Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 125, No. 48, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 15, 2012 Page: 18 of 18
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TUESDAY, MAY 15, 2012
50 Years Ago This Week
Gleanings from the Rains County Leader archives
Thursday, May 17,1962
County Democrat Conven-
tion Held Saturday Afternoon
- The Rains County Democratic
Convention was held at 2:30
p.m. Saturday, May 12, in the
courthouse in Emory.
After necessary committees
were appointed and had report-
ed, the convention proceeded to
elect delegates to the State Con-
vention to be held in El Paso
on September 18. W. M. Rodes,
Sam Braziel and Joel Lennon
were elected delegates.
$150,000 To Be Spent On
FM Roads In County - The
Texas Highway Commission
has approved the expenditure
of $150,000 for construction of
new Farm-to-Market Road mil-
age in Rains County as part of
the 1962 F.M. Road Program,
District Engineer L. D. Cabaniss
of Paris announced.
The District Engineer said 5.8
miles of Highway 69, from the
Hunt County line to F.M. 35,
crossing Cody and Lynch com-
munities, will be involved. The
work will be under the supervi-
sion of R. L. Stauter, Senior
Resident Engineer in Emory.
Norwin Norris Wins Second
Place In State Tennis - The
state tennis meet held in Austin
last week produced much action.
Norwin Norris won his first
round of play by defeating Pete
Joast of Marble Falls, 6-2, 7-5.
Saturday in the finals, Norris
took on Kenny Neal from Junc-
tion, which proved to be the big-
gest highlight of the day. After
three solid hours of play Norris
was defeated 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 6-8,
2-6. The fourth set proved to the
losing set. Norris had Neal 5-0
but Neal managed to come back
to win.
Yet another award for
Hunt Regional Medical Center
has just been announced:
the Texas Health Care Quality
Improvement Silver Award.
TEXAS
HEALTH CARE
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
AWARD
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f Foundation Quality
-X Institute, which is the
Medicare quality improvement
organization for Texas, has
honored Hunt Regional Medical
Center with its prestigious Silver
Quality Improvement Award.
The award is given only to
those hospitals that are active
in quality improvement. It
acknowledges HRMC for
improving patient care related
to acute heart attacks, heart
failure, pneumonia and surgical
care.
HRMC and its caregivers are
proud to bring this level of
quality care to our community.
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This was the fifth year for the
Junction singles team to win the
state championship.
Emory and Point Grade
School Pupils Take Train Ride
- A group of pupils from the
Emory and Point grade schools
drove to Mineola last week and
boarded the train for a ride to
Grand Saline.
Enjoying the trip for their first
train ride were Wally McCol-
lum, James Ramsey, Judy
Kelly, Claudie Kennimer, Pearl
Rhodes, Ida Mae Steen, Danny
Rabe, Jackie Horton, David Den-
nie, James Ainsworth, and their
teachers, Mrs. Gladys Ivie and
Mmes. Bernice McCollum and
Arlis Kennimer.
Seen...
Joe Pete Stuart, who was away
from his service station for a
number of weeks because of sur-
gery, says the reason he recov-
ered so soon, and went back to
work, was his wife, Flossie, put
him to washing the dishes ...
Elmer Queen showing off a coin
he got in change 60 years ago to
Son Parrish ... Mary Lou Barker
saying her son, Sgt. Maxwell
Barker, called her from Slacum,
N.Y., to wish her a Happy Moth-
er’s Day ... Opal Lair carrying
’round a lot of gold ... she just
had a lot of fillings put in her
teeth ... recently in town: Vera
Williams, Sallie Stewart, Mrs.
J. R. Rivers, Marie Shephard,
Mairs Cook and Mrs. Margie
Jacobs ... Tom Prestige of Paris
sending best wishes to friends ...
Dennie Shumate eating water-
melon ... Sheriff Bert McKeown
taking his little grandson, James
Phillip Kerr, for a ride ... the Sam
Mercers of Lone Oak in town last
week ... the Miller Robinsons of
Point here last week...
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ALL THINGS HISTORICAL
A WEEKLY LOOK AT EAST TEXAS HISTORY
BY BOB BOWMAN
Pass the Biscuits, Pappy
Older East Texans who remem-
ber W. Lee (Pappy) O’Daniel
will find a special appeal in a
book by Bill Crawford.
Daniel, a song-writing flour
salesman who launched the
musical careers of Bob Wills
and the Light Crust Doughboys,
was a politician unlike any we’ve
seen in Texas.
His Texas homilies, radio
broadcasts, hillbilly music and
affinity for rural Texas propelled
him into the governor’s office for
two terms. He also handed Lyn-
don B. Johnson his only election
defeat in Texas during a special
election for the U.S. Senate and
later won a full term.
Pappy decided in the spring
of 1938 that selling flour wasn’t
much different than selling poli-
ticians. Even though he was a
Republican in a state controlled
by Democats, Pappy ran for gov-
ernor, campaigned across Texas
with his family and the Hill-
billy Boys, the forerunner of the
Doughboys, and won.
During Pappy’s cavalcade
from Fort Worth to Austin for his
inauguration in 1939, 250,000
people cheered him along the
way with a chant that became
famous in his campaign, “Please
pass the biscuits, Pappy.”
As governor, Pappy comman-
deered photographers from a
state agency to record his activi-
ties and, as a result, Texas has an
excellent pictorial history of a
Texas governor. Bill Caldwell’s
book is a remarkable collection
of many of these black-and-
white images.
Scenes with links to East Texas
towns like Zavalla, Marshall,
Livingston, Troup, Winnsboro,
Paris, Newton, Liberty and Tyler
offer snapshots from a kinder
political era in Texas. Many of
them are scenes of Pappy visit-
ing the rural homes of Texas
legislators during a tour in the
fall of 1940.
The joy of Please Pass the
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examination of the details found
in the old photographs.
At Zavalla, when Pappy visit-
ed the home of legislator Ottis E.
Lock, the photographer caught
a foreground scene of a woman
sitting in a car that had been con-
verted into a homemade pickup
truck.
In Marshall, a crowd of Pappy
supporters was snapped as one of
them was wheeled down a street
in a wheelbarrow. A nearby man
carries a sign, “Mountain Music
and Biscuits Got Me.”
At Livingston, Pappy and his
wife were greeted by Alabama
Coushatta Indian Chief Bronson
Cooper Sylestine, robed in full
ceremonial dress, at the home of
Senator Clem Fain.
When Pappy visited the sim-
ple, clapboard home of legisla-
tor Washington M. Whitesides in
Troup, the entire family, includ-
ing a little grandmother and five
children, were included in the
photo. Pappy held one of the
kids.
At Winnsboro, when Pappy
visited Rep. Joe Gandy’s ranch*
the photographer snapped a
photo of an old black ranchhand
leaning on his walking cane - a
lasting symbol of a proud, hard-
working cowboy.
At Paris, the photographer
shot a scene of Pappy and his
wife sitting down for supper with
Senator A.M. Aikin, Jr. and his
family.
In Newton, during a stop at
the home of legislator N.O. Bur-
naman, Pappy paused to pet a
favorite hound dog owned by
Bumaman, an editor and county
judge, and when he visited legis-
lator Price M. Daniel at Liberty,
the two Daniel families had their
photo made under a moss-cov-
ered oak.
When Pappy’s daughter Molly
married Jack Wrather Jr. of Tyler,
a photographer caught them cut-
ting their wedding cake in 1941
at Austin. In a radio broadcast
heard throughout Texas, Pappy
invited everyone to attend the
wedding.
Some 25,000 people gathered
on the lawn of the governor’s
mansion to hear the vows.
(Bob Bowman of Lufkin is the author
of more than 50 books about East Texas
history and folklore. He can be reached at
bob-bowman, com)
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Hill, Earl Clyde, Jr. Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 125, No. 48, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 15, 2012, newspaper, May 15, 2012; Emory, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth822941/m1/18/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rains County Library.