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Leonard (Sraphit
Job Corns Center
VOLUME 77
LEONARD, FANNIN COUNTY. TEXAS
FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1965
NUMBER S
ftev. James Denton
COMMENTS
Accepts 1st Charge
BY TONEY
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Farmer Awards
elsewhere.
THE EMPTY PEW
By Jack Scherer
By W. JENE MILLER
Bridal Shower
A miscellaneous bridal shower
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Name
Street
State
City
Zip Code
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Legion Commander
And Auxiliary Pres.
Earl Braddy Died
At Hugo June 8th
Valley Creek Club
Plans Homecoming
VA Hospital Will
Be Used As Girls
Miss Sherry Vaughn
And J. D. Jones Set
Wedding Date July 2
Mr.-Mrs. H. C Bilyeu
Celebrate Golden
Anniversary June 6
Glasscock And
Blakemore Receive
Bailey Designated
As 8 Grade School
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the
the
Mrs. Conley Doyle is working
as cashier at the Princeton Com-
munity Public Service Co. office
this week while Mrs. Elizabeth
Pendleton is on vacation.
Coffeyville,
Bill Fuller,
Mrs. Joe Myers has requested
The Graphic be sent to her fa-
ther, Elzie Taylor of Grand Prai-
rie for two years as a Father’s
Day gift.
RETURN FROM TRIP
TO WEST TEXAS
Robert
Kan.;
Reported by
Mrs. Emit Steele
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
$2.00 a year in Fannin County
$2.50 a year sent elsewhere
$3.00 a year sent overseas
Miss Nancy Sudderth
Shower Honoree
In Griffitt Home
Mrs. Ida Laton
Rites Al Cleburne
Dr. Munger Will
Preach Sunday At
Presbyterian Church
Dr. B. V. Munger will preach
at the 11 A.M. worship service
at the First Presbyterian Church
here Sunday, June 20th.
Dr. Munger, Dean of Winn Hall
at Austin College in Sherman
has preached at the local church
on several occasions.
The public is invited to attend
the services.
for his corn and cotton entries
and Billy Gene Dunn, certificate
for high oat yield.
Farmers Electric Co-op donat-
THE LEONARD GRAPHIC
LEONARD, TEXAS
Enclosed find check or money order for $.
Send The Leonard Graphic one year to —•
find out it is free — courtesy
of some local merchant.
Even the ball-point pens whicla
There will be a meeting of the
Valley Creek Community Im-
provement Club Monday, June 21,
at 8 p.m. in, the Community Cen-
ter.
Plans
the club as part of its participa-
tion in the club’s goal of en-
couraging better farming practic-
es.
man.
I am quite fully aware thalfc
these things and seiwices are pro-
vided to secure more business..
Mrs. Jack Scherer and her
mother, Mrs. W. E. Gibson spent
last week end in Shrevesport, La.
visiting Mrs. Doris Gibson and
family.
Weekend visitors in the home
of Mrs. Etta McBroom were Mrs.
Leah Martin, Leonard; Mrs. Eva
Emerson and Mr. and Mrs. W. J.
Lafavors, Friona; Mrs. C. S. De-
vault, Gainesville; Mr. and Mrs.
James Cooper and children, Alice;
Mrs. Bertha Thompson, Savoy;
Mrs. Mildred Bunch, Mrs. Pauline
Shaw and son, Bill, Dallas; E. V.
Bunch, Denton; Mrs. George
Harold Martin and son, Bobby,
Bakersfield, Calif.; Mr. and Mrs.
Billy Harold Martin and children,
Leonard.
Miss Jo Edna Treadway and
Mfes Donna Duke accepted em-
ployment at Collins Radio in Dal-
las and began working Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Latimer
and sons, Truett and Terry have
returned to their home at La-
mesa after visiting his mother,
Mrs. Earl Latimer, and other rel-
atives.
Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Goode, their
son, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Goode
and Machele of Hurst, have re-
turned from a trip to West Texas.
They visited relatives at Ralls,
Lubbock, Farwell, Hereford, and
Clovis, New Mexico. They visited
Hale Center, recently struck by
a tornado where so much dam-
age was done. They report they
were re-routed twice because of
high waters, which is unusual in
West Texas. Besides seeing lots
of water they were in one sand-
storm, but said they had an en-
joyable trip.
Mrs. Frank Crawford return-
ed recently from Atlanta, Ga.w
where she attended her sister,.
Mrs. Agnes Dean Brown, who bat®,
surgery.
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Bilyeu cele-
brated their fiftieth wedding an-
niversary with open house Sun-
day, June 6.
The refreshment table was laid
with a white linen cloth and cen-
tered with a three - tiered cake
topped with the lettering, “50
Anniversary - Linnie and Howard
1915.”
Mrs. Calvin Bilyeu and Mrs. J.
T. Sudderth presided at the crys-
tal punch service.
Mrs. Melba Bilyeu and Mrs.
Larry Bilyeu secured 75 names
for the guest book. Out of town
guests were Mrs. Mary Bilyeu and
1 family of Denton, Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Wade and Mr. and Mrs.
Jackie Wade of Dallas.
Rev. James A. Denton, recently
appointed pastor of First Meth-
odist Church here with his wife,
Laquitta, and nine-year-old son,
James Gregory, moved to .the
church parsonage last week end.
A native of Missouri, the pas-
tor was bom March 7, 1936 in
Essex, Missouri. He is a 1954
graduate of Sikeston, Missouri
high school. After graduation he
worked as a shoe salesman in
the local shoe stores, later de-
ciding to enter college in August
of 1957. In September of 1957
he entered Olivet Nazarene Col-
lege in Kankakee, Hl. and gradu-
ated in May of 1962 with an A.B.
degree in Religion. In October of
1962 he entered the Divinity
School of the University of Chi-
cago and has completed all of the
requirements for the B.D. degree
and will receive it in September
of 1965.
Rev. Denton said he eventual-
ly plans to begin work on a S. T.
M. degree in Perkins School of
Theology at Southern Methodist
University, Dallas.
The pastor married Miss La-
quitta Branum of Sikeston, Mis-
souri September 3, 1954 an,d they
have one child, James Gregory,
who will be in the fourth grade
in September. He is very inter-
ested in baseball and his father
said the Yankees rank high on his
list of baseball teams.
Mrs. Denton is also a graduate
of Sikeston high school with the
class of 1953. Since graduation
she has| been employed as labora-
tory assistant in a clinic and hos-
pital, and as secretary to the
chaplain of Billings Hospital in
Chicago. Rev. Denton said, “Now,
after paying for my education, she
Funeral services for Mrs. Ida
Bell Lafon, 91, of Cleburne and
formerly of Celeste, were held at
2 P. M. Tuesday at Dillon Funeral
Home in Cleburne. Burial was
made in the old Cleburne Cem-
etery.
Mrs. Lafon was the daughter
of the late Eli and Fannie Jane
Bird. She was born in Hunt
County and moved from Celeste
50 years ago. She was a sister of
Mrs. Gettie Glasscoe. Also an
aunt of Bird Glasscoe and Mrs.
Tommie Sparks, also of Celeste.
Attending the services were
Bird Glasscoe, Mrs. Harl Hudson
of Leonard, and Mrs. William
Berry of Greenville.
£
With the passing of the 1964-
65 officers and the coming of the
1965-66 newcomers, the news is
very quiet on both the (American
Legion and Auxiliary. President-
elect Kelsey and Commander-
elect Berry are busy selecting
their committees and outlining
program for the coming year.
President Kelsey will announce
her committees and an outline
of activities at the June meeting
of the Auxiliary which will be
held on Monday evening, June
28.
Commander Berry is preparing
his committees and outlining his
plans for the year, which he will
present at the July meeting of
the Legion on Tuesday evening,
July 6.
One announcement is the sche-
dule of the ladies to assist in the
bingo games at the V.A. Center
in Bonham on Tuesday afternoon,
June 22. Scheduled are Estalee
Rath (car), Evelyn Brawley,
Myrle Jackson and Lucille Scher-
er.
IF YOU HAVE evergreens and
haven’t seen lots of bag wesxnffl
you are more fortunate 'shwsoi
most. Elsewhere in today’s paper
is a release by Fannin Co. Agenft
Wayne Cranrill explaining treat-
ment of the worm on evergreens
with insecticides. We have trSed
this and it works.
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'NO.. MY HUSBAND'S
HE HEARD THE a
( NOISE, TOOf.
Miss Sherry Vaughn, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Vaughn,
Route One, Wolfe City, and J.
D. Jones, Jr., son of Mi’, and Mrs.
J. D. Jones, Sr., Route Two,
Leonard, will be married July 2
in/ the| First Baptist Church in
Bailey. The announcement was
made this week by the bride-
elect’s parents. The Rev. Bernard
Holmes will officiate at the cere-
mony.
The bride-elect and her fiance
are graduates of Bailey high
school. She is employed in Wolfe
City, and he is attending East
Texas State University, Com-
merce. Friends and relatives are
invited to the wedding for which
no invitations are being mailed.
Earl Braddy of Hugo, Okla.,
and formerly of Leonard, passed
away at Hugo Tuesday, June 8,
following a lengthy illness.
He was a brother of Ralph
Braddy of the Lane community
and an uncle of Wren Grimes of
Leonard. He was a member of
the Baptist Church and was a
Mason.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Braddy,
Mr. and: Mrs. Wren Grimes and
son, Billy Grimes, of Leonard at-
tended the fuheral services and
burial at Hugo Thursday, June
19th.
It was recently my responsi-
bility to ask local merchants for*
money to buy trophies for a tng
annual Pony Show. In every place
’ of business I was cordially re-
The home of John Harold Davis ceived. And in this search for
for, was the setting for a bridal show- “donations” set me to thinking;
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Mr. and Mrs. Blanton Hancock
and sons, Michael and Timothy
Dan and Mr. Doc Stevens of
Sherman, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hor-
ton of Celeste were Saturday visi-
tors with Mrs. Guy Christian.
LIGHT RAIN fell around 2 aaatu
Sunday and again on Tuesday
morning. About mid-afternoom
Tuesday it rained much harder
and high winds blew trees aaadl
signs over, and laid com on th®
ground. We did escape the haft
storm which neighboring towns
suffered. Electric power was <o£f
for a short while in parts at
town.
We publish these reports for the
benefit of our out of town read-
' ers mostly by their requests. Efe-
I pecially people who own farms
a plain housewife and a mother.”
“Leonard is my first charge and
we, myi family and I, are eager to
begin our chosen vocation. We
are very happy to have been se-
lected to minister to Leonard, and
already feel indebted because of
the very gracious' reception which
we have received from the people
of the church and the communi- :
ty,” was the pastor’s comment.
j Miss Sharon Barnard
i Honored With
Waller Lee Fuller
Interment Thursday
In Leonard Cemetery Al Methodist Church Plan Year's Work
tween seven and nine o’clock. Out
of town guests included Mrs. Tom 1
Guthrie of Dallas.
Miss Barnard and Mr. Ensmin- I
ger will be married Saturday eve-
ning at First Baptist Church in
Leonard.
will be made for the
July 4th homecoming at Valley
Creek to be sponsored by the
club.
In the May meeting Mrs. W.
B. Robinson gave a very interest-
ing talk on “Beautifying the Com-
munity.”
Plan now to attend the Monday
night meeting.
The transfer of students and
approval of an eight grade school
for Bailey was the main business
for the regular meeting of the
Fannin County School Board
Monday afternoon in Bonham.
Bailey schools had been warn-
ed by the Texas Education Agency
that they faced loss of accredita-
tion, however the TEA officials
said an 8-grade school would 'be
approved since the number of
high school students had dwind-
led.
On the transfer situation) the
board heard a large number of
parents and school officials. The
board approved the transfer of
all students who had previously
been attending a school out of
their district, also those who ap-
plied for transfer in May between
the Bonham and Ector districts,
which was protested by the Ector
board.
High school students in Bailey j an^ other property here but Siv®
will be permitted to transfer to
any district they desire.
1st.
Co-hostesses foi' the affair were
Mmes. Jack White, E. B. Leinart,
R. T. Woodruff, Howard Trusty,
H. C. Evans, Donald W. Parks,
Steve Macsisak, Johnny Green-
wood, Misses Carole McMurry
and Linda Berry.
The refreshment table was laid
with a white net cloth over yel- freshing cup of coffee and then
low, the honoree’s chosen colors
The centerpiece was an arrange-,
WHEN you HEARD NOISE IN N
THE STILL OF THE NIGHT, YOU
SAY YOU GOT UP AND SAW A
MAN'S leg UNDER. THE BED..J
\ THE BURGLARS ? —
is totally irrelevant. The point aa
that they are most helpful„
Seventy-rive ^ilesir called be- I do cost the merchan* boots-
ey.
As the vacation season betgai^,
let the subject of gratitude to be
emphasized this month be W®
many kindnesses afforded Do as
by American businessmen.
Even if it be demonstrated itote
the gifts and services are done
solely from selfish motives, th®
real question is our own capacity
for gratitude.
Is it not the greatest preoE
of the power of God’s grace H©
can transform our very selffish.—
ness into blessings for others?
But ingratitude is the door to
Hell, itself.
The first of the Ten Command-
ments which contains a promfe®
from God is a call to gratitadett
regardless of motives!
ment of white snap dragons and
dahlias with tiny wedding bells People find so convenient are of-
and accented by two white love ten a gift from some business-
birds. Mrs. Donald Parks presided
at the punch service and Miss
Gail Evans served cake. |
Mrs. R. T. Woodruff was seat-
ed at the guest register placed Thf Question of motive, ^owem^
on a ""
to the refreshment table.
Walter Lee Fuller, 71, former
Leonard high school and Burleson
College track star, died in a Mc-
Kinney hospital at 8 A.M. Tues-
day, June 15, 1965, following a
long illness. He lived at 1309 Hen-
ry in Greenville.
Funeral services were held at
11 A.M. Thursday at Coker-
Mathews-Peters Funeral Home
Chapel in Greenville with the
Rev. Leslie Seymour, pastor of
Wesley Methodist Church in
Greenville, officiating. Burial was
made in Leonard Cemetery.
A native of Leonard, Mr. Fuller
was bom March 21, 1894, son of
the late Mr. and Mirs. J. L. Fuller.
In 1919 he married Ouida May
Johnson. He was a World War I
veteran and retired employee of
Shell Oil Company.
He was a star second baseman
and well known in semi-pro and
professional football in Texas and
Oklahoma.
Survivors are his wife; one son,
N. Fuller,
one brother,
Fort Worth, and two sisters, Mrs.
A. L. Brown, Leonard, and Mrs.
Maude Brown, Sherman.
Billy D. Watson, Roby Watson,
H. E. Evans, Ernest Tarpley, Ger-
aldine Ayres, Joe Bailey, John H.
Davis, Stanton Clark, Chester
Jackson, James Davis, Dee Davis,
Weldon Macon.
The refreshment table was
covered with green and overlaid
with a white hand crotcheted
cloth, carrying out the honoree’s
chosen colors. It was centered
with a low fluted crystal bowl
holding an arrangement of white
roses, snap dragons, gladioli and
fem and flanked by dbuble crys-
tal candelabra with white tapers.
Other appointments were in crys-
tal. Mrs. Chester1 Jackson, Misses
Sue Griffitt, Bettye Griffitt and
Brenda Bailey served and enter-
ed the names of approximately 50
guests in a beautiful book made
by Mrs. Clarence Evans.
Noted on the buffett was
large green vase in the shape of
a pea fowl, holding white gladiola.
White spring flowers were used
throughout th1© entertaining
rooms.
Guests were directed to a room
where gifts were displayed' on ta-
bles laid with white cloths. Host-
esses presented the honoree with
a corning ware skillet.
Miss Sudderth and Mr. Robin-
son will be married July 9 at 8
p.m. at Leonard Church of Christ.
J. W. Glasscodk and Edwin
Blakemore, both of Celeste were
two of the seven Hunt County
farmers honored at a dinner
meeting of the Hunt County Agri-
cultural Improvement Club at
Louie’s Cafteria Monday night.
Those awarded either plaques
or certificates were Sandy Cun-
ningham, Greenville, certificate'
for cotton and vetch production)
and a plaque for a yield of 48.3 ,
bushels of wheat per acre; May-)
nard Cheek, Jr., Farmersville,
certificate for wheat and grain)
sorghum and a vetch pro due- j
tion of 540 pounds per acre; Ed- I
win Blakemore, certificate f _________________o________________ , _
wheat and corn production; J. W.1 er honoring, Miss Sharon Barn- about all of the good things whfc&i
Glasscock, Celeste, certificate for, ard, bride-elect of Tommy Ens- are done for people in the nanae
Tuesday evening, June of “advertising.”
I Each year service stations
spend thousands of dollars om
road1 maps and rest rooms wliichi
prompt customers to trade mtisi
them. And anyone who has ever
made a long automobile trip can.
testify to how essential they are.
I It has often been my enj'oyaMe
lot to stop in a town for a re-
The transition of the Veteran’s
Hospital in McKinney from a
hospital to a job corps training
center for girls is expected to pro-
ceed in an orderly fashion, Con-
gressman Ray Roberts said in
Washington Wednesday of last
week.
*The official notice closing the
hospital came from the report
released Tuesday afternoon by
President Johnson’s Committee
on Veterans’ Facilities that list-
ed; the closing of McKinney along
with several other veteran’s hos-
pitals around the nation.
“Naturally we hate to see the
hospital close," said Roberts. “We
have done everything that could
be done and we fought right down
to the wire to keep it open.
However, we were aware of the
IvAg odds and even last week ask-
ed President Johnson to see that
the Job Corps program would get
a high priority in the event the
hospital were closed.”
Roberts said Governor Connal-
ly and the Texas Education Agen-
cy have filed an application for
a Job Corps Training Center pro-
ject with Sargeant Shriver, Direc-
tor of the Office of Economic Op-
portunity.
The application followed the
May 20 executive order from Gov-
ernor John Connally directing the
Texas Education Agency to make
the application. The normal pro-
cessing time is about 45 days.
The proposal is based on a two-
phase operation that would see
the first 300 girls enrolled by
August 1, and 300 more by Oc-
tober 1, Roberts explained. The
students will be taught related
subjects in mathematics, com-
munication skills and applied sci-
ence.
Officials from the OEO office
in Washington visited the site last
..j^eek, completing that phase of
’the processing of the application.
The OEO said the application was
proceeding with “more than nor-
mal speed.”
President Johnson made
official announcement of
closing of the VA facilities at a1
press conference when he said;
the unanimous report of his Blue
Ribbon committee recommended
the continued operation of five
of the 11 hospitals, two of the
foui’ domiciliaries, and eight of
the 17 regional offices that were
under fire.
“While the President didn’t
name those remaining open, the
report by Judge E. Barrett Pret-
tyman, chairman of the Presi-
dent’s Committee, did make the
identification and McKinney was-
n’t among them,” said Roberts.
wheat production and plaques for j minger,
in the home of Mrs. W. C. Grif- top yield entries in cotton at 371
fitt Tuesday evening from 7:30 to pounds per acre and 3,675 pounds
9:30 complimented Miss Nancy of grain sorghum per acre; Tru-
Sudderth, bride-elect of Boyd; man Mashburn, Commerce, certi-
Robinson. I ficate for wheat production and
Mi's. Griffitt welcomed the I a plaque for top com production
guests who were received by Miss) of 61.87 bushels per acre; Bill
is looking forward to being “just, Sudderth, her mother, Mrs. Joe Turner, certificate for top yield
Sudderth and Mrs. Guy Robin-
son, mother of the prospective
groom.
Assisting hostesses were Mmes.
Hartwell Edwards, C. G. Watson, ed the plaques and certificates to
miniature table identical
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