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VOLVME 38
BOGATA, RED RIVER COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1949
Missing Woman’s
Body Located by
Party
NUMBER 47
The body of Mrs. Edna McHam,
I 75, was found on a creek bank
* two miles north of Paris Sunday.
She had been the object of a
Widespread search.
Justice of the Peace R. T. Nash
returned an inquest verdict that
she died of exposure. She had
been missing since Tuesday
. morning, when she went for a
walk. .
More than 100 Legionnaires,
National Guardsmen volunteers,
and city police, and two private
airplanes had joined the search.
The body was spotted Sunday
morning from an airplane pilot-
ed by Jess Faulkner, who signal-
ed ground parties.
» Searchers said they believed
H she had been dead only 12 hours.
Mrs. McHam went for a walk
Tuesday morning, her son, T. L.
McHam, reported. She failed to
return and the family became
Looney and Follis
Bolt Winnsboro
Bill Looney, Winnsboro third
baseman, and Johnny Follis,
shortstop, bolted the Winnsboro
Oiler baseball team prior to the
opening tussle with Sulphur
Springs Tuesday of last week.
Club officials said that Looney
appeared before them unexpect-
edly several hours before the
game and demanded a guaran-
tee of $20 for each of the play-
off tilts. The demand was re-
fused.
Although he later appeared at
the park in uniform, he was told
that his services had been ter-
minated in the afternoon. Looney
removed his uniform and left the
park, followed by Follis.
“Neither of these boys will ever
again play on a team on which I
play,” declared Manager Babe
Bryce, who termed the action of
the players as most deplorable.—
Winnsboro News.
Scoggins-Brown
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alarmed.
Negro Attacks
Paris Woman
A 23-year-old Negro, captured
after an attack on a 29-year-old
Paris white woman, was moved
from Lamar County jail to an un-
disclosed place.
Officers said they transferred
the man out of town because they
feared violence. They said the Ne-
gro pushed the woman and her
•-year-old son aside on a resid-
ential street Monday night and
grabbed her throat. Her screams
attracted help
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C. M. Scoggins and Mrs. Lela
Brown were married Thursday
evening. Sept. 8 at 4 p. m. in the
home of Rev. O. E. Wright, pastor
of the Church of God in Bogata.
Rev. Wright officiated. The cou-
ple will make their home in Bo-
gata.
Mount Vernon Man
Killed by Truck
Malcolm M. Mahaffey, 67, of
Mount Vernon, was killed Friday
when he was struck by a truck
in that city.
The truck, loaded with sacks of
feed, was driven by Dee Witt
Dye, 51, of Fort Worth.
Alcorn Says His Land Needs Restoring
But So Do Editorial Writers’ Brains
m.
Editor’s note: Achin Al-
corn, philosopher on his
Johnson grass farm on Sul-
phur, must have gotten hold
of some paper we missed, as
we haven’t seen any editorial
talking about what he’s talk-
ing about this week, and cer-
tainly it didn’t appear in this
paper.
Dear Editar: Every, once in a
while I read the editorials in the
big daily papers that^urn up out
hare, figurin if they was good
enough to wrap fish bait in
they’re good enough to read, but
the other day I picked up one and
spread it out in the shade and in
birtween naps read where a edi-
torial writer was strugglin with
the problem of surpluses.
Aocordin to him, scientists have
discovered a way to grow 200
bushels of corn to the acre, and
he was pretty upset, wonderin
what would happen if all the corn
land started producin 200 bushels
to the acre, instead of 25 or 30.
His contention was that such
induction Would ruin the coun-
sry, but I can’t see it that way.
He had it all figured out, if all
the com producin-states sudden-
ly produced eight times as much
corn as they do now, it would
flood the country with corn and
break the government tryin to
‘ r maintain the present price. He
Ikwas even in favor of buryin the
secret of 200 bushels to the acre.
If you ask me, there ought to
be more editorial writers buried.
In the first place, if the rest of
the farmers followed my exam-
ple, they wouldn’t produce any
more corn then than they do now.
I don’t set out to see how many
acres I can plant, all I want is
enough corn to see me through
the winter, and if I can do it on
one acre instead of 28, one is all
I’d plant. It reminds me of the
city editor who was opposed to
the mechanical cotton picker, on
account of it would throw cotton
pickers out of work, although he
wasn’t opposed to mechanical
typesetters, don’t make no dif-
ference if one machine did throw
ten men out of work.
Personally, I ain’t scared of a
corn surplus. If I had a choice
of bein busted without enough
corn or busted with too much, be-
lieve I’d take the latter. A man
with cornbread and a fishin pole
aint’ hard up.
If anybody can make my land
produce 200 bushels of corn or
anything else a acre, he’s wel-
come to do it, and while my land
may be pretty badly washed out,
it ain’t as washed out as some
editorial writers I know. Soil
conservation ain’t the only thing
needed in this country.
Yours faithfully, A. A.
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Bogata School
Gets Underway
Thursday-Friday
News is Just Like a
Letter from Home
Classes at Bogata schools got
underway last Friday after re-
gistration on Thursday. A num-
ber of students are still picking
cotton and the full enrollment is
not expected for several days.
High school registered 125 with
grammar school students total-
ing 273.
There have been some changes
made in the grade school teach-
ers. Following is a list of the
teachers and the grades they
teach:
G. W. Seay, 8th grade.
Mrs. Eva Watkins, 7th.
Mrs. Lula Quinton, 6th.
Mrs. May Dan Bell, 5th.
Mrs. Connie Jane Miller, 4th.
Mrs. Archie Lowry, 3rd.
Miss Jodie Craddock, 2nd.
Mrs. Emadel Hunt, music and
departmental work.
Mrs. Ollie McCain is librarian.
High school teachers and their
classes are: F. L. Branson, supt.;
W. S. Cody, principal; Mrs. Sam
Holder, science; Miss Patricia
Felts, English; Miss Virginia
Branson, business; Mrs. Fitzger-
ald, home economics; Morris
Trimm, vocational agriculture;
Edwin Miller, coach; Mrs. Gil-
bert Huddleston, visiting teacher.
Bus drivers this year are: Ed-
gar Stewart, C. C. Morris, Chuck
Johnson and H. L. Branton.
Mrs. Jap Chesshire, Mrs. J. O.
Lee, Mrs. Franklin and Mrs.
Ruth Vaughan are employed in
the school cafeteria with Mrs.
Henry Hill as assistant. Jap
Chesshire is janitor.
Keep the young folks happy
while they’re away at school, by
keeping them supplied with com-
plete home-town news. Send
them The News so they may get
all the news from home each
week. To make it easy for you,
The News will send them the
newspaper every week for the
j nine months they are away at
school for $1.00.
Avery Minister
Addresses Lions
At the regular meeting of the
Lions Club Tuesday night mem-
bers heard Rev. A. B. Rogers of
the Avery club make an interest-
ing talk qn the services and duties
of Lions.
Ross Hughston of Clarksville,
chairman of the Polio chapter in
Red River County, gave an ac-
count of polio in the county and
asked the club to help in raising
funds to be used in paying for
treatments for patients. A com-
mittee composed of Walter Mc-
David, chairman; Rev. W. D.
Thompson, James Castleman, Vir-
gil Wood, Rev. C. H. Hoover, W.
C. Kelley and Newt Bryson, was
appointed to head the drive in
Bogata. Anyone wishing to make
donation is asked to see either of
these men.
All Lions are urged to attend
the next meeting as clubs from
Clarksville, Detroit and Avery
will be guests of the Bogata club.
Murray Fly, president of Odessa
Junior College, and a former
superintendent at Fulbright, will
be the speaker.
Bulldogs-Lose to
Hawkins 25 to 6
Last Friday night the Bulldogs
took a pushing around, 25 to 6,
from the Hawkins Hawks, who
boast a 17 lettermen string. The
Bulldogs showed good fighting
I spirit and held the big fellows in
| the last half to one touchdown
1 and made one themselves.
This was a practice game and
Coach Miller is not too unhappy
over the outcome as the Hawkins
team is in a higher bracket than
the Bulldogs will have to contend
with in conference play.
Next Friday night it will be a
different story when James Bowie
comes to Bogata, both teams will
be playing for keeps. The Bull-
dogs are resting this week end
and working hard to be ready for
the Pirates.
The schedule for this season
is as follows:
Sept. 9 Hawkins—there
Sept. 16 Open
Sept. 23 James Bowie—here
Sept. 30 Daingerfield—there
Oct. 7 Avinger—there
I Oct. 14 Open
1 Oct. 21 Leonard—here
Oct. 28 Naples—here
Nov. 4 Open
Nov. II Hughes Springs—there
Nov. 18 Talco—there
Nov. 24 Deport—here
CAPABLE and EFFICIENT
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First National Bank
IN BOGATA, TEXAS
Forecast Big Corn
Crop for Texas
WASHINGTON.—The Agricul-
ture Department has estimtaed a
54,824,000-bushel corn crop for
Texas—part of a 1949 national
crop of 3,525,741,000 bushels.
A yield of twenty-two bushels
an acre was indicated for Texas.
The national corn crop was sec-
ond largest on record. National
wheat production was put at 1,-
129.081.000 bushels, fourth larg-
est ever grown.
The indicated yield per acre
and production, respectively, of
other Texas major crops included:
Oats 26.5 and 31,800,000; rice,
46.0 and 23,782,000; grain sor-
ghum 20.0 and 71,380,000, and po-
tatoes 97.0 and 3,686,000.
CPS SAFETY MEETING
AT TALCO MONDAY
Safety meeting of employees of
Community Public Service Co.
was held Monday afternoon at
Talco. W. A. Thurman of Talco
and J. H. Philley of Detroit were
on the program. Present were
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Thurman of
Talco, T. T. Kinsey, Miss Jimmie
Lou Smith, J. Lee Smith, R. L.
Athons, Kenneth East, Andrew
Gibbs, and Talma Lamaster of
Bogata, J. H. Philley and Bill
Whitener of Detroit, Miss Lois
Philley of Deport and Houston
Hurst, local manager from Pe-
»trolia, who is on vacation and
with his wife are visiting her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Short
at Deport.
Doctor Graduating
Classes Small
Doctors are scarce and the 1949
graduating classes the smallest in
ten years. Only 5,094 graduated,
compared to 5,543 the previous
year, due to the fact medical
students were not exempted from
army service.
The picture looks a little
brighter with 6,900 enrolling this
fall. There were 612 women
among this year’s graduates,
largest number of women ever
to receive M. Ds.
Cool Snap Here
Wednesday Morn
Coolest temperatures for this
state in nine years and earliest
fall weather for fifty years slip-
ped in Wednesday.
A brisk north breeze, the tail
end of a frosty spell that blew
out of the Canadian Rockies,
knocked the props from under the
temperature.
BOGATA STUDENTS
TO ENTER P. J. C.
A number of Bogata students
entered Paris Junior College on
Tuesday: Jerry Devlin, Bobby
Hinson, Mariam Grayson, Frank
Stubblefield, Carolyn Hale, Bob-
bie O’Brien, Barbara Hobbs, Ray-!
mond Butts, Gene Blake and Tate
Davis.
Common School
District Teachers
Are Announced
Common school districts of Red
River County are only a shadow
of their former size when con-
solidations under the Gilmer-
Aikin law were made.
Their teaching staffs are:
Addielou—Mrs. Nan S. Also-
brook, Mrs. Addie Baugh.
Mill Creek—Mrs. Mildred Wal-
lace.
English—Mrs. Eva Dawson.
Cuthand — Mrs. Maggie Hale,
Mrs. Hattie Blair.
Madras—Mrs. Hattie Latimer.
Boxelder — DeWitt Medford,
Gladys Medford, Margie Hard-
man, Mrs. Lillie Gilliam, Mrs.
Geneva Kelley, Mrs. Christine
Peek.
Cedar Creek—Hubert Bratton.
Lanes Chapel—Mrs. Mary Kee-
ton.
Burkham—Mrs. Mildred Pres-
ley, Mrs. Juanita Kelley.
Maple—Mrs. Virginia Blissard,
Leonard Bond.
Johntown—Mr. Franklin, Mrs.
Franklin, Mrs. Mable Hale.
Turner’s Lake — Mrs. Dave
Cole.
Glendale—Mrs. Mary Scoggins.
Mosley—Mrs. Ethel Hill.
McCrury — Mrs. Viola Lowe,
Mrs. Edie Stogner.
Sherry—Mrs. Leola Moore.
Aikin Grove—Fannie Dawson,
Lena Smyre.
Bryarly—Mrs. Robbie Wright.
Albion—Mrs. Louise Maguffee.
Blakeney—Mrs. Ruby Mathis.
Acworth-Greenwood — Maldia
Blow.
Kiomitia—J. L. Swindle, Mrs.
Lennie Swindle.
Manchester—Pauline Rose.
Negley—Lucille Braddock.
Dimple—B. W. Crain. Mrs. Vida
Crain, Delma Barnes, Mrs. Mary
Hemingway, Mrs. Lucille Hale,
Mrs. Patsy Tucker, Mrs. Delia Al-
len, George Abercrombie, Mr.
Sherling, Mr. Stevens.
Bagwell—C. A. Cass, Mrs. Effie
Henry, Mrs. Minnie Witmer.
Brother of Bogata
Lady is Found
Dead Sunday
John W. Forman, 63, was found
dead in a corn field early Sun-
day morning, having gone there
to gather a sack of corn. A ver-
dict of death due to a heart attack
was rendered by a Paris Justice
of the Peace.
Funeral services were held at
Hopewell Monday afternoon. He
was a brother of Mrs. Marshall
Bolton of Bagata and had two
brothers and several sisters near
Paris, where he made his home.
Rain Interferes with
Cotton Picking
Rain which started falling ear-
ly Thursday morning, stopped
cotton picking for the second day
this week. Some fields are pick-
ed over for the second time while
others have not been gone over.
The Farmers Gin has ginned
653 bales up to Thursday morn-
ing, with seed selling at $41. Lint
cotton was bringing 29Vi cents.
NOTICE
To All Ex-Servicemen
If you are an ex-service man, you are invited
and urged to attend the meeting to be held at the Com-
munity House next
Tuesday Night, Sept. 20
AT 7:30 P. M.
This meeting is to re-organize and elect new
officers for the Roberts-Childers Post No. 513 of The
American Legion.
If you are interested in a newly organized Am-
erican Legion in Bogata, attend this meeting.
, PAUL WILLIAMS, Post Commander
BOGATA
CALF KILLERS’
BONDS FIXED
Examining trials have been
waived and bonds set at $2,000
each for two men held in connect-
ion with the killing of a white
face calf on the Camp Maxey
reservation.
Tommie Custer Pierce, 30, of
the Chicota community and J.
E. Wortham, 29, Dallas have been
charged with theft of cattle in
Justice of the Peace R. T. Nash’*
court.
In written statements, County
Attorney Frank Wear says the
men admitted killing the calf,
skinning it and taking the hind
quarter meat to their families,
telling them it was deer.
Another Test for
Delta County
After making extensive re-
search to determine location of a
fault line, Morty Freedman of
Dallas was preparing Wednesday
to drill another test in Delta
County.
Freedman No. 1 Dearing, a
4,850-foot attempt, was drilled
right on the fault and missed the
Paluxy. The new effort, No. 1
Pritchard, will seek the Travis
Peak. To be started about Sept.
26, it is east and slightly north of
No. 1 Dearing, and 2,000 feet
south of the fault.
Contract is to be awarded
Skeeters & Curry Drilling Com-
pany of Longview. Guy Martin
of Dallas, owns the block in the
Dunnetelle survey.
Warden Arrests
Man With Doe
Game Warden Northam of Mt.
Pleasant arrested a Redwater
man with a doe deer last week.
He was near the Bluff in western
Franklin County, when arrested.
Numerous deer and turkeys
were placed on the Alford ranch
in Sulphur Bottom several years
ago. There was a closed season
to protect them, then one open
season. Season was closed again
this year.
One Cent Gas Tax
Helps Counties
Build Roads
Funds have been allocated to
Texas counties for 1949 from the
one-cent gasoline tax collected to
retire outstanding county and
district road bonds eligible for
assumption by the Board of
County Road Bond Indebtedness.
The legislation making this one-
cent tax available has been in
effect several years. The amount
allocated this year is $5,500,000.
which is $300,000 above the 1948
figure and the largest sum for
any period since the plan became
operative.
As the debts assumed are whit-
tled away a larger percent of the
total allocation is available each
year for road construction. TTie
1949 fund made available to
counties is $2,131,421.52 in excess
of requirements for debt retire-
ment. This surplus will be used
in the counties for road building.
, Ultimately every county in the
state will receive this one-cent
allocation for new roads. For
several years all the money sent
to this county had to be applied
to outstanding debts. This year’s
allocation takes care of the 1949
debt load and leaves a surplus of
several thousand dollars (see fig-
ures below) for new construction.
Counties in Northeast Texas
share in the 1949 allocation of
this fund as follows, based on
figures compiled by the Texas
tax Journal:
County
For
New
Debts
Roads
Lamar
$37,704.04
$ 4,037.33
Red River
31.302.05
4,136.04
Titus
12.842.46
5,257.27
Bowie
28,406.09
9,097.58
Camp
7.850,20
1,471.20
Franklin
5.450 00
6,047 86
Hopkins _
34,085.54
Morris ..
11,104.94
Upshur
28,222.98
Wood
26.923.11
BOOK CLUB HOLDS
MEETING THURSDAY
Stratton Drilling
Near Bagwell
Frank Stratton was drilling be-
low 106 at No. 1 Mrs. Clara B.
Evans, William Becknell survey,
in the Bagwell area. It is 1,000
northeast of operator’s No. 1 Al-
len, which had an oil show in the
upper Paluxy.
Three miles northwest of Peer-
less, W. M. Coats of Ldngview
staked No. 1 W. T. Peek, 660 from
the east and 1,800 from the north
of the Simpson survey.
FULBRIGHT SCHOOL
TAXES INCREASED
Tax payers of the Fulbright In-
dependent school district held an
election last Saturday to Vote up-
on the proposal to increase the
school taxes from $1.10 to $1.25
on the $100 valuation. The meas-
ure carried by six votes.
The Bogata Book Club met
Thursday evening in the first
meeting of the new year with
Mrs. Paul Wilson as hostess. Nine
members and two visitors, Mrs.
Edd Leach of Maud, and Paula
Wilson, were present.
Mrs. Paul Dill gave an enjoy-
| able review of “Cheaper by the
Dozen,” by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
and Ernestine Gilbreth Cary.
Miss Iola Franklin and Mrs. W.
D. Thompson were welcomed as
new members. President, Miss
Mary Lassiter appointed a finance
committee composed of Mrs. R.
L. Athons, Mrs. T. T. Kinsey and
Mrs. W. D. Thompson. The next
meeting will be with Mrs. Bess
Pope on Sept. 22.
Federal Trapper
Kills Red Wolf
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Edglston
and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cooper of
Johntown. have moved to the Cox
house in West Bogata, known as
the old Craddock home.
Wolves that range along
Brushy creek west of Deport have-
destroyed more than 100 young
turkeys during the past six
weeks. Ray Watson, Lamar
County trapper, has killed three
of the animals, getting a third
on Wedneslay night of last week.
They are of the red variety and
this one weighed 65 pounds.
REGULAR PRICES
New Shipment of Vat Dyed Prints.................35c yd.
Gabardine—new fall shades —-----------------$1.00 yd.
Plaid Ginghams__________________________________________________59c yd.
Chambrays, in solids and stripes -------------------------------$$c
New lot of Boys Sport Shirts, 3’s to 16’s $1.49 and $1.98
New shipment of Towels. These are seconds and spec-
ially priced.
Cotton Blankets----------------$2.79 and $3.25
Sheets, Dan River and Fieldcrest------------------$U8
Ready-to-Wear Dresses in Prints and Chambrays $2.98
Lovely Dress Ups---- $7.95
Domestic .....................................25c, 29c and 35c yd.
Men’s Bannerwrap Sox------------------
Special for the week end—Avondale Chambray— 29c
1 lot of Boys Short Sleeve Sport Shirts, $1.49 and $1.98
values at---------------- $1.00
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