The Baylor County Banner (Seymour, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 2, 1956 Page: 3 of 12
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THANK YOU
I wish to thank each and every-
one for the support you gave me
in the Saturday election for an-
other term. For you who did not
support me, I thank you for not
working hard enough to defeat me.
I hope it has not affected our
friendship. I will continue my ser-
vice and hope to show my appre-
ciation through service. Thanks
again.
Yours respectively,
C. M. Casselberry.
50c
Veterans Land Recoveries
AUSTIN—The State of Texas has
won judgments amounting to $1,-
770,000 which represents over one-
half of the amount involved in
cases in the Veteran's Land clean-
up and recovery program, it was
announced this week by Attorney
General John Ben Shepperd.
The latest judgments won by the
State were against J. Paul Little,
Crystal City for $69,054.94 and
against Carol Burns, Carrizo
Springs, for $112,700.00.
Shepperd pointed out that the
State had tried 22 out of 35 cases
filed, winning all of them. He also
pointed out that with the value of
The Boylor County Banner
Seymour, Texas
THURS., AUG. 2, 1956 PAGE 3
New Citizens
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Johnson and
baby are new residents of Seymour,
coming here from Nocona, where I
they had lived for seven years. Mr.
Johnson is with the Haliburton Oil
Cementing Co., and his activities
will be mostly in the Baylor Coun-
ty field, in the southwest part of
Baylor County. The family has
moved into the rent house of Miss
Delia McDonald, on West Reiman
Street, the place just vacated by
the Richard Fergeson family. A
new utility room is being built
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We first thought we would let
the parking meter election come
and go without comment, but the
nearer the time comes the more
we feel inclined to say a word or
onto the house, but this will not two aboul it We are no, going to
prevent the family occupying the
place
plug for them nor against them.
Their existence in Seymour has
Another Haliburton man is also been a hectic one and loo much has
moving here from Sherman, to-1 been said and done already. The
gether with his wife and their two | city has gotten some very bad pub
children. They have rented a home
at 307 N. Arkansas Street. Both of
these families are of most excel-
lent people, and the community
gives then a hearty welcome as
citizens.
liciiy during the more than six
years the meters have been in
operation, and no more is needed.
Back in 1949 Seymour was bask-1
ing in prosperity. One of the very
best cotton crops in the county's,
.history was being produced; busi-!
The Charles A. Morris family has' ness houses were booming with
returned from a visit to Southwest trade; new businesses were open '
City, Mo., where Mrs. Morris and jng up to cash in on the easy flow-
the land in the recovery suits plus j the children spent two weeks in jng money. Seymourites had visions
the interest due, the State will j the home of her parents. Rev. Mor-; of becoming a real "city". Traffic
realize a profit even on the ques- ris went for his family, and was |n the downtown area was pretty
gone a week, While Mrs, Morris] heavy, and meters afforded an easy
was back home, there was a big|Way to fill the tills of the city
J. M. Cockrell of Westover was! family reunion there, with 60 or treasury... so they were installed,
in Seymour Saturday, and took J more members present. Her father Most of the business firms that
brother in whose family [were started during that period
and all of have since dropped by the wayside
tioned transactions.
occasion to renew his home paper, j lias a brother in
Joe said he was getting along all! there are ten children,
cart on the streets and leave them
in one place all day. Double park-
ing and other parking problems
can be dealt with without meters
if the city police force will be em-
powered with the authority to deal
with violators on terms they can
understand.
Comments would advocate that
the meters be removed so custom-
ers could shop freely without the
worry of getting an overparking
ticket. A parking limit of, say a
couple of hours, should be placed
on parking spaces where longer
parking would be detrimental to a
firm's business. Double parking, a
very hazardous practice, should be
dealt with on a firm basis; if the
penalty was heavy enough few
people would take the chance.
Parking meters are not necessary
for adequate control.
The election to determine if
meters stay or not, will be held
Monday, August 6. We are not as
interested in the way you vote, as
we are in you voting. There are
approximately 700 eligible voters
in the city and at least 500 of these
should vole—more preferably. The
parking meter issue has been'
kicked around long enough: let's'
settle it one way or another with a
big vote Monday, so there can be
no recourse later.
NOTICE
Date for the County-Wide Home
Demonstration Club Picnic has
been changed from August 17, to
August 24, due to the Farm Bureau
Queen Contest.
MRS. J. H. EWING
Mrs. Ewing died at her home in
Dilley, Texas, on July 23. 1956 fol-
lowing a heart attack. The body
was brought to Seymour by the
Harrison Funeral Home, which
was in charge of the funeral ar-
rangements.
Services were held from the Red
Springs Baptist church on Thurs-
day afternoon, at 3:00 o'clock,
being conducted by the pastor, Rev.
Lester Hall. A large crowd of rela-
tives and friends attended, and
there was a profusion of floral
offerings.
Interment was in the Henson
cemetery, north of Red Springs,
and with the following as pall-
bearers: Clyde Moore, Joe Cox,
Penn Moore. Ernest Welch, Bill
Thornhill and Loyd Robertson.
Relatives from out of town at-
tending the funeral were: Joe El-
more and Mrs. Annie Jones, Mar-
shall, Texas; Mr. and Mrs. Herald
Gillespie and family of Bridgeport;
Joe Wayne Gillespie, Fort Worth;
W. J. Gillespie Jr., Waterproof, La.:
Mr. and Mi"-:. James Gaither and
family, Munday; Mrs. Troy Eden-
field and Geneta Barker. Wichita
Falls; Mr. and Mrs. John Kisinger
and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kisinger Jr.,
Odessa; Mr. and Mrs. Don Wor-
sham. Hurst, Texas; Mrs. L. J.
Barker and children, Pampa; Mr.
and Mrs. Vernon Kisinger and
family, Borger; Mr. and Mrs. E. E.
Ewing and Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Machen, Dilley, Texas; Mrs. Paul
Coleman and son, San Antonio;
Mrs. Effie Gunnolls, Clovis, N. M.;
i R. M. Elmore. Canton, Texas; Mr.
and Mrs. R. A. Coker of Sequin.
Ellender Lurenda Elmore was
born on Aug. 26, 1878, at Winns-
boro. Texas. She was married to
J. H. Ewing on March 30. 1896, at
Holly Springs, Van Zandt County.
In December of 1906 the family
moved to Baylor County from Mart,
Texas; living on their farm east of
Red Springs, which now belongs
to the Charlie Aycocks. The Red
Springs Baptist Church was or-
ganized in 1907, and the Ewings
became charter members.
After the children were grown
and married. Rev. Ewing and his
wife moved to Dilley. below San
Antonio, where they lived on their
little truck farm. Rev. Ewing is 85
years old. and has not been in very
good health since getting a bad
| fall out of a pecan tree several
years ago.
| Besides her husband. Mrs. Ewing
is survived by the following child-
ren: Mrs. Lydir< Gillespie, Decatur;
Alfred Ewing of Dilley; Mrs. Ethel
Kisinger. Red Springs: Mrs. Myrtle
Lucas, Cotulln, Texas; and Mrs.
Olive Jackson of Olney. One
daughter, Mrs. Cecil Barker, passed
away on July 2, 1949. There are
20 grandchildren and 32 great
grandchildren. Also surviving are
J. B. Blackmon Dies
Mrs. V. V. Vaden and
brothtrs. W J. Laney and wife, and
O. C Laney and wife, attended the
funeral of their half-brother, J. BL
Blackmon, in Austin Sunday after*
noon. Mr Blackmon was a former
Baylor County resident.
THANK YOU
I wish to thank each person thai
voted for me in the July 28 elec-
tion and for your confidence in'my
ability to serve you another terra.
I will strive in every way to make
you a better commissioner.
C. D Devrow.
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right, except that he gets tired of J them and their families were back, with few exceptions. Most of them
living alone, and eating his own for the reunion. One of them lives] should not have been started any-'
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The Re-Opening of
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On Olney Highway
Will Appreciate Your Patronage.
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Shawver Insurance Agency
Seymour
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cooking. Also, he has a hard time j as far as South America, being a j way. on the basis of one year's
filling up a seven-room home all missionary there, and she and her 1 super-crop conditions, and their;
by himself. Cockrell has been tak-1 husband were back in this country j demise should in no way cast re-
ing The Banner ever since moving at the time. Mrs. Morris had four I flections upon the soundness of the
to the Westover community in 1908. of her sisters at the reunion. j community's economy. Just as sure-'
ly as we have a prosperous era it
will be followed by one far less |
prosperous, in a seemingly never-
ending cycle.
The lush year of 1949 was fol-
lowed by one almost as good, how-
ever considerably less rainfall
blessed the good earth. Every year
has brought less and less benefi-
cial rains until we now have
reached the driest of the last six.
As rains have fallen off, so has
retail business. Big farmers have
gobbeld up a good many little
farmers. The little farmer couldn't
make a go of it on his limited acre-
age, but by adding it the big farmer
could get by comfortably. This has
meant a decreasing population in
the county, with the merchant
being forced to exploit every other
means of attracting trade in order
to keep his doors open.
Now to got down to the parking
meters. We will say openly thai we
are ready for them to go, but we
will not be hard-headed about it.
We have no way of knowing
whether they are good or bad for
business; there are those who say
they are a must if their businesses
are to succeed. Others say they
have driven away an untold amount
of dollars and cents. Frankly we
don't know which would benefit
the city more ... to keep them in
operation or take them out.
The only legal way parking
, meters can be installed is as a
| traffic control measure, and not
primarily as a source of revenue
j for the city. (At least that is the
way wo understand it). Traffic
[ definitely has to be controlled by
law, for people are just plain mean
' when left to their own devices.
I Merchants and their employees
will park their cars in front of
their businesses (or in front of
their neighbor's business) and
leave them all day if there is no
parking regulation. It is using a
minimum amount of common sense
to block one's own business from
his customers, but to block his
neighbor out comes under the head-
ing of pure cussedness. Yet it will
be done if the meters are removed.
When meters have to be kept in
operation for merchants to protect
themselves from one another,
things have come to a pretty sorry
state. ,
We had rather see cars parked
on the streets than to see them
empty, but let those cars belong to
customers and not to store em-
ployees When we had a "meter
holiday" period a few months ago
double parking became a problem,
because people would park their
uhank you...
I extend my warmest thanks to all the voters who supported
me in my campaign for re-election to the office of Sheriff,
Tax Assessor-Collector. And, I hold no ill will whatever to
those who supported my worthy opponents. I want you to feel
just as free to call on me for service as those who did vote
for me, and I will be just as willing to be of help to you.
During the next four years I will do everything in my power to
merit your confidence in returning me to office. Anytime
you need the services of the sheriff, his deputies, any help
with your tax problems, please come by the office or call by
telephone. It is your office and we are your servants to con-
duct the office as efficiently as you desire.
I really do appreciate your wonderful support and vote of con-
fidence.
WESLEY STYLES
Ambulance 000^%1
Service - Phone ■■■!!
Smith Funeral Home
Bill Smith, Owner Seymour, Texas
two sisters and one brother: Mrs.
E E. Ewing of Dilley, Mrs. Annia
Jones and Joe Elmore, both ot Mar*
shall.
Mrs. Ewing was converted in a
Methodist meeting at Holly Springs,
at the age of 17. In 1906 she united
with the Elm Ridge Baptist Church
in Limestone County, together with
her husband. She had been a faith*
fill Christian, with a life that was
consecrated to the service of Iver
Master and to whatever service
she could give to others. She leaves
a host of friends to mourn her
homegoing.
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