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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1962
Page
12
The piece argues inflation has been tamed, making overvalued stocks unattractive as hedges against a depreciating dollar. It traces postwar policy from Eisenhower to Kennedy, notes big investors buying at fair value, and suggests the market shifts toward earnings records and sustainable dividends amid volatility.
Local social news lists visits and travels including Annie Marsh returning home from Wichita Falls, Lilly May King and baby from Fort Worth, Jack Adams of Duncan Oklahoma visiting Buck and Mary Skaggs, George Sparkman of Seymour visiting D. C. Sparkman, and others. It notes May Savage of Fort Worth died after a long illness with burial at Sunset.
Mr and Mrs Dalton Bhaw and Mr and Mrs T G Matlock returned Friday from Indiana where they visited Mr and Mrs Walter Allee in Greencastle. They met acquaintances and spent a day at Spring Mill State Park, site of a reconstructed Indian village. Texas Randolph Field is named for Capt William Randolph, WWI veteran killed in an airplane accident at Gorman Texas.
Texas officials filed suits over crooked wells in the East Texas Oil Field. The state seeks penalties exceeding 3.4 million dollars and plans to inspect more than 1,000 wells. Humble Oil sues over wells crossing land, while the Railroad Commission probes drilling directions.
Governor James V Allred gave the 1938 Bowie High School commencement address. Elton Winton read a choral piece. Community clubs held sewing gatherings and birthdays were celebrated. A devastating tornado hit Stoneburg, killing Mr and Mrs J Howard and damaging property. Gulf Oil relocated offices, summer classes expanded at Bowie High, and local projects included gas line upgrades and a new Nocona hospital project.
The Bowie News published each Thursday at 205 Smythe Street Bowie Texas lists subscription prices: one year for 3 dollars six months for 175 in a zone covering Montague Wise Clay Jack Wichita Cooke and Denton counties in Texas and Jefferson county Oklahoma Elsewhere 4 per car The paper will be stopped at subscription expiry Established February 9 1922 Entered at the Post Office Bowie Texas as second class mail under the Act of March 3 1879 Consolidated with The Montague County Times on April 1 1953
Dr James Doughty son of Mr and Mrs R P Doughty of 309 Mille Street Bowie Texas was conferred a dentist degree by the College of Dentistry Dallas Texas on June 4 Commencement exercises were at Gaston Avenue Baptist Church at 4 00 p m Dr Earle Williams eminent Dallas oral surgeon and Baylor University Chancellor William R White presided Doughty belonged to the Junior American Dental Association the Texas Dental Association Psi Omega Fraternity and the Dental Chorus
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