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DEPORT, LAMAR COUNTY, TEXAS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1945
Highway Department Takes Over 5(
Mies Lamar Farm-to-Market Roads
Effective Monday, the Texas High-1 sioners recently have had to spend
way Department took over nearly | considerable money to get the de-
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50 miles of farm-to-market roads for | signaled roads in shape to meet the
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maintenance in Lamar county. This
will relieve the county of all upkeep
on these roads in the future.
Anticipating approval, the District
Highway Engineer’s office already
had painted signs for the new high-
way designations and these signs will
be erected this week. The designa-
tions are:
F. M. 197, Arthur City to Faught.
F. M. 196, Pattonville to Cunning-
ham.
F. M. 195, Roxton-to-Atlas-to How-
land, connecting with Highway 24
south of Paris.
When any construction work is
Started the county will be asked to
furnish right-of-way for a minimum
of 60-foot widths on all farm to mar-
ket roads.
All members of the Commissioners
Court are elated over this long-
sought relief. It will mean, they
state’s requirements before the roads
could be taken over. But relief from
expense of this mileage will be high-
ly beneficial to other rural roads in
the county, they said.
County Commissioner Sid Parks of
Precinct 1 is much pleased over the
change and said it was the best news
we’ve had on roads in Lamar coun-
ty in many a year. It is a history-
making step.
County Judge Cedric Townsend
said Saturday was a happy day with
the Commissioners Court when they
received the good news.
Construction work on the desig-
nated roads has been set up for a
three-year period.
Many other counties in Texas,
some of which are in Northeast Tex-
as, are also being given similar re-
lief aJ the farm-to-market road pro-
ject is state-wide. In the Paris dis
NUMBER 35
NEWS OF OUR
MENwWOMEN
IN UNIFORM
Receives Discharge
From Air Service
Capt. James Grant Mt. Pleasant Tigers
Capt. James R. Grant of Deport,
pilot and squadron operations of
Lt. Duane Glover left Tuesday for
Camp Hood, after spending a 15-day
leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
C. B. Glover.
Cpl. Melvin Jackson, who has
been stationed at Ft. Ord, Calif., has
notified his wife that he has been
transferred to Ft. Bliss, El Paso.
Sgt. E. N. Pierce came Monday
for a few days’ visit with his wife
and son, Alan in the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Nobles.
Sgt. Pierce is enroute from Nather
Field, Calif., to Charleston, S. C.,
where he will be stationed.
said, in the future the county will trict, which includes nine counties
be relieved of aU expense and time in Northeast Texas, a total of 312
required for keeping up the fifty miles of farm-to-market roads will
miles of designated roads. This will
give the Commissioners more time
and money for other rural roads.
However, the benefit may not be felt
immediately, because the Commis-
be taken over by the State Highway
Department Monday. Headquarters
for the Paris district are at 1365 N.
Main St., in Paris, with James E.
Pirie as district engineer.
Health Authorities
Fight Malaria with
iDT at Deport
United States Public Health Ser-
vice for control of malaria is operat-
ing in Deport this week, spraying
homes with DDT without any cost
to residents for the purpose of con-
trolling malaria.
A case of this fever was recently
reported in the Elvin McMikel home,
and any residence within a mile of
this place will be sprayed with DDT
at the request of the owner, accord-
ing to Joe E. Pendergrass, foreman
of the crew doing this work. Assist-
ing him are Tommie Risinger and
Ed Elliott. Vernon H. Fielding is
the area supervisor.
About ten homes can be sprayed
each day and several weeks will be
required to do the work in Deport
if requests from property owners
keep pouring in.
Red River County
Tax Values Show
Good Increase
Ray Rhodes, Phm. lc, stationed at
McAlester, Ok., spent the week end
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Os-
car Rhodes, and other relatives and
friends.
Hoyle Murphy has been promoted
from seaman lc to coxswain. He ,is
the son of Mrs. Georgia Morgan of
Paris and is stationed on Leyte Is-
land.
Major Mack Bell, son of Mrs. R.
M. Bell, who has been in the Pacific
theatre of operation for 15 months,
arrived at his home at Burbank, Cal.,
Friday night. Major Bell was chief
maintainer and was in charge of 200
B-24 planes. The group made 1400
trips over Japan.
Defeat Deport in
Mud 33 to 0
The Mt. Pleasant Tigers defeated
the Deport Tigers on a water-soaked
ficer, received an honorable dis-1 field at Mt' Pleasant Friday night
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Nixon received
letter Wednesday from their son,
Jackson B. Nixon, FC2c, who is in
the Pacific, saying he was returning
to the States.
T|Sgt. Grady Coyle, in the ETO for
two years with the Hell Hawk
Fighter Squadron of the 9th Ait-
Corps, is back in the States and ex-
pects to get either a furlough or dis-
charge at San Antonio soon. He is
the son of Mrs. Minnie Coyle of Cun-
ningham.
Deport relatives have received
a letter from Harry W. Barham, S2c,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Claud Barham
of Dallas, formerly of Deport, say-
ing he was now in Tokyo bay.
The 1945 tax rolls of Red River
county have been completed. Net
taxable renditions for the year are *----------. ----- — ...- ........
$10,267,910. .This is an increase of. **on Norman, Ok. He is expected
„„„ ,, ........... 'home soon.
$82,000 over the 1944 total and is the
highest in several years.
The total levies shown on the
books of the county assessor-collect-
or for this year are $233,289.35.
Among the major items are $97,545-
.57, representing the county’s share;
$49,979.59 state and $25,460.49 for
cities and roads. Several munici-
palities are served by the county tax
office.
Poll taxes assessed for this year
total 5,897. The state poll is $8,845-
.50 and the county $1,474.25.
Books were opened for the pay-
ment of 1945 taxes Monday morning,
Oct. 1.
Kdgar L. Bryson, SKlc, returned
to the States on Sept. 27, according
to his father, R. H. Bryson, and he
is probably now at the Naval sta-
Mrs. Otis Fisher of Dallas, has re-
ceived word from her husband, who
is temporarily stationed on Saipan,
that he has recently been promoted
from private to private lc. He en-
tered service on Feb. 26, 1945, receiv-
ed his basic training at Camp Hood
and left the States for overseas on
Aug. 21. He is the son-in-law of
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Nobles of Deport.
charge from the Army at Sheppard
Field on Oct. 2, after having served
four years and nine months.
Grant enlisted as a cadet on Dec.
28, 1940 and received his commission
as a second lieutenant on Aug. 16,
1941. He was advanced to first lieu-
tenant on June 1, 1942, and to cap-
tain on April 9, 1943.
He was sent to the Pacific on June
15, 1944 and had forty missions from
the Palau Island, bombing targets
in the Philippines. Upon comple-
tion of necessary missions for a re-
classification and re-asignment he
returned to the States on June 1,
this year.
He has been awarded the Dis-
tinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal
with six Oak Leaf Clusters and four
Battle Stars—Western Pacific, East-
ern Mandates, Southern Philippines
and Luzon; Philippine Liberation
ribbon, American Defense and Asi-
atic-Pacific.
Capt. Grant and his wife and dau-
ghter, Linda, will make their home
in Deport and he will be associated
with his father, J. M. Grant, local
funeral directoi.
Sgt. Forrest R. Parks, who has
been in the South Pacific and the
Philippine Islands, writes relatives
and friends that he is now on Te
Shima and is awaiting transporta-
tion to the States. He expects to
Eight Inches of Rain
Falls in September
and8Lf J^rSl^r^kTlufisMn U°" *°. x™ &^teS- . "e expects to
• ... 1,1 arrive in the States in October Set
Europe, is now with an army band ■ d-l , , ... • s •
, , « - . , . J | Parks has been in the army over
that has been selected to accom-
i four years and overseas 2M> years.
pany the Olson-Johnson show on a
tour thru Germany.
Capt. Louis G. Whitten is spend-
ing a few days leave with his wife
He is the son of Commissioner and
Mrs. Sid J. Parks.
and daughter, Betty in the home 0f < Densman, 3612 Yucca Drive,
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Mil- I Worth> announce the birth of an 8
ler. Capt. Whitten will reDort to 1 pound 31/2 ounce son’ Patrick Dean,
Major and Mrs. Patrick Winslow
Densman, 3612 Yucca Drive, Fort
an 8
ler. Capt. Whitten will report to
San Antonio on Friday.
Bogata Men Hurt in
III | *• _ J # OC/CIIJj 14 LflVIl i
Wreck at Red River Armed Service
A Bogata sergeant, home on fur-
lough and three other Bogata resi-
dents, recently discharged from the
Army, received minor injuries Fri-
day afternoon when their car crash-
ed into a 1939 Chevrolet coach driv-
en by Elmer Floyd Vincent, 44, of
Paris.
According to Cecil Snapp, high-
way patrolman, Sgt. Buck Meacham,
27 of Bogata, home on a 45-day fur-
lough, was driving north in his 1939
Mercury, across Red' River
CpL Harry W. Hughes, son of Mrs.1
Jack Hughes and grandson of Mrs. j
W. T. Cross, is now in Manila, P. 1.1
Cpl. Hughes trained with a tank j
division at Ft. Knox, Ky., prior to
leaving for overseas on June 15.
The following white Red River
county registrants were recently ac-
cepted by the armed forces:
John Paul Hawks, Bogata
Hugh F. Holley— Clarksville R5
Roy D. Watson, Clarksvillfe R1
Van Durbin, Manchester
Clyde M. Pittman, Clarksville R4
Ernest H. Cowling, Kingman, Ariz.
Truman E. Biard, Clarksville R5
Ollie Martin Brem, Annona R1
Howard H. Robertson, Avery R1
Eight negro men were also accept-
ed for the armed service.
Pfc. Dudley Dearman has return-
ed to Selfridge Field, Mich., where
he has been stationed the past six
Monday, Oct. 1 at the Harris Meth-
odist Memorial Hospital in Ft.
Wurth. Grandparents are Mr. and
Mrs. Dean Oliver of the Ft. Worth
address and Mr. and Mrs. Howard
W. Parker of Fruitland Park, Fla.
Major Densman is with the 2nd Ma-
rine Aircraft Wing on Okinawa. Mrs.
Densman is the former Mary Dean
Oliver of Deport.
...._________ ai.ai.,c Fuai. A,A Harrell S. Wyatt, who was in the
months, after a 15-day furlough with Army 4 Vz years and overseas for 32
his mother, Mrs. Willie Dearman of nlor>ths, has received a discharge on
Minter and other relatives and P°mts> with
friends.
across Red' River bridge
during a heavy rain. He lost control,
ran off the pavement, hit the guard i
rail, and whipped back to the left of!FABRIC FROM
.................... CHICKEN FEATHERS
Billy Mack Reece, grandson of
Mrs. Betty Reece, who has spent sev-
eral years in the army overseas in ----->----------------—■■
the ETO, is visiting his grandmother erican theatre ribbon,
and other relatives here. He was a of his discharge *■- 1
staff sergeant and will receive a dis- staff sergeant
charge soon.
96 to his credit. He
was with a combat engineers group
in France, Belgium, Luxembourg
and Germany. He was entitled to
wear four campaign stars, ETO rib
bon, American defense and the Am-
At the time
of his discharge he held the rank
He, with his wife,
With about eight inches of rain
for September, which is usually a
dry month, the cotton crop, which
is short, has suffered, due to lower-
ing of grade. More rain has fallen
during the nine months of this year
than is usually received in twelve.
Moisture will help pastures which
were getting low, and a fall turnip
and oat crop, but it is hard on cotton.
Just how much wetter this Sep-
tember was than the same month in
1944 is shown by the total rain last
year for the month; 2.19 inches. In
September, 1943, the rainfall was
1.52 inches.
This is how the 1945 total to date
has reached 49.47 inches: January,
2.01; February, 9.75; March, 9.03;
April, 2.91; May, 3.22; June, 7.68;
July, 4.77; August, 2.31; and Sep
tember, 7.79.
33-0. The local Tigers got off to a
slow start and were trailing 20-0 at
the end of the first quarter. How-
ever, the inexperienced Deport boys
began to settle down and held the
opponents scoreless during the last
quarter.
The Deport Tigers made only one
serious scoring threat. Late in the
second quarter they took the ball on
their own 38 yard line and marched
down the field on successive plays
only to be stopped within 10 yards
of a touchdown by the gun ending
first half of play.
The next game will be played in
Mt. Vernon Friday night, Oct. 5 at
7 o’clock when Deport meets the
1944 regional champions, Mt. Ver-
non Tigers. Local fans are asked to
follow the Tigers and give them their
support.
The boys are working hard each
afternoon under direction of Coach
Maddox and assistants Matthews and
Griffin and will be playing better
football as the season continues.
Dependent Benefits
Officer in Paris
Thru Oct. 12
A group of young people enjoyed
a scavenger hunt Monday night at
the home of Miss Jo Nell Bell.
the road. Hitting the bridge banis-
ter, he then pulled to the right, in
front of Vincent’s car which was
going south at the time.
Sgt. Shelton A. Williams, who has
been in North Africa and Italy for
| are visiting his father, E. S. Wyatt,
and Mrs. Wyatt at Minter.
How industry is taking the initia-
....B oUUw. a, ,„c n,„c. five in utilizing waste products and
Alton James, Cecil Anderson and making something new for Ameri
C. W. Anderson, all of Bogata, and
occupants of the Meacham car, re-
ceived minor cuts and bruises, and,
with Meacham, were given first aid
at the Camp Maxey hospital. Mea-
cham was later turned over the
camp authorities for investigation.
Vincent received face cuts and ac-
cording to Snapp the Vincent car
was damaged $200 and about $300
damages resulted to the Meacham
car.
cans is illustrated by the achieve-
ment of U. S. Rubber Co., Passaic,
N. J., in developing a fabric from
chicken feathers.
Designed to be used in suits, dress-
es, sweaters and other wearing ap-
parel, the new fabric resembles wool.
Research was started when the com-
pany learned 100,000,000 pounds of
chicken feathers and 30,000,000
pounds of turkey feathers were wast-
ed in the United States annually.
uccn in nui in nuifd auu naiy xor Plen Mantooth, Sic, USNR, De-
38 months, arrived Wednesday in the Port> serves on the USS Chenaco es-
States and will spend a furlough cort aircraft carrier, which is cli-
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. G. maxing her war career by helping
Williams. Sgt. Williams has been in the occupation of Japan. This
in the army four years. veteran suffered no battle damage
_ l in steaming 252,552 miles in combat
Cpl. Elbert Westbrook has arriv- waters, after being converted from
a fleet tanker in early 1942.
ed at Tacoma, Wash., frofi the Pa- a fleet tanker in early 1942. She
cific theatre of operations and has took Part in the invasions of North
notified his brother W. O. West- Africa, Tarawa, Kwajalein, Eniwe-
numifu nia uiw. u. west- —»»**v.-
brook, that he will be home soon for tok, Aitape, Hollandia, Guam, Sai-
- visit with his father, Sam H. West- Pan- the Philippines and Okinawa
—i- —i ------1-.- land in the Battle for Leyte Gulf.
brook, and other relatives.
HIGH WATER HALTS
GERON WILDCAT
SQUIRREL SEASON OPENS
High water has halted \ work at
Humble No. 1 Geron wildcat, Rog-
ers and SA&MG surveys, which has
midstring set, at 3,885. The well is
northwest of Talco near Hagans^ort.
The season for hunting squirrels
opened Monday morning with ideal
weather for the purpose. The sea-
son will remain, open for three
months.
Mrs. May Bell had as guests
day, her sister, Mrs. Florence :
of Bogata, her daughter, Mrs.
*
Mr. and Mrs. George Hughes and
little son* Don George and. Miss
1,7 pme islands, where he has been sta-
Alice Harrison, all of Amarillo, have tioned, to Tokyo, Japan, as a mem-
been visiting in the home of Idrs- tmt* ni n,„ —«...——n«.,.i u.
Lt. James V. Kunkel has received Paul Posey, machinist’s mate 3c,
an honorable discharge from the R1 Deport, has been serving with the
army and is now employed in Dal- 85th Naval Construction Battalion at
las. His wife and son, James War- Pearl Harbor, climaxing with the
ren, are visiting relatives at Clarks- ' war’s end, a long period of duty that
ville and with her father, Ben War- j began in the Aleutians. In cold and
ren and Mrs. Warren at Fulbright. i heat, this battalion of Seabees per-
They will join Mr. Kunkel in Dal- j formed the strenuous, difficult work
port, has been honorably relieved
from active duty with the Army Air
Forces. Retaining his commission
and rank, he is still subject to recall
at any time during the present em-
ergency. Lt. Hayes first entered the
army in July 1941. He was a stu-
dent at Baylor University, Waco,
prior to his entry into the Army Air
Forces. He was last assigned as a
student officer at Roswell Army Air
Field, a B-29 transition school of the
Western Flying Training Command.
Pfc. Willard McGill, in the army
for seven years, has just received his
discharge at New Orleans, La., and
arrived home Wednesday for a visit
with relatives. He is entitled to
wear the Combat Medal, Good Con-
duct Medal, ETO and Pre-Pearl
Harbor ribbons and four battle stars,
representing Northern France, Sou-
thern France, battle of Central Eu-
rope and battle of the Rhineland. He
brought back a collection of Ger-
man medals, which are on display in
The Times office window. Among
them are ribbons belonging to Field
Marshal Kesslerlering of the GerT
mans.
Capt. Clarence W. Howe of the
Dallas regional office of the Field
Investigations Branch of the Office
of Dependency Benefits will be in
Paris Oct. 1 through Oct. 12 to in-
terview relatives of servicemen who
are now receiving family allowances.
Temporary headquarters will be es-
tablished in Room No. 3A, Post Of-
fice Building.
Those who have received appoint-
ment requests from the ODB region-
al office in Dallas are advised to be
prompt in keeping their appoint-
ments and to bring with them all
evidence listed in the request, in-
cluding their application number
and the soldier’s Army serial num-
ber. Persons who have no appoint-
ment, but who wish advice on their
particular problems concerning fam-
ily allowances may also call at the
above address.
The ODB officer stated that the
interviews are conducted as a mat-
ter of course to determine existence
and degree of current dependency.
In many instances, the interviews
have disclosed facts which justified
an increase in the amount of family
allowances payable. Those parents,
brothers, or sisters who confer with
the ODB officer are requested to
bring with them a record of their
income. Including all available fin-
ancial data and also a statement of
their living expenses.
While many parents, brothers and
sisters of soldiers are entitled to
family allowances, either as Class
B-l or Class B dependents, many
such relatives do not understand
that in order to be eligible to such
an allowance they must actually be
dependent upon the soldier, not only
when the allowance begins, but so
long as it continues.
las soon to make their home.
necessary to victory. It spent 17
months in the Aleutians, from there
Times from went to the South Pacific. When
In a letter to The
TISgt. T. L. Woodard, he says he is peace came, Its men were prepn
under orders to go from the Philip- military equipment in the New He-
pine Islands, where he has been sta- brides for shipment to areas nearer
____ and Miss
, Mr. and Mrs.
the fighting fronts.
ber of the occupational forces. He
Harrison’s par- is the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. B. | After more than four yearn In the
Roy Harrison at Woodard of Minter and a twin bro- military service 1st Lt. Lloyd P.
|f)wr of Mn. ItUanl Igo of Deport. of Uo,o , o, Co
Plans Being Made
For Bogata Stock
Show Nov. 12-13
Tech. 5th Grade Donald W. Clifton,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Clifton of
Deport R2, is stationed with U. S.
Army Forces on Guadalcanal with a
chemical warfare unit. A graduate
of Bogata High School, Cpl. Clifton
entered the service in December,
1942. He received his basic train-
ing at Fort Warren, Wyo., and left
the states for overseas duty in June
1943. While in the Pacific he has
ioned at New Caledonia, |
Fiji Islands, and his present post,
Guadalcanal, where he serves his
outfit >as a heavy truck driver and
crane operator. The corporal holds
the Good Conduct medal and the
Asiatic-Pacific campaign theatre me-.
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A meeting was held at Bogata on
Monday night to make plans for the
Stock Show to be held on Monday
and Tuesday, Nov. 12 and 13.
Secretary Guy Hurt states that
twenty-five breeders have signified
their intentions of showing at Bo-
gata, and everything points to
first class show.
Buck Mathews and Lee Lawler of
Deport, have been appointed mar-
shals for the saddle horse parade
on Monday, and Col. George Apple
of McKinney, will be in the auction
sales ring for that event on Tuesday.
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Mr. and Mrs. Mike McKay
Marshall, are entertaining a
| son at their home since Friday.
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