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VOLUME FORTY-TWO
DEPORT, LAMAR COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1951
and
seniors
husband
minutes. Some business buildings
Checking Account
I
DRFORT, TEXAS
!
Twenty-One Are
In Graduating
Class Deport Hi
Mt. Pleas’nt Editor
Dies Thursday of
Heart Attack
Robertson New
Times Employee
Price Regulations
On Food Effective
This Month
Norman Bros. Buy
Rhodes Cleaners
Griffin-Ripley
lected Aidermen
Keep Premises Clean
Mayor Grant Urges
DRAFT DEFERMENTS ORDERED
FOR BRIGHT COLLEGE STUDENTS
Anyone who has money to handle and bills to
pay, needs the protection and businesslike efficiency of
a checking account. Paying by check saves time and
trouble—you write checks and mail the payments . . .
you have a receipt for each payment . . . and a check
book record of income and outgo. It’s safer, too- you
can carry a check book instead of cash and your check-
ing account deposits arc protected by insurance up to
$10,000. Open a checking account now.
J. W. Embrey Dies
At Point, Georgia
Burglars Enter
Westbrook Store
Dates Set for
Rabies Program
Mrs. R. D. Bolton
Buried Friday
Mount Pleasant voters selected
Ivan Frizzell as mayor Tuesday
MT. PLEASANT VOTERS
ELECT FRIZZELL
Fort
and
MANUFACTURING MILK
PRICE IS INCREASED
his
all
ADVERTISING AT
1 DISCOUNT
and R 1’ Bolton. Dallas, besides
19 grandchildren and 10 great-
to
m
II
Hail Does Damage
At Clarksville
First National Bank
The Old Reliable Since 1M2
Cleaners I
Thev Will I —
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W. C. Holt Buried
Monday at Paris
————- I grandchildren.
Farming Outlook
Is Quite Rosy
Lamar Draft Board
Registers 24
Red Cross Fund
Drive Totals $288.64
Commissioners elected were Jack
Cross (re-elected), Q. G. Proctor
and Joe L Buford.
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NUMBER 9
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Teachers Named
Deport Schools
195152 Term
This includes
planning to
professional
A heavy hailstorm did consid-
erable damage at Clarksville on
Sunday afternoon. It was report-
ed some of the stones were the
size of golf balls and the ground
was covered as if snow had fal-
len. Most of the damage was to
roofs and neon signs. About
three-fourths of the outside neon
tubing was shattered. Electric
power and telephone service was
disrupted in some sections of the
town. Much window glass was
broken, including 400 panes in
the Witmer, Florist, greenhouse.
The hail was followed by a
downpour of rain which flooded
U. S. Highway 82, two blocks
west of the square, where water
was three feet deep for about 15 1
minutes. Some business buildings j
had two to three inches of water i
on the floors.
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For convenience, (jnvoived
Advertising has suffered. tre-
mendously from the snappy ideas
of promotional salesmen. It has
been banged again and again by
flamboyant copy that may fool
the business man but never fools
the reader. The old game of get-
ting the advertiser’s money with-
out caring a hoot about the re-
sults that follow, is taboo with
most reputable newspapers. —
Stephenville Empire Tribune.
margins that wholesalers and re-
tailers must henceforth use in
pricing a wide variety of market
basket foods.
the percentages are described as
t f uthful I
club and I and "specialty" items.
25- I I
old.
Burglars entered the food store
of J R. Westbrook & Son in De- i
port on Friday night by knocking I
the lock off the front door. About
$15 in change in the cash register
is all that has been missed, ac-
cording to Vernon Westbrook.
Night Watchman Othor Pear-
son did not see nor hear the bur- |
glars and did not know about it i
until the discovery was made
when the force came to the store
for the day’s work. Officers from
the Sheriff’s Department are in-
vestigating.
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. aZi* of
owing
_
Twenty-one students are can-
didates for graduation from De-
port High School this year. The
class is composed of nine girls
and twelve boys, according to
Principal James R. Lee.
The commencement sermon is
scheduled for Sunday morning.
May 20. at 11 o’clock at the high
school gym. Commencement ex-
ercises are set for Thursday night,
May 24.
Graduates are as follows:
Bailey, Robert
Creecy, Bill
Francis, Billy
Jordan, Jerry
King, Duane
Matlock, Charles
McLemore, Mack
Parks George
Reece. Jerry
Slaton. Weidon
Threadgill, Junior
Woodard. Dewey
Devlin, Joella
Edwards, Dessie
Edwards, Jessie
Gardner, Joyce Glynn
McGill, Patsy
Nicholson, Mona Leta
Skaggs, Kathryn
Thompson. June
Whitney. Carl Lee
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foi mer owners of the business.
Attention of the reader is di-
rected to an advertisement else-
where in this edition which in-
vites friends and customers to
| pay them a visit.
Deport Street Repairs
(Jet Underway
Mr. and Mrs. Rankin Bell .inrf
daughter. Gwen of Dallas, were
guests from Friday until Sunday
of his father, Frank Bell, and
other relatives.
With income tax payments
fresh in the minds of citizens and
business men, we might call their
attention to the fact that business
can secure a liberal discount on
advertising in 1951.
Any business which has to pay
I an income tax can spend a rea-
■ sonable amount in advertising,
| with the government contribut-
profits are taxable to the extent
of twenty per cent, your adver-
tising will cost you a net of only
eighty per cent of what you pay.
We would not, of course, advise
a business man to throw away
advertising schemes.
standing necessary to permit ex-
emption, and the necessary grade
in the forthcoming aptitude test,
will be determined later. Some
congressmen expect deferment of
most freshmen who enter college
next fall, of all sophomores who
were in the upper half of their
freshmen class scholastically, of
all juniors who were in the upper
two thirds of their sophomore
class, and of all seniors who were
in the upper three fourths as
juniors. The student must pay
his own transportation costs to
and from the testing center.
The examinations will be held
first on May 26, and will be re-
peated on June 16 and June 30 of
this year, for students who have
started their college careers and
plan to continue,
seniors and others
enter college or
schools.
For high school
others intending to go to college,
tests will be given after they
have commenced their first year
of college.
Hershey noted that Congress
had provided in the draft law for
deferment of college students "in
such numbers as may be neces-
sary to the maintenance of the
. j national health, safety, or inter-
scholastic | est.”
11 llslee for 1 li'*
is Jesse Gunn,
(I to MUI-
Trustees of the Deport Inde-
pendent School District met in
regular session Monday night and*
Repairs to Deport’s asphalt
streets got underway the first of
the week. Heavy traffic has caus-
ed numerous large holes and
these are being filled with iron
ore gravel. They are to be top-
ped later with asphalt gravel, ac-
cording to Mayor James Grant.
Merle Burks has the contract for.
filling the holes with gravel.
Lamar Creamery Co. has an-
nounced an advance in buying
price of manufacturing milk from
$3 90 to $4 per hundred pounds.
4 per cent test, plus or minus 7
cents per point up or down.
The new price is retroactive to
March 16. 1951, according to Bed-
ford Harlan, president of Lamar
Creamery.
elected the following teachers for
the 1951-52 school term: Theron
M Jones, superintendent; James
R Lee. high school principal;
Miss Ina Sparks, Mrs.* Margartha
Deweese, Miss Grace Horn, home-
making; Martin B. Scott, voc. ag.;
Robert E. Fagan, coach, and Mac-
Webb and Frank M Bean.
Teachers for the elementary
school: George Cheatham, prin-
cipal: Mrs. Lawrence Martin, Mrs.
Morris Parks, Mrs. Russell Law-
ler, Miss Patsy Westbrook, Mrs.
Joe Moore, Mrs. George Cheat-
ham, and Mrs. Theron M. Jones.
The following were re-elected
bus drivers: Aleck Griffin, Jenks
Bennett, Sam Wright, Raymond
Womack, Milbum Bumgarner,
and E. K Gunn. Mrs. Lula Read,
Mrs. J. H. Kilgore, and Mrs. Wil-
lie Dearman were re-elected
cooks, and Charles Wright, cus-
todian.
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Floyd,
were elected teachers in the col-
ored school.
WASHINGTON — President
! ^^Truman has ordered draft defer-
^^Bents for thousands of college
^nboys.
His sweeping executive order
authorizes draft boards to pass
over students whose grades are
good or who pass a special apti-
tude test to be given throughout
the country.
Some 800,000 are expected to
take the test this spring and sum-
mer in one of the most gigantic
examining jobs in history.
Those now in college can take
it starting May 26. But boys who
haven't started college will not be
given the examination until after
they become freshmen.
Most high school seniors who
intend to go to college are under
nineteen, the present draft age.
^^^Therefore very few of them are
^^■xpected to be drafted before
^^They enter college and get a
chance to take the aptitude test.
Maj Gen Lewis B Hershey,
draft director, told reporters
there were 1.000,000 nonveterans
in college now. He could not es-
timate how many will be defer-
red under the new ruling About
570,000 who came before draft
boards were deferred for the
present scholastic year.
Hershey said the
Annual Red Cross fund drive
officially closed Saturday. The
drive opened on March 1 and con-
tinued thiuout the month Quo-
tas were set higher this year than
last because of the Korean con-
flict.
Deport citizens contributed
$288 64 during the drive, accord-
ing to one of the chairprien, Mrs.
Melvin Jackson. Deport school
collected $18.41 of the amount.
No quota was set for Deport this
year but Lamar County’s quota
was $17,000. Deport chairmen
were Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. J. C.
Roach and Mrs. James Grant,
presidents of the three literary
clubs, the Portfolio, Bay View
and O Moore.
! Eva lee Read Will
V isit in Scotland
T. M. (Ted) Robertson, 28, for-
merly of Wills Point, is now em-
ployed as a printer and advertis-
ing man in the office of The De-
port Tinies. Mr. and Mrs. Robert-
son moved to Deport the first of
the week and have an apartment
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Glenn Clayton They are mem-
bers of the Baptist church
Ted had four and a half years
of service with the Air Force in
European an a as a sergeant dur-
ing World War II and f.,11 "
Illis discharge become an appicr-
l of the W.lls
Delbert and Ira Not man have
purchased the Rhodes
from J nnes Rhodes.
continue to operate the busmess
in the same old location and will
continue to serve rural areas
The men are no
survive: Wheeler
Mrs. Lee Eadv of Detroit and
Mrs. Jack Countryman of Bogata.
Mrs. Homer Burdette of Lanett,
Ala., Claude Embrey of Roanoke.
Ala., and Mrs. Tony Allen of Riv-
erside, Calif.
J. W Embrey, 88. former De-
port citizen, was buiud at his
home in Point. Ga., on March 27.
according to his son, Wheeler Em-
brey of Detroit
Mr. Embrey was a scholarly old
gentleman, a former school teach-
er whb kept up with what was
going on in the world at an age
when most men are not much in-
He moved from Deport
Mrs. R. D. Bolton, 75, of Biards-
town, died Thursday morning at
the home of a son, Roy C. Bolton
in Paris. She was a sister of Mrs-
J J. Bolton, also of Biardstown,
who died March 24.
The funeral at Biardstown
Christian Church, was held Fri-
day afternoon, conducted by the
Rev. Walter G Horn of Central
Presbyterian Church, with burial
in Evergreen Cemetery at Paris.
Mrs. Bolton.' the former Miss
Elizabeth Yancey, was born Aug.
She had been ill a long
terested.
several years ago.
Four daughters and two sons
Embrey and
Detroit
8. 1875.
time
Siie haves her husband and
; these children, besides Roy Bol-
ton. Mrs 11. C. King, Windom;
that Deport folk i Mrs. Cecil Stewart, Clyde Bolton
usual
new
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Annual spring clean-up in De-
port, conducted last week, was a
big success, according to Mayor
James Grant. Many loads of de-
bris, tin cans and rubbish were
hauled away. Breeding places of
flies and mosquitoes were remov-
ed from the residential and busi-
ness section.
Mayor Grant expressed
thanks and appreciation to
citizens for the co-operation in
the campaign He told a Times
reporter "another clean-up is
scheduled later this spring, when
all weeds and grass on premises,
vacant lots and property aie ex-
pected to b<- ent and kept that
way this summer. By beginning
early they can be easily con-
1 rolled.”
Farmers are looking forward to
a profitable year in 1951 A short
cotton crop last year hurt, but
this year the price is considerably
higher.
With the nation begging for a
bumper crop, all this bedding and
rebedding and the greatest
amount of fertilizer ever to be
used in this area going into the
ground, the cotton outlook is
promising.
Price Stabilizer DiSalle is going
to have a hard time getting farm
price rollbacks.
on 11 u te<
Boaid
T- i in-, of Count y School Board
members are f.vo year In ad-
dition. \oteis of .ill lour Commis-
sion! r's iiiai inct ■ will c.ist tin .
I . IL t Im V', Cminlv At I..iic
-il.ool trust
The pre I-Ut
Count v At I .at ge
v. Im has agr
•electei,.
Other dates set besides Deport
and Minter, which may be found
in another section of this issue
for Lamar County’s fight against
rabies, are as follows:
April 10-»-East Lamar School,
1 p. m. to 2:30 p. m. Cunning-
ham School, 2:30 p. m. to 4 p. m.
April 12 — Biardstown Com-
munity Center, 8:30 a. m. to 9:45
a. |m. Rockford store, 11 a. m.
2 noon Taylortown store, 1
a. to 1 p. m.
11 ■
Danny is the name given the
son bom April 3 to Mr. and Mrs
L. B Sheffield of Rl, Bogata, at
the Grant Hospital in Deport
Voting at Deport in the
election Tuesday was very light
as only 16 votes were cast J B
Griffin and Jimmie Riplev were
re-elected aidermen. each receiv-
ing the 16 votes cast Election aiound Deport
judges were A L. Stalls and Tom strangers to Deport, having been
Massengill
Other city officials are Mayor
James Grant. Karl V. Kimball,
secretary; Clyde Barham Jr., Ruf-
sell Grant and Dick Owen, aider-
men.
Lamar County draft board has
announced names of 24 regis-
trants during Febiu-.j. They
were:
Carlos D. Anderson, Robert E.
Bailey, William K Barnard, Bill
J. Barnes, Raymond E. Berry,
Charles E. Bledsoe, Elbert C.
Bowers, Charles C. Burns, Rothe
Davis, Abe Fleeks, William B
Fisher, James S. Geers, Gearl D.
Gibson, Glenn L. Gist, Billy J.
King, Hubert L. Marks, Roy W.
Pearson, William W: Penton, Roy
O. Pratt, Raymond H. Sales,
Charles T. Stewart, Albert J.
Wells, T. C. Williams and Arzo
Winn.
William C. Holt, 89, a retired
grocer, died Sunday afternoon at
home in Paris. Formerly employ-
ed at Stallings Gin at Biards-
town. Mr Holt operated a gro-
cery at Minter about 18 years,
before moving to Paris. His hob-
bv had bien playing in fi Idle
onto’s, u ing a violin he had
owned moi" than 60 years
Futli I' ll sei vi OS W ere held on
afternoon 3 o'i lock
and Inn lul w .is in Ev
i'em< tei v I). II Glenn
of Immanuel
and ti.e Rev
of Fir.-t
of f ici.i’ed
Mr Holt was born in Athens,
Ala. March 7, 1862. son of the!
late Mi and Mrs W N Holt. He |
came to Lamar County in 1881,
and two years later. Feb 3, 1886,
he married Miss Nancy Lee Dil-
lard She sum ivi-s besides these
children Mrs C W Pretrc. Par-
is; Mis. J. B Tryra, Dallas: Mrs.
Delbert Suggs and Roy Holt, Cun-
ningham. and Joe Holt.
10 grandchildren
G. W (Bill) Cross, owner and
publisher of the Mt. Pleasant
Daily Times and the weekly Mt.
Pleasant Times - Review, was
found dead in his bed when he
was called for breakfast on
Thurday morning and did not re-
spond. He had been a sufferer
from asthma and heart trouble
for some time, which was proba-
bly responsible for his death.
Prior to the First World War
Mr Cross was employed as a
Linotype operator for die Pitts-
burg Gazette. After returning
home from Europe he purchased
in 1922 the newspapers he has
continued to operate
He was well and favorably
known in this part of the state,
and his witticisms often quoted.
He never m;..r:-.:i, la; was a fa-
tnii to his yeimt'er I
You’re Going to Need a
Personal
1 Point Chronicle.
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re-I w ill ejiten 1 the usual friendly I and Ralph Bolton, all of Biards-
niam frozen under the General , gi ci tings to tnesc new citizcr.s town: R J Bolton, Caddo Mills,
Ceding Price Regulation. Regu- and let thim know that we are
l.-tions to meet the special pric- glad to have .t,cm here,
ing problems involved in produc-
tion and sab- <>f many of the ex-'
eluded items are being prepared
at OPS for early issuance.
J. D Fincher, 25, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Fincher of Clarks-
ville and half brother of Mrs.
Lonnie Miller of Deport, died Fri
■ ay night at M< Kurnev Veleian.-'
"lospital of cancer. Burial was at
Cuthand cemetery Sunday after-
noon.
Hi- was wounded in the leg in
Japan |Ust before the end of
World Wai II which neees-itati o
amputation He was <>ni. 17 yi-ais
old .it the time of enli-’im-nt in
the army After returning non e,
earner developed and plead to
hts left shoulder The aim ami
part of the shouldci were ampu-
tated. but he never fully re-
covered
He is survived by I is w ife and j
eight month., old infant, his par-
ents and five brothers and sisters.
J. D. Fincher is School Trustee
Buried at Cuthand Election Saturday
J D Fincher, 25. son of Mr.
... . _ . ___ . i School trustee elections will be
held in all school districts Satur-
day, April 7. Polls will be open J
from 8 a. m. to 7 a. m. Voters
of the districts will vote on trus-
tee-. for then respective s< hool
districts and in ..ddition will vote
-. for ti c Countv Si bool .
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Mi nid.iv
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L’ I < en
Str it i
■ Chut i h
I Hite
Miss Evalee Head, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs W K Read of De-
port. who is a gir eminent iccrea-
tion director in Erlangen, Ger-
many, will leave there April 16
for an extended visit in Scotland,
Wales, England and other Europ-
ean countries. She will be a
guest of her great aunt. Mrs. Ro-
bin Barr anil Mr Barr in Edin-
burgh, Scotland. Mrs. Pete Giv-
ens and Jos. McCarter of Besthe-
da, Wales. All are relatives of
her grandfather, the late T. K
McCarter of Houston. She will
spend several days in London and
visit other places in England.
Miss Read has been in Germany
for the past year During World
War 11 she was with the Red
Cross in Japan.
A system of price control for
the nation's grocery stores, mod-
eled after war-time regulations
in the food field, will be put into I
operation in April, OPS has an- I
nounced. The new system will ing the amount of the
tax
result in price changes, with de-
creases expected to exceed in-
creases, Michael V. DiSalle, OPS
director, said.
Mr. DiSalle announced issuance
of three companion pricing regu-'
lations all iffeitivc Apnl 5. ; money on auvvnising senemes.
which fix contro led percentage ( He should carcfu]1 scrutlnize ad-
'1 i'll i nc . K *»I u-h/vlocn love »* »•» #4 vo . ,
vertising expenditures in order to
I be sure that he is not giving away
| more than the amount of the tax
the percentages over cost instead I
of percentage over sales.
The regulations establish the
highest price that can be charged
legally. All wholesalers and re-
tailers, of course, are free to sell
below the established ceiling
price.
Among major foods covered in
the new regulation are butter,
packaged cheese, baby foods, co-
coa, breakfast cereals, coffee and
tea, flour, flour mixes, canned and
frozen fruits and vegetables, jams
and jellies, lard, mayonnaise and
salad dressings, shortenings, can-
ned meats and canned fish.
About 60 per cent of food pur-
chases in the nation’s 560,000 re-
tail food stores are covered.
The new regulations are issued
to take these foods from under
the general "freeze” order of
January 26 and put them under
a system of price control which
weathered the test of experience
during the war period.
Major grocery items not cover-
ed are fresh milk and cream,
’, fresh fruits
sisti-r. aiding them t > obtain edu-jand vegetables, sugar, ice cieam,
cations.
Mr Cross was a
I- on'her of the Ro'
nars ago c
pi rfi i t nt'
I He w as known .
1 ii< w -paper frati i
land w as a pa : ,
i .North and E. ' 1
si H int ion.
milk
itbeis ami j fresh meats, bread,
(soft drinks and candy, along with
a number of less important foods
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a i ■ 1 "fed a 25 I Exiept for fresh fruits anil ve-| ti<.'<‘ the plant
on nt re ■..>! d. gi 'tables and sugar, which are.
<1 loved by the | now exi inpt from price control. |
mtx of the <!ate , pi ices of all excluded items r~
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