20 years ago…
March 30, 2006
SEVENTY FISHERMEN ATTEND SECOND ANNUAL BIG MINERAL CRAPPIE GIG
Seventy fishermen gathered at Big Mineral Camp in Gordonville on Sunday, March 26, 2006, to test their fishing skill in BOBBY PLATT’S SECOND ANNUAL BIG MINERAL CRAPPIE GIG.
Five places were awarded for the “Best Five Fish Total Weight,” and four places were awarded for the optional “Big Crappie Pot.”
Lane Carlisle of Lewisville, Texas, won the tournament with a total weight of his best five fish at 4.71 pounds. David Seagrave of Collinsville won the Big Crappie Pot with his catch of a 2.51 pound crappie.
The seventy fishermen consisted of 57 adults and 13 youth. Each youth went home with a great catch -- a trophy and at least one door prize. Adults also won over fifty door prizes, which were donated by the sponsors of the Crappie Gig: Gander Mountain, Gordonville Country Store and Big Mineral Camp.
30 years ago…
March 28, 1996
CHILCUTT, LOVEJOYS GET CHAMBER RECOGNITION
Whitesboro Area Chamber of Commerce members bestowed their highest awards on three local people at the annual banquet held on Thursday evening, March 21, at the Jimmie O. Rector Community Center. Wayman Chilcutt, area realtor, was named Citizen of the Year, while Hank and Rita Lovejoy, downtown business owners of Lovejoys on Main Street, were honored as the Humanitarians of the Year.
Lloyd Butts of Surety Bank made the offiicial presentation to Chilcutt, citing his numerous contributions to the community through the past three decades. Hailing him as a man of convictions with courage and boldness to stand up, be counted, and get things done,” Butts listed various church, civic, professional and educational organizations and officers which the retired school superintendent has held, both past and current. Married to his wife, Betty, for 45 years, the Chilcutts are the parents of two married daughters and three grandchildren. They are active members of the First United Methodist Church, Whitesboro.
Dub Hayes, longtime family friend, introduced Hank and Rita Lovejoy, and spoke of “their devotion and commitment to God, family, community and each other.” They were praised for their devotion to church work and their care and concern for others. The Lovejoys regularly teach Sunday School classes to residents at the Whitesboro Nursing Home, and often minister through song and praise services.
40 years ago…
March 27, 1986
SERVICES HELD FOR FORMER PUBLISHER
Funeral services for Herbert James Pate, 82, a former owner and publisher of the Whitesboro News-Record, were held Saturday, March 22 at Watts Memorial Chapel in Madill, Okla. He owned the News-Record from 1964 to 1968.
Mr. Pate died last Thursday evening, March 20, 1986, in a Denison hospital of a massive brain hemorrhage. His death resulted from a fall at his home early Wednesday morning. He was admitted to a Madill hospital Wednesday afternoon and was transferred to Texoma Medical Center, Denison, that evening after lapsing into a coma.
Mr. Pate was born on Sept. 7, 1903, in Hobart, Oklahoma Territory. He began a 75-year newspaper career at the age of seven by delivering the paper published by his late father, James M. Pate. He obtained his secondary school education in Hobart and earned a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in Columbia.
After working as a news editor in Tampa, Fla., he returned to Hobart where he married Mary Gardner on Dec. 24, 1925, and was associated with his brother, Everett, in publishing the Hobart newspaper. They sold the publication in 1929. At that time, Mr. Pate and his family moved to Madill where he purchased The Madill Record. He also published newspapers in Ardmore, Tishomingo, and Coalgate, Okla.
Mr. Pate had an active role in community, state, and national affairs through community and professional organizations. He served as president of the Oklahoma Press Association in 1950 and was recently inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame with his youngest son, Jim, a co-publisher with his father in the Madill Record.
The longtime publisher was an elder with the Madill Presbyterian Church for several years. He was an associate member of the Madill United Methodist Church.
His first wife preceded him in death on Jan. 6, 1974. He married Evelyn Wyatt on Feb. 12, 1975 in Baton Rouge, La.