March birthdays and community tidbits in Bowie
Local notes celebrate Mae Slaughter’s birthday and tease a Jerry Lynn bumper sticker giveaway at the Bowie News office. Sports chatter recalls Roy Roberts’s strong meet at Bowie High and a West Tarrant Relays challenge won by David Jameson. A debated civil rights stance and a playful Jerry Lynn mystery close the page.
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Mae Slaughter
Teddy Roosevelt and Company
Letha
Bowie
Jerry Lynn
Jerry
Virginia
Roy Roberts
Coach Brooks
Roy
Civil Rights Commissions
Robert Weaver
Glyn Darden
David James
Bowie High School
Burgess Funeral Home
David Jameson
Jameson
Darden
Bowie News
Stanley Bohenek
Stanley
Jerry Lynn Hooser
City Council Race Draws Multiple Candidates in April Election
In the city council contest set for April 6, one absentee ballot had been cast by press time with a deadline of April 2. Candidates include Terry Morgan George Hoeltke Dan Wilkins and Doyle Richardson for council seats while J C Wood and Ernest Vanbebber run for city secretary. John Boydston enters as a write in for the South Ward opposing Otto Mercer.
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Joan Baxter
Terry Morgan
George Hoeltke
Dan Wilkins
Doyle Richardson
J. C. Wood
Ernest Vanbebber
John Boydston
Boydston
Otto Mercer
Bingo Prize Now Fifty Dollars In Bowie News
A new bingo game runs until 4 p.m. Tuesday offering 50 in Bingo Bucks usable at participating NEWS Bingo stores. Cards are found in The Bowie News, with Bingo Bugs to mark as numbers match. All numbers must be crossed for blackout bingo to win. if a tire occurs the prize is shared.
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Bowie News
Bowie News Today
Donkey Ball Game at Bowie Tonight
A donkey ball game will be played at the old junior high school gym tonight at 7 30 between the Bowie FFA and the Bowie Police Department. Admission is 1.00 for adults 75 cents for students and 50 cents for children. Stock furnished by Ralph Godfrey of Oklahoma. The Bowie Memorial Hospital will remain a member of the Amon Carter Blood Bank of Fort Worth. Administrator A. E. Hill reported to The News yesterday. Although Montague County is approved for Red Cross Blood program participation the Bowie hospital remains unaffected.
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Bowie Ffa
Bowie Police Department
Ralph Godfrey
Oklahoma
Bowie Memorial Hospital
Amon Carter Blood Bank of
Fort Worth
A. E. Hill
Montague County
Red Cross
Bowie Hospital
Teachers Complete Inservice Geography Program
Forty two teachers from Monague Clay and Wise counties completed an eight week inservice geography training at East Ward School Bowie region nine Education Service Center critic session featured Dr McBride and Jim Hefner certificates presented.
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Monague
Clay
Wise County
East Ward
Bowie
Janet Moore
Bowie Schools
Region 9
Education Service Center
McBride
Jim Hefner
Bellevue
Willie Mae Cleveland
Alice Baccus
Glendene Brooks
Betty Bynum
D. L. Campbell
Lucille Campbell
Buna Clark
Lucille
Monnie Jones
Shirley Porter
Bowie Jackrabbit Banquet to Honor Athletes Tonight
Bowie Jackrabbit Club hosts a banquet featuring introductions of boys and girls teams by coaches with Claude Gilstrap as head speaker. Tickets are $1.75, sold at local businesses. event at 7 30 p m in the junior high gym, with awards to honored players.
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Bowie
Raymond Clement
Shelton
Clement
Aquaint
Brooks
Ray Sewall
Claude
Chena) Gilstrap
University of Texas At Arlington
Gilstrap
Super Save Market
Campbell’s Barber Shop
Jackrabbit Booster Club
Bowie City adopts retirement plan and auctiones bonds
The Bowie City Council approved a city employee retirement plan and opened Roach Street from Jackson to Montague Highway, with completion in 60 days. They denied an oil lease bid at the old city lake, discussed rental fees and city property leases, and postponed formal approval of a new residential plat pending fuller plans. Three blast damage claims were referred to the city attorney and baseball uniforms for inter city play were not acted upon. The council authorized leasing two city parcels of 27 and 100 acres and the purchase of a bulldozer for the new sanitary landfill.
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Bowie
Old City Lake
Pelham Park
Roach Street
Jackson Street
Montague Highway
Howard Black
Jackrabbits Take First in Iowa Park Relays
The Bowie Jackrabbits won the Iowa Park Relays at Wichita Falls High School with Roy Roberts winning high jump and place in broad jump, Billy Ray Roberts taking the mile, Vassar winning 220 and Norman Winter the 880. Coach Willie Brooks notes upcoming Boswell and Decatur meets amid weather delays. team aims to peak at district meet.
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Bowie Jackrabbits
Wichita Falls
Roy Roberts
Roy
Billy Ray Roberts
Vassar
Ronnie Tucker
Norman Winter
Willie Brooks
Boswell
Decatur
Nonsense notes mix in a local column parody
A chaotic jumble of opinions and mock headlines references Nancy Sinatra legal action against a company and light chatter about track teams and Franco American debt. The piece blends playful mockery with political jabs and personal asides.
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Jim
Jim Winter
West Tarrant Relays
Glyn
Nocona
Corinne Bell
Lona Brand
Doris Pribble
Janice Spivey
Mary Tompkins
Frances Waters
Molly Weiss
Prairie Valley
Doris Crenshaw
Florence Hayes
Wilma Hudsom
Lillian Duckworth
Lydia Overstreet
Carole Fuller
Leora Roberts
Jacksboro
Wilma Hudson
Virginia Eakman
Mike Taylor
Mike
Pack 117
Glenn Neff
Ronald Henderson
Iowa Park
Mabron D. Wall, Jr
Bible Baptist Church
Wall
Ft. Worth
A. Now
Bet Goodyear
Nancy Sinatra
H. S
France
de Gaulle
Anon
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