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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1949
Page
1
Notes salute Lynn Garlington and Yanus Holliday, detailing their roles in business and the Guatemalan port, and urge Bowie to pursue airport and hotel development in 1950. Includes Joe Threadgill’s turkey experiment with hormone treatment to yield tender gobblers and potential market names Tender-Tom or Gobblet.
Continental's Benson No 4 near Queen's Peak shows a strong pay zone with 1577 feet of free oil and gas in 13 minutes during a two hour open test from 6234 to 6246. Total depth 6246 seven inches. cement waiting. Other wells include Barnett No 2 at 4200, Benton No 1 at 5771, Norred No 1 at 5376. A suspected find near Sunset remains unconfirmed as a wildcat.
Bowie's post office reports 1949 gross receipts of 35 050 up from 33 188 in 1948 a gain about per cent. Postmaster H L Turns notes record Christmas business with 96 600 cancellations in the fourteen days before Christmas compared with 87 600 last year. He credits public cooperation and earlier, better wrapped mail throughout the season.
Mrs Glenn Nichols who underwent surgery in Dallas last week is moved to the Lynn Hotel in Dallas for close observation by doctors for a few days. She may be brought home next week.
Alvin Echols aged four son of Mr and Mrs D D Echols sustained painful facial and head injuries from a firecracker explosion Saturday night. He was treated at Bowie Clinic Hospital and released Tuesday.
Services at Freewill Baptist Church will begin at 8 p m on December 31 and continue until after the New Year. The public is invited to these services to welcome the year 1950.
Miss Inez Rudy and Mrs A M Rencher attended events in Fort Worth as part of local social season activities. Their appearance highlighted charitable receptions and community gatherings.
The Bowie Hospital shows a newly renovated second floor with fresh painting and decor. Work will continue on the first floor after Christmas with asbestos tile flooring in each room, new hospital equipment, and modern bookkeeping and filing systems praised by Business Manager Yates.
Mrs R V Garrett and Mrs Ed Widlake visited in Dallas with Mr and Mrs Glenn Nichols. Mrs Nichols is reported to be improving daily.
Bowie stores close all day Monday as a New Year’s holiday. Post Office will be closed with no services. Banks also shut, affecting customers and weekday routines. Some workers may still invoice, but most work completed.
Seventeen Holstein cattle were shipped from Wisconsin to Bowie. Ten cows and a bull went to G. H. Woodall’s new dairy along Montague highway, two miles from Bowie. Six cows were delivered to Valley View Dairy, with Em bry Privitt as manager.
Editor Penn Jones Jr and his wife Louise Angove Jones former Bowie residents now own and publish the Midlothian Mirror Their profile in the Red Book extols their journalism and Mrs Jones humor writing while noting Penns wartime service and their two sons Penn III and Mike who visit Bowie regularly.
Mr and Mrs J W Arnold and their seven weeks old daughter Nan cy Lou are guests in the home of his parents Mr and Mrs Woody Arnold.
A Bowie gathering of veterans and spouses explored the new GI home loan plan with plans for 4000 to 8000 dollar houses. Local investors and Gary Nees Lumber Co executives discussed financing options with L R Reaner of a Wichita Falls Realty firm, aiming to place loans next week and provide plan books and forms.
J. B. Ammonet sold his Pontiac Agency to Blackmon Implement Company and will move to Sherman. Bowie Tractor and Implement, formerly Bowie Farm Supply, bought by Ralph W. Carpenter and E. F. Carpenter, relocates from Post Texas to East Wise Street in a new, spacious building with John Deere equipment and a repair shop. They move in Thursday.
Fred L. Raborn announces the arrival of the new Dodge models on January 4 with fresh styling, lower body lines, and design refinements. Attendees include Fred L. Raborn Jr., Alton Garner, and Charles Roberts. Raborn notes record Dodge production and invites the public to a gala open house January 4 to 7.
Rod Koonce petroleum engineer for Continental Company spoke at the Rotary Club on duties of a petroleum engineer and innovations in oil production. He displayed a high studded with 250 black diamonds from Africa used in hard core tests, valued at five dollars per diamond.
Alfred Allred to speak at Bowie Jackrabbit Booster Club banquet honoring 1912 and 1949 teams. Former players including Jimmie Allred, C. A. Wilson, R. L. Burgess, Jess Parrish, Carl Hare, Dr. Jack Younger, and Dr. Mac Lawson will attend. Event at Lions Den starts 7:30 PM with early gatherings.
Burgess Funeral Home becomes proud owner of a new black Pontiac ambulet in service since last Friday. It is described as very complete with all accessories and adds to the already large equipment at the funeral home.
Mr and Mrs Mark High and their children spent Sunday afternoon visiting in Fort Worth and Dallas.
An East Wise Street classified ad signs Santa Claus offering used hay for sale. Children warn their fathers about Santa arriving with hungry reindeer. On Christmas morning neighbors stack baled hay on the porch, blocking the door and prompting a comic confrontation.
A 1946 blue four door Dodge owned by W. F. Dixon of the Stanolind Company was stolen from the plant a mile northwest of Powie Christmas morning. Mrs Dixon saw the theft at about 6:30 a m and a wrecked green Chevrolet was found nearby. The Dixon car was recovered in Wichita Falls damaged about 450 dollars and several other cars at the plant had been tampered with.
The Majestic presents a holiday schedule with December 30-31 screenings including The Green Promise and Laramie. January 1-2 features Top o the Morning and Some of the Best, January 3 Night Unto Night, and January 4-5 Look for the Silver Lining with additional Ali Baba and Forty Thieves on December 30-31 and A Southern Yankee on January 1-2.
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