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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1963
Page
1
Emerson Lynn Jr reports on a Bowie family facing hardship as Charlotte Phillips struggles with severe visual impairment seizures and ailing parents. The piece ties in a Montague County Courthouse Christmas party aiding needy families and recalls Pearl Harbor veterans, plus local birthday milestones and a 95th birthday dinner tradition.
At the Bowie Kiwanis Club noon meeting in Cotton's Cafe Dr Ro Ro Loerwald presented a record player to David Garlington director of special education Bowie Public Schools. The new device marks the Kiwanis Club 1964 major project adoption with further steps planned following December 12 board action. State Rep Jack Crain spoke on Youth and The Future of American aims, citing quotes from Edgar Hoover and Dr George J. Beto who linked juvenile delinquency to moral decay and family breakdown.
County Attorney Earl Fitts announces he will not seek re election next year after seven of eight years in two terms. He plans to devote full time to private law practice in 1964 and has bought and remodeled a building in Nocona as his office.
The Bowie banks and the First Savings and Loan Association will close at noon on Tuesday December 24 to allow staff to prepare for Christmas Eve. Bowie Locker Plant will give employees the day off. The News will publish early next week with Sunday delivery and post office pickup Saturday night.
The First Methodist Church presents a Christmas cantata titled The Story of the First Christmas on Sunday December 22 at 5 00 pm. A 30 voice choir with a 10 piece wind orchestra will be conducted by Jack Wilbanks with Reverend Jerry Delleney as narrator and organist Mrs Henry T Ayres. Soloists include Elton Winton Leo Stiewert and T A Harbin with C A Randolph Elton Hill among the performers.
The Bowie High School Jackrabbit Band directed by Jack Wilbanks presents a Christmas concert today at the downtown community Christmas tree at Smythe and Tarrant Streets. Bowie schools dismiss at 2:30 p.m. Friday for holidays, resuming January 2 at 9 a.m.
Bowie Lions Club will hold the annual Judge Roy Bean Court on Saturday to honor Paul Taliaferro who originated the idea. Fines from the event fund Christmas baskets for the needy, with 65 to 70 baskets expected this year. The event runs from 8 am until late, at the club log cabin on Smythe and Tarrant Streets, led by General Chairman Kenneth Cornelison and a steering committee.
Jail escapee Robert Posey was captured near Ringgold after a two-state pursuit in sub freezing weather. He fled Parker County Jail with an Amarillo companion during a liquor store robbery, crossing the Red River into Texas before roadblocks halted him at noon. Police warn residents to lock cars and report suspicious activity. Posey faces a return to prison for life as a habitual criminal.
Tommy Whitecotton of Carter and Whitecotton Grocery and Market Bowie was elected president of the North Texas Retail Grocers Association at a Wichita Falls dinner meeting. He will direct activities of grocer and supplier members in Archer Clay Montague Throckmorton Wichita and Young counties.
A 61 cent classified ad in Bowie News produced $92 in sales for Hugh Miller. The ad offered stove and fireplace wood by Rick or truckload and prompted immediate calls. Mrs Miller reported ample wood to deliver.
Bowie’s active Alcoholics Anonymous group invites all to a Friday 8 pm session in the Woman’s Club Room City Auditorium. Speakers with personal and professional contact will discuss alcoholism as a disease and public health issue. No admission charge.
Bowie ranks 171st among 182 Texas cities in the United Fund Drive with about 60 percent of the $8,000 goal raised. Drive Chairman Whitecotton urged late contributions to support eight agencies including the Bowie Little League, Boy Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, Salvation Army, Bowie Youth Center, and the American Red Cross.
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