Front Page by Randy Kaisner in The Bowie News
Randy Kaisner recounts his start as printer's devil in Bowie Texas and his rise to reporter duties on The Bowie News He recalls traveling with the Jackrabbit basketball team and earning experience without pay He mentions a colorful night with a 70 year old Nocona woman arrested for DWI and aggravated assault on officers while asserting the tale is true.
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Randy Kaisner
Ron Taylor
The
Bowie News
Bowie
Huntsville
Alabama
FBI
Jackrabbit
Jim Winter
Whip
Cub
Jim
Ron
Denton
North Texas State
Nocona
Geritol
Big Sandy Watershed Sponsors Back Local Lake Plan
Sponsors of the Big Sandy Watershed Program met in Decatur and endorsed continuing research on a possible Bowie municipal lake near Sunset. Final decision hinges on Austin water permits and a public hearing. Twenty five attendees heard plans for flood prevention structures and land stabilization under a revived master plan.
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Big Sandy
Decatur
Soil Conservation Service
Bowie
Austin
Montague, Wise
Clay Counties
Commissioner's Courts
Upper Elm-Red Soil Conservation District
Little Wichita S.C.D
Wise-Denton S.C.D
Upper W. Fork S.C.D
Wise County
W.H. Green
Upper Elm Red
S.C.D
Louis Brown
Henrietta
Little Wichita
Jim Cantwell
Clay County
Conner Fletcher
Homer Jackson
Montague County
Blake Freeman
S.C.S
Upper W. Fork
All Star Softball Clash Shapes July All Star Games
Tuesday night at the National Guard Armory features three all star softball exhibition games. At 6:00 p.m. the Minorette League and Pee Wee League stars square off followed by Littlette against Minor League at 7:00 p.m. and Ponyette versus Little League at 8:00 p.m. No admission charged.
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National Guard Armory
Tracy Winn
Carla Cariker
Sandy Lambert
Donna Gresham
Donna Brewer
Melissa Barnes
Diane Belle
Gina Moore
Regina Smith
Tracy Anders
Becky Brooks
Brenda Paztrick
Freddy Carr
Mrs. Bell
Lynn Heller
Gerald Free
Billy Don Hutson
Donny Tomlinson
David Martin
Kevin Routh
Lance Smith
Keith Weber
Royce Beasley
Tim Bishop
Phillip Pirtle
Pat Henson
Bill Lee
Don Tomlinson
Terri Dorman
Jackie St. John
Mary Ann Proctor
Debbie Hawkins
Carol Starnes
Lisa Wagner
Carla Miller
Christine Ward
Lamona Lorance
Debbie Truax
Bonita Proctor
Poneyette All Stars
Ponyette
Glenda Darden
Kellie Carver
Jan Harvey
Judy Stark
Teresa Cartwright
Keira Yowell
Kim Routh
Nancy Lawrence
Connie Geer
Teresa Proctor
Pam Jackson
Gail Rhyne
Floyd Rhyne
Keith Ratliff
Donald Morton
Derrick Sallee
Randy Sutton
Gregg Carr
Bobby Hughes
Jim Heinze
Gary Pendleton
Jimmy Stout
Jeff Sanders
Kevin Polk
Jeff Thomas
Craig Haile
David Raley
Fred Carr
Floy Etter
Busy six months for Bowie Fire Department in 1973
The Bowie Fire Department responded to 74 calls from January to June 1973, with 46 outside Bowie city limits. There were 16 house fires, 10 inside Bowie, one mobile home fire in the country, and 35 grass fires, 30 of which were in rural areas despite wet weather.
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Bowie
Rock Island
Ft. Worth
Denver
Bryan
Texas
A.J. Martin
State Fire Board
Fire Destroys Hickman Barn on Newport Highway
Fire damaged a 60 foot barn owned by Leonard Hickman eight and a half miles from town on the Newport Highway. The $350 to $500 loss was contained with two Bowie fire trucks and three firemen arriving at 12 30 p m. The 4 to 5 year old structure was saved from total loss and the cause remains unknown.
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Newport Highway
Leonard Hickman
Bowie Fire Department
Hickman
Bowie Chamber Membership Drive Aims To Grow This August
The Bowie Chamber of Commerce pursues a membership drive that began July 23 and will run through August. The organization includes 200 Bowie businesses and leaders are hopeful to recruit many new members.
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Bowie Chamber of Commerce
Bowie
Improvements Slated For Football Field Ward Schools
The Ward Board of Education met in special session to award summer projects. Elmore Electric of Sherman won the bid to install a six pole 120 quartz lighting system for the football field aiming for about 30 foot candles of illumination. One project was delayed pending more information.
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Board of Education
Elmore Electric Company of
Sherman
Yeggs Still Loose After Bowie's Burglary and Board Actions
A Bowie burglary at Western Auto remains unsolved as a suspect confessed after a polygraph test, but was released. Police say progress stalled while investigations continue. Meanwhile the Bowie School Board awarded bids for lighting, fieldhouse addition, electrical work, and roof repairs to address space and safety needs ahead of the new school year.
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Western
Bowie
Bryan Wasson
Sherman
N.B. Hamilton
Footaall
Parker Electric
Gainesville
East Ward School
East Ward Pta
East Ward
Est Ward
Story Time at Bowie Public Library for Young Children
The Bowie Public Library hosts a Thursday story time for ages 3 to 5 in the library's all purpose room. Librarian Lara Dean Davis says sessions run from 10:00 to 10:30 a.m. at 315 West Walnut.
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Bowie Public Library
West Walnut
Lara Dean Davis
New HD Agent Named Soon
It will be at least August 1 before a new county home demonstration agent is appointed, according to District Agent Mrs. Cunningham. The vacancy was created when Lynn Rainwater moved to Houston last month.
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Mrs. Cunningham
Lynn Rainwater
Houston
Major David T Tompkins Receives Meritorious Service Medal
U S Air Force Major David T Tompkins son of Mr and Mrs W T Tompkins of Nocona Texas received the Meritorious Service Medal at Norton AFB California. He serves with the Air Force Inspection and Safety Center after duties as inspector in the directorate of supply at Headquarters Twelfth Air Force Bergstrom AFB Texas. He has 11 years service and earlier earned the Bronze Star and Air Force Commendation Medals. He is a 1956 Nocona High School graduate and earned a 1960 B B A at North Texas State University through AFROTC. His wife is Brenda E Sadler.
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San Bernardino
Calif
U.S. Air Force
David T. Tompkins
W.T. Tompkins
Nocona
Tex
Norton Afb
Tompkins
Directorate of Supply
Headquarters
Twelfth Air Force
Bergstrom Afb
Norton
Air Force Inspection and Safety Center
Air Force
Swine Nappers Take 1700 Hogs From Sunset Highway Pen
Montague County sheriffs seek leads after 31 hogs valued at about 1650 to 1700 were stolen July 19 from Richard Kelly on the Sunset Highway. No arrests yet. A similar May incident saw a 500 lb cow killed and butchered in Bowie. Hogs likely loaded on trailers and driven away.
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Montague County
Coaches Attend Texas Football Clinic at Dallas and All Star Games
Bowie High School coaches will attend the Texas High School Football coaching clinic in Dallas starting July 29 with speakers from Baylor Texas A&M and LSU. An all star basketball game is set for August 1 at the Convention Center and an all star football game at Texas Stadium. Over 105 boys expected, football practice begins August 17 with two weeks of two a days and early sessions in T shirts and shorts.
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Burnett
Texas Tech
Ladonia
Stephen F. Austin
Brooks
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Tony Williams
Kenny Clement
Vince Carr
Jody Martin
Darren Rhyne
David Williams
David Rhyne
James Samsell
Jeff Gifford
Roy Bell
Mike Shaw
David Richardson
Kent Jones
Chamber of Commerce
Ward Schools
Yeggs
North
South Ward
North Texas
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