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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1964
Page
1
Emerson Lynn Jr reports on municipal finance questions about free medical care under revenue bond terms, the Bowie High School football assistant spot, Explorer Scouts visiting Huntsville prison, local birthday oddities, cemetery grave markers for Civil War veterans, and council discussion on a new garbage pickup plan.
Beverly Wilson visits the First National Bank for the Bride Goes Shopping section. Ronda Broun waited on her instead of Captalin Phagan as reported in today's Bride Section.
Five candidates compete for two vacant Bowie city council seats in a statewide special election set Saturday. Voters will cast ballots 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the city auditorium basement. East Ward contenders are C V Young and Terry Morgan. North Ward contenders are John Sanders George Hoeldtke and Bill Myers with Danny Deaver withdrawing.
Bowie National Bank approves construction of a new bank on a triangular block at Tarrant Walnut and Cummins Streets to begin by August 1. The old Farmers Cafe building, linked to the City National Bank and later a hotel, will be demolished. Bids on the project are to be opened about three weeks after July 6 with architects James R. Killebrew and Associates of Wichita Falls in Bowie, Roy D Sanders Jr. of Bowie.
A burglar struck the Bowie Truck Terminal on East Wise Street around 4 a.m. Saturday, stealing about 150 dollars in cash and an unknown amount of checks from a cash register and a cash sack from a soft drink machine. The owner J. W. Hightower valued the register at 250 dollars. Officer Otis Moody investigated with Deputy Sheriff William Conway assisting after Ocie Clayton discovered the crime.
A new hearing date of July 13 at 2 p.m. will decide a bond election to purchase right of way for a four lane road south of the current highway. The hearing was postponed due to errors in the first notice and a fresh official notice appears in News Date this week.
The Montague County 4 H Camp will be held at Mever ark in Bowie on July 9 and 10. All regularly enrolled 4 H members in Montague County are eligible to attend. The camp will be planned at a June 29 meeting of junior and 4 H adult leaders at the Extension Agent's office in Montague.
Ground breaking for the new First Presbyterian Church will be held Sunday July 5 at the corner of Jefferson and Nelson after the morning service. Stamford Engineering Co of Temple TX has the contract, and construction should start immediately. The L shaped building was designed by Fort Worth architect George S Crain.
The Union Hill Missionary Baptist Church revival starts Sunday June 28 with services led by Pastor Rev R L Partridge. Everyone is welcome to attend.
July 1 field day at the Fruit Investigations Laboratory Montague invites growers large and small to learn about chemical thinning insect control grape pruning and peach irrigation with Dr R E Patterson and Ted Martin chairing the sessions. The event hosted by Montague County Farm Bureau and Fruit Land U S A Association expects 250 attendees.
Tommy Whitecotton former city council member was named chairman of a three man planning and zoning committee by Mayor J A Spears The panel will study a Bowie zoning ordinance per the master plan and propose city actions Leiland Jett and E G Jones also serve on the committee The council authorized the appointment on March 23
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