The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 6, 1941 Page: 1 of 8
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Lamar oountians will vote on Sat-
'urday, April 5, on the proposed
$390,000 county relief bopd issue.
Members of the Commissioners’
Court, in a two-hour Saturday af-
ternoon meeting, ordered the elect-
idn following the receipt Tuesday
d$'last week of a petition bearing
the signatures of 189 persons ask-
ing for the vote. Ordering of the
elOjttion by the Commissioners was
considered mandatory as signatures
at-ffipy “more than 50 registered
property tax-paying citizens” were
required by Texas statutes.
According to the Court’s order of
ttye election, the voters will deter-
mine:
“Whether or not the bonds of said
Lamar County, Texas, shall be is-
sued in the amount of $200,000 bear-
ing interest at the rate of not ex-
ceeding four per cent per annum,
payable semi-annually as may be
determined and fixed by the Com-
missioners’ Court of Lamar County,
Texas, and maturing serially or
otherwise as may be determined by
the Commissioners’ Court of Lamar
County, Texas, in not to exceed 30
years from their date, for the pur-
pose of the construction, mainten-
ance and operation of macadamized,
gravelled or paved roads or turn-
pikes, or in aid thereof, in said
county; and whether an ad valorem
tax shall be levied annually on all
taxable property of said Lamar
County, Texas, for the purpose of
paying the interest on said bonds,
and to provide a sinking fund for
the redemption thereof at maturity.”
Allowable for
Talco Restored
to 23,139 Bbls.
Titus Man Charged
with Owning Still
Morris McGee, Titus countian,
reported to have pleaded guilty i
Feb. 26 before U. S. Commissioner
Mrs. Clara Faust to charges of pos-
sessing an unregistered still and was
released on $300 bond.
The man was arrested by inves-
tigators of the Alcohol Tax Unit
Stationed in Paris Tuesday at the
Sugar Hill community, east of Tal-
co. His bond was made returnable
to the Federal Court to be held in
Texarkana on May 19.
DEPORT, LAMAR COUNTY, TEjXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1941
John R. Grant
Dies Monday j
at El Paso
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Baptists Hear
First Sermon
of New Pastor
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Talco field will be allowed to pro-
duce 23,139 barrels daily during
March. Restoration of allowable,
cut to 17,750 barrels in February,
was announced Friday in the March
proration order by the Railroad
Commission.
The new order means that Talco
may produce 5,825 more barrels
daily during March than were pro-
duced in February. Prior to the
Febuary cut the allowable was 26,-
043 barrels.
The order, which will be effective
March 10, calls for basic allowable
of 1,352,489 barrels daily in Texas,
and was issued along with a state-
ment that “In preparing the allow-
able order, the commission has at-
tempted to establish parity between
like fields in so far as producing
cbnditions and the prevention of
physical waste would permit. In
establishing the allowables the c6m-
mission took cognizance of the fact
that the types of crudes produced
(liBr different dven within the com-
fnission district and that the de-
nMnd for these types of crude
The hew allowable means an in-
pf 32 barrels over- the 24
per well in the Talco field,
increase - was granted - after
^complaints from oil field
tot the state. Each field was
according to the grade of
and its importance in de-
At the present time Talco
’ ip so much in demand that
are having to turn down
REV. MEREDITH E. WYATT
Shown above is the Rev. Mere-
dith E. Wyatt, new pastor of the
Deport Baptist Church, who filled
the pulpit for his first regular ser-
mon to a Deport audience Sunday
morning.
The new pastor comes to Deport
from- Sulphur Springs. He is a
graduate of Howard-Payne College,
where he received his B. A. degree
and holds a Th. M. degree from the
Baptist Seminary at Fort Worth.
The new pastor and his wife mov-
ed Monday to the Baptist parsonage
in East Deport and he announces
that Sunday services will find Sun-
day school beginning at 10 a. m. and
the sermon at 11 a. m. Evening
services at other Deport churches
vtrill be dismissed in order that their
members may hear the new pastor
at 7:30 p. m.
John R. Grant, 36, died at 7:30
a. m. Monday in Hotel Dieu, El
Paso, where he had been a pa4
tient for several weeks. Death re*
suited from the effects of sarcoma
of the lungs, a disease with which
he had been afflicted for a number
of months. Funeral will be held
Thursday with burial in El Paso.
John Russell Grant was born at
Kanawha, Red River county, on
Sept. 7, 1904. He was the. youngest
son of Dr. and Mrs. Ben S. Grant
and came to Deport with the fam-
ily when he was two years old,
Growing up in Deport, he attended
Deport High School and later be*
came associated with The Deport
Times as news reporter and printer,
a position he held several years be-
fore going to Dallas in 1929 and
still later, to El Paso, where he was
married in 1934 to Miss Mario
Hyde, who with one son, George
Russell, survive.
Other survivors include his mo-l
ther, Mrs. Ben S. Grant, who made
her home with him for the past sev-i
eral years; and these brothers and
sisters: Lucian Grant and Mrs. J.
S. Furgerson of El Paso; Walter and
George Grant and Mrs. Marvih No-
bles of Deport; Mrs. C. L. Shields
of Paris; Mrs. R. N. Brown of Den-
ton and Mrs. Curtis Nesbitt of
Jonesville.
Deceased will perhaps be best re-
membered by local people for his
affiliation with and active partici-
pation in church and Sunday school
work, his interest in people about
him and his cheerful philosophy of
living. He had been a member of
the Deport Methodist Church since
childhood.
March Comes
in Like Lamp
to This Area
Moore and McCrury
Contest March 16
The Moores and McCrurys will go
a feuding Sunday, March 16, when
the five sons of A. P. Moore of Ma-
nle meet the five sons of Tient Mc-
Crury of McCrury in a basketball
game to be played at Cuthand at
2:30. The Moore team will be com-
posed of John, Russell, Ellis, Burl
and Wade Moore, while the Mc-
Crury’s Will be Flovd, Clifton, Hor
ace, Pete and Roy Earl.
It is unusual that both families
have long been basketball enthusi-
asts and the sons have made their
mark in the case world. The game
will be in no sense a burlesaue, but
will pit some real basketball play-
ers against each other.
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the new allowable,
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Deport Boy Getting
Try-Out In League
James (Pinky) Griffin of Deport,
left Wednesday for a try-out with
the Shreveport, La., baseball club,
wliich is a member of the Texas
League. Hifc try-out position will
be for second base.
pinky cut bis basejball teeth in
Deport and has earned .4 reputation
in this area for his pitching ability.
He played semi-pro ball last year
with the Paris league. He is the
soft of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Griffin of
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March came in like a lamp. Fol-
lowing a February in which about
four inches of rain fell on 11 separ-
ate days and in which the sun fail-
ed to show up on several others, the
bright sunshine during the first few
days of March has been doubly wel-
comed and appreciated by people in
this area.
Farm work, which has been at a
standstill for almost two weeks, was
resumed in' some fields Wednesday,
though it will be Friday before
work can get underway on some
farms.
There still is a considerable acre-
age of land to be plowed before
planting can be started. Many
farmers, however, are getting corn
and other early crop land ready now
and will finish plowing other land
when those crops are planted.
Little gardening has been done in
this section and local merchants are
selling many seeds and plants this
week. Indications point to bigger
garden spaces on most farms this
year, as well as truck crops.
Fulbright FFA Boy
Represents Area 6
at Fat Stock Show
A. D. Tucker, president of the
Fulbright FlfA chapter, left Wed-
nesday moriiing for Ft. Worth to
represent Area 6 at the State FFA
convention. will serve on
the State: E$tooutive Committee and
the State l&ctoe Star Farmer Com-
mitee. J\'
The meeting was held Wednasdey
afternoon at the Westbrook Hotel.
Other members of the chapter plan
to leave. Friday to attend the Fat
Stock Stum.
Local Veterans
Fall Out for
Registration
Expressing their willingness to
serve their country in any capacity
for which they are qualified, 58
ex-service men have registered at
the Deport postoffice since the re-
quest for voluntary registration was
made last week by Buck Matthews,
commander of the Warren Teague
Pos^ of the American Legion.
None of the men will be called
into fighting service, but they may
be called on, in case of national em-
ergency, to serve in various activi-
ties at home, where a home unit may
be formed, or in guarding against
sabotage.
Registration records will be sent
to Washington, where the National
Headquarters of the American Le-
gion may have excess to them.
The registration is' part of a na-
tion-wide survey ordered by the
National Commander of the Ameri-
can Legion to secure information
on all ex-service men to ascertain
their present ability to serve in some
way in the National Defense pro-
gram.
Registrations will be accepted
during the remainder of this week,
but will be discontinued after Sat-
urday in order that the names may
be grouped and sent to Washington.
FORMER DEPORT
WOMAN DIES
AT MENA, ARK.
Mrs. Minnie Lee Stubblefield, for-
merly of Deport and mother of H.
L. Stubblefield of Bogata, died Sat-
urday morning in a hospital at
Mena, Ark., and the body was bur-
ied on Sunday in Bogata. The fu-
neral service was held in the First
Presbyterian Church at Mena, of
which she was a member.
’Deceased was born Jan. 20, 1875,
at McMinnville, Tenn. About 47
years ago she was married to H. P.
Stubblefield in Deport. She had
resided at Mena for the past 21
years.
Surviving are her husband, three
daughters, Mrs. E. H. Stark of Paris.
Mrs. J. C. Garrett, Huntsville and
Miss Nan Stubblefield of Mena;
three sons, H. L. of Bogata, Calvin
of Mena and C. J. of Paris; a bro-
ther, T. M. Allen of Ingram; two
sisters, Mrs. Anna Walker of Pear-
sall and Mrs. Ada Stubblefield' of
Ft. Worth and two grandchildren,
Thomas Lee and Frank Stubble-
field.
Deport Man Vice-Pres.
Mental Hygiene Ass’n
L. T. Johnston, superintendent of
Deport High School, was elected
first vice-president of the Lamar
County Mental Hygiene Associa-
tion at an election of officers Wed-
nesday night of last week at the
Paris Junior College building.
Dee Cunningham of Petty, was
named president; F. E. McGahan of
Cunningham, second vice-president;
R. E. Mason, Roxton, secretary-treas-
urer.
Mayor Lawler
Announces
Resignation
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MAH CHARGED
DRIVING
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While intoxi-
lit a Paris
Canup
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Aurora Borealis Seen
During Week End
Local residents report a brilliant
display of the great northern lights,
auroro borealis, Friday night and a
lesser disday Saturday evening
about 8 o’clock.
The auro, always a beautiful
spectacle, occurs simultaneously in
rings about both the north and
south magnetic poles of the earth
when the earth passes into great
clouds of electrified particles or
strong rays of ultra-violet light,
streaming outward from great erup-
tions on the rotating sun. These
emanations excite the gases of the
rarified upper air, 50 to 500 miles
or more aloft, and produce the col-
ored lights. The currents aloft not
only break up radio transmission,
but also produce strong earth cur-
rents, called magnetic storms which
affect telegraph lines.
W. I. LAWLER
Announcement of the resignation
of W. I. Lawler as mayor of the
City of Deport was made Wednes-
day, effective at the close of business
that day. The resignation makes
L. E. Hayes mayor pro tern, pend-
ing the election of a new mayor.
Mr. Lawler gives as the cause of
his resignation a physical disorder
that keeps him in bed part of each
day and makes it necessary for him
to avoid all activities that induce
mental or nervous strain.
Mr. Lawler, a Republican by par-
ty affiliation, but a real Democrat
at heart, was first elected mayor in
April, 1938, when he received 163
of the 166 votes east in the city
election. Ho was again elected in
1940, receiving 153 of the 196 votes
cast for himself and another can-
didate. ~
During his administration Mr.
Lawler stood behind and supported
every movement for the betterment
of Deport and his high regard for
the health of local people has re-
sulted in the successful campaigns
against mosquitoes that have almost
eliminated that pest locally.
Fulbright
Places First
Judging Event
iff
On Saturday, March 1, two judg-
ing teams, milk judging and
judging, represented Fulbright FFA
at the annual Sulphur Springs judg-
ing contests. This was the chap-
ter’s fourth consecutive time to en-
ter these contests and for the fourth
time they brought home a first place
award The meat judging team won
first place, with a team member,
Tommie Brandon, winning high in**
ctividual award.
Other members of the team were
A. D. Tucker and Buck Ramsey.
The milk judging team was com-
posed of James Lawson Murphy*
Bruce Thomas and Albert Mitcnell.
The boys accompanied by the lo-
cal adviser, John Harkrider, spent
a very enjoyable as well as profit-
able day at the contests.
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Former Deport Man
Dies in Veterans’
Hospital Feb. 26
Funeral services were held last
Thursday afternoon at the Saltillo
Baptist Church for Earnest Mitchell,
52, who died Feb. 26 at the Veterans'
Hospital at Legion after a three
years’ illness according to the Mt.
Vernon ,Optic-Herald. Rev. T. P.
Griffith of Weaver conducted the*
services, assisted by Rev. S. L. Wel-
burn. Burial was at Old Saltillo
cemetery.
Mr. Mitchell was born at Deport
in 1889. He joined the Methodist
church at the age of 12. His mem-
bership remained in that church un-
til his death.
He married Miss Margaret Ben-
nett, who preceded him in death
nearly six years ago. Surviving are
six children, Troyce, Howell, A. L.,
Sidney, Margaret and Sally Ruth.
One child died in infancy. Also sur-
viving are four sisters, Mrs. A.’ L.
Bennett of Greenville, Mrs. Oliver
Farr of Sulphur Springs, Mrs. Ster-
ling Bennett of Bonham, and Mrs.
Scott Agee of Saltillo. .
Deceased was a cousin of Mrs:
Robert Mitchell of Deport.
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Fire Destroys Barn
and Stock at Bogata
Fire destroyed a large barn at the
Gus Harbison home west of Bogata
at 2 a. m. Wednesday, three cows,
two mules and a horse being trap-
in the burping structure and
their livqs- Another horse
iped. A large amount of corn
other feedstuff w*s also de-
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Red River Man Fined
on Liquor Charge
Herbert Richie, Red River county
white man, is reported to have
pleaded guilty Feb. 26 to charges
of possessing illicit, unstamped li-
quor and was fined $100 and costs.
The man was arrested Feb. 25 at
Detroit by officers from the Red
River county. sheriff’s department,
the Paris office of the Texas Liquor
Control Board and the Detroit con-
stable.
Occupation Class Visits
Deport Times Office
Five members of the Occupation
class of the Deport High School paid
The Times a pleasant visit on Wed-
nesday to learn how a newspaper
was made. The class was shown
something of printing, sterotyping,
and molding type, and each given a
slug of type cast on the Linotype,
bearing his or her name- Members
visiting The Times plant were Pris-
cilla Knox, Bette Ruthe Greene,
Edith Ruth Anderson, Virginia
Hodges and Charles BalL
MT. VERNON WILL IMPROVE
NEW CITY HALL GROUNDS
Winfield Man *
is Killed When
Train Hits Car
Robert L. (Bob) Jaggers, proBtr: {-fill
inent Winfield man, was instantly
killed about 6 o’clock Wednesday
evening of last- week when his
tomobile was struck by a Coti
Belt train on a little-used cro
a mile west of Winfield.
Mr. Jaggers is reported to hav»-
been returning to his home from
his farm and failed to see the ap-
proaching train where the road
makes a double turn at the track.
The automobile was demolished. Mr.
Jaggers was placed aboard the train
and taken to Mt. Vernon for emer-
gency treatment, but was dead up-
on arrival at that place.
Survivors include his widow and
one son, Worth Jaggers of Winfield. ■:
Two sisters and five brothers also
survive.
Funeral services were held Fri-
day morning at the Winfield Church
of Christ. Interment was
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Thirteen Men Out
for Track Evenhix
Coach L. L. Morris re]
teen men out for track'
Deport High School
county track eventrtto ,i
Approval of a $070 WPA
[/or improvement of g
Five of the
men: Fagan,
Reese and Foster.
ported by Pomroy, N
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The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 6, 1941, newspaper, March 6, 1941; Deport, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth902478/m1/1/?q=Rains+County+History: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Red River County Public Library.