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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1949
Page
1
Dororthy Gossett paid for four Christmas gift subscriptions to the Bowie News. Bellevue readers renewed and new subscriptions flood the paper, praising coverage and ads as they send the paper to friends and relatives.
Former Governor Jimmie Allred, a Bowie icon, will be an honor guest and toastmaster at a Bowie Jackrabbit Quarterback Club banquet December 31 honoring Bowie's first football team and this year’s victorious players. Details are pending.
A group of 17 men with the Western Geophysical Company arrived in Bowie to work in the Bowie area possibly for a year. The advance group led by party chief Bush Pack arrived Wednesday to search for housing. Seven are single and nine have their families with them. Offices secured on the second floor of the Bowie Drug Building.
Friday and Saturday December 9 and 10 feature The Clay Pigeon and Out casts of the Trail. Sunday and Monday December 11 and 12 present Whisper ing Smith and Unknown Island. Tuesday December 1 shows Air Hostess. Thursday and Friday December 14 and 15 present The Last Ban ait. Ritz 10 screens G Men. Sunday and Monday December 11 and 12 show Homecoming.
Bowie’s Jackrabbit football team closes the 1949 season with 10 wins one tie and one loss in a 12 game schedule. They lost 7 to 0 to Garland Owls in the regional contest as Raymond Wright scored in the fourth quarter. The Owls advance to the state class A quarter finals at Phillips Field Greenville. Senior starters listed include Jack Stamps Jerry Brown Dale Jackson and others with Curtis Adkins as manager.
Rain began Thursday morning in Bowie, easing a long drought for farmers. October totaled 8.19 inches, lifting 1949 rainfall to 36.20 inches, just under the 36.21 inch long term average from 1939 to 1949 at Fruit Experiment Farm. The record highs were 54.31 inches in 1941 and 48.75 inches in 1945.
Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Walters and their son Dan hosted over the weekend Mr. Walters' mother and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Tullis, visiting from Ranger.
The Agriculture Department trims Montague County cotton allotment to 5700 acres for 1950 after Washington split the national 21,000,000 acre total. Texas holds the largest share, about one sixth less than 1949. A Dec 5 referendum will decide whether quotas take effect with two thirds approval. Meetings across Ringgold Bowie Forestburg Saint Jo Prairie Valley will explain the program before voters on December 15. Only 1948 cotton operators landlords tenants or sharecroppers may vote.
A professional thief opened the Bowie Grocery safe on Wise Street and fled with over $200. The intruder used gloves and left the front door ajar. Two other Bowie locations Evans Motor Co and Lyon Matthews Lumber Yard suffered break ins with minor losses and damaged safes. Police took fingerprint photographs. no arrests by Thursday afternoon.
Alton Garner resigns as manager of the Bowie Chamber of Commerce effective December 15 to join Raborn Motor Company in its sales department. Garner cited regret at leaving the post but noted he will remain in Bowie and continue to support the chamber. Raborn Sr. welcomed Garner and affirmed mutual cooperation with the chamber and its leadership.
Drilling continues in Bowie area with two new locations and several wells completed as producers. Continental No. 2 Williams near Bowie logged a drill stem test, producing 24 barrels from 6315 to 6315 feet and a bottom hole pressure of 1825 pounds. Other tests near Bowie show mud returns and varying oil potential as crews drill deeper toward conglomerate formations.
H S Trout urges Bowie residents to buy from local merchants this Christmas to keep money in Bowie. He highlights wide local merchandise, better service, easier exchanges, and the community and tax benefits of supporting home businesses. He notes locals travel to Fort Worth and Dallas but should shop nearby to aid neighbors and stability.
Bowie learns it will compete in the new District 11-A after Old District 10-A dissolves. Walter Alexander outlines the reorganized lineup including Arlington Birdville Diamond Hill Handley and Jacksboro joining 11-A with Bowie. Next season’s dates show home and away games from September 15 to November 17.
Montague County Farm Bureau invites the public to a county wide Christmas party on December 16 at 7 p.m. in the Montague County courthouse basement. Mrs Buck Jameson Mrs Glover Thompson and Melvin Dansby oversee decorations and gift packaging. The program features a devotional by Minister Ross Dye singing led by Glover Thompson a one act play Crosswise by the Chapel Mound Home Demonstration Club and a social hour led by Mrs Leo Fletcher.
Olen Mills owner of M and M Food Store on Mason Street Bowie celebrates one year in business with a full page ad promising unusual food values. He will give away five free baskets of food valued at five dollars each on Second Monday December 12 at 11 am 1 pm 3 pm and 5 pm with two at 5 pm. Customers asked to register Friday Saturday and Monday.
City council action orders all dogs found loose and unvaccinated to be placed in the pound for three days. Owners may claim their dog for a $1 fee. unclaimed dogs will be shot. Enforcement begins immediately under the existing ordinance.
Santa is set to arrive by airplane in Bowie at 2 p.m. Saturday December 10 to distribute candy to children. The Bowie High School Band will provide music for the parade through business streets as thousands gather, with stores and decorations ready for the season. Santa returns Monday at Gillett's Store with gifts for boys and girls.
James Arthur Batty and David H. Wood, both 38, died Thursday in a Beach Bonanza crash seven miles southeast of Henrietta. Batty, husband of Mabel Martin, and Wood likely owned the craft. The wreck occurred on the Moore farm, with parts seen in the air and both men ejected. Cause unavailable at press time. Batty was a Dallas businessman with a 12 year old son.
City officials said on Thursday that the law banning firecrackers inside the city limits will be strictly enforced.
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