Bowie Notes and Local Highlights in Daily Life
Emerson Lynn Jr. shares community vignettes from Bowie including home making toys like toy telephones, door to door health insurance warnings, a golf hole in one by Ted Daley at Top O The Lake Club, odd pigeon behavior near O'Dell Thompson's store, and Leon Brown volunteering to decorate the Smythe Tarrant Christmas Tree with white flock from Salty Brite's ranch. Past donations and local charity traditions noted.
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Bowie
Ted Daley
Top O' the Lake Club
Leon Brown
Smythe and
Tarrant Streets
Salty Brite
Yale
East Texas
Santa arrives in Bowie for candy distribution and parade
Santa Claus will ride in a Bowie Chamber sleigh at 2:30 on Friday giving candy to children as helpers assist those too small to reach the enclosure. He will return each Saturday until Christmas visiting stores and chatting with youngsters. The parade starts at Super Save Grocery led by the Junior High Band, proceeding along Wise Street to Mason and Smythe to the Christmas Tree at Smythe and Tarrant. Schools dismiss early for the first four grades.
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Santa Claus
Bowie
Santa
Mr. Claus
Chamber of Commerce
Fred Bloom
Super Save
West Wise Street
Wise
Mason
Smythe
Smythe and
Tarrant
Trustees Limit High School Remodeling Budget
Architects were told to keep the new high school project within 675000, preserving 425000 for remodeling and repairs of existing structures. The 1100000 bond issue will be bid open on December 16, with remodeling planned for the present high school to serve as a junior high.
Yale Prizes Offered For Christmas Decorations
Six cash prizes will be offered to home and store owners this year for the best Christmas decorations. Duplicate prizes will go to the top three homes and top three store windows. Entries must be filed with the Chamber of Commerce by December 12. Prizes: 10, 7.50 and 5 in each category. Lights must burn 7 to 10 p.m. from December 12 to Christmas night. Judging during that period. night of judging not announced.
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Fred Bloom
Bowie Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Bloom
Female octopus may produce up to 325000 eggs in spawning
The article notes that a female octopus can lay as many as 325000 eggs in a single spawning event, highlighting extreme reproductive capacity in this species.
Local Arrest Points Up Provisions of Law
Police arrested a Bowie man transporting 20 cases of beer to Montague in a dry county. He posted $750 bail and was released. Sheriff Middleton notes a violation occurs if more than one case of beer or more than one fifth of whiskey is carried. Law details include bootlegging penalties and liquor confiscation with proceeds to charity.
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Bowie
Montague
Dry
Howard Middleton
State Liquor Control Board
Thieves Loot Gold Burg High School in Weekend Break-In
Supt. B. D. Mann reports burglars entered Gold Burg High School last week causing about 125 dollars in cash loss. They broke into the gym and main building, damaged the office safe, and ransacked offices. Vending machines also were broken with a 25 dollar loss.
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B. D. Mann
Mann
Fund Drive Lags for Bowie Memorial Hospital
The Bowie Memorial Hospital Fund progresses slowly toward its $101,205 goal, now $10,000 short with about $1,075 raised last week. Chair J. K. Brite warns that even after signing the construction contract, operating expenses require full support, noting each donation saves $1.40 in interest and effectively $2.40 for hospital operations, with several new pledges listed including Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Cunningham and Dr. and Mrs. B. B. Evans.
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Bowie Memorial Hospital
Prand
J. K
Salty” Brite
Hospital Authority
W. R. Covey
E. H. Cunningham
Arthur Fisher
B. B. Evans
David Garlington
Foy Ford
R. E. Gilbert
Walter Hoeldtke
J. R. McClintock
W. L. Jeffries
Ira C. Stark
Joe Spray Named Assistant Vice President at First National
Charles W. Coffield announces the election of Joe L. Spray as assistant vice president at First National Bank. Spray joined December 1 in the loan department after seven years at Commercial Credit Corporation and forty years as their Wichita Falls loan manager. He and his wife Betty and two children now reside at 61 LaSalle Street Bowie, with ties to Matador Texas and City View Baptist Church in Wichita Falls.
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Charles W. Coffield
First National Bank
Joe L. Spray
Spray
Bank
Commercial Credit Corporation
Wichita Falls
Bowie
Betty
LaSalle St
Joe
Matador
Texas
Matador High School
City View Baptist Church
Holidays Slow City Mail in Bowie Post Office
Postmaster Ernest Chandler says Bowie’s Bowie City and Rural Delivery service will deliver mail about 30 minutes to one hour later during the Christmas season. Since September 26 mail arrives around 7 a.m. instead of midnight, clerks need more time to sort and carriers to route. Patrons are expected to receive mail about one hour later on average.
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Bowie
Ernest Chandler
Chandler
Chamber of Commerce Drives for Members
The Bowie Chamber of Commerce launches a two day member ship blitz starting with a 7 am breakfast at Cotton's Cafe. President Jack Lovette says membership remains at a record level but additional support is needed to hit the 1964 budget and fund next year’s projects. A task force will seek 140 non members to join and boost community growth through the Chamber.
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Bowie Chamber of Commerce
Cotton’s Cafe
Jack Lovette
C. of C
Lovette
Chamber
Bowie
Sediment Cleanup Plans Move Forward for Amon Carter Lake
Rain driven silt from the watershed added about thirteen acre feet to Amon Carter Lake. Fort Worth Soil Conservation Service says terraces sediment controls and seeding grass cover will limit future sediment inflow as easements and surveys proceed with city council support and multiple structures planned.
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Amon Carter Lake
Soil Conservation Service
Fort Worth
Upper
Big Sandy Creek
Turkey Shoot Winners Named at Lions Club Event
Jim Giaketti won the trap shooting trophy with nine turkeys and Elton Hill took the target shoot award with six turkeys at the Lions Club Turkey Shoot held before Thanksgiving. Dan Maness, the event chairman, said the club netted about $180 from the shoot.
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Jim Giaketti
Elton Hill
Lions Club
Giaketti
Hill
Dan Maness
Bowie United Fund Drive Reaches 50 Percent of 1964 Goal
Bowie residents are urged to support the United Fund drive which has surpassed 50 percent of its 1964 goal of 8500. Miss Ermyntrude McNatt reports deposits total 4476 75 with nine agencies listed including baseball, Boy Scouts and Red Cross.
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Bowie United Fund Drive
Bowie United Fund
Pete Clark
Tommy Whitecotton
Ermyntrude McNatt
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NEWS
By Emerson Lynn, Jr
Heard's Hardware
Mrs. America
O'Dell Thompson
O'Dell
Cal
Joe Spray
First National
Carter Lake
Turkey
Whitecelton, Clark
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