The Bogata News (Bogata, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, December 24, 1954 Page: 1 of 10
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The One Newspaper in the World Most Interested In Bogata
BOGATA, RED RIVER COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1954
NUMBER 10
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Tide Water Associated and Sea-
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John Maxmillian survey, second
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ty to the year 1604.
pretty legend in connection with
it which gives credit to St. Win-
frid as the inventor of the idea.
“In the midst of a crowd of
converts he hewed down a giant
oak which had formerly been the
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Pewitt Takes Two
Games From Bogata
Paul Pewitt beat Bogata twice
in basketball Thursday night at
Naples-Omaha.
The “B” game went to Pewitt,
57-7, then the Brahmas won the
varsity game, 77-36.
Perry McMichael
point to pace Pewitt.
Dianna Davidson
Win Baton Twirling
Dianna, 10-year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. J L. Davidson
of Hooks, formerly of Deport, re-
cently entered two baton twirl-
ing contests and placed second in
each event in the Junior High
class. The contests were held at
Tyler and Texarkana respective-
ly and were for schools in this
area.
Dianna is the granddaughter of
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Davidson of
Deport and Mr. and Mrs. A. L.
Webster of Clarksville, formerly
of Bogata.
southeast of Mt. Vernon. It rated
272.4 barrels of distillate per day
meeting through 14-64-inch choke along
had an avrage of 81 crates per
acre mere melons than those
where tne winged pollinators had
to Hv considerable distances to
hives.
won the girls
Sanders scored 36
with 1,580,000 feet of gas. Tubing
pressure was 1,883 pounds, and
flow came from 11,998-12,356 feet.
Third well now is being drilled.
In the Cornerville field some
four miles north of Winnsboro,
Humble Oil is to drill No. 1 W. D.
Gibson as an 8,600-foot hole in
the J. P. Moseley survey. Site
is on a 76-42-acre lease and 1,332
feet southwest of No. 1 Winns-
boro Fishing Club.
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Treasurer Dies > Short Pays Off
Newt Grigsby, 76, Red River
County treasurer for eight years.
| died at his home Sunday after a
long illness.
Funeral service was
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Cotton Crop Short
In Local (bounties
Government report of cotton
ginned in this area prior to Dec.
1 shows the following, along with
figures for the same date the I
preceding year:
Lamar 16,845 and 27,798.
Red River 11,393 and 13,798.
Delta 12,408 and 24,354,
Hopkins 5,804 and 12,483.
Paris Grocer Co. Deep Test Makes
7 Will Liquidate
Stockholders of the Paris Gro-
cer Company—one of Northeast
Texas’ oldest business institutions
—Wednesday voted to enter into
a plan of liquidation which Will
eventually lead to the complete miltipay New Hope field 11 miles
sale of assets of the firm.
The announcement came
lowing a stockholders i
Wednesday.
Liquidation will be completed
by April 30. The firm will con-
tinue in business.
Stockholders were assured of
receiving approximately book
value for stock, which, in the last
fiscal year, exceeded one million
dollars.
It will mark the fourth time
the company has changed owner-
ship since it was founded in 1868.
Identity of a tentative buyer
was not disclosed.
Paris Grocer Company history
spans most of the past century.
J. N. Adams opened the original
firm with $900 capital investment
in the post-Civil War period. The
Paris Grocer Company was char-
tered in 1899.
Washington.—The government
has been making about 50 million
ddllars a year turning out syn-
thetic rubber for automobile
tires, Congress has been told.
It will soon be selling the busi-
ness to private industry, where
Eisenhower’s administration says
it belongs.
Lawrence B. Robbins, head of
the Federal Facilities Corpora-
tion which operates the govern-
ment’s 28 synthetic rubber plants,
reported to the House Appropria-
tions Committee that they clear-
ed over 43 million dollars last
year, about 60 millions the year
before, and are expected to net
50 millions this year.
As the year draws to a close, we look back
with pleasure on our friendly relationships
with you, and, as we cordially extend the
Season’s (Greetings, we look forward with you
to even better things in the coming year.
Sincerely,
“I’m not guilty,” the 30-year-
old osteopath insisted to the court
and jury before he was led out of
the courtroom.
Dr. Sheppard could have been
given the electric chair. Instead
he will be eligible for parole in
10 years.
His defense lawyer said they
will appeal the conviction and
expressed confidence it could be
upset. Meanwhile, they sought a
, new trial—a legal prelude to an
I appeal^Common Pleas Judge Ed-
...J a Rearing for
' Dec. 30. A trial judge rarely, if
FOOD PRICES
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New York. — Wholesale food
prices as measured by Dun A
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week to the same level as on
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Bradstreet index declined
week to the same level as
Nov. 2.
TTie index, registered $6.74,
down from $6.83 a week. ago.
The index represents the total
cost at wholesale of one pound
each of 31 foods in general use.
low the Nov. 30 strength
100,000 less than the previously
announced strength for the end
of the 1955 fiscal year, next
June 30. ,
The Secretary said a decision
had been reached to cut military
strength by an additional 130,000
by June, 1956.
Wilson said the determination
to reduce the over-all strength of
the regular forces had been made
by President Eisenhower in re-
cent weeks after consulting with
all of his advisers.
Wilson said the contemplated
manpower strength next June 30
will be: Army 1,100,000 men,
Navy 665,000, Marine Corps 205,-
000, and the Air Force 970,000
Wilson said the Air Force, would
not be cut from previously an-
nounced levels.
The reduction program by June
30, 1956, will leave the Army
with 1,006,000 men, the Navy
650,000, the Marine Corps 190,000
and the Air Force with 975,000,
an increase.
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Winter Officially
Began Wednesday
Winter was officially ushered
in Wednesday, but casting an eye
outside, one would think it was ®eth King, died a week later.
points' for Delrfiar, McKnight 33
for Cunningham.
; ideal for the last minute shop- ■
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The mercury ranged from a . ■
high of 69 on Tuesday and the m
low on Wednesday was 31 de-
Total precipitation here this v IsSa ** ‘
year. 40.80 inches. Total precipi- \BL3ggL7 ‘ VTj
tation to this date last year, 50.81
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As it fell backward like a tower,
groaning as it split asunder in
four pieces, there stood just be-
hind it, unharmed by the ruin, a
young fir tree, pointing a green
spire toward the stars. Winfrid
let the axe drop, and turned to
speak to the people.
“This little tree, a young child
of the forest, shall be your holy
tree tonight. It is the wood of
peace, for your houses are built
of the fir. It is the sign of an
endless life, for its leaves are
called the tree of the Christchild:
gather about it, not in the wild-
wood, but in your own homes:
there it will shelter no deeds of
blood, but loving gifts, and rites
of kindness.”
The Christmas tree, was intro-
duced into the Court of St. James
about 1840, by Prince Consort
Albert of Saxe-Coburg, and the
custom spread rapidly among the
aristocratic families of London,
and was almost immediately
adopted by all classes throughout
England. 'J’
G. A. Gregg Dies
At McKinney
Jack Winn’s brother-in-law, G.
A. Gregg, 60, passed away at Vet-
eran’s Hospital in McKinney
Saturday after q lopg illness.
Funeral service was held at the
Kilgore. Church of Christ Sun-
day with Robert Banks of the
Kilgore Church in charge. The
body was taken to Bluff Dale,
where another sendee was held
by Stanley Lovett of Dallas and
burial made in Bluff Dale Ceme-
tery.
Mr. Gregg, a veteran of World
War I had been a resident of Kil-
gore for several years and an
elder in the Kilgore Church of
Christ for sixteen years. He is
survived by his wife, Mrs. Jessie
Mae Gregg, and two sons, Bill
Gregg of Farmington, N. M„ and
Horace Gregg of Picton.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Winn and
Miss Jackie Winn and R. F. Par-
ker attended the services.
Southern States
Fight School
Segregation
Jackson, Miss. — Late returns
gave 2-to-l support Tuesday
night to proposed constitutional
amendment giving the legislature
standby authority to abolish Mis-
sissippi public schools as a means
of continuing segregation.
Returns from 1,067 of 1.825
precincts showed 74,572 for the
amendment and 30,236^against. |
Voter interest was light as they
balloted on the amendment which
was designed to keep segregated
schools despite a United States
Supreme Court decision outlaw-
ing school segregation.
The amendment, which
vides public subsidies for private
schools if the public system is
abandoned, is similar to those
approved already by Georgia and
South Carolina.____ _ object of their Druidic worship.
Walker Hutchings
Bums To Death In STILL SAYS HE’S NOT GUILTY
Fire At His Home
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Mr. and Mrs. Boss Suggs visited
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Page at Mt.
Vernon, Sunday afternoon. Mr.
Page has been an invalid for
some time. He and Mr. Suggs
were boyhood friends at Win-
field.
scored 26
High for
Bogata was Ed McKinney with
13 points.
Burial of John D. Aldridge, 82,
bf Kilgore, former Red River
County resident was made Wed--
nesday at Manchester. Rev. Has-
sell Johnson, Avery Baptist pas-
tor, conducted graveside rites.
Mr. Aldridge, a retired farmer
who lived in Red Rivet- County
60 .years, died Monday in Gregg
Memorial Hospital in Longview.
He was born in Arkansas, August
31, 1871, and was a member of
the Church of Christ. His late
wife was formerly Miss Lodie
Covington.
Survivors are these children:
Clifton - Aldridge, Manchester;
Mrs. Walter Haskins, Kilgore;
Mrs. Lillian Chapman, Mineral
Wells, and Mrs. Mike Weaver,
Clarksville; three grandchildren,
two great-grandchildren and one
great-great-grandchild.
GRANNY WASN T
OFF HER ROCKER
Victor, N. Y.—When Michael
Barry was a little boy he used to
•stuff his treasures into an old
stove pipe above the ceiling of a
second floor bedroom.
Now 12, Michael went explor-
ing over the week end and found
a rusty wrench, water pistol and
an old comic book.
Michael thrust his arm—longer
now—farther back in the pipe
and drew .out a rusty can contain-
ing $700 in gold coins.
The Barry family figured that
Michael’s great - grandmother
might have hidden the money 50
years ago. When she was in her
80s, they recalled, "she used to
point to the ceiling and say,
“There’s gold up there.” No one
believed her.
First National Bank ! |
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Delmar Defeats
Cunningham 63-45
Unbeaten Delmar kept its pace
in District 50-B basketball Fri-
day, fighting off Cunningham in
a 63-45 game at Delmar.
Kenneth Smith hit 18 points,
Billy Taylor 15 and Tick Lane 12
for the Eagles. Cunningham’s top
man was Damon Faber with 14
points.
Cunningham
game, 5fl-40.
—Cleveland, Ohio.— Dr. Samuel
Sheppard, a sttinned disbelief
stamped starkly across his hand-
some boyish face, heard himself
convicted Tuesday of second-de-
gree murder. It took his jury five
days to reach a verdict, just one
minute less than 102 hours.
^He was sentenced immediately
to life imprisonment for the July
4 murder of Marilyn Sheppard,
his 3’-veer-old wife of nine years,
who tried to hold hl's love against
the allure of other women. The
state had asked the death pen-.
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Marilyn wfis four months preg- j ward Blythin set
nant with her second child when
removed jshe waS beaten to death in bed ever, reverses' his own conduct of
with a savagery that left her p case; by granting a new trial.
head all but shapeless from 35 • Dr. Sheppard took' the verdict
blows. Dr. Sheppard blamed ‘he I with an audible gasp, but with-
murder on'a prowling, bushy-I out any of the tears he shed so
haired stranger. . I often during the trial.
Walker C. Hutchings, veteran
pf World War I and a lifetime
resident of Mt. Pleasant, died at
Mt. Pleasant Hospital Saturday
morning of third degree burns
that covered an estimated one-
half of his bodv. He was a bro-
ther of E. G. Hutchings of Bogata.
Mt. Pleasant fire department
was called to the Hutchings home
I on West First street at 4:50 a. m.
The Christmas tree seems to • Saturday to extinguish a blaze
have originated in Germany, and >n a burning mattress, believed
to have caught fire when Mr
There is a Hutchings went to sleep while
holding a lighted cigarette.
Mr. Hutchings was
from the burning bed and rush-
ed to the hospital where he died
at 11:30 a. m.
Mr. Hutchings was 65 years of
age and is survived by one sister,
Miss Lodusky Hutchings, Mt.
Pleasant, and one brother, E. G.
Hutchings of Bogata.
Funeral services were held at
Smith-Bates Chapel at 2:30 Sun-
daj' afternoon under direction of
Rev. Chester Phillips, pastor of
Tennison Memorial Methodist
Ctiurch and burial followed in
Masonic Cemetery. Pallbearers
were Dr. R. L. Matkin, J. O. Mil-
stead, G. B. Young, Floyd Thom-
as, Frank Barnard and T. D. Al-
bright.
CHRISTMAS
BRITT AND DME USStTUt
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WILSON ANNOUNCES DRASTIC
I CUT IN FUTURE DRAFT CALLS
• ’Washington.—The Defense De-
‘ ^^partment announced Monday it
|Mwill cut draft calls in half, begin-
^^ning in February, and plans a
P’ gradual reduction of 403,000 men
ra-’, in thp armed forces over the next
' 18 months. < , .
Secretary Charles E. Wilson
also announced at a news con-
ference that the 1st Marine Div-
ision will be withdrawn from
Korea in the near future and re-
/ turned to the Pacific West Coast.
7 It win be replaced in Korea by
* one of two Army divisions now’
stationed in Japan.
.Wilson said that the February
draft call, already announced to'
be 20,000, would be slashed to
10,000 or 11,000. He said that
F lowered draft quota would be
maintained at least through next
M^^June.
[ Wjlson said the total military
Strength of 3,218,000 at the end
) of last month (Nov. 30) will drop
to 2,900.000, by next June 30.
This is a reduction 278,000 be-
Origin Of The
Christinas Tree
balloted on the amendment which
Washington.—The Agriculture
Department passed along Tuee-
•■'ay a novel story about how Ari-
| zona cantaloupe groweTs increas-
5____ _____ at j ed yields by reducing the honey
Jolley Funeral Home at 2:30 p. bee’s flying time.
m. Tuesdav with burial at Fair- T116 idea is to set up bee hives
view Cemetery. reasonably close to the melon
He is survived hv his daueh- fields in some cases along the -
ter, Mrs. Seth King of Clarks- ' verJ’ borders.
ville and some njeces and neph-; in test series, fields where
ews at Mt. Pleasant.- His wife, f the spend more time
'the former Pelle Owens, died in I in the blossoms and less in flight
.July of this year; his son-in-law, i
a nice fall day. The bright surr- I
shine, and the temperature read-
ings in the- lower- 60’s made it
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