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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1962
Page
13
Readable items list new vehicle registrations including Bowie and Nocona entries for Chevrolet Oldsmobile and Pontiac models. Also notes marriages, a 1962 drunk driving case with $50 fine, fraud charge, and liquor possession for sale. plus civil case, and Air Force training assignment for Joe Hensley.
The document lists monthly salary amounts approved in May 1962 for numerous employees including Elton Winton $416.66, M. F. London $416.66, Glen Pribble $416.66, Robert Smith $333.33, Vera Rogers $333.33, J. R. Fenoglio $225, J. N. McClain $250, O. C. Wall $275, Clifton Bewley $5, plus several $10 to $350 entries. Travel and insurance expenses for Wylie Roberts and Reba Stanfield are noted, with totals culminating around $105.30 and related insurance costs.
Week end guests stayed with Mr. and Mrs. Donald Mann and Joel while Mrs. Freda Pope of Dallas and her daughter Gail visited the Mann home. Another visit shared with Mr and Mrs. J V Wells included Mr. and Mrs. Bill Daywalt and daughter Susan from Dallas. Mrs Daywalt is the daughter of the J V Wellses.
Four Montague County 4-H members will attend the District 4-H Leadership Camp at Lake Trinidad near Athens on June 13 to 15. Barbara Vanbebber, Mary Campbell, William Snow, and Harold McMilhon were selected for their overall 4-H work and accomplishments.
Belleville social notes detail visits by Harris, McCord, Warren, Davis and others. District 4-H councils meet at camp with Miss Vanbebber and Snow as delegates. camp facilities at Trinidad are provided by Texas Power and Light. Reba Stanfield will accompany the 4-H delegates to Camp Trinidad.
The Vernon Manns and H Jo Mann families toured Oklahoma visiting relatives in Oiltown once the boom town and a reunion at El Reno. T. G. Rockenbough and family plus Mack West and Harve Ratliff hosted the group over the weekend. Johnny Floyd, Arlington State College junior, earns Dean's List in Engineering with math minor.
Herman Floyd St John longtime Bowie and Montague County resident died Saturday in a Bowie hospital at age 74. Services were held Sunday at Owens Brumley Funeral chapel with Rev. Tiff Covington and two assisting pastors. Burial in Elmwood Cemetery. Surviving widow Betty. daughters Mary Dosier and Mrs Lloyd Ellis. sons Floyd A J St John Herman St John and Kennard St John. siblings Alvin, Mrs Jenkins, and Mrs Dart. 19 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren. Pallbearers named.
The June 16 dedication event inaugurates a sterile screw worm fly production center at Mission. The facility aims to produce up to 75 million sterile flies weekly for the Southwestern Screwworm Eradication program.
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