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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
SERVING RURAL FANNIN
COUNTY
NHAM F
AS CONSOLIDATED WITH THE BONHAM NEWS
VOL. XXVII
THE BONHAM (Texas) HERALD, THURSDAY, FEB. 3, 1966
— Number 2 I
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DEATHS
ARnnnnrAANNWwwwwwwww
Rites Held For
Former Fannin
County Minister
Funeral services for the Rev.
Joe W. English, 91, of Glen
Rose, were held Wednesday at.
2 p.m. in Glen Rose. He died
Monday, Jan: 24, 1966, while
visiting relatives in Amarillo.
A native of Mississippi, the
Rev. Mr. English moved to Tex-
as as a boy and was reared in
Bailey. He was a graduate of
Baylor university and the
Southwestern Baptist Theologi-
cal Seminary in Fort Worth.
In1898, Mr. English assumed
hisfirst pastorate at the old Oak
Cliff Baptist church. He also
held pastorates in Glen Rose,
Honey Grove, Wolfe City, and in
Arkansas and Virginia, and was
in evangelistic work for sever-
al years.
He was listed in “Who’s Who
of the Southwest” and “Who’s
Who in American Poetry,” and
was a member of the National
Poet's Association, the Mark
Twain Society and the Marshall
0 Field Foundation.
Mr. and Mrs. Claude English
and a sister. Mrs. Charlie Stone
of Bailey attended the funeral
services.
Livingston Rites
TNI 1
Held Tuesday
PETTY (Spl.) — Walter Liv-
ingston, 73, retired farmer, died
in a Paris hospital Sun-
day night, Jan. 30, 1966, follow-
ing an illness of two and a half
years.
Funeral services were held
• at2 p.m. Tuesday at the Coop-
er-Sorrells Funeral chapel at
HoneyGrove with the Rev. Ger-
ald Watson, pastor of the Petty
Baptist church, officiating. In-
terment Was in the Forest
Hill cemetery,
Mr. Livingston was born Sept.
25, 1892, in Mississippi, son of
Mr. and Mr. Abraham M. Liv-
ingston. He had lived in Texas
most of his life.
He married Miss Fannie May
Myres Nov. 19. 1927.
Survivors are his widow; two
sons, MagnessLivingston of
Petty and Harold Livingston of
Arlington, Va.;
daugh-
ter, Mr. Reba Whisenant of
, Dallas;,two sisters, Mrs. Ma-
mie Myre of Honey Grove and
Mrs. Beulah McWhite of Fort
Worth and 11 grandchildren.
Rites Held For
John Kyle Smith
GOBER (Spl.)
Fu
neral services for John K yl e
Smith 4-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. John David Smith of Go-
ber, were held Tuesday at 2
p.m. in the chapel of Wise Fu-
neral home.
The Rev. Bill Bearden and the
Rev. Howard Wright officiated
for the services. Burial was in
the Gober cemetery with Terry
Brent, Jerry Smith, John Duke
% Smith and Floyd Wallace serv-
ing as pallbearers.
The boy, who was born in
Bonham Jan. 11, 1962, died Sun-
day, Jan. 30, 1966, in M. D. An-
derson hospital in Houston.
, Survivors other than the par-
ents are a brother and
his grandparents.
Dr. G. A. Marcom Dies
Sunday; Rites Tuesday
LADONIA (Spl.) — Dr. Gor-
2 don A. Marcom, 52, prominent
physician and civic leader in
Ladonia for the past 16 years,
died at his home Sunday after-
noon, Jan. 30, 1966. He died un-
expectedly.
Funeral services were held
at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the First
Methodst church with the Rev.
Walter Zimmerman, pastor, of-
ficiating. interment was in the
Presbyterian cemetery.
Dr. Marcom, a physician and
surgeon in Ladonia and Honey
Grove and owner of the Mar-
com hospital and the Marcom
Drug store, was born Sept. 13,
1913,. in Royse City, the son of
George Ralph Marcom and
Hattie Jones Marcom.
He was married to Paulne
Turrentine in Levelland Feb. 18,
1933. They lived in Lubbock and
Levelland before moving to La-
donia 16 years ago.
Dr. Marcom Was an active
member of the official board of
Banks Receiving
March of Dimes
Campaign Gifts
Workers taking part Monday-
night in the Mothers’ March of
Dimes were generally well
pleased with the response, but
disagreeable weather cut re-
ceipts to some extent, it was
reported.
Workers feel undoubtedly
some were missed who would
have liked to give to the March
of Dimes and arrangements
have been made to keep the
campaign open so they may
have the opportunity.
. Both banks, the Bonham
State and First National, have
been designated as receiving
places for gifts from those who
may have been missed.
If you were among those mis-
sed and would like to make a
contribution to the worthy
cause represented by the March
Of Dimes, gifts may be left at
either of the banks.
Jones Infant Is
Found Dead At
Home In Denison
HONEY GROVE (Spl.)-Don-
ria Pearl Jones, 3-month-
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Teddy Jones of Denison, w a s
found dead at the Jones h om e
Monday, Jan. 31, 1966, at 5:45
a.m. by her father when he a-
rose to go to work.
The baby, who had been
suffering from a respiratory in-
fection, was reported to have
been fed by her mother around
5:30 a.m. Justice of Peace Carl
Flanery of Denison held an in-
quest and ruled death had re-
sulted from natural causes.
1 Funeral services were held
Tuesday at 4 p.m. in the chap-
el of Cooper-Sorrells Fu-
neral home in Honey Grove.
The Rev. Robert Hinson, Bap-
tist minister, officiated. Burial
was in Oakwood cemetery.
The infant, who was born in
Ladonia Oct. 27, 1965, was the
couple’s only child.
Survivors, in addition to the
parents are the grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Williams and
Mrs. James Smith, all of Hon-
ey Grove, and Howard Jones
of Washington. Mr. and
Mrs. A. D. Mosher of Prosser,
Wash., are great grandparents.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones, who for-
merly lived in Honey Grove, re-
cently moved to Denison where
he is employed by a construc-
tion firm.
Officers Report
Quiet Weekend
It was a quitet weekend for
state county and city officers.
Despite dangerous driving
conditions no major accidents
. were reported. However, a
number of cars did skid off
highways and the city reported
a number of “fender bendings”
when cars skidded on slick
streets and bumped into other
vehicles.
City and county officers
said they received no reports
Of law violations.
Texas Highway Patrolmen
and sheriff’s officers arrested
a number of persons on charge
of being drunk and driv-
ing while intoxicated.
The sheriff’s office was inves-
tigating reports a man had
made phone calls which he had
charged to another phone.
the Ladonia Methodist church.
He also was active in the Beth-
el Lodge No. 134 AF&AM; the
Ladonia City Council, the La-
donia Lions club and was a
stockholder in the Farmers and
Merchants State bank in Ladon-
ia.
Dr. Marcom is survived by
his wife; two sons, Ralph A.
Marcom, a senior medical stu-
dent in Kansas City, Mo., and
Rodney A. Marcom, a junior
medical tudent in Kansas City,
Mo.; three daughters, Martha
Ellen Marcom, Marlene Mar-
com and Linda Marcom, all of
Ladonia; three brothers, Dr. 0.
W. Marcom of Houston, P. J.
Marcom of Levelland and the
Rev. Howard Marcom of Cana-
dian, Tex.; three grandsons,
Lance A. Marcom of Free-
mont, Calif., Karmen A. Mar-
com of Kansas City, Mo. and
Robyn A. Marcom of Kansas
City, Mo.______
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THREE OF A KIND — Mrs. Marcell Stroud, deputy in the
motor vehicle registration department, holds three of the
the series. The tags, white letters and numerals on a black
background, will go on sale Tuesday at the tax office. Each
series of I 1 1966 tags that will be used in Fannin county
this year. Each shows 10—the first number in all but one of
Will bear three letters and not more than three numerals.
(Favorite Photo)
In Last Week...
Poll Tax Payments
Take Drastic Jump
Poll tax payments took a dra-
matic upturn during the final
week before the deadline, coun-
ty and city tax officers report-
ed this, week. . ...
Henry Joe Fletcher, county
tax . officer, s a i d payment
of state poll taxes in Fannin
county would run between 4,-
500 and 5,000.
Miss Ruth Jones, city tax of-
ficer, said payment of city poll
taxes would run close to 800.
Fletcher said more than 400
Beckworth to Rim
For 4th District
Post in Congress
Congressman Lindley Beck-
worth of Gladewater, who has
represented the old Third dis-
trict for some 24 years, has an-
nounced that he will be a can-
didate for Congressman of the
Fourth district. The announce-
ment said he' expected to file
his candidacy in the district
Monday.
Although he has been visiting
throughout the expanded Four-
th district, which took in por-
tions of his Third district, in-
cluding his home county, in the
Congressional redistricting,
Beckworth had not made a pub-
lic announcement of his inten-
tions to oppose Congressman
Ray Roberts until this week.
Counties of Beckworth’s Third
district were divided among
other districts in the redistrict-
ing, four of them going to the
Fourth district.
Congressman Beckworth was
born in Kaufman county 52
years ago and has served 26
years in elective legislative of-
fices, including one term in the
Texas Legisature. He is now
serving his 12th two-year term
in Congress and is a membr
of foreign affairs, post ofice,
and civil service committees.
He attended East Texas
State university at Comerce
and is a former teacher. He is
a member of the Gregg county
Bar association.
His wife is the former Elois
Carter of Tyler and they have
five children. The Beckworths
live in Union Grove community,
Gladewater, Route 2, in
Up-
shur county.
Damage is Set at
$400 in Collision
LADONIA (Spl.) - The dam-
age in a two-vehicle collision
here Sunday afternoon was es-
timated at $400 by Highway
Patrolman Dwayne Cox.
Patrolman Cox said a car
driven by Hershel Burrell ran
into the rear of a parked car
owned by Ben Elvin Fisk.
poll taxes were paid at
the county office Monday While'
Mrs. Sue Elliott said 154 city
poll taxes were paid Monday.
Both offices said they still had
some mail to work and would
not have a definite figure until
Wednesday.
Fletcher picked up poll tax
receipt books at Honey Grove,
Windom, Ladonia, Leonard,
Trenton and at a substation in
Bonham Tuesday morning and
said payments were heavy in all
six sub-stations.
“Payment of poll taxes this
year will more than double last
year’s total, but will be under
those for 1964, a presidential
election, year,” he said.
Payment of city poll taxes, for
the year will be about the same
as last year.
Damage is Set at
$800 in Collision
Damage in a four-car colli-
sion at West Sth and Star Mon-
day was estimated at $800 by in-
vestigating officers.
Two of the vehicles involved
were parked while two were
moving.
City Officer Johnny C. Quim-
by, who made the investigation,
identified the drivers of the two
cars as Tom Selman Fair-
child, 601 Beech, and Harvey
Wayne Underwood, 613 S. Sth.
The parked cars belonged to
Joe McKenzie, 1008 West 10th,
and Thomas Bert Phillips, 3226
Sheridan, Garland.
Officer Quimby said Fairchild
was travelling south on Star
while Underwood was
ing east on 5th street.
go-
Fire Destroys
Home at Lamasco
Fire destroyed the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Carpenter
in the Lamasco communi-
ty Monday with some members
of the family narrowly escaping
injury.
Firemen reported the fire was
started when a small child
threw a burning rag on a bed.
The Carpenters were able to
save only a few items from, the
house, which had been built but
a short time ago.
A truck from the Bonham fire
department answered the call
and was able to prevent spread
of the fire to a house that was
nearby.
A person caught jaywalking
in the Himalayan State of
Swat is forced to run along the
roadside at top speed until he
drops from exhaustion, says
the National Geographic,
Post Office Will
Ask Bids on
Ravenna Building
Congressman Ray Roberts
has announced that invitations
to bid on the construction of a
pew post office buiding at Ra-
venna will be issued Feb. 8 by
the Post Office department.
The bids will be opened
March 7, Roberts said.
The Post Office department
is requesting a site within a
block or two of the present site
and the requirements will be
600 square feet for the interior,
36. square feet for platform,
and 2,500 square feet for park-
ing and maneuvering.
The department will give a
five-year lease with three 3-
year renewal options. Further
information may be obtained
from W. J. Griffis, real estate
officer, P. 0. Box 3, Dallas.
Rep. Cole Named
To House Interim
Study Committee
AUSTIN (Spl.) - House
Speaker Ben Barnes has an-
nounced the appointment of
State Rep. James D. Cole of
Greenville as a member of the
Water Safety committee of the
House.
. This interim study commit-
tee was instituted by the 59th
Legislature and provides for a
thorough study of the problems
attendant to recreational activi-
ties on the waters of Texas.
Cole was elected to the
Legislature in 1960 and is now
serving as vice chairman of the
committee on aeronautics, and
a member of committees on
highways: and roads, liquor
regulation, municipal and pri-
vate corporations, privileges,
and suffrage and elections.
"Our lakes and other waters
are becoming more, and more
hazardous because of the in-
creasing numbers of boats and
other activities," Speaker Bar-
nes said; “Something must be
done to enforce our present
laws and, if necessary, enact
new ones. I consider Mr. Cole a
very able member of the Leg-
islature and I am confident he
will be invaluable to the com-
mittee in assisting with its find-
ings and recommendations.’’
Roberts in Race
For Re-election
Congressman Ray Roberts, who
has served1 the Fourth district in
the House of Representatives
since the death of Speaker Sam
Rayburn, is making his official
statement of candidacy for re-
election in Monday’s Daily
Favorite and Thursday’s Bonham
Herald.
The Congressman had announc-
ed earlier that he would seek re-
election in the expanded Fourth
district. The new district takes
in four additional counties, bring-
ing the total number of counties
to 11.
2Plead Guilty
To DWI Charges
Pleas of guilty to complaints
alleging driving while intoxica-
ted resulted in fines, jail sen-
tences and suspension of the
defendants’ driver’s licenses
Monday.
County Judge' Choice Moore
accepted the pleas of guilty and
assessed the penalties.
Finis Partridge and Walter
Fredric Records each drew
fines of $100 and costs and 3-
day jail sentences.
Partridge had his driver’s
license suspended for 12 months
and Records for six months.
New Stadium Starts . ..
Denison Firm Gets Dirt Contract
Riley Williams and Son of
Denison has submitted the low
bid for the dirt work on Bon-
ham high school’s propos-
ed new football stadium.
The Denison firm submitted a
bid of $2,933.80 for the
job, whhich was almost $1,000
under the second low bid.
Wiliams told members of the
board he would like to sign a
contract and begin work imme-
diately, 'adding “The dirt
is just wet enough now to work
good."_____]
Services Thursday 2 p.m.
Death Closes Long
Colorful Career of i
Judge Cunningham
Judge Cunningham
. Rites Thursday
ForCandidates ...
Feb. 7 Last Day
To Get on Ticket
Would-be candidates . have
just a few more days in which
toannounce their candi-
dacy for an office subject to the
action of the Democratic pri-
maries.
Feb. 7 is the deadline for a
candidate to file with the coun-
ty chairman — Roy Doyle —
for a place on the ballot.
Following the filing deadline,
the County Democratic com-
mittee will meet Feb. 14 to as-
sess the cost of holding the pri-
maries against the candi-
dates.
Sittler Will,
Speak at AC
SHERMAN (Spl.) — Dr.
Joseph Sittler, professor of the-
ology at the University of Chi-
cago Divinity School, will be
the Cunningham lecturer at
Austin College this week.
The annual Cunningham lec-
turers are made possible by a
gift to Austin College by Mr.
and Mrs. Shem Cunningham
of Wichita Falls. The lecturers
were established to bring an
outstanding Christian leader to
Sherman each year.
Dr. Sittler will speak at two
evening worship services open
to the public Tuesday and
Thursday at 8 p. m. in Wynne
Chapel. Tuesday his topic will
be "The Good .Samaritan” and
and Thursday “Effort and
Serenity.”
Cars Damaged in
Collision Tuesday
Damage was estimated by in-
vestigating officers at $250 in
a 2-car collision at the intersec-
tion of Chestnut and 2nd
streets late Tuesday.
City Officers Bobby Madison
and Johnny Quimby identified
the drivers of the vehicles in-
volved as Billy Oneal Suther-
land of Gober and Miss Fran-
ces Nicole Butler of Bonham.
The school board accepted
Williams’ bid after a brief
meeting , in which Joe Clark,
who served as engineer on the
job, recommended that the low
bid of Williams be accepted.
Williams said he felt that the
job could be completed in ap-
proxmately two weeks unless
weather conditions made work
impossible.
Eight firms submitted bids on
the job and the totals
ranged from the low up to a
high of $7,767.
Firms submitting bids were
Death Tuesday night brought
to an end the colorful public
career of one of Bonham's most
beloved long-time citizens.
Judge Henry A., Cunning-
ham, 94, a practicing attorney
in Bonham for more than 70
years. . until declining health
forced his retirement a
few years ago, died Tuesday
night in a Bonham rest home.
Funeral services will be held
Thursday afternoon, 2 o’clock,
at Wise Funeral home chapel
with the Rev. Leonard Richard-
son, pastor of the First Chris-
tian church, officiating. Burial
will be in Willow Wild
tery.
Pallbearers will be
ceme-
Bus-
ter Cole, Edward Southerland,
John Arledge, John Meade, H.
A. Burow, Jack Richardson, H.
G. Dulaney and Choice
Moore.
The 94 years that have
followed his birth on Dec. 26,
1871, at Ravenna have been full
and fruitful for the man his
host of friends called “Judge”
with deep affection.
Since that day back in 1893
Once the costs have been as-
sessed against the candidates,
they will have through Feb. 19
to pay this assessment to in-
sure their name appearing
on the ballot for the first pri-
mary, May 7.
When all candidates have
paid the assessment, the coun-
ty committee will meet
March 21 to arrange the ballot
for the primary election.
Absentee voting in person and
by mail will start April 13 and
continue through May 3.
The first primary
be held Saturday, May 7.
will
Sale of Postal
Money Orders on
Saturdays Okayed
Postmaster Lee Morrow said
Wednesday the local post
office has received approval to
its request to resume sale of
postal money orders on Satur-
day morning, a service that
was discontinued a year or two
ago.
“We felt we could handle this
service on Saturday morning
without additional expense,”
the postmaster said, “and our
request to resume the service
to oUr patrons has been ap-
proved by the postal depart-
ment.”
Sale of money orders on Sat-
urday morning was dis-
continued several months ago in
a postal economy move. Mor-
row pointed out that in some of
the larger offices the service
does necessitate additional em-
ployees and expense, but that
it can be handled here with-
out additional personnel on Sat-
urday mornings.
"As of this Saturday, we're
back in the Saturday morning
money order sales business,"
he said.
Gillis and Son, Sulphur
Springs; Stanley LaFon, Day
Excavating Co., of Mansfield,
Cole and Smithen of Denison,
Joe Williams and Son of Sher-
man, Shellenberger of Sherman,
Riley Williams and Son, Deni-
son, and Bennett and Son of
Bonham.
The new stadium will be
located on a tract of land re-
cently purchased by the school
district in the northwest part of
Bonham' between the route of
the proposed State 121 loop and
the Bonham Golf club..
when he returned to Bonham
as a young attorney just out of
the University of Texas law
school, his life has been one
dedicated to public serv-
ice through his practice of law,
through public office, work in
his church, service to his. coun-
try, and a leader in the com-
munity’s civic life.
Over the long span of
years his name has been a part
of prominent legal firms, the
latest of which, the firm of Cun-
ningham, Cole and Southerland,
still bears his name, although
ill health forced his retirement
from the
years ago.
He was
firm several
a member of
the First Christian church, serv-
ing as chairman of the church
board for many years and
as teacher of the Everman's
Sunday School class.
He was a member of the Ma-
sonic lodge, Knights Templar,
Knights of Pythias, Woodmen
of the World, a director in the
First National Bank and
the Bonham Savings and Loan
association, chairman for many
years of the Allen Mem-
orial hospital board, a charter'
member and former president
of the Bonham Rotary club, and
a charter member of the. Bon-
ham Golf club.
He was a close friend arid
confident of the late Speaker
Sam Rayburn and was the ori-
ginal chairman of the Sam Ray-
burn Foundation.
Judge Cunningham was born
Dec. 26, 1871, at Ravenna, the
son of the late Dr. John a n d
Frances Agnew Cunningham.
He attended public schools in
Ravenna and then went to
Grayson college at White-
wright. 1
Pursuing his study of the law,
he attended the University of
Texas where he received his
law degree in 1893, coming
then to Bonham to enter the
firm of Lusk and Thurmond as
a junior partner. About a year
later he and Dorset Carter es-
tablished a partnership and op-
ened their office on the north
side of the square.
A short time later he was
named city attorney, his first
public office. When the Spanish-
American war broke out in
1898, Judge Cunningham a n d
others from Fannin coun-
ty formed a regiment and he
served at various places in this
country before the war ended.
Following his return, he and
Charles G. Nunn practiced law
for a year together and then
he joined with the late C.
A. Wheeler in the firm
of Wheeler and Cunningham.
In 1906 he was elected Fan-
nin county judge, serving two
terms.
‘I®**!!
He was married Ori Sept. 17,
1907, to Miss Cornelia McClel-
lan, a Bonham music teacher,
beginning a long and devoted
marriage companionship that
lasted until her death on Jan. 3,
1962.
With Mark McMahon, Judge
Cunningham formed a new
law firm in 1910, and a short
time later the late R. T. Lips-
comb entered the firm which
became known as Cunningham,
McMahon and Lipscomb. On
Jan. 1, 1939, Buster Cole joined
the firm of Cunningham, Lips-
comb and Cole, and following
the death of Lipscomb in 1947,
Edward Southerland came into
the present firm of Cunning-
ham, Cole and Southerland. ,
Among the many other roles
he took in public service, Judge
Cunningham served during
World War II as chairman of
the Fannin County Selec-
tive Service board.
A life-time Democrat, Judge
Cunningham served his party
ardently. He attended three
Democratic National conven-
tions and was invited to the in-
augurations of President Frank-
lin D. Roosevelt and Harry Tru-
man. He presided for many
years at County Democratic
Conventions.
Survivors include a son, Col.
Henry A. Cunningham, Jr., of
Washington, D. C., a graduate
of the U. S. Military Academy
at West Point with the class of
1940; a daughter, Mrs. Virginia
Stocks, Bonham; one sis-
ter, Mrs. T. R. Spangler, Okla-
homa City, and two grandchil-
dren, H. A. Cunningham III and
Lydia Stocks,
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