The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 22, 1948 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME XL
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SuiV H Id J ^eport 8 ^ew Mayor
DEPORT, LAMAR COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1948
Home coH
AT DEPORT ON
NUMBER 12
Deport May 34
Norwood Talks
About Agriculture
In Red River Co.
A mass chest X-ray survey is
underway in Lamar county. The
moble unit will be at the Deport
school May 3 and 4.
This first free survey in the
Garvin Norwood, manager of
the Clarksville Chamber of Com-
merce, addressed the Deport
county is/sponsored by the La-]
mar County Medical Society,
Lamar County Tuberculosis As-
sociation and the Paris-Lamar
County Health Unit. All indi-
viduals 15 years of age and over
jhis area are urged to obtain
fx-ray of their chests during
at time.
The x-ray examination can be
made while the person is fully
dressed. The survey is a screen-
ing procedure and not a diagnos-
es service. Persons who show
abnormalties of the chest are re-
ferred to their own physician for
diagnosis. If the film shows ne-
gative, or normal, the person x-
rayed is notified directly by post
card.
It is tree and residents of this
area are urged to have the x-ray
made. It will only take a few
minutes, and everyone owes it
to himself and fellowman to
know about his condition and
help fight tuberculosis.
The unit will be at the Deport
school from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. on
May 3 and from 8 a. m. to 5 p.
m. on May 4.
PAY RUINED;
TOO MUCH OIL
lings are tough all over in the
business.
Executives of Woodley Petro-
leum Company, Houston, bought
themselves a big tract of Trinity
River bottom lands in Southwest
Houston County for a rice farm.
To get necessary water, they
planned to rework an abandoned
oil test drilled by Woodley which
had fresh water at 2,000 feet.
Now they cant’ use the water.
There’s too much oil in it.
LT. T. L. BOWEN AWARDED
AIR MEDAL AND GOLD STAR
Lt. (jg) Turner L. Bowen,
USNR, stationed at New Orleans,
La., and son of Mr. and Mrs. L.
L. Bowen of McKinney, former
eport residents, has been award-
the Air Medal and a Gold Star
lieu of the second Air Medal
for meritorious acts during aer-
ial flights between September,
1943 and May, 1944, in the Pa-
cific area. He has been previous-
ly awarded the Presidential Unit
Citation. He is a nephew of Tom
and Lewis Jeffus and Mrs. C. D.
Hutchison of Deport.
LAMAR BOND QUOTA
SET AT $358,990
A quota of I35&000 has been
set for Lamar County in the Se-
curity Loan campaign, April 15
through June 30. This is the
highest quota received since the
war.
Frank Griffin, Deport’s new
mayor, was born at Rugby, son
of the late W. S. and Mrs. Mar-
garet Griffin, on Oct. 13, 1894.
He was engaged in farming un-
til he entered the army in Feb-
ruary, 1918, during the first
World War. He was assigned to
the Fourth Army Corps and serv-
ed in France as a corporal until
after the war and his outfit went
into Germany as a part of the oc-
cupation forces.
Cpl. Griffin returned to the
States on July 5, 1919, and was
discharged at Camp Pike, Ark.,
on July 19.
On Aug. 7, 1918, he was mar-
ried to Miss Iva Freeman and
they have two daughters, Mrs.
Sam Hastings of Van Horn, and
Miss Frances Glynn, a student at
Baylor University.
Mr. Griffin entered the hard-
ware business in Deport on Sept.
10, 1921, and has been serving
the people of this area since that
time. He has previously served
as a city councilman, and is now
a member of the board of trus-
tees of the Deport Independent
School District. He is superin-
tendent of the Deport Baptist
Sunday School and a member of
the Board of Deacons of the
church.
Always interested in the pro-
gress of his town and of this
area, Mayor Griffin has done his
part toward their advancement.
That he will make Deport a good
mayor goes without saying.
Lairry Bridges Dies
Of
Pneumonia
Lairry, 4-months-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Acey Bridges of Guy-
mon, Ok., former Milton resid-
ents, died Saturday at their home
after an illness of pneumonia.
Funeral service was held Mon-
day at the Methodist Church at
Milton and burial was in the
cemetery nearby. Rev. Ollie
Rivers of Texarkana, conducted
the service.
Mr. and Mrs. Bridges have two
other children. Grandparents
are Mr. and Mrs. Buford Rivers
of Milton.
CONDENSED STATEMENT OF
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
DEPORT, TEXAS
Lions Club on Tuesday evening
at the school cafeteria, his assign-
ed topic being, “The New Look
for Agriculture in Red River
County.”
“Economic conditions brought
about by the low price of cotton
forced Red River county farmers
to grow truck crops and raise
cattle instead of cotton,” Mr.
Norwood told the gathering. “In
1925 Red River county grew 55,-
328 bales of cotton, and only
8,821 bales in 1945.
“When food became an impor-
tant factor during the war and
prices good, they continued to
expand truck crops of tomatoes,
beans, peas, and potatoes. To-
mato growers received half a
million dollars from last year’s
crop. We recognize cotton as the
No. 1 cash crop in the county, but
our sweet potato acreage will be
double this year over last," he
said.
Loss of fertility and soil eros-
ion were also deciding factors in
smaller cotton acreage, he said,
and added that 225 acres of pop
corn had been contracted for in
the county this year.
Clarksville business men are
also encouraging the dairy in-
dustry in Red River county. They
contributed $750 with which to
buy five registered Jersey hei-
fers which they turned over to
F. F. A. boys. These Future
Farmers will deliver the first hei-
fer calves from these animals to
the C. of C. and they will in turn
be given to other F. F.
JULY 2-3-4
Friday, Saturday and Sun-
day, July t, 3 and 4. are the
days selected for a Home-
Coming at Deport. It was
decided to have such a ga-
thering, due to the response
from such a suggestion made
several weeks ago.
Every summer many for-
mer residents of the Deport
area come here to see old
friends and relatives. It was
thought their visits would be
more pleasurable if a date
were set so more of them
could be together.
It can be made a m»>st en-
joyable occasion with a little
co-operation on the part of
everyone. No definite pro-
gram has yet been arranged,
and no elaborate entertain-
ment will be expected. De-
tails will be announced later.
In the meantime former
residents should begin now
to arrange their affairs to be
in Deport ou July 2, 3 and 4.
Work on Mustang
Creek is About
Completed
Af Close of Business April 12, 1948
ASSETS
Loans and Discounts ..... $151,253.38
Banking House Fur. & Fix. ................ 3,000.00
Other Real Estate _____________________ 1.00
Stock in Fed. Res. Bank ____________ 2,650.00
U. S. Bonds.............$307,773.72
Other Bonds_________,_____ 6,000.00
Cotton Loans______ 4,844.89
Cash & Exchange___ 276,964.62— 595,583.23
TOTAL______________ $752,487.61
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock
Surpfcis -
Undivided Profits
DEPOSITS _______
TOTAL_________
$ 50,000.00
38,000.00
15,785.48
648,702.13
$752,487.61
First National Bank
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for calves. He mentioned Hop-
kins county as the outstanding
dairy county in Texas and said
that it didn’t “just happen” to be.
“We need more paved roads,
electricity and telephones in our
ruial areas, and our salvation for
better everything on the farm
and ranch is up to F. F. A. and
4-H’ers.
Mr. Norwood was skeptical
about getting industries to locate
in small towns, despite Clarks-
ville’s $25,000 industrial founda-
tion fund. “If we can help in-
crease the income from our
farms $100 per farm per year it
would be better than a $50,000
industrial payroll,” he added.
Visitors at the club were L. T.
Johnston of Buda, former De-
port school superintendent, the
Rev. O. R. Delmar, Deport Bap-
tist minister, and F. L. Stephen-
son of the State Highway Depart-
ment.
Invited to make a short ad-
dress, Mr. Stephenson said that
in seven of the nine counties in
this highway district, farm to
market and highway mileage had
doubled the past few years, and
within the next three they hop-
ed to double it again, bringing
85 per cent of the population
within a mile of a hardsurfaced
road.
George Grant and the Rev. T.
H. Browning will have charge of
the program next Tuesday even-
ing.
With open weather prevailing
Contractor J. C. Watson will
about complete this week the
work of widening and deepen-
ing the channel of Mustang
creek “thru Depor|t business dis-
trict and to the south.
Two big drag lines will have
excavated 30,000 cubic yards of
dirt. Contract calls for a ehan-
A. boys I nel 22 feet wide at the bottom
afid 55 feet wide at the top.
The State Highway Depart-
ment has had men at work ex-
cavating under the bridge on
Highway 271, and similar work
should be done under the bridge
near Lawler’s Service Station.
It is hoped that additional
funds will be appropriated for
extending the channel from a
point in the Haycfock pasture, on
toward Sulphur. Further south
the creek’s fall increases consid-
erably as it nears Sulphur river.
First Draft Bill
Offered House
Eyes 18-to-25’s
WASHINGTON — A bill to
draft men 18 through 25 was in-
troduced Tuesday by Rep. Wal-
ter G. Anderson (Rep.) of New
York, chairman of the House
armed services committee.
The measure is the first to
reach either the House or Senate
since President Truman asked
for temporary selective service
and universal military training
as part of the preparedness pro-
gram.
Andrews’ bill would:
Call on all men from 18 thru
30 to register for the draft.
Make men 18 through 25 eligi-
ble for actual service.
Set a ceiling of 2,006,000 men
for all armed forces, 621,500
more than the present strength.
Drafting of men would start
ninety days after the President
signed it into law.
The bill differs slightly from
the one being studied by the
House armed services committee,
of which Andrews is chairman.
The new bill eliminates a pro-
vision to grant full benefits of
the GI Bill of Rights to men in
the new draft.
It also “freezes” all reserves.
This means that no man of draft
age will be allowed to join any
reserve unit after the law is in
effect. The Senate has not drawn
up a draft bill, but it is studying
one that would call for registra-
tion of men 18 through 44, and j
drafting of men 18 through 26.
Army Officers
Hold Meeting
At Greenville
R. River Farmers
Building Soil
Texas Democrats
For and Against
Pres. Truman
Texas Democrats Tuesday night
took sides in a fight for and
against the renomination of Pres-
ident Truman. The issue ~
of a
party bolt by the state organiza-
tion faded in the wake of rival
Fire Chief Resigns
After 43 Years
Resignation of Chief Jodie
Moss from the Paris fire depart-
j ment has been accepted by the,
I city council.
After forty-three years’ service
with the local fire organization
with almost half of them as head
cf the department. Chief Moss is
resigning due to condition of his
health. The 64-year-old veteran
has been active until only re-
cently.
Named to succeed him was
Chester Kemp, 51-year-old fire
fighter who has been first assist-
ant chief for the past eight years.
Kemp has been with the depart-
ment twenty-six years.
BAD OUTLOOK GIVEN
FOR FARM MACHINERY
Washington. — Rep. Stefan of
Nebraska has given his farm
constituents bad news on the out-
look for an adequate supply of
new farm machinery.
In a letter to voters in his dis-
trict, he states the Agriculture
Department has reported that the
shortage will continue because of
a lack of sufficient sheet steel,
power transmission chains, bear-
ings, wheel* and radiators.
Henry Harris of Mt. Vernon,
ia improving at the Grant Hoe-
after surgical
3r
pttal in Deport
- j treatment an 8a
barbecues at Fort Worth and at
Mother Neff State Park near
Waco.
Gov. Beauford H. Jester dis-
posed of the bolt question at the
Fort Worth Anti-Truman feed by
advising Texas and Southern
Democrats to stick with the par-
ty no matter how angry they are
with the President.
Woodville Rogers of San An-
tonio, chairman of the Texas-for-
Truman faction told the Waco
crowd that the leaders of the
Democratic organization in Tex-
as are attempting “sabotage of
the only candidate the Demo-
cratic Party has.”
There were about 1,000 persons
at the organization's feed at Will
Rogers Memorial near downtown
Fort Worth. Out in the woods
for Truman 30 miles from Waco
there were about 300.
Jester hurled one coldly-bitter
phrase after another at the Pres-
ident and was applauded fre-
quently. The South, he said, has
been deprived of fair representa-
tion in party affairs, “but the
most unexpected and cruellest
wound has come from the dagger
blow of a trusted friend. /Ukt
South has been stunned by Pres-
ident Truman’s attack upon our
sovereignty and social institu-
tions."
Farmers Planting
Cotton This Week
Cotton planting, in this area,
began in full swing Monday and
farmers having tractors are
working day and night to get the
job completed before a rain. If
pretty weather continues the rest
of the week, most of the crop
will be planted.
Gardens are doing good and
many families are enjoying rad-
ishes, greens and other early ve-
getable*.
Landowners cooperating with
the Red River County Soil Con-
servation District have construct-
ed some 25 miles of terraces dur-
ing the past month of pretty wea-
ther. Farms on which terracing
has recently been completed in-
clude: L. A. Mackey, Jim Fran-
cis, James Benningfield, Martin
Stiles, Melvin Hines, C. C. Grey,
Lewis Bachman, Roy Carpenter,
John McLendon, E. P. Black, J.
C. Beville and Tom Herrington.
Hubam clover for soil improv-
ing has recently been planted on
approximately 345 acres on 10
farms cooperating with the dis-
trict. These farms include: E. D.
Butler, C. C. Lewis, Arch Scott,
Lee Jackson, T. C. Vail, Clyde
Humphrey, Doyle Morris, C. R.
Allen, John Dew and O. J.
Adrian. Hubam clover is a good
soil improving and soil building
crop and is highly recommended
for planting on black land where
cotton dies from root-rot disease.
A few good crops of hubam turn-
ed under will stop the cotton
from dying.
H. F. Bandemer, in the Burks
Creek Conservation Group and
Harold Brooks, in the McCoy
Creek Conservation Group, are
preparing seed beds for planting
crotalaria striata which they plan
on turning under green for soil
improvihg. Crotalaria is an ex-
cellent summer soil improving
crop and furnishes from 2 to 3
times as much organic matter to
turn under per acre than does
common field peas, and too, live-
stock will not eat crotalaria and
farmers arc not tempted to graze
it off or cut it for hay.
Soil Conservation Service per-
sonnel recently assisted Charles
Devlin, in the Goochie Creek
Conservation Group and Mrs.
Lucy Bryant, in the Kickapoo
Creek Conservation Group, in
seeding outlet waterways to Ber-
muda grass seed. On the Mrs.
Lucy Bryant farm a new method
of seeding Bermuda grass seed
was employed in that asphalt-
emulsion was applied to the seed
bed after the Bermuda seed had
been planted and rolled. The
entire waterway was seeded but
the asphalt-emulsion was applied
only on a part of it to check bene-
fits from using the emulsion. The
emulsion was applied to Help
hold the moisture in the seed bed
and to prevent seed bed from
washing from heavy rains. The
asphalt will crack allowing the
small seedlings to come up thru
the cracks. To make this test a
50 gallon drum of the asphalt-
emulsion was supplied free by
the Talco Refining Co. of Mount
Pleasant.
A recent check on the Maclin
Atkinson farm in the Kiomatia
Conservation Group showed Mr.
Atkinson turning under 180 acres
of hairy vetch for green manure.
Most of the vetch waa knee high
or better. Thomas Crittenden of
the
Army officers of the 459th Re-
serve composite group which in-
cludes the counties of Lamar,
Red River, Delta, Hunt and
Rains, had a two-day active duty
meeting on Saturday and Sunday
at Majors Field, Greenville. The
459th is commanded by Col. J.
W. Gibbs of Greenville. Four-
teen officers attended from La-
mar county, including Major J
R. Brittain and Captain Russell
Grant; also in attendance were
Major Mark Hodges, postmaster
at Paris and Captain Ralph Tur-
ner of Denton, son-in-law of Mr.
and Mrs. Will Rollins of Deport.
Judge Bill Parker, county
judge of Hunt county, made the
welcoming address. Talks were
made by Col. S. S. Berry of Dal-
las, Reserve instructor for the
Northern District of Texas, and
also Colonel Abbott, who is in
command of all Reserve officers
in Texas. Colonel Abbott was a
Brigadier General during the
war and was on General Eisen-
hower’s staff in the European
theatre. A very interesting talk
was made on subversive activities
by Col. James Gee, who was on
Gen. George Patton’s staff dur-
ing the war and is now president
of East Texas State Teachers Col-
lege at Commerce. Also Col. Hal
Horton of Greenville, made an
interesting talk.
A tour was made of an aircraft
conversion plant at Majors Field,
where surplus aircraft are con-
verted to civilian air lines.
Baptist chaplains were in attend
ance including Captain Raymond
Smoot, who was recently pastor
Mrs. Hightower
Succumbs To
Heart Attack
64. of
m. FH-
Mrs. Ella Hightower,
Hagansport, died at 2 a.
day morning at a Paris hospital
following a heart attack. Sh®
was born at Hagansport on Jim*
6, 1884, and lived there all her
life. She is survived by the fol-
lowing children: Mrs. Beuna
Swinford, Faye Easterling, Una
Hightower and Henry Hightow-
er, all of Hagansport, Mrs. Geo.
Easterling of Taleo, and Mrs.
Merle Hill of Mt. Vernon; One
sister, Mrs. Frank Grimes, Colo-
rado, Texas.
Funeral services were conduct-
ed Saturday afternoon at the
Hagansport Baptist Church, of
which she was a member, by the
Rev. John Whitt, pastor of the
Mt. Vernon Baptist Church, with
burial- in Hagansport Cemetery.
Criminal Docket
Set at Clarksville
of Immanuel
Paris.
Baptist Church in
PICNIC AT PRESBYTERIAN
CIHRCII SUNDAY
A picnic will be held Sunday
evening at 5 o’clock on the Pres-
byterian Church lawn. Losers in
a recent Sunday School contest
arc entertaining the winning
group. A devotional will be held
and this will take place of the
regular evening service.
ATTEND FHA MEET
Miss Grace Horne, homemak
ing teacher, and Miss Beth Bar-
ham left Wednesday afternoon
for Dallas to attend the State
FHA meet.
Group recently turned under 80
acres of Austrian winter peas
that had attained an excellent
growth.
Jim Francis in the Burks Creek
Conservation Group and Clyde
Humphrey in the Whiteman’s
Chapel Group, have been sodding
individual terrace outlets. A
large outlet waterway is being
shaped on the Melvin Hines farm
with a maintainer and will serve
to carry terrace run-off water.
The terraces will not be con-
structed until this waterway is
well established with bermuda
grass.
A grand jury was empaneled
Monday in 102nd District Court
at Clarksville. Tuesday it re-
turned 18 indictments, all felon-
ies, and Judge N. L. Dalby set
the regular criminal docket for
this term for Tuesday, April 20.
Trial of P. C. Porter for mur-
der of W. J. Stearman was set
for Monday, April 26, and a
Four ] special venire of 200 was order-
ed drawn for it, according to E.
W Bowers, district clerk.
Following is the assignment of
the Criminal Docket of the Dis-
trict Court at Clarksville:
Tuesday, April 20th
Robert F. Owens—Forgery, 2
cases.
A. C. Yates—Burglary at night,
2 cases.
Odell Ricks—Forgery.
Odis Thompson—Child desert-
ion.
James Childress, Frank Gray,
Everett Daniels Jr., Travis Jones,
and J. T. Marsh, assault with in-
tent to murder.
Charlie Clark—Disposing of
mortgaged property and swindl-
ing.
E. T. Trimble—Bigamy.
Bob Tate — Possessing liquor
for sale.
Elzie Hart and Seigel Perkins,
maiming.
Thurmon Humphrey and Ben-
ny J. Clark, child desertion.
Claude J. Myers — Defrauding
with worthless check.
Monday, April 26
Special Venire—P. C. Porter—
METHODISTS ATTEND
MEET AT BLOSSOM
Mrs. William Evans, Mrs. Kate
Larimore, Mrs. C. B. Glover and
Rev. and Mrs. T. H. Browning
attended the Rural Life Confer-
ence at the Methodist Church in
Blossom Monday. A county or-
ganization was set up at this
meeting and the next meeting
will be held in Deport on May 17.
CONDENSED STATEMENT OF THE
DEPORT STATE BANK
DEPORT, TEXAS
At Close of Business April 12, 1948
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts _____________________ $151,089.57
Banking House _____________,________________________ 3,750.00
Furniture and Fixtures.....—.........— 1-00
Other Real Estate ........... 2.00
Other Assets ............ 10.00
Bonds and Stocks $155,000.00
Cash and Exchange 315,428.56— 470,428.56
TOTAL.___________________________________$625,281.13
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LIABILITIES
DEPOSITS ....
Capital Stock
Surplus and Undivided Profits
$558,535.29
28,000.00
38,745.94
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TOTAL
$625,281.13
Deport State
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