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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1969
Page
2
Frank Bumpus describes carpenter ants four to six millimeters long with brownish red head and thorax and dark abdomen. They do not eat wood but nest in wood, often in rotten tree limbs or stumps and sometimes inside walls or attic insulation. Control involves tracing to nests and applying chlor dane dieldrin or heptachlor.
Euonymus scales, small brown or white insects on euonymus leaves and stems, can kill plants if not controlled. Tests show live insects leave yellow stains when stroked. brown scale residue means kill. Use summer oil mixtures with malathion, dime thioate, or diazinon. repeat applications about a week apart.
Montague notes show Mrs. Ruby Jackson reporting visitors and relocations. Ray Fenoglio is a Bowie Memorial Hospital patient. Larry Dunbar and family moved to Montague from Fort Worth after buying the Jimmy Dale Tompkins home. Various relatives from Fort Worth Duncan Oklahoma and Texas towns visited local residents this week.
Mr and Mrs Bill Lawson and Mr and Mrs Billy Rhyne have vacationed in Arkansas and Missouri this past week confirming travel with family and friends.
Mrs Venus Cannon of the Jacksboro Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star will install the new officers at a meeting on Saturday June 14 at 8 p m in the Masonic Hall. Appointees include Marine Hickman Troy Roberts Essie Roberts Fred Fuller Martha Parker Roy Slaughter Milbrey Johnson and Antoinette Wood with others to be installed. Public invitation issued.
Gary Carr of 402 Orchard Bowie received a $100 academic scholarship per semester for the 1969-70 year from Howard Payne College after a qualifying college entrance score. If he makes the dean's honor roll with 12 hours and a 3.65 GPA, the scholarship continues each semester for his college career.
Mrs. S Y Fergueson came home Tuesday after visiting her sons in Oklahoma. Mr and Mrs Cless Bell of Bowie attended church at the United Methodist in Vashti Sunday. Mr and Mrs Kenneth Wingrove of Electra visited Bert Wingrove Sunday.
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