The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 24, 1943 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME XXXV
DEPORT, LAMAR COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1943
NUMBER 20
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Crops, Look Good,
This Time of Year
Crops are well advanced in this
area and most of them clean. Cot-
ton is blooming, corn silking, and
truck crops very good. Harvesting
of the hay crop, which is heavy this
year, is getting underway.
Growing conditions have been
favorable most of the time this
spring. Rainfall has been below nor-
mal, and only one time, during the
first two weeks of June, did it look
like some crops might be lost, due
to weeds and grass, caused by rains
that fell about the time farm land
would get dry enough to work again.
Berry crops have been fair, but
the fruit crop is said to be very
short. Housewives can expect to
pay from $2.00 to $3.00 per bushel
for what peaches are available.
Senator A. M. Aikin
Acting Governor
Past Week
Applications for A
Gasoline Rations Are
teing Distributed
Application forms for renewal of
basic “A” gasoline rations are being
distributed this week, the1 OPA re-
gion office announced. The forms
will be available at gasoline stations
and other convenient locations to be
announced by rationing boards. Af-
ter competing the , portion of the
form set off by heavy borders, the
applicant is to mail it to his local
board, along with his current tire
inspection record and the back cover
of his present “A” book. Renewal
books will be mailed to car owners
before July 21, the date on which
current A coupons expire.
Tomato Growers
Are Getting Good
Price for Product
State Senator A. M. Aikin Jr., of
Paris, was acting governor last week
while Gov. Coke R. Stevenson and
Lt. Gov. John Lee Smith were out
of the state. One of his first acts
was to declare martial law at Beau-
mont.
Governor Stevenson was visiting
Washington, D. C„ and Newport
News, Va.
Governor Aikin is the first La-
mar county man to oret-py the gov-
ernor’s chair, although two former
state senators from this district have
had the honor of serving for a short
time as Governor, under similar cir-
cumstances. Senator Charles R.
Floyd was governor for three hours
without knowing it when Pat
Neff went to Mexico, and Senator
Tom DeBerry acted for Gov. Allred
for a week in 1938.
The Aikins occupied the governor’s
mansion while in Austin, and in ad-
dition to declaring martial law Ai-
kin named several colonels and
granted a 30-day reprieve to a pri-
soner condemned to death.
Senator Aikin was born in Red
River county, grew up at Milton in
Lamar and is a graduate of Deport
High School.
Growers of tomatoes are receiving
the best price for years for their
product, and those who had good
acreages planted to this crop are
getting fine returns.
Growers, have been taking their
harvest to the market at Avery. It
is reported they are receiving all the
way from 10c to 15c per pound for
their No. 1 tomatoes, and slightly
less for the second grade.
Tomatoes made a good yield this
spring, although the first part of the
season was a little too dry. Later,
rains came and a good crop of fine
quality tomatoes resulted.
Shipping of Irish potatoes is about
over, there being only scattered
acres yet to be dug, and the last of
the week will probably see all po-
tatoes harvested.
With Our Boys
In the Service
Bring or Mail All the News
About “Our Boys in the Ser-
vice” to this Newspaper.
Pfc. Jackie Griffin of Sheppard
Field, spent Sunday with his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Griffin.
Pvt. S. A. Woodall of Camp
Howze, spent the week end with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Woodall.
Worth Hood who is stationed at
Camp Phillips, Kans., has been pro-
moted to corporal, according to Mrs.
Hood of Deport.
Pvt. and Mrs. Dick Haydock re-
turned Monday to his camp at Ft.
Benning, Ga., after a short visit here
with relatives.
Alvin Lemens, GM2c, who left the
States two months ago, is in the
South Pacific, according to word re-
ceived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
T. J. Lemens. He stated they had a
long voyage but that he was in a
reasonably safe place.
Pvt. Alvis Crosson who is station-
ed at Kerns, Utah, and who has been
in the hospital there about four
weeks, has been released from the
hospital and is back on duty, accord-
ing to a letter to his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. A. L. Crosson of Deport.
Pfc. Lawrence Wood who has been
stationed at Majors Field, Green-
ville, left there Friday for some un-
known destination.
Mrs. J. I. Lawler left Tuesday for
Kingsville to visit her son, Frank
Hall, S2e, who is stationed there in
the U. S. Navy.
V card from Edgar Bryson, SK2c,
Pensacola, Fla., shows a picture of a
one-ton shark, and he writes it is
visible evidence of why he don’t go
swimming any more. We believe
his fears groundless. Any respect-
able man-eater would know at a
glance that Bryson’s flesh would be
too strong, stringy and tough to be
enjoyable.
Sgt. and Mrs. Mac Webb spent'
Friday and Saturday with Sgt.
Webb’s sister and husband, Mr. and !
Mrs. F. L. Haberle at Jacksonville.
Mrs. Edd J. Pettit of Pattonville,
orders The Times sent to her son,
John E. Pettit F2c, who is overseas,
as a birthday present, which is July
4th.
Demonstration On
Canning and Drying
Foods Friday 2:30 p. m.
Work or Go to Jail,
New Edict at Paris
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It’s work or be arrested for those
men who may be found loafing on
the streets of Paris this week, Sher-
iff Reb Burks and City Marshal Jack
Reeves have announced.
With so much work to be done on
farms, there are too many idle hands,
they say, adding that if they are not
put to work, a jail sentence will re-
sult.
Ladies of Deport and in the sur-
rounding communities are invited to
attend the lecture-demonstration at
the office of the Community Pub-
lic Service Co. to be held in Deport
at 2:30 p. m., Friday, June 25, given
by Miss Isabel Herndon of the Home
Service Department.
Miss Herndon will demonstrate
how to home dry various fruits and
vegetables, showing the proper pre-
paration of food; drying methods,
including oven, portable dehydrator,
and drying over a wood stove; sul-
phuring of fruits preparatory to de-
hydrating; and how to make a home-
made dehydrator. Methods for can-
ning fruits and vegetables by the
boiling water bath and in thp oven
will be shown. Free literature on
canning and dehydrating will be
given to all who attend. There is
no admission charge.
Mrs. Pete Storey left Wednesday
for Maxton, N. C., to visit her son,
Pfc. Rufus Kelley Storey, who is
stationed there at the Army Air
Base.
Pic. William H. Rhoades, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Will Rhoades, has re-
cently returned to Ft. Benning, Ga.,
after spending a fourteen-day fur-
lough at his home in Clardy. He
was married while back home to Mrs. Robert Breen of Long Island,
the former Miss Emma Jo Ander- '
son, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jess
Anderson. He has been in the army
since Dec. 28, 1942.
JACK JEFFUS, grandson of Mr.
and Mrs. Tom Jeffus, will report to
active duty in the United States
Navy Reserve on July 2 at Dart-
mouth College, Hanover, N. H.
Young Jeffus qualified for the navy
V-12 program while he was a fresh-
man student at the University of
Arkansas. He was one of 20 stud-
ents to be selected.
A graduate of the Deport High
School, he will continue his major
of business administration while a
member of the reserve. Jeffus was
president of the senior class of the
high school. At the university he
affiliated with Lambda Chi Alpha
social fraternity.
Prior to his cull to the reserve,
Jeffus was a guest of his mother
OPA Seizes Gas
Tickets at Paris
For 500,000 Miles
Office of Price Administration en-
forcement officers said Monday that
500,000 coupon miles were confis-
cated at Paris Saturday and Sunday.
W. A. (Bill) Griffis, chief district
OPA attorney, said that the half
million miles were in loose coupons
or books that were being used ille-
gally. With state highway patrol-
men, liquor board agents, military
police and Sheriff’s office co-opera-
tion at Paris, hundreds of automo-
biles were stopped and the drivers
investigated Saturday and Sunday.
One Lamar county man had six-
teen C gasoline ration books, others
carried loose T, C and R coupons,
while still other drivers possessed
expired C books—all of which were
taken. In the same investigations,
Liquor Control Board agents found
five bootleggers transporting illegal
whisky and obtained $100 fines and
suspended jail sentences in each.
The Paris campaign was under
the direction of Bob Bryant, chief
OPA enforcement officer.
Pvt. Bill Kilgore, who is at Camp
Young, Needles, Calif., is in the hos-
pital with a broken leg, according
to word received by his brother,
Raymond.
Max Lee visited last week with
his brother, Pfc. James R. Lee, who
is stationed at Camp Gruber, Ok.
Pfc. Lee was among the convoy that
passed through Rugby last Monday
enroute to Louisiana for maneuvers.
He notified his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. A. Lee, he would *bc through that
day, and they met him in Rugby,
where the convoy stopped and they
had a visit with him.
N. Y.
2691 Cans Sealed
at Canning Center
School Building
L. I. Hume of Deport R3, has re-
ceived necessary papers for the pur-
pose of mailing tobacco, cigarettes,
candy, razor blades and other items
Farm Lands
ARE A
Second Front
A plowed furrow is your battle line . . your trac-
tor or team is a tank . . you are the commander in your
3hare of the battle on the home front. Our army in uni-
form gets the best in equipment, and must have the best
in foods. So, we at home, must furnish the demands in
our Food-For-Freedom fight.
Sgt Mac Webb expects to return
Thursday to Cdmp Crowder, Mo., af-
ter a visit with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Webb, and Mr. and Mrs. of a personal nature to his son, Pvt.
Roger Bell. Milow C. Hume, who was captured
_ by the Italians in the African fight-
Lt and Mrs. J. R. Brittain of' in& Hume has been moved from
Hooks, spent the week end with Italy to Germany. His address now
Mrs. Brittain’s sister, Mrs. R. E. No- is American Prisoner of War, No.
bles and Mr. Nobles, and other rela- j 112125, Salag 7A, Germany.
tives and friends. --
_ Harry Wayne Barham, USNR, has
Pvt. Jack Womkck who is station- ' received his orders to report to Col-
ed in Kansas and Raymond Womack umbia University, New York, on
of Halesboro, spent Sunday with AuS 2 for four months officer train-
Pvt. S. A. Woodall and Mr. and Mrs. in8- Harry Wayne is a graduate of
Ellis Woodall. i Deport High School, Paris Junior
_ ! College and will receive his B. S.
Travis Furgerson, who is in the degree from NTSTC, Denton, in July.
U. S. Navy, returned Friday to his He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A.
station at San Diego, Calif., after a Barham of Dallas, former Deport
visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. : residents.
P. H. Furgerson. -
_ I A postal card from Mrs. Murray
Mr. and Mrs. George Carrol and Anderson of Dallas, says her son,
Lt. and Mrs. James Polk gave a sur- Billy Murray Anderson, who is with
prise party Saturday night for Lt the Marines in the Pacific, writes
and Mrs. William Rosenbaum on the that he is receiving The Deport
occasion of their fifth wedding an-
niversary.
A daughter, Shelia Kay, was bora
June 15 to Pvt. and Mrs. J. R. Se-
crest in Paris. Mrs. Secrest is the
former Miss Kitty Ruth Bishop of
Deport, and Pvt. Secrest is station-
ed at Sheppard Field.
Times, and that it is good and newsy
even though it is a month old when
he gets it. He also writes that he is
studying as if in a school building
and finds his geometry and algebra
come in handy, and that promotions
are so slow a Marine just prays and
hopes he will not remain a private?
all his life.
The community canning center,
sponsored by the Deport school, had
put up 2691 cans of fruits and vege-
tables up to Wednesday morning.
During last week 1008 cans were
sealed, and on Tuesday of this week
208 cans were put up. There was
no canning done on Monday.
Housewives are bringing their
vegetables here to be canned and
the school is offering to do any can-
ning on the halves and furnish
everything. Some are using tin cans
while others prefer glass jars.
Over this area housewives are
busy canning all the fruit and vege-
tables possible. There are many
pressure canners in this section, and
all of them are in use. Homemak-
ers are fully aware of the part sav-
ing and preserving of food will play
in the great war, and they are over-
looking no opportunity to can every-
thing possible, including Irish pota-
toes. Right now, beans, peas, toma-
toes and potatoes appear to be the
most popular vegetables preserved
in tin or glass.
W. W. Provence Buried
Sunday at Cuthand
W. W. Provence, well known Cut-
hand citizen and lifelong resident
of Red River county, who died June
18, was buried at Cuthand Sunday
afternoon. He was born Oct. 20,
1873. Survivors arc wife, son, W.
R. Provence, Avery; five daughters,
Mrs. Harvey Jackson of Edinburg,
Mrs. R. J. Chamblcss of Oklahoma
City, Mrs. Gail Sanders of Shaw-
nee, Mrs. William Mills of Morton,
and Mrs. G. A. Crawford of Spur;
brother, Atha Provence of Pine
Branch, and sister, Mrs. W. T. Maul-
din of Bagwell.
Ration Reminder
GASOLINE — “A” book cou-
pons No. 6. good for four gal-
lons each until midnight,
July 21.
SUGAR—Coupon No. 13 good
for 5 lbs. through August 15.
Coupons No. 15 and 16 are
good for 5 lbs. each for home
canning purposes. House-
wives may apply to their lo-
cal boards for additional ra-
tions if necessary.
COFFEE—Stamp No. 24 (1 lb.)
good through June.
SHOES—Stamp No. 18 in War
Ration Book One good for
one pair through October 31.
MEATS, Etc.—Red Stamps J.
K, L, M and N good through
June 30.
PROCESSED FOODS — Blue
Stamps K, L and M will con-
tinue good through July 7.
Be Proud that You
Are An American
Staff Sgt. Bud Nobles of Majors
Field, Geenville, who is on a ten-
day furlough, came Monday to spend
the week with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Marvin Nobles. He had spent
the week end with friends in Mc-
Alester, Ok., before coming to De-
port.
Boyd W. Griffin, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Alex Griffin of Rugby, has
been promoted^) corporal and trans-
ferred from Sheppard Field to Cha-
nute Field, 111. He has been in the
service since Sept 13, and is now
taking a specialized course on pro-
pellers.
E. J. Shelby, Sic, of the U. S.
Navy, son of B. F. Shelby of Ft.
Worth, formerly of Fulbright, is
spending a 30-day leave with his
family in Ft. Worth and friends at
Clarksville and Fulbright. He vol-
unteered his services in December,
1941, and has been overseas since
February, 1942. He has been in act-
ive combat in the Pacific for the
past year, having taken part in the
battles of the Coral Sea, Midway,
Solomons and Guadalcanal, and will
report back to San Francisco on
June 26.
LOCAL MEN HONORED BY
SENATOR A. M AIKIN
BECAUSE: Your soul
your own;
BECAUSE: Your rulers
masters;
and your body can be called
are your servants, not
BECAUSE: You are a free individual with the right to
think, speak, write, vote and worship as you please;
BECAUSE: You and your children enjoy comforts, lux-
uries, protection and opportunities unequalled in
any other country;
BECAUSE: At the gateway of your America stands the
Goddess of Liberty, with a torch in her hand that
will never be blacked out so long as you and your
fellow Americans appreciate your blessings 1
extent that you are willing to sacrifice and
for them.
T. T. Jeffus, president of the De-
mjL
First National Bank
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