The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 26, 1940 Page: 1 of 16
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Charge Red River Man;
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ty white man, was released on $300
bond Friday after charges of illegd*
ly operating/ a still ,were fljod
against him in
The paradVgnd turkey flight was
pronounced A decided success by
Cfertfe QloVer, president of the De-
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If there is any Jealousy in the na-
ture of Mn.a Claus, it is likely that
she may pull up the North Pole and
paddle .the Old Man with it when
he returns to his home after the
Otehtaiaa holiday*.
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.■ warm reception received by Old1
Santa last Friday afternoon in De-
; The last day of autumnal sun-
shine found people pouring into De-
port ffom every direction to witness
the Santa Claus parade and parti-
cipate in the turkey flight fun. By
Starting tinge of the parade, which
was at 2:30 p. m., there was a very
Jai-ge crowd of people thronging
stores, sidewalks and streets.
The parade, starting at the De-
port High School building, brought
a wave of approbation and laughter
from one end of town to the other
as it entered Main street from the
north, traversed to the south end
and made a return trip. Heading
the procession was Dean Oliver on
his snowwhite horse, the fine Clarks-
ville band, carrying the Clarksville
High School band emblem, the
United States flag and the Union
Jack. Back of the band was Old
Santa Claus riding high and happy
and throwing candy confections
right and left from atop the Deport
fire truck. Next in line was a row
of decorated automobiles represent-
ing the Vogue Beauty Shop, the
Crabb Variety Store, Griffin Hard-
ware, and a tractor representing the
Deport Lumber Co. In between was
Archie Slaton, dressed like a clown
and leading a decorated mule. The
Deport High School band followed,
carrying the U. S. flag and the Tiger
emblem. After the band -came a
number of automobiles entered in
the .best decorated car contest and
a Christmas float from the Martin
school.
The parade was climaxed with
band concerts on the band stand,
with the Clarksville band opening
the program under the direction of
George Owen. Announcement of
the winners in the best decorated
float and best decorated automobile
was made.
The 37.50 for the best decorated
school float went to Martin, taught
by Misses Bethel Bryant and Lois
✓ Hignight, who state the money Will
be used .to help finance a hot lundh
project at the school. The $5 award
for best decorated automobile went
to the Vogue Beauty Shop entry.
Following the band concerts and
announcements of awards, the free
turkeys were released from the top
of the W. F. Burden & Son store
building by Jim Breedlove, Deport
negro, whose miraculous inaccuracy
of aim _ ruck out several hundred
people every time lie pitched a tur-
key. Roy Anderson and Milburn
Baumgardher tied for the first bird,
and. another tie was scored by Geo.
"W. Dickson and Homer Wright. Bill
Xee also figured in this catch, but
. was eliminated in the final settle-
*> meat. Other fowls were caught by
Burl Kincaid, Warren William# and
Bill Kilgore. - The Kincaid turkey
loot Its tail feathers to Clarence
Shelton, who made, *, dbwe clutch
from atop an Awning; . Wright sus-
tained a long (cut on His arm from
the spur of the turkey he helped
catch.
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DEPORT, LAMAR COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEM BER 26, 1940
Turkey Dinner at
Hot Lunch Room
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A turkey dinner was served at the
Deport High School WPA lunch-
room to 450 pupils and teachers of
the school Friday, and these guests:
Mrs. A. L. Edmiaston of Paris;
Messrs, and Mmes. Phillips Grant,
Karl Kimball, Paul Wood. L. L.
Jeffus, Curtis Glover, T. T. Jeffus
And Sam Holloway,, Mrs. W. M. Lari-
more and Mrs. L. T. Johnston.
Saturday was
New Year Day
for the Sun
There are still a few days until
the final page of the 1940 calendar
is torn off and the first sheet of the
1941 record is hung on the wall, but
as far as Old Sol is concerned the
n#w year began last Saturday at
midnight, the winter ‘solstice.
Saturday had the shortest day and
the longest night of the year. It
was the day the earth completed its
annual circuit of the sun and got
set to do it all over again. The sun
rose at 7:29 Saturday and set at
5:49.
Officially, too, the first day of the
sun’s new year was the first day of
.winter, and three months later,
March 21, when the days and nights
are even in length at the vernal
equinox, the first day of spring be-
gins. Autumn begins officially at
the time of the autumnal equinox,
Sept. 21.
Hopkins Test
Report Shows
in Cuttings
Attention turned Tuesday to a
deepening operation in Hopkins
county a mile north of Tira, as re-
ports were heard of oil shows in cut-
tings as drilling continued past
5,436 feet, last depth available.
The well is the old W. P. Vaughn
No. 1 Mary Chapman, Francis Hop-
kins survey, which is being deep-
sped by L. A. Rankin of Tyler.
Work was resumed several weeks
ago at 4,064 feet, with plans to take
the hole to the Travis Peak.
Formation at the last depth given
was not reported, but the well like-
ly is in the lower Glenrose section,
as the massive anhydrite was based
at 5,160 feet. Sample check shows
first anhydrite stringer came in at
4,950-55 feet, with top of the mas-
sive placed at 5,040-50 feet. First
Glenrose zone came in at 4,660-65
feet. Elevation is 412 feet.
AAA CHECKS FOR
LAMAR FARMERS
ARE RECEIVED
Deport Man Finds
Turkey Feather is
X-Ray Instrument
Pete Storey of Deport, thinks that
much of the laborious work of
scientific research might be elimin-
ated by reducing the research to
things practioal.
Such as turkey tail feathers as
x-ray instruments.
Mr. Storey discovered this week
that by standing in the shadow with
a turkey tail feather held about one
inch from the eye and with one
hand extended into the sunshine,
the bones, or what appeared to be
the bones, in the extended hand
were clearly discernible. The bones
showed up as dark lines surrounded
by lighter, rainbowed colors.
Dr. A. G. Elder explains the illus-
ion as a phenomenon produced by
a combination of colors.
Former Deport Lady
Dies at Leonard
Mrs. J. W. Joiner, 55, died Dec. 18
at her home in Leonard and funer-
al service was held the following
day at that place.
Deceased, wife of the Rev. J. W.
Joiner, ^iras born in Deport and was
a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew
Dunlap Morgan. She and her hus-
band had lived in Leonard two
years, where he is pastor of the
Presbyterian church.
Surviving are her husband; two
daughters, Mrs. Robbie Wills and
Mrs. Evelyn Chapman; a son, W[il-
bur D. Joiner; her mother, Mrs. Bet-
ty Morgan; a sister, Mrs. J. H. Read,
and two grandchildren.
Mrs. Sam Read and Mrs. P#ul
Denison of Deport attended the
funeral.
Christmas gifts in the form of
AAA conservation program checks
totaling $8,152.18 arrived Sunday
for 145 Lamar county farmers at the
Paris AAA offices. Cards were
mailed to the farmers Sunday af-
ternoon.
This payment brings the total
number of conservation program
checks paid to Lamar farmers to
3,071. Total amount of money paid
to date is $237,842.80.
About 700 more checks are ex-
pected to arrive before Jan. 1. There
are approximately 4,000 checks to-
taling $400,000 yet to be paid to
farmers.
Jtt is also announced that 6,783
cotton parity checks, totaling $283,-
368.09, have been paid to Lamar
cotton producers during 1940, with
approximately 100 more checks yet
to be received.
Farmers Place
Orders Fdf
Orchard Tiees
Lamar couty fanners interested
in setting out home orchards may
begin placing orders for trees, it is
announced by County Agent A. L.
Edmiaston for the Lamar County
Land Use Planning Committee.
Orders will be seceived in the
county agent’* office Jan. 2, 3 and
4, Edmiaston said. Jan. 4 has been
set as the final day for all orders to
be in the county agent’s office.
Edmiaston reported there were
187 home orchards in the county
in 1939 as a result of the cooperative
buying of trees and urged farmers
to increase this total during the
present campaign.
The following are some of the
members of the County Land Use
Planning Committee who will take
tree orders:
A. E. Ball, Rl, Pattonville; Jess
Reasoner, Blossom; Mrs. Melvin
Jackson, R3, Deport; R. J. Bolton,
Deport; M. D. Humphrey, Cunning-
ham; A. L. Edmiaston, county agent
Rebecca Murray, county home dem
onstration agent; Thomas O. Mc-
Millan, assistant county agent; Hel
en Johnson, colored home demon-
stration agent: T. L. Wedgevforth
colored county agent.
/. L. {{bad Sees First
Talking Picture
I. L. Read, prominent Deport res-
ident, who is well past the Biblical
three-score and ten, attended his
first talking picture Monday night
and reports that he thoroughly en-
joyed it.
Mr. Read, who has been over-
looking such entertainment for the
past few years, is said to have re-
marked prior to attending the pic-
ture that he knew there were no
picture shows in heaven, but he was
going to see “Lum and Abner” just
the same.
Mrs. C. L. Cunningham
Former Deport Lady,
Dies at Roxton
Barn and Contents
Destroyed by Fire on
S. W. Hearn Farm
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
a large barn and its contents on the
S. W,✓.Hearn farm west of Deport
Wednesday night of last week. The
fire .was discovered about 10 p. m.
Consumed in .the flames were a
cow and a fattening hog, trapped
in stables, 100 bushels of cotton
seed, 100 bushels of corn and about
five tons pf hay.
The building was partially cover-
ed by insurance, but there was no
insurance on the contents.
Mrs. Frank Lee Ridens is a pa-
tient at a Paris hospital.
Mrs. C. L. Cunningham died Wed
nesday night, Dec. 18, of a heart
attack at her home in Roxton. Fu-
neral was held Friday at the home
and interment was in the Evergreen
cemetery in Paris.
Deceased was born in Deport and
married Mr. Cunningham in 1903
moving to Roxton in 1912. Sur
vivors beside her husband are one
son, Haskell Cunningham of Hous
ton; one daughter, Mrs. Earnest
Crafton of Harlingen, and three bro-
thers, F. E. Wright of Tulsa, Okla.,
C. R. Wright of Pecan Gap and
Brooks Wright of Roxton.
Mmes. Sam Read, J. J. Gray,
Marvin Nobles, Ocie Grant and
Ralph Ladd attended the funeral
from Deport.
Deport Man Passes
Basic Flying Test
Elbert Veteto Jr., who has suc-
cessfully passed basic flying tests
in the Flying Cadet training at the
Glen Cal Aero training school, Glen-
dale, Calif., is at home to spend the
Christmas holidays with his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Veteto.
He will go next to Randolph Field
for further training.
Elbert Jr. now has 60 hours of
flying to his credit, 27 of which
are dual and 33 solo.
In the midst of another Yuletide Season and at the
Close of another year, our thoughts cannot help but turn
to those who have contributed so materially to our suc-
■$. cess and to our enjoyment of Christmas . . our customers
Viityom we always regard as our friends.
have covered a long
ipened recently. Some
to fneet and to Imtfar
Red River
Draft Calls 34
for January 27
Red River county will send 34
white men to the colors for a year
of military training on Jan. 27 and
will follow with 7 negroes on Feb.
1, according to the county draft
board. The call had been tentative-
ly set for early January but, as in
other counties, was deferred due to
prevalence of influenza in the train-
ing camps.
The call for white men will be
about half filled by volunteers, leav-
ing about 17 to be called from re-
gistration lists. The call for negroes
can be filled entirely by volunteers,
board officials say.
This will be the second call for
trainees, the first call of 12 men
having been filled in Red River
county by volunteers.
Aged Lamar Doctor
Dies at Paris Hom^
Dr. F. M. Lenoir, 83, retired L
mar county physician, died Sunday
at his home in Paris. Funeral ser-
vice was held Tuesday and inter-
ment was in the Evergreen ceme-
tery. He had been a residnt of La-
mar county since 1868.
Surviving are four children, Mrs.
Corra Kclton of Paris, Mrs. Gaither
Dunagan of Blossom, T. E. Lenoir
of Memphis, and Robert Lenoir of
DeKalb, besides a sister, Mrs. D. C.
Davis of Blossom.
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Red River
to Have Six^H
New Office!
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Six new officials will taka■„4j
in Red River county on Jam
They are Austin Guest,
clerk; Burnell Waldrep,
district attorney; A. G. Skagffi,
county treasurer; W. R. Garland,
representative; JLindsay McAllister,
assesspr-colIectOT and John Jami-
'son, surveyor. O. H. Sargent re-
places W. H. Murphy as commis-
sioner Precinct 3.
Waldrep took over his office some
time ago following resignation of
the incumbent, Pat Beadle. Guest
succeeds J. R. McCulloch, McAllis-
ter takes over the office of J. L
Allston, Garland succeeds Leighton
Cornett, Jamison was unopposed
and elected by a write-in on the
ticket. Skaggs becomes treasurer
by appointment to fill the vacancy
left by the death of F. S. Marable
who had been re-elected.
Holdover officials are E. W; Bow-
ers, district clerk; Jim Geer, sheriff
and Marion A. Lawson, county
judge. John T. Felts remains a*
county superintendent, his being a
four year term.
Precinct 1 retains J. A. Chesshir
as commissioner and Justice Pre-
cinct 3 retains W. .T. Corbell as con-
stable while Fred Horner takes of-
fice as justice of the peace.
Deport Defeats
Blossom 21-17
Thompson Chosen
Commission Head
Ernest O. Thompson Monday was
chosen chairman of the State Rail-
road Commission, of which he is a
member.
In a statement he said “the oil in-
dustry can look to 1941 for the most
prosperous year since 1937.”
Thompson succeeds Lon A. Smith
as chairman of the commission,
which regulates the oil industry in
Texas.
By RUFUS K. STOREY
Coach Maddox’s fighting Tigers
blasted the Blossom five 21; to 17
Tuesday night at the Deport high
school gym. Fagan drew first blood
for Deport by scoring two field goals
in the first few seconds of play. But
the Blossom Bulldogs came to their
feet to lead in scoring at the half
8-9. Blossom scoring kept going;
and at the end of the third quarter
the count was Blossom 14, Deport
11. But in the beginning the last
quarter three quick field goals by
Finley, one each by Fagan and Pom-
roy gave the Tigers the margin they
needed. Finley took scoring hon-
ors by rolling up ten points. Other
boys who showed up well for the
Tigers were Fagan, Pomroy, Reese
and Hoover. Skidmore stood out',
for Blossom.
A well packed gym witnessed the
tangle. Two buses brought fans
from Blossom, while the home toufa
fans turned out well. The
B. team defeated Cunning!
team 41 to' 18 Monday night
local gym. Rhodes and Gi
showed up well for Deport.
Deport plays Cooper Friday night
at the Deport gym.
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Lamar Changes Date
of Induction Call
Date of induction cpll for Lamar
county Selective Seryice registrants
has been changed fyorp Jan. 13 to
Jan 30 and Feb. 1. ✓Forty-five white
men will be called on Jan. 30 and
ten negroes on Feb. 1. Local Board
No. 2 will furnish 20 white men
and four negroes, but it is thought
that the quota may be filled by vol-
unteers.
This Newspaper
One Day Late
This newspaper reaches its read-
ers one day late this week, due to
the Christmas holiday coming on
Wednesday, right in the middle of
the week and on the eve of our
press day.
We feel sure our readers would be
willing to have this newspaper
reach them a day late, which would
enable its makers to enjoy one day
of leisure on Christmas.
New Year Greeft
from Mayor Lai____
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On this 1940 Christmas Day*' jj
"government of the people;
for the people and by the peo- .
pie,” with the exception of tfcigV,
United States, has perished
from the earth.
As our nation is about to
ter the New Year we face our j
most deadly peril sinc^ tijbfj
dark days of 1861-65. Le$ n
thank God that in President .!
Roosevelt and Gov
O’Daniel we have leadetaj
do not seek the territ
others by conquest or bjj
matic intrigue.
Wp seek only to
our own freedom and?*
tend to other free —*
possible aid in
for the preser
liberty. »
I wish to thank ^
! her* of the City i
other citizens
Wkted with;
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The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 26, 1940, newspaper, December 26, 1940; Deport, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth902082/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Red River County Public Library.