The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 22, 1970 Page: 4 of 8
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TOP HEAVY!
Dependability
Another of those doomsday stories
about the dark future of the small
town In Texas was sandwiched into
one of the big Dallas papers Sunday
between report after report of the
troubles in the big cities.
If you got past the reports of high
taxes, racial conflicts, bombings, kid-
nappings, bank robbings, muggings,
air pollution, the housing shortages,
and the football team that "always
loses the big ones", you might have
seen the story of the small town and
its problems.
This time it was Hamilton, a pretty
little central Texas town which had
lost about 400 people from its 1960
population count of 3,100 or so.
The theme was the familiar re-
frain these days: The young people
simply aren't returning to the small
towns to use their talents.
That's generally true — but not
always and not completely.
Someone suggested to us a few weeks
ago that we count up and write a
feature story about the number of
young men who have come back to
Naples and are connected with some
business here now.
We're not going to do it, not be-
cause it might offend some young man
who's left out but because it might
other views
offend some older man who should
be left out.
But the Naples Chamber of Com-
merce met Monday evening of last week
and the crowd would have made the
Dallas news story doubtful.
There were two or three bald heads
in the crowd and a few gray hairs
scattered here and there but generally
to a 50-ish man, it looked like a
mighty immature bunch.
The part that hacked, though, was
that it was that bunch of young side-
burned whippersnappers who were on
the committees doing the work and
the planning. There was not even enough
respect for age to ask their opinions.
In this era when the small town is
seeing its stores boarded up, its young
generation go into the asphalt jungle
to be lost forever from the open field
and the fishing hole, its nice to see
that enough of the barely-growns still
can see a possibility of making ends
meet in Naples to make an older fellow
feel out of place.
Naples is blessed with a large per-
centage of young people who either
stayed at home or returned. They are
the leaders now.
Our future, if we have one at all,
rests with them.
New circle
Like a lot of other people, we read
the "advice columns" in daily news-
papers, getting a kick out of what
Ann Landers or Abigail Van Buren
or Helen Bottel have to say to in-
quiring readers with all sorts of prob-
lems.
Here lately all three of these
columnists have had some comments
upon a change in the times, a shift in
the winds, so to speak, and we hope
they are right.
Like most adults, these columnists
are worried about youngsters and such
trends as the use of makeup, weird
hair styles, high heels and evenfalsies
for 11 and 12 year old girls who are
being pushed into maturity by mothers
who don't want them to be "left out."
It appears that parents are waking
up a little bit, too, and are realizing
that just because "everybody does
it" does not mean that junior can
start driving when he is 13 because
COW POKES
his friends do.
Precocious styles for small fry,
too-early dating and going steady at
an early age has been a source of
much worry and parents in some lo-
calities are taking action against this
trend by the most natural of American
actions -- they form an organization.
There is beginning to be an informal
protest among at least one group of
parents of the younger set right here
in Perryton who are getting together
so that their children will not have
the oft-used excuse--"buteverybody's
doing it." These parents know that
the parents of children within their
own circ'e, at least, are standingfirm.
If there is to be any slowing down
of this frenzied rush into maturity by
immature children, it will have to be
done by the parents.
If it takes an organization, meetings
and even committees, we're all for it.
OCHILTREE COUNTY HERALD
By Ace Reid
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John Paul Jones
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ya$t educational
Another holiday
this Friday
at Pewitt school
Pewitt teachers will go
to a Texas State Teachers
Assoc: ation meeting Fri-
day in Greenville.
This will give the Pew-
itt students another holi-
day they won't have to
make up at the end of the
year since it was sched-
uled.
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Dr. L. D, Lawler
202 South Van Buren
OPTOMETRIST
Phone 724-4774
CL06ED WEDNESDAY
Mt. Pleasant, Texas
LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR:
Since when are Texans incapable of making up
their own minds on how to vote?
I notice that the Republican nominee for the Sen-
ate, George Bush, is importing people from several
other states to do his campaigning for him. These
include Vice President Agnew, Sen. Dole of Kansas,
Congressman Morton of Maryland, Secretary of the
Interior Hickel (former Gov. of Alaska), and it is
rumored that Bush is even trying to get President
Nixon down to bat for him.
(Editor's note: An announcement was made Tues-
day morning that President Nixon would be in Long-
view at 4 p.m. Wednesday of next week, Oct. 28,
for an airport rally.)
This is not to discredit these individuals, but let
us not forget their purpose in coming is to per-
suade Texas voters.
You don't see Lloyd Bentsen, the Democratic
nominee for Senator, bringing in names and people
from Washington, D. C., to attract attention.
I say let's put a true native son in the Senate.
Let's elect Lloyd Bentsen on Nov. 3.
Sincerely,
James L. Slider
P. O. Box 187
Naples, Texas 7z56b
Marietta
Women at DKG meeting
By Mrs. R. L. Harris
Several members of the
Baptist Church attended a
meeting of the Enon As-
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soci ation at Bloomburg
last Monday evening.
Miss Thelma Russell,
Mrs. R. C. Shaddix, Mrs.
Irene Smith, Miss Susye
Robertson and Mrs. R. L.
Harris attended a meet-
ing of the Alpha Upsilon
Chapter of Delta Kappa
Gamma at the Excelsior
Hotel in Jefferson last
week.
School children will
have a holiday this Fri-
day while teachers are
attending a meeting of
District VIII teachers in
Greenville.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Stevens have been in Liv-
ingston for the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Fel-
ty of Waxahachie, and
Mrs. L. L. Rowland of
Canton spent Friday night
with Mrs. R. L. Harris.
Mary Beth and Jan, the
daughters of Mr. and Mrs.
Del Miller, entertained
members of the GA's and
RA's at their home Sat-
urday night with a wiener
roast.
Mrs. Carrie McKnight
and Mrs. Maud Rittmanof
Live Oak, Calif., have
been visiting in the R. C.
Shaddix home.
Royse Shaddix Jr., who
attends East Texas State
University, and a friend,
Miss Julia Farmer, spent
Sunday with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Shad-
dix.
Mrs. Maxie Gibson and
her daughter, Jean, of
Commerce, spent the
week end in the Roy Bry-
an home.
Local students who are
members of the FFA and
FHA chapters attended
the State Fair in Dallas
Saturday.
Keep well
groomed
NAPLES
BARBER
SHOP
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Sage of Sulphur Bottom
A no nonsense law
(Editor's note: The Sage of Sulphur
Bottom on his johnson grass farm
reflects on a proposed new law, more
or less.)
Dear editar:
I remember reading it in a news-
paper, I forget which newspaper and
which town it was, but some city
government, tired of willful mischief
and serious destruction by kids and
students, if there's any difference, has
passed an ordinance making parents
responsible for their children's ac-
tions, even to the point of fining them
and sending them to jail.
"Maybe this will put a stop to it,"
officials said, tired of the whole matter.
I have thought this over and I don't
know whether this law ought to become
widespread or not.
Sure, when a kid throws a rock
through a hundred-dollar plate glass
window or sets fire to a library it
looks like his parents must have slipped
up, and they probably feel that way too,
but there's another side to it, to be
thought about before you send the
parents to jail. Some good people
might wind up behind bars.
What I mean is, occasionally some
kids who turn out the best come from
what is considered some of the worst
families, and some who turn out the
worst come from what is considered
some of the best families. Kids don't
always follow a formula.
Now if a neighbor's kid pulls up all
the flowers around your house and
smears paint on your new car, a law
punishing the parents seems like a
splendid idea, but if it's your kids....
this requires more level-headed
thought.
On the other hand, if the parents
are going to be punished for their
children's misdeeds, what's to keep
somebody from bringing out a law to
punish grandparents for producing the
children whose children break the law?
Or great-grandparents? Or great-
great-grandparents ?
To hold down on the prison popula-
tion, it would be better to hold only
great-great-grandparents responsible.
Be very few prison riots that way.
On still another hand, it does look
like some parents are not doing all
they could, to be generous about it,
to train their kids to live in an organized
society.
Probably before this new law
becomes universally enacted it ought
to be turned over to a Congressional
committee for further study. This will
delay the matter for years.
Yours faithfully,
J. A.
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$
450 face draft
in Texas
for November
The November draft
call for Texas is 450,
according to Lt. Col.
Charles Duncan, State Se-
lective Service Director.
The first to be called
by the local draft boards
will be men with random
sequence numbers from 1
through 145. Those with
higher numbers will be
subject to call if needed,
Duncan said.
Texas' quota is part of
the national call for 8,000
men, all for the Army.
A total of 1,310 will
have to take pre-induc-
tion physical and mental
examinations for the No-
vember quota.
Local board quotas for
induction and pre-induc-
tion examinations in No-
vember were mailed to
159 boards on October 9.
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Craig, Morris G. The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 22, 1970, newspaper, October 22, 1970; Naples, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth329677/m1/4/: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Atlanta Public Library.