The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 18, 1941 Page: 3 of 8
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GROWERS PLANT '
3T.000 ACRES
Final details have been worked
out in regard to the operation of the
Red River County One Variety Cot-
ton program. There are 1200 farm-
ers in Red River county growing
one variety Rowden cotton. J(They
are at present ginning at approved
one variety gins and the ginner is
drawing n press box sample and
sending it to the agricultural mar-
keting service in Dallas for official
classing. The class cards are re-
turned to the producer within three
days after he gins his cotton. Class
cards tell him his grade, staple, and
gin preparation. This card is ac-
cepted as an official class in the
loan or is purchased by the five co-
operating firms based on the offic-
ial grade and staple.
The five firms agreed to group the
one variety cotton in 100 bale lots,
and send it to the textile mills la-
beled as Red River County One
Variety Rowden Cotton.
To take care of the miscellaneous
expenses in connection with the One
Variety Cotton program, each one
variety producer is paying a dollar
membership fee and the gins are
cooperating in accepting the dollar
and sending it directly to the as-
sociation office.
The United States Department of
Agriculture has appropriated $2.50
per bale to .take care of the other
expenses in connection with the
program as they are assisting the
grower in proving to the textile
mills that a one variety uniform
cotton is superior to mixed varie-
ties.
Present indications are that the
county will be 75'/ one variety in
1942. At present there arc 37,000
acres planted in one variety cotton
in Red River county.
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DEPORT, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPT, 18,1941^
10, 20 AND 30
YEARS AGO
Taken from The Times
Prophet Predicts 33
Snows This Winter
BETHLEHEM, Pa.—Weather Pro-
phet Herbert S. Bickert, who relies
on the August apple sky for his in-
formation, predicts thirty-three
snowfalls this winter.
He took time out from milking
the cows at intervals to count the
ball-shaped clouds moving by dur-
ing the month. Says each one pre-
dicts a snowfall. He forecast thir-
ty-two in 1932 and there were thir-
ty-five. Two years later he foresaw
twenty-nine and the total was thir-
ty-one.
NOTICE—SHERIFFS SALE
The i.ate of Texas, County of
Lamar. By virtue of an Order of
Sale issued out of the Honorable
62nd District Court of Lamar Coun-
ty, on the 17th day of September
A. D. 1941, by the Clerk thereof,
in the case of The First National
Bank of Roxton, a corporation, ver-
sus Mrs. J. W. (Beulah) Watson,
et al No. 17958-Consolidated, and
to me, as Sheriff, directed and de-
livered, I will proceed to sell for
cash, within the hours prescribed
by law for Sheriff's Sales on the
first Tuesday in October A. D. 1941;
it being the 7th day of said month,
before the Court House door of said
Lamar County, in the City of Paris
the following described property in
Lamar County, Texas, to-wit:
FIRST TRACT: 120 acres of land
a part of the J. R. G. Wortham 320
acre Western Survey, being lot 2
of Plat F of the Thos. W. Watson
partition, located about 12 miles
South 23 degrees West from Paris.
SECOND TRACT: 135 acres of
land a part of the Jacob Lyday Sur-
vey, being the land conveyed by
J. O. McGaughy to Thos. W. Wat-
son on December 17, 1875, located
about 8 miles South 28 degrees
West from Paris.
THIRD TRACT: 40 acres of land
a part of the Jesse Shelton Survey,
located about 12 miles South 33 de-
grees West from Paris.
FOURTH TRACT: 62 acres of
land a part of the Eli J. Shelton
Survey, located about 12 miles
South 26 degrees West from Paris.
(Tracts 3 and 4 are the same as
lots 1 and 2 in Plat D of the Thos.
W. Watson partition); all said pro-
perty being most generally known
as the J. W. Watson farm; levied
on the 17th day of September 1941,
as the property of Mrs. J. W. (Beu-
lah) Watson, a widow, R. M. Wat-
son, who is the same person as
Rufus M. Watson, Thos. W. Watson,
Mary Watson Davis and husband,
C. O. Davis, Betilah Watson Doyle
and husband, A. C. Doyle, Pauline
Watson Newton and husband, N.
L. Newton, and Martha Watson
Watkins and husband, J. R. Wat-
kins, to satisfy a judgment amount-
ing to .$3800.00 in favor of The First
National Bank of Roxton.
Given under my hand, this 17th
day of September A. D. 1041.
REB H. BURKS, Sheriff,
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Week of Sept. 18, 1931
Deport High School had opened
for the 1931-32 term with 204 stud-
ents enrolled, 87 in high school and
117 in grade school.
Thieves had taken all wearing
apparel and bed clothing from a
clothes line at the Ed Parks home
at Minter. His automobile, in a
nearby shed, was also stripped.
Weigher A. L. Campbell report-
ed 726 bales of cotton weighed at
the Deport platform. Lint was sell-
ing for 6 to 6.25 cents per pound,
with no price quoted on seed.
Gov. Huey Long’s no cotton in
1932 plan had been defeated by the
House of Representatives and a re-
solution adopted branding the Lou-
isiana governor as a “consummate
liar.”
Chicken and turkey growers in
this area were planning to form an
organization for protection against
thieves by offering rewards for ar-
rest and conviction of those respon-
sible.
Week of Sept. 16, 1921
J in T. Shuman, 53, had died of
heart trouble while seated in a
chair talking to Mrs. Shuman.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Griffin had
moved from Rugby to Deport and
Mr. Griffin had accepted a position
with the E. G. Hutchings hardware.
J. H. Ripley was having a $2,500
home built on his farm northeast
of Deport.
Ethel Roberts, first Red River
county boy killed in action in
France, had been buried at his home
at Bogata.
A. L. Campbell had purchased
the Cash Grocery store from W. B.
Simmons.
Cotton was selling for around 24
cents per pound in Deport.
Week of Sept. 15, 1911
Farmers had sold 214 bales of
cotton in Deport on Saturday.
S. A. Tidwell had resigned as city
marshal and R. H. Bryson had been
elected to fill out his unexpired
term.
Searight Stephenson, 84, had died
at his home at Halesboro. He was
a member of a Texas company in
the Confederate army.
R. B. Bfhnion had resigned as
Lamar county school superintend-
ent and W. Hi Snow had been elect-
ed to take his place. v
VonKeller Aubrey, Lawrence Tea-
gue, Warren Ttague, Roy Binnion,
Maurice Moore and Miss Bonnie
Dee Thompson had entered Trinity
University.
THE POCKETBOOK
of KNOWLEDGE
-*t>04y about 800 U.S.
INDUSTRIAL CONCERNS EITHER
MAKE AIRPLANES OR SUPPLy
THEM WITH PARTS--90
cowceevs produce
COMPLETE PLANES
V
-THE ACADEMIC CAP
USED IN AMERICAN
SCHOOLS ORIS/nATED
IN CHINA,
’3.OC0 •-EARSA60
A RECENT
SfUDy SHOWS
THAT IN IIH-
NON-DEFENSE
CATEGORIES OF
FEDERAL SPENDIN6.1HERE
HAS BEEN A GROWTH OF
$■3,665,197,000 IN A
SINGLE DECADE/
PELICANS CAN
HOLD NONE
FOOD IN
THEIR MOUIHS
TUAN lN
THEIR StCNACHS
A PROCESS FOR MAN/KlS
ARTIFICIAL WOOL FROM
PEANUT NEAL HAS RECENTiy
BEEN PATENTED IN THIS
COONTRy
He Was Dead Set
on Turning’ Over in
His Grave Daily
BRUSSELS.—For 27 years Adol-
phe Bioux had the dubious pleasure
of turning over in his grave every
day, but that's ended now.
Bioux, a wealthy man, died in
1914 and was buried in a magnifi-
cent mechanized tomb he had con-
structed in his village cemetery
near here. In his will he stipulated
his fortune be given to a peasant,
providing the peasant went to the
cemetery every morning and mani-
pulated a mechanism designed to
rotate Bioux’s resting place.
A nephew of Bioux, outraged by
his uncle’s sepulchral antics, recent-
ly had the will declared void and
ordered all the mechanism removed
from the tomb.
Grave diggers were forced to op-
en the tomb to complete the remov-
al job. Inside they found a life-size
oil painting of the dead man and
beside it the stuffed carcass of his
favorite dog.
Bioux’s will also provided a sum
of money with which to pay the vil-
lage band for playing peasant tunes
beside the tomb on each village
feast day.
Tyler Negress Wants
to Help Government,
Purchases $100 Bond
An elderly negro woman of Tyler
who wanted to “help Mr. Roosevelt
and the government win the war,”
recently acquired a brandnew $100
defense bond.
The woman, Mallisa Dean, who
lives near Tyler, walked into a bank
and asked for the man taking the
money for the government.
She explained she had saved $100
above the cost of raising her child-
ren and operating a farm, and that
she wanted to donate it. After some
explanation of the defense bond
plan, the woman was persuaded to
accept the bond.
After affixing her mark, the ne-
gro woman walked out remarking,
“I don’t want nothin’; just to help
my gov’ment.” She said $100 waa
all she could afford “just now.”—
Ex.
Get results with News Want Ada.
CCC Camp Begins
Work on Farm in
Rockford Area
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Lamar County, Texas.
How Mail Order
Catalogue Cleaned
Up Small Town
A writer on the Cleburne Coun-
ty (Ark.) Times has the following
to say about home-town patronage;
As a small boy, I knew the then
prosperous little town of Vernon,
Iowa. I knew its four general stores,
well-stocked with the merchandise
of that time. These stores consti-
tuted the foundation on which Ver-
non was built. Their existence was
responsible for the comfortable
homes of the town, for its two
churches and for its, for that time,
excellent school. The “drummers”
those stores brought to the town
made possible that hotel. The bank
vyas dependent on the stores for its
business. Vernon was a market
place.
Then came the invasion of the
mail-order catalogue,’ with a con-
certed blitzkrieg on business of the
town. The sales of the merchants
declined. With that decline came
a reduction in the quantity and var-
iety of merchandise offered by local
merchants. In time the stores clos-
ed. With them went the bank,
hotel, homes, churches and the
school.
Today Vernon does not exist, even
to the extent of a post office. What
was once a market place, a social
and cultural center, a place of com-
fortable homes, is now a corn field.
The value of those acres and other
farm acres surrounding the place
that once was Vernon is not as
great as it was 60 years ago.
There have been all too many
Vernons throughout America—too
many market places that have died
because of the tendency to central-
ize merchandising. Whenever peo-
ple of a community permit their
market place to die from lack of
home patronage they sacrifice their
social and cultural center, their
churches and schools, and turn what
has been a place of homes into a
field. That, cdfttiiiuecj to a logical
conclusion, would make peasants of
the American farmers. It would
deprive them of all that makes
farm life pleasant
Bogata CCC camp enrollees start-
ed work on the Edgar Cunningham
farm near Rockford Monday. The
work crew is fencing land being
retired from cultivation to permit
grazing. Sodding of this retired
land will be done when there is
sufficient moisture in the soil to i
insure the grass living.
This is the first work to be done
by the CCC camp under the direct-
ion of the North Texas Soil Con-
servation District Supervisors. Ten
Farmer-District Agreements have
been approved by the supervisors
to date and more are in the process
of being worked up for approval.
Farmers living in the Lone Oak
or Rockford priority areas who de-
sire a soil and water conservation
program designed for their farms
should make application to their
District Supervisors Jesse Gunn and
L. L. Jeffus for district assistance!
Noise is Hazard
in Modern Warfare
Scientist Declares
Texas Gave Rewards
to Fighting Men
As rewards to fighting men, the
State of Texas and the Republic of
Texas gave 1,169,382 acres to per-
sons who engaged in the battle of
San Jacinto, to heirs of those who
fought at the Alamo, and for var-
ious other veterans of the Texas
Revolution. Soldiers who served
in the Confederate Army were giv-
en 1.280 acres if they were perman-
ently disabled while in service. The
survey, according to the State Land
Office, shows that a total of 3,149,-
234 acres were given in recognition
of military service.—The State Ob-
server.
Michigan will Use
2-Year License Tags
Michigan’s 1942 automobile license
plates will be built to last two years,
the Department of State has an-
nounced, because no steel will be
available to manufacture new ones
in 1943.
The plates will have at their bot-
toms the numerals “42” to denote!
the year of license. In 1943 a steel
strap 1 inches wide bearing the
numerals “43” will be issued to be
bolted over the original numerals.
We will appreciate your printing
orders—large or small.
for School Lunches
Cakes, Pies,
Cookies,
Lunch Meats
for Transportation
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MRS. C. H. NOBLES PRINCIPAL
OF BYRDTOWN SCHOOL
Mrs. C. H. Nobles has been elect-
ed as principal of the Byrdtown
school, which opened Monday for
the 1941-42 term. Mrs. Moore is
primary teacher. Mrs. Nobles had
thought to retire from teaching,
after six years in the Lone Oak
and eight years in the Ashland
schools, but has accepted the invi-
tation to head the Byrdtown school
this term.
SPECIAL SALE PRICE on
Southland Batteries
(10 DAYS ONLY FROM THIS DATE)
If you need a battery, take advantage of the sav-
ings during this sale.
TERMS—SPOT CASH
Miller Garage
Phone 95
DEPORT
One of the little-recognized haz-
ards of modern warfare is the deaf-
ening and nerve-shattering noise
created by machines and guns of
war, according to Dr. Vern O.
Knudsen, world-famous acoustics
expert.
Noise encountered in tanks and
high-powered airplanes, if long en-
dured, he said, will induce tinnitus
and interfere with other physiolo-
gical functions. Artillery fire, ma-
chine gun fire and repeated blasts
of nearby rifles cause temporary
and often permanent impairment of
hearing.
Violent explosions such as aerial
bombing will not only rupture the
ear drum and destroy other organs
of the ear, but often may result in
shell shock.
Dr. Knudsen pointed out that even
the noises incidental to many de-
fense and peace-time industries
such as punching, stamping rivet-
ing, tending large power machines
and testing airplane motors, impair
the efficiency of workers, and make
deadly attacks on the auditory
nervous system.
“Noise has become more than a
nuisance,” said Dr. Knudsen. “It is
a menace which impairs the hear-
ing of millions of modern warriors
and factory workers. A menace of
this magnitude requires the imme-
diate and considered attention of
the medical profession, and espec-
ially of industrial and public health
officials.”
Man Collects $1.00
Daily for 65 Years
Sixty-five years ago a railroad
made a settlement with a 36-year-
old passenger who had been injured
in a train wreck at Ashtabula, Ohio,
in which 95 persons were killed.
"We’ll give you a dollar a day
as long as you live,” said the rail-
road adjuster to Harry Ellsworth
Bennett, who suffered an injured
back and lost an eye.
"That was a pretty good bargain,”
grinned Bennett upon celebrating
his 101st birthfiay. “So far I’ve col-
lected $13,700*
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The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 18, 1941, newspaper, September 18, 1941; Deport, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth901921/m1/3/?q=+date%3A1941-1945: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Red River County Public Library.