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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1961
Page
1
News roundup covers July Fourth events inviting youths to join bull frog jumping and terrapin racing at Hudspeth’s Beach as part of the annual Water Carnival hosted by local volunteer firefighters. Also notes Patricia Rhoades in Houston hospital, Bowie Haggar plant site reaction, and local travel and civic updates.
Permanent City Industry Fund Organization of the Bowie Industrial Development Corporation absorbs Chamber of Commerce leadership as Haggar Corp chooses Bowie. Shares at 100 dollars fund a revolving foundation to attract industry, support site purchases and building costs, with members including Akens, First National Bank, Coca Cola Bottling, Style Shop and many local businesses and individuals.
Bowie Lions Club donates six hundred dollars worth of foul proof dugouts to the Little League field adding a backstop and improved seating. A. E. Roberts chairs the project with volunteers from local firms and schools contributing lumber wire labor and paint to protect players from foul balls.
Montague County plans a fruit farm techniques field day on Friday June 30 at the Fruit Investigations Laboratory. Superintendent A A Randolph says a half day program starts at 8 00 a m with tours of a peach orchard testing 75 varieties and observations on grape rootstocks. County agent Wylie Roberts notes benefits for county growers and residents and outlines sessions ending about 11 00 a m in the grape arbor with a Q A session.
Three Bowie youths, all from prominent families, were ordained by First Baptist Bowie and elected to pastor churches in Montague County. Carl Young leads Carter Lake Chapel after college honors, Charles Gifford takes Valley View Baptist, and J W Hutchens Jr. pastors Spanish Fort Church with a strong Bowie High School and seminary record. Dr. D L Payne praised their outstanding records and predicted bright futures.
Official greeter Wylie Roberts invites participants to an eight to nine am field day touring an orchard and vineyard. Agents from Clay Cooke Grayson and Sherman lead eight stops on peach and grape topics with Texas A&M Extension experts and plant pathologists directing disease ID and pruning methods.
A morning program outlines talks on fruit possibilities in North Central Texas by J S Bridwell of Wichita Falls and on fruit marketing by Tom Denman of Stephenville Experiment Station. C F Garner, Extension Entomologist of Texas A&M, covers fruit insects and A A Randolph, Montague Fruit Investigations Laboratory horticulturist, presents fruit research observations.
Bowie Independent School District board members vocalize opposition to federal aid to education legislation before Congress. They warn such aid would erode local control, a key element in democracy, in a letter to Sen Ralph Yarborough.
Henry Field of Saint Jo, Montague County Savings Bonds chairman, reported May 1961 sales totaled 18 144 dollars and county progress reached 35.7 percent of the 1961 goal of 500 000 dollars. Texas sales for January through May 1961 reached 64 395 836 dollars, 39 percent of the state goal. Field said United States Savings Bonds are highly attractive to investors and small savers.
Claude B Howard 53 was arrested in Bowie on a shoplifting charge after shoplifting cigarettes from an A&P. He paid for two cartons then walked out with four more cartons later. Police found 13 cartons of stolen cigarettes and a stolen oil in his car. He has a long record including burglary swindling hit and run forgery and drunkenness. He recently served a 12 year penitentiary sentence. Other city court traffic charges followed.
Texas Army National Guard units from Bowie and the 49th Division gear up for two weeks of intensive summer training at North Fort Hood starting July 2. Exercises include night tactics, simulated combat, and marches in cedar brakes. General Thompson reports 15,000 evaluations by Active Army evaluators and Governor's Day Review on July 8 with Gen. Decker observing.
Montague County 4-H Camp will be July 11 and 12 at Meyer Park in Bowie. The camp targets leadership training with crafts recreation etiquette swimming method demonstrations safety and a closing ceremony. Price per person is 1.75 with adult and junior leaders assigned to crafts recreation etiquette good 4 H membership and citizenship night party singing and ceremonial committees.
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