The Montague County Times (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 8, Ed. 1 Monday, June 8, 1953 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 47
BOWIE, TEXAS, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1953
NUMBER 8
Ghis & <ohat
By HARLOW E. TIBBETTS
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The picture of the high school
graduates didn’t arrive in time to
appear in last Monday’s paper.
A coupon had been printed in
the first run providing for order-
ing similar pictures from Manuel
Hall at one dollar each. The
picture appears in this issue.
Big potatoes can be grown in
Bowie is the claim of .Edd Mc-
Gannon. He has the big potatoes
to prove his claims. He brought
a Red River Eerly Ohio potato
to the News-Times office Friday
that weighed two pounds. He had
another that weighed 1% lbs.
A hen’s egg with very unusual
coloring was brought to the
News-Times by Mrs. W. C. Jones,
jr. The egg is a speckled rust
color, however one end was not
colored, making the balance of
the egg look as if it had been
painted and the paint had rubbed
off on the end. *
G. Doc Jackson, owner of Jack-
son’s Department store, received
word last week that his store
had received second place in the
district for the Fieldcrest win-
dow display.
Last year was the first year
that Jackscm’s had entered the
contest yet they took, top
place and received a check for
$300. a trophy aiid a display"case7
They received nation-wide recog-
nition for their unusual display.
Johnson Poultry Ranch CounlY Wins
Receive Order ior 12,500 ftLopSlding
Chicks from Ceylon, India
The fame of M. Johnson’s information on the M. Johnson’s
Poultry Ranch at Bowie, as one
of the largest in the world, and
producer of outstanding quality
English white leghorns, has again
been evidenced by orders com-
ing from foreign countries, this
time from Ceylon, on the other
side of the earth.
An order for 12,500 baby chicks
has been received this week by
Mr. Johnson from the govern-
ment of Ceylon, in the southern
tip of India, and it was indicated
that a Ceylonese plane might be
sent for them to make quick
delivery.
But Mr. Johnson was closing
the baby chick season here and
had to reply that he could not
fill the order now, but would try
to handle a similar order next
season.
The communication from the
Government of Ceylon said that
poultry ranch had been furnish-
ed by the U. S. Department of
Agriculture .The ranch has a wide
reputation because of the out-
standing laying records of its
English White Leghorn chickens
and because of the 'R. O. P. Pro-
gram and healthy condition of its
stock.
Mr. Johnson has turned down
many orders this year, the de-
mand for his fine chicks being
greater than he could supply.
The M. Johnson Poultry Ranch
has shipped chicks all oV.er
America and into foreign coun-
tries for many years, and is a tre-
mendous factor in making Bowie
known in many corners of the
world. The ranch, with its hun-
dreds of modern buildings ,and
poultry breeding facilities is a
show place that attracts hundreds
of tourists and visitors annually.
Attending Slate
Firemen's Convention
The following firemen' and
their wives left Uys morning
to attend the state~uremen’s con-
vention at Austin: Chief and Mrs.
A. C. Baccus and grandson Char'
Of Road No. 455
Moody Cotton Co. of Galveston
was denied a temporary injunc-
tion against Montague county in
a case tried in district court at
Montague Thursday. Judge Ar-
thur Tipps of Wichita Falls heard
the case.
Right-of-way for a fann-to-
market road was condemned by
the county across a ranch owned
by the Moody Cotton Co. In their
petition for an injunction they
questioned the right of the coun-
ty to condemn the land. The
Cotton Co. has served notice of
appeal of the suit to the Court of
Civil Appeals.
The land that was condemned
for the changing of Farm to Mar-
ket Road No. 455 is near the
Montague - Denton county line
southeast of Forestburg. The
Moody Cotton Co. ranch is in
parts of four counties: Montague,
Denton, Wise and Cook.
Former Resideni
Found Dead
In Local Motel
C. S. Battles, a driller for the
Hands Drilling Co. of Wichita
'Falls, was found dead in a- room
at the Hutchison Courts about | and Mrs. Charlie King. The group j public to attend.
Miss Ruby to Present
Primary Music Pupils
In Rectial Fri. Night
Miss Inez Rudy will present
her primary music pupils in a
recital at the First Baptist church
on Friday evening at eight
o’clock. A varied program of
piano and.ensemble” numbers has
has
Start Laying First Pipe
Line to New Gasoline Plant
Call Ten For
Draft Exams
Softball League
Play Starts ’J’uesday
The Softball League with-
The following registrants of teams *or; the Lions Club Jay-
cees, Service Pipe Line and Con-
oco or Alvord will start in Bowie
the lighted
field near the swimming pool.
Each of these teams will play
this three-county draft area have
been orderd .to report for pre-
induction physical examinations1 ue? ay nig 1 on
on June 15, 1953:
Bobby J. Gardner, box 337,
and William O. Hunt, 206 Taylor
street, both of Bowie.
Carrol L. Morrow, Nocona.
Billy G. Garrett, Bobby'D.
Terrell, and Jimmy G. Terrell,
all of Route 1, Chico.
Pat McMurray, box 411, and
Robert A. Winder, Route 4, De-
catur.
Edwin J. Bitz, Route 2, Wich-
ita Falls.
Bobby G. Lewis, box 63, Rhome.
lesv Mr. and Mrs. JElvin Butler, j been prepared. Miss Rudy
Mr." and Mrs. Hill -Myers and JVHvlissued--a..cnrdiaUnvitatiunHo 4hd -ng t_ ^ so1|m(atri7n latcr-
Ask Merchants
To Meet Tuesday
Bowie business men who are
interested in giving prizes and
taking part in the community
prpgram to be presented at
Vashti have been asked to meet
at the Chamber of ‘ Commerce
! room tomorrow (Tuesday) morn-
ing at 10 o’clock. They have been
asked to take prizes to the meet-
two games each week beginning
at 7:30 on Tuesdays dnd Fridays.
Admission will be 15 cents and
25 cents. These games are spon-
sored by the Bowie public
schools. The games will continue
for nine weeks. ,
The Boys’ League, ages 9-12,
will open June 15 for a series
of six weeks, playing on Mon-
days and Thursday nights, ac-
cording to Coach Millard Massey.,
They will also play on the light-
ed school field: There will be
sponsors for each of the four
teams and they all expect to
have uniforms.
BIBLE SCHOOL
AT ROCK HILL FOR WEEK
B-ible school will be
Work is now under way
on laying of pipe lines from the
new Bowie Gasoline Refinery to
the different producing fields of
the area, a total of about 80 miles
of,pipe ranging from 2-inch to
14-inch.
The Barry Construction Com-
pany of Houston is the contrac-
tor and about fifteen of its men
and their families have moved
into Bowie in the past week, or y
Will arrive soon. About thirty-
five men will be employed, most
of them local men, it is declared.
Most of these have been em-
ployed already. The company
has ten or twelve portable weld-
ing units.
It will take about ten months
for the job to be completed,
which will also include laying
of lines from the gasoline plant,
two miles east of Bowie, to. the
loading docks on the Fort Worth
Sc Denver railway line, two miler
southeast of Bowie.
The company’s offices and
warehouse are located in the old
Wetsel building, former location
of Bowie Machine Works, comer
of Smythe and Montague streets,
held at1 Burt Barry is head of’ the opera-
tive Rock Hill Community church I tions here, Cecil Flannery is su-
for all ages next week. The school
will start Monday, June 15th. and
continue through Friday. Rev.
Jess Whatley is the 'pasloE-
Have J7ou .noticed that , smile
on Frank Benson’s face? It is
caused by news coming out of
6:15 Friday morning. Fellow ; will return Thursday evening.
workmen stopped for him on * --—-
their way to work and found him
dead in bed.
_ , „ , Williams rendered a verdict
Denton county. Mr. Bqpspn, and; . f natural
Lee Hicks of the Hicks Rubber I natural
Co. brought in a flowing .well in
northwest Denton county this1
of
c: uses. It
was known that Mr. Battles had
hot been well of late. He was
, ... . found by T. A. Fuller and John
.past _week. The well rs making Raj,j . w.
Thirty-Two Enrolled For. High School Majorettes
Justice of the Peace Howard Summer School Opening
Introducing the New
FFA Boys Planning Trip
With Stops in Several States
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in excess of 150 barrels a day.
The well is in an extension of
the Boliver. field -on 40 acres of
the Bessie F’orrester ranch in the
Barroux survey. Total depth of
the well was 1692 feet.
The Battles home is in Colo-
rado City but the family formerly
lived here. They had lived here
off and on- when he Was em- j
ployed in this vicinity.
Funeral services were held at
the Oak Street Baptist church at
Colorado City Sunday evening,
He is survived by his wife and
and a half brother, Milton Blake
of Bogate, Texas.
Dr. C. J. Dodsworth, who at-
tended the Methodist conference
rrieetings in Dallas last week
reports one' of the best sermons
he ever heard, preached by a
Florida pastor. This pastor has
a very large church. Besides the. CEMETERY SEXTON
usual church auditorium the RECEIVES INJURIES
church has an open air seating j
arrangement and drive-in ar- i
rangements where people can |
listen to the sermon from their |
cars. The attendance is so large |
that it takes 120 persons to take
up the collection.
Summer School in Bowie High j
School opened this morning
according to Superintendent
Claude Thompson. Approximate-
ly thirty-two students are en-
rolled in the eight week perioc | §jj
of study which will end July 31
Mr. Millard Massey, assistant
coach is teaching math, and Mrs.
Todd Fryar, English teacher in
the long term is aisd teaching
that subject during the summer
school.
one daughter, Marie; one brother j 4-14 MEMBERS
RETURN FROM CAMP
An appeal for funds has been
received from the Woman’s Fo-
rum of Wichita Falls. This or-
ganization is attempting to col-
lect $1,200 to air condition Chap-
el Hall at the Wichita Falls State
hospital. To date only one-fourth
of the fund has been raised. Nell
Hutcheson, chairman, writes:
Montague county has 84 patients
at the hospital but your county
has contributed only $49.60 to
this fund. Surely many citizens
of your county will spare a dol-
lar or more. All donations should
be forwarded to the Social Serv-
ice Dept., Woman’s Forum, 2120
Speedway, Wichita Falls. s
Miss Jan Wood joined the
News-Times force today as
news editor* Miss Wood, who
has had news writing experience
on the Bowie News, is taking
journalism at North Texas State
Teachers College at Denton. She
will assist with the writing of
front page news and will appre-
ciate any news tips sent her way.
She will succeed Mrs. Byron
(Ramona) Ifenry who has re-
signed to assist her husband in
his business. Miss Wood comes to
the News -Times management
very highly recommended by her
fellow townspeople and we feel
fortunate to have her to help
during the summer vacation
months.
Mrs. A. P. Guinn recently
(Continued on last page)
George Cox, sexton for
wood cemetery, received a serious
injury to his foot and heel Tues-
day evening while mowing the
grass at the cemetery. Some
small hones may be broken in
the ankle.
He was rushed by Owens-
Brumley Ambulance to the Wich-
ita Falls Clinic for surgery. He
expects to be returned to the
Bowie Hospital where he will be
for some time.
Mrs. J. M. Woolf has returned'
home after a three months visit
with her daughter,, Mrs. Roy
Culver, in Long Beach, Calif. On
Eight Montague County 4-H
boys and girls returned from
Lake Trinidad last Thursday
I where they spent four days at
Elm- j district 4-H camp. About 200
4-H boy-s and girls from nineteen
north Texas counties attended the
classes in citizenship, safety,
handcraft, dramatics, and swim-
ming. Those making the trip
from Montague county were
Joyce Sewell, Jo Ann Witt, Ring-
gold; Jane Paschall and Anna
Coker, Cap’s Corner; C. W. Ryan,
Barett Sledge, Montague; Jerry
Orrell, Forestburg; and Thomas
Baker, Saint Jo.
Montague county 4-H boys and
girls were among those winning
blue ribbons for maintaining the
cleanest cabins at camp. The
Montague, county 'girls were the
perintendent, Monroe Cordell
construction foreman, and A. S.
Lewis is office manager. _
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ANETTA GUSTON
tire way home she came by the
of Baird, New Mexico and
leading characters in two night
ceremonials while at camp.
way vi oauu, ““v jbe group was accompanied on
spent a few days with anther the trip by Wylie RobertSi County
daughter, Mrs. John Turney and \Agricultural agent> and Miss
family. ! Reba Burright, Home Demon-
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Martin and
children of Albuquerque, New
Mexico have been visiting rela-
tives and friends in Bowie for a
few days.
stration agent.
Joe Gilmore was in Denton
on business Tuesday. He reports
the grain in that vicinity is very
good.
Mrs. C. A. Holliday spent the
week-end with her sister, Mrs.
Albert McCrary in Bellevue.
While there she attended the
Baptist revival.
Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Hurdt of
Wichita Falls spent Sunday1, May
31 in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
M. G. Woolf.
First Methodist Church Holding
A Series of Programs for Youihs
Three special youth night pro-
grams will be held on the next
three Friday nights of June. The
programs will start with a sup-
per at 6:30 with recreation, fel-
lowship, worship, creative hob-
bies and study groups.
A month dedicated to youth,,
is the theme of a program that
is being carried on through June
at the First Methodist church.
Starting with a special sermon
last night, Rev. McSwain will de-
liver a sermon for young people
each Sunday night this month.
Bowie high school FFA boys,
sponsored by N. E. Lewis, will
take an extensive trip, leaving
Bowie on June 14. Their first
stop-will be at Springdale, Afk.,
where they will spend a day
touring nearby dairy and poultry
farms, They will spend two
nights and a day in St. Louis
where they will be guests at the
Purina research farm. They have ,
tickets to attend a major league I at the state ^cultural experi-
baseball game while in St. Louis, i mentu statlHn' 0ther ni«ht st°Ps
between the St. Louis Cardinals °"th« return„ ‘np will be made
and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Their at LaCygne’ Kans" and SapulPa-
next stop will be just overnight a oma' -
at Bloomington, Illinois.
Their .destinatipn is S p a r t a;
Wisconsin, where the Chamber
of Commerce and high school Ag
teacher have arranged an inter-
esting program for them. They
will visit a cranberry bog, cheese
plant^and Pet milk plant.
En route home they will stop
at Ames, Iowa, to spend a day
Mrs. Dodsworlh's ,1°Hold Lasi s“9 w-ai
September at Montague
Father Dies
In California
RETA TAYLOR
The fancy stepping drum ma-
jor, Miss Gail Wood, will have
two new majorettes to assist her
this year. Anetta Guston and
Reta Taylor have been selected
to replace the Hancock twins
who graduated this year.
Frances Morton and Ann Bow-
man will be the other two ma-
jorettes. This will be the second
year for both these girls.
Anetta is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Fern Guston of Bowie,
and Reta is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Elgin Taylor of Bowie.
Reta’s sister, Mrs. Mary Taylor
Deaver jr. is a former drum ma-
jor for Bowie high school.
These five attractive girls will
4ead the 80-piece band for the
1953-54 school year.
Billy Hilton, grandson of Mr.
and Mrs. W. H. Wright spent
last week here visiting relatives
and friends. He is with the mar-
ine Corps stationed in San Diego,
Calif.
Dr. and Mrs, C. J. Dodsworth
were in Venus, Texas, June 6, to
attend the funeral of Mrs. Dods-
worth’s father, H. E. Glover who
passed away Thursday, June f,
in Los Angeles, Calif, at the age
of 81.
Funeral services were con-
ducted at the First Methodist
Church at three o’clock Satur-
day afternoon. The officiating
pastor was Rev. Ellis who waf
Mr. Glover’s pastor tor a num-
ber of years. *
The survivors of the deceased
include five daughters, two sons
and sixteen grandchildren. Fol-
lowing the funeral, the Doas-
worths returned to their home
in Bcwie.
Lions Club Plans
Swimming Party
The Lion’s Club met last
Thursday evening, June 4 in the
Lion’s Hall. Following the regu-
lar meeting, president Melvin
Richardson announced that this
week, on June 11, the Lions anc’
their wives will attend a swim-
ming party, at the Bowie Swim-
ming Pool.
The installation of officers
will take place June 25 at Myerr
park, Richardson reported.
Mrs. Dale Miller, the former
Billy Wayne Davis, formerly of
Bowie and now of Pampa, is
spending a month with her
mother Mrs. Ruby Berry and
family.
Rev. McSwain Returned
To Bowie by Bishop
Rev. Warren McSwain has
been returned to the Bowie First
Methodist church for another
year. The announcement was
rhade at the annual conference
in Dallas yesterday.
The many friends of- Mr. Mc-
Swain will be glad to hear that
he will Continue as pastor here.
Other pastors named to
churches in this territory are:
Henrietta,- Felix Kindel; Belle-
vue, to be supplied: Nocona, Bob
Evans; Ringgold, Robert Bid,7
Taylor; Spanish Fort, George
Thompson; Vashti-Newport, to
be supplied; Wichita Falls. Dis-
trict Superintendent” Is J. Daniel
Barron; Valley View, O. C.
House; Bowie, Rev Warren Mc-
Swain; Bridgeport, Don S.
Youngblood; Forestburg - Rolls-
ton, Barrett Renfro; St. Jo, Ben
_. , , .Youngblood; Alvord-Sunset, L.
There will oc a singing at | c Rlcke.y; jacksboro, C. V.
Montague Thursday night June f wiHiams; and Chico - Park
H. This will be the last singing Sprlngs -claudie McLeod.
until September due to all- the
Revival meetings. There will be
some outstanding singers from
all over the county.
The publie is invited.
J. P. Roberts, ^President
PUT OUT GRASS FIRE
The fire truck made a
Dwaine Hightower of Wichita
Falls is visiting his grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Hightower on
Strong street.
call
612
last Tuesday morning to
Central Avenue. They" quickly
extinguished the blaze which
proved to be only a grass fire:
Firemen report that Bowie har
had no serious fires in the last
month.
Next Year’s Seniors Are
Planning a Trip to Hawaii
. Yes, sir! those Bowie high for their personal expenses o&
school junior classes have always the trip.
been noted for their long senior j James Doughty, the class pres-
trips; and the next year’s class | ident, urges all people bf Bowie
is no exception. They have set: to co-operate with the class. Any
their goal for. Hawaii, according j person v)ho wishes to help the
to the summer president, James ' class out in the way of papers
Doughty. This year’s seniors left, sftbuld call James
for New York City recently
and last year’s seniors went
a trip to Washington D. C., and
Chicago. The ’51 seniors went
to New York; the two proceed-
ing senior classes ventured from
Doughty at
219-W, or Clifford McCraw at
30-J. Any business places in
Bowie who would like to givs
their old newspapers and maga-
zines to the class can have their
...* —...w. ..— .paper picked up at least once m
the boundaries of the United week, any day that they wish by
States into Old Mexico. So next. calling the same numbers. Sev-
eral students have enlisted the
use of their pick-ups for gather-
ing paper. So the people of
year’s class is intending to outdo
them all. A trip to Hawaii!
So far, of course, this is just an
idea. But with the help of mer- j Bowie, whether it be your daily
chants and citizens of Bowie, tfiis j newspaper you have to offer, or
idea will materialize. The class | if it a Sears, Roebuck catalogue,
has organized a summer funds, or if you have some old scrap
group which will work to gather iron, please call 219-W, or 30-J
paper, scrap metal and other ma- for someone to pick up the pa-
terials which can be sold to make per.
money for the class. Many stu-1 Those numbers again: 219-W
dents have acquired summer jobs ! or 30-J.
at which they can make money
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