
2006 2007 2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Head Start
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
16
16
15
17
Early Childhood
n/a
n/a
2
5
3
3
1
2
Pre-Kindergn
42
37
41
37
55
60
54
56
Kindergarten
62
82
64
69
76
84
75
86
First
69
61
80
70
58
79
89
84
Second
69
69
66
74
66
59
70
83
Third
67
70
73
62
81
69
62
74
Fourth
67
69
74
73
56
83
66
72
Fifth
60
71
71
69
75
58
83
69
Sixth
66
69
80
69
71
81
61
77
Seventh
48
80
73
75
68
80
87
63
Eighth
83
67
79
73
75
73
82
82
Freshmen
91
103
67
73
75
78
72
89
Sophomores
67
79
83
70
74
74
79
68
Juniors
63
61
72
65
68
71
77
71
Seniors
70
55
55
62
59
58
71
64
TOTAL
924
973
980
946
976
1026
1044
1057
FIRST-DAY ENROLLMENT TOTALS BY YEAR
1972 =
1020
1986 =
946
2000 =
937
1973 =
1011
1987 =
971
2001 =
881
1974 =
1027
1988 =
982
2002 =
875
1975 =
971
1989 =
933
2003 =
873
1976 =
967
1990 =
909
2004 =
908
1977 =
979
1991 =
914
2005 =
924
1978 =
947
1992 =
950
2006 =
973
1979 =
910
1993 =
974
2007 =
980
1980 =
902
1994 =
997
2008 =
943
1981 =
956
1995 =
967
2009 =
976
1982 =
964
1996 =
950
2010 =
1026
1983 =
952
1997 =
888
2011 =
1044
1984 =
897
1998 =
906
2012 =
1057
1985 =
941
1999 =
941
An emotional day
It was the first day of kindergarten classes and emotions ranged
from tears to smiles of anticipation for the 86 students in the four
classes. That's Avery Thompson, above, being consoled by her
father, Travis Thompson. Shedding some tears while thinking
about his first day in kindergarten was Ian Mares as his younger
sister gave thought to a number puzzle. photos by Melody
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Craig, Morris. The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 6, 2012, newspaper, September 6, 2012; Naples, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth291753/m1/1/: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Atlanta Public Library.