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VOLUME 81
CANTON, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1964
NUMBER 29
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friends in the Canton area.
will lie spread at the noon hour. CHARLES BRANTON
Eddie Terry and Cliff Corry.
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FB To Sponsor
Firemen At Meet
Little ope Church
To Begin Revival
Revival Is Set
At Promise Land
of
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and Clyde Ross officiating.
Burial was in the Haven
Memories Cemetery under
dealing
tion.
Farm
Lester pointed out that farm I cafe,
bureau carries on a year round
District Judge Thomas Croft
set Thursday, July 16 (today)
for a grand jury hearing of evi-
dence concerning a shooting on
June 6 in Ben Wheeler which took
the life of one youth and serious-
ly injured another
In the June 5 incident, Richard
Funeral Services
Held For Charlie
B. Wilhite
Funeral services for Charile B.
Wilhite, 81 of Canton. were set
for 3 p.m. Monday at the Church
of Christ with L. E. Carpenter
house. Mrs. Lloyd Chitty, chair-1
man, presided.
The meeting was opened with•
prayer led by Mrs. Ann Day, fol-
Rites Are Held
In Midland
Robert Jerome Friday, 65, of
am
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All those interested in the up-
keep of the cemetery are urged
to attend memorial day or send
their contributions.
HOMECOMING TO BE
HELD AT SEXTON
CHAPEL SUNDAY
Plans are underway for
Cradle Roll
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Corry an-
nounce the arrival of a baby girl
June 30 in a Grand Saline hos-
GrandJury ToH
On Ben Wheel
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Donald O’Connor plays 7 roles in the Dallas Summer Musicals’
fourth show of the 1964 season, "Little Me," July 20 to Aug. 3.
With him will be Paula Stewart and Lynn Brinker, as Belle
Poitrine, Jr. and Sr.; and Bob Gorman and Ted Chapman as
Pornie and Bennie Buchsbaum.
pital. She has been named Donna i
Lynn and weighed nine pounds.
Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. |
from Athens, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry
Hudson and Mr. and Mis. L. C.
Terry; from Greenville. Mrs. Her-
bert Skinner; from Deer Park,
Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Hudson; from
Tyler, Mr. and Mrs. Harold King
Ronnie, Millissa and Leslie.
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MEMORIAL TO BE HELD
AT CARTER CEMETERY
'Memorial day at Carter ceme-
tery has been set for Sunday,
visitors. On another page of this
paper can be found an invitation
from the Watsons to the open
house as well as an invitation to
all their friends and regular pa-
trons of the cate to continue to
make City Cafe their eating place
away from home.
On th same page you will find
Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Beal’s thank
vou to their many friends for the
fine business extended them dur-
ing the time they operated the
Watsons Buy
Beal’s Cafe
Effective Tuesday, July 14, Mr.
and Mrs. James R. Watson and
daughter have changed the name
ers of the former Beal’s Cafe.
Mr. and Mrs. Watson and their
daughter have change dthe name
to City Cafe.
Mr. Watson is formr employee
of the sheriff's office and a long-
time resident of this area.
An open house is planned for
Friday, July 17, from 8 to 11 a.
m. at which time free coffee and
Coca Cola will be served to all
"Hay Day" is Set
At Fair Ground
and David; from Dallas, Mr. and
Mrs. C. M. Bailey. Mr. and Mrs.
Douglas Bailey, Phil and Jan;
There will be a revival at the
Colored Promise Land Method-
ist Church in Canton beginnig on
Thursday, July 23, and lasting
through Tuesday, July 28.
Rev. J. G. Collins of Homer,
La., will conduct the services.
Everyone is invited to join in
I these rvival services.
fire prevention and fire protec-
tion program. Joe Smetana of
Waco, Texas Farm Bureau Safe-
ty director, has presented a fire
prevention demonstration to 140
schols and 30 clubs in the past
year. The TFB Mutual Sompany
also pays $75 to local fire depart-
ments answering a call outside
city limits to fight fires involv-
ing property of farm bureau in-
sured.
A letter was read to the group
from Betty Pinkerton concerning
the camp and workshop at Lake
Trinidad on Aug. 3, 4 and 5 for
Van Zandt and Henderson county
home demonstration club ladies.
The Council voted to sponsor
a queen candidate for the Van
Zandt county fair. Miss Virginia
Fenter of Van was elected by the
members to be sponsored. Elber-
ta Club will send cookies to the
Terrell State Hospital in July,
and Myrtle Springs Club will
send them in August.
Monthly reports of the clubs
were given by the club presidents
who were present.
The next Council meeting will
lx? Aug. 31 at 2 o"clock.
The next meeting will be July
20 at 7:30 p. m. in the county
court room of the court house.
Everyone eligible for member.
the $57.50 tuition for sponsored
members of local volunteer fire
departments. This covers lodging
and meals for the one-week
course. Across the state, some 59
county farm bureaus are coop-
erating with the Texas Farm Bu-
reau Mutual Insurance Company
of Waco in helping defray ex-
penses of 140 volunteer firemen
in attending the school.
annual homecoming at Sexton
Chapel Sunday, July 19.
Several of good singers are exr
pected.
Everyone is urged to come,
bring a basket lunch and spend
the day.
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RICHARD CHEATHAM
ENROLLS AT OSU
Charles Branton is among 984
high school graduates who at-
tended one of Oklahoma State
University’s summer advisement
and orientation clinics during
June and enrolled at OSU.
Die two-day clinics, now in
their eighth year, are required of
all new freshmen entering the
university, said Dr. Owen L. Cas-
key, director of the OSU Coun
seling Services.
On Months Vacation
Mrs. Clint Ross and Mrs. Gor-
don Whittaker and daughters,
Paula Jean and Judy, left Mon-
day for a month’s vacation
through the northwestern states
and San Francisco, c‘al:f
d.i
Supervisors of the Kaufman-
Van Zandt, Neches-Sabine, and
Trinity-Neches Soil Conservation
Districts urge district coopera-
tors to attend the fair annual
Van Zandt “Hay Day” at the fair
grounds in Canton on Friday,
July 31.
Cooperators are also urged to
enter a bale of hay in any of the
six classes at the hay show. The
soil conservation districts will
give plaques to the coperator en-
tering the highest scoring bale of
hay from each soil conservation
district Hay entered in the con-
test must be brought to the fair
grounds in Canton on either
July 20 or 21.
Other plaques, ribbons and
prize money will be given to the
bale of hay with the highest score
in each of the six classes. The
purpose of the Hay Day is to
provide educational information
on forage quality for producers
and buyers.
For further information about
the Hay Day contact C. J. Atkins,
VA teacher, Van; Travis Cole-
Van Zandt County Farm Bu-
reau is sponsoring the attend-
ance of two volunteer firemen
from this county at the 35th an-
nual Texas Firemen’s Training
School to be held July 19-25 on
the campus of Texas A&M Uni-
versity at College Station, ac-
cording to Jack Lester of Wills
Point, president.
Local volunteer firemen plan-
ning to attend are Clyde A.
Thomas, Jr. of Canton and David
Ray Jones of Grand Saline.
The training school is being
conducted by the engineering ex-
Rev. Bill Lane
To Hold Revival
Rev. Bill Lane of Sulphur
Springs, formerly of Canton, will
begin a revival at the Mount Lebr
anon Baptist Church Sunday
night, July 19. Services will begin
each night at 8 o’clock.
The meeting will close with the
Sunday morning service on July
26.
Everyone is invited to attend,
especially all of Rev. Lane5s
G. Bullard, 21, died after being
shot in the abdomen. Loy Don
Bass, 25. was seriously injured by
gunshot and is still in Medical
Center Hospital in Tyler.
The incident occurred after
midnight near Bass Cafe in Ben
Wheeler following an argument
Coroner Mrs. J. C. Allen, Smith
county Justice of the Peace
ruled initially that Bullard’s
death was from accidental gun-
shot.
No action has been taken so
far. Bartlett says he plans to
present all the evidence in the
case to the grand jury and let
them decide whether any charg-
es should be filed.
Bartlett feels a grand jury
should be presented the evidence
because of eyewitness accounts
and various reports and rumors
that have been circulated since
the incident occurred.
A
REVIVAL TO BE HELD
AT HOBBS JULY 19-26
'Die Hobbs Missionary Baptist
Church will have a revival meet-
ing beginning Sunday, July 19
and continuing through July 26.
Everyone is cordially invited
to attend these services.
Pleasant Union
Homeocming Set 1
The annual July homecoming
and Memorial services will be
held Sunday, July 19, at the
Pleasant Union Baptist Church
in the Small community. The
message for the annual service
will be delivered at 11 a. m. by
Rev. J. E. Barrett of Edgewood,
a former pastor.
Lunch will tie served from pic-
nic baskets during the noon hour.
A singing will be held during
the afternoon.
A spokesman for the church
commented that the meeting is
always one of enjoyment and
that a cordial invitation is ex-
tended to all.
Meetings By FB
To Discuss
Cattle Problems
Problems plaguing the live-
stock industry’ are being discussed
in a series of eight area-wide
meetings July 8-17, according to
Texas Farm Bureau President C.
H. DeVaney.
Livestock producers in all sec-
tions of the state are urged to at,
tend these farm bureau sponsor-
ed sessions. DeVaney said. He em-
phasized that the main purpose
of the meetings is to evaluate the
livestock situation from all an-
gles," and to give producers an
opportunity to voice their opin-
ions and ideas on how best to
solve the basic problems of the
industry. This subbject is expect-
ed to assume major importance
during Farm Bureau’s policy de-
velopment process this summer
and fall, DeVaney added.
Subjects to be covered include
beef imports, declining prices,
buildup in cattle numbers, volun-
tary promotion programs, pro-
posals for government assistance,
present USDA actions to allevi-
ate meat industry troubles, and
related government program af-
fecting the industry.
The meeting July 16 will be in
Belleville and on July 17 in San
Antonio.
also encouraged, in addition to
regular monthly meetings.
Persons throughout the world
who are licensed to practice law,
or engaged as a secretary, sten-
ographer, typist or clerk " in any
law offices, or persons employed
in a court, trust department of
any bank or trust company, or
any public or private institution
directly engaged in work of a le-
gal nature, including all public
offices meeting the qualifications
for membership are eligible.
Temporary officers were elect-
ing from out of town were Mrs.
Irene Fox. Mary Lou Hankins.
Lillian Dickey and Shirley Mur-
phry of Fort Worth; Mi's. Ber-
nice Hightower. Mix Ella Mae
Marlowe, Mrs. Mary M. Paridex-
ter and Shirley Chirry of Tyler;
Mrs. Kay Dunklin, Mrs. Geneva
Jackson. Marcelle Simmons. Nell
Bundy, Martha Kilgore, Shirley
Ramsey, Janice Williams and
Pauline Hall of Athens.
Temporary oficers were elect-
ed to handle the affairs of the as-
sociation until regularofficres are
elected and installed. Serving as
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Services will be held and lunch
Midland died about 7:30 a. m.
Tuesday in a Midland hospital.
Services were held at 2 p. m.
Wednesday in a funeral chapel
there with Rev. Ross Payne, pas-
tor of Cotton Flat Baptist
church, officiating. Interment
was in Fairview’ cemetry.
Bom March 23. 1899, in Dry
Prong, La., Mr. Friday was a re-
tired shoe repairman. He came
to Midland in 1936 from Athens
where he was in the shoe repair
business. H had been in ill health
since 1954.
Survivors include his wife;
four sons, Dudley J. Friday, Del-
bert T. Friday, Carl S. Friday,
and Freddy D. Friday all of Mid-
land; seven daughters, Mrs. C. A.
Clark, Mrs. W. M. Armstrong.
Mrs. H. L. Wilson and Mrs. Stella
Heidelberg of Midland, Mrs. J. I.
Williams of Kansas City, Mo.,
Mrs. D. T. Hale of Big Spring,
and Mrs. B. W. Smith; six brothr
ers, M. P. Friday. C. J Friday.
Floyd Friday, Horace Friday,
George Friday of Canton and
Olen Friday; a sister, Mrs, Pearl
Pointer; and 32 grandchildren.
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Stafford Rites
Are Held Friday
Services for Mrs. Bessie Lee
Stafford), 70, were held at 10 a.m.
Friday at the Edom Methodist
Church with the Rev. Vaughn of-
ficiating.
Burial was in Edom Cemetery
under the direction cf Eubank
Funeral Home.
Mrs. Stafford died Wednesday
afternoon at 3:30 p. m. She was
pronounced dead on arrival at a
Dallas hospital after a sudden ill-
ness.
She was born in Van Zandt
county and had lived in the Edom
area until 15 years ago when she
moved to Dallas. Mrs. Stafford
was a member o the Westerfield
Methodist Church in Dallas.
Survivors include one son, Clar-
ence J. Stafford of Dallas; one
daughter, Mrs. Zelene Hearne of
Dallas; two brothers, Ernest Pv-
ron of Van and Orvil Pyron of
Ben Wheeler; two grandchildren
and five great-grandchildren.
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The Family of the late Mrs. W.
E. Ogletree met at Dixon. Miss.,
July 4, for their annual family
reunion. Mrs. Ogletree, the form- I
er Elizabeth Jeanette Milling |
has five sisters and five brothel's i
all of whom were present except I
one with many of their families
present.
One hundred and forty-one reg-
istered from six states. Those at-
tending from Texas were all six
of Mrs. Ogletree’s daughters and
members of their families. At-
tending from Canton were Rev.
and Mrs. Louie Barron, Mark
man, Coleman Implements, Canr
ton; W. H. Wingo, Jr.. Wills
Point; Willard Sides, Martins
Mill; Russell Howell, Van; Dew-
ey Marsh, Canton; Otis Batey,
Van; H. G. Murray, Wills Point;
Cozell Barrier, FHA, Canton;
Howard McDaniel, SCS, Canton;
or Todd Berry, county agent,
Canton.
tension service in cooperation
with the Texas Education
Agency. The school furnishes up
to date training and) information
on fire protection and prevention
as well as fire fighting tech-
niques.
In addition to attending the
regular courses at the school,
volunteer firemen sponsored by
farm bureau will also attend two
special seminars July 20 and 21
Knowlea Canton; Mrs. Lois
Knowles. Dallas; Cuz Baker of
Shreveport, La.; Mrs. Betty
Monroe and children of Tucson,
Arizona; Mrs. Merle Knowles,
Rebecca and Charles, Mr. and
Mrs. Douglas Knowles, Canton;
Mrs. Lloyd Foster and children,
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Slider and
children. Mesquite; Mr. and Mrs.
D. C. Kearby and children. Dal-
las; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Knowles
and Buddy Knowles, Canton; Mr.
and Mrs. Jerry George and chil-
dren, Greenville; Mr. and Mrs.
Jerry Knowles and children. Dal-
las. and 'Mr. and Mrs. Jerry
George and children, Greenville.
The reunion is an annual af
lair and will he held next year
on the second Sunday in July.
direction of Eubank Funeral
Home.
A retired farmer. Mr. Wilhite,
died at 2 p.m. Saturday at his
home. He had lived in the Canton
area all his life.
Survivors include four sons, Wil-
lie Wilhite of Canton. Odus Wl-
hite of Belen, N. M. Hardin Wil-
hite of Mineola, and Joe W. Wil-
hite of Newhall, Calif.; eight
daughters, Mrs. Jewel Hooker of
Burbank, Calif., Mrs. Sarah Hous-
ton of Fresno, Calif., Mrs. Avis
Hanks of Norco. Calif., Mrs. Ila
Lett of Pendley, Calif., Mrs. Lois
Jones of Picoriveria, Calif., Mrs.
Estelle Laden of La Mesa, Calif.
Mrs. Opal Cross of Canton, and
Mrs. Bernice Evans of Downey
Califs one brother, Porter Wil-
hite of Houston; 34 grandchildren.
55 great-grandchildren and one
great-great-grandchild.
a local chapter of National Asso-
ciation of Legal Secretaries, a
group of local legal secretaries
held its first meeeting July 8 at
the Service Cafe.
The meeting was under the di-
rection of Mrs. Martha Sides, sec-
retary to Attorney C. L. Stan-
ford. Speaker for the evening was
Mrs. Irene Fox, first vice presi-
dent of Texas Association of Le-
gal Secretaries, from Fort Worth,
National Association of Legal
Secretaries, whose motto is “We
Serve" in an international non-
partisan. nonsectarian, nonunion
and nonprofit organization form-
ed to further the legal sec-
retary's knowledge of the law
and to uphold its honor and dig-
nity; to stimulate a high order of
business and professional attain-
ment and to create a high stare
dard of ethics among its metre
bers. The association fosters
training programs for young
women desiring to become legal
scretaries as well as courses for
advanced legal secretaries. Social
activities among its members are
Holc Heeling
For the purpose of establishing
Beat Wills Point
The Canton Merchants played
butchers, using Wills Point as
their beef as they slaughtered
Wills Point by the score of 33
to 11. It was a night when the
Merchants could do no wrong as
they coasted to an easy victory
holding a big lead throughout the
game.
Action was seen by everyone
as Wills Point tried in vain to
stop the Merchants array of hits.
Billy Montgomery started on
the mound for the Merchants. He
picked up the win. David Robin-
son and Larry Etheridge finished
up the pitching chores in the
closing inning.
The Merchants got sweet re-
venge Sunday as they defeated
White House 8-2. White House
is one of the teams that has beat-
en the Merchants and the only
one that they had not defeated
before Sunday. A nice game was
played by the local team. Many
fine plays were made by the
Canton infield that was led by
Larry Etheridge at second base,
who played one of his best
games. Canton scored 2 in the
second and 1 in the fourth. The
ball game stayed that way until
the eighth inning when the Mer-
chants broke the game open with
a 5 run eighth inning.
Don Whatley hit a 2 run home
run in second. Dan Loven hit a
1 run home run in the fourth and
a 3 run homer in the eighth. |
Loven was the winning pitcher,
stretching his record1 to 9-1, as he
pitched a three hitter. He re-
corded 14 strikeouts while pick-
ing up the win.
The win gave the Merchants
an 11 to 2 season record. They
still are not receiving the sup-
port they should.
They play a return match with
Wnite House here at the City
Park Friday night at 8 o'clock.
Previous meetings with them
have proved it will be a good
ball game. Do the Merchants a
favor and come to the ball game.
You might even enjoy it.
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H. D. Council
Meets Monday
The Van Zandt County Home
Demonstration Council met More _ _ .1
day, July 13, at 2 o’clock for the Kobert J. Frday
regular meeting in the court-1_ . ___ _
more and Patricia, Canton. IrIIT KK• • • •
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Burrus and Held in NlississIppl
son, Mesquite; Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Knowles Reunion
Held Sunday
The Knowies family reunion
was held at Myrtle Springs Park
Sunday, July 12. Everyone
brought a basket lunch and
spread it at noon.
Swimming was enjoyed by the
children and some grown-ups.
Those present were Mr. and
Mrs. C. C. Knowles, Juanita nad
Loy Mack, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon
Peters and children, Mr. and Mrs.
Vernon Kinsey and children, Mr.
and Mrs. B. Knowles and son of
Mesquite; Miss Joanna Horn ad
Terry of Dallas; Mrs. Jimmy
Tmbum ano children of Dallas,
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Don Knowles
and children of Garland; Mr. and
Mrs. W. B. Watkins, Mr. and
Mrs. Hardly Watkins and chil-
dren, Mr and Mrs. Duval McLe-.
Revival servics will begin at the
Little Hope Baptist Church Sun-
day, July 19. The evanglist
for the revival will be Rich- A
ard Cheatham, formerly of Na- 3
pies, Texas, and now a student |
at Wayland Baptist College of I
Plainview. ’
Mr. Cheatham is no stranger g
to the folks of Little Hope and I
the surrounding counties having
preached sever d revivals here
and nearby in years gone by.
Music for the revival will lx*
under the direction of Mr. and I
Mrs. Albert Sneed. Visting sing-
ers will render special music as adet
well as some local talent. S8E
Services will start at 7:45 I
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Friday morning at 10 a. m.
Everyone is cordially invited 6252205
to attend these sendees says,"
Rev. Louie Barron, pastor, I REV.
lowed by group singing “Texas
Our Texas, led by Mrs. Jack
Johnson.
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Oak Grove Plans
Revival July 19-26
Revival services begin July 19
through the 26 at the Oak Grove
Church. There will lie services
twice daily at 10 a.m. and 7:30
p.m.
Bro. Cloyce Miller wi.l be the
evangelist announced the pastor,
the Rev. B. B. Hindman.
Everyone regardless ol belief
or denomination is invited to
attend these services.
temporary president is Martha
Sides; vice president, Shirley
Bailey; governor, LaRea Miller;
secretary-treasurer. Gloria Drew-
ery. Mrs. Nancy Young was ap-
pointed chairman of the nomina-
, tions and elections committee.
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