The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 27, 1972 Page: 1 of 8
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(Editor's note: The following
article is taken from the Arizona
Highway Department publication.
Drumbeats. Mrs. Jensen is the
daughter of Mrs. Guy Bell and the
late Mr. Bell, who was also born
at Bryans Mill.)
Ever hear of Bryans Mill,
Texas? No? Well, you ve heard of
it now.
That's where Vonnie Jensen was
born. But she left Texas in 1925
because, like so many other
families, there was a health prob-
lem. Her grandfather was already
here — he moved to Arizona be-
fore statehood.
Vonnie has worked in the Finan-
cial Responsibility Service since
1952.
She's presently Secretary to
Richard Golden, Supervisor,
Uniformed Services, MVD, and
still is responsible for the tremen-
dous volume of FR documents,
which requires extensive working
knowledge of the laws of the state.
The way she drops words like
'bonds, power of attorney, recip-
rocity, SR22,' makes you think
you're talking to a lawyer. Her
boss says, "You wouldn t believe
the amount of work she produces.
She works her head off. It's nice
to know your efforts are ap-
preciated, and Mr. Golden certain-
ly appreciates Vonnie.
No family is without tragedy.
In April 1970, Vonnie's only child,
Elaine, passed away, leaving a
husband and four children. All her
"leisure" time is devoted to help-
ing her son-in-law and the
children, ages 7, 10, 13 and 15.
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This doesn't leave much time for
anything else. Once a year, though,
Vonnie and husband Bill do manage
to work in a fishing expedition.
If they're all like Vonnie, we'll
take all the Texas Transplants
we can get!!
THE
10c copy
ONITOR
Volume 85
Serving North Morris County and its neighbors
Naples, Texas - 75568 Thursday, January 27, 1972 Number 23
VONNIE JENSEN
Linden woman
on honor list
at Baptist school
Mrs. Ray Harty of Linden was
listed on the Dean's List of honor
students at East Texas baptist
College for the fall semester.
Mrs. Harty's husband, Ray, is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Harty of Naples.
She is a senior student major-
ing in elementary education and
had a grade index of 2.625.
Mrs. D. W. Betts of Naples buys
two Naples Chamber of Commerce
banquet tickets from Naples Mayor
John J. Jameson. The tickets for
the annual ladies night and banquet
MONITORING
MAIN
STREET
One of our friends and adver-
tisers wanted us to know that:
"advertising does pay" and also
wanted us to know from how far
away.
He deals in real estate and an
ad a couple of weeks ago brought
him telephone calls about a home
for sale in this area from Texar-
kana, Piano, Tex., and all the way
from Seattle, Wash.
He sold the property he adver-
tised.
•••
Adolescence is the time when
a boy stops collecting stamps and
starts playing post office.
Want to make your plans for the
coming year on holidays? A check
of this year's calendar shows more
long week ends under the new
government policy and other dates
as well.
There are four Federal Legal
Holidays. The first one comes
on Monday, Feb. 21, for Presi-
dent's Day. Another will take place
on Monday, May 29, for Memorial
Day, a third on Oct. 9, another
Monday, for Columbus Day and the
fourth one is two weeks later on
Monday, Oct. 23, for Veteran's
Day.
The other holidays are Good
Friday on Friday, March 31,
Easter on Sunday, April 2 and
Mother's Day on Sunday, May 14.
Old faithful, July 4th, comes
on a Tuesday this year and then
on Tuesday, Nov. 7, it is election
day.
Nov. 23, a Thursday, is Thanks-
giving and Christmas comes on
Dec. 25, as usual, and that's on a
onday.
are selling for $4.50 each and can
be purchased from most chamber
members. The banquet will be held
at the Naples Motor Inn on
Saturday night, Feb. 12.
Golden Horn Club
names officers
for new season
New officers have been elected
for the coming season for the
Golden Horn Riding Club of Naples.
At the first meeting of the year,
last week, Bobby Mize was named
president of the club. Bill Horne
is the vice president, Mary Mize
is the secretary and treasurer
and Elton Brown is reporter.
The club voted to remain a
member of the Four States Horse
Show Association and elected club
members Mize, Horn and J. C.
Jennings as representatives.
A second meeting is set for
Tuesday, Feb. 15. Plans for the
Four States show will be discussed.
§ Tax hints available
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§ A booklet that gives:;:
:ij: information on how to filLij:
Sj out federal tax returns
will be sold at the NaplesS
$ Post Office.
The book was
$ by the Internal
i;i Service and contains::*:
many examples to illus-$:
trate how the tax law:*::
•ii applies to actual situa- :§
:j| tions. A special feature ig
!•: of the booklet is the •:•
sample, filled-in return,.:;:
Form 1040, keyed to |j
g pages where explanations §
can be found for each en-
try on the return.
Mnre candidates file for political offices
More candidates have filed for
offices in Cass and Morris counties
and the deadline for entering the
political races is Monday, Feb. 7.
There will be a full ballot of
choices when election day rolls
around.
At the local level, Omaha will
elect a constable and a commis-
sioner, and Daingerfield will also
elect a commissioner.
All three of those positions have
had incumbents file for them. G. D.
Patterson of Omaha has filed for
re-election as constable, Sherman
Irvin for the position of commis-
sioner at Omaha for re-election
and Haze Littlefield has filed for
re-election as commissioner at
Daingerfield.
A district clerk will be elected
to fill the two years of the un-
expired term of Olen Smith, who
resigned. Gerald W. Quarles has
filed for that position but Mrs.
Reynolds Taylor, who holds the
position now, has not announced
as a candidate.
The terms of District Judge
Morris Rolston, District Attorney
United Fund goes over quota
written g
Revenue
• ••••••
The final totals are in for the
Morris County United Fund drive
and the county exceeded its set
quota.
The goal set or the county was
$17,041 and fiual totals showed
a sum of $17,162 according to
Randy G. Moore, countychairman.
Omaha, under the chairmanship
of Mrs. Reita Clayton, had the
highest percentage rating of any
of the towns in the county with 150
percent. The goal there was for
$2,492 and the drive there netted
$3,761.17.
Naples was second with 117
percent. Bill Henderson was the
chairman and his goal was $4,160.
His group collected $4,905.18.
The Lone Star and Jenkins fund
collected $2,421.03 which was 95
percent of a $3,349 goal and Cason
workers reached 74 percent of
their $640 goal with $477.63.
Daingerfield came in next-to-
Ag income to go up
"Nobody but the undertaker de-
sires to be mentioned in the
obituary columns, which is to say
that in America, business comes
first and publicity doesn't hurt."
He's also the man who signs
his letters, "Eventually yours."
•••
Rex Ranes, the mathematics in-
structor at Pewitt High School,
found out last week that math is an
exact science but subject to the
errors of all human beings.
One of his students complained
that her grade average seemed too
low, a common occurence with a
lot of students. So Ranes set out
to total the grades again and came
up with a different average.
The level of difficulty of the
problem might have had some-
thing to do with the error.
There were four figures to total
and the sum had to be divided
by four for the average. This
could Indicate that some teachers
sometime try to think on a higher
level than is necessary.
Agricultural income in going
higher and higher in the 40 counties
which make up the "Build East
Texas" area if the professional
guessers are correct.
Committees working with county
agents in each county to plan and
carry out programs in agriculture,
home economics and related areas
have come up with projectied in-
comes from agriculture in 1976
compared to the 1968-69 level.
The County Program Building
Committees have released the
projections.
Recreational activities are to
grow faster than any other and cat-
fish farming has a bright future
but both still will be minor sources
of income five years from now,
according to the guessers.
The report said hunting and
fishing brought in $4,227,400 in
1968-69 and it would climb to
$13,886,600 by 1976, presumably
as more and more landowners
begin charging for hunting and
fishing rights.
Catfish farming, a relatively
new addition to the agricultural
picture in the area, will climb
from a modest $698,400 In 1968-
69 to $1,815,900 by 1976.
The principle source of income,
however, will continue to be cattle
and calf production and the in-
crease there is estimated to be
from $122,235,500to $178,121,300.
In other fields, hog income is to
increase from $6,134,100 to $11,-
865,000; dairy products from $37,-
344,100 to $46,275,200; other live-
stock and livestock products from
$1,002,500 to $1,742,200; poultry
and poultry products from $76,-
930,900 to $99,260,000; crops from
$30,203,900 to $43,792,000; fruits
and vegetables from $7,801,400
to $10,591,400; nursery from $3,-
566,000 to $5,070,000; and forestry
from $56,562,600 to $80,473,100.
The projected increases may
have included a generous dose of
inflation since no area of income
anticipated a loss.
Subscription rites
These are the subscription rates
for The Monitor per year:
In Morris. Cass, Titus and Bowie
counties — $3.00.
Anywhere else — $5.00.
last with 75 percent of its goal.
The county seat town was sup-
posed to collect $6,400 but was
only able to get $4,814.89, less
than Naples got together.
Ballots counted
for award
by chamber
Seventy-five ballots had been
turned in last week as votes for
the most courteous and helpful
employee of a Naples business.
The sampling of votes, that will
determine a winner of a chamber
of commerce award this year, was
taken by Mayor John J. Jameson
last Friday.
The award will be presented at
the annual Chamber of Commerce
Ladies Night and Banquet that is to
be held on Saturday night, Feb. 12.
Jameson said that one person had
polled about fifteen votes and that
nearly all the rest were single
votes. He suggested that persons
voting, sign more than one ballot
and vote for as many persons as
they like.
The voting ends on Feb. 7 for
the contest.
Alford Flanagan, County Attorney
Bill Bourke, Sheriff Joe Starrett,
Tax Assessor-Collector Jerry L.
Chambliss, all in Morris County,
and State Representative James
Lenoy Slider also will expire at
the end of 1972.
L. E. Bell Jr. and Larry Evans
have both filed for the position of
District Judge and Morris Rolston
has announced for re-election as
District Attorney.
Sheriff Joe Starrett is running
for re-election and is opposed by
1. B. Stone.
Jerry L. Chambliss hasfiledfor
re-election as Morris County Tax
Assessor-Collector and Thomas
R. Freeman has filed for the post
of Commissioner of Precinct 1
against Littlefield.
Loyal Allen and W. C. Thomas
Jr., have filed for re-election
as Constables of Precincts 1 and
2 in the south end of the county.
E. R. Gregg Jr., is running for
a spot as a member of the State
Board of Education and Jim Stan-
ley of Lone Star has filed for
State Representative of District
2, the post held by Slider, who
has not yet announced his
candidacy.
Bill Bourke has filed for Morris
County Attorney and is not opposed
for re-election. A. M. Aikin Jr.,
is a candidate for State Senator
School tax office
open this Saturday
The Pewitt school tax office will
be open this Saturday for the con-
venience of those who can't come
to the office during the regular
hours.
Mrs. Corrine V. Womack's tax
office will be open from 8:30 until
11:30 a.m.
Payments of taxes can be made
during those hours on Saturday.
The office is open during the week
at its regular hours.
for District 1 and Congressman
Wright Patman has announced his
plans to run for a seat in the
U.S. House of Representatives.
Filing for offices in Cass County
haA e been Ralph Daniel for County
Surveyor, Floyd Sherman for Con-
stable of Precinct 7, E. C. Long
for re-election as constable at
McLeod and L. M. Rankin has
filed for election as Cass County
Sheriff, the position now held by
Bill Dowd, who has filed for re-
election.
If that's not enough, it's time
to elect the President of the Unit-
ed States again, and it also is the
year when the six-year term of
U.S. Senator John Tower expires.
There will be school board mem-
bers to be elected at Pewitt school
as there are every year, ani also
city officials to be chosen at both
Naples and Omaha. Both towns
will elect council members.
Pewitt class
plans reunion
for summer
Members of the first Pewitt
High School graduating class are
trying to plan a class reunion.
The senior class of 1951 is so
scattered that class members who
are planning the reunion are having
difficulty locating all of them.
The reunion is being planned for
either June, July or August of this
summer. Those in charge want to
pick a date when the majority of
the class can attend.
Mrs. Mary Lew McMichael
Batchelor and Mrs. Jeanette
Hampton Miller at Naples and Mrs.
Dorothy Godwin Johnson at Omaha
are in charge of getting the names
and addresses of out of towners
who were members of the class.
They need the names and ad-
dresses to send out their letters
with dates to pick from for the
reunion.
Postal rate raise is suspended
Postal rates were to have gone up again Monday
of this week but it may be a little longer.
The boost in prices was for third class mailings
this time and not for first class.
Postal Service officials announced Friday of last
week that they have suspended plans for the increase
because the issue is tied up in a federal court.
A U.S. District Court judge agreed with direct
mail advertisers last Friday that the service was not
empowered by Congress to increase the rates so
dramatically.
A Postal Service spokesman estimated that the
new rates would bring in $2.5 million in new revenue
each week.
The Postal Service originally planned a phased
five-year increase but decided to take it all in one
bite when Congress did not appropriate as much
money as postal officials said they needed.
If the new rates are approved you can expect
the following price changes.
A four-ounce piece was raised from 12 to 13
cents, five-ounce mall from 14 to 16 cents and a
six-ounce piece of mall from 16 to 18 cents.
From there the bite is larger. Seven-ounce mail
jumps from 18 to 21 cents, eight-ounces from 20
to 24 cents, nine from 22 to 26 cents, ten from
24 to 29 cents, eleven from 26 to 32 cents and
twelve-ounce mail jumps from 28 to 34 cents per
piece.
A piece of mail weighing thirteen ounces will go
for 37 cents when it used to go for 30 cents.
A fourteen-ounce piece was raised from 34 to 40
cents, a 15-ounce single piece of mail will be sent
for 42 cents when it used to go for 34 and ai
up to but not including sixteen ounces will
cents now but used to be 45 cents.
Regular bulk rate prices, which includes circulars,
will be raised from 22 cents to 28 cents on the pound
vate and minimum per piece price was raised from
four to five cents.
Books, catalogs and other items that fall into that
category will be raised from 16 to 21 cents on the
pound rate and the minimum per piece figure will be
the same as the circular rate.
Postage rates for bulk rate mailings by qualified
non-profit organizations remains unchanged.
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Craig, Morris G. The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 27, 1972, newspaper, January 27, 1972; Naples, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth329741/m1/1/: accessed May 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Atlanta Public Library.