The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 27, 1950 Page: 1 of 8
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Deport Wins Three Deport School to
First Places in Build Outdoor
Regional Meet Recreation Center
DEPORT, LAMAR COUNTY, TEX|S, THURSDAY, APRIL
27, 1950
NUMBER 13
Miss Joyce Glenn, Gardner
took first place, and the right to
enter the State meet at Austin, in
senior girls declamation over en-
tries from the sixteen districts
making up Region IV of the In-
terscholastic League at Kilgore
Saturday. Miss Gardner and sev-
en other contestants from the
eight regions pf Texas will com-
pete for the state title in Wag-
gener Hall, University of Texas,
at 2 p. m. on May 5. Miss Ina
Sparks is the coach.
I Deport debaters had smooth
'sailing, gaining all votes in each
of the contests Saturday. Misses
Belinda Skaggs and Patsy Mc-
Gill represented District 41 -B
against the other fifteen districts
of the Region IV. They debated
Deport school board purchased ,
a large lot east of the high school I
building from John Thompson
for an outdoor recreation center. I
Mr. Thompson donated half of j
the value of the lot to the school. |
The lot 100x200 ft., faces |
Church street and will enlarge!
the present school playground.1
Two tennis courts will be placed
on 80x80 ft. concrete base with
wire backstops, and a basketball
court will be included in the near
future, according to Supt. Frank
C. Bean. All young people of
Deport may play tennis, basket-
ball, and roller skate at this
play center, as the recreation
center is open to the public. Ten-
nis teams will be organized and
matches will be held here. It
from 9 a. m. until 3:30 p. m. last will also be used to train Deport
Saturday at Kiigore College. Re- school’s tennis teams,
suits of the tournament: Cooper
over Queen City by forfeit;
Troup over Avery, 2-1; Deport
over Sabine (Gladewater) 3-0;
Lone Oak—bye; Troup over
Cooper, 2-1; Deport over Lone
Oak, 3-0; and Deport over Troup,
3-0. Supt. Frank C. Bean is the
coach.
The debaters will be heard in
Dr. S. Z. Bryson
Dies Saturday
Five Killed in
Three-Way Crash
James Pat Reynolds, 22, of Mt.
Pleasant, driver of a car involved
in a 3-way wreck which resulted
in the deaths of five persons, was
charged with murder with an au-
| tomoblle. Four other murder
charges may be filed.
I Reynolds is hospitalized with
! facial and arm lacerations re-
j ceived in the crash. Four other
i persons were critically injured.
The tragedy occurred twelve
i miles west of Texarkana on
Highway 82.
i The dead are Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Arthur Smith, both 59. of
El Dorado, Ark.; Larry Don
Smith, two years old; Clarence
1 W. Palmer, 43, of New Boston;
William Eugene Henson, 32, of
New Boston. Injured were Mrs.
Phil Smith, mother of Larry Don
Smith, who suffered a fractured
leg.
Billy Wayne Smi*h, her 7-year-
old son, who suffered grave head
injuries; Dorothy Sue Smith, her
11-year-old daughter, who suf-
fered a possible brain concussion;
A. O. Moore, 45, of Mt. Pleasant,
who suffered facial lacerations,
and Reynolds.
BE SURE YOU
ARE COUNTED
Counting of noses within
the corporate limits of this
town has about been om-
pieted by the Census Enum-
erator. Those figures wilt
stand as the population of
this town for the next ten
years. Every citizen inter-
ested in the growth and pro-
gress of our town wants
every person counted. If you
live here and have not given
in your report to the enum-
erator, please do so at once.
Be sure you are counted.
Presbyterians Will CONSTRUCTION OF WIDER PAVING
Dr. Samuel Z. Bryson, 88, for-
mer Lamar County resident, died
competition with winners of sev- j Saturday of a heart attack at his
en other regions at Garrison' home in Washington, D. C. Fu-
Hall, room 3, University of Tex- neral rites and burial were held
as, Austin, on May 5 at 7 p. m. I Monday in Washington.
Scholarships
to Texas State
College for Women, Denton, and
Southwetsern University at
Georgetown were won by Miss-
es Skaggs and McGill for win-
ning Region IV debate. The Kil-
gore College presented the win-
| ners with blue ribbons and cer-
| tificates.
Deport debaters have won sev-
eral contests during the year over
Dallas, Houston, and Austin
schools, as well as over schools
from Oklahoma and Louisiana.
They have made an impressive
record for their first year.
Misses June Thompson and
Son of the late Judge Sam C.
Bryson of Biardstown, Dr. Bry-
son attended schools in Paris and
after graduation from a medical
college in Louisville, Ky., he
practiced medicine at Detroit be-
fore moving to Louisville. He
later moved to Washington, D. C.,
where he is survived by his wife,
the former Miss Julia B. Freer
of Louisville; one son, Sam Bry-
son Jr., and a grandson, Sam
Bryson III.
Other survivors include a sis-
ter, Miss Margaret J. Bryson of
Paris, and a brother, Robert H.
Bryson of Deport.
Dr. Bryson was born Nov. 9,
Wanda Rollins, and Kerry ; a, ... ... n ■ j
, . ,, , l 1861, in Waynesville, N. C., and
Wright have an almost equally , T r„„,
successful season for the Deport
High School in debating this
year. They have shared about
equally in triumphs over City J Deport HaS Vacancy
Conference and AA schools of the
three states. It was only after
eliminations at Paris Junior Col-
lege and Texarkana Junior Col-
lege that two were chosen for the
Rosalie Boy is
Contest Winner
Hellenys Buy
Deport Theatre
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Ilelleny of
Herrin, 111., have bought the De-
port Theatre from Dom Buffo.
Mr. and Mrs. Hellenys’ plans are
indefinite at the present as he is
in the furniture and hardware
business at Herrin They expect
to move to Deport later and will
operate the business Mr. and Mrs.
Phillips Grant of Deport will be
in charge until they arrive. Mrs.
Helleny is a native of Deport, be-
ing the former Miss Sara Ruth
Grant.
Mr. Buffo, who came to De-
port from Hartshorne, Okla. has
owned and operated the business
for about four years. Ill health
has caused him to retire.
came to Lamar County with his
parents in-1865.
Substitute Clerk
Dairy committee of the Clarks-
ville Chamber of Commerce has
selected the Red River County
winner of the Sears Roebuck
Foundation contest award for
1950. Sam Holder, 4-H Club
member, who lives near Rosalie,
was named. His selection was
based upon an ssay he had writ-
ten, his general qualifications for
taking care of a dairy animal and
the facilities at his home for this
project.
The award consists of $150
from the Sears Foundation to
apply on the purchase of a regis-
tered dairy female. He is re-
quired to return one-fourth the
value of all milk sold from the
first calf, this money to go into a
county fund to further dairy
work among 4-H Club members
in the county.
Baptist Reijival
Closed Sunday
Regional meet.
The Deport High School one
act play, “Ladies Alone," receiv-
ed considerable approval from
the critics but failed to place in
the winners crcle. A great deal: salary will be
of credit is due Mrs. Morris De-
weese for introducing this new
field of work in the Deport High
School.
Robert Bailey in senior boys
declamation, and Kathryn Skaggs
in ready writing failed to win the
blue ribbons, but ably represent-
ed the school.
The Civil Service Commission
has announced an examination
for filling a vacancy in the- Post
Office in Deport. Applicants will
have from now until May 22, to
file application for employment
as Substitute Clerk. Entrance
$1.06% per hour.
No experience is necessary, you
receive your training while on
the job. Application blanks may
be had at the local Post Office.
Insect Control
Demonstration Set
Dick Owen left Tuesday for a
two fishing trip at Lake Texoma.
A fourth year class in Agri-
culture for veterans will begin
May 6 at the Deport school. Gor-
don Isbell, who has been teaching
a three year course will be the
instructor. A successor to Mr. Is-
bell has not been named yet.
CAN YOU REMEMBER
• how much you gave last year to charitable causes?
• what you paid for medical expenses?
• what interest and dividends you received?
These and oth^j- questions should be answered in con
ncction with your income tax return.
It you have deposited your income in a checking ac-
count and made your expenditures by check, your stubs
and cancelled checks can be of great assistance in fill-
ing out your tax forms.
In addition to the records a checking account furnishes,
you can sit at home, and pay all bills by mail . . . No
unnecessary trips, no waiting in line, no danger from
carrying large amounts in cash; each cancelled check
becomes a legal receipt.
This 47 year old bank will be happy to give you further
information about our checking accounts. .
First National Bank
Begin early, is the recommend-
ation of Red River county agent,
Herman Lynch, in fight against
sects. Demonstrations of equip-
ment. spraying and dusting cot-
ton and other matters pertaining
control of insects will be held next
week in this area. Meetings are
scheduled earlier this year in or-
der for farmers to be prepared
for the fight against insects.
Demonstrations set are: Wed-
nesday, May 3, at the W. T. Crit-
tendon farm at Detroit, at 9:30
a.m and the John Guest farm
at Liberty at 2 p.m. Friday, May
5, at the Archie Fortner place
near Bogata at 9:30 a.m.; Jack
Franklin farm, Rugby, at 1 p.m.
and Alvis Summers place near
Fulbright at 3:30 p.m.
Date of a pasture tour is sched-
uled for May 9, according to Mr.
Lynch. The 4-H club and FFA
grass judging contest will also be
held then.
The revival meeting in pro-
gress at the Baptist Church for
ten days closed Sunday night. A
big picnic dinner was served
Sunday following the morning
worship service to a large crowd.
The affair was held on the church
lawn After noon a singing was
enjoyed and baptismal service
was held at 3 o’clock. Four can-
didates were baptized. The pas-
tor, the Rev. Marlin R. Hicks, did
the preaching and singing was
under the direction of Bill Wester
of Ft. Worth.
Grand Jury Lists
18 Indictments
Red River County grand jury'
returned eighteen indictments in
the two-day session conducted
Monday and Tuesday of last
week at Clarksville. At the com-
pletion of investigations Tuesday
afternoon a recess was called. j
All true bills were for felony
offenses, burglaries, fraud and
other crimes in this category. 1
Begin a Revival
Here Sunday
Starting Sunday morning,
April 30, the Presbyterians in
and around Deport will hold their
annual revival services. The Rev.
William Everheart, son of the
pastor, and himself pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church of
Athens, will do the preaching.
This young man has built a great
church in Athens and has been
used extensively over the state
in evangelistic efforts.
For the first three years of the
National Presbyterian New Life
Movement, he was at the head of
this work for the states of Texas
and Louisiana. We look forward
to his coming.
Worship periods for the week
will be at 7 a. m. and 7:45 p. m.
The morning service will start
promptly at 7 and close at 7:50.
This will enable all school peo-
ple, business men and many
housewives to be with us at this
time. Coffee and do-nuts will be
served each morning to those
who care for them.
Friends from all of our local
churches are invited and expect-
ed at all of our worship periods.
We invite the singers in other
church choirs to join with us in
this part of our worship.
The meeting will close Sunday
night, May 7. William Everheart
will be here to preach Sunday
night, April 30. “Keep the dates
open—April 30-May 7,” says the
local minister, the Rev. Joe Ever-
heart.
3 Killed in Crash
! At Grade Crossing
Three persons were killed
Monday night in an auto-train
collision at a grade crossing of
' the Kansas City Southern at Tex-
' arkana.
All the dead were occupants of
the automobile, identified as Mr.
; and Mrs.-Curtis Schroeder of
Clarksville and Mrs. Bettie Rose
Tidwell, daughter of Mrs. Mary
j Proctor of Ft. Worth, and Jess
; Proctor of Clarksville and a niece
of Mrs. F. M. Watkins of Rosalie.
MONROE STREET UNDERWAY
Lamar County Called
Best in World
Freddie Deering, editor of the
Farmer-Stockman Magazine, says
“Lamar County is the most neigh-
borly county in the world.”
That was his comment as he
awarded prizes to five communi-
ties placing in the magazine’s
neighborhood improvement con-
test Forest Chapel-Chicota took
second place in the state and
won 100. Mount Maxey won
fourth prize of $200, and Ambia,
Minter and Tigertown were
among eighteen communities
awarded $100 each.
Good neighborhood buttons
were given to ten persons from
the Maxey community, sixteen
from Forest Chapel, eight from
Ambia, eleven from Minter and
eight from Tigertown.
Detroit Farmer
Buried Friday
Funeral of Joe Wartham, 63,
farmer at Detroit, who died at
Red River County Hospital, was
held Friday. Burial was made at
Woodland. Pallbearers were
Clifford Aubrey, Les Lane, Frank
Kitchen and Herbert Thompson.
Born at Manchester Aug. 1,
1886, son of Joseph and Lettie
Phipps Wartham, he married
Miss Janie Hudson, July 27, 1913
at DeKalb.
She survives, besides two sons,
Shelton Wartham, Dallas, and
Wayne Wartham, Abilene; three
grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Nan-
nie Archie, Colton, Calif., and
two brothers, Rufus Wartham,
Newfall, Okla., and Wilce War-
tham, Detroit.
Ernest Loyd, Ft. Worth road
contractor, who was awarded the
job of widening three-fourths of
a mile of Deport’s business loop
from the north end of Main
street west to junction with
Highway 271, has moved equip-
ment to Deport and hopes to get
all set for operations soon.
There is now 16 feet of paving
on Monroe street, and it will be
made 50 feet wide with curb and
gutter. There will be several
feet of paving at each cross
street intersection and a better
drainage system will be set up
with each street carrying its own
water.
Property owners on each side
of the street contributed 75 cents
per foot, or more than $6,000 to
help pay for the project. Loyd’s
contract price for the additional
paving was $44,861. The State
Highway Department will do the
necessary dirt work on the pro-
ject.
Deport’s Highway Committee
endeavored to get a wider street
with curb and gutter when the
16-foot paving was authorized
in 1936.
Six Lamar County
Communities Get
Cash Awards
BOB READ LOSES
FOUR YOUNG CALVES
Bob Read lost four calves dur-
ing the past week that he believes
died from bloat. There is a dif-
ference of opinion among stock-
men as to what is causing spring
losses. Some suggest keeping
cattle off new spring growth un-
til the dew dries off each morn
ing and after showers of rain.
Miss Emma Burke
Buried Monday
Miss Emma Burke, 82. affec-
tionately known as “Gramp,”
died Saturday at the home of her
sister, Mrs. A. L. Robbins at
Clarksville. She had lived ir.
Blossom most of her life, where
she worked in the post office
while another sister was postmas-
ter They had previously oper-
ated a hotel there.
The funeral Monday was held
at Blossom. Pallbearers were
Clyde Humphrey, Reece Pyron,
Carl Griffin, John Marshall,
Murray Sanders and John D.
King.
Soil Conservation District Needed
Along Mustang, North of Deport
Pattonville Wins Two
Games Sunday
Pattonville Plowboys, entered
in the Lamar County League,
swept a double-header Sunday.
First game saw them trim a Hugo
team, 18-2. Second win was a
16-4 decision from Faught.
Towers allowed two hits in
pitching the Plowboys to their
win over Hugo. Crawford
0 in
t£'A
lithe distance in the wc
Most merchants and property
owners of Deport are of the opin-
ion that a soil conservation dis-
trict along the headwaters of
Mustang would not only save the
soil, but prevent the dumping of
great quantities of water into the
small Mustang creek channel,
which would overflow and dam-
age property further down- j
stream.
Here is a description of such a
Soil Conservation District as giv-
en by Walter S. Davis Jr., state
president of District Supervisors:
Soil Conservation Districts are
democracy at the grass roots.
That is why so many Texans are
becoming more and more inter-
ested in them. In these days of
increasing governmental regula-
tions, it is important for every-
one—farmers, ranchers, and busi-
nessmen—to understand what
districts are, who runs them, and
what they do. It is easy to con-
fuse them with one of the other
of the agencies of the Department
of Agriculture.
Under Texas law, Soil Conser-
vation Districts were organized
by vote of the local landowning
farmers and ranchers. They are
run by their Supervisiors, who
must be local, resident landown-
ing farmers and ranchers elected
to office by their neighbors. With
no powers of taxation nor emin-
ent domain, the Supervisors’ re-
sponsibility is to coordinate all
efforts, public and private, to the
soil conservation task. This co-
ordinated effort is first develop-
ed on a District wide basis by the
local people themselves.
In every one oftUajua’ now 196
Districts, covering Marly 90%
at the state, there
work,
by the
serve as a guide to each Dis-
trict’s operation.
With its program and plan of
work as a basis for action, the dis-
trict’s Board of Supervisiors is
ready to go to work. As a rule,
all State and Federal agricultural
agencies pledge their cooperation
to the Supervisors. The Exten-
sion Service and the Department
of Vocation Agriculture have a
big educational job. PMA pay-
ments help landowners pay part
of the costs of soil conservation.
The technicians of the U. S. Soil
Conservation Service, cooperat-
ing with the Supervisors, make
detailed farm and ranch con-
servation plans with the local
operators on farms and ranches
as directed by the District Super-
visors.
These farm and ranch conser-
vation plans are the key to what
many call the new agriculture.
They are developed with the
owner to suit his operating needs
as well as those of the land. When
all the planning is over, the re-
sults are put on paper, with a
map, and all details are then
agreed to by the owner and the
Board of Supervisors.
Operating in accordance with
these plans, farmers and ranch-
ers are discovering that it pays
to treat the land according to its
needs and use it according to its
capabilities. Production per acre
rises and unit production costs
are lower. Owners find, too,
that crops are higher in quality.
These are things that consumers
in general and all businessmen
can understand
Soil Conservation District
Week—May 15 to 21—will give
all Texans an opportunity to
learn about this program of grass
in their mid*.
Postoffices Will
Remain Closed on
Sunday Afternoons
Postoffices at Deport and Bo-
gata will not receive nor dispatch
mail on Sunday afternoons and
holidays as in the past, accord-
ing to notices posted Saturday in
those postoffices.
Only one mail—that in the
mornings— will be handled on
those days. No mail will come
in nor go out in the afternoons on
Sundays and holidays. Other
mail service will be as usual.
Six Lamar County communi-
ties received awards Friday night
at Forest Chapel as winners in
the state rural neighborhood pro-
gress contest.
Communities honored were
Forest Chapel, Maxey, Tiger-
town. Minter, Ambia and the
Post Oak-Olive community. For-
est Chapel placed second in the
state and Maxey fourth. The
awards were presented by Fredie
J. Deering of Oklahoma City,
Farmer-Stockman editor.
“The six were all the commun-
ities that entered Ihe contest this
year from Lamar County,” M. F.
Gilliam, rural neighborhood con-
test chairman for Forest Chapel
and Chicota, reported. “But
there are twenty-two communi-
ties in the county and several
more probably will enter the
contest next year.”
Masons Make Plans
For Special Meet
• Chas. W. Clifton of Bogata, has
been a Mason for nearly fifty-
five years. He was made a Ma- ,
son in an Oklahoma lodge in
October, 1895. Deport Lodge, of I
which he is a life member, plans
to have District Deputy Grand
Master Don Wair present a fifty-
year Masonic button some time
this spring, according to Secre-
tary A. L. Stalls.
Lumar Vaccinates
Over 1,000 Dogs
An estimated 1,000 dogs have
been vaccinated this month in
Lamar County. It was done with
vaccination “guns” loaded with
anti-rabies serum to prevent the
spread of rabies in the county.
BUILDING NEW HOME
NEAR PATTONVILLE
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Sparks are
building a modern new home of
five rooms, bath, hall, breezeway
and garage on their property
along Highway 271 just west of
Pattonville. Overall dimensions
arc 45x37 feet.
Start Saving
TODAY
It’s never too late, and never too soon, to
start Saving money. Savings protect
both young folks and “grown-ups.” It
-and works for you
when the
assures ready cash-
bv being readily available
right opportunities come.
The sooner you start saving, the better.
There is no more opportune time than
this year, this week. Save part of the
money you earn.
Deport State Bank
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