The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 8, 1946 Page: 1 of 8
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DEPORT, LAMAR COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1946
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ralorem Tax Hike Clardy Woman
I* Recommended Succumbs to
For Lamar Co. Sudden Illness
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ammendation that Lamar | Mrs. Joe Bryan, 64, of Clardy,
a 1946 ad valorem tax was stricken by illness Sunday
set at $1, an increase of while eating dinner and was pro-
over the current levy, nounced dead on arrival at a
[tade Saturday by County Paris hospital at 1 o’clock that
Auditor John Baker at a session afternoon.
of the Commissioners Court J Funeral was held Monday at
- The suggested hike was the Shady Grove church, conducted
highlight of a discussion by the by Sister Virgie Temple and Sis-
commissioners of the proposed ter Zado Smart. Burial was in
1946 county budget. The court the Minter cemetery. Pallbear-
set a public hearing on the bud* j ers were Sam Skidmore, Hershel
get for 10 a. m. Friday, August Stone, Alvin Ballard, Aaron
16, in the county courtroom. j Watts, Johnnie Pomroy and Earl
Baker explained to the com- Watts,
missiqners that the current 80-1 Deceased, who was the former
cent tax rate has been maintain- i Miss Angie Harvey, was born
ed for the past five years due to April 10, 1882, in Prescott, Ark.,
the use of surplus money from | but had lived in the Milton and
the county’s sinking funds. “How- | Clardy community since she was
ever, these surpluses are virtual- five years old.
ly exhausted,” he said. I A widow, she leaves these chil-
As two commissioners expres- dren: Walter Gooch of Brookston,
ed doubt for the need of such a son by a former marriage; Mrs.
hike, Baker commented that Mallic Thompson and Mrs. Josie
“some of the county’s funds will Stone, Paris; Marshall Bryan, liv-
drag in the red” if the court re-
retains the present rate.
The auditor brought to the at-
tention of tlie commissioners a
recent East Texas Chamber of
Commerce tax report in which it
gs disclosed that several of La- grandchildren.
County’s funds were o' er- I -
pvn during 1945.
a breakdown of his rccom
ing in Arizona; Bailey Bryan and
Mrs. Lillie Mae Ballard of Clardy;
a brother, Lon Harvey, living in
California, and a half-brother,
Archie Harvey of Texarkana; 12
grandchildren and two great-
Infant Coins Pay
mendation for the tax hike. Baker Infant Exp€US€S
proposed to increase appropria- j -
tions to the operating jury and [ Pennies paid all initial expenses
estray fund from two to four of little Miss Jacklyn
R. R .Singers Hold
Successful Meet
At McCrury
Large crowds attended the sing-
ing convention at McCrury school
house Sunday for the last day of
the ann lal Red River County
Singing Convention. Citizens of
the community had prepared a
barbecue of beef and goat, while
visitor^ brought other good things
to eat and a bountiful meal was
spread and served picnic fashion
from long tables arranged under
shade trees on the school ground.
During the business session in
the afternoon W. J. Corbell of
Bogata, was re-elected president;
Marvin Ward, Bogata, was re-
elected vice president and Miss
Dorothy Chance of Sulphur
Springs, acted as secretary-treas-
urer and registered singers.
Quartets from Paris, Clarksville,
Lone Star, Cunningham, Cuthand,
Sulphur Springs, Blossom, Bo-
gata, and a Stamps quartet from
Greenville, attended. It was de-
cided by popular vote for the con-
vention to return to McCrury
again in 1947.
Deport Lions
Will Sponsor
Ladies Night
Annette
cents, spike the operating general Norman’s entrance into this atom-
fund at 24 cents, the same as the worried world Sunday,
past three years, and decrease! One of Deport’s newest resid-
allotment to the operating bridge ents, the little Miss was born
and road fund from 26 to 25 cents. Sunday afternoon to Mr. and
_ Mrs. Ira Norman at the Grant
Hospital. She weighed 6*6
pounds.
Tractor and Shed
Destroyed by Fire
Dr. Grant, attending physician,
was literally staggered when he
Fire destroyed a shed, tractor received his fee—a basket con-
and 280 gallons of gasoline and taining 2500 one-cent pieces. The
burned one casing from another hospital bill was also paid with
tractor belonging to Hugh Evans the infant coins,
on Monday afternoon at the farm Mr. Norman is an ex-service
east of Deport. man and Mrs. Norman is the for-
It caught while Jessie Roden mer Miss Mary Ellen Rhodes,
was filling the tractor with gaso- daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. B.
line, probably from a short cir- Rhodes of Deport.
cuit, -according to Mr. Evans. ) -- „
Deport’s Volunteer Fire De- Cott(m (JrOWeTS Ask
partment responded to the alarm
and prevented one tractor from for 40c Per Pound
burnin . There was no insur- --
ance. [ Southern cotton farmers, repre-
-—- senting states from Oklahoma to
Aws fll.ITR ENTERTAINMENT the Carolinas, voted Monday to
^HlTPONED TILL OCTOBER establish minimum prices of 40c
Hn ent
Be held
a pound for cotton and $100 a ton
In entertainment advertised to for cotton seed. The group voted
held by the Lions Club on to name Georgia’s Agriculture
Friday night has been postponed Commissioner Tom Linder as
until October, according to W. T. chairman of a committee to work
Hughes, chairman of the enter- out means of enlisting the co-op-
tainment committee. eration of all cotton growers.
Deport Lions voted Tuesday
evening to sponsor a Ladies’
Night, and set the date for the
night of August 20 at the school
building. The affair, possibly to
be bolstered with a barbecue, will
allow the ladies to learn what
goes on in the'Lions lair and why
their husbands come home smil-
ing each Tuesday night.
A majority of the attending
members voted to continue meet-
ing one night each week, and a
similar vote postponed the Ama-
teur Night program, due to have
been held Friday night of this
week. Only three entries were
turned in for the program, ac-
cording to W. T. Hughes, who
expressed the hope that, given
more time, more interest would
be taken and the full quota of
numbers secured.
Members enjoyed a beef steak
supper, with iced tea and pine-
apple pie on the side.
Bogata Grants
Lone Star Fifty
Year Franchise
Bogata’s City Council signed a
contract last wee
Star Gas Co.,
year franchise fa the sale of na-
tural gas in Bogal i, and engineers
are busy this wed i laying out the
system that will
250 homes.
When a comm^tee
called upon the
that it extend il
Deport-Fulbright
gata, a survey
the corporate lir its of ' Bogata
was made by
and with about 3 ) accounted for,
it asked for 250 1 mtracts, accom-
panied by a $10| deposit from
each.
That was a bij
ly with the tow:
systems, but a c< mmittee headed
with the Lone
inting a fifty-
rve more than
of citizens
(ompany to ask
line from the
system to Bo-
homes within
gas company
order, especial-
full of butane
lan tackled the
$300 Salary Hike
Rural Teacher
Will Be Proposed
CONDENSED STATEMENT OF
THE DEPORT STATE BANK
DEPORT, TEXAS
At Close of Business June 29, 1946
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts .............
Banking House .........................
Furniture and Fixtures —.......
Other Real Estate----------------
Other Assets ..........—-........-
$128,057.88
3,750.00
1.00
2.00
10.00
Customers Bonds Deposited.............- 1,150.00
Bonds, Stocks &
Warrants.................$166,284.57
Cash & Exchange ........ 311,531.71— 477,816.28
__________________________ $610,787.16
TOTAL
LIABILITIES
DEPOSITS
Customers Bonds Deposited
Capital Stock
$548,061.49
_ 1,150.00
_ 28,000.00
Surplus and Undivided Profits_______ 33,575.67
TOTAL. _______________________$610,787 16
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Salary raises of $300 annually
will be provided for rural aid
school teachers in a bill to be
submitted to the next session of
the state legislature, according to
Senator A. M. Aikin, of Paris.
Senator Aikin returned Tues-
day from a joint legislative com-
mittee meeting in Ft.Worth which
decided on the increase. Senator
Aikin is one of three state sena-
tors named to a special commit-
tee to draft the bill providing the
increase.
The present minimum salary of
rural aid teachers is $135 a month
and the maximum $159. The fig-
ure, affecting 16,062 teachers, is
fixed by law. Only two years ago
it was raised $300 annually, and
the newly proposed boost would
come from an increase in the per
capita apportionment of $11, ex-
pected to add $5,000,000 to the
school fund.
SAILOR RETURNS HOME
Weldon Irving Hume, MAM3c,
has received his discharge from
the Navy at Norman, Ok., follow-
ing ten months overseas duty in
the Asiatic-Pacific and returned
to his home on R3, Deport. He
was last on duty at Treasure Is-
land, San Francisco, Calif.
VISIT ILL IN DALLAS
Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Read and
Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Read were
in Dallas last Wednesday and
Thursday where they attended
the bedside of their granddaugh-
ter and daughter, Mrs. Ray Wood-
en operation
ard* Who underwent
there. - IL dead a
by James Castle
job i. ad kept on'until the neces-
sary 250 signers were secured.
On Tuesday of last week these
contracts were turned over to C.
P. Neville and Pat Nunnally of
the Lone Star Gas Co., and It. S.
Redding Jr., company engineer,
is now making plans lor the sys-
L m.
“Immediate construction is con-
tingent upon securing the neces-
sary materials,” Mr. Neville told
the editor, “but with a whole
town to be served, I think that
will give us some priority,” he
added.
Rates for the service will be
the same as those charged in
Blossom, Roxton, Detroit and De-
port, and are as follows:
Minimum monthly bill for first
1000 feet of gas—$1.40.
Second 1000 feet—$1.15.
Next 3.000 feet—65c per 1000.
Next 20,000 feet—40c per 1000.
All over 25,000 feet — 35c per
1000.
The e figures* are net for
prompt payment of bills, and are
10 per cent higher if payment is
not made promptly.
This was Bogata’s third attempt
to secure natural gas, the first of
which was made sixteen years
ago when Sam Holloway induced
Lone Star Gas Co. to build a line
from its Paris-Clarksville line to
serve Fulbright, Deport and Bo-
gata. There was some opposition
in Bogata to the proposal, and the
125 contracts asked for by the gas
company at that time were not
secured.
Mayor Vernon Thedford made
an attempt to have the Arkansas-
Louisiana Gas Co., serving Talco,
extend its line to Bogata, but the
company declined because its line
from Mt. Pleasant to T^lco was
not large enough to serve both
towns.
Bogata is greatly indebted to
the committee named by the
Lions Club to secure the neces-
sary 250 contracts. They neglect-
ed their business for several days
to put over the project It is a
very good example of what civic
and industrial-minded citizens
can do in advancing the interests
of the community.
Official Count
Shows Ford Won
Flotorial Race
John S. Ford was nominated
flotorial representative for 38th
District by a 240-vote majority
over the incumbent, E. F. Harrell,
Saturday’s official canvass of re-
turns in Lamar and Fannin coun-
ties showed.
August 1 it h Set
As Victory Day
First anniversary of Japan’s
surrender will be celebrated by
Americans August 14 as “Vic-
tory Day ”
President Truman has pro-
claimed the day as one” for sol-
emn commemoration of the devo-
tion of the men and women by
whose secrifices victory was
achieved.” He did not designate
it a federal holiday but ordered
the flag displayed on all govern-
ment buildings.
Four New Wells
Drilling in Talco
Proven Territory
Spurred by a higher price for
crude oil, drilling is picking up
in the Talco field again in proven
territory, and more activity is
now underway than at any time
since 1938.
Byrd-Frost is due to complete
its No. 10 Belcher in the east part
The figures, announced by the j Qf the field this week. This is
Democratic executive committees
in each county, showed the totals
in the primary election, held July
27. as follows:
Ford Harrell
Fannin 4544 3915
Lamar 4125 4814
8969 4829 j
Errors in unofficial tabulations I
and re-checks of the results in1
both counties had shown the out- |
come in doubt during the past
week, first one candidate and then
the other having the apparent ad-
vantage.
It remained for the official can-
vass to reveal the proper figures,
and determine the nominee, on
the basis of corrected returns.
Heat Wave Is
Giving Insects
The Hot-Foot
the third new well for this com-
pany in as many months.
Three other new wells were
rigging last week end and should
be drilling by now. They are:
B. G. Bvers on the No. 15 Daw-
son, in the west part of the Talco
field.
D and D Drilling Company for
Magnolia on the No. 15 Maxton,
in the east part of the field.
W. B. Hinton on the Hargrove
tract in the eastern part of the
field.
There are rumors of a wildcat
test near Hagansport. west of
Talco, but authentic information
is lacking.
Union Revival
To Begin Here
Sunday Morning
The opening service in the Unr I
ion Revival, a co-operative meet-
Texas Road Fund
Given Increase
Tom Perkins, Pioneer
McKinney Publisher,
Civic Leader, is Dead
Thermometers registered a new
high for this year Tuesday when
a mid-summer heat wave rolled
in on the heels of light showers
of rain Monday night. Various
reports of from 100 to 105 degrees
came in, depending on where
thermometers were located.
Local citizens, hovyever, agree
that no matter where they them-
selves were located, it was still
too hot.
Farmers say the extreme hot
weather is not so good for ma-
turing crops, but are more op-
timistic when they consider the
hot-foot it is giving insects. Army
worms are reported in some
fields and poison is being applied
to save what may be a 40-cent
per pound cotton crop.
Hay presses arc in operation
on many meadows and grass
patches, with good yields of this
crop reported.
The State Highway Commission
lias appropriated $10,943,019 for
highway maintenance during the
fiscal year beginning Sept. 1.
This is an increase of more than
one million dollars over the de-
partment’s earlier estimate and
is due in part to the 555-miles
of road, mostly in the farm-to-
market category, which has been
added to the state system since
the last budget was made.
ing of the Presbyterian and Meth-
odist churches in Deport, will be
delivered at 11 o’clock Sunday
morning by the Rev. James With-
erspoon in the Presbyterian
church. The title of his sermon
will be “Jesus Teaching About
Prayer.”
The Rev. J. L. Koontz, pastor
of the Methodist church at Bry-
son, will be on hand to bring the
evening message at 8 o’clock.
Prayer service will be held at
7:45 each evening throughout the
revival, which will extend thru
Aug. 11-18th. Morning services
will be held at 10 o’clock, five of
which will d^pl with the Ten
Commandments. No morning ser-
vice will be held on Saturday.
In an advertisement in this edi-
tion. everyone is invited to attend
the services, bring Bibles and
pray for a great meeting.
Duvall Co. Voting
Wasn't Close
It wasn't even close, as usual,
in storied Duval county, deep in
the Rio Grande Valley in the first
Democratic primary. It ran like
ti:is:
Governor—Sellers, 1,735; Rain-
ey. one; Sadler, two; Smith, two;
Jester, none.
Attorney General—Daniel, 1,7-
35; Neff, none.
Too, Olin Culberson, Railroad
Commissioner; J. E. McDonald,
Agricultural Commissioner; Jesse
James, State Treasurer; Weaver
Baker, Court of Criminal Appeals,
and John H. Sharp, Supreme
Court, got the same 1,735 and
from the Duval electorate in in-
complete returns.
DEPORT MASONS ATTEND
DISTRICT MEET IN PARIS
Thompson Buys Read
Interest in Garage
George Thompson has purchas-
ed the interest of Bob Read in
the Thompson-Read Garage in
Deport.
George and Bob have operated
the business together in the past,
and both men have advertise-
ments elsewhere in this edition.
A meeting of Master Masons of
District 2 was held in Paris Thurs-
day evening of last week. The af-
fair was climaxed with a ueef
barbecue at the baseball park.
Deport Masons attending includ-
ed W. T. Hughes, J. C. Miller,
\V. B. Fuller, A. L. Stalls, Tom
Masingill, Buck Mathews, Earl
Grogan, Frank Griffin, Morris
Parks and M. P. Hulen.
LIVE PORK PRICES BREAK
LONG STANDING RECORD
Live pork prices broke the 27-
year-old record last week when
they topped $24.50 a hundred
pounds. A peak of $28.60 was
reached in 1919.
SCHOOL BOARD NAMES
A NEW TEACHER
Tom Perkins Sr., pioneer Mc-
Kinney publisher and civic lead-
er, died in a McKinney hospital
Tuesday. Perkins was the pub-
lisher of newspapers in McKin-
ney and Farmersville, and a for-
mer president of the Texas Press
Association.
A native of Lamar County,
Perkins began his career in Wylie.
He settled in McKinney more
than forty years ago and was an
organizer of the McKinney Cham-
ber of Commerce.
JUDGE LENNOX DEAD
FROM HEART ATTACK
Judge Chas. D. Lennox, 68. of
Clarksville, died of a heart at-
tack Thursday while in the law
office of O. B. Fisher, Paris at-
torney. He and his son, A. D.
Lennox, were in Puis on busi-
ness at the time, e.,
Marshall
W}'
W. H. Livingston of Paris, has
been elected teacher in Deport
school, according to Supt. W. T.
Hughes. He will teach math in
the grade school and assist Coach
Maddox in athletics.
Mr. Livingston was reared in
the western part of Lamar coun-
ty, and has recently returned
home from the armed service. He
has had several years of teach-
ing experience, and is married.
OH, RIG IS BEING MOVED
FROM LAMAR COUNTY TEST
The rig on the oil test well six
miles northwest of Paris is being
dismantled and moved away.
Spudded July 16, last reports had
drilling operations stalled at 3,021
feet, where the test had topped a
rock-like formation.
PRICE DANIEL LEADS IN
ATTORNEY GENERAL’S RACE
With less than 2,000 estimate^
remaining votes to be counted,
Texas ELlaetion Bureau tabulation
gives P«4ce Daniel 566,922, ’
and Pat Neff Jr.,
CONDENSED STATEMENT OF
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Deport, Texas
At Close of Business June 29, 1946
ASSETS
Loans and Discounts
Banking House Furn. & Fixtures
Other Real Estate ,
Stock in Federal Reserve Bank
CCC Cotton Loans
U. S. Bonds
Other Bonds
Cash and Exchange
$174,748.70
3,000.00
1.00
2,650.00
$ 3,994.50
177,800.00
6,000.00
266,693.45— 454,487.95
TOTAL
$634,887.65
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock .............................
Surplus...........................................
Undivided Profits ....................
DEPOSITS
$ 50,000.00
37,500.00
10,231.40
_ 537,15025
TOTAL
raaa tor At
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$634,887.05
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