The De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 12, 1956 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 67
DE LEON, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY It, 1956
NUMBER 2
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Early Entrants
For P & M Qeen
Contest Are lasted
> day-long program featur-
nmy Davis, former govem-
Louisiana.
MEETING CONTINUES
AT CHURCH OF CHRIST
Roger Coan, David Noonkes-
ter, and Jackie Morgan hit the
three De Leon home runs. Jones
hit Stephenville’s only homer.
REVIVAL SERVICES BEGIN
AT VICTOR CHURCH JULY IS
Mrs. White of Dallas spent a
few days with her sister, Mrs
Lee Thompson
leek look
ft it?
Mrs. J. H. Vance, Mrs. Hollie
Hafford and daughter, Miss Jim-
mie Lois were in Comanche dur-
ing the Centennial.
The Victor Baptist Church will
hold revival services July 13 -
July 22.
Bro. Lee Fields will do the
preaching. Everyone is «
invited to attend.
Bro Claud Johnson, Pt
Mrs. D. F. Pair, church
ts And
I a little talk with a young
r the other day who is in-
ed in where his money goes,
dd that he has discovered
lome 46 cents out of every
he earns goes for taxes of
sort. When you take into
leration the fact that the
jere is something so sugges-
fabout the French language.
H can sing a perfectly inno-
|song about “a little bird”,
it always sounds like she is
hg about the birds and the
^RD OF THANKS
Fhank you dear friends and
ighbors for your prayers,
rds, gifts, phone calls and
its. I appreciated all so much.
iy God bless you. — Mrs. Roy
ruill.
HOMECOMING AT ST. JOE
Everyone is invited to attend
the St. Joe Baptist Church an-
nual homecoming the fourth
Sunday in July, which will be
the .Jlnd.
arp-Kirk Team
ats Thomas
SOIL CONSERVATION
DISTRICT NEWS
We would like to hear from
more people, if they think we
should go ahead and try to build
this much needed project.
—Swimming Pool Committee.
Stephenville did not score any
more, but De Leon scored one
run in the fourth and fifth inn-
ings. five runs in the sixth and
three in the seventh.
Terry Barnes was the winning
pitcher, while Carr was the los-
er.
The supervisors of the Upper
Leon Soil Conservation District
would like to remind all their
cooperators that it is time to be-
gin thinking about planting fall
cover crops on all peanut lands.
Since it was so obvious the past
spring that unprotected peanut
sands were severely damaged by
wind, most farmars in Ahis sec-
tion of the country considers
this practice a definite “must”.
Mr. Mitchell Campbell, who
lives two miles west of Gorman
in the Hi-Point Group, recently
made this statement: “I bought
this farm in 1947 and have been
planting cover crops, strip crop-
ping and have practiced crop re-
sidue utilization every year since
that time. As a result of using
these practices, I believe I can
make more peanuts on 18 inches
of rain now than I could on 30
inches in 1947. I suffered greatly
then from sheet erosion. Now
most of the water goes in the
Texas In Review To
Feature Comanche
County Centennnial
Interesting films of vacation
trails in the Texas Panhandle
will be featured next week on
The Humble Company’s TV pro-
gram, Texas in Review. Included
in the feature will be the orgin
of the Red River near Tulia,
Lake McClellan, Lake Amarillo,
Buffalo Lake, Palo Duro Can-
yon, Lubbock State Park, wheat
harvesting, the big JA Ranch
near Spur, the Panhandle-Plaims
Museum near Canyon, and hel-
ium manufacturing near Amar-
illo.
Another feature will compare
the operation of the big Dallas
post office with the one-man post
office at Coppell.
And from Comanche County
will come films of that county’s
colorful centennial celebration.
Texas in Review can be seen
Monday, July 16, over KRBC-
TV, Abilene, 8:30 p.m. and KRLD
-TV, Dallas, 10 pm.
Tuesday, July 17, Texas in Re-
view can be seen over KCEN-
and
Keeping pace with othtr parts
of the Centennial program, the
biggest crowd to attend Lake
Eanes functions in 20 years was
on hand for the 4th of July Pic-
nic. There was plenty of music,
speaking, and contests going on
to keep all in a happy mood.
If any other part of the Cen-
tennial was overlooked. Just put
it down that It was a success too,
for thdre was no failure of events
at the Comanche County Centen-
nial.
The Congressman further said
that due to the extreme import-
ance of some other measures
pending, it may be necessary that
he return to Washington for cru-
cial votes between now and elec-
tion time. “I shall, however,” he
said, “be in the District every
minute possible between now
and July 28th and I hope it will
not be necessary for me to re-
turn to Washington even for one
day."
Burleson intends to visit every
town and community in the Dis-
trict during the next three weeks
and will announce an itenerary
when definite plans have been
made. He says that in addition
to newspaper advertising he
will make a few radio end tele-
vision appearances, and will
speak at as many scheduled poli-
tical rallies as he can arrange
to attend.
ground.”
A similar experience was re-
lated by Doyle Nowlin of the
East Duster Group whose farm
was recently advanced from an
initial agreement to a basic plan.
Mr. Nowlin explained that he
noticed in the spring after dis-
posing of his winter cover crops
that many roots and other resi-
due was of great benefit in hold-
ing the land in place after be-
ing exposed to both wind and
water erosion. He stated “you
could have blind-folded me and
I could have told where I had
planted the cover crops. The
soil was so mellow and spongy”.
The Upper Leon District Super-
visors would like to urge you, if
you have not in recent years
planted a cover crop on your
peanut blow sand, to talk to your
neighbor who has made this a
practice for m|any years and let
him tell you what he thinks of
the practice.
TV, Temple, 7:30 p.m.
KWTX-TV, Waco, 7:30 p.m.
NOTICE
The Garden Club will sponsor
a bake sale Saturday, July 14»
at Bibby's store 9:30 to 11:30.
DHS Agriculture
Department Gets
New Building
. A new Agriculture Building is
under construction by the Ross
Bros. Construction Company of
Brownwood. It is a Quonset type
structure with steel frame and
tile, walls and partitions.
The overall size will be sixty
by ninety-eight feet. It will be
divided into two class rooms, of-
fice, shop, store rooms and rest
rooms.
The type of furnishing for the
building are yet to be worked
out; but will be adequate and
will meet the State Require-
ments. The Over all cost of the
construction is in the neighbor-
hood of $30,000. It will be a great
asset to the Department and to
the community.
The construction of this build-
ing was brought about by the un-
tiring efforts of a hard-working
School Administration and
Board of Education.
It is located West of the High
School building.
Parker Plays Secret
Agent In Spy Drama
Fess Parker, the steely-eyed,
very tall and very popular actor
who is currently starring as a
daedevil secret agent in Walt
Disney’s “The Great Locomotive
Chase,” the Civil War spy thriller
produced in Cinemascope and
Technicolor, is a native of Texas.
His early life was spent on a
farm where he learned how to
plow, milk cows and charm the
farmer’s daughters.
Parktr, who zoomed to sensa-
tional fame in the title role of
Disney’s “Davy Crockett, King
of the Wild Frontier,” 1s six feet
five, tips the scales at I210 pounds
looks rangy and possesses the
homPspun humor which helped
make people like Will Rogers
and Davy Crockett famous.
Fourteen Report
For Physicals
The following men were
report for preinduction physical
examinations on July 10th:
Preston Lee Bowman, Brown-
wood; Donnie LaWayne Drury,
Bangs; Larry Lee Blackwell,
Ikiblin, Henry Perez, Brown-
wood; Travis Lee Carter, San
Angelo; Ronald Thomas Adams,
Brownwood and Scotty Burnett.
Thrifty.
This month’s preinduction call
was divided into two dates for
reporting and the following men
reported on July 5th:
Ronald Paul Holeomb, Well-
ston, Okla.; Jack Lewis Letbetter,
Port Angeles, Wash.; J. B. Hum-
phries, Brownwood; Paul Eu-
gene Pinkston, Fort Worth; Rob-
ert J. Northcutt, Energy, W. C.
McHan, Abilene; Bobby Darrell
Conway, Comanche.
Two men reported for induc-
tion into the Army on July 5th.
They are: Elgin Grant Tidwell,
Blanket and Dear! Eugene Bible,
Cisco.
By STRICKLIN
I recently received a letter
I Congressman Martin Dies
he would be tunable to
I an active campaign on be-
|of his re-election as Con-
Inan-at-large, because Con-
[ is still in session. As a re-
| for his crusuade against
brsive activities was sub-
i to an intensive smear
sign such as few men in
ty have had to undergo.
, however, has vindicated
and in 1954, Congress passed
dll outlawing the Commun-
arty. We believe this great
■ican is entitled to another
of office.
Jumping Bass
Affords Clue
AUSTIN — High flying antics
of two bass in the dead of night
prompted Kenneth Jurgens, Aq-
uatic Biologist for the Game and
Fish Commission, to suggest the
black beauties may be biting bet-
ter between dusk and dawn.
■ He reported tp the Chief Aq-
uatic Biologist that two men
fishing in Inks Lake of the High-
land Lakes chain had one bass
Jump into their boat while an-
other simultaneously lunged
against the side of their boat.
‘This seems to be more than
Just another good fish story,”
said Jurgens who failed to find
any hook or net marks on the
black that landed in the boat
"Moat likely these base were
madly chasing something on the
surface when the incident hap-
pened.”
The bass that stalled the two
men (who were nur...ing a trot-
line) by vaulting over the boat
sides weighed four and three
quarters pounds.
ord Crowds
end Celebration
er four thousand people
all over the state attended
nnual Hodges Park July 4th
ration Wednesday of last
As of Thursday morning, three
young ladies had entered the
Peach and Melon Festival Queen
Contest.
The girls and their sponsors
are: Pat Terrill, American Le-
gion and Legion Auxiliary; Mary
Williams, Lions Club and St. Jo
Home Demonstration Club; Syl-
via Foster, De Leon Rebekah
Lodge, No. 107.
the Queen of De Leon’s 42nd
Annual Peach - Melon Festival
will officially open Monday, July
16th, with a “coffee-session” and
general meeting of prospective
Queen candidates to be held at
10 a.m., Saturday, July 14th. in
the private Dining Room at
Black’s Cafe. Miss Nancy John-
son, 1955 Festival Queen, will be
principal hostess at this meeting,
and all prospective Queen can-
didates are urged to attend. De-
tails of the 1956 Queen’s race will
be discussed at the meeting.
The race fof Queen will be
open to young ladies of De Leon
and its surrounding rural com-
munities who are in Senior High
School; including those entering
Senior High School this fall (9th
grade) through the 12th grade
and those who graduated from
High School in June this year.
It is not necessary that Queen
Candidates be sponsored by any
organization in order to qualify;
however, any civic, church, fra-
ternal, or commercial organiza-
tion may sponsor a Queen can-
didate if they so desire. Organi-
zations desiring to sponsor a
candidate are invited to do so,
with the consent of the young
lady being sponsored.
A $5.00 fee will enter any
young lady in the contest, and
fter massing a week’s play,
Sharp-Kirk team came back
i a bounce as they beat
mas Butane 16 to 3.
(though 19 runs were scored
e was not a single home run
Terry Hodges, hit a triple
enter field in the second inn-
County Centennial Committee Gives
Is Big Success
The Comanche County Cen-
tennial was a big success and des
pite the necessary heavy expen-
All-Star Team
Beats Stephenville
The De Leon Pony League All
Star team beat Stephenville 16
to 5 last Saturday night. This
was the second time DeLeon had
beaten Stephenville. /
‘This game started off to be a
very close one as both teams
scored 1 run in the first inning.
In the third. De Leon broke the
tie by scoring five runs. Stephen-
ville, in the bottom half of the
inning scored four runs.
Con. Burleson
Home After
Busy Session
ANSON, Texas, July 9—Con-
gressman Omar Burleson return-
ed to his honye in AnsOn from
Washington last Saturday to be-
gin his active campaign for re-
election to Congress.
In a statement to the press,
Burleson said that it has not
been possible for him to leave
his post of duty earlier without
neglecting highly important res-
ponsibilities, 4s the Congress is
in Session
Burleson states, “during the
past week Congress considered
and defeated the so-called Fed-
eral Aid to Education Bill. This
bill carried the well known Po-
well Amendment which would
deny federal funds to all
races. Several votes were taken,
where a vote or two one way or
the other would have made all
the difference.”
pie winning pitcher was Terry
nges, who pitched the entire
he. Johnny Neel was the los-
I Johnny was relieved by Ric-
poonkester. Tommy VanZandt
paced Ricky later in the game,
the last game was like the
I* as far as the score. In this
he Terrill Pontiac beat Craig
Ro 3.
terrill Pontiac scored four
is in both the first and sec-
1 innings, three in the fourth
I five in the fifth. Craig’s team
ired one run in each of the
it three innings.
BiUy Williaim hit
me run of the game, but Ron-
i Hammons hit a triple.
Jonny Sharp was the winning
cher. while Mike Smith was
Iloser.
Text Week’s Schedule: July 16
omag vi. Terrill; Sharp vs
»ig
Report On
Swimming Pool
We have inspected two swim-
ming pools in the last two weeks
and have secured much data, in
regard to cost, materials, labor,
etc. We have written to the
Health Department at Austin for
certain information on how these
pools will be operated and what
the requirements are, and how
they must be met. We have writ-
ten to the State Planning Board
for Blue Prints on different size
pools.
It seems that the people in De
Leon are very much interested
in having a Pool here for our
folks, as this past week I have
had several people to offer size-
able donations to help defray
the expense of building a pool.
We have offers from different
ones to give labor, truck hire,
and have the excavation done
for building this Pool. Now if
the majority of our folks want
this Pool, it wiU be necessary for
each and every one to help out
in some way or other.
watched Governor Chand-
fleet the Press” Sunday af-
>n. While the governor
s to be a lifelong Democrat,
gure that the half-hearted
er in which he endorsed va-
candidates may easily havi
his party three million
He did go on to say, how-
that the small businessman
(satisfied with the present
listration. He neglected to
Hat the small business man
: be dissatisfied because he
for a change and feels he
get it—just the same old
ey sliced a little different.
Upshaw Team Takes t
Victory Over Smith’s ;
Although the PeeWee League '
didn’t have many players, these '
played a game anyhow. Upshaw’s
team; which was managed by
Frank Otwell beat Smith’s boys
7 to 5.
At the beginning of the third
inning, the game was tied, four
to four. Smith’s team scored one
run off a home run by Kenneth
White. In the the last half of the
inning, Upshaw’s team scor**d
three runs off one base on balls,
two singles, and a few stolen
basts.
Kevin Weaver was the win-
ning pitcher, while Bruce Sand-
ers was the loser.
All you boys between the ages !
of 5 and 7 don’t forget PeeWee .
League next Tuesday afternoon
at 4:30.
Co. Has One Rural
Traffic Accident
Captain Jack Sutherland, Com-
manding Officer of the Ft. Worth
District of the Texas Highway
Patrol released Comanche Coun-
ty’s Rural Traffic Accident Sunr»-
mary for June. " . . . ~ .’. .T
, . .. se«> it looks as if it might have
The Highway Patrol investi-
gated a total of 1 accident with
the following breakdown: 1 pro-
perty damage, no personal in-
jury or fatalities.
Captain Sutherland reported a
total property damage of $75
with no persons injured or kill-
ed.
This is an increase of 1 acci-
dent for the same period of 1955
Contest For Selection of Queen of
P&M Festival Opens On July 16th.
The contest for the selection of| credit her with an initial
votes. Voting jars will be placed
in each of the drug stores and in
other public places, to be an-
nounced later. Queen votes are
at the rate of 1c per vote, and the
candidates, and those support-
ing her, will sell tickets at
$100 each, which will serve as
admission tickets to the Corona-
tion ceremony, and also entitle
the ticket holder to a free chance
at valuable door prizes. Each of
these tickets sold will entitle
the Queen candidate to 100 votes*
as well as the “cash votes” at le
each deposited in the voting jar*.
The contest will continue
through August 1st, when the
votes will be tabulated and all
but the top four candidates eli-
minated from the race. From.
August 2nd through August 5th,
there will be a “run-off” contest
between the four top Queen
Candidates to determine the fi-
nal selection.
The race will close, and the
winner will be announced at <
p.m. August 9th. Candidates will
file their names and their initial
$5.00 entry fees with Mr. Kennft
Neel, Treasurer of the Festival
Association.
Deadline for filing of Queen
Candidates will be 5 p.m. Satur-
day, July 20th.
Communities cooperating to
put on skits included Soda
Springs, Sidney, Comanche, Gus-
tine, Hazel Dell, Newburg, De
Leon, Brownwood and Stag
Creek.
Communities which entered
queen contestants were St. Joe.
De Leon, Newburg, Comanche,
Stag Creek, Van Dyke and Gus-
tine.
Special mention must be made
of the music furnished through-
out the Centennial directed by
T. R. Atwood, band leader; Har-
mon Howard, choir director; E.
S. Fagan choir director; Miss Mar
guerite Ross and Mrs. Alvin
Hafford, organist and Mrs. Floyd
Prather pianist and the De Leon
"Dixie Land Band and the Coman
che High School Band augment-
ed by members of Howard
Payne and former CHS band
members. “
One of the most pleasing parts
of the Centennial was the mus-
eum housed in the Veteran’s
Building under the dirtetion of
Mrs. C. E. Straley and almost a
score of other helpers. 1,000 visi-
tors had registered at the mus-
eum on Wednesday before tht
Centennial opened on Sunday
night and the crowds continued
to increase.
JRRECTION
Mrs. Ray Seth Mathis’ name
>s unintentionally left out of
* li«t of hostesses at the bridal
°wrr of Mrs. Harold Higgta-
£7^ jr*
ENTERS HOSPITAL
Mrs. Lee Thompson entered
the local hospital Wednesday for
a physical check up.
it day dollar has only about
le purchasing power of the
of 1939, it makes the old
sort of shabby,
at least have broken even from a
financial standpoint too.
The Centennial got started off
with a bang Sunday night. June
1 when a crowd estimated from
2,500 to 3,000 people were on
hand to take part in the big coun
ty wide church service at the In-
dian Memorial Stadium at which
Rev. Gaston Foote, pastor of the
First Methodist Church of Fort
Worth preached the sermon.
More than half of the 70 or
more churches of the county
must have dismissed their serv-
ices for the evening to co-operate
with making the Centennial
meeting a big success. The meet-
ing was impressive and inspiring
and a true sacred atmosphere
prevailed with every member on
the program responding.
The Pageant which brought in
more than $3,700 in ticket money
got off to a good start Monday
night and each succeeding per-
formance was brought to a close
each night by perhaps the most
impressive fire works ever seen
in Comanche.
In the Queen's Contest Miss
Jeanie Cagle, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Pat Cagle, and sponsor-
ed by the Junior Garden Club of
Comanche was crowned queen
of the Centennial at the close of
the pageant.
Miss Lou Ellen Durham, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mirs. Jake Durham
of Comanche won second place.
Miss Elizabeth Slider, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Slider,
of Comanche won third place.
De Leon was represented by
Miss Martha Morgan, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Morgan,
sponsored by the various clubs
of De Leon. Miss Mary Williams,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. A.
Williams, was sponsored by the
St. Joe Demonstration Club.
Visitors were high in the praise
of the Comanche Historical Pag-
eant and those who had seen
other similar pageants, said that
none were better than the one
given in Comanche.
cooperating
included
Worley Ferguson of North
Little Rock, Arkansas, who is
holding the Gospel Meeting at
the Church of Christ, has an-
nounced his remaining subjects
to be as follows:
Friday evening, “Can I Know
I’m Saved?”
Saturday evening, “Where Has
The Lord Placed Salvation?”
Sunday morning, “What Are
You Giving God,”
Sunday evening, “Why Be A
Christian?”
, Everyone invited to come out
and hear Brother Ferguson pre-
sent these subjects, straight from
the Bible.
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