The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 22, 1943 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME XXXV
DEPORT, LAMAR COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1943
NUMBER 11
Deport Has Retired
28 Per Cent Bond
Debt Past 8 Years
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Financial statement for the City B11 stray aogs icuiea. u you nave
of Dgport appears in this issue of [a dog, have him vaccinated antf keep
TPinion Th 4a niiaakn4- m I l_ ____ i
OFFICIAL NOTICE
We have been furnished with of-
ficial information that at least two
rabid dogs have recently been in
Deport. In order to protect our
people against possible infection it
is necessary for the City to order
all stray dogs killed. If you have
Hie Times. In order to present a
more complete picture of the city’s
obligation, the editor secured the
following figures from City Secre-
tary Karl V. Kimball:
Bonds and warrants totaling $50,-
000 have been issued by the city
Sgt. J. S. Vickers of Blossom Killed In
Landing Bomber In Aleutians Area
him on your owrf premises.
In this connection I wish to call
attention to the complaints of some
of our people that their neighbors’
Chickens are destroying Victory gar-
dens. If you have chickens running
at large, put them up. If your nei-
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since its incorporation, all«of Them Ighbors’ chickens are ruining your
•gfMBe 1935. These include $26,000 garden come to me and make a com-
Wkk the water and sewer system,' plaint against the owner of the
(10,000 in general obligation bends, chickens. I want no confidential in-
93,500 for the fire department and formation about violations of the
$1,500 street paving. dog and f ;cken laws. Unless you
Since that time $14,000 or 28 per [ are willii i sign your name to the
cent of these bonds and warrants complai’ ase do not make it.
have been retired. Water works
bonds totaling $5,000 have been re-
tired, $4,500 of the general obliga-
tion bonds retired, all of the $3,500
in warrants for the fire department
have been paid and $1,000 of the
$1,500 in street paving warrants re-
tired, leaving a net indebtedness of
$36,000.
To have retired 28 per cent of
these .bonds in less than eight years
is a mighty good record. Recently
the government sold Deport’s wat-
er works bonds to an Alabama life
insurance company, at $103 on the
$100. The bonds cost the company
more than $103 because they had to
pay for a legal opinion on them.
Deport has met its bond due dates
promptly with money to retire them,
and the water department has been
W. I. LAWLER, Mayor.
American Legion
District Meeting
In Mt. Pleasant
First District convention of the
American Legion will be held in
Mt. Pleasant on Sunday, May 9, ac-
cording to Howard DeShong of Par-
is, District Commander.
Legionnaires are expected to be
in Mt. Pleasant from towns all over
the First Congressional District,
which includes the counties of Bow-
ie, Cass, Marion, Harrison, Morris,
Titus, Franklin, Hopkins, Delta, La-
getting along well since some who mar and Red River
were not patrons responded to an I David Merzbacher, commander of
appeal to patromze the system. It >the post in Mt Pleasant> is working
Sgt. J. S. Vickers of Blossom, ra-
dio operator, aboard a bomber was
killed in the Alaskan theatre when
his plane was smashed by strong
winds called a williwaw. It is a
wind of almost cyclonic proportions
capable of blowing from several
swiftly changing directions, aT|9 is
capable of tossing huge bombers
around like leaves.
With their plane caught in this
williwaw, with a wind force esti-
mated at 155 miles an hour, the big
bomber was driven earthward 250
feet in two seconds, with such force
that four 500-lb. bombs broke loose
from their shackles, snapping the
hydraulic control lines.
In the bomber were Capt. Marco
Walter Gurius, copilot, Bellevue,
Iowa; Sgt. J. S. Vickers, Blossom,
radio operator; Sgt. J. G. Ferrero,
Rock Springs, Wyo., gunner and Sgt.
E. M. Peek, Annona, flight engineer.
Remaining bombs were jettisond.
But when the crew tried to lower
the landing wheels by hand, the left
wheel alone came down. The right
wheel remained retracted. There
was no way to be sure the left wheel
had locked.
Rasor tells the story: "We de-
liberately headed back for Kanaga
Pass—into the williwaw. There was
a slim chance the wind’s force would
cause the right wheel to drop.
“This time the wind struck an
even harder blow. The plane was
thrown upside down and spun like
a chip of wood. But the right wheel
stayed where it wast”
Rasor headed for his home field
to crash-land, unable to take into
his calculations whether the down-
hanging wheel would hold the
weight of the fast-landing bomber.
The wheel was not locked and
the plane struck nose first and pin-
wheeled, killing Sergeant Vickers
and injuring the others who receiv-
ed hurts ranging from broken ribs
to scalp gashes.
is a most creditable record, and
those who have served over the past
eight years as city officials are to be
commended.
Franklin Wildcat
Strikes Oil Sand
Tide Water Seaboard No. 1 Bacon,
Franklin county wildcat prospect
four miles north of Scroggins in the
Maxmillian survey, set casing
around 8-100 feet. It is credited with
more than sixty feet of oil sand, the
latest beipg 1.5 feet in a core from
8,010-26 feet. It is expected to test
the zone from 7,274-7,304 first. It
has another possibility at 7,090-8,000.
Five miles northwest of Winns-
boro, but in Franklin county, Grell-
ing No. 1 Stanley in the Jordon sur-
vey, is drilling in Austin chalk un-
der 3,878 feet.
Humble No. 1 Wright, Morris
county wildcat 1.5 miles southwest
of Omaha in the Storey survey, is
drilling near 1,450 feet.
W. B. Hinton No. 1 Wilson, in the
TCRR survey 44, tight hole in Titus
county, is reported drilling around
4,000 feet.
out details of the program for the
day, which will include attendance
at church services, a luncheon and
a business meeting during the after-
noon. The business session will pro-
bably be held at the Legion hall in
the north part of town.
A delegation from Deport is plan-
ning to attend this convention.
Chas. T. Sims Dead
Dallas Hospital
Charles T. Sims of Lampasas, for-
mer vocational agriculture teacher
at Blossom, died April 12 after a
brief illness in Baylor Hospital,
Dallas.
Oldest vocational agriculture
teacher in Texas in point of service,
he was appointed just a month af-
ter the Smith-Hughes Bill was sign-
ed in 1917 by President Wilson. He
had taught in many schools and was
at Blossom six years.
Bis wife was the former Miss Em-
ftaa D. Esmonds of Titus county, and
ffej/ have three children, Emma
Vera, Anna Lois and Joel Roice
Sims.
John C. Hicks Dies
at Line Branch
John C. Hicks passed away at hfb
home at Line Branch on Sunday
and funeral services were held on
Bogata Second In
Funds Collected
For Red Cross
Reports by school districts of
funds collected in the recent Red
Cross war fund drive have been re-
leased by John T. Felts, chairman
of the county campaign. Money in
possession of Treasurer Kelsey Dick
at that time totaled $11,018,06.
Independents districts contributed
$7,433.58, exclusive of $201.42 re-
ported by Cheatham high school,
which appeared under the colored
school heading. With the exception
of Clarksville, Bogata led all dis-
tricts in the county. Reports by in-
dependent districts showed the fol-
lowing results:
Clarksville, $4,197.17.
Bogata, $851.15.
Avery, $702.
Detroit, $600.01.
Annona, $442.03.
Fulbright, $330.07.
Bagwell, $307.35.
White common districts in this
area follow:
Rosalie, $19.22.
Cuthand, $33.25.
Mauldin, $11.00.
Pine Branch, $35.25.
Johntown, $94.98.
Halesboro, $15.00.
Glendale, $33.00.
Rugby, $53.00.
Mosley, $14.17.
McCrary, $95.02.
Morris Chapel, $2.00.
With Our Boys
In the Service
Bring or Mail All the News
About “Our Boys in the Ser-
vice” to this Newspaper.
Lt. J. R. Brittain of New Boston,
spent the week end here with Mrs.
Brittain.
Lawrence Wood of Majors Field,
Greenville, has been promoted from
private to private first class.
Mrs. Lowell Read left Tuesday
for Camp Phillips, Kans., to visit
her husband, Pvt. Read, who is sta-
tioned there.
Pfc. Ray Coker, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Coker of Biardstown Rl,
has been in the army since Sept.
1942 and is stationed at Camp Car-
son, Colo.
Cpl. Jerrell Barham who is sta-
tioned at Ft. Benning, Ga., arrived
here Friday on a 15-day furlough
to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Clyde Barham.
Pvt. Jackie Griffin of Sheppard
Field, was here Friday to visit his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Griffin,
and Miss Geraldine Philley.
Sgt. James Allen Griffin, station-
ed at Orlando, Fla., arrived here
’Tuesday for a visit with his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Griffin.
Robert Bryson orders The Times
sent to his son, S|Sgt. R. L. Bryson
somewhere in the South Pacific. Sgt.
Bryson is with the army engineers.
Mrs. Jim Westbrook received
Word Tuesday that her brother,
Donald Marcum of Camp Carson,
Colo., had been promoted from cor-
poral to sergeant.
Pvt. McLee Taylor, son of Mr. and
Mrs. A. L. Taylor of Detroit R3,
has been transferred from San Die-
go, Calif., to Camp Haan, Calif. He
is now reported on maneuvers in
the California desert.
Milow Hume Missing
In Action March 28
Mr. and Mrs. L. I. Hume of Cun-
ningham, received the following
telegram Wednesday morning: “The
Secretary of War expresses regret
that your son, Pvt. Milow Hume, has
been missing since March 28 in act-
ion in Africa. Information will fol-
low.”
Pvt. Hume is about 24 years old
and has been in the service about
a year. His company was among
the first to be sent overseas last
November.
Ration Book No. 3
WiD Be Issued
In Late July
Washington. — OPA officials dis-
closed that ration book No. 3 will
be issued soon, probably late in July,
but will be used primarily for shoes,
sugar and coffee as soon as book No.
1 runs out of stamps.
The No. 3 volume issue also may
be used to provide a couple more
months of canned goods and meat
stamps, since it was designed to
handle both point and Unit system
of rationing.
Officials said they had no inten-
tion of using the No. 3 book to ra-
tion any new commodities, but could
make no promises because of the
theoretical possibilities of special
emergences. Books 4, 5 and 6 are
in the design stage, so No. 3 proba-
bly would not be needed for new
rationing if any did become neces-
sary.
Because of their plan to use No. 3
book only as a replacement, OPA
also is trying to figure some easy
way of distributing it, and odds were
that it will be handled by mail.
The new book already is printed
and stored in warehouses at strate-
gic places throughout the country.
All that remains to be done is to
send the books on to the local ra-
tion boards to hand out or mail out.
Examination Shows
Coriy Bells Dog
Victim of Rabies
A Scottie dog belonging to Catty 1
Bell of Deport, which showed "iM‘ *
dence of rabies was killed op’
day morning and its bead
to the Pasteur Institute at
for examination. A wire w|i
ceived Monday afternoon
there was positive evidence of ra-
bies.
A bull dog which came _T_,
Deport ten weeks ago attacked
Scottie and Mr. Bell believes •,
was where his dog contacted the
virus.
Three weeks ago another dag
came into Deport from the direction
of Fulbright and attacked several
dogs, but it is not known whether
or not it was killed.
Mr. Bell will take the serum treat-
ment for rabies. The dog did nob
bite him, but he handled it.
It would be well for every owner
of a dog in the community to watch
closely the dog’s actions and chain
it up if it manifests any unusual
actions. Otherwise an epidemic of
rabies might develop.
Still Operator Pays
Fine, Car Taken
Red River Officers
A daughter who was named Lois
Dean, was bom to Pvt. and Mrs.
Kenneth Smith at Bogata. Pvt.
Smith is stationed at Camp Adair,
Ore.
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Ridens have
received word of their son, Leslie
Ray’s induction into the U. S. Ar-
my. He has been sent to Camp Wol-
ters.
T. L. MAULDIN PASSED
AWAY EARLY MONDAY
T. L. Mauldin, well known Red
River county farmer, who resided
five miles south of Clarksville, died
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Monday at the Bogata cemetery I at his home at 4 a. m. Monday. He
was stricken suddenly last Wednete-'
day while sitting in a chair talking
to members of his family. He was
seventy-eight yearn old.
with J. A. Chesshir conducting the
services.
Hie deceased was born May 28,
1863, at Murray, Ky., coming to Tex
Thomas L. Lawson of Detroit, was
among the 68 Texas men taken pris-
oner by the Japs on Jart/a. He was
a member of the famous Texas Lost
Battalion.
Pvt. James E. Blankenship, sta-
tioned at Camp Howze, has been in
the hospital for three weeks, suf-
fering with measles, according to his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Blan
kenship of near Halesboro.
Pvt. R. T. Haydock who is sta-
tioned at Austin, was here Wednes-
day through Friday visiting Mrs.
Haydock and other relatives. Mrs.
Haydock accompanied him back to
Austin Friday for a visit.
Woodrow W. Ballard has return-
ed to camp after spending a 9-day
leave with his wife in Minter. Mr.
Ballard is ship fitter in the U. S.
Navy, stationed at Little Creek, Va.
Mrs. Ballard, the former Miss Ro-
tha Lee Phillips of Minter, will
leave soon to spend a few weeks
at camp with him.
Millard C. Nobles,
Former Resident,
Dies at Amarillo
Millard C. Nobles, 86, former De-
port resident and uncle of the No-
bles boys of Deport, died Thursday,
April 15, at his home in Amarillo.
Mr. Nobles was born in Tennes-
see and came to this section with
many of the other old-timers who
reside here. He and his brother,
Henry, operated
Red River County Sheriff Jim
Geer and his deputies captured a
fifty-gallon still, its operator and
arrested three others charged with
selling untaxed liquor last week.
T. J. Jackson pleaded guilty to the
sale of untaxed liquor, and fin-
ed $300 and costs and his still con-
fiscated. Willie Lee Nolan pleaded
guilty to possessing unstamped illi-
cit liquor and was fined $100. L. B.
Gaffney pleaded guilty to transport-
ing it and was fined $100 and costs
and his car confiscated. Bo Camp-
bell was charged with possession,
but no disposition has been made
of his case. Nolan, Gaffney and
Campbell were charged with pur-
chasing the unstamped liquor from
Jackson,
Red River-Titus ^
Finances Improved r
Elimination of WPA, NYA, and
other alphabetical new deal agen-
cies, which have flourished for years
is helping Red River, Titus and
many other counties improve their
financial position.
Titus has redeemed a lot of its
outstanding scrip, while Red River
finds its road and bridge fund out
of the red for the first time in a
Cpl. Unie R. B. Bailey, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. D. Bailey of Biardstown,
is somewhere in England. In the
army since January 1942, Cpl. Bai-
ley has been in England since last
August.
sur-
vived by his wife and several grand
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II
in the Bogata
- -inr Mu.
Mr,. Ben '
P. D. MARABLE NAMED
ON SELECTIVE BOARD
P. D. Marable of Clarksville tigs
•PPointed to the local a
gervioe board to replace
.’•L Harvey, Annona,
Lieut, and Mrs. Lewis G. Whitten
of Randolph Field, San Antonio, ar-
rived here Monday for a visit with
Mrs. Whitten’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
C. C. Miller and Lieut. Whitten’s
parents at Paris.
Pvt. Isaac W. Bybee, formerly sta-
tioned at Majors Field, Greenville,
haa been transferred to the Army
Pvt. Eugene Murrell, former De-
port boy and son of Mrs. J. J. Mur-
rell of Kemp, has been sent from
Sheppard Field to Scott Field, 111.,
for a radio mechanic course of three
months. After completion of this
course, he expects to apply for of-
ficer training school.
xieiixy, operated a grocery store —---— ***“•• nxue xxx a
here and he was Deport’s first post-1 numbcr of years. This fund was in
master. About 45 years ago the bro- i t*le rtd $28,308.15, but $34,000 from
thers went to Amarillo and opened motor vehicle registration will wipe
a wholesale grocery business. They 1 0Ut ttlis deficit and leave a cash bal-
became wealthy as the town of Am- j ance
arillo grew into a city. Entering | This does not moan that the ac-
the oil and gas industry in the Bor- I count ,s free of all obligations, as
ger Field, they still own producing I fund,n6 warrants are outstanding,
urniio -----1..___t__,1.. ■, covering several vrare uihon 1X1
Miss Madeline Dickson, daughter
of Mr .and Mrs. Ralph Dickson of
Bisbee, Ariz., and granddaughter of
Mr. and Mbs. Will Dickson of De-
port, who is a nurse in the service,
is expected here soon for a visit
with her grandparents. She is to be
transferred to Ft. Sill, Ok.
i Advance Flying School —
at Frederick, Okla. He is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bybee of near
Deport.
OpL Die* Burden and PCs. Raft*
elley Storey of Sheppard
«pept the week end with Nf; P.
* and Mr. and Ura.
Cadet Cliff Reid who has been at
Perrin Field, Sherman for basic
training, has finished the course and
he and Mrs. Reid left Thursday for
Waco, where he will .take his ad-
vanced training. After completion
of an eight-week training he will
be commissioned as a flying officer
in the Army Air Forces.
wells which supply gas for the city
of Amarillo. **
He is survived by two brothers,
Ben of Farwell and Henry of Am-
arillo; two sons, Grady and Claud,
and two daughters, Mrs. May Wil-
liams wjth whom he made his home,
and Mrs. Iva Storm, all of Amar-
illo. Mrs. Nobles died about 15
years ago.
Due to gas rationing, none of the
Deport relatives attended the fu-
neral.
covering several years when the de-
ficit steadily accumulated.
Mrs. Dearie Page of Cunningham,
has two sons in the army. Sgt. Ves-
♦ar Sloan, in a Military Police bat-
talion, is stationed at Ft. Pay, N. Y.,
and has been in the army about four
'a half years. Staff Sgt Lester
“ la In the Army Air Forces,
* at the Harrisburg Air I$r^
Red River Co. Buys
$24,000 Bonds
Red River county commissioners
court has authorized the purchase
of $24,000 government bonds of the
new series being offered in connect-
ion with the thirteen billion dollar
drive. Bonds purchased by the
county will be for sinking fund ac-
counts, several of which have sub-
stantial balances.
The county’s $24,000 subscription
will apply on the $180,000 quota,
giving the campaign a boost hi the
opening days.
FRED M. CHUMLEY, 82
DIES SATURDAY NIGHT
Fred M. Chumley.
inner near Detroit, i
Friday and Saturday
Rain 2.23 Inches
Rainfall in this area on Friday
and Saturday amounted to 2.23 in-
ches. The downpour was almost
continuous over a period of thirty-
six hours. This moisture was not
needed for crops but the Hamay.
was far less than would have been
the case had it been poured out in
an hour or two. Field work and
planting operations were delayed
several days. Considerable cotton
was being planted when the rain in-
terrupted.
Last week’s precipitation boosted
the April total to 3.95 inches. In the
first seventeen days of April laMt
year 6.53 inches of rain fell.
ELDER RE-ELECTED
COUNTY TRUSTEE
I J. J. Elder was re-elected ..
school trustee for Precinct 1-
River county, in the recent
receiving 1,162 Votes. W. 1. _
•> . din was named trustee at large ■
456 votes.. At Johntown more v
were polled in the trustee
jfci Jfl»en in any atft*r a
district in the county,
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