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—FANNIN COUNTY’S SEMLWEEKLY NEWSPAPER
H The Bonham Herald H
VOL. XVI
SEMI-WEEKLY PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY
BONHAM, TEXAS, MONDAY, JULY 19, .1943
NO. 99
Community
Cannery
3K
Those desim?& to do canning at
the community cannery in Bonham
must bear in mind the new schedule
which began today.
The cannery will be open Mon-
days, Wednesdays and Fridays from
7 a.m. to 2 p.m. .No appointments
will be accepted after 11 a.m.
Ration News
SUGAR—Stamp No. 13 vallid for
five pounds until midnigiit August
15.
CANNING (SUGAR—Stamps 15
and 16 in Ration Book One validfor
5 pounds of sugar each through
Oct. 31, 1943. Those needing extra
sugar for canning may apply to
local rationing board.
SHOES—Stamp No. 18 in Book
1 .good for one pair of shoes
through Oct. 31.
Rayburn Portrait
To Be Unveiled
East Texas State Teachers Col-
lege at Commerce will honor her
most distinguished alumnus, the
Hon. Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the
House of Representatives, by un-
veiling a portrait of Mr. Rayburn
which is to be presented to the col-
lege in a program in Ferguson audi-
torium at 10 a.m., August 6.
Mr. Rayburn, the eighth of the
eleven children of a cotton farmer,
began his college career with the
blessing of his parents and $25.00,
which was all that they could give
him. He worked his way through
the college at Commerce to re-
ceive his bachelor’s degree and the
University of Texas at Austin,
where he received his law degree.
After serving in the Texas legis-
lature, he entered Congress in 1913
and has been there ever since ris-
ing steadily until he now holds a
position of responsibility second
only to that of the President.
‘‘^owhere else in the world ex-
cept in the United States could
such a thing happen,” stated Dr.
Sam H Whitley, president of the
college, in announcing the unveil-
ing.
RETURN AFTER TEXAS
STATE GUARD TRAINING
Capt. Barr, Lieut. Hawes, Sgt.
Crider and Sgt. Leeman have re-
turned after a week’s schooling for
members of the iState Guard at
Camp jBullis. They were given
their diplomas for training Satur-
day by Cpl. DeOrmand of the 726th
Military Police Battalion.
In their training they were in-
structed to the use of tear gas and
machine guns in dispersing dis-
orderly crowds. All were tear
gassed which is reported as very
unpleasant Abut almost certain to
take the fight out of anyone. In
addition Lieut. Hawes received a
bayonet wound in the leg.
CHICKEN DINNER FOR
BUCKNER’S JULY 22
The annual chicken dinner spon-
sored by the T- min County Bap-
tist Woman’sif^sionary Union will
Hbe held this year, July 22. This
has been an annual affair for some
25 or 30 years and is an event look-
ed forward to by the 700 children
at the home. 1 ^
Anyone wishing to furnish fried
chicken, cakes, cookies, etc., are re-
quested to bring to the First Baptist
Church on the morning of July 22,
where the food will' be picked up
and sent to the home.
Ewell Horton and family of Gar-
land spent Sunday here with rela-
tives.
The Rotary club will probably
not meet this week due to the re-
modeling of the Gem cafe.
jT. Stansbury of Springer, Okla.,
has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. M.
O. Stansbury at Edhube.
Committees Named
For Texas Society
Of Washington
Dale Miller, president of the Tex-
as State 'Society of Washington, has
announced appointment of the fol-
lowing as members of the organiza-
tion’s executive committee-
Speaker Sam Rayburn, Bonham;
Mrs. Tom Connally. Texarkana and
Marlin, wife of Senator Connally;
Judge Marvin Jones of Amarillo,
War Food Administrator; Col. Ove-
ta Culp Hobby, Houston, WAC di-
rector; Representative Wright Pat-
man, Texarkana; Mrs. Tom C.
Clark, Dallas, wife of Assistant At-
torney General Clark; L. T. (Tex)
Easley, Fort Worth, Associated
Press correspondent for Texas AP
newspapers; Mrs. W. R. Boyd,
Teague, wife of the chairman of
the Petroleum Industry' War Coun-
cil and president of the American
Petroleum Institute; Lt. Col. C. B.
(Tex) Thomeon, Lubbock, Army
Air Forces; Mrs. Ollie F. Paris,
Sherman, executive assistant to the
vice-president of the Defense Plant
Corporation.
The executive committee deter-
mines the policies of the state so-
ciety, which is comprised of approx-
imately 4,000 Texans working
there.
Besides Miller, who is legislative
representative of the Dallas Cham-
ber of Commerce, other recently
elected officials of the society who
will serve for next twelve months
are Representative Gene Worley,
Shamrock, and Representative Lyn-
don B. Johnson, Austin and John-
son City, and Ralph Pittman, at-
torney, Wichita Falls, all vice-pres-
idents; Assistant Secretary of Ag-
riculture Grover B. Hill, Amarillo,
sergeant at arms; Miss Alla Clary,
secretary to Speaker Rayburn, Pros-
per, official hostess; Mrs. Irene
Wright, (Savoy, and Mrs. Theo Ed-
miston, Yowell, assistent hostesses.
U. S. Flyers Get "Sky Queens'
FIRST METHODIST REVIVAL
CONTINUES TO JULY 25
The First Methodist revival,
which began July 11, will continue
until Sunday night, July 25. Rev.
Bolton Boone, pastor of the Grace
Methodist church at Dallas, is doing
the preac'hing.
Services will be held each morn-
ing and evening this week. The
young people of the community
will be honor guests at the Wed-
nesday night service.
RECEIVES PROMOTION
Charles Roderick, Jr., 20, Co. L.,
800th Signal Training Regiment,
formerly of (Ivanh-oe, Texas, has
been promoted from private to cor-
poral.
He is in the Army Air Force and
is taking a radio operator course
at Central (Signal Corps School at
Camp Crowdes, Mlo.
Just 50 minutes after report of
a stolen car was received here Fri-
day night the Police Department
recovered the vehicle and appre-
hended two ’teen-age youths at
Windomi. Upon receiving the car’s
description from Durant, Okla.,
City Marshal Jack Reeves and Lt.
E. L. Steed took up the trail west
of town. They overtook the car at
Windom, about 35 miles from Pa-
ris, less than a hour after receiv-
ing the notice. Sheriff Taylor of
Bryan County came to Paris and
took the boys back to Durant.—■
Paris News.
Mr. and Mrs. Collie Smith receiv-
ed word from their son, Raymond
Smith that he is recovering nicely
following an operation. He is in
the General hospital at Prairie
City, Oregon.
Belmer White, manager at Swartz
will be inducted July 23 through
the Greenville induction board. He
has sold his residence on East 12th
street.
A/C James F. Jones writes his
parents, Senator and Mrs. C. R.
Jones, that he has soloed. He is
stationed at Santa Maria, Calif.
Born to Mr. and Mi’s. Ed Hene-
gar, July 15, a daughter.
The first cattle brand in South-
east Texas was used 114 years ago.
It was the W of the Whites.
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THE BRITISH SPITFIRE FIGHTER PLANE has been described as “Queen of the Sky.” It played a vital part
in the defense of Britain in 1940. Many Spitfires were included among the 675 airplanes which, as has been recently
announced, have been a gift to the United States from the British Royal Air Force. One hundred sixty-eight Spit-
fires received from the British were flown by American pilots in the invasion of North Africa alone. This picture
shows pilots of an American Spitfire squadron running to their planes.
DEATHS
Walter H. King
Walter H. King died at his home
on North Center street Friday eve-
ning. He was born November 8,
1881 in Tennessee. Because of
failing health he retired in Septem-
ber, 1942, after more than thirty
years as a valued employee of the
Bonham iSteam Laundry. |He was
a member of the First Methodist
Church.
He was married January 8, 1905
to Miss Laura Davis. Surviving
besides his wife and two sons, Mar-
vin King of Decatur and Ray King
of Downey, Calif.; five daughters,
Mrs. Turner Reid of New Philadel-
phia, Ohio, Mrs. Clyde Hall of
Honey Grove, Miss Katherine King
of Pasadena, Calif., Miss Virginia
King and Mrs. Harry McDowell of
Bonham; two brothers, Robert King
of California and Carlos King of
New Boston; two sisters, Mrs. Jim
Hughes' of Fort Worth and Mrs.
Miller Ogle of Rotan. One son,
Clyde, died about seven years ago.
Funeral services were held /Sun-
day afternoon from the Wise Fun-
eral Home conducted by Rev. Bert
B. Hall. Interment was in Willow
Wild cemetery.
His life was an example of quiet,
steady devotion to duty, of unas-
suming and sacrificing .love for
home and family and dependability
in all his relations to his fellowmen.
Mrs. Pamela Upshaw
Funeral services for Mrs. Pamela
L. Upshaw, mother of Mrs. Will
Shelton of Bonhami, were held in
Sherman Tuesday afternoon in the
West Hill cemetery with the Rev.
J. I. Gregory, pastor of the First
Baptist Church, Bonham, officiat-
ing, assisted by Dr. Ellis, pastor
of the First Baptist Church, Sher-
man.
Mrs. Upshaw, widow of the late
>L-. L. Upshaw, died at the home of
a son, G. M. Upshaw, in Eugene,
Ore., and the body was brought by
train for the services in Sherman.
She was 82 years of age and for-
merly resided in Sherman and Den-
ison.
Mi’s. Upshaw was a granddaugh-
ter of Gen. Mike Bulger, Confeder-
ate army, and a direct descendant
of John Adams, second president of
the United States.
Survivors are four sons, SL. F.
and. Ml. V. Upshaw, Fulton, Calif.;
G. M. Upshaw, Eugene, Ore.; three
daughters, Mrs. Paul (Shelton,
Grant's Pass, Ore.; Mrs. J. E. Rals-
ton, Cottage Grove, Ore.; Mrs. Will
Shelton, Bonham; three sisters, Mrs.
Louise Patton Mrs. Rube Craddock,
Jackson’s Gap, Ala.; Mrs. L. F. Up-
shaw, Dallas; one brother, R. D.
Banks, Jackson’s Gap, Ala.; 23
grandchildren and 11 great grand-
children.
SAVOY STAR PRESS IS
NOW MUSEUM PIECE
Western Union will soon be
moved from the Saunders drug
store to the Spivy building several
doors south.
The Lions and their ladies will
meet at the Bonham 'State Park
Thursday evening for a basket pic-
nic.
The century-old Washington hand
press, on which the (Savoy Star was
printed for 41 years until publica-
tion was suspended with the June
24 issue, has been purchased from
Mrs. J. B. May by the .Sherman
Democrat. It will be held as a
museum piece because it is the
same type of press on which The
Democrat was printed in its early
years, beginning August 14, 1879,
and because of the possibility that
this was the original Democrat
press itself.
One of the oldest pieces of print-
ing equipment in the country, the
Washington hand press was invent-
ed in 1827 by Samuel Rust of New
York, but he sold his invention to
R. Hoe and Company, who began
its manufacture with some .im-
provements. The Savoy Star press
bears the legend “IM” in raised let-
ters, a part of the foundry pattern
to show it was one of the first
thousand presses of its kind made.
(In depressed figures, the number of
the press is 123, showing that it
was the 123rd press of its kind
made.
An investigation by the Hoe
company in the spring of 1939 re-
vealed that the press was made just
before 1830 or shortly thereafter
and that by 1870 a total of 5,400
preses of the type were manufac-
tured.
Another evidence of its early
manufacture is the fact that it does
not carry the name of the Hoe.
company, the only legend outside
of the numbers being the descrip-
tive name Washington Press. It
does cany a design of an eagle with
spread wings and perched upon an
American shield. Later presses car-
ried the name of the manufacturer
instead of the name of the press,
but on either side of the crosshead
of the later presses were raised
figures of the head of George Wash-
ington.
A quarter of a century ago the
Washington press was beginning
to disappear in print shops. A few
remain in use now as proof presses.
One side of a sheet is printed at
a time, and the service of two per-
sons is required to operate it, one
to ink the type with a roller and
another to pull the lever throwing
the weight of the press against the
paper on the form type.
G. G. Hunter, 302 North Binkley,
one of the founders of the Sherman
Democrat who retired in 1920, re-
calls that a Washington hand press
was the principal piece of equip-
ment for The Democrat for some
years.
The Democrat’s hand press was
purchased from Captain Crooks,
then operating the Sherman Cour-
ier, a morning newspaper here, and
taken to Whitesboro by Mr. Hunter
and his brother for the Whitesboro
Democrat, the forefunner of the
Sherman Democrat. Some years
after the Sherman Daily Democrat
was established in 188(1, this press
was taken to Savoy for a paper
published by Luke Hunter, elder
brother of the two founders of the
Sherman Democrat, then to White-
wright and later to Caddo, Okla.
The Savoy Star’s press was pur-
chased from the late Zeb Spear-
man, who once operated a news-
paper at Whitewright. Attempt has
been made to identify the former
Democrat as the Savoy Star press
but there is a gap in the record.
It is considex’ed possible, however,
that the press was brought back
from Caddo, Okla., to Whitewright
and used on the Plow and Hammer
or the Whitewright Sun by Spear-
man.
The Hoe company wrote to The
Democrat in 1939: “We receive
many letters from users of these
old presses but to date we can not
recall any that has had a machine
number that is as low as that on
The Star press.” \
Available history of the Savoy
Star press will be preserved along
with a copy of the final issue of
The Star.—'Sherman Democrat.
SCHINKEL—STEWART
Miss June Schinkel, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Davison of
Shamokin, Pa., and A/C Martin V.
Stewart of Jones Field, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Stewart of Ciatawis-
sa, Pa., were married Saturday eve-
ning at the First Methodist church
by the pastor, Rev. Bert B. Hall.
The double ring ceremony was
used. Miss Virginia Biai’d played
the wedding music on the organ.
Attendants were Cadet and Mrs.
Paul Lind.
The bride wore an aqua blue
dress and her corsage was of Du-
bonnet carnations. Mrs. Lind wore
purple with a corsage of white car-
nations.
NO RECORDINGS OVERSEAS
Discs or recordings containing
personal messages cannot be sent to
soldiers stationed outside the conti-
nental limits of the U. S., the War
Department has announced. There
is no objection to sending discs of
personal messages within the conti-
nental United States.
Pvt. James Neighbors, who has
been receiving treatment for a
fractured foot at a hospital at Ft.
Bragg, (N. C., writes his parents
today that he is being moved to
the general hospital at Charleston,
S. C., for an operation on the in-
jured foot.
Dean Turner, wife and son were
Bonham visitors over the week end.
Dean is not only helping build
planes at Ft. Worth but is now
soloing and enjoying it.
Pfc. Joe Shaw will leave Tuesday
to return to Camp Adair, Oregon,
after a furlough spent here.
Mr. and Mrs. Billie Magar and
son of Houston are visiting at the
Harry Hancock home.
War Draft Will Miss
Father s Of Nation
Until October
Most of the nation’s fathers will
still be in civilian clothes by Octo-
ber, perhaps much longer, say draft
officials who are .counting on single
and childless married men, and the
’teen-age group to meet the armed
forces’ requirements
This continued immunity from
selective service applies however
only to those fathers living with
and supporting children born be-
fore Sept. 15 and working at jobs
outside the non-deferable list.
About 6,500,000 have those qualifi-
cations.
This -was the draft picture given
reporters by Major Emmett Solo-
mon of selective service’s manpow-
er division.
The 1,566,000 single and child-
less married men already classified
as available for immediate induc-
tion will fill the quotas for July,
August, and September, although
seme "will win reclassification on
appeal and about 40 percent will
be rejected and put into class 4-E.
Supplementing this were these
factors: j
1. At least 50,000 youths who be-
come 18 each month can be count-
ed upon with certainty to land in
uniform. . An even greater number*
of the total of 90,000 reaching that
age monthly may prove induetible.
2. An indefinite number will be
“recovered” from the pool of 2,-
976.000 men rejected before be-
cause of physical, mental, educa-
tional or moral disqualifications.
3. Many of the 705,000 single
and childless married men now
holding occupational deferment foi
farm work are likely to be called
by local boards after the harvest
season ends.
4. Occupational deferments for
non-agricultural work expire con-
stantly and most of ths group of
1.373.000 are single or childless
married men.
On the other hand, it was said,
only unexpected developments can
continue immunity for fathers!
throughout a prolonged war be-
cause'—
More than half the total of 22,~
184.000 draft registrants 18 through
37 either have entered the armed
forces already or have been re-
jected as unqualified.
The armed forces already have a
strength of 9,300,000 men and wo-
men and, though casualties thus
far have been considerably below
the allowance made for them in
military plans, the officially pro-
jected size of the armed forces is
10.800.000 by the end of this year
and 11,300,000 by the middle of
next year, largely as the result of
naval expansion.
SERVICE MEN GUESTS
AT NEXT RODEO
Service men will be admitted
fi’ee to the rodeo Friday night. This
will be the fourth rodeo presented
by the Bonham Round-Up Club at
the fair grounds rodeo arena.
As a special event this Friday
night Frank Doss will present his
trained horse.
SUNDAY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
Following are the reported at-
tendances at the Bonham iSunday
Schools:
July 11 July 18
First Baptist ........................334 279
First Methodist ..................173 4gg
First » Christian ..................1Q8 108
Clark Memorial .................. 54 44
Church of Christ ...........107 93
Calyary Baptist .................. 64 69
Nazarene .................. 443 443
Speaker of the House iSam Ray-
burn has returned to Bonham to
spend the time until Congress con-
venes in September. He will speak
at the unveiling of pictures of him
at iETSTC at Commerce, August 6.
Miss Ruby Horton returned to
her duties at Dallas, Sunday. (She
had spent the past week here while
her mother was ill. Mrs. Horton
is recovering nicely.
O. L. Dooley and son of Harlin
gen are visiting at the C. L. Nelson
home at jJMrube.
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Newby, G. R. The Bonham Herald (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 99, Ed. 1 Monday, July 19, 1943, newspaper, July 19, 1943; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1002932/m1/1/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bonham Public Library.