Campbells Highlighted on TO DAY Show at Fort Worth Fat Stock
The TO DAY show will feature Woody Campbell and his family Friday morning as cameras follow the Campbells from Lone Valley Angus Ranch to Bowie Band baton twirlers and parade riders. The segment spots Ann and Jim in the parade and Mr. and Mrs. Campbell with their heifers, while locals reminisce about Bowie progress and past events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woody Campbell
Fort Worth
Campbells
Mary
Bowie
Mrs. Campbell
Lone Valley
Angus
Ann
Jim
Campbell
Safety talk highlights Bowie drive for safer roads
Bill Leonard, safety expert, urges Bowie Safety Council members and spouses to treat safety as a daily duty. He cites 1963 national industrial deaths and notes accident declines from safety programs, while warning that venturesome driving and small cars raise risk. He backs harsher highway patrols and licensing laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowie Safety Council
Bill Leonard
Leonard
Bowie Group
Southland Corporation Enterprises
Pete Clark
Thieves Take Air Powered Auto Jack From Station
The Simmons Enco Station at Smythe and Wise Streets reported an air powered automobile jack valued about 180 dollars stolen in the early Sunday hours. Bill Simmons said the loss was not found until after opening, with entry likely through overhead doors to grease racks and no forced entry observed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Simmons Enco
Smythe and
Wise Streets
Bill Simmons
Leasee
Kenneth Cornelison
Simmons
Joint PTA Meeting Set for Founders Day
The Bowie and Lindale P T A units will meet February 11 at 2 30 p m in the East Ward Cafeteria to celebrate Founders Day honoring the National Congress of Parents and Teachers founded in 1897. Mrs K E Wood of Wichita Falls will be guest speaker and a Mothers Chorus will perform. All members and others interested in schools are invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowie P.T.A
National Congress of Parents and Teachers
Lindale P.T.A
East Ward
K. E. Wood
Wichita Falls
Lonnie McGaughy Receives State Farm Award in Fort Worth
Lonnie McGaughy of Bowie wins the Area V Lone Star Farmer Award at the Fifth Annual Rural Youth Achievement Banquet. The event, held in the Texas Hotel Jr. Ballroom during the Fat Stock Show kickoff, honors top vocational agriculture students with a bronze medal and Fat Stock Show rodeo tickets, presented by Fort Worth bankers and show officials.
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Sears - Roebuck Foundation
Lonnie McGaughy
Bowie
Texas Hotel
Fort Worth
Lonnie
Henry McGaughy
Lone Star
Texas
Ed G. Parker
Annual Bowie Bend Minstrel Prepares For Show
Work begins on the Bowie Bend Minstrel as rehearsals start three weeks before the February 26 performance. Mrs. Glenn Underwood and Mrs. Mabel High direct, with Mrs. Robert L. White guiding the chorus and Rev. Ronald Jenkins directing the choir. Proceeds fund band expenses not covered by school funds.
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Metrecal
Bowie Bend
Bowe
Glenn Underwood
Mabel High
Robert L. White
Olie Carriker
Bowie Chamber Banquet Sets Eight-Point 1965 Plan
The Bowie Chamber of Commerce hosts its annual banquet at the National Guard Armory with a focus on industrial development and community projects. John Perryman of Lone Star Gas speaks on growth while plans include a public library, farm to market road, zoning regulations, lakes and parks, and tourism. Olie Carriker will MC. past president Jack Lovette reviews 1964, Terry Morgan is introduced as incoming president, and awards are announced. Tickets available at the chamber office. reservations due Friday.
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Bowie
Chamber of Commerce
National Guard
John Perryman
Lone Star ‘Gas Company
Forestburg
Olie Carriker
Jack Lovette
Terry Morgan
Morgan
Bowie High School
Jack Wilbanks
W O D. Barnes
Bowie youth chosen gifts chairman for Scout Drive
Robert L. White of Bowie, an All-State basketball alum and 1964 outstanding young man nominee, is named special gifts chairman for the Chisholm Trail District Boy Scout Development Fund. The drive aims to raise 350000 for a Bowie campsite, Camp Perkins improvements, and a council service center. White heads Hagger Slack Factory and serves as Bowie Chamber of Commerce vice president with church and club ties. He and wife Gail have two children, Lynn and Trey, as the district covers Clay and Montague counties, Jack County precinct four, Burkburnett, and eastern Wichita Falls.
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America
Robert L. White
Bowie
Chisholm Trail
Boy Scout Development
Camp Perkins
Wichita County
White
Hagger Slack Factory
Bowie Chamber of Commerce
First Baptist Church
Top-O-The Lake Country Club
Order of the Arrow
TCU
Gail
Lynn
Trey
Clay
Montague
Jack County
Burkburnett
Wichita Falls
Art Workshop for Bowie Teachers Promotes Creative Practice
Fifty teachers from the Bowie area will attend an Art Workshop February 17 18 19 at Fast Ward Elementary School announced by T A Harbin superintendent. Mrs Jewel Bishop will lead with a masters from George Peabody College guiding hands on activities using crayons water colors poster paints finger paints colored chalks and modeling clay to boost classroom art teaching Learn by Doing theme encourages teachers to gain three dimensional effects through simple craft techniques and materials.
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Bowie
Fast Ward
T. A. Harbin
Jewel Bishop
George Peabody College
Spears Seeks Re election in 1965 City Race
Mayor J A Spears opened the 1965 city political race filing for re election. Voters will elect a mayor city attorney city judge and a councilman from each ward in the April 6 balloting. March 6 is the filing deadline. Spears seeks a third term. Seats held by C O Garrett Don Crow and Lee Wiley Tucker to be filled. No aldermen had filed for re election by Wednesday morning.
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J. A. Spears
C. O. Garrett
Don
Award Contract For Post Office Planning Work
James R illebrew and Roy D Sanders Jr receive a professional services contract for designing a Bowie Post Office building extension and modernization. The project covers 11 6417 square feet with completion targeted around May 31 1965, per John M McGee GSA Dallas administrator.
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James Rillebrew
Roy D. Sanders, Jr
Bowie Post Office
Post Office Department
John M. McGee
General Services Administration
Dallas
Texas
Area Entries Win Ribbons at Show
Bowie area entries at the Fort Worth Fat Stock Show earned ribbons. Vicky Gregory won first in Western Pleasure with Polly G and third in the Halter Class 1962 or older. Mike Gregory placed fourth with Dolly G. Pryce Sanders and Kent also placed in Western events. HD Ranch’s Angus Charolais cross won Reserve Champion for the Deaver family with three other Charolais entries yet to be judged. Campbell Lane Valley Ranch entries included a third place heifer and two summer yearlings with one placing sixth.
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Bowie Area
Fort Worth
Vicky Gregory
David Gregory
Polly G
Mike Gregory
Dolly G
Terry Sanders
Pryce
Pleasure
Kent
Harry
Danny Deaver
Deavers
Campbell Lane Valley
Jim Campbell
Mary
Ann
Bowie Presbyterians Dedicate New Church
The First Presbyterian Church of Bowie will dedicate its new building Sunday at 4 30 p m with Rev John W Cunningham of Fort Worth leading the sermon assisted by Rev William M Gould Jr The public is invited to the dedication reception and open house The church has been using the new sanctuary since November replacing the old tar rant Lindsey Streets structure from 1925 The project cost about 97000 and memorial gifts will be dedicated February 14 at 11 30 a m The dedication ends more than a year of planning and building with church leaders and congregational members named for their roles
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John W. Cunningham
Fort Worth
Central Texas
Tarrant and
Lindsey Streets
A. Wilson
John B. Hunt
Sam Heard
Clifton Parker
Mark Ashley
Richard Thornesberry
F. Willard Pirtle
G. G. Cummings
Leonard Ashley
Dorothy Heard
Edwin Zoch
Elizabeth Bellah
Clyde Hinson
Lee Roy Thornesberry
Willard Pirtle
R. M. McPherson
W. A. Alexander
John C. Jones
Joe Threadgill
Melvin Dansby
H. R. Ramsey
Sunset Robbery Victims Identify Suspects in Town
Six Sunset residents name Walter Ray Scogins and Daniel Lee Lacy as the duo who robbed Wade Grocery, taking over $100. Lacy was shot by police during a drug store arrest in Fort Worth. Scogins was captured. The pair had prior robberies in Ardmore, Oklahoma City, Dennison, and Fort Worth.
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Sunset
Wade
Walter Ray Scogins
Daniel Lee Lacy
Fort Worth
Lacy
Scogins
William Conway
G. S. Wade
A. P. Lawrance
W. B. Caswell
Billy Winninger
G. P. Fender
Harry Benson
Montague County
Train Hits Truck Near Cowan Street Crossing
Fort Worth witnesses a Burlington train strike a Kay Smith Transport tank truck driven by Marvin Willmon Bruce 53 after leaving Sinclair terminal. The right rear of the trailer was damaged. engine damage not reported. No injuries. truck driven away by its own power. Engineer Artie Spivey of Wichita Falls.
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Fort Worth
Burlington
Marvin Willmon Bruce
Sinclair Terminal
Agency
Cowan Street
Artie Spivey
Wichita Falls
Kay Smith Transport Company
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Joe Hamner
W. F. Barker
Frank Davis
Bob Cansler
Mr. Davis
I. B
Ray
H. I. Trout
Tarrant Street
The
Richard Burton
Kenneth Shackelford
Moon
Ben Barnes
United States
Edgar R. Hays
Austin
Hays
Edgar
Lockney
Teaks Atic
Wisiom
Aim Laryan
Offricong
Bill Sell
Ellis Butler
Woodrow Begley
Leon Partridge
PTA
State Farm Award
Ronald Jenkins
Jake Dorsey
Bob White
Jerry Delleney
First Methodist Church
Mike Cox
Church of Christ
City Auditorium
Art Clinic
Spears
Bowie Presbyterians
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