Coach Joe Vassar Shines in Bowie Girls Sports Initiative
Front pages praise Ron Taylor and coach Joe Vassar for starting Bowie girls softball at the Old Little League Ball Park behind the National Guard Armory. League play runs nightly except Wednesday, with girls track also planned for Bowie schools next year. The column also recounts a humorous incident with Jim Winter involving a pistol and a horse.
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Joe Vassar
Bowie
National Guard Armory
Bowie High School Drum Major Leads at UT Arlington School
Janice Walker of Bowie High School Jackrabbit Band joins 150 aspiring leaders from 96 high schools attending UT Arlington Music Department leadership school. Drum majors and majorettes from 60 Texas and Oklahoma cities learn band command from university faculty and top drill instructors. The program is billed as the largest of its kind in the U.S.
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Janice Walker
Bowie
University of Texas At Arlington Music Department
Texas
Oklahoma Cities
Southwest
U.S
Aerial Circus Promises Fun at Jim Bowie Days
The Wichita Falls RC Club sponsors an aerial circus at Bowie High School campus during Jim Bowie Days. AMA and RC members must register by 1 00 p.m. Saturday to enter and watch the radio controlled aircraft demonstrations and contest action.
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Jim Bowie
Wichita Falls
RC Club
Bowie High School
Wichita Falls Club
AMA
Burglars Hit Lake Montague Area Four Times in Five Hours
Deputy W F Conway investigated four break ins around Amon Carter Lake within five hours. Summerour reported his cabin broken into on June 6 with locks pried. thieves took televisions and groceries. In Bowie Phietis Harris Cox died in a two vehicle crash. Mary Redman in serious condition after collision with a Dr Pepper truck driven by Teddy Hoggard.
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Montague County
W.F. Conway
Amon Carter Lake
Frank Summerour
Fort Worth
Richmond Hills
Conway
Summerour
Owens and Brumley Funeral Home
Bowie
Phietis Harris Cox
Bellevue
Bowie Memorial Hospital
Mary Redman
Bowie Memorial
Cox
Teddy Hoggard
Wichita Falls
DPS
Todd
Vashti Highway
Hoggard
Frank Summerout
Board of Equalization Meeting For Bowie ISD Property
The Howie Independent School District Board of Equalization will meet July 5 1973 at 9 00 a.m. in Bowie High School 800 North Mill Street to study evaluate assess and equalize taxable property for the next tax year. All interested parties with local property business are asked to attend. A new Jim Bowie Days event introduces a Cow Chip Throwing Division with two classes for women and men and an age range from 1 to 100 years. Chips supplied by Coach Ramond Clements.
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Board of Equalization
Howie Independent School District
North Mill Street
Bowie
Jim Bowie
Ramond Clements
Public Funds Make Up Quarter of Local Income in New York
A state by state study from the Tax Foundation shows public funds total about 24 percent of local personal income. In Montague County the local share is 24 cents on the dollar with 15.4 cents from the Federal government and 8.6 cents from state and local agencies. The analysis covers wages, Social Security, pensions, interest, and public assistance. Continued on page 2.
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New York
U.S
Montague County
Pioneer Queen Chosen For Jim Bowie Days
Mrs. Laura Wright, widow of Dr. E W Wright, chosen Pioneer Queen by Bowie B P W Club for Jim Bowie Days. Born 1889 in Jasper County Texas she lived in Sunset Bowie and aided her physician husband as nurse bookkeeper and more.
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Laura Wright
E.W. Wright
Wrightie
Bowie B.&p.w. Club
Jim Bowie
Jasper County
Texas
Dr. Wright
Sunset
Bowie
Wright
Jacksboro
Cleo Lanier
Forrestburg
Nadine Crockett
Bellevue
Piety Wilson
B.&p.w. Club
Bertha Volkman
NEW Pioneer
Jaycees Plan Fun Carnival During Bowie Days
The Bowie Jaycees announce a family fun carnival after the downtown parade and continuing Friday and Saturday. Proceeds fund city promotion and local clubs. Five games include basketball throw and dunking tank under the First National Bank parking garage near the mall.
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Bowie Jaycees
Jaycees
Bowie
Jaycee
Rowdy
First National Bank
Gay Nineties Review Opens Jim Bowie Days 73
Registration begins 9 00 A M Friday at Bowie Mall for the Gay Nineties Review directed by Mrs. Bobby Boudreaux. The main show starts 9 30 A M on the second day of Jim Bowie Days 73 at the Red Velvet Saloon with Go Go dancers and a Barber Shop Quartet. Open to best dressed woman man family and group with trophies awarded. For details contact Mrs Boudreaux or Mrs Floyd.
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Bobby Boudreaux
Bowie
First National Bank
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ron Taylor
Sean
Jim Winter
Jim
Farmer
Ole’ Jim
Bowie Lake
Aerial Circus
Conerie
Montague County Banking
Pioneer Queen
Elizabeth Turner
American Legion Auxiliary
Bluebonnet Girls State
Seguin
Texas Lutheran College
On County
Merwin Turner
Bowie Lions Club
Bluebonnet
Baylor University
Boudreaux
Jerry Floyd
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