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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1963
Page
1
The Bowie Chamber of Commerce funds a drive to collect five cents per acre and one dollar per thousand assessed building value to buy two light weight grass fire trucks. Mayor Spears and Fire Chief Latham pledge trucks for rural fires as additions are purchased.
Bowie voters head to polls Tuesday to choose seven city posts as the Bowie United Fund faces a funding shortfall. The piece notes local groups expect about half their hoped donations and outlines a community reach poll to decide whether to continue the collective drive.
Bowie voters head to polls on April 2 to elect officials including mayor and aldermen. The Board of Directors asks residents to answer questions about continuing the United Fund and supporting the drive. Incumbents and challengers listed for Ward races and city offices with polling places and times.
Fire struck the Henderson-Smith estate home of Forrest Potteiger at 6 am Monday, destroying the two story dwelling north of Chico. The Potteigers fled in night clothes with Sue a high school junior Steven a sophomore and Jim a freshman at North Texas State College away from the fire which was blamed on faulty wiring in the attic. The family is being housed at the Royce Sewalt home while they arrange new accommodations.
Bowie City Council approved a parking and traffic plan for the high school and East Ward areas with new no parking zones after a proposed lot is built. Plans by East Ward PTA members Wanda Phelps and Frances Brite included crosswalk painting and area designations. The meeting also funded Pelham Park restroom costs, a $50 Rock Island Railroad power line easement, tennis court repairs at Meyer Park, and a new police car budget item using a 1959 Rambler as trade.
Byron E Johnson of Bowie was arrested by the Montague County sheriff on aggravated assault counts connected to an alleged Sunday attack on Jim Steadham of Saint Jo. Witnesses say Johnson, armed, also forced his former wife Pauline Johnson to accompany him at gunpoint amid a two state manhunt. she later declined to press charges and stated plans to remarry.
The Bowie Bands present a free concert this Sunday at 2:30 in the High School Auditorium. The Junior High and Senior High will perform a varied program including jazz and concert numbers. George Rucker will conduct a march.
The Green Thumb Garden Club launches Clean Up Paint Up and Fix Up Week in Bowie with free city trash pickups to follow. Volunteers plant rose bushes at Elmwood Cemetery and citywide cleanup encourages residents and merchants to join through Friday.
Betty Evans Vera Rogers and Anita Prater of Bowie were in a three person car crash on the Montague Highway just north of Bowie at 7 50 am on Thursday morning. Evans swerved to avoid a truck driven by Willis Reddin of Bowie who was making a left turn. The car overturned but no one was seriously injured.
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