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A SEMI-WEEKLY
NEWSPAPER SERVING
RURAL FANNIN COUNTY
VOL XXX
BONHAM Heral
AS CONSOLIDATED WITH THE BONHAM NEWS
THE BONHAM (Texas) HERALD, MONDAY, DEC. 31, 1956
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NUMBER 44
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Dirt Moving Job at riant Against Hot Check
Artist Activities
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The job of raising the level of the
site'for the main building of the.
Alphaduct Wire and Cable company
was being rushed to completion
Monday under the watchful eyes of
Gerry Kass and Bob Zurrier, en-
gineers for the Robbins Contracting
Co. .
The building site was to be raised
five feet above the surrounding ar-
ea so that the floor of the building
would be level with \ trucks and
freight cars for loading and unload-
ing purposes.
Dirt for building the fill was se-
cured from a dump on the south
side of the site adjacent to the Tex-
as and Pacific, railroad. After being
dumped by the huge earth movers,
the dirt was tamped solid by sheep-
feet rollers. To be acceptable, the
and do not sink in.
The drilling of holes for the con-
crete supports for the side founda-
tions will start shortly, Zurrier said,
but added, “don’t hold us to any
specific dates.”
The foundation pillars will be 18
inches in diameter and will be sunk
up to 24 feet in the ground to give
solid support to the side founda-
tions of concrete which will be 12
inches thick and 48 inches high.
Erection of the concrete mixing
plant at the site of the new $1 mil-
lion plug factory will start early in
the week with sand, rock and ce-
ment being stockpiled to keep a in receiving raw
and other levelling work at the
plant site.
Announcement by the General
Cable Co., that it would locate the
Alphaduct plant in Bonham 'was
officially made on Dec. 18 after
deeds for the land were . received
from Mrs. L. C. Fuller, who sold the
company slightly more than 23
acres. The company later obtained
an additional tract from the Texas
and Pacific railroad to bring the
total area up to 30.25 acres. N
The Texas and Pacific will build
a spur into the plant site to handle
the vast amount of freight involved
materials and
continuous flow of concrete moving
once the pouring is started.
While most of the heavy equip-
shipping out the finished product.
The city will extend; Lipscomb
avenue from U. S. 82 south to the
ment was expected to complete its property line and East 2nd street
dirt mustbe packed until the work over the weekend some will will be widened and improved
sheep-feet walkon top of the earth have to be retained to do grading provide better traffic facilities.
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Charges To Be Filed
Against Man Now
Held in Jail
Merchants throughout Fannin
county were admonished Monday
by County Attorney Tibby Wright
to be careful of hot check artists,
who make a living by bilking mer-
chants of thousands of dollars
with bad checks.
“We have a man in the county
jail now who has passed more than
$200 in worthless checks to Bon-
ham merchants in recent weeks,”
Wright said. “We have nine of the
worthless checks, in our files and
know of two others he has given'
that have not been turned in.
There may be others outstanding
that may be turned in later.”
The county attorney said that
charges would likely be filed
Sla
e
Session
Deaths
last Rites Held for
Mrs. Lloyd Wheat
Funeral services for Mrs. Lloyd
Wheat, 52, were held at 2. o’clock
Saturday afternoon at the Wise
Funeral chapel. Mrs. Wheat died
Thursday, Dec. 27, 1956. after suf-
fering a heart attack.
Officiating at the service were
four Baptist pastors. They were the
Rev. Paul Hunt from Sherman, and
the Rev. Harrison Johns, pastor of
the Trinity Baptist church, Oliver
Rowe and Marvin Hudler.
Interment was in the IOOF
cemetery at Ravenna.
Pallbearers were J. B. Rowland,
Allen Stanford, Billy Early, Pete
Bethel, A. L. Walker and Cleon
Walker.
Survivors are her husband, Lloyd
Wheat of the Owen’s Chapel com-
munity; two sons, Leonard Wheat
and Aubrey Wheat of Dallas; two
daughters, Mrs. Mary Roberts of
Cleburne and Miss Willa Dean
Wheat of Bonham, and one sister,
Mrs. Dovie Stanford of Telephone,
Route 1.
Military Services
For Virgil Deloach
To Be Held Monday
Funeral services for S/Sgt. Virgil
L. DeLoach, 34, fatally injured in
a traffic accident in Germany Dec.
5, were held at the Wise Funeral
home chapel at 2 p. m. Monday. The
Rev. J. W. Holcomb officiated
at the services. Military services
were conducted at the graveside.
S/Sgt. DeLoach, a veteran of 15
years service in the U. S. Armed
Forces, was born Jan. 8, 1922, at
Denison. He moved to Fannin coun-
ty as a boy with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Sam W. DeLoach, and at-
tended the Telephone schools.
During World War II he served
in Europe and Asia and also saw
action in Korea during the trouble
there.
Prior to being sent to Europe
in October, S/Sgt. DeLoach had
spent August and September with
his parents in Bonham.
Survivors are his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Sam W. DeLoach; three
brothers, Leon DeLoach, Robert
DeLoach and David DeLoach, and a
sister, Mrs. Jim Blackburn, all of
Bonham, and his grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. G. E. Bruner of
Lamasco community.
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DR. MARY SWEENEY TO
RETURN TO KENTUCKY
Dr. Mary Sweeney and her aunt.
Miss Annie Lockhart, spent the
holidays in Dallas at the Statler-
Hilton hotel. Miss Lockhart lives
at the Ramsey Rest home in Bon-
ham. Dr. Sweeney will leave Mon-
day for Danville, Ky., where she is
dean of women at Centre college.
Mrs. O. C. Nevill has returned
from Paragould, Ark., where she
visited her son, Clyde Nevill, Mrs.
Nevill and two sons.
Tomorrow’s Belles and Beaux
When Sgt. Mayo Caldwell, fo:
merly of Ravenna, but who is now
stationed in Korea with the arme
. orces, opeped his Christmas bo:
he found the smiling faces of his
four children. The youngest, John
Steven, age 3 months, was born af-
ter his father went to Korea. Pa-
tricia Ann, the oldest of the four
is 10 years old, and a student at
Bailey Inglish school in Bonham.
Nancy Jo, and Mark Allen, almost
—Photo by Ballew
1 years, were smiling their sweetest
niles for their daddy.
Mrs. Caldwell is the former Miss
Dean Barnes and was a nurse at
illen Memorial hospital. She and
Caldwell were married in Sherman.
The family is making their
home with Caldwell’s mother, Mrs.
J. F. Caldwell, at Ravenna.
Sgt. Caldwell is making army life
his career but he expects to return
home early next year.
against the man during the coming
week unless the checks were made
good.
“Often a person will give a bad
check unintentionally, but those
persons who make a habit of giving
check after check and know that
they are worthless are the ones we
are after,” County Attorney Wright
said.
“This office is willing to work
with the unintentional giver of
hot checks and give them an oppor-
tunity to pay them off, but we have
no patience with the man who gives
hot checks for a living,” Wright
.dded.
The county attorney also included
a warning against accepting checks
from strangers.
“Every year we have dozens of
forged checks passed to merchants
throughout the county and the per-
sons taking them can’t identify the
party who gave them the checks or
give officers a description,” Wright
said. “Every merchant should re-
quire personal identification of any
person offering them a check. The
man offering you a good check
will not be offended if you ask for
dentification.”
Wright added that a number of
worthless checks were given Fan-
nin county farmers for hay during
the fall by truckers who came into
the county from other parts of the
state.
“Sheriff Hoyt Ivey and my office
have cooperated in securing the
money on these checks for most of
the farmers who received them,”
Wright said.
Rayburn Leaves fo
Washington Sund
Congress will face a full load of business and many controversial
issues in the coming session, Speaker Sam Rayburn said Saturday as
he prepared to leave Sunday for Washington and the convening of
the 85th Congress Thursday, Jan. 3.
SpeakerRayburn left Denison by train late Sunday and will arrive
in the nation s capital on New Year s Day in time for a rest and con-
ference with friends and party leaders before the preliminaries to op-
ening of congress start Wednes-
day.
“We (the Democrats) will hold
Tuesday Will Be
Another Holiday
For Bonhamites
Tuesday, Jan. 1 — New Year’s
Day — is due to be another holi-
day for most of Bonham’s workers.
New Year’s Day is one of the offi-
cial holidays selected by Bonham
merchants for observance in a
poll early this year.
The courthouse and city hall will
close Tuesday in observance of the
day, but all employees will be at
work Monday, County Judge Choice
Moore said.
Officers Saturday noted that the
holiday would be long for some and
call on all motorists to be extreme-
ly careful in their driving during
the weekend and Tuesday.
“We had only three minor acci-
lents during the long Christmas
holiday and we would like to have
even fewer during the New Year’s
holiday period,” Highway Patrol-
man Bob Walker said. “In the
three accidents reported, there
were no injuries or deaths and we
would like to maintain that record
through the coming year.”
The Daily Favorite will print a
New Year’s edition Tuesday. The
paper will be put on the press as
early as possible to give employees
the afternoon off.
Shows Decrease
S.S. Attendance
Attendance at the Bonham and
area church schools showed a de-
cline Sunday in most of the church-
es. A total of 2,639 persons were
present at the 22 churches listed be-
low.
Assembly of God ...
Bailey Baptist .........
Boyd Baptist............
Bonham Baptist......
Calvary Baptist ......
......40
... 101
.... 110
......59
......82
Clark Memorial Methodist ........76
Central Baptist................................117
Congregational Methodist ............75
Church of God....................................96
Church of the Nazarene ............151
Church of Christ, northside........174
Church of Christ, southside.......
Church of Christ, Best Theatre
Bldg............................................
Christian Mission
First Baptist .............
First Christian ......
First Methodist.........
First Presbyterian ...
Edhube Baptist ........
..75
100
......46
.....326
.... 147
.....324
.......88
......74
Seventh and Main Baptist ........224
Trinity Baptist ...........
Randolph Baptist ......
......83
.......71
Hungarian Relief
Given $23 More
Gifts totaling $23.07 have come
in to be added to the Bonham
Pastor’s association Hungarian re-
lief fund during the last two days,
it was reported Saturday as the
plea for cash for the humanitarian
project continued.
, The latest gifts were received
from the ML Hope Methodist
church $10; Mr. and Mrs. True W.
Adams, $2, and anonymous gifts
n a container amounting to $11.07.
Mrs. Grover Winn has returned
from Fort Worth where she visited
her son, John W. Winn, and fam-
ily. I
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Cotton, Jr.,
and three children have returned to
their home in Texarkana after a
holiday visit with his mother, Mrs.
Sam Cotton, and other relatives.
J. P. Dixon spent the Christmas
holidays with his mother, Mrs. Lil-
lie Dixon, in the Boyd community.
Dixon is formerly of Bonham but
is employed in West Texas.
our caucus Wednesday morning to
discuss our plans for the coming
session and select nominees for the
various offices to be filled with the
opening of the new session,” Mr.
Rayburn said.
Leaders of both parties will con-
fer with President Eisenhower at 2
p.m.. Wednesday on the military
budget and foreign aid program,
Speaker Rayburn said.
The federal program of providing
: aid for the construction of new and
bigger schools to eliminate over-
crowding in present facilities and
to provide more modern structures
will be among the first issues to
come before the 85th Congress,
Rayburn said.
“We will seek to secure passage
of this proposal as quickly as pos-
sible,” Speaker Rayburn said.
Mr. Rayburn listed the foreign
aid program — both economic and
military —- as another top issue
that would come before the 85th
Congress in the early stages of the
session.
Aid to small business was anoth-
er major item of business that Mr.
Rayburn said would come before
the 85th Congress for consideration
by the members.
‘Small business is in a bad way,”
the Speaker said, “and efforts to
help it will be one of the big issues
that will come before Congress in
the new year.”
Speaker Rayburn said that at-
tempted revision of the agriculture
program would be another issue to
be faced by the 85th Congress be-
fore it can call it quits for the ses-
sion.
“These are just some of the
jor problems that will
ma-
confront
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Congress at this session,” Speaker
Rayburn said.. “There are numer-
ous other problems that will arise
during the year and members will
introduce countless measures that
will call for debate and considera-
tion.”
“The new session of Congress
will face lots of business and con-
I troversies before it completes its
work late in the year,” Speaker
Rayburn concluded.
Cars Damaged in
Wreck Saturday
Slight damage was done to two
cars involved in a collision at the
intersection of West 4th and Chin-
ner streets shortly after 6 o’clock
Saturday night.
City officers Hoss Cain and
Charles Bankston, who investigat-
ed, said that both cars were trav-
elling east on 4th street at the time
of the accident when one crashed
into the rear of the other.
Officers identified the drivers as
Billy Ray Woodard of Bonham and
Troy L. Smith of Dallas.
They said Smith ran into the
rear of the Woodard car.
I MRS. ETHEL NEWBY
VISITING SON HERE
Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Newby met
his mother, Mrs. Ethel Newby, of
Randolph, Kans., at Love Field in
Dallas Saturday, and brought her
to Bonham where she will be a
guest in their home for several
days.
Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Jarrell and
W. D. Carter have returned from
Wichita Falls and Petrolia where
they visited during the holidays.
TRADITION MAINTAINED — Mrs. J. L. Aston, seated on the left,
maintained her tradition as hostess for birthday dinners for Speaker
Sam Rayburn, right, Friday night when she entertained at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Strickland, standing, at Savoy. In the center is the
large cocoanut birthday cake baked by Mrs. Strickland for the occasion.
It was the 34th birthday dinner for “Mr. Sam” at which Mrs. Aston had
been hostess.
—Staff Photo
For 34th Year. ..
Mrs. J. L. Aston Is
Hostess For Dinner
SAVOY (spl.) — Mrs. J. L. Aston
Friday night kept alive her tra-
dition of haveing been the hostess
for Speaker Sam Rayburn’s birth-
days as she entertained the Speak-
er with a dinner in advance of his
Jan. 6 birthday at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Claude Strickland, her
nephew and niece.
Mrs. Aston, who recently returned
to Texas to make her home with
Mr. Strickland, had served as
hostess for the birthday parties
for Mr. Rayburn in Washington
for 33 years.
Friday night’s dinner was a bit
different from the large parties
that had noted Mr. Rayburn’s birth-
day in Washington. There were
just four persons present for the
dinner — Speaker Rayburn, Mrs.
Aston and Mr. and Mrs. Strickland.
The birthday dinner Friday night
was complete with cocoanut 'birth-
day cake—Mr. Rayburn’s favorite.
Mrs. Aston wanted to be hostess
for another birthday dinner for
Speaker Rayburn and since he
leaves Sunday night for Washing-
ton to be on hand for the conven-
ing of the 85th Congress Thursday,
the dinner was held a bit more than
a week ahead of time.
Mr. Rayburn, born Jan. 6, 1882,
on a farm in Roane county, Ten-
nessee, was five years old when his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Ray-
burn, came to Texas and settled
in the Flag Springs community,
south of Windom.
Following the dinner, Mr. Ray-
burn, Mrs. Aston and Mr. and Mrs.
Strickland spent the remainder of
the time talking as friends, recall-
ing dinners in Washington and
those who had been in attendance.
Mrs. Aston was 87 years old Dec.
6, but was as excited over the din-
ner she was giving for "Mr. Sam”
as a small child over a Christmas
gift.
“I just couldn’t .et the opportun-
ity to have another birthday dinner
for Sam,” she said. “I’ve always en-
joyed them and I’m enjoying this
one tonight as much.”
When Mrs. Aston mentioned her
desire to have the dinner for
Speaker Rayburn, Mr. and Mrs.
Strickland gave their approval and
immediately started making the
necessary plans.
Mr. Rayburn will note his 75th
birthday Sunday, Jan. 6, in Wash-
ington and his friends there will
have a dinner and party for him,
but it won’t match the simplicity
and heart-felt warmth shown in the
quiet dinner given him Friday
night by his hostess for 33—now 34
—birthday dinners.
MRS. J. Lu HARPER
HAS GUESTS FRIDAY
Mrs. J. L. Harper had as guests
Friday her daughter, Mrs. W. K.
Alexander, from Whitewright, and
Mrs. Alexander’s daughter, Mrs.
Pat Russell, and infant daughter,
Suzette, from Key West, Fla.
Mrs. W. P. Kantz and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Launa Wililamson accom-
panied Mrs. Joe Kantz and daugh-
ter to Orange for a short visit.
CHRISTMAS GUESTS IN
C. N. SKINNER HOME
GOBER (Spl.) — Christmas holi-
day guests in the home of Mr .and
Mrs. C. N. Skinner were their
daughters, Mr. and Mrs. C. W.
Sudderth, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Crabb
and Mr .and Mrs. G. H. James, and
their families of Dallas, and Mrs.
Skinner’s brother, Mr. and Mrs.
Dewey Dorough, and sons from
Richardson.
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