Bowie Community Notes on Track Plans and Local Happenings
Local column reports on Bowie's track prospects at North Ward school ground and upcoming improvements including a rest room for football visitors. It notes travel to nearby towns for practice, suggests broader civic needs like auditorium and field house, and mentions Hemis-Fair interest and a Citizens Advisory Council meeting.
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Jerry Lynn
Jerry
Howard McCarty
Carrbbean
Philco
Terry
North Texas
Howard
Bill Carraway
Travel In
Bill
Bowie
North Ward
BHS
Nocona
St. Jo
San Antonio
E. H. Cunningham
Hazel McCarty
E. H
Alvord
Three Girls Selected for Bluebonnet Girls State Trip
Mollie Heinze Jane Ann Collins and Janet Henderson will be sponsored by Rotary Lions Club and American Legion Auxiliary for Bluebonnet Girls State at St Edwards University Austin June 11 to 12. Bowie High School juniors are daughters of the Heinze Collins and Henderson families. Merchants and employees asked to wear western attire for Jim Bowie Days June 27 28 29. The Thursday Club sponsors the reception for retiring teacher Mrs Will Young at First National Bank Community Room Sunday 2 to 4 p m.
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Mollie Heinze
Jane Ann Collins
Janet Henderson
American Legion Auxiliary
St. Edwards University
Austin
Rotary Club
Lions Club
Bowie High School
Reinhart Heinze
Clifford Collins
J. H. Henderson
Bowie
Young
Will Young
First National Bank
Bowie Tests High Social Security Receiving Population
More than 1480 Bowie residents receive monthly social security benefits with 1482 beneficiaries listed by James B. Foyce, Social Security Representative for Montague County. Total annual benefits exceed 1.15 million dollars, with primary groups of retired workers and dependents and survivors.
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Bowie
James B. Foyce
Montague County
Foyce
United States
Texas
Splash Day Set at Bowie Pool with New Lifeguard Support
Splash Day scheduled for Tuesday May 28 at Bowie Swimming Pool under manager W D Barnes. Coach Bob Rexrode to assist lifeguard duties. general admission 25 cents for kids 12 and under and 50 cents for others. season tickets 12.50, 15.00, and 25 for family. Event open to all with no admission charged.
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Bowie Swimming Pool
W. D. Barnes
Bob Rexgrode
Coronary Care Seminar Scheduled at Bowie Memorial Hospital
A Coronary Care Seminar will be held at Bowie Memorial Hospital on May 18 from 9 a.m. to 3 30 p.m. featuring Dr Albert M Goggans from Fort Worth. The Montague county Heart Association and Bowie Memorial Hospital sponsor with speakers including Dr Maurice M Browder and Mrs Char lene Inman RN. About forty hospital staff and doctors are invited to attend.
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Bowie Memorial Hospital
Albert M. Goggans
Fort Worth
Montague County Heart Association
Jane Underwood
Goggans
Maurice M. Browder
Bowie
Falls
Gay Griffin
All-Saints Hospital Coronary
Camilla Ashley
Elsie Partridge
LVN
Clyde Neely
Baccalaureate Sunday Honors Bowie Class of 1968
Baccalaureate services for the Bowie High School graduating class of 1968 will be held at 8 p.m. Sunday in the Junior High School Auditorium. Dr. D. L. Payne of First Baptist Church will deliver the message. The program features Pomp and Circumstance, scripture reading, and benediction by local pastors. Commencement night song will include The Impossible Dream performed by six students, with T. A. Harbin directing congregational singing and Holy, Holy, Holy and Psalm XIX as recessional selections.
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Bowie High School
D. L. Payne
First Baptist Church
Karen Coker
Debbie Carriker
Sue Clark
Cordreann Lewis
Teresa Middleton
Linda D. White
T. A. Harbin
Bowie
Ronald McGregory
County Democrats Endorse Connally for Presidency
The Montague County Democratic Party voted unanimously to back Gov. John Connally as a favorite son candidate. Delegates from precincts met in the district courtroom with Judge Louis T. Holland leading the unit-rule slate to the state convention on June 11. The Riders of The Jim Bowie Saddle Club won first at the Breckenridge Rodeo, their first appearance this year.
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Montague County
Texas
John Connally
Montague
Jim Bowie
Louis T. Holland
Connally
Frank Underwood
Raymond Latham
Henry Fenoglio
J. C. Donnell
Edgar Hays
Charles Blackmon
Paul Donald
T. O. Morgan
Lillian Minor
Terry Morgan
W. E. Nunnelly
Judge Holland
Jackrabbits Clinch District Title With Play Remaining
Bowie Jackrabbits claim District 9-AA baseball crown as Boswell Pioneers suffer a setback on Nocona Indians. Bowie hosts Boswell Friday at 3 30 p.m. victory or not, the Rabbits will be district champions for the second straight year. Bi district round against Mansfield Burleson West or Everman set on dates and sites to be decided.
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Bowie Jackrabbits
Bowie
Nocona Indians
Boswell Pioneers
Boswell
Bowie Diamond
Rabbits
Mansfield
Burleson
West
Everman
Rainy May Breaks Ten Year Bowie Record
Rain swept Bowie and nearby areas this week with May totals reaching about 3 inches in Bowie and higher in Bellevue Newport and Vashti. Residents reported 2.25 to 4 inches with local lakes rising, some transformers and one power line damaged, and fishing bogged by muddy waters at Amon Carter Lake.
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Bryan Lovelady
Bellevue
Lovelady
Bowie News
Vashti
Newport
Ora Hanson
C. H. Webb
City Electrician
Elvin Robbins
City
Tracy Admire
Amon Carter Lake
Nonsense lines on school name change and Paris peace note
The text frets about Arlington State dropping the Rebels name and suggests Rebel-Rouser as an alternative. It mentions De Gaulle in Paris and a jab about the Poor People’s March, proposing a work march instead.
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Arlington State
Paris
de Gaulle
Washington
Montague Republicans back Tower as favorite son candidate
Montague County Republicans endorsed Senator John G. Tower as a favorite son candidate at their county convention. The group will send an uncommitted delegation to the state convention in Corpus Christi because the unit rule was not agreed upon.
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John G. Tower
Montague County
Corpus Christi
Tiny Tot Contest Set for June 28 at Bowie High
Mrs. Bob Rexrode of the Bowie Chapter of the Young Homemakers of Texas announces a Tiny Tot Queen and King contest June 28 at 6 30 p m in the High School Cafeteria. Age range two to four, Bowie ISD residents only. wear Sunday Best and be judged on appearance and personality. Applications by June 10, 1968, via mail to Mrs. Rexrode Rt 4 Bowie or through Bowie News page two.
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Bob Rexrode
Bowie
The
Young Homemakers of Texas
Bowie News
Young Homemakers
Bowie Independent School
Terry’s Furniture
Rt. 4
Montague School Holds Commencement In May
Montague honor students will hold commencement on May 23 at 8 p.m. with T A Harbin of Bowie as main speaker. Gwynna Richardson, with a 95.97 average, is valedictorian and Barbara Brannan is salutatorian with 91.00. Diplomas will be presented by Robert Ryan. Eighth graders listed include Brannan Edgerton Fenoglio Matthews Milson Nix Pendergraft Richardson. Perfect attendance awards will be given and the key from eighth to seventh grade will be transferred by Nix to Mary Beckman.
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Montague School
T. A. Harbin
Bowie
Melvin Fenoglio
Montague
Gwynna Richardson
G. E. Richardson
Barbara Brannan
Gertrude Brannan
Robert Ryan
The
Ross Edgerton
Richard Fenoglio
Connie Matthews
Kathy Milson
Karen Nix
Richard Pendergraft
Mary Beckman
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