Edited by Spessard Stone from The Herald-Advocate of Friday, June 5, 12, 19, 26, 1959.
Awards To Top Seniors
June 5---Members of the Class of 1959 at Hardee High School who have been outstanding in academic and extracurricular work this year were honored Friday night in the Wauchula City Hall Auditorium.
Jackie Cliett and Mike Crews were awarded the highest honor given each year graduating seniors, the American Legion award, representing the two students who best exemplify honor, courage, scholarship, leadership and service.
The highest award for academic scholarship, the Herff-Jones Scholarship Award, was presented to Jerald Alderman and Myra Sue Henry.
Dianne Alderman and Charles Nicholson received the Babe Ruth Award for the greatest contribution to spirit of sportsmanship and fair play.
Kathy Hodges received the Danforth Award for outstanding religious and leadership ability.
Gayle Goode and Bill Dickey received the Herff-Jones Citizenship Award.
Church Education Building
Members of the Baptist Church in Bowling Green dedicated their new $55,000 education building Sunday. The building of concrete block construction contains over 12,000 square feet of floor space and is designed to accommodate 545 people.
School News
June 12---Bryan Boatenhammer, a former supervisor of schools in Arkansas and instructor at Hardee High School for the past three years, has been appointed the principal of Zolfo Springs Elementary School. He succeeds Bartley Sapp.
Robert (Red) Shirar, football coach at Hardee High School for thepast two years, has accepted a position as assistant coach at Brandon High School. Mrs. Shirar, county home demonstration agent, plans to teach at Plant High School in Tampa next year.
Two members of the Hardee chapter of the FFA will receive the state farmer degree during the state FFA convention in Daytona Beach this week. They are James Hill Albritton and Marvin L. Metheny.
Dr. Sayre
Malcolm M. Sayre, whose wife was the former Frances Searcy of Wauchula, graduated from the Medical College of Georgia with a doctor of medicine degree.
Downpour
The REA weather station reported the county's heaviest rainfall since March with 6.34 inches for the week, of which 4.66 inches fell in a two-hour downpour on June 9.
Levy North, County Road Superintendent, reported two washed out roads, one a concrete span just above the county barn and the other a culvert bridge on Altman road.
Daniel-Smith
Miss Carlynne Anita Daniel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Daniel, and Jack Lamar Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Smith, were united in marriage on June 5 at the First Baptist Church of Wauchula.
Holt-Burchette
Miss Sylvia Ann Holt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Reson Holt of Ona, and Harold K. Burchette were married April 22 in Arlington, Virginia.
Garrison-Hoover
Miss Gloria Kay Garrison, daughter of Mrs. Catherine Dishong Garrison of Wauchula and Glenn H. Garrison of Lakeland, and Arlie Jack Hoover, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Hoover of Slaton, Texas, were married June 7 at the First Methodist Church in Wauchula.
Star Farmer
June 19---Jeff Daughtry, outgoing president of the Peace Valley Chapter, has been named Florida's Star Farmer for 1959 at the state FFA convention which ended Saturday in Daytona Beach. Jeff was a candidate for state president but lost out to a Lake Wales boy.
Girl Drowns
Daisy Christine Murray, 14, drowned last Thursday afternoon at Mary Jane swimming hole, a mile southeast of Bowling Green. The drowning was the first ever reported at the pool.
Christine and her sister, Mildred, 17, apparently stepped off suddenly in the water about 15 feet deep. Mildred was rescued by James Johnson, but attempts to find Christine failed. Her body was finally recovered by Bobby Ratliff, using the Sheriff's Department's underwater diving equipment.
Christine was a native of Anniston, Ala. and had lived in Bowling Green only a month.
New Bank
June 26---A preliminary charter has been granted by the Treasury Department in Washington, D. C. for a national bank in Wauchula.
An organizational meeting will be scheduled shortly for the election of directors and officers of the new bank to be known as the First National Bank of Wauchula.
The original application for the charter included the following names: F. L. Revell, W. L. Warren, Jr., Bill Beeson, George Marsh, Tommy Underwood, Robert Wells, Jack Cliett, K. D. Revell, Horace McDonald, Sam Hines, Martin Roberts, Franz Ullrich and Joe Mancini.
Junior High
Plans for construction of a new junior high school building for Hardee County are at a stalemate because of the lack of an acceptable site to the State Board of Education.
The Board of Public Instruction under the approved junior high bill may bond for only $250,000, payable over 20 years, instead of the $350,000, payable over 30 years, it asked.
Hunter-Maddox
The Lorida Brethren Church was the scene June 21 of the wedding of Miss Jo Ann Hunter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey W. Hunter of Lorida, and William Jeffrey Maddox, son of Mrs. Wilma Maddox and the late Glenn Maddox of Wauchula.
Castleberry-Carlton
Mr. and Mrs. Troy Holder Castleberry of Lumpkin, Ga. announce the marriage of their daughter, Barbara Cordeva, to William Albert Carlton, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Carl Simeon Carlton of Wauchula.
The ceremony was performed June 24 by the Rev. Allen B. Purdom, rector of the All Saint's Episcopal Church in Jensen Beach.
This is a more complete article of an article published in The Herald-Advocate of June 10, 1999.
December 27, 2001