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VOLUME XL
DEPORT, LAMAR COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1948
NUMBER 30
t. Newsome
Passes Away
Friday at Rosalie
Mrs. C. C. Newsome, the for-
mer Miss Letha Irene Curtis, died
of a heart attack Friday at 6 p
m. at Rosalie.
Funeral service, conducted by
E. F. Harrell, layman of Paris,
was held Sunday afternoon at 5
o’clock at the Mt. Pleasant
church, west of Deport. Inter-
ment was in Highland Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Charlie Brad-
haw and Raymond Patman of
tisalie, Raleigh Bryan, Bob
Southerland, Arthur Campbell
and Herbert Gann of Deport.
Besides her husband, Mrs.
Newsome leaves these children:
Mrs. Lloyd Sparkman, Amarillo;
Mrs. W. C. Newsome, Paris; Mrs.
M. B. Bailey and Mrs. Milburn
Bumgarner, Deport; Mrs. Bill
Blevins, Pattonville; J. B. New-
some, Walla Walla, Wash., and
Clyde Newsome, Dallas; 10
grandchildren, four great-grand-
children; a brother and these sis-
ters: Joe Curtis and Mrs. O. E.
Hensley, Salinas, Calif.; Mrs. El-
la Martin, Shreveport, La., and
Mrs. E. R. Barker, Bradley, Ark. I
Mrs. Newsome, daughter of i
William and Luella Curtis, was
born in Arkansas, but lived just |
west of Deport 23 years before
moving to Rosalie two years ago.
She was a member of the Bap-
tist Church.
House Destroyed
Oscar Rhodes Place
Fire destroyed a five-room
house on the Oscar Rhodes place,
a mile southwest of Deport last
Saturday night It was occupied
by Mr. and Mrs. Bill Sheffield,
who were in Deport at the time.
Nothifig in the house was saved
and there was no insurance on
the house nor its contents.
Deport Fire Department an-
swered the alarm, but the house
was almost destroyed before they
could reach the blaze. It is not
known how the fire originated.
The house was formerly the L.
P. Hayes home place.
A committee of local citizens
are collecting cash donations for
the family. The Lamar Chapter
of the Red Cross has contributed
a cash donation of $25. Anyone
wishing to contribute a jar or
two of canned food, bed linens,
wearing apparel or any other ar-
ticles used in a household, are
asked to carry them to the W. F
Burden & Son store, where they
will be picked up. There are no
crildren in the family.
Hawkins to Drill
Well Near New
Hopkins Discovery
Battle of Ballots
Second Primary
Next Saturday
Voters will go to the polls' on
Saturday to select officials who
did not receive a majority of the
votes in the July primary. The
ballot is short and results should
be knov/n eer’v.
In Comrr .loners Precinct 1,
Lamar County, the ballot will
read as follows:
For United States Senator:
Coke R. Stevenson, Kimble Co.
Lyndon B. Johnson, Blanco Co.
For District Judge, 62nd Dist:
Wm. C. (Bill) Parker, Hunt Co.
E. L. Myers, Lamar Co.
For County Judge:
J. M. Hammack
T. E. (Jack) Springer
For Sheriff:
Willie P. Lane
Earl Brown
For County Clerk:
Wasson Uzzell
Geroh Crumley
For Public Weigher, Place 1:
Jess A. Gage ..................
Allen Stephens
For Commissioner, Prec. 1:
Eedford E. Booth
Sid J. Parks
Deport Tigers Begin
Football Practice
Eighteen boys reported to
Coach Sonny Fagan Tuesday, as
initial workouts for the 1948
football season opened. Among
the group were nine lettermen
holdovers from last year's squad.
Exercise and a lot of running
were on the "menu” for last
week, with the rough work sche-
duled to start Monday. The Tig-
ers are young and inexperienced
but with a lot of work, should
give a good account of them-
selves.
Following is the squad list:
Harrell McLemore. Junior Dug-
ger, Marshall Wright, Docky
Bryson, Marshall Thomas. June
Walker, Bob Nichols, Weldon
Pettit, Will Shew Jr., Joe Hayes,
Kenneth Hulett, Dave Shelton.
Jerry Reece, Silas Clement, Mac
McLemore, William H. Johnson.
Fred Swint, Robert Bailey, Bob
Denison, Warren Bell, Hoyle
Pomroy.
The Mitchell Creek pool. Shell
Oil’s new Paluxy discovery area
[five miles southeast of (he Sul-
phur Bluff field in Hopkins
County, had received its con-
firmation location Friday in a
test to be drilled by Jerry Haw-
kins, Dallas.
The operation will be No. 1, C.
too o- rjc |M. Maves, diagonally northwest
J. S. P. Simpson, 76. of Bogata, r ,., tT . , , , ■ *
' .. oc . ., ,'of Shell s Hedrick lease on wric i
died Friday at 9:25 p. m. at the
Sanitarium of Paris, where he
had been under treatment since
Aug. 5.
J. S. P. Simpson
^)f Bogata, Dead
| the discovery was drilled. Site
i falls 150 feet north and 150 feet
west of the northeast corner of
the D. S. Westerman survey but
in the Jasper County school land
The Rev. Walter Horn of Cen-
tral Presbyterian Church, con-1 ..
2 survey, on a 375-acre tract Haw
'kins has under lease.
ducted the funeral Sunday at
p. m. and the body was sent to
Tucson, Ariz., for burial there,
where four of Mr. Simpson’s
children live.
James Sterling Price Simpson
was born in Kentucky, Dec. 24,
1871, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thom-
as W. Simpson. His wife is the
former Miss Maxia Higginbo-
tham.
Sirviving are Mrs. Simpson and
Lese children: James Cope, Mrs.
tussell Sutton, Mrs. Charles Sut-
ton and E. D. Simpson, all of
Tucson, and H. B Simpson, San
Jose, Calif.; 10 grandchildren and
four great-grandchildren.
Shell holds 3,900 acres around
its discovery, the Hawkins lease
being the only one not held close
in. Shell plans quick develop-
ment of its acreage.
PENITENTIARY PAROLE
REVOKED BY GOVERNOR
„ The penitentiary parole of
Uvalde Landrum of Cunningham
has been revoked by Gov. Beau-
ford Jester and he was taken into
custody Monday by sheriff’s de-
puties. He was charged with
rape last week and this was con-
sidered a breach of his parole
conditions, authorities said.
FOUR RECEIVE DEGREES
AT ETST COLLEGE
Four students from Deport are
members of the graduating class
at ETSTC. Dr. James G. Gee,
president, conferred degrees up-
on 520 students in Ferguson
auditorium Sunday, Aug. 22.
George Cheatham and Robert Lee
Maddox of the Deport School, re-
ceived master of science degrees.
Bachelor of science degrees were
conferred upon Martha Jayne
Guest and Agnes Reynolds Leg-
gett.
Mr. and Mrs. George Cheatham
and children, Helen and Charles,
Mr. and Mrs. Hal Shipp returned
home Friday after a vacation
spent at Lubbock and Carlsbad,
N. M., and other points in the
west.
Father of Rugby
Man Dies At
Clarksville
Funeral for William Howard
Mabry. 59, who died Saturday,
was held Monday afternoon at
Clarksville. The Rev. Joe Ever-
hart assisted by the Rev. Hudson
McNair, Presbyterian pastors, of-
ficiated and burial was made in
Fairview Cemetery. Pallbearers
were Alva Havs, Homer Pollock,
Ike Pollock, H. L. Walker, Har-
vey Cornett and Leighton Cor-
nett.
Mr. Mabry, son of the late Will
and Penny A. Mabry, was born
in Red River County Dee.'6, 1888.
He was a member of New Sham-
rock Presbyterian Church.
Survivors are these children:
Claude C. Mabry, Mrs. Rufus Key
and Mrs. W. B. McCaslin, Ver-
non; S. Louis Mabry, Clairmont,
Calif.; William W. Mabry, Rugby;
H. Stiles Mabry and Howard Ma-
bry Jr., Clarksville, and Mrs.
Luther Gray, Avery; 12 grand-
children and these brothers and
sisters: T. L. Mabry, Meadow;
Matt Mabry, T. T. Mabry, Clay
Mabry, Mrs. C. Burgess and Mrs.
Jean Raney, Clarksville; and Mrs.
J. Pendergrass, Mineral Wells.
HOW MUCH ?
I’ll Write You A Check
You don’t have to keep a lot of cash on
hand—subject to fire, loss or theft—when
you can so easily enjoy the convenience
of a Checking Account for your personal
finances.
Handle the payment of your accounts,
bills and the many other things for which
you need money—with a checking account
here at the First National Bank in Deport.
First National Bank
DEPORT, TEXAS
The Old Reliable Sfece IMS
Urges Protection
Corn from Weevils
With com gathering time so
near it is very important to make
an early start in cleaning out
the storage bins, says Red River
County Agent Herman Lynch.
If the corn has not been har-
vested, clean the bins and spray
with 5r; DDT. This will kill all
the weevils in the bin. Then plug
any cracks in the walls so they
will be weather and fumigant
tight.
Dr. H. G. Johnston, extension
entomologist of Texas A. & M.
College, recommends two mix-
tures for the fumigation process.
The first is three parts of ethy-
lene dichloride and one part car-
bon tetrachloride. One thousand
bushels of grain will use six gal-
lons of the fumigant. Sprinkle
with an ordinary sprinkling can
ever the top of the grain.
The second mixture recom-
mended it one part carbon di-
sulphide (highlife) and four parts
carbon tetrachloride. Again, six
gallons of the mixture will fumi-
gate 1000 bushels of grain. Pour
it in shallow pans and place
around the bin—it will evaporate
end the fumes soak through the
grain. August is a good month
to get started on the important
job of weevil control.
Grade A Milk Goes
To All-Time High
There was an increase in the
buying price of Grade “A” milk
of 30 cents per hundred effective
Tuesday, August 24. Tl is means
the Grade “A” milk producer will
receive $6.20 per hundred for 4
per cent milk, with 10 cents per
point over and 8 cants point un-
der. The new Drive i: the all
time record high price paid by the
Lamar Creamery.
Mr. White said that even
though feed prices ! eve declined
v, ithin tile post 45 <r ys, the in-
crease in buying p; ice- to $6.20
per hundred is caused by the ex-
( ■>me shortage of Grade “A”
milk not onlv in this milk-shed.
I lit in the United States as a
v hole. All producers with Grade
“A” barns now in the process of
construction are urged to com-
plete them at the earliest possi-
ble date, O. B. White, manager,
urged.
In addition. Lamar Creamery
also announces that effective
September 1, and until further
notice, they will pay 10 cents per
hundred bonus to all manufac-
turing milk prodr s that aver-
age 100 pounds or more milk per
day for each 15-day pay period.
Deport School to
Open Sept. 13
Opening date of the Deport
Public School has been postpon-
ed until Sept. 13, to allow another
week for children to help gather
the large cotton crop, according
to C. B. Glover, president of the
board. Opening date had pre-
viously been set for Sept. 6.
Harvest of Cotton
Crop Becomes
General Here
Deport’s three gins had turned
out 279 bales up to 9 o’clock on
Wednesday morning.
A light shower which fell
Tuesday afternoon, stopped the
work of pickers, but they were
back in the fields again on Wed-
nesday.
Picking is becoming general
over this area. Growers believe
the dry weather, no rain of any
consequence having fallen this
month, has caused some cotton
to open prematurely. However,
there have been no hot winds to
scar the bolls like it did last
year. Prospects are not as flat-
tering as they were two weeks
ago but it looks like we will
make a good cotton crop.
Deport Gin had turned cut 103
bales. Bulk of the seed was be-
ing stored after price dropped to
$65.00.
Home Gin had ginned 107
bales. About 50 per cent of the
cotton was being sold, according
to Bookkeeper Igo.
Deport Co-Op Gin had turned
out 69 bales. Installation of new
machinery delayed operations of
the plant earlier in the week.
Rugby Gin bad turned out 47
liales on Wednesday morning.
Cotton seed price; dropped $5
la Inn Monday to $65. Tt\ the
third seed-price tumble this
| month. Prices -kidded from $90
I to $75 on All". 11. Then, a wyek
later, on Aug. 18. the price drop-
| i cd to $70.
Cotton seed meal prices also
! declined from $70 to $65 per ton.
It was $86 ner ton before the
Am'. 11 break.
New heat records f >r this sum-
liii" were established last week
| ( id, when the thermometer
climbed to 103-4-5 degrees. It was
the hottest day since Aug. 10.
1947, when 105 degrees were re-
gistered.
Pastures were scared as if by
a frost. Late cotton on light land
lias bolls opening prematurely,
and cotton on all but the heavi-
est land wilted under the blister-
ing sun.
No rain of any consequence
has fallen this month.
Rev. L. J. Stotts
Resigns Pastorate
Fulbright Church
After nineteen months of ser-
vice with the Baptist churches at
Fulbright and Boxelder, the Rev.
L. J. Stotts lias tendered his re-
signation to become effective
Aug. 31. He lias been called to
the pastorate of the First Baptist
Church at Avingcr.
"We want to take this means
of saying how much we appreci-
! ate the way in which the people
of Fulbright, Bogata, and Deport
l ave received us in our work
here. We feel we are leaving
' many true friends behind us and
pray God’s richest blessings upon
tl cm," said the Rev. Mr. Stotts.
T o Stotts havc bein popular
i.i'id smeessful in tiieir work in
la; area and will take to tk<
ni iv home tile very best \\ isnes
( f the people.
Repairs Are Being
Made to Deport
School Property
President Orders
Deferments From
Peacetime Draft
WASHINGTON. — All hus-
bands, fathers and essential work-
ers have been ordered deferred
from the peacetime draft.
But they must register, Start-
ing Aug. 30, just the same as all
other men 18 through 25.
President Truman ordered the
sweeping deferments Friday, de-
parting from the World War II
practice under which deferments
were authorized but left up to
local draft boards to assess.
In addition to husbands and fa-
thers, Mr. Truman ordered defer-
ment of:
■ 1. Irreplaceable farm workers
who market “subtantial amounts”
of food products needed by the
nation.
2. Industrial workers of special
skills who are required for pro-
duction essential to the national
health, safety or interest.
3. Conscientious objectors.
4. Ministers and clergymen.
5. Public officials, including
governors, congressmen, state
legislators and judges.
6. Physically or mentally unfit.
7. Sole surviving sons of fam-
ilies in which one or more sons
or daughters were killed in action
or died in line of duty while
i serving with the armed farces
| curing World War II.
8 Veterans of ninet.v days or
j nr re aGive service between Dec.
I 7. 1**11. and Sept. 2. 1945.
Members of the armed serv-
! ices.
Mrs. R. R. Allen
Dies at Paris
Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Leggett,
Mr. ancfMrs. Billie Allen Leggett
and Dean Leggett attended com-
mencement exercises Sunday at
ETSTC, Commerce, where Mrs.
Oscar Leggett received her bach-
elor of science degree. Mrs. Leg-
gett was notified by the commit-
tee on student honors and schol-
arship that she was eligible for
membership in Alpha Chi, Na-
tional Honorary Society.
Mrs. R R Allen, 77. the for-
mer Miss M ir McFadden, died
at her home a Paris Thursday.
Mrs. Allen, whose husband
died Oct. 24, 1941, leaves these
children, Mrs. Hugh McFadden,
Mrs. W. D. Milling, Mrs. Claude
McKinney, Mrs. Claude Epsy,
Mrs. Burton Mason and Mack
Allen, all of Paris; Mrs. Joe Wells,
Castle Rock, Wash., and Frank
Allen, Lufkin; 15 grandchildren,
15 great-grandchildren, and two
: brothers: D. H. McFadden and
W. H. McFadden of Glory.
Born near Glory, Nov. 8, 1870,
she was a daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. John McFadden,
and had lived all her life in La-
mar County.
She had been a member of the
Christian Church since childhood.
A new roof has been put on
the Deport Grammar School
building, replacing the old as-
phalt one that had been in use
since the remodeling of the
building several years ago. New
drinking fountains are to be in-
stalled on both floors of the
building. Efforts are being made
to complete the work along with
other repairs to the school pro-
perty before the opening of school
on Sept. 13.
Plans also include enlarging
of the colored school, installing
water fountains in the present
building, and other needed re-
pairs, says C. B. Glover, presid-
ent of the school board.
Deport Lions Seek
100% Membership
Attendance Soon
DEAD MEXICAN FOUND
ON MATLOCK FARM
Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Matlock of
Las Cruces, N. M., who were here
visiting their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Duke Matlock at Milton and
Mr. and Mrs. Cleave Marcum of
Deport Lions Club will atterppt
a 100', membership attendance
on Sept. 14 by inviting the ladies
;.s their guests. Truth is that
executive officers of the club
have hopes that the ladies will
get their husband to the meeting
on that date. This was decided
at tfce regular weekly meeting
on Tuesday, when school cafeter-
ia ladies served a good steak
supper.
J C. Miller, agriculture teach-
er in the Deport school, was the
speaker, and he told in an in-
teresting manner of the recent
trip made by the FFA boys when
they visited many places in West
Texas, New Mexico and Old
Mexico.
Willie Lane of Paris, was a
guest of Fred Swint. and John
Moore and Mayor Frank Griffin
is the committee to arrange the
program for the next’meeting.
Deport, were called home Mon-
day. They were notified by
authorities that a dead Mexican
man had been found buried on
their place. Mr. Matlock had
several Mexican laborers work-
ing on his farm.
Alcorn Can’t Understand What Any-
body Would Want With Tall Building
EIGHTEEN LIQUOR CASES
AT PARIS IN JULY
No Illicit stills were taken in
this immediate area in July by
Liquor Control Board officers.
Inspectors took two in Harrison,
two in Henderson and one in
Smith counties.
Eighteen cases were filed at
Paris for this district. Ten con-
victions, two being given Jail
Editor’s note: Aehin Al-
corn, philosopher on his
Johnson grass farm on Sul-
phur seems a little pessimis-
tic this week. It’s probably
the heat.
Dear Editar: With the heat
tein as bad as it is, I don’t un-
derstand how anybody could be
plannin on buildin anything, but
I read in a copy of a paper which
I found out here in my favorite
restin place as I wouldn’t walk
to the mail box in this kind of
weather for a entire year’s sup-
ply of the Lamar County Echo or
your paper, that some men in
Houston are plannin on buildin
the tallest building in the world.
As I understand it, the buildin
will be used for offices and to
attract tourists, as there is some-
thin about some people which
drives them out of their homes
and across the country to get a
look at anything provided it’s the
tallest or the shortest or the wid-
est or the oldest or the wormiest
cr the newest, although person-
ally I wouldn’t walk from here
to my back pasture unless I was
already goin that way to see the
world’s' tallest building, biggest
liar, smallest brain cell,
■ : ■
However, what I would like to i
ask is haven’t them Houston mil- |
lionaires heard about the atom
bomb yet? The last thing on
earth a smart man would want in
these days is the world’s tallest
buildin in his vicinity. Like
standin in a lighted doorway in
an Indian night raid. Me, I’m
figurin on lowerin the roof on
my house and diggin the cellar
deeper, but apparently them
Houston men don’t keep up with
the world situation as well as
you and me.
From what I can tell about it,
this ain’t no time for buildin up-
ward, it’s time for tunnelin down,
the deeper the better. With
scientists talkin about guided
bombs travelin a thousand miles
a minute and supersonic air-
planes zippin around the coun-
try like wasps around a water-
melon rind, this is a strange
time to be erectin tall buildings.
I* seems to me the smart thing
to be doin would be to lop off
the tall ones and start diggin.
Them Houston men ought to sub-
scribe to a newspaper and find
out what the International situ-
ation is. I aay let the Russians
erect their own targets for guid-
ed mlisle practice.
Yours faithfully, A. A.
■ loiter*""1
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