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VOLUME XXXIV
DEPORT, LAMAR COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPT. 17, 1942
NUMBER 32
With the Men
in Uniform
Formal Opening Program and General
Assembly Deport School Next Monday
By FRANCES IRENE RIGGS
Staff Set. Joe Gadd of Camp Max-
ey, was a guest Sunday of Miss
Charlene Davidson.
Pvt. Thomas Terry of Camp Bow-
ie, was a week end guest of his wife
and parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Terry.
Pvt. Oren King, son of Mrs. Maye
King, has been transferred from
Salt Lake City, Utah, to Spokane,
Wash.
PVt. Glen East of Sheppard Field,
was a guest Saturday and Sunday of
■his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim East
of Rugby.
Sgt. Harry Lawler of Fort Ord,
Calif., spent the week end with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tommie Law-
ler at Milton.
Ray Rhodes, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Oscar Rhodes of Deport, who volun-
teered in the navy recently, is sta-
tioned at Great Lakes, 111.
Corp. J. D. Dale of Camp Bowie,
spent the week end with his wife
and baby at the home of her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Gooch.
Staff Sgt. John Mac Shuman of
Kelley Field, is expected Thursday
for^a ten-day furlough with his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Shuman.
Pfc. Forrest Parks, son of Mr. and
Mrs. S. J. Parks, has been transfer-
red from Bridgeport, Conn., to
Farmingdale, Long Island, N. Y.
Mrs. Jim Westbrook received word
Sunday that her brother, Pvt. Don-
ald Marcum is in a hospital at Camp
Carson, Colo., where he is stationed.
Master Sgt. and Mrs. W. V. John-
son of Oakland, Calif., arrived Mon-
day for a week’s visit with Sgt.
Johnson’s mother, Mrs. J. M. John-
Pvt. James E. Henderson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Henderson, who
has been inducted into the U. S.
Army, is now stationed at Camp Car-
son, Colo.
Sgt. T. L. Woodard who is sta-
tioned at Florence, Calif., was a
guest over the week end of his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Woodard,
at Minter.
Lieut. Charles Shulsze of Corpus
Christi, was a guest Saturday and
Sunday of Miss Janice Griffin at the
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Griffin.
First Lieut. Mack Bell, son of Mrs.
May Bell of Rugby,, who has been
attending officers training school at
Miami Beach, Fla., has been sent to
Long Beach, Calif.
Col. B. Conn Anderson who is
with the Field Artillery Board at Ft.
Bragg, N. C., forwards a check for
renewal of his subscription to The
Times for another year.
Pvt. Boyd Westbrook, son of Sam
Westbrook, has been transferred
from Camp Hulen to Camp Picket,
Va., and asks that tbe address of his
Deport Times be changed.
Frank Hall Jr., son of Mrs. J. I.
Lawler, who enlisted in the navy
Wednesday of last week, was given
a week’s deferment and reported for
duty Wednesday of this week.
Tech. Sgt. Cliff Reid and Mrs.
Reid went to Fort Worth Friday
where Mrs. Reid will enter a busi-
ness college. Sgt. Reid is on a 30-
day furlough from the air corps.
Mrs. Eddie Lassiter and son, Ed-
win of Fulbright, and Fred Shuman
of Deport, were in San Antonio Fri-
day to visit their sons and brother,
Pvt. Morris Lassiter and Sgt. John
Mac Shuman. John Mac rceived a
promotion to staff sergeant on Fri-
day. He is stationed at Kelley Field
and Morris is at Duncan Field.
Pvt. Ben Hoffpauer of Aberdeen
Proving Ground, Md.,. returned to
camp Friday, after being here to
visit his wife, the farmer Miss Ruth
Nob^s, -who underwent an appen-
dectomy at the Grant hospital last
week. She was
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Formal opening of Deport school
will be held on Monday morning,
Sept. 21 at 10 o’clock, according to
Supt. W. T. Hughes. There will be
a general school assembly program
conducted in the auditorium to
which all patrons and friends of the
school are invited to attend.
New teachers will be introduced
and an outline of the year’s program
given.
With the middle of September
comes the opening of school again
and another year of search for in-
tellect. Most of the students admit
that they are not returning reluc-
tantly, and very few have expressed
desires that the summer vacation be
lengthened. The building, with its
clean floors and walls, the newly
varnished chairs, and numerous new
text books, offer strong incentives
for a successful year of diligent
study by the Deport students.
Most interest has centered around
the many friendships which are be-
ing formed among the new students
and new faculty members.
Superintendent W. T. Hughes
comes to Deport from Floyd with his
B. A. and M. A. degrees. Mr.
Hughes is a graduate of East Texas
State Teachers College at Commerce
and previous to his work in Floyd,
taught for twelve years in west
Texas. Along with his administra-
tive duties, he is teaching civics.
Miss Virginia Turner, whose home
is in Blossom, comes from the Dixie
Consolidated Schools, where she
taught the latter half of last year.
Miss Turner is the commercial
teacher and received her B. S. from
East Texas State Teachers College
at Commerce.
J. C. Miller has taught for the past
eight years at Powell, where he
taught vocational agriculture. Mr.
Winnsboro and he is teaching voca-
tional agriculture in the Kelsey
building.
Miss Janice Jennings, from Rox-
ton, took her B. A. degree from
North Texas State Teachers College
at Denton last June. She is teach-
ing the eighth grade and Spanish in
the fifth, sixth and seventh grades.
Miss Margaret Tomlinson, teacher
of the seventh grade, came from
Grant, Okla. For the past year she
has taught at Minter. Miss Tomlin-
son took her B. A. degree from East
Texas State Teachers College.
Miss Oleta Hanson has taught at
Lone Oak for the past two years.
Her home is in Sulphur Springs, and
she took her B. S. degree from East
Texas State Teachers College. Miss
Hanson is the teacher of the fourth
grade pupils.
Miss Myralynn Ferguson comes to
Deport from the Riley Grove school,
where she taught the past year. She
took her B. S. degree from East Tex-
as State Teachers College in Com-
merce, her home. Miss Ferguson is
teacher of the fifth grade.
Miss Edith McIntosh attended
East Texas State Teachers College
and taught last year at Belt. Her
home is at Pattonville and she is
teaching the first grade.
Other teachers who have previous-
ly taught in the Deport school and
are well known to the people of the
community include:
Miss Thelma Ladd who is gram-
mar school principal.
Miss Virginia Ryan, home eco-
nomics.
Miss Margaret Schrickel, second
grade.
Robert Lee Maddox, high school
principal, mathematics.
Substituting until teachers for
these positions can t>e secured are
School Day8 Here;
Watch Out for Kids
Watch out for those school kids!
You’d forgotten about that school
crossing during the summer, hadn’t
you? The kids are coming back
now, and you’ll have to watch out
for them.
“Let’s be thankful,” State Police
Director Homer Garrison said, “that
we still have schools to send our
children to. Even with the benefit
of education, which now is denied
many peoples of the world, our kids
are growing up into a world that’s
going to be pretty rough on them.
Let’s give them a break by not
breaking their arms and legs and
heads with our automobiles.”
Miller took his B. S. degree from the Rev. A. N. Boyd who teaches
East Texas State Teachers College
and his Smith Hughes degree from
Texas A. and M. His home is in
history and Mrs. Lloyd Hayes, for-
mer Deport teacher, who will teach
mathematics.
Bc-yd, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Griffin and Lawrence, son of Mrs.
Emma Wood of Rugby, left Monday
to enlist in the army as air corps
specialists, to be stationed at Green-
ville.
Paul Hicks of Greenville, is visit-
ing his aunt, Mrs. R. B. Southerland
and relatives living at Byrdtown.
Paul will enter military training at
Camp Wolters, Mineral Wells, on
Sept. 22.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Womack, Pat-
tonville Rl, have just received word
that their son, Pfc. George Womack,
has arrived safely in England. Pfc.
Womack formerly was stationed in
Florida.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Jeffery of
Rugby, have received word from
their son, Lindell, who has been sta-
tioned at Camp Callan, San Diego,
Calif., that he was being sent to
an unknown destination.
Pvt. Clyde P. Barham Jr., who
has been transferred from Camp
Roberts, Calif., to Camp Hood, near
Temple, and Tech. Sgt.' Russell Bar-
ham of Greenville, were guests of
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Barham at Martin over the week
end.
Talco Field’s Deep
Test Now Enters
Interesting Stage
Geologists were taking a second
look Tuesday at the Talco field deep
test as indications were at hand that
the well might not yet be in the
Smackover as was first thought
when a lime section was topped on
Monday.
The well is J. B. White and Grady
Vaughan No. 1 W. H. Jackson, Hop-
kins survey, Franklin county and
Tuesday drilling went ahead at 8,200
feet in hard, gray lime. A core was
cut at 8,151-68 feet, and recovery
was hard, gray, dense lime with an-
rydrite inclusions and some red sand.
Presence of the anhydrite and red
sand has caused some geologists to
believe that teh lime section may
be the Buckner, a formation which
overlies the Smackover in Arkansas.
As yet. however, there is no definite
opinion, and geologists are awaiting
further progress on the well, which
is expected to resume coring at the
first break.
According to operators, the test
topped t,he lime section between
8,110-20 feet, but other sources place
the top at 8,130 feet. Some oolites
were reportedly noted at the latter
depth, and this may call for that
pick as the top.
Whether the Buckner or the
Smackover, the well can be figured
high to wells drilled in Arkansas.
This is accounted for by the Talco
fault, which the well cut around 7,-
500 feet at the top of the Cotton Val-
ley zone. Elevation is 354 feet.
Pvt. Earl Mitchell has been trans-
ferred from Camp Crowder, Mo., to
Cattip Barkeley, Texas, and states he
is glad to get back to Texas, accord-
ing to his brother, Robert Mitchell>
who called at The Times office Fri-
day and ordered The Times sent to
Earl* Earl is taking a course in tele-
type, and expects to be sept across
when he finishes the course.
Lieut, and Mrs. B. P. Brooks of
Goodfellow Field, San Angelo, are
here for a week’s visit with Mrs.
Erooks’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stan-
ley Bell and his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Ben S. Brooks, at Bagwell.
Pvt. Wilburn (Buddy) Kilgore,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Jess Kilgore,
who is stationed at Fort Leonard
Wood, Mo., visited over the week
end with his parents and other rela-
tives.
The 98th Field Artillery of Camp
Carson, Colorado Springs, Colo., of
which Pvt. Wayne Alsobrook of Rug-
by, is a member, maneuvered to the
i summit of Pike’s Peak. The entire
battalion, consisting of 793 men and
793 mules, left camp during the sea-
son’s coldest and heaviest rain. The
men rode part of the way, then
climbed on foot through timber,
making their own trails. ,-It took
five days to complete the entire
trip, and is believed to be the high-
est point reached by pack artillery
in history.
Promotion of Pfc. Samuel M.
Lawler of Deport to be a corporal
in the service was announced by the
Public Relations Officer at Ft. Bliss.
The promotion is effective at once,
and comes in recognition of his
meritorious application to duty.
Lieut. Louise Terrell, a graduate
nurse, now with army hospital at
Fort Bliss., has been called to for-
eign service. She is expected to
leave within th£ next ten days. Miss
Terrell is an adopted daughter of
Mrs. Kate Terrell, formerly of De-
port, now living in Dallas.
Sam Westbrook received a letter
from his son, Pvt. Esker Westbrook,
who is in foreign service in England.
The letter was received on Sept. 10
and waa mailed from England on
Sept. 1. . That looks like Uncle Sam
la trying to do his part in giving
tail service to his boys.
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Frank B. Fields of
Blossom, Dies
In Car Accident
Frank B. Fields, 57, of Blossom,
injured when struck by a car late
Monday on the Lamar road, died at
a Paris hospital at 7:30 a. m. Wed-
nesday, a few hours after his son,
bedridden the last few years, pass-
ed away at their home in Blossom.
The driver of the car which hit
Fields, J. A. Tye of Reno, stopped
and called an ambulance after the
accident, later making a statement
to the county attorney. A neighbor,
who witnessed the accident, stated
that Fields walked into the path of
Tye’s car and the driver couldn’t
avoid hitting Fields.
REPORT OF COTTON GINNED
PRIOR TO SEPT. 1
Census report shows that 124 bales
of cotton were ginned in Lamar
county from the crop of 1942 prior
to Sept. 1 as compared with 41 bales
ter the crop of 1941.
Drivers Licenses
Must Be Renewed
Before November 1st
President Gravely Warns Nation Scrap
May Be Seized If Campaign Falters
Lamar Commissioners
Approve Appointment
Deputy Co. Attorney
Lamar Commissioners’ Court sit-
ting Monday in regular monthly ses-
sion, approved the appointment of
J. M. Braswell as the new chief de-
puty county attorney.
Braswell replaces R. L. Lattimore
Jr., who resigned to volunteer in the
army. Lattimore has been accepted
as a volunteer and has been sworn
into the Army at Dallas.
Judge Harrell explained that Bras-
well was appointed by County At-
torney A. M. Harrison, who now is
serving in the Army, and that the
Monday morning action of the Com-
missioners “simply constitutes the
Court’s approval of the appoint-
ment. The Court does not have the
power to appoint a chief deputy
county attorney.”
Rattler Tosses
Victim for Loop,
But Loses Battle
J. A. Smith, a farmer near Italy,
screamed for help when a big rat-
tler wound itself around his legs. A
motorist helped untangle the reptile
and rushed Smith, pale and exhaust-
ed, to a doctor.
The physician ripped off one trous-
er leg and found no sign of snake
bite. He started on the other, but
Smith told him never mind.
“That’s my wooden leg,” he ex-
plained.
Fangs had punctured it three times.
President Roosevelt gravely warn-
ed the nation Tuesday that if it
didn’t respond immediately to the
critical scrap metal collection the
government might have to seize it
from owners.
The President told a Washington
press conference he foresaw the pos-
sibility the government might have
to act much more drastically.
Not yet to the point of actually
taking away doorknobs and orna-
mental iron works, the President
added that the government is pre-
pared to seize metal from the public
if more liberal contributions are not
forthcoming immediately.
Unused and discarded metal by the
thousands of tons are lying on farms
and around American homes, Mr.
Roosevelt said.
In response to the appeal in last
week’s Times several thousand
pounds of scrap iron, rubber and
other metals were brought to De-
port and sold to A. G. Singleton last
Saturday. But the amount hardly
scratches the surface of what can
be recovered if a real effort is made.
A second appeal is made in today’s
paper, sponsored by the Deport Com-
munity Club. Let’s have a real
drive for scrap that will get the job
done and help our war effort.
Hughes Leases Land
Ripley Neighborhood
J. K. Hughes of Mexia is reported
to have entered the active lease play
around Ripley in North Titus Coun-
ty in taking 1,900 acres at $5 an
acre. The leases were in the Steph-
en N. Bullock and William Eakin
surveys.
South of Mount Pleasant, Atlantic
Refining is reported to have leased
2,200 acres at $2 an acre out of the
Robert W. Nabers survey.
TRAVIS HALE LEAVES
PINE BRANCH SCHOOL
Austin.—This is for the speci.
benefit and relief of all Texans
who’ve been worried these months
about when to renew their drivers’
licenses.
Come November 1, all original li-
censes will expire. The operator
who hasn’t obtained a renewal by
then will be without a license, State
Police Director Homer Garrison
warned.
Automatic renewals are granted
where the application is made on
time. Drivers License Chief J. B.
Draper explained. But once an ori-
ginal license has expired, the driver
must take an examination in order
to obtain a new license. Anyone who
drives without a valid license is lia-
ble to arrest and fine.
Application forms are available
from State Police district headquar-
ters. by mail from the headquarters
in Austin, and at most county court-
houses, either from sheriffs or tax
collectors.
Renewed licenses are good for two
years, and cost 50 cents.
MORE MEN ENLIST
IN THE NAVY
Men included in the group as en-
listees at the Paris Navy recruiting
office the past week are:
Carl L. Summers, Deport
Terry L. Womack, Bogata
Gavin E. Hayes, Deport
Frank M. Hall Jr., Deport
Oscar Ray Rhodes, Deport
FULBRIGHT SCHOOL CLOSES SO
STUDENTS CAN PICK COTTON
Because of a farm labor shortage,
the schobl at Fulbright has been dis-
missed for "three weeks to allow
students to help pick cotton.
School has been taught the past
ionth so no time would be lost in
month
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by the students.
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Travis Hale left Wednesday to ac-
cept the position as District Super-
visor of State Agriculture at College
Station. Travis has been principal
of the Pine Branch school for eleven
years and during that time it had
advanced from a six months to a
nine months standardized school.
Mrs. Hale was elected to fill the
vacancy of principal but no one has
been elected for primary teacher.
School will begin Sept. 21.
Presentation of
Petition for Beer
Election Postponed
A petition asking the Lamar Coun-
ty Commissioners to call a county-
wide beer election, originally sched-
uled for presentation to the Court
Monday morning, was not presented.
O. W. (Red) Woodard, county tax
assessor-collector, explained that his
staff, who have been working on the
petition for several days, checking
the validity of the signatures, has
found 260 signatures of qualified
voters. Woodard previously said
that his staff would not be able to
complete the job of checking the pe-
tition by Monday morning because
the addresses of the signers are not
on the document and the workers
face the task of checking the voting
lists of 54 boxes, plus the poll tax
lists and the lists of poll tax exempt-
ions. in their efforts to determine
the validity of each signature. Be-
tween 800 and 900 qualified voters
must sign the petition before it can
be accepted by the Commissioners’
Court.
MEASURE INTRODUCED
MONDAY FOR CONTROL
FARM PRICES, WAGES
A measure was introduced in the
Senate Monday for the curbing of
inflation by limiting farm prices to
parity and setting wages in war in-
dustries at August 15th levels.
The legislation was in response to
President Roosevelt’s demand to
have a stabilization law in effect by
October 1st, or he would act. He
did not ask a wage curb, however.
SUMMER TERM DISTRICT
COURT ENDED SATURDAY
The summer term of 102nd dis-
trict court was ended Saturday.
Judge J. N. Dalby disposed of a mis-
cellaneous assortment of small cases,
mostly divorce petitions. The busi-
ness of this term was light, both civ-
il and criminal lists being relative-
ly small. Some work had to be post-
poned indefinitely because of the
war.
RUGBY SCHOOL OPENS
ON MONDAY, SEPT. 21
The Rugby public school will op-
en for the 1942-43 term on Monday,
Sept. 21. It will be just a one-teach-
er school and will teach up to and
including the sixth grade. The trus-
tees are sure they will have the hot
lunches again this year. Mrs. Newt
Bryson of Bogata, will be the teach
er.
Two of Seismograph
Crew Electrocuted
At Douglassville
Edgar Williams, formerly of Strat-
ford and Jack Scaff of Commerce,
members of an oil company seismo-
graph crew, were killed by electro-
cution while at work with other
members of a “shooting” crew Fri-
day afternoon at Douglassville, in
Cass county.
The job of a seismograph crew is
to drill holes in the earth and set off
charges of high explosives. Results
of the blasts are recorded and these
are used to check the possibilies of
oil in the locality.
Williams and Scaff it was indi-
cated, had placed a charge of ex-
plosives in a hole and as the charge
went off a light cable, holding the
charge, was blown from the hole,
one end wrapping around the two
men and the other being hurled
across a high tension power line.
The men were rushed to an At-
lanta hospital but died enroute.
Funeral services were held at the
victim’s respective home town.
INDEPENDENCE SCHOOL
OPENS SEPTEMBER 21
Students of Independence schobl
will enroll on Friday, Sept. 18, with
school opening Sept. 21. Mrs. J. L.
Koontz of Minter and Miss Alice
Ruth Tidwell of Talco have been
elected as teachers.
HAGAN8PORT SCHOOL
OPENED ON MONDAY
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Hagansport. G. L. Jones of
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Mrs. Essie Stanley, Mrs. Nell 1
lor, Mrs. Thurmon Bolin,
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