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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1963
Page
5
Bellevue residents and Nortex Telephone Company dispute a rate increase saga. The city approved 25 percent, while bills reflected 50 percent. Court actions seek to reset rates and restore service at old terms. Separate suit by K Webb seeks 1.625 million for trucking firm damages from service cuts.
Bowie’s junior high grid program fills with 73 prospects as Coaches Rexroad and Barnes recruit eighth graders for an eight game fall schedule. Rexroad leads eight grade squad with 41 players while Barnes can count on 32 seventh graders. First game is September 12 against Sacred Heart of Muenster at home with kickoff 6 30 p m. Open dates follow and Henrietta hosts the Cottontails on October 3 with plans for seven grade matchups.
John William Thompson 42, a Bowie, Texas native and World War II veteran, died Monday in a Redondo Beach California Veterans Administration hospital. Funeral arrangements are pending at Burgess Funeral Home in Bowie. He leaves a large family including six sisters and four brothers plus a son.
Funeral services for Mrs Flora Sauls, 90, long-time Montague County resident, will be held at Burgess Memorial Chapel at 10 a m. Interment follows at Elmwood Cemetery. She was born in McNairville Tennessee September 18 1873 and is survived by a brother Boone Wilson of Bowie and sisters Mrs C W Wiley of Fort Worth and Mrs Jesse Wilson Hill of Wichita Falls. Pallbearers named from local area.
The Newport cemetery association held its regular meeting with Mrs. John Lemons and discussed old and new business. Several families visited Mr. and Mrs. Hobart Coyle and others in their homes over the weekend, and family night was moved from the third Monday to the first Monday of each month.
Local social notes list visitors and guests in Bowie including Judy Wright and David McGowan from Borger with Judy Wright's grandmother Mrs L P Bray. Also guests from Dallas Oklahoma and Texas towns attended Labor Day events and Park Springs Homecoming with former friends noted.
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