Mt. Vernon Optic-Herald (Mount Vernon, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 2, 1954 Page: 1 of 8
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ed at the ehurch at neon.
A good program for the evening
worship at 7:45 is being provided,
"Our Church Yesterday, Today,
and Tomorrow" will be the theme.
All former members and friends
of the church are invited to be
present.
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rwtn Turner of Friberg, <
a citizenship; Mary IdaJ
Paris, Christian witness.
so it appears that Franklin Coun-
ty wHl be approved by the Depart-
ment of Agriculture in the near
futuer to receive assistance.
Walcott Black, local ASC office
manager says the general pro-
cedure for carrying out the pro-
gram as outlined by Ezra Taft
Benson, Secretary of Agriculture,
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beginning v
churches In the circuit on the reg-
ular preaching Sunday in Septem-
ber and on through the year.
Everyone is urged to co-oper-
ate w|th Rev. Adame to make this
year in the church work a good
year.
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Held At Purley
The annual Davis-Newsom re-
union will be held at Purley, Sop-
All relatives and friends of the
I families are urged to attend.
before the teams meeting with
Clarksville. Even though the
Tigers were able to score almost
at will, Pauf Pewitt was not a
fair match for the local team.
Most of the time, their passes
' disked, and it seemed that the
kertsof ffelMMrine
publicity chaiman;
Bush of Greenville treasurer f
towahip program area chairman,
s Officers who will servo with
Hgredith include: Charles Ray
on . _______
Church sgnted tn the club.
iy after- 'Rotarians a boon
As Gon
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nor Allan 8htv< _ 5
ly more than 93,0*0
urday’e Democratic rug-
mary. All but abopOH.,
distributed out in twep|y
ties had been counted.
conceded
at the First Methodist church here
by Rev. Paul Cardwell of Dallas,
North Texas Conference Board of
■ducation Executive Secretary.
Janie and Dewitta Bass of Mt.
Vernon, were present for the as-
sembly, which took as its theme,
"Is It Chrlstlike?" They returned
hpme Saturday.
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Eighth graders
A rumor has been circulating
J-tM. ggl
hlt-
—igton said that the chlorine that
is added to the water during its
purification process was ample to
destroy all harmful bacteria that
S a. a a. n __ A X_ a -X a a. —- a S A
would be impossible to take ty-
phoid fever by drinking ths water.
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lers With last names
th A to J will regis-
ter with MrU. Senna Irons in room
IS andr tame beginning .with K
to t wHl register with Mrs. Sula
Carter in roam 1'4. ; *- ’f.
i Sixth graders will register
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Drought Feed Program
Is Outlined By Black
Thus far, Franklin County has
not been approved to receive
drought disaster assistance. It-is
anticipated that the county will
be aproved in the next two or
three weeks.
Many people became confused
by the telegram that was received
from the governor and thought
that Franklin County had been
approved, but the governor had
only recommended to the United
States Department of Agriculture
that Franklin County be designat-
ed to receive drought disaster as-
sistance.
Some of the counties in East
Texas ghat are already an the
ddsught relief program were ap-
proved tn about a week after be-
M< rsoesnmcMded by the governor,
Registration of first grader's
got underway Wednesday with 3*
registering at the Mt. Vernon Ele-
mentary School. Those that regis-
tered Wednesday need not return
to school on Monday but will re-
turn Tuesday. Students that did
not register Wednesday are asked
to register Monday.
• The following list; of rooms- is in 'room 7. 1
Caches Wayne Pierce and Rob-
bie Campbell were plagued with
Mt. Vernon’s well-known weak-
ness, a shortage of material, as
the Tigers moved into their sec-
ond week of workouts.
>At mid-week, there were only
27 boys working out on the high
school squad. One of these boys,
Jerrell Bryant, a letter man from
last year, was not able to work
obt due to a minor operation that
he underwent last Saturday morn-
ing. Bryant played at the center
slot last year but worked out at
an end position during the first
few days of the present season,
it is expected that he will be
ready for limited action for the
Tigers first game against Clarks-
ville on September 10.
Following a scrimmage session
with Paul Pewitt Tuesday night,
the coaches said considerable
Church and will be in each of the work ■ wee going to be necessary
Two fires were reported herejeral volunteers fight the fire.
i The fire was nearly under con-
cording to periods are Mr. Bolger, dominately as fairness.
ship as regards the unfortunate
and said this was noticed in those
who contribute to life the misery
of the unfortunate of this world.
’ ’ ’ L. ’ G. Haggard was a visiting
Rotarian from Winnsboro and
Jess Covington of Ruston, Louis-
ana was also a visitor.
Clovis Lawrepce was installed
as a new member and Claude
Newsom’s resignation was fcro-
lore will register 4n noon, September S at 2 o’clock .
e. It under Miss Virgie Beth The Tonf Briley. QaUrtet along
bee. ■. j ,: with several other well (mown
II stndents are asked to find
r respective rooms Monday to
for registration only and does not
necessarily mean that the student
will bd assigned to that particu-
lar roomor teacher.
Those that will be in the sec-
ond grade and the beginning of
their last name starts with A tp
J will register under MJs«‘ Mary
Lou Stringer in room 9. Second
Open House To Be ’
Held At Purley
house tar. thMr new school build-
will be served
cordially invited
ispedt the new!
several other well (mown
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School Board To
Meet On Tuesday
The Franklin County School
iflSy morn-
Don Meredith
Area Christian
Fellowship Head
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lent for the North Texas Oon-
mce Methodist Youth Assem-
held at East Texas State
ohers College here Moi
toon, Aug. 23, throu
___ay noon, Aug. 23,* hu,
named to serve as Christian fel-
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Singing at Memorial
Sixth graders will register un- lJ ‘ ‘ ‘
dor Carlton Newsome 4p, jpom II. “
Pruitt, Birdsong
: Winners In
h County Races
I an^dr$tiSt?\ri^otS\ut
| underway in the run-off-primary,
r In-the county none, J. Roy
Pruitt won out over Tom Briley
in the race for County Judgw-
Superintendent by a margin of
in votes. Pruitt received a total ’
of 1388 votes to Briley’s 1017.
In the race for Commissioner
for preclnt 3, W. D. (Doney) Rut-
ledge was defeated by Chester
Birdsong, by a margin of 55 votes. '
Birdsong received 556 votes to
501 for Rutledge. These were the
only two county offices that were
contested in the election.
In the state races Governor Al-
lan Shivers received 870 votes and
> hie opponent, Ralph Yarborough,
received 1414. Governor Shivers
received 125 votes more than he
did in the July primary and Yar-
borough received 71 more than
in the July primary.
There were 55 more votes cast
for governor and 45 less votes
were cast for County Judge tn
Saturday’s election than in the
. July primary.
In the race for Supreme Court
I Place 1, Few Brewster received
790 votes to 996 for Alfred Scott.
. For the Court of Criminal Ap-
peals, Lloyd W. Davidson receiv-
ed 2121 votes. Davidson’s run-off
ropponent withdrew from the race
' > after receiving a large enough
__ .percentage e<-' the votes In the
b-l July primary to place him in the
There were 284 fewer votes eaabt
in the election Saturday than in
the July primary. The total cast
was 3881, which is a record vote
for a run-off election.
Pffc. Arlin rtanris
Spends Rest Period ’
In Kobe Japan
KOBE, JAPAN—Army Pfc. Ap-
lin K. Harris, whose wife, Patsy,
lives in Scroggins, Tex., recently
.spent a rest and recuperation :
leave in Kobe, Japan, and then
returhed to his army unit in Ko-
rea.
At Kobe were fishing, boating,
hunting and golfing facilities,
sight-seeing excursions, and other
entertainment and recreational
programs unavailable in Korea,
where he is a repairman with the
205th Signal Repair Company.
Harris entered the Army in
April 1953 and arrived over seas
the following January. He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray M. Har-
ris, Route 3, Quitman.
Rev. Joe Adams
Will Pastor
Methodist Circuit
Rev. Joe Dan Adams will
place Rev. Jimmy Yarbrough as
pastor of the Mt. Vernon Metho-
dist Circuit. Rev. Yarbrough had
accepted the task only for the
summer and said that he can not
continue his work any longer.
Rev. Adams has recently re-
turned from service wRh the gov-
ernment. He will take up the work;
beginning the first Sunday in Sep-
tember at the Terry Memorial
gave Gover-
ted>f Might-
votes in Sat-
i-off prl-
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distributed out in twenty coun-
ties had been counted-
Yarborough coneeded defeat
about midnight Saturday.
The returns from all |>4 coun-
ties, 234 complete, showed at fol-
lowing totals:
Governor. —- Shivers'V73,690,
Yarborough 681,284.
Supreme Court. — Brewster
777,478, Scott 428,301.
Gillespie County (Fredericks-
burg) gave Shivers the heaviest
vote percentage. The t,J76 votes
cast for Shivers against. 166 for
Yarborough was 90,1 per cent.
Next came Webb County (Laredo)
with 87.8 per cent or 6,212 for
Shivers to 854 for Yarborough.
Band Parents
Meet With
School Officials
A meeting of the bknd parents
with Kennard B. Copeland, super-
intendent of the Mt. Vernon
schools and band director Bob
Souter was held at the high school
Tuesday night at 7:00 p.atez with
about thirty parents present.
Many of the band’s, school’s
and parent’s problems were dis-
cussed and several new rules ad-
opted. A meeting will be held lat-
er on In the school year to see If
the rules adopted are satisfactory.
"Optics”
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where she had been serious
for the past two weeks.
The former Mite OoU(o Crans
Was born September 6, 1873 In
Alabama arid catne witjf Tier par-
ents, the late Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Crane, to Saltillo when a small
child. She was a member of the
Baptist Church. Mr. Phillips died
in 1951.
Survivors include a sister, Mrs.
Beulah Horn of Sulphur Barings,
a brother, A. D. Crane of Saltillo
and several nieces and naphews.
She was In the horns of a nephew,
Artll Phillips of Magnolia when
she became 111.
Intermeat was in the Old Sal-
11110 Cemetery.
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ad feeling. Everyone Is perking up
at the mentioning of FOOTBALL,
rtalisin* that eool weather 19 just,
around the corner.
Favorite pastime for BENNIE
POARCH this week and quite a
few mote MT. VERN0NITE8 hae
boen baad and football practice.
BBNNIR says he hasn’t: missed a
o]Je CHARLIE GRAU, CULLEN
1CLLS, and OTIS SLAUGHTER,
JR. are >R rag^y for the opateag >
whistle at Clartwvlllo. . r.
The new editor from the Winns-
boro News was over this week iv- ----- u
.t Ih. OH H1-. H. «1«
there was quite an argutun* <**•>
la RED RAIDp ‘
territory as to' .
in '41 and Ml-’to come and Is
IPTU* Page « building.
graders with last names between
K to Z will register with Mrs. Lou
Haley McCorkle In room 6.
Third graders with last names
beginning between A to J will
register in room 8 under Mrs.
Gladys Lawrence. Third graders
in the K to Z category will reg-
ister undar^Nre, Flonnie Guthrie
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Fourth« graders with names
starting ^l|h A. to J will register
■With., |fte* Evelyn Newsome in
room 5. Those whose names be-
gin with K to Z will register with
State Inspector Says
City Water Is Pure
growth to the air which caused
the plant to decay and put the
bad odor and taste in the watef-.
At the present time water from
the water wells that were pre-
viously the source of the city's
water supply, is being mixed with
the lake water. The well water is
receiving the same purifying
treatment that is used on the lake
water. He is also tedding acti-
vated carbon to the water at the
rate of 80 pounds to a million
gallons of water to try and im-
prove the taste and odor.
Whittington said there was the
possibility that- only g big rain
that wauld raids tea water lewsl
of the lake could ftnpjlpve, .the
School starting and election is
a over and everyone has an exhaust-,
vaaaw w vwww* wa o .. w , J., , —. ~ w 4.
wteMte rail* Methodist Church ; the M
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Rev. C. EraTr^tt, wW Wa.'«n«tOn “ld tUt the chlorine ‘
pastor of the church in 1981, now
pastor of Lae Street Methodist
Church at Greenville will bring
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were installed Friday nlghk the'**morning * m^l’ge At* 17:00 the Um*?®? !hat.it
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Lester Gadltn is pictured above an'he accepts the check Oom
Roy DeViney, president of the Franklin County Chamber of ubm- •
merce, for being the first to gin a bale of cotton in FranljiU^
County. Gadlin ginned two bales ^pn August 24 and the/ t"
seen on the platform at the Meek’s Gin here.
the coming season.
Their running game
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Pewitt eleven with Dalton Banks. | the way.
the Tigers plunging halfback, The Tigers have another scrim-
looking better than he did much 1 mage session scheduled for Fri-
later in the season last fall. Banks day night at Daingerfield.
Don Meredith, the Tiger’s quar-
and ball-handler under
was hitting his pass re-
i and his run-
t Church
V Aftemoo
ie Memorial, Baptist
will have a singing Sunday
i. September 8 at 3 o’cla
First Graders Registered Wednesday;
General Registration Starts Monday
fusion while registering.
Registering will also get under-
way at the high school Monday.
A tentative schedule has been
set up dividing the school day
into seven periods. The period
schedule is as follows: 1st period
8:30 to 9:25; 2nd, 9:30 to 10:15;
3rd, 10:20 to 11:05; 4th 11:10
‘'to lirM; Sth, 12.50 to 1:50;
‘ 6tb. 1:55 to 2:40; ,7th, 2:45 to'
8:80. , J .
Teachers and their classes ac-
J. T.
IH Funeral servi
Phillips wpfb h
BT I Tuesday aftern^
r eon-’Rev. t. K Hawi
hl fqrl Mrs. Phillipa
/have] day afternoon
hospital In Mi
Grass Fire Sweeps Across
mu'.t' also" hi’i good citizen and j Prail^C GfOVC MOIldaV
in this line It reveals Itself pro- . w
dominately as fairness.
He also discussed good citizen-! Monday, one doing many dollars
worth of damage before it could | trol when the wind shifted to
be brought under control.
A grass fire started at Prairie | fighters had to go to thd home
Grove when a fire at the home
of Mrs. Marie Prather got out tai
control. T ---r. <
The fire burned off 150 actea
of pasture land owned by Jvdt
Johnson and spread on to land
owned by Mrs. I. H. f
burning off 85 acres and slab de<K
troysd about 4ft rom
Rotaries absent were l.. d. owned by Mrs. M. M- MabaQte.
Lowry. Jftf Tom Wilkinson, Roger The Mt. Verhon fire deparU»ant
As Workouts In Second Week
Tiger fans would probably see scrimmage with Paul Pewitt, and
nothing but aerial warfare during displayed their ability to
1 care of themselves
looked i Moulton, with excellent downfield
good arainst the far weaker Paul blocking, got loose and went all
will probably account for quite I c ;
a bit of yardage on the ground 1 terhack
/nil n.X V. 1 ■ no no
ceivers with precision
of doing bu»tae<
etantly adding netr commhi
gas servicp ln recant years
we been able to hold the tine up
to noR.
"Thprefore, we hare applied to
the reepdetive city councils of the
eommuntttes wk eorve ftt‘East
Texas fosvan eqsrttaMe adjMtanoat
iff out schedule of rates. The ap-
plications set a uniform rate for
each of the 34/JCaat Texas com-
urnities we eorve, which in this
■dlftrict1 includes Mt. Vernon. The
total increase |o residential cus-
tomers in East Texas amounts to
16.1 per cent on the year's gas
bill.
"This is an increase of slightly
lees than 2 cent# per day to the
average East Texas residential
consumer—less than 60 cents on
See GAS Page 8
another direction and the fire
andr help protect it
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„ Two. empty barns oto the Jack
err.
troyed along witM the 378 a«
°f Monday* night the Jlto Depo
rnent answered a call at the Be
Gayle Oler Is
Guest Speaker
At Rotary Meeting
Gayle Oler, superintendent of
the Boles Orphans Home at Quin-
lan. was guest speaker at the
meeting of the Mt. Vernon Rotary
Club last Friday and spoke
"What Is Real Citizens!
was the guest ont l.
who was program chairman for
the day.
Oler pointed out that good citi-
zenship brings our thinking back
down to elementary citizenship of
helping one another. He pointed .
out that a good citisen in poll-' Board wilt meet TuestSy msr=
tics works for the common good, j ing. September 7 at 10:00 in the
regardless of party affiliation. | County Superintendent’s office.
He also said that a good citizen I Anyone wishing to discuss j tember 12.
•wn Roblnwi|»iRI|ll||R(P^™^9M ML
The prograte thl» Friday Fill 1ft :1ft. COtetelmloBi
undur the direction of Tabs cent a tari ^*^.5
this fall and his pass receiving
is far above his performance at
the close of the season last fall. I ning game seems to have improv-
The Tiger’s Junior High squad ed.
saw considerable action in the Scat hac^ Charles Yates and
i James Dale Mills looked good in
'■the broken field and Yates came
through at least once with one
of his famous circus catches on
a long pass down field and Mere-
dith’s throw was a little long but
Yates turned on that extra speed
and snatched the ball out of the
air. Mills, who was out most of
last season with an injured leg
seemed to be favoring this old In-
jury this fall. He has already suf-
fered a bruise on the opposite leg
this fall. This minor injury did
not keep him out of* the scrim-
mage Tuesday night.
See TIGERS Page 8
In a statement «»de tkta week
by Oland McAuley, aeMt for Ark-
ansas Louisiana Gas Oompeny In
Mt. Vernon, no said that, "Recent
developments in the natural gas
Industry make it tanpee^lble for
MF to>6*14k*eHlne a<p
tetee> otrr «Htom«rB
ttv leaking; gaa'ser-
now cotta most of our East
Vxat customers ism than it did
^8% years ago, when natural gee
Rhis first brought to moot of those
cities.
"The pricp <e pay for natural
gas has been rising steadily dur-
ing recent years. It has more than
doubled in cost since 1947. In
addition, the cost of wages and
materials have increased and the
tempany has also experienced a
SO per cent increase since 1947
In the coot of distributing gas.
"Your gas company simply is
no longsr able to absorb these
tremendous Increases in the cost
He also said that a good citizen I Anyone wishing to
is kind at home as well as in busi-1 school matters is asked to be pre-
ness and on the street, and that ' sent at the meeting, _
a good citizen of business is one ,'
that is honest and fair in all his •
dealings.
In work, he said a good citizen ;
is the one that delivers the goods, i —
He also said that in play, one :
Dick Whittington, State Depart-
ment of Health Inspector, said
■this week that the city water sup-
ply was pure and absolutely safe
to drink. The only thing wrong
with the water, according to Whit-
tington, was the bad odor and
taste which has no effect on its
purity.
Whittington has worked here
three days testing the water and
Inspecting the lake and ,viler
works. He said that ao ttr it
seemed that the Iqw ievpi of the
lake exposed a rooted aquatic
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ffare-Comi6s,To Be
Sunday At First
Stores Will Close
On Labor Day
Most of the Mt. Vernon businntei
houses will bo'cloaed all day Mon-
day. September 6, in observance
of Labor Day. •
A petition has been circulated
around town with almost one hun-
dred per cent of the merchanta
signing in agreement to close
Monday.
The bank and the post office
will both be closed.
Rotarians absent were L. D.
Davie, Henry Stanford and Dewey anowered the call and etarted
Robinson. coahating the flames ,‘bout
wHh a^rew1”*
h'elp tW flr* department and eev-1 ’7/
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