Bowie News: Local Notes and Ads Highlight Community
Community updates include third full color Massey Ferguson ad from Lynn's Tractor in Bowie, remodeling in the business district, a moving thank you note from Farmington, and a call for public input on hunting and fishing rules in Montague County. Weldon Swinson earns UI teaching fellowship in Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massey- Ferguson
Lynn’s Tractor Company
Bowie
Bowie Hardware
Weldon Swinson
C. D. Swinson
University of Illinois
Bowie Seniors Embark On Annual Chicago East Trip
Thirty four Bowie high school graduates and sponsors left Rock Island depot late Tuesday for an annual trip to Chicago and points east. They will tour New York City sights and Philadelphia landmarks, then Washington monuments before returning to Bowie Friday morning.
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Bowie High School
Rock Island Depot
Chicago
Points East
Sherman
Windy City
Niagara Falls
Buffalo
New York
New York City
United Nations
Empire State Building
Hayden Planetarrum
American Museum of Natural History
Manhattan Island
Washington
Bowie
Two Hurt In Crash Delays Bowie Wedding Plans
A two car crash on Highway 59 near Montague injured Roy Hudson of Fort Worth and Jennie Stevens of Montague. Hudson suffered multiple fractures and facial injuries and the wedding to Barbara Vanbebber was postponed to Tuesday night at Bethlehem Hospital in Wichita Falls. Stevens, a Bowie Drug Store employee, sustained a cracked pelvis and broken rib and remains in Bowie Hospital.
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Montague
Bowie
Roy Hudson
Clem Hudson
Fort Worth
Jennie Stevens
Young Hudson
Barbara Vanbebber
Hudson
Bethania Hospital
Wichita Falls
F E. R. Moore
Miss Stevens
Bowie Hospital
Nocona
Saint Jo
Broad and Boggess
James Hendricks
Ardmore
Okla
Paris
Tex
Main Street
Montague County
How- Middleton
Middleton
Free Friday at Bowie Pool Sparks Summer Swim Kickoff
Bowie offers free swimming Friday at the municipal pool from 1 39 p m to 6 p m with Barton Massey stating it is the sun splash kickoff. Season opens Saturday June 1 with tickets on sale Friday and various season and individual admission rates outlined for children and adults.
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Bowie
Bowie Municipal
Barton Massey
Massey
Bowie Country Club Plans Include Pool and Courts
Tennis courts and a swimming pool were added to the Bowie Country Club project by vote Monday night to attract more members and benefit families. Committee said building costs would drop if done during earth-moving. Membership limited to 150 with $360 entry and $10 monthly dues. $100 down with $25 monthly until paid. About 58 individuals and 24 businesses have pledged. George Rucker leads the membership drive with contact for potential charter members.
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Bowie Country Club
George Rucker
Terry Morgan
Roger Henrichs
Gordon Heard
Billy Neeld
Escape pair hunted after jail break near Saint Jo
Montague County deputies press a broad manhunt for the second Dallas County Jail escapee, Jerry Dorrough still at large while Gerald Johnson has been captured. The fugitives fled kidnapping a deputy and driving a stolen station wagon, wrecking near Saint Jo and evading roadblocks with pursuit spanning two states.
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Montague
Saint Jo
Dallas County
Gerald Ray Johnson
Jerry Mack Dorrough
Dallas
Sam Macaluse
Johnson
Dorrough
Bowie Council Won't Enter Federal Dams Pact
The Bowie City Council, following City Attorney D B Benson, declined to sign a federal agreement to guarantee sites for retention dams above Lake Amon G Carter. They cited lack of authority and concerns about costs, siltation, property values, and lake recreation.
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Bowie
Lake
Amon G. Carter
D. B. Benson
Benson
Bobby Windham
Stoneburry
Fred Bloom
Chamber of Commerce
Lake Amond Carter
John Lindsey
Mark High
Vacation Bible School Week Opens with Parade Saturday
The Vacation Bible School Week parade starts Saturday at 10 00 a m from Mason and Pecan Streets through downtown to announce the week long program run by participating churches of the Ministerial Alliance June 2 through 9 with daily sessions and Sunday worship.
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Ministerial Alliance
Mason and Pecan Streets
Mary Key
Fra George
Faye Sigman
First Methodist Vacation Church
Emerson Lynn
First Baptist Church
C. D. Pruett
Pat Young
Howard Carver
Charles Garrett
Bowie
J. A. Spears
Spears
Marion Woody
George Curlee
Otto Mercer
Lillie Huff
Bob Faulkner
St. Peter’s Lutheran Church
Ronald L. Jenkins
Lutheran Women’s Missionary League
With God
Gloria Johnson
Doris Roth
Charles Roth
Richard Hoeldtke
Janet Moore
A.M. Jackson
Edwin Kleinhans
Walter Husfield
Wm. McGee
Linda Bodling
Pam Hoeldtke
Carolyn Sue Richey
Evalyn Husfeld
Charles Burkhart
Prentice Burkhart
First Christian Church
Randall Peters
Nat Blake
Wallace Mills
Don Mills
Owen Meyer
Mills
Owen Myer
C. H. Sinclair
Anthony Thibodeaux
Andy Robinson
Thibodeaux
Bowie's 1963 Kid Baseball Opens Monday
About 300 boys enroll in four Bowie's summer leagues as the season starts Monday. WD Barnes leads the program with Jake Bridgewater and Bob Rexrode assisting. Opening day features four matchups across Pee Wee Minor Little and Pony Leagues at two venues with games slated through Thursday and no Sunday play unless needed.
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Bowie
WD. Barnes
Jake Bridgewater
Bob Rexrode
Bridgewater
Rexrode
Roy Sanders
Rotary Club
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Russell's Department Store Boys
Gary Nees Laander Company Buffaloes
CCD Shamburger Lumber Company Bobcats
Griffin Rexall Drug Leopards
Andy's Well Servier Longhorns
Rotary Club Cardinals
Wichita Construction Company
Bulldogs
First National
Stuart Af & P. Am. Sharp
New Park
VFW
Russell
Rexall
Andy's
Texaco Tigers
Bowie News
Heard’s Hardware
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By Emerson Lynn Jr
Paul Donald
Join Bennett
Texas United Fund Campaign Institute
Worth Hotel
Perkins-Timberlake
Waco
San Antonio
Oklahoma City
Texas
Farmington
New Mexico
Virgil Steabs
Fast Cooper
ASCS
Billy Bob
Rock Island
Evi
Radio City Music Hall
Philadelphia
Ross House
Independence Hall
Christ Church
Potomac River
White House
Melton Gallery
Iwo Jima Monument
Arlington Cemetery
Alexander, Mount Vernon
Jefferson Memorial
Lincoln Memorial
Washington Monument
Smithsonian Institute
Library of Congress
Supreme Court
National Archives
W. F. Conway
Conway
Council
H. D. Moore
J. C. Volkman
M. M. Browder
J. H. Henderson
Stanley Toeppich
Bobby Brashear
Vacation Bible School
Southside Baptist Church
Darius McKay
Owen Barnes
Delma Barnes
Jake Dorman
Jack Carnutte
Bill Allen
E. J. Hamilton
Wayne Miller
the Nazarene Church
Bessie Lind
Sey
Roberts Radiator
The
Hornets
Rotary Club Hawks
Gary Nees Buffaloes
Shamburger Bobcats
Wichita Construction Bulldogs
Barnes
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