Weathered Town Gossip and Local Notes From Bowie
Tom Hays reports on a windy dust storm forecast and dry spell promise from ASCS forecaster Tommy. The column recalls 1944 prices, birthdays, local happenings, and odd tidbits about residents like Bob Cable finding an old issue, Band Parents show antics, and Ron Taylor shaving his mustache amid town chatter.
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Tommy Hays
Tommy
ASCS
Bob Cable
Jowie
Folgers Coffee
Terry Morgan
Bowie
Eagles
Commisioners Court
Vernons
Montague County
Previence Committee
Talmage Garrett
Bob Boudreaux
Ron Taylor
County Officials Nix Travel Pay in Montague County
Montague County Commissioners vote to limit travel expense reimbursement to county business only. Actions include sending County Attorney Davis to a district attorneys’ college, approving indigent hospital travel, bidding 8 000 for a backhoe, scheduling a June 5 board of equalization, and planning a Lubbock conference on March 28. Easter Seals campaign launched with Ralph Edwards visiting Wichita Falls on March 17 at 10 00 a.m. at the rehabilitation center.
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Montague County
Montague Court House
C. W. Chandler,Jr
John Park Davis
National College of District Attorneys
Galveston
Nocona
Board of Equalization
Court House
Lubbock
North Texas
Wichita Falls
Bowie
John Smith
Ralph Edwards
Edwards
Denver
Ricky Boydston Wins Sweepstake Honors at Wichita Falls Fair
Ricky Boydston won the sweepstake at the Midwestern University Regional Science Fair in Wichita Falls for his Senior High Biological Sciences project Stress on the Brain. He receives an expense paid trip to the 24th International Science and Engineering Fair in San Diego May 6 to 12, with Bowie High School mentor Charles Gifford accompanying him if funds allow.
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Ricky Boydston
Wichita Falls
San Diego
Calif
Charles Gifford
Ricky
Bowie High School
Boydstons
Lorie Sanders
Bowie High
Bowie City Budget Faces Library Cut and Bank Depository Change
Bowie City Council debates a nearly 40 percent library funding reduction citing financial strain and requests a $15,000 level while confirming a public hearing for March 26. They also vote to switch city depository from The First National Bank to The Bowie National Bank and plan to adjust sinking fund notes at maturity.
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Bowie
Ligon Griffin
Bowie Public Library Board
Griffin
Red
Otto Mercer
Council
Alex Griffin
Bowie National Bank
First National Bank
Roy Gene Williams
Trustees Approve Vocational Office Education Program at Bowie High
In executive session Bowie ISD trustees reemployed most staff for 1973-74 and delayed Special Education Instructor decisions. They set teacher pay to the state scale, cited prior stipends, and authorized pursuing a Vocational Office Education Program with labs and on the job training to prepare students for office work.
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Ruby Reaves
Helen Jeffries
D. L. Campbell
J. R. Matlock
Charles Blanton
Texas
Bowie
Texas Education Agency
Bowie Paving Plan Aims for This Year or Next
City Manager Howard Black says Bowie’s paving program should finish this year or next with streets not only repaired but replaced where needed. He notes larger water and sewer line work will follow, potentially lowering residents insurance rates.
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Howard Black
Bowie
Bowie News wins district conservation award
The Bowie News is named best Conservation weekly paper in the Upper Elm Red Soil and Water Conservation District 1972. W H Bill Green says it entered the Texas Conservation Awards Program for state or regional plaques. East Ward PTA meets Friday at 2 00 pm with a RAP session on We can Have a better community and officer elections for 73 74.
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Bowie News
Upper Elm-Red
W. H
Bill’ Green
Green
Fort Worth
P.T.A
East Ward
Bowie Day Association elects Bob Boudreaux president
Jim Bowie head representatives of service clubs met March 12 in The First National Bank Community Room and elected Bob Boudreaux as President of The Jim Bowie Day's Association. Boudreaux, Bowie Chamber of Commerce manager, has long served as director and officer and backed the annual big three day event held last weekend in June.
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First National Bank
Bob Boudreaux
Boudreaux
Bowie Chamber of Commerce
Bowie
Hockey Benefit Game at Jackrabbit Gym
A charity hockey game will be held in Jackrabbit Gym on Thursday March 15 at 945 am. Proceeds go to the Salvation Army with Coach Gayne Shelton officiating as PE class teams compete. Admission is 25 cents.
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Jackrabbit Gym
Salvation Army
Gayne Shelton
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Jim
Jim Winter
Nixes
Boydston
Debra Scruggs
Debra Connell
Teri Salle
Wichita Falls Fair
Gifford
Teresa Vanlandingham
Pam _ Brickey
Connie Garrison
Sherri Walker
Montague
Joe Carminati
Sherry Wise
City Depository
Bowie National
Mercer
Mommas
Glendene Brooks
B.H.S
Kent Holloway
Melinda Simpson
Doug Gaston
Saint Jo
Mike Hellgatter
East Ward P.T.A
Jim Bowie
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