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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1966
Page
3
A collection of short handwritten notes from children asking for gifts. Requests include toys such as a motorific car space capsule bicycle train box set and a stove. Messages mention love and good behavior with closing greetings to Santa.
The Adult Farmers meeting at Bowie High School Vocational Agriculture building featured Dr. Wayne Porter presenting Internal Parasites of Farm Animals. Porter noted he did much of his master's work in veterinary medicine and the program was seen as a community service potentially saving the Bowie trade area thousands of dollars if applied.
The Bowie High School biology department led by Charles Gifford reports unprecedented changes. Ten new microscopes were purchased and an incubation machine installed after moving to the new building.
Bowie Police Department logged 166 city accidents in 1966 involving 315 vehicles causing 60 000 in property loss. 37 injured, 2 dead. 117 criminal arrests, 1 147 traffic citations, about 1 000 warnings. Traffic fines totaled 18 000 against 7 261 38 operating expense.
The Bowie Young Homemakers chapter hosts a Christmas party December 19 at 4 p.m. in the Bowie High School cafeteria with Santa Claud and gifts. Police savings from leasing cars instead of buying reduced costs, and burglaries and thefts are largely cleared. Students in a local biology project under Charles Crumpler and others prepared chromosome slides, assisted by Bowie stores and the hospital.
The King's Daughters Sunday School Class held a December 5 Christmas party in the First National Bank Community Room with a buffet dinner, decorations, and a program led by Mrs. C. E. Cox. A men's chorus performed, devotions and stories were shared, gifts were given to teachers, and 62 members plus guests attended, including Rev. Bob Faulkner and numerous local figures.
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