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Each Sunday afternoon in a wooded, 15-acre tract just northwest of Rockdale, a keen ight catch the out a place to shoot when he moved here last June, he now heads a 20-member club that enjoys the challenges of a field .The rest to this idea of a bow club has been real surprising,” ‘Bethard explains, “Because I really didn’t expect to find three people in Rock dale who were ‘¢interested.” In fact, back in the summer when Bethard was trying to drum up it in a bow club, he came in for some kid- BIBLE VERSE pot pinned the vine anes ding from his friends. “They thought bow and arrows went out of style when the Indians and white men finally smoked a peace pipe,” he recalls. It was August when the Ben Milami Archers were finally with seven charter members: Bethard, Dr. Philip Young, Homer Bower, Pat Hight, Gary Jackson, Ray Speer and Gary Fowell. Selecting a name became more of a problem than getting membership prospects. Some of the name sugges tions: Rockdale Archery Chub, Yegua Archers, Little River Archery Chub, and others. Sally, the members, settled at thg oe age select- 9 namesake SHERWOOD FOREST? Nope, this isn’t Robin Hood in Sherwox local bow club. Bethard is the Ben Milam Archers, has grown to 20 and the range, located in an dale, offers a real challenge to archery skills. Wayne Bethard, sighting in on one of 14 is of the club’s new range.
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Rockdale Reporter
Rockdale, Texas, US
Thu, Nov 09, 1967
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