The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 3, 1948 Page: 1 of 8
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ATIVE PROGRAM DEPORT
HOME COMING JULY 2nd-3rd-4th
Junior Lion
Lions Club committee having
in charge arrangements for a ser-
ies of program for entertainment
during the three-day Home-Com-
ing at Deport on Friday, Satur-
day and Sunday, July 2-3-4, have
arranged the following tentative
program, which may have to be
changed some to meet existing
conditions:
It is planned to have the of-
iicipl program begin on Friday
at the school auditorium
\JKjfaL community sing-song, and
Monk, Millard Igo, Mrs.
Kenneth Barnett and Mrs. Ken-
neth Read in charge of the pro-
gram to be rendered.
Saturday Morning, July 3
Registration and reception will
be held at the School Cafeteria
from 9:30 until noon. The re-
ception committee will be com-
posed of representatives from the
Bay View, Portfolio and O.
Moore literary clubs and the Par-
ent-Teachers Association. Re-
freshments will be served
Saturday at 5:00 p. m. Unveil-
ing of memorial monument at the
American Legion Home in charge
of the Warren . Teague Post of
American Legion.
Saturday Night, 8 to 9 O’clock
Patriotic pageant and fire
works display at the Deport Ath-
letic Field, under the direction of
Dr. David Johnson. Serving with
Dr. Johnson on this committee
will be J. C. Miller and P. W
Wood.
Villowing the program at the
jetic Field there will be a
Is of folk, square and mod-
ei5i dancing at the school audi-
torium in charge of Committee-
men Buck Mathews C. E. David-
son and Dr. John R. Brittain
Other committees named were:
Finance—J. R. Kelsey, T. T.
Jeffus and J. B. Griffin.
Ice Water—J. M. Grant, W. O.
Westbrook, C. B. Glover.
Electrical—C B. Bardwell and
James Loven.
Traffic—S. J. Parks, Robert
Bryson and Hugh Jeffus.
It is probable that there will
be class reunions of graduates of
Deport High School. Mrs. Ben
Warren, nee* Thelma Ladd, is
making plans for such a class re-
union.
Funeral Service
For Mrs. Siplinger
Held Monday
Mrs. Lewis C. Siplinger, 35, of
Deport, passed away Saturday
night at the Grant Hospital in
Deport after undergoing a major
operation early Saturday morn-
ing.
Funeral service, conducted by
the Rev. O. H. Garner, Lamar
County Baptist Missionary of
Paris, was held Monday after-
noon at 3 o’clock at the Mt. Pleas-
ant Church, west of Deport and
interment was in Highland Ceme-
tery.
Surviving besides her husband,
are three daughters, Anna Bell,
Mildred and Laverne, and one
son. Marvin, all at home north
KLEIN WESTBROOK, who
was recently named a Junior
Lion member of the Deport Lions
Club and presented a Junior me-
dal by Lion President W. T.
Hughes.
Bolt of Lightning
Kills Bogata Man
At Camp Hood
There will be a refreshment
booth at this affair in charge of
Deport Boy Scout Troop, under
the command of Scoutmaster
James Grant.
Sunday Morning, July 4
Every visitor is urged to at-
tend the Sunday School of his
choice, and then repair to the
school auditorium for a union
church service at 11 a. m. Fol-
lowing the service there will be
a short address of welcome by
Mayor Frank Griffin and lunch
spread picnic fashion.
^»ery family attending is ask-
po bring a Sunday picnic bas-
Vi»'?or the family and any guests
tf?£ family might be entertain-
of Deport; her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John Quinton; four broth-
ers and eight sisters. They are:
Frank and Tom Quinton in Ok-
lahoma, Chester and Don Quin-
ton in California, Mmes. Mary
Gilley, Maybell Bryant, Gladys
Quinton in Oklahoma, Jewel Van
Winkle, Lillian Van Winkle, Eu-
nice Quinton, Edith Peters and
Myrtle Quinton, all in California.
Pallbearers were Merl and
and Morris Burks, Norman Kuy-
kendall, William, Sam and Mar-
shall Wright.
Deceased, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John Quinton, was born in
Oklahoma May 23, 1913, and was
married May 28, 1932. She be-
came a member of the Mt. Pleas-
ant Baptist Church when a young
girl.
'ing. For those who do not wish
to bring baskets, there will be a
box plate available, but reserva-
tion for this must be made in
advance thru W. T. Hughes,
chairman of the committee in
charge. This box lunch with
drink and dessert will be sup-
plied at cost. Abating Mr.
Hughes will be JoeTtelsey and
Fred Swint.
If there is sufficient interest,
following the picnic lunch, a
meeting will be held in the
school auditorium with speeches
by visitors. This portion of the
program will be entirely in
charge of the visitors.
Pfc. D. B. Anderson Jr., 25, was
killed instantly by a bolt of
lightning Wednesday at Camp
Hood, where he was stationed.
Anderson had re-enlisted in the
army about three weeks ago. He
had served two years and six
months in the recent war, being
overseas in the European theatre
two years.
RAY WUNSCH ELECTED
HEAD OF PARIS JAYCEES
Ray Wunsch was elected pres-
ident of the Paris and Lamar
County Junior Chamber of Com-
merce, Edmond Castleberry was
named first vice-president and
Bill Murphy was elected second
vice-president. Secretary for next
year will be C. B. Coons, and
Gene Hartwell will serve as
treasurer.
The new officers will be in-
stalled at a banquet June 14
when John Ben Shepperd, na-
tional Jaycee president, will be
the speaker.
jYOUR PRIVATE
BOOKKEEPER
A Checking Account at thi? bank auto-
matically “Keeps Books” on your expend-
itures and receipts, the bills you’ve paid,
the date you paid them, furnishing an
accurate record of your financial trans-
actions. Memory may sleep, but your
bank statement is always on the job!
I
The Deport State Bank invites your ac-
count . . ours is a cheerful, prompt and
courteous service.
Deport State Bank
iak,v
B;idge, Good Conduct Ribbon,
E. T. O. Ribbon, one Battle Star,
Army of A. Ribbon and Ameri-
can Defense Ribbon.
Sgt. John C. McManus of
Camp Hood, accompanied the
body to Bogata for a complete
military funeral service which
was held Saturday afternoon at
2 p. m. at the Church of Christ
at Johntown, conducted by Bro.
W. R. Jones, pastor of Talco
Church of Christ. Burial was in
Bogata Cemetery.
Deceased was the son of D. B.
Anderson and the late Fannie
Phelps Anderson of Clarksville.
He was born at Dimple, Red River
County Jan. 7, 1923. He is sur-
vived by his wife, the former Na-
dine York of Johntown; his fa-
ther, D. B. Anderson, Clarksville;
five sisters, Mrs. Della Nobles,
Cunningham; Mrs. Lola Bell
Joyner, Clarksville; Mrs. Oma
Ham, Levelland; Mrs. Odell Con-
real, Clarksville; five brothers,
Marvin and C. W. of Bogata, Vir-
gil of Cunningham, Claud of
Waxahachie and Arthur, in ser-
vice in Germany.
Honorary pallbearers were: W.
L. Stringfellow, M. J. Dodd, Earl
Hawkins, Kenneth York, G. S.
Greer Jr., and J. B. Ham. Active
pallbearers were: Carl Henry
Burns, H. L. Anderson, Bill An-
derson, Malcolm Conyers, Cecil
Anderson and Edgar Burns. Sol-
diers from the National Guard at
Clarksville, led. by Pat Beadle,
had charge of military arrange-
ment.
One son, David Wayne, preced-
ed him in death on April 18, 1947.
Another son. Tommy Dee, was
born May 30, 1948, at Grant Hos-
pital.
Father's Day Wan
Originated by a
Spokane Mother
Surprisingly enough, Father’s
Day was originated by a mother.
In 1909, Mrs. John Bruce Dodd of
Spokane, Wash., proposed the day
as a tribute to fathers every-
where. Her own father, Wdliam
Smart, was a Civil War veteran
whp raised his six children after
their mother’s death.
The Spokane Ministers Asso-
ciation sponsored the first city-
wide Father’s Day in 1910. The
day rapidly became a national
holiday, and President Wilson of-
ficially opened one celebration.
Father’s Day is observed an-
nually on the third Sunday in
June. Tins year it falls on June
20, and Dad will be honored in
traditional fashion with gifts and
affection.
J. V. (Jet) Grant
Buried Saturday
Funeral services were held at
Mount Olivet Cemetery Saturday
afternoon for J. V. (Jet) Grant,
64, farmer of the Frogville, Ok-
lahoma, community. The Rev.
Littleton M. Fowler, pastor of
First Methodist Church, assisted
by the Rev. C. W. Booth, Wesley
Methodist pastor, officiated. Ne-
phews were pallbearers.
Mr. Grant died shortly before
noon Friday in the Sanitarium of
Paris, where he had been a pa-
th nt about two weeks. He was
born in Deport Aug. 5. 1883, and
moved to Indian Territory in
1900, seven years before state-
hood.
Survivors include his wife, for-
merly Mildred Chambless, and
two daughters, Miss Jetty Fern
Grant and Mrs. Stanley Hall
both of Berkeley, Calif., one
grandson. Richard E. Stanley; his
95-year-old father. Jus W Grant:
a brother, S. E. (Ed) Grant, both
of the Ervin community; six sis-
ters, Mrs. Cleora Oakes, Mrs. B.
F.. Nobles, Hugo; Miss Nita Grant.
Deport, Mrs. Alex Delph, Ant-
lers, Ok., Mrs. N. D. Webb, Dal-
las, and Mrs. Alf Gray, Weinert.
A number from Deport attend-
ed the funeral.
Funeral Services
Held Sunday for
Jemima Cotten
Miss Jemima Ann Cotten pass-
ed away at 12:30 noon Saturday,
May 29, 1948, after an illness of
more than a year. She spent most
of her life at Rugby, where she
was born Feb. 12, 1909, daughter
of William James and Mattie
Cotten.
During the war she was em-
ployed at Naval Aircraft, North
Island, Sim Diego, Calif. In 1944,
she returned to her home to be
at the bedside of her father who
had suffered a fall from which
he died June 10, 1947. In De-
cember 1947 she moved to De-
port with her sisters. Misses Ver-
ah and Maggie Cotten
The deceased was converted at
an early age and became a mem-
ber of the Church of the Nazar-
ene in 1938. She loved the
church and was always ready to
respond to any call of duty and
privileges of the Christian life.
Besides many friends who mourn
her passing, she is survived by
these sisters and brothers: Misses
Verah and Maggie Cotten of De-
port, Mrs. Josie Ortiz, San Diego,
Calif., J. H. Cotten, Big Spring,
R. M. Cotten, Lancaster, Calif.,
Albert Cotten, Paris, W. A. Cot-
ten, Johntown, and Sam Rodgers,
Lawton, Okla.
The funeral services were held
25 ARE ARRESTED ON LIQUOR
CHARGES RED RIVER CO.
Squads of sheriff’s deputies and
state officers arrested 25 alleged
Red River County bootleggers on
Tuesday night in the largest such
campaign in this section of Tex-
as within several years.
The authorities began the
round-up at 6 o’clock Tuesday
evening and continued through
the night for more than 9 hours
before the last suspect was taken
into custody.
Box score of the campaign:
Pleas of gi> *y by 23 defendants,
who were assessed $8,900 in fines
and various jail sentences (most-
ly suspended); confiscation of
seven automobiles and a quantity
of bonded and corn liquors.
Court officials said that court
costs also assessed these defend-
ants would run $2,000 or more.
The raids climaxed several
weeks of undercover investiga-
tion by four Texas Liquor Con-
Earl Montgomery, $100 and
costs in each of three cases, and
a one-year suspended jail term.
S. R. Rains, $250 and costs in
each of four cases and a one-year
suspended jail term.
Travis Butler, $100 and costs
and a six-months suspended jail
term in one case.
Jessie Griffin, $100 and costs
and a six-months suspended jail
term in one case.
Henry Hawley, $400 and costs
in each of two cases and a one-
year suspended jail term.
Tillman Hastings, $200 and
costs in each of two cases; $100
and costs and a one-year sus-
pended jail term in one more
case.
Mrs. Tillman Hastings, $100
and costs in one case.
Coy Hastings, $200 and costs
in each of three cases.
Jewell Humphrey, $100 and
trol Board inspectors. Evidence cf)s^s *n each of two cases and a
obtained by these agents was pre- j six_nlor,tbs suspended jail term.
sented to county authorities.
Complaints charging sale of li-
quor in a dry area were drawn
up and warrants issued for 26 de-
fendants. Other agents of the
liquor board and the Federal Al-
Elmer Damron, $300 and costs
in each of three cases and a one-
year suspended jail term.
Mrs. Elmer Damron, $100 and
costs in each of three cases.
Raymond L. Fennell, $100 and
cohal Tax Unit infiltrated into costs in each of five cases and a
Clarksville late Tuesday after- six-months suspended jail term,
noon to prepare for the raids. | Taylor Ladd, $200 and costs in
Sheriff Taylor McCoy of each of three cases; $100 and costs
Clarksville; District Supervisor in each of two cases and a one-
Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at the : A ubrey Cartlidge of the Paris li- year suspended jail term.
Deport Methodist Church by the I nl.„r hnnrH nnH , Horace Branson, $100 and costs
! qr.or board office and Investiga-
tor W. A. Weaver of the tax unit
at Texarkana directed the cam-
paign.
, ,, The raiders moved swiftly,
som, and Rev. T. H. Browning j steikine in
of the Deport Methodist Church.
The pallbearers were J..I. Ma-
Rev. Grafton Smith, pastor of
the Church of the Nazarene, Par-
is, assisted by Rev. F. C. Hinkle,
Church of the Nazarene, Blos-
thews, Aleck Griffin. H. *L. Bai-
ley, T. J. Lemens, Fred Swint,
and Clarence H. Nobles. Inter-
ment was at Highland Cemetery.
Lions Club Will
Give Artificial
re to Girl
Charlie Moore
Buried Saturday
C. T. (Charlie) Moore, 84,
Biardstown, died Thursday at St.
Joseph’s Hospital. Burial was in
Antioch Cemetery near Biards-
town on Saturday.
Surviving are Mrs. Moore;
three sons, Earl Moore, Dallas;
Austin Moore, Fort Myers, Fla.,
and Leslie Moore, Biardstown;
two grandchildren, one great-
grandchild, and two brothers,
Joe Moore and Jim Moore, living
in Kentucky.
Mr. Moore, born in Logan
County, Kentucky, Feb. 20, 1864,
married Miss Gussie Alice Gray,
Oct. 27, 1887. They had lived in
Lamar County many years. Mr.
Moore joined the Baptist Church
in his early youth.
Miss Louise Watkins, 17-year-
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Watkins of Deport, who lost her
right eye a month ago when a
tree limb struck her while riding
in a truck with Jerry Upchurch,
will be given an artificial eye
by the Deport Lions Club, Dr.
Stephen H. Grant has announced.
Her eye was removed by a Paris
specialist the day following the
accident.
It is the practice of Lions Clubs
over the nation to do this kind
of work.
Big Load of Liquor
Goes to Austin
Assistant Agent
Named for Lamar
Sheriff Under
Bond $10,000
Nol^n Maynard, sheriff of Del-
ta County, Saturday was released
under $10,000 bond, having been
held since Wednesday on a mur-
der with malice charge. Maynard
was arrested after Miss Dorothy
Cooper, 22, was pronounced dead
on arrival at Reed Memorial Hos
pital, a bullet having penetrated
the base of her throat.
The sheriff was arrested by
Highway Patrolmen Ross Kemp
and Bob Ashmore, about 2W
miles north of Cooper on the
highway, where he had stopped
his car.
DEPUTY TOON APPOINTED
DELTA ACTING SHERIFF
Buck Toon, deputy sheriff, was
appointed acting sheriff of Delta
County Monday by the county]
commissioners court, which acl
cepted resignation of Nolan May^
nard, charged with murder in
connection with the fatal shoot-
ling of Mias Dorothy Palmer, May!
28. Toon will serve until after
the oomiag , primary election
I when a sheriff will be nominated.
J sSeSSS'”
a*,
Appointment of Herman A.
Walters, 26, of Longview, as new
assistant Lamar County agent of
the Extension Service has been
approved by the Commissioners
Court, and he will report June 7
for duty.
The appointee will succeed
Tom Prater, who has resigned to
enter college to work on a de-
gree.
Mr. Walters is presently a stu-
dent at Texas A. A M. College
working on a B. S. degree in hor-
ticulture. He is a veteran of
naval service in World War II
and served overseas in the Paci-
fic battle zones.
More Big Rattlers
Reported Killed
P. H. Gandy, who lives ten
miles north of Clarksville, states
that the second large rattlesnake
encountered in less than a week
bit his dog while hunting. The
dog lived about three minutes.
Prior to that experience a huge
rattler measuring twelve inches
in circumference, with fourteen
rattles, was killed by Gandy and
Joe Deviney in the woods near
the fire tower.
are warned,” says
Gandy, “to be very careful, as
shows what would happen
be blttSir1
A shipment of 279 cases of con-
fiscated liquors, valued in excess
of $10,000, was loaded aboard a
large truck Tuesday from Paris
office of the Texas Liquor Con-
trol Board for transport to its
state headquarters.
District Supervisor Aubrey
Cartlidge said the liquor had
been seized within the past three
months from bootleggers appre-
hended within Paris area.
The liquor is taken to Austin
to be auctioned off by the state
to qualified liquor dealers in wet
districts, Mr. Cartlidge said, with
the money recived from such
sales used to help defray ex-
penses of the liquor board and
other state purposes.
Clarksville, Bagwell
and Bogata. A stream of pris-
oners soon began to pour into
the Birmingham school house
near Clarksville where headquar-
ters for the raids had been set up.
in each of two cases; $100 and
costs and a six-months jail term
(both suspended) in anothei case.
Joe Clause, $300 and costs and
a one-year suspended jail term.
Charley White, .a. _ negro, 30
days in jail and court costs on
each of four cases.
Burl Ridge, a negro, $400 and
costs and a one-year suspended
Up to a late hour prisoners 1^'^ term in one case.
were held in the school
build- I ^oc MurPhy' a negro, $100 and
ing in order to prevent word of t oos^s ‘n each °f seven cases and
the raids from spreading about
the county.
After dark many of the de-
fendants were routed from bed
or lured into traps by the under-
cover agents who had been in
contact with them previously
while obtaining evidence.
Only one person was reported
to have resisted arrest. He was
quickly overpowered in a scuffle
with the officers.
All of the confiscated automo-
biles were Clarksville taxi-cabs.
The automobiles weer tagged
by Inspector Weaver with feder-
al stickers warning that they
were “seized by investigators of
the Alcohol Tax Unit, U.S.Treas-
ury Department, for violations of
Internal Revenue Liquor Laws.”
Officers transported the cars to
Paris for storage. Inspector
a one-year suspended jail term.
Son Miller, a negro, $100 and
costs in each of five cases and a
six-months suspended jail term.
George Smith, a negro, $100 in
each of two cases; $200 and costs
and a six-months suspended jail
term in another case.
Fats Baugh, charged in one
case, was released on $500 bond.
The other defendant, Jack Fos-
ter, charged in four cases, was
being held in the Red River
County jail.
Other than Supervisor Cart-
lidge, officers from Paris includ-
ed Inspectors H. B. Stanley, and
Clyde Shelton of the liquor
board. Ddputy Sheriff- Harold
Greenwood and City Marshal
Clark Crader of Clarksville work-
ed with the out-of-county offic-
ers in the raids.
Weaver said libel actions will be
filed in Federal Court at Paris
against the vehicles.
The defendants who pleaded
guilty appeared before County
Judge J. P. Aubrey, who held
his court in session until 4 o’clock
Wednesday morning.
Sentences were as follows:
Mrs. L. E. Morgan, 53, of Paris,
died Saturday at the Sanitarium
of Paris, where she was a pati-
ent. She was the former Annie
Cheatham, born at Biardstown
on June 10, 1894. Her husband,
daughter, mother and several
brothers survive.
A Common Sense Man
IS A SENSIBLE MAN
School Election
—He often has a special bank account which
he terms as an emergency or surplus ac-
count.
On June 19th
Notices have been posted for
an election to be held on June 19
to determine if Shadowland com-
mon school district shall be con-
solidated with Deport Independ-
ent school district.
Students in the Shadowland
district have been taught unde&
contract with the Deport school]
for a number of years.
W. H. Thompson will be the
presiding officer of the election.
-When some sudden condition calling for
immediate attention arises, he has ready
cash to act to his advantage.
-Is it not a good suggestion to keep a special
account for special purposes?
—Have one; have it here!
Watch Repair Man
Opens Deport Shop
Victor E. Burger has opened a
watch repair shop in the Wood-
Kelscy appliance store and is us-
ing space in this issue to invite
patronage.
Mr. Burger is a native of Isa-
bella, Tenn., and after being re-
from military service, at-
First National Bank
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