09 Feb 1961
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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1961
Page
1
Don and wife from Michigan helped by Bowie residents after car crash and iris bloom curiosities, student awards, inauguration viewing, store remodels, and local moves. News spans Vores, Jenkins, Joyce, Johnson twins, Ratliffs, Dodson remodel, Guston shop move, and ties to Ruidosa New Mexico.
Snow blanketed Bowie over Sunday and Monday with five and a half inches measured and more than an inch melted, leaving hazardous roads. City crews salted downtown surfaces while stringing trucks aided stuck vehicles and traffic began to clear by Tuesday noon.
A two car crash at the Walnut and Sanders intersection on Tuesday at 12 05 p m caused extensive damage to both Ford vehicles. Kenneth Palmer and Don Moore collided near the middle of the intersection. Palmer sustained a knee cap injury and Moore an arm fracture. Police Chief A J Martin investigated and issued violations to both drivers.
Dallas election news shows Hutson filing for south ward alderman, opposing re election bid by Paul Echels. Brooks Winner also filed for re election to his ward seat, with Myers seeking a host of posts. Vance runs for city recorder and D B Benson seeks another term as city attorney. Filing deadline set for March 7.
A Canyon Randall County former judge and his family escaped a car fire Sunday at 12 05 pm along highway 81 near the east city limits. The 1959 Mercury was destroyed after the underpass blaze started from an undetermined cause. No violations or tickets were issued and no names were reported.
A community singing event will be held at Union Hill Missionary Baptist Church Sunday at 2 p.m. The public is invited to attend.
Merlin the hypnotist headlines a two night show at Bowe High School auditorium hosted by the Senior Travel Club. Proceeds cover club fees. Volunteers undergo staged feats under suggestion including staged trance, board break, foot binding, and a reversible Houdini style escape. Tickets are one dollar for adults and fifty cents for students and preschool children.
The Bowie Chamber of Commerce schedules a banquet Monday at 7 p.m. at the National Guard Armory with Ike Harrison TP U professor as featured speaker. The event, postponed from earlier this week, will highlight industrial development and attracting new industry to Bowie.
Sixty youths from seven churches gathered at First Christian Church Bowie for the Mid-Winter Youth Fellowship of District 18. Registration opened Friday afternoon with a banquet Saturday night at the First National Bank community room. Delegations came from Weatherford Mineral Wells Denton Bowie Nocona Gainesville and Jacksboro. Allen Eubanks a TCU theology student delivered the main address at the Saturday banquet. Teachers included Mrs. Ben Hurn Jacksboro Mrs J B France Bowie pastor’s wife Mrs Oran Nabors Denton Charles Dowell and Robert Dunn Gainesville and John Knochs Weatherford pastor.
Dale Carnegie course graduates from Montague County met in Bowie on Saturday night with 20 members of Class No. 680 finishing a 14 week program led by Jim Peabody of Fort Worth. Attendees included Bowie residents and visiting chapters from Wichita Falls Dallas and Fort Worth as they organized the local alumni and heard talks on four subjects with Elmer Covey winning top talk honors.
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