The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 18, 1941 Page: 1 of 8
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MARRIAGE LICENSE REPORT
"GREATLY EXAGGERATED”
FUNERAL HELD SATURDAY
FOR DETROIT RESIDENT
A news item printed last week
stating that a marriage license had
been issued to Floyd Gifford and
Miss Beatrice Enox brings a retort
from Mr. Gifford of near Bogata,
that unless there is another Floyd
Gifford in the county the report,
JUw that of llatit Tvcgfan’s death,
ya* «greatfr ; tftlAWP'
1. IN ANSWER HP
Payments will be mailed Sept,
under the state teachers retireHM
system to many public school fc
ers in Texas, denied the benefl
pensions under federal social ii
ity. Many teachers have been
Funeral services were held Sat-
urday afternoon at the Detroit cem-
etery for Archie P. Dick, who died
Friday at his home in Detroit He
was the son of the late John T. Dick,
piopeer Red Star county reaidant,
and is swnrtvad far his widow and
X T. Dick of Oarkn-
tributing five per cent of their
aries for tht past four yapt
ward iwtirament, but atdy
VOLUME XXXIII
DEPORT, LAMAR (BOUNTY TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1941
NUMBER 33
Derrick Looms
Tall on New
Magnolia Test
Slush pits have been dug, boilers
put in place, water lines set and
construction completed on a 136-
foot derrick for the Magnolia test
on the J. N. Henry farm two. miles
northwest of Fulbright and about
five miles northeast of Deport in
Red River county.
Spudding in of the well is expect-
ed 4o take place either Sunday or
Monday, to set surface casing, and
gpod progress should be made un-1 _
til interesting depths are reached.
Location is in the M. E. P. & P.
survey, 700 feet south of north line
and 640 feet east of west line of the
100 acre tract and survey. Fuel
for the boilers will be natural gas
from the Lone Star line serving
Fulbright and Deport.
Water for the test will be supplied
by the Kerbow lake, which is own-
ed by a number of Fulbright citi-
zents as a club lake and is stocked
with fish. Magnolia has contracted
for the water, paying $100 a mohth
rental.
Magnolia has about 18,000 acres
under lease. The block extends
from east to west, south of Cut-
hand creek, in both Red River and
Lamar counties. Magnolia assem-
bled the, block in November, 1939,
paying from 50 cents to a dollar an
acre, taking a ten-year option, and
paid the renewal fee last fall.
Expected to go to 6,500 feet or
dpeper for an exploration of lower
zones, including possibly the so-
called Smackover lime found in
South Arkansas, the well is styled
No. 1 J. N. Henry, located 700 feet
from the north and 640 'eet from
the west lines of a 100-acre tract
in the MEP&P survey No. 103.
The derrick is one of the largest
ever set up in Red River county
and it is located in an area where
for a radius of several miles no at-
tempts have ever been made to
find oil.
Since Magnolia has been two years
assembling acreage and geological
data for the test, it is not regarded
as a “promotion,” but as one of the
outstanding wildcat ventures in the
long history of Red River county’s
efforts to obtain production.
Strangers Knock at
Doors in Deport
Deport people who have houses
and apartments to rent should have
no difficulty in securing tenants
at this time. Oil activity northeast
of town and the possibility of an
army camp at Paris are causing
numerous inquiries regarding hous-
ing facilities.
Since many of those desiring to
locate in Deport come direct to The
Times office for information, those
who have spare rooms or houses to
rent may profit by placing an ad-
vertisement in this newspaper. The
cause is a good one; the cost is
small.
Students Start
New School
Term Monday
Deport schools opened for regu-
lar class work on Monday, with a
total enrollment of scholastics
slightly below attendance register-
ed on the opening day last year,
according to Supt. L. T. Johnston,
who attributes this to the fact that
many students are helping harvest
the cotton crop in his area before
resuming school work.
Bus and town students were class-
ified last Thursday and Friday.
The following short program, held
in the auditorium at 2 p. m. Wed-
nesday, added the conventional
touch to the opening of the new
term:
Invocation—Rev. M. E. Wyatt.
Band numbers—High school band.
Remarks—L. L. Morris.
Sing-song—led by Mrs. W. R.
Brownlow.
Chapel talk—Rev. Carter Mc-
Kemy.
Announcements — Supt. L. T.
Johnston.
Benediction—Rev. A. N. Boyd.
The new term is expected to be
among the most successful in the
history of the school.
Tigers Play
Opening Game
With Cooper
Coach L. L. Morris’ Deport Tig-
ers officially open their 1941 foot-
ball schedule Thursday evening (to
night) at 7:45 when they tangle with
the Cooper eleven on the Cooper
field.
Though they have only had a few
days of practice, and many poten-
tial players have not reported, the
Tigers are showing up well and a
victory over the Cooper team may
be the beginning of another suc-
cessful season.
fThe Deport High School Band, in
fill uniform, wiU accompany the
Tigers to Cooper, leaving about six
o’clock.
The game with Cooper is a non-
conference bout, as will be the sec-
ond game of the season Sept. 26
when the Tigers will be host to the
Paris B eleven.
The Times has printed tickets for
the coming games, five of which
will be played at home and for
which a season ticket may be pur-
chased for $1.
Coach Morris lists the following
Tigers as the probable starting line-
up:
Center, Deryl Westbrook; right
guard, James Williams; left guard,
Wayne Grant; right tackle, Chas.
Davidson Jr.; left tackle, Ray Monk;
right end, Robert Edwards; left
end, Dudley Dearm an; quarterback,
Ray Butler; fullback, Harry
Hughes; halfbacks; John Reese and
Bill Phillips.' Subs will be Sam
Hoover, Wajyen Anderson, Dick
Haydock, James Holt, Glenn Law-
ler, Jack Jeffus, Arthur Grant, Bob-
by Noblea,. Jimmy McFadden, Jas.
Eatherly and John Jackson.
Lamar Farmers to
Get Survey Cards
Sampling of Lamar county farm-
ers, ranchers and trucksters will
start in a few days when each rural
carrier will leave 1941 acreage sur-
vey cards with ten families on his
route, it has been announced.
Receivers of these cards are ask-
ed to fill them out as soon as pos-
sible and return them to the mail
boxes so the carriers may pick
them up. The sampling is being
done by the U. S. Department of
Agriculture.
Deport Host
to District
Club Meet
Hoovertown Girl
Dies Saturday
Syble Lewiose Offutt, 12-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Archie
Offutt of the Hoovertown commun-
ity, died Saturday afternoon at her
home of malaria. Funeral services,
conducted by the Rev. James R.
Hoover, assisted by Rev. Barney
Allen, were held at the home Sun-
day at 10 a. m. Interment was in
the Mt. Pleasant cemetery.
Deceased is survived by her par-
ents and a number of brothers and
sisters.
Gins Turn Out 500th
Bale on Wednesday
Deport gins turned out their 500th
bale of this season’s cotton Wednes-
day afternoon and are keeping up
a steady hum as the harvesting ad-
vances and cotton keeps moving in.
Weigher Virgle Hulett reported
151 bales weighed at the Deport
platform up to Wednesday after-
noon.
MRS. J. H. MOORE
President. Third District Texas
Federated Women’s Clubs
Deport will be host Wednesday,
Sept. 24, to one of a series of Club
Institutes to be conducted through-
out District Three of the Texas Fed-
eration of Women’s clubs by Green-
ville clubwomen.
Subject of the open forums will
be “The Business of Being a Club
Woman,” with club ethics, parlia-
School Doors
Open Monday
in This Area
Monday was back to school day
for thousands of students in this
section, as doors opened for the
1941-42 term. A list of the schools
and faculty members in this area
is given below:
Lone Oak—Farris Read, Miss
Grace Morris and Miss Oleta Han-
son.
Byrd town—Miss Margaret Tom-
linson and Mrs. Marie Moore.
Hazcldell—Lloyd Sterling, Miss
Farmers Attend Soil
Meet at Lone Oak
on Friday Night
A representative number of farm-
rs turned out Friday night at
meeting at the Lone Oak school
house to discuss further work on a
tentative priority area for soil con-
servation work in that section, ac-
cording to L. L. Jeffus, district su-
pervisor of soil conservation work
in Lamar county.
Enough acreage has been pledged
for such an area, Mr. Jeffus says,
but it is too scattered and needs
blocking closer together. In order
for the supervisor to approve a
priority area, he must have appli-
Iva Lee Johnson, Mrs. Valta Kirk- cations on ten farms, or 1000 acres,
honi, Miss Catherine Armstrong.
Pattonville—E. T. Jenkins, Miss
Emmadell Dyer, Miss Laverne Mar-
tin, Miss Thelma James.
Plainvicw—Ray Vanderburg, Miss
Lucille Floyd, Miss Zetta Marie
Fendley.
Minter—D. E. Brooks, Miss Zella
Kerr Roberts, Miss Margaret Nor
rell, Miss Loma Gatlin.
Liberty—Grady Kcnnemer, Thel-
ma Ann Malone, Evelyn Hutto.
Biardstown—Mrs. Dick DeBerry,
Mrs. Maudie McKinney.
Ashland—Leo Dodd, ^Trs. Gladys
S. Woodson, Miss Lucille Chapman.
Reno—Mrs. Clyde Aubrey, Miss
Trixie Barham.
Hoovertown—Miss Opal Sullivan
After the area is approved, farmers
within it may receive assistance of
the Bogata CCC camp in several soil
building practices.
Farmers Take
Over Cotton
from Insects
mentary law, publicity, departments j Mi s. Mel Garner.
and committee, relation of the club
to the state and general federation
and opportunities of the Federation
to be discussed.
Participants will be Mrs. T. M.
Bethell, district chairman of Club
Institutes, who will preside and
conduct the forum and question box;
Mrs. J. H. Moore of Deport, district
president; Mrs. C. A. Fagg, Mrs. O.
S. Hervey, Mrs. Henry Pharr, Mrs.
M. H. Edmondson, Ollie Coon and
Maurine Currin of Greenville.
The institutes will be all-day ses-
sions and officers and members of
clubs within a radius of 50 miles
of the meeting place are to attend.
Other meetings will be at Marshall,
Oct. 16; Greenville, Oct. 22; Mexia,
Oct. 23.
Sixth District Court
is Opened at Paris
September term of the 6th Dis-
trict Court was opened in Paris on
Monday by Judge A. S. Broadfoot.
Jurors are E. N. Weaver of Minter,
foreman; W. A. Aden, N. O. Enloe,
Jack Glass of Chicota, Mace Parson
of R2 Sumner, Lem Prock, V. R.
Trulock and E. W. Record of Ar-
thur City, J. W. Alexander of R1
Paris, Jesse Gunn of R1 Biardstown,
W. M. Gantt of Blossom and George
W. Hardiman, negro. R. L. (Bob)
Johnson was chosen as door bailiff
and Lamar county constables as
riding bailiffs.
Ilutsonville—W. A. Brown, Mrs.
Lilly Hatch, Mrs. Rene Hix Moody,
Jack Pickering.
Cross Roads—--Miss Lillie Bennett,
Mrs. Doyle Higdon.
Independence—George Cheatham,
Miss Alice Ruth Tidwell.
Chappell Hill — Miss Mildred
Moore.
Milton—Mrs. Elizabeth Bell, Miss
Betty Jackson.
Martin—Miss Bethel Bryant, Miss
Lois Hignight.
Jennings—Lloyd Whitby, Mrs. Leo
Dodd, Mrs. Leon Kidd.
Blossom—Lynn S. Denton, Les-
lie R. Echols, Miss Jimmie Vickers,
Mrs. Francis Lowrance, Miss Mary
Elizabeth Skidmore, Mrs. Mary E.
Johnson Erwin, O. T. Sims, Mrs. E.
D. Fuller, John Redd, Wayne
Wright, George Haley, Miss Golda
Guest, Miss Elizabeth Karnes, M.
D. Humphrey.
Cunningham—Mr. and Mrs. F. E.
McGahan, Miss Lillian Crumley, R.
E. Kirby, Mrs. Mae Farris, Clifton
Guest, Miss Minnie Atchley, Miss
Elizabeth Karnes, M. D. Humphrey.
A new note in school life this
year is the 12-grade system in ef-
fect for the first time in schools of
this section.
Cotton picking holds the spot-
light on farms this week as fann-
ers move into their second week of
harvest under high blue skies and
soft autumnal sunshine.
Many farmers report having pick-
ed over their fields the first time
and of finding the yield per acre
drastically reduced from that of
last year. They say, however, that
the difference in the price being
paid for lint and seed this year
offsets much of the loss in product-
ion, and they are heartened by the
prospect of continued good prices
for all farm commodities for the
next few years.
Worms, weevils and fleas have
about “done their do,” farmers say.
The insects have stripped foliage
from cotton in most fields and are
reported to be attacking trees along
turnrows.
A few farmers have gathered part
of their corn and report this crop
also reduced from that of last year.
However, the hay crop has been
prolific this year and pastures will
continue to provide a livelihood
for stock until frost.
Feeder Road
Gets no Action
by Commission
No definite action was caken re-
garding proposals for Lamar coun-
ty road construction and improve-
ments by the State Highway Com-
mission during its hearing Monday
in Austin, according to Tom Jefftis
of Deport and Lamar County Judge
E. F. Harrell, who attended the
hearing.
Mr. Jeffus and Judge Harrell at-
tended the meeting in the interest
of a proposed $150,000 construction
job on a farm-to-market road from
Highway 271 near Deport south to
Cunningham and Sulphur Bluff,
via Milton and Minter.
It was announced in early Aug-
ust that the public roads adminis-
tration was unable to approve the
project, but it was thought that
there might be a chance of obtain-
ing approval later.
The Commission appeared favor-
able toward the mission and the
state highway engineer expressed
the opinion that such a road wag
needed, Mr. Jeffus and Judge Har-
rell state. No definite action, how-
ever, was taken.
Rugby Boys Win
Awards at Fair
Among students from this area
attending Paris Junior College at
Paris are Jackie Griffin, Robert Fa-
gan, Bill Westbrook, B'U Barnett,
Rufus Kelley Storey, Billie Steve
Nobles.
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Wayne Grogan and Alvis Fred
Swint of Rugby, hogged the awards
won by Red River County 4-H Club
boys this week who entered pigs in
the East Texas Fair at Tyler.
Grogan won six ribbons—two
grand champions, three first places
and one second place. Swint won
fourth place with his entry. The
total amount of prize money has
not been announced.
Raccoons Released
in Titus County
The Texas Game Fish and Oyster
Commission has released fourteen
raccoons on the John B. Stephens
farm in Titus county. The farm
was recently made into a game re-
fuge.
The raccoons reportedly were
captured in the long-leaf p ine belt
of south Texas by regular em-
ployees of the Commission.
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New Teachers Named
for Detroit School
John Paul Cooper of Bogata, has
been elected to teach science and
mathematics in the Detroit High
School, to succeed Harry Ray, re-
signed, and Miss Margaret Murrell
of Cunningham, has been elected to
fill another vacancy in the Busi-
ness Administration department of
the Detroit school, according to the
Detroit News-Herald.
Mr. Cooper holds a Bachelor de-
gree from Baylor University and
Miss Murrell a Masters degree from
ETSTC.
The Detroit school opened «for
regular class work Monday.
New Teachers Added
to Deport Faculty
Miss Faye Busby of Paris, has
been added to the faculty of the
Deport High School and will teach
the eighth grade. She holds a B. 3.
degree from ETSTC and has done
work on her Masters degree at Pea-
body College.
Miss Busby has nine years’ ex-
perience in teaching and comes to
Deport school from Bogata, where
she was recently elected a faculty
member.
Price of Cotton Seed
Reaches $58 Per Ton
Continuing its upward climb, the
price of cotton seed had reached
$58 on Wednesday and indications
point to higher peaks yet to be
reached. This price compares with
$21 per ton one year ago this week.
Price for lint cotton was hang-
ing between 17 and 18 cents Wed-
nesday, with only a comparatively
few bales reported moving to mar-
ket. This is about twice the nine
cents per pound being paid one year
ago.
New Men Take Over
Lamar Co. Oil Test
Batson and Sanders of Oklahoma
reportedly have taken over oper-
ation of the Whitehead and Dahl
No. 1 Barr, Langston survey, a wild-
cat located about 12 miles southeast
of Paris and near Biardstown,
which has been idle for some time.
Report on the total depth varies
from 3,285 feet to 3,518 feet. A gas
show has been reported by those
interested at 3,185 in top of the
Glenrose.
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