The Bogata News (Bogata, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, September 12, 1958 Page: 1 of 4
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The Bogata News
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The One Newspaper in the World Most Interested In Bogata
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KQGNTK' RED RIVER COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPT. 12, 1958
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BETTER SERVICE
REPORTED RED RIVER COUNTY
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Day Phone ME 2-5222—Night Phone ME 2-5745
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Bogata Bulldogs
Lose to Cooper
Friday, Score 48-0
Cotton Harvest
In This Area
CORDUROY, all colors
45-inch CAM AL GINGHAMS
PAMPERED COTTONS
Ladies DRESSES .
M. N. Branch New
Lone Star Gas Man
Bulldog Schedule
1958 Season
S&H GREEN STAMPS WITH PURCHASE
USE OUR LAY-AW AY PLAN
.... $3.79
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East
football
w in for placi mi nts.
All judgir.g, exhibits.
W. D. HARVEY
WM ROZELL
A. L. BUCKMAN
GEO. P. GROUT
LENOX HUDSON
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First National Bank
IN BOGATA, TEXAS
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G. W. Bartlett
BOGATA
OFFICERS:
W. D. HARVEY. Pres
WILLIAM ROZELL.
Active Vice-Pres
GEO. P. GROUT, V.-P.
LENOX HUDSON,
Cashier
ANN BARNARD.
Ass’t Cash.
MRS W A. JONES.
Asst. Cashier
WELCH BUTANE CO.
OTIS PORTERFIELD. Mgr.
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«•« See Us!
DEPORT NEGRO IS KILLED BY
BURGLAR TRAP AT HILL FARM
89c yd.
79c yd.
89c yd.
$2.98 to $6.98
COTTON SACKS made of 9-oz. Duck. 6, 7 and 8 yard
Lengths.
Men’s WESTERN SHIRTS, Special
REMNANTS
PROPER I’SE of pastures is j
<is mv ■ i-^ui.llioil
of grazing of pastures in a way
tions:
Mrs M. N. Branch
H. C. Moore
Mrs. Myrtle Mathis
D. C. Mauldin
H. T. Eudy
P. C. Abernathy
Frank Edwards, cooperator of I tent that stabilizing
are needed.
Honor Roll of
News Subscribers
The Bogata News
means of thanking
listed below for their subscrip-
W. Selmon Jr., Brookston; Mrs.
Mack Mitchel), Bogata; Lewis
Selmon. Smackover, Ark., and
A second charge, that of steal-I
ing cans to hold the gas. was also I
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chance. This time Ilugshel Wheat
intercepted in the end zone to
stop tiie threat.
Bogata played a scrappy game,
but they were lighter and less
experienced than the boys from
Delta.
ficers he had gone to the tractor a* Wolfe City on Septal2.
shed to attempt to catch some ’
dark, were reported driving
green and white 1956 or I
Chevrolet with an out of state
license,
< ning letwi vn the .sheet iron liv-
in'.! «»| • ned by the victim, tore
holes in both nieces of sheet iron ,
and a four to live-i.ich hole in the >
man’s chest.
The tractor shed
With addition of another truck we are able
to deliver, without delay, either butane or
propane for only
the The V I
es and were released aftei pay-
ing fmvs.
z\ certain peculiarity
two constables in the investiga-
tion.
Hill, who lives in Paris, but
owns the farm oh which the trac-
tor shed is located, told officers
he had been bothered repeatedly
by thefts on his place in recent
days.
Onlv Friday night, someone en-
tered the tractor shed by pulling
the piece of sheet iron loose.
Eighteen gallons of gasoline was
missing from a tank inside.
Hill said he set the trap Satur-
day, after finding the hole where
the burglar had entered Friday
night.
The shotgun was wired to point
directly at the entrance made by
Friday’s burglar.
The victim, officers said, had
Not until Hill told
Bills of his trap was the incident i
unraveled.
takes this
subscribers
M. N. Branch, new representa-
tive for Lone Star Gas Co. in this
area, has been employed at Mc-
Kinney by the company for the
past ten years. Born at Little
Elm, near McKinney, he was
Junior High Foot
Ball Schedule
Following is the North
Texas Junior High
schedule:
Sept. 23—Clarksville at Talco;
Bogata, bye.
Sept. 30— Talco
Clarkeville, bye.
community were arrested the I
first of the week by Constable
W. J Corhell of Bogata, ano
gasoline
from a log truck parked on Farm j
Hoad PG!), about a
Bogata Bulldogs lost their op-
ening non-con Terence game to
Cooper 48 to 0 at Bogata Friday
night, before a large crowd of
local supporters.
Cooper ran, passed and plunged
its way to the lop-sided victory.
They scored two touchdowns in
the first quarter.
Bogata’s real threat to score
came in the second quarter, after
a third touchdown by Cooper >
On the running of Donnie Screws I
and Morris Harville, Bogata
drove to Cooper’s one-yard line.
Tlii' Cooper line dug in, how-
ever. and McGaha recovered a
fumble on the i2. Cooper was
lived on the Hill place for a year! off-'des. and Bogata got another
but had been working elsewhere
for three weeks. His wife said
they were moving from the place
Saturday. The house where they
had lived was located some 300 j
yards from the Hill tractor shed i
The dead Negro’s wife told of- J
Dean Boulware, foreman for
?’ Ranch at Kiomatia. is
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Sept. 5—Cooper—Here.
Sept. 22—Wolfe City—There.
Sept. 19—Open.
Sept. 26—Trenton—There.
Oct. 3—Mt. Vernon—Here*.
Oct. 10-—Liberty-Eylau—T*.
Oct. 17—Queen City—H*.
Oct. 24—Talco—There*.
Oct. 31—Jas. Bowie—Here*.
Nov. 7—Open.
Nov. 14—H. Springs—There*.
* Denotes Conference Games.
Mt. Pleasant Will
Improve Airport
The City Council has approved
a grant agreement with the Civil
Aeronautics Administration for
runway extension and repairs at
the municipal airport
Mount Tl'Visant will match the I
; CAA’s grant, with the resulting
‘•24.500 going to provide a 700-
foot extension of the existing 2,-
C'lO-foot runwav. The runway'
will be widened, from 165 feet
to 300 feet. I ,. » • i :n ■ c- . .
..... . ... . ~ . which will be Satuidav.
Work is due to start about Oct.]
- .. *. E. Taylor
Sei-1 “Flying K
Jr., now cutting drainage ditches
Jftn of !"r.d on
f [ ranch. This drainage system
• i sists of some 45,000 linear feet of
! ditches composed of main ditch-
Among out of town people at-its, laterals and field drains. The
Mrs. Er- drainage systems on the
Soil Conservation Service.
FOREST ROSS has recently
completed 11,500 linear feet of
field terraces on his farm some
four miles southwest of Clarks-
ville. These terraces were con-
struct'd by a contractor, J. C.
Bevillc. with a large tractor and
whirlwind terracing plow.
OS( AR NATIONS is complet-
ing 12,500 linear feet of terraces
on his farm south of Lancs Cha-
pel.
DROP INLETS as stabilizing
measures have been designed and
planned to be placed in terrace
outelt waterways on the John
Moore farm north of Rugby and
on the Hettie Nordon farm just
west of Bogata. These drop in-
lets will be placed where overfall
conditions have developed and
waterways are eroding to the ex-
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woman, which relieved a Deport
Negro woman. Willie Mae Dow-
dy, of $75 at her home Mondav R((s:(|iv.
at noon, according, to Constable 4
Pick Anderson of Deport. It was ,
reported the monev disappeared fjU«l against each of the
pleaded guilty to all charg- I po!,bi<>
I of Dallas, Wayne Kirkland <>l
Salt L; ke City. Utah. J. R. Kirk-
land of Memphis. Tenn.
Couple Take $75 McCrary Youths
From Deport
Negro Woman
Officers are on the lookout for
slick talking couple, man and (harg-d with theft of
Bogata;
Ark.,
• Ernest Selmon, Citronelle,
Sc per gallon
anywhere within a 12 mile radius of Bogata
Wc will never stop trying to bring our patrons
in the Bogata area the very best service possi-
ble. Renu mber to call
()' fl*.its s; id the J
v. a . almost out c.
. wh« n the v omau
Bill j Clark vide vith her wounded
made ' buslard i
Sheipi Slim Huh n of Clarks-1
Ville loam d the woman SI
gas I . „
Paris hos| ital.
and he sure to see our stock of appliances.
Now that winter is coming, be ready for it
with a heater from
; les Coffman and James Fos’.i r.
■ Mrs. W. W. Selmon
is about 100 j
faniilv on i<» Lamar Gi n« r;.l Ho.--'■yards from. FM I5u1, the Deport-■
pital. Runnels dai| there short-( to-Milmn road. < .. ... .. 1.; ----
ly after midnight I Negro’s car v.a. almost out of'
Cheatham noufuci Constable ga> when the v <>man iea<h d
Pick Anderson and with I
Bates, Blossom cor.stabh .
an investigation about 9 p. m. ar. I 1
notified the sh'iiH's depot liner.i. I
Deputy Sheriffs Lloyd Mathews
and Albert Wood.on assisted the)
Ala., l’®r t of field drains. The rows I
besides 27 other descendants. w ill be run to drain into the field
Among 27 oth'T descendants drains w ith the field drains emp-
were the grandsons who served lying into the lateral ditch.
’ as pallbearers.
Pullliearers wore Billie
j n on of Paris. Ben Selmon
• Selmon, Donald Selmon some 400 acres of land
Oct. 7—Bogata at Clarksville;
Talco, bye.
Oct. 14—Talco at Clarksville;
Bogata, bye.
Oct. 21 — Bogata at
Clarksville, bye.
Oct. 28—Clarksville at Bogata;
Talco, bye.
If there is another team that
will join our district befoY-e th?
season starts next year, it will
fill in the byes in the schedule.
in the eight livestock
including libbons and
The classes and the
cattle,
past week.
The cotton crop is at various
stages of maturity, caused by
rains at planting time, thus mak-
ing the crop about three weeks
late this year .
SUGAR, 10 Lbs. 99c
PURE LARD, 8 Lbs. $1.69
COFFEE, Maryland Club, Lb. 81c
PRUNE JUICE, Lady Betty, Qt. 29c
Betty Crocker CAKE MIX ... 29c.
MILK, Eagle Brand 29c
MILK, 1-2 Gal. „... 40c
JELLO, Pkg. 8c
Acorn HORSE & MULE FEED
100 Lbs.
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was
t', git th. victim beck to the' at Fayette. Miss.. January;
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Funeral Monday was conduct-1
<><l at the Baptist Church at Bo- ;
gala by the pador. Rev. Stanley; - - — .
Nelson, and Bogata F'uneral K< d River County Soil Conserva-
Honie made interment m Bogata tion district of Clarksville, has
Cemetery. i recently completed construction
A widow. Mrs. Selmon leave*'
these children; Mrs. R« ssie Kirk- drain 100 acres of cultivated land
tending the rites wen> Mrs Er- drainage systems on the above
nest Randall, Mr. and Mrs. Frank two farms were designed by the
Roden, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Lar- ~ ’’ ■"
kin. Morris Pratt, Mr. and Mrs.
Ikie McQuire, Mrs. II. S. Rheu-
dasil. Mrs. Rodgers, Mrs. Greer,
Rev. Burgess of Paris, Mrs. Vir-
gil Walker Mrs. Haidy Burks,
Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Pratt. Mr..
Dan Johnson. Mi. and Mrs. Joe
Holland of Detroit.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Bland
and familv, Mr. and Mrs. Don-
ald Kirkland, Mr. and Mrs. Nor-
man Price and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Bin Selmon Jr. and family
of Dallas, Mr. and Mrs. Audio
Cummings of Maude, Walter
Kirkland of Elvie, N. C., Clar-
ence Harris of West End, N. C.
NUMBER 48
Two Rains Delay RED RIVER COUNTY FAIR AND
LIVESTOCK SHOW SEPT. 25 6-7
21 classes of canned vegetables
and fruits, and in 29 classes of
textiles. The first will include:
Vegetables, fruits, paclcles and
relishes, and jams, jellies, and
preserves. Textile classes will in-
clude: Women’s sewing, girls'
sewing, western shirts, children's
clothing, household textiles, and
rugs. Chub membership is not
required for entrants, and pros-
pective exhibitors may obtain a
complete list of classes from the
County Agent’s office or any
WHD Club secretary.
It is expected there will also be
exhibits and demonstrations in
the Women’s Division building.
Judging will be held Friday and
exhibits and entries will remain
on display Saturday.
The Fair will again offer free
entertainment on two nights. The
Bogata High School Band will
appear in concert on Friday and
the Clarksville High School Band
will present the Saturday night
program.
Th? midway will feature a
number of rides, special exhibits,
concession stands, and it is ex-
pected that the Clarksville Le-
lion Post will b<- in charge of
games
i reevnuy completed construction ’
-of drainage ditrhes designed to slp‘P*v defined as the regulation
mi >.• . mum II. .ms n< ssie IX1I K- <hain 100 ..eri^ <•: < ultivab d land 1 ■ ...........
Two youths from the McCrory ’ Iand and n, n Svhnon Da||as. w , on his farm five miles south of I ‘° kt,v<’ «l lcast 3 tG 4 inches of
"" * ‘ *u- Clarksville. This drainage sy»-1 ,OP on desirable grasses with
tern consists of I860 linear feet I ‘’Videme of vigorous growth.
°^a, ’ll?00 ,in‘j MOST LIVESTOCK MEN in*
[the Red River County Soil Con-i
servation District have learned;
that it pays to properly use their
pastures. Evidence of this fact is-
ecured by observation of the [
thousands of acres of well im-
proved pastures, yro. s finced and
being properly used over the
District. Pastures bi ing properly I
used means better pastures with '
more complete conservation of
the soil—for little soil can lx1!
washed from fields well covered !
with grass.
MOWING OF PASTURES for
weed and brush control is an im-
portant and worthwhile practice
as these weeds and brush us°
moisture and plant food needed by
grasses and clovers. District co-
operators recently observed mow-
ing their pastures include: Stiles ;
Jones, J. D. Jones, Vernon. Ear-
ley. John Stiles. Frank Miesch.
Put Beadle, S. L. Cooper, Black
Bros., Burr Andrews, Flying K
Ranch, Joe E. Russell, Olin
Parchman. Roy Garland. A. E
Robardy, Charlie Andrews, Bun-
ky Smith, Claude Lewis, Hershel
Farley, Doyle Hamilton, Carol
Jamison, Bentsen Development
Co., Chester Whiteman, Phillip
Brooks, Clifford Ritchie, R. C.
Shrater, Billie Latimer. John
Townes, Dave Lennox, Clifton
Kay, J. R. Anderson, Maurice
Wooley, Wilson King and Harry
Whitehouse.
Plans have been completed for
the 1958 Red River County Fair
and Livestock E.xposition, sched-
uled to open at noon, Thursday,
Sept. 25, and to continue through
Saturday night. Sept. 27 at the
Legion Park, Clarksville.
The Fair Division, under A. D
Simpson Jr , as chairman will
open Thursday with rides, con-
cessions. commercial displays,
and educational exhibits begin-
ning at that time. Livestock will
begin arriving Friday morning
and will remain on display thru
Saturday. J H. Summers is Gen-
eral Chairman of the Livestock
Division. In a departure from
previous years, the Women’s Div-
ision, directed by Mr.s. Mary Sue-
Turner. will he held in the Taylor
Hardware building, north side of
the square, simultaneously with
other events.
For exhibitors there will bo
more than $1800 in prize money
divisions.
awards,
chairmen
are: Dairy cattle, Robert F.
Smith; fat calfs (4-H and FFA
boys only), J. H. Summers; poul-
try (junior and senior). Larkin'
’S*H ''P ( H-nior _fat^lambs) Non-profit organizations wish-
ing space should contact Mau-
rice Wooley for assignment of
their Ixioth and commercial ex-
hibitors desiring to advertise
DRY GOODS
BOGATA
Bulldog fans are legion
very loyal, win cr lose.
The* slwtgun blast split the op- * gridders also have the support of Hawthorne. Zack H« nley. Char-
■ r. I a good school band. ; les Coffman and Janies Fos’.i r.
Rain Sunday and Monday de-
layed the cotton harvest in this
area. Picking was schc-duled to
get underway this week, but th(‘
moisture curtailed the opening
week of the harvest.
Showers Sunday and Monday
brought 1.6 inches of moisture to
Bogata.
A. C Nixon. Deport weather-
man, showed .34 of an inch re-
corded for the two day period
Sunday’s measurement was .41
followc-d by .43 on Monday.
Some areas reported precipita-
tion heavier than in the Deport
vicinity. Low temperature read-
ings were in .he mid-60’s and
the high upper 80’s during the
I Mrs. Mollie Routh returned to
her home at Hugo, Ok., the first
of the week after spending sev- |
er i| days here with Miss Edie i 1. City Manager A.
Forester and other friends. I says.
• nd sheep, breeding stock. Rev.
I ee ’! Smith; swine,’ Garland
/lines: beef cattle, Allen Cobb
•and Glover Smith, and. horses. I...
Curtis Lemon. All livestock judg-; 'j'n'/hH.Js s4wu!d contact*RoyE^
ing will be on Minay, with th? f,„. „R.nts
|except.on of ptmbry and horses. [ Ai, judim g. exhibits, enter-
• l tainment. and parking will be
The Women's Division will of-! fi< < . There is no admission
ft r cash a'. ard- nnd ribbons in charge to the grounds.
; He was one of five Taleoans
and ! who had gone to Benton for the
The rodeo, the others b« ing Grady
Talco Rodeo Rider
Injured by Horse
Jerry Simmons, a Talco rider,
was seriously injured when a
but king horse threw and trampl-
ed him Friday night during a ro-
deo in Benton, Ark.
He underwent brain surgery
Saturday morning in a Little
Rock, Ark., hospital, having suf-
fered a concussion when the
horse stepped on him.
His parents. Mr. and Mrs. Gor-
Ncxt game^for Bogata is don Simmons, were at Quitman
r 1 attending a football game •when
... ? In a ^a,nt against Wolfe City friends notified them of their
chickens that belonged to them. ,asl season the Bulldogs fought j son's accident and they left im-
She didn’t know how he w as shot. ,hern ,o a deadlock in a great ' mediately to atti nd him.
Sheriff defensive battle.
when the couple came to
home of the victim, stating they
were in a revival at Clarksville
and could cure her ailments, and A certain peculiarity of tire
offered to prav for two of her marks at the theft scene started
e-hildrcn away from home, pro t|1(. investigating officer on the
vided she would give them a pair right track.
of their jeans. ' | The truck bad been left on the
When she left the room lor the roadside by Houston Johnson of
clothing, the money was taken Talco, and a second man named
from the family Bible. The theft; Brooks The cans, taken from
was not discovered until soni*? the Weldon Smith home at Bo-
time later, when the Negro start-1 gata. and some 12 or 14 gallons
ed to remove it from the Bible. | of gas were recovered by Bogata
She then notified Constable An*, officer*.
derson.
The couple, described as being | reun.d jn pannin County, return-
i ing to McKinney in 1937, where
1951 , |R. |ias sinct, resided except for
time spent in the Armed Forces
during WWII and in 1951 when
he was recalled by the military.
Married to the former Miss Dor-
is Russell of McKinney, they
have two children, Jimmy, age
13: Rita Beth, 8.
Branch, who suceeds Malcolm
Hignight as the gas company re-
presentative here, and his fam-
ily are at home on N. W. 4th St.
in Bogata. Hignight was trans-
ferred to McKinney.
Th" injured rider is the grand-1
son of Mrs. Jessie Simmons of
Bogata.
Buried at Bogata 1
Mrs W W. Selmon, 79. Rt. 1.
Brookston, forint r resident of
' this vicinity, died after a month's ______
■ i line •ss. Saturday in a Pari; hos-
for ' •'•’DtH'ttcr Humphreys, she a:;; SOIL CONSERVATION PRACTICES I
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A Lamar County farmer’s bur-
glar trap left a Deport Negro
dead Saturday night with a shot-
gun blast through his chest .
Officers said the Negro, John-
ny Lee Runnels, unknowingly
pulled the trigger that caused his
own death.
i - —- The killing occurred at a trac-
tor shed on the Charlie Hill farm
two miles southwest of De|X)rt.
Sheriff Dan Bills said a shot- f
gun trap set by Hill took the Nc- I
gro’s life. The single-barrel |
pump shotgun was wired to a
tractor, pointed at a loose piece
of shcetiron on the back of the
shed, and wired to the sheet
iron.
The shotgun was loaded, cock-
ed and set to fire thr moment
anyone tugged on the tin.
Runnels apparently went there
between 8:30 and 9 p. m., Sheriff
Bills indicated, and attempted to
enter the tractor shed through
the makeshift entrance. When
he pulled the sheet iron back to
i enter, the load of No. E
struck him in the chest.
The Negro's wife and
children were in a ^ ar parked be-
side the shed. Officers followed
a trail of blood that showid how
Runnels staggered back to hi-
auto.
The wife drove her mortallv
wounded husband t«» the home of
Curtis Cheatham at Deport, ilvn
later tn a Clark ille doctor. Sei -
ing the serious condition of th1'
Negro, the doctor sent the Negro
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