The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, March 2, 1956 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 70
NAPLES OLDEST BUSINESS INSTITUTION — ESTABLISHED IN 1886
NAPLES, MORRIS COUNTY, TEX., FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1956
NUMBER 31
ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETED
Work Starts Soon
On New Feed Mill
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A new feed mill and farm sup-
ply store was assured for Naples
when arrangements were com-
pleted this week.
Herman Walters, formerly the
Morris County agricultural agent,
and William Leslie, owner of a
feed and seed store at Dainger-
field, will own and operate the
business as a partnership. Walters
will manage the Naples business
and will move to Naples.
The total estimated cost of the
business will be about $45,000,
Walters said this week.
A building will be started with-
in the next few days on a lot
west of the downtown business
district on highway 67 near the
Magnolia storage- tanks. The con-
tractor for the building will be
M. B. Hampton Builders' Supply
of Naples.
Joe P. Taylor Sr., manager of
the Hampton store, said work
on the building probably would
be started next week -and the
work probably would take from
60 to 90 days.
The building will be of concrete
block construction with 5,000
square feet of floor space includ-
ing a finished display room and
office.
The major equipment in the
building will be a set of 50 foot,
50 ton electric public scales, two
4,000 pound capacity dry feed
mixers and one molasses machine
with a turn-out equivalent to that
of the mixers, and a 20-inch heavy
duty hammermill.
The mill will be powered by a
150 horsepower natural gas en-
gine.
The business will also handle
a complete line of Purina feed
and seed and a line of minor farm
equipment.
Walters said he expected th
mill to employ two persons othei
than himself to start with and the
ONITORING
AIN STREET
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The Remote — Somebody got
all crossed up with his alphabet
last week and mailed a letter at
the Naples postoffice to someone
at "Wort Forth, Texas" . . Prob-
ably some effete easterner who
doesn't even know that's the town
where the rest begins.
— Intm —
It's Tops — A lot of people get
the idea that the Naples Livestock
Show is a piddling display of local
run of the pasture stock . . It isn't
/. The news last week that half
interest in- the grand champion
polled hereford in last year's show
brought a world record price
proves the calibre of the animals
brought here . . The show here is
timed to fit in before several
large sales . . Slock raisers are
getting their best animals ready
for the sales and our show is a
good place to get ready . . One of
the animals to be shown here this
year is the son of the grand cham-
pion last year . . Big things are
expected of him . . Stockmen who
know say he already is one of the
best . . It will be worth the trip
e all of the livestock . . It
-IK, worth more than the trip
the son of the champion .
Why not go over Saturday and
take a look?
— Intm —
The Elegant E — We may have
found part of the trouble with
government's efforts to solve
farm problem . . We received
a news handout this week from
the state Department of Agricul
ture and all the way through it,
the word 'potato' was spelled with
an 'e' on the end of it . . Maybe it
is just one of those little extras
< he government is offering these
days.
crew to be enlarged after it is
in operation for a while.
The mill will be one of the
best equipped in East Texas when
it opens. Page Bennett, agricul-
tural representative of the Morris
County National Bank, helped
with the planning and said th<-
mill here would be as good or
better than any existing mill in
larger towns of the area.
The Naples Chamber of Com-
merce is responsible for getting
the mill started here. A commit-
tee was named two months ago to
try and get a mill started here
and it has been active in the plan-
ning. Bennett was chairman of
the committee.
Thief Gets Money,
Cigarettes In
Fleming Break-In
A thief broke in Flemings Gro-
cery and Market here last Friday
night and escaped with about $35
in money and several cartons of
cigarettes.
The total loss was about $50.
Kennard Fleming, operator of the
store, said about $25 in change
and small bills and about ten car-
tons of cigarettes were missing.
There may have been other small
items taken, Fleming said.
The thief entered the build-
ing by breaking a back window,
tearing off part of a screen and
bending one of the bars across
the window.
The break-in was discovered
about 6 a.m.' Saturday morning
by W. O. Palmore when he open-
ed the store. A lug wrench, ap-
parently used to pry the bar, was
found near the window.
ROOM TO BE USED AS CHAPEL
IN EDUCATIONAL BUILDING
The Methodist Church has de-
cided to use thqajtergest room in
the new educational building for
a chapel.
The Sunshine Class will furnish
the room and use it on Sunday
morning as a classroom. At all
other times, it will be used for
other meetings of the entire con-
gregation.
Furniture in the new building
is being placed as memorials by
members of the whole church.
Anyone who desires to place a
memorial may contact Mrs. Skeet
Welch or any member of the Sun-
shine Class for details.
Public School
Observance
Starts Monday
Pewitt Schools, along with other
schools throughout the state, will
observe Texas Public Schools
Week March 5-10.
The observance, inaugurated in
1951, is sponsored by the Texas
Citizen's Committee on Education, 1|
headed by Chairman John McKee
of Dallas.
Every citizen is urged to visit
at least one public school during |
this period, meet the teachers and
learn their problems.
The program at Pewitt School
for the special observance is as
follows:
Wednesday, March 7, 9 a.m.
High School Assembly.
Citizenship awards will be pres-
ented by the Parent-Teacher As-
sociation.
The guest speaker for the as-
sembly program will be W. E.
Jones, superintendent of Redwat-
er Schools.
Thursday evening, March 8.
6:30 - 7:45: Visitation pemd.
7.45 - 8: Music by the Maverick
Band.
8 - 8:30: Judge Earl Roberts of
Longview will be the guest speak-
er of the "Back To School Night"
program.
8:30: Refreshments.
The Pewitt Schools will be open
to visitors through the entire
week.
A registration booth will be
available and students will assist
the teachers in their various ac-
tivities during the Thursday eve-
ning program.
STARTS AT 10 A.M. SATURDAY
Entry Lisl Big or 3fo ' Show
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PHARMACIST JOINS STAFF
OF LEEVES DRUG STORE
J. Lee Dowdy of Ada, Okla.,
has been employed as pharmacist
for Leeves Drug Store and began
work there Wednesday of this
week.
He had been employed for the
past several years at a Mt. Ver-
non store.
He has rented a room here in
the home of Mrs. O. A. Walls.
Last Year's Winner
Brings Record Price
•The grand champion bull in the
Naples livestock show last year
brought a world record price
last week when his owners sold
half interest ia him.
A son of the prize bull will be
shown at the Naples show Satur-
day.
Half interest in the polled here-
ford, Domestic W 14th, brought
$26,500 for its owners, the P and
R Ranch of Pittsburg. The record
price was paid by the Green Pas-
SGT. STEELE AND FAMILY
HOME FROM GERMANY
Sgt. and Mrs. Buddy Steele and
children have returned from ser-
vice in Germany and are visiting
with relatives in Naples.
Sgt. Steele served three years
at Kaiserslaturn, Germany. They
're to be stationed in Fort Sill,
Okla.
Funeral Held
Friday For
Mrs. Zimmerman
Mrs. Zoar Zimmerman, 75, of
Union Chapel Community, died at
3:45 a. m. Wednesday at her home.
Survivors include three daugh-
ters, Mrs Mary Haygood of Kauf-
maii, Te^as, Mrs, Alice Oates of
Vider, Texas, arid Mrs. Lucia
Palmer of Naples, Texas: four
sons, Walter R. Zimmerman of
Dallas, Texas, Fred B. Zimmer-
man of Marietta, Texas, J. Austin
Zimmerman of Douglassville, Tex-
as, and W. Hammond Zimmerman
of El Dorado, Ark.; eight grand-
children and one great-grandchild.
Funeral services were held at
2:30 p. m. Friday at the Union
Chapel Methodist Church. Burial
was in the Union Chapel ceme-
tery.
tures interests of Elizabethtovi
N. C.
The bull is the grandson of t
1949 national champion, Ess
Domestic Woodrow of the Bri
well Hereford Ranch.
Don Reynolds, a partner of D
L. H. Pitt in the P and R Ranch
returned last week after deliver-
ing the prized animal to North
Carolina, where his new owners
will keep him for two years. He
will be returned to the Pittsburg
Ranch at the end of two years.
Reynolds and Dr. Pitt had turn-
ed down an offer of $50,000 for
the bull but agreed to sell half
interest.
Domestic W 14th was champion
of the Naples, Marshall and Pal-
estine shows and at the Four
States Fair at Texarkana last year.
He won second place in the horn-
ed competition at Shreveport.
A group of five young heifers
cut Of Domestic W 14th won the
first place honors at the Ft. Worth
Fat Stock Show this year.
BETTYE VAUGHAN IS
PLEDGED TO SORORITY
Miss Bettye Vaughan, the daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Vaughan
of Naples, has been pledged to the
Kappa Alpha Theta sOrority ?>♦
Texas Christian University, whe
she is a student.
Miss Vaughan was one of 42
students pledged in the informal
spring rush which ended Wednes-
day of last week.
Only two members were ac-
cepted into Kappa Alpha Theta.
A formal ceremony was held Mon-
day night for the girls to receive
their pins and drops.
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GET FUTURE FARMER AWARDS
The boy? shown above are some of the Pewitt FFA boys who
received awards lor outstanding achievement at the annual father
and son banquet Inst week. They are. left to right, Rex Ranes,
Johnny Joyner, Joe Parham, Jerry Skelton Gene Sosbee and
Charles Johnson. (Photo by Jackie Brown)
R. F. Dean Namad
County Agent
Herman Walters submitted his
resignation as county agricultural
agent this week, effective March
15, to enter private business in
Naples.
R. J. Dean, formerly assistant
county agent for Gregg County,
has been appointed to succeed
Walters.
Walters and William B. Leslie
of Daingerfield have formed a
partnership and will open a com-
plete Purina feed store along with
feed grinding and mixing facili-
ties in Naples.
The change in county agents
was announced by District Agent
J. II. Surovik, The change was
approved by the commissioners
court at a special meeting held
Tuesday, Feb. 28.
Dean has been assistant county
agent in Gregg County for the
past four and a half years. He and
his wife and two children plan
to move to Daingerfield on or
before March 16. He and Walters
were in Naples Tuesday.
Doubling Size ui Acre Would
Cut Surplus Land In Half
(Editor's note: The Sage of Sul-
phur Bottoms has more to say
about the farm problem but he
still doesn't help it any.)
Dear editar:
I read an editorial in a news-
paper the other day which fell
out of a car as it rounded a curve
out here near my house which
said the reason we have a farm
problem is simple: we have too
much land.
Now I'll admit this is a new ex-
planation and while I have never
run into a farmer
yet who thought
he had too much
land, if it was paid *
for. 1 think Con-
gress ought to be
informed of it.
The writer said
we just have too
many acres, and it
shouldn't take Congress long to
figure out the way to whip that
situation is to double the size of
an acre and cut the problem in
two.
But not only did this editorial
writer say we have too much land,
he said we've also got too many
farmers, and he added that the
solution to the whole problem
was to cut down on both.
Now I can see how it might be
possible to cut down on the num-
ber of farmers, just lower prices
a little more, but when it comes
io cutting down on the amount
of land we've got, that editorial
writer is going to have to sharpen
his pencil.
It's my theory that as long as
there's any gossip to repeat,
somebody will repeat it. Theres'
something about a piece of un-
farmed land that sweeps a man
off his feet. It doesn't make any
difference how many people be-
fore have gone busted on it, there
is always somebody else willing to
give it a turn. As I've always
said, there never was a piece of
land some farmer wasn't willing
to farm, or a woman some man
wasn't willing to marry.
Therefore, they'll have to at-
tack the farm problem from some
other angle. What angle that'll
be is not for me to say. That's
Congress' job. Us farmers only
make the problems, it's up to
Congress to solve em. This is
known as separation of powers,
guaranteed under the constitu-
tion.
Yours faithfullv,
J. A.
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