The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 25, 1952 Page: 1 of 12
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Times and Elaborate Exhibits Scheduled at
ai Van
counties,
ty residents
are expected
Saline Friday
for the fourth
ecoming, and
this year by the
lions Club, the fair
cantered around
potato in-
dustry. For the past two years,
Van Zandt has replaced' Upshur
County as the leading producer of
sweet potatoes in Texas. It is
estimated by the extension service
that over 11,000 aerce of yams
are being frown in Van Zandt
this year, an increase over last
year of 4,000 acres.
Besides the growers, who will
compete for premium awards total-
ing 904, packers and shippers will
also exhibit their beet crates grad-
ed and packed for commercial use.
Women of the area will also be
afforded a chance to display their
skills as $94 will be given away as
prises for the best cooked dishm
of yams. *
Sweet potatoes, however, will
not he the only agricultural ex-
hibits. Adults, 4-H, and FFA boys
will display ■their prise swine. $60
will bo split by those winning in
the swine division. .
In the agriculture department,
community booths exhibiting the
area’s best corn, cotton, peas, eggs,
castor beans, tomatoes, and water-
melons will be shown. Members of
local veteran agricutural classes
will display their highest acre
yielding corn. $106 is being a-
warded in prises for the best booths
and best individual agricultural
products grown in the county.
Funds to defray the cost of this
year’s fair are hoped to bo derived
from admission proceeds at prob-
ably the wildest rodeos ever pres-
ented in this area which will pres-
ent showings on both Friday and
Saturday nights beginning at I
o’clock.
Admission price to the rodao,
which will be held in the Grand
Saline arena, will be $1 for adults
and 60 cents for children. Paul
Grand Saline, Texas, Thursday, Sept. 25, 195?
Twelve Pages Today—Price 7 Cents
No. 47
tor Injuries Sideline Indian Starters
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te There Friday Night
with a host of minor injuries the
Sftline Indians will journey to Dallas Fri-
to meet a strong Hiilcrest eleven.
Six regular starters on the In-
dian squad are suffering from
colds or other minor injuries. Al-
though all on the injured liat are
slated to see some action Friday,
coach Shirley Anderson said today
that the team will be slowed down
considerably. ^
On the injured list are: half-
back Brownie Hill who Monday
ruptured a blood vessel on top of
his knee cap. The injury is not
serious but is sore, and (Rill will
not start.
Quarterback Danny Dosha this
week has been Improving’from an
ankle injury received in the Win-
nsboro game, but the ankle is stilr
slightly swollen, and Desha will
not start.
Guard Gene Callaway ts still
suffering from as Injured foot,
but he will start.
Halfback Billy Don Callahan
fell off the fender of a car Tues-
day skinning himself badly. How-
ever, ha ts expected to plcy some.
tlowirWth colds are center
Clyde howdle, tackle Kenneth
Briggs, tackle Bobby Carroll, and
Desha,
This past week the Indians have
been working on blocking and im-
proving their offense, with atten-
tion also being given to eliminat-
ing offsides penalties which have
plagued the team in the last two
games.
About Hiilcrest
Against Hiilcrest tht Indians will
run into a strong defensive team
which last week held powerful
Diamond Hill of Fort Worth to a
■cant 7-8 victory earned on a
peso play in the final minute of
the game. Diamond Hill is reported
to have one of the strongest of-
feneee in the Fort Worth area.
Ilf their first game of the year,
(Hiilcrest beat Bonham 28-6. Hill-
crest is in District 18AA.
Named aa Indian starters are
Boyce Gene Davis, LE; Barton
Lee, LT; David Ray Joaaa, JJG;
Clyde Dowdle, 0; Gene Callaway,
5RG; Kenneth Briggs, RT; Bill
confined to the in-
Incubator at Cozby-
pltal early last Fri
resulted in death to
Ibfant son of Mr. and Mrs.
lip Boyles, x ;
! boy, born prematurely and
ag a little over two pounds,
eing kept in almost pure
r to the incubator. The flash
tit believed to have bean
by a abort in the wiring
i of the incubator. The bay’s
■bad died shortly after
waa caused bv the
the hospital building or
at other than the
wn
Saline after an
lit krShrangi-Li (Lou-
is TOM HICKS, who is
coming again in the GEO
home.
lived with the Balls for
before ho became a steady
[ guest. (He says he has closed
hotels here in Grand Sa-
winner in word con-
tS. HAL KENNEDY
iM^is a $80 set of
pieces in til. She
i she explained wuy
Surf so well in
Patch.
> to the Valley
AND MRS. RALPH
son,. MIKE,
for friends of 11
MERCER, now in
i Hospital in Dal-
From polio, was learn-
JUNE has been ad-
doctors that she will
walking exereises this
) she will return homo
school hero after the
holidays:
ARMSTRONG this week
advising her old beauty
jmers that her business
i still in her old home,
’’ home which she
from the EARL
authority MARION
aaie pretty dote last
predicting (hat Grand
beat Winnsboro 80-6.
score was 32-0). He
week that the In-
take Hiilcrest Friday
score of 80-18.
the offi-
game Mgh-
for their
’ also said
f _11 «whafVa«i iiM
W7II W IlSVirar V*
or two ahead
I on the
him
Van Zan<Jt Sweet
Potatoes Hailed
As Best Quality
Over 4,000 erates of swept po-
tatoes were movsd from shipping
houses in Grand-Saline this past
week, and early indications point
towards a larger crop than last
year.
Even better news for local po-
tato growers than the fact that
the crop here will be larger than
at first expected is that quality
is good and Van Zandt sweet pota-
toes have again won recognition
for being the best on the market.
In Louisiana, the No. I potatoes
are bringing but three cents a
pound while buyers in Grand Sa-
line this past week paid Six cents.
Locally, canning potatoes have
been worth two cents a pound.
t Van Zandt County will again be
the leading sweet potato produc-
ing county of Texas this year,
but OSSai* tbs to*W emp will
bs Urge, small yields fa other
producing areas will result in this
year’s total production being bo-
low that of last season.
According to J. F. Rosborough
of the JUndale experiment station,
vegetable marketing specialist for
the extension service, wholesale
market quotations on U. S. No.
1 Puerto Rican potatoes have rang-
ed from $4 to $6 per bushel.
Retail stores are said to ba
marking up sweet potatoes at 16
to 17 cents per pound compared
with 17 to 19 cents a week ago.
Postponement Given
Belk Due to Illness
The district court trial of Ros-
coe Belk, former Wills Point police
chief, charged with assault to mur-
der was postponed Tuesday until
Nov. 17.
Judge Dick Dixon, presiding in
place of District Judge A. A. Daw-
son, granted a request for a con-
tinuance from the defense on the
grounds of sickness.
Belk had been held in county
jail for the past month pending
failure to post a peace bond of
Legion Post Cods
Meeting for Tuesday
A special meeting of the Tt'n-y-
Clifford-Moore American .Legion
post here will be 'held Tuesday i- District
night, Sept. ML-jUNm W»n hnt JMj|[
to ftfianfe tn&ns Tor the _ . .«...
to VMMge final plana for the
slforTh^ftraT
Don Edwards Chosen
Lovye
tricU
S« HIUXHE8T, Pu. (—
ENDS SEASON WITH VICTORY
Don Edwards was elected presi|
dent at the Grand Saline High
School Senior Class this wedkB
Other students elected to office^
were Doug Long, vice-president;!
I McMakin, secretary; Pa-|
HWhatley, treasurer; Yvonne"
Deaton, reporter; Charles Mina-1
traa, parliamentarian; and Bobby|
Morphy, sargeant-at-arms. ■
Room mothers elected by the]
class were Mrs. Jack Long, Mrs.
Bill McMakin. Mrs. Bill Burgess,
Mrs. Raymon Cosby, Mrs. CUlin
Preaawood, and Mrs. Howard
Whatley, chairman.
Good Pitching Gives
Local Nine Victory
The Grand Saline nine closed out
the season last Sunday in a blase
of glory as they won a tight 10-in-
ning game with Hallsville 9-8.
William Boyles, who relioved
Robert Hearn in the sixth inning,
krai given credit for the win.
Hearn, who pitched five full in-
nings, gave up eight hits, walked
two, and struck out 10. Hallsville
scored six runs on their eight hits.
Boyles fanned 11 out of 16 men
fneed. Halleville got two hits and
no walks off Boyiss.
Grand Saline eeerad first with
two runs in the second inning
when Hearn walked, ft. B. Gipson
tripjedjrrankAdrian walked,BUy
Dean Edward# walked, and Don
Vickery grounded out, scoring one
run.
In the
scored in the third inning on a
home run with none on.
In the seventh, Grand Saline
scared again when Bill Bradberry
walked and then stole second and
third and reached home on Mel-
vin’s ground out.
In the eighth. Grand Saline scor-
ed three more rang to tie it up
hi the
run put
but Gipson
game night sdl for the first Tues-
day in October. I
Bill Bass, chairnym in charge
of the games night program, will
outline plans for the evening, and
detail duties for individual lsgion-
aires will be designated .
The games party is to be held
in the fire hall and bridge, canasta,
dominoes, and other table games'
will be played. Proceeds derived
from the event will be used by
the local, post to help needy vet-
erans in the Grand Saline area.
Those attending are requested
to bring their own tables.
In additiin to planning for the
games night, a senior vics-conte
mander will be sleeted to replace
Floyd V. Stewart who this week
announced his resignation.
$2,000 and appearance bonds
totaling $2600. He previously had
met the appearance bonds and
Monday made his peace bond and
was released.
In asking for s continuance,
Bolk was reported to be suffering
from back trouble.
Belk has been indicted by the
County Grand Jury on two charges
—for assaulting his wife with in-
tent to murder and for aggravated
assault against Edwin Deveral of
Edgewood.
The aggravated assault cASrge
is a misdemeanor offense Mid will
SSisXi
Tumssll sad this week that he wiH
not ask fer a trial date on the
misdemeanor charge until the Dis-
tkt Court case has been disposed
of.
Tuesday in District Court, Bill
L. Brown was found guilty of pass-
ing a bad check for $408.01 given
to the LAW Chevrolet Co. at Can-
ton. He liras given a five year sus-
pended sentence. Brown paid off
the check prior to the trial.
WHO'S
Born to Mr. and Mrs. i. F. tot-
ton a daughter, Debora Sue, at
8rl0 a. m. Kept. 82 at the Cosby-
Germany Hospital weighing six
pounds and two
Mr. and Mra. John Land an-
nounce the arrival at a daughter,
Judy Lynne, at 11:85 a. m. Sept
19 at the Coaby-Gemany Hospital.
She weighed seven pound*.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. G. W.
Lynch a son, William Lee, at 6:40
a. m. Sept 19 at the Cosby-Gcr-
many Hospital. He weighed six
pounds and eight ounces.
IN THE
HOSPITAL
Patients in the Cozby-Germany
Hospital at 3:30 p. m. Wednesday
afternoon were:
Mrs. Coy Gene Fieher,
Mrs. Lillie Warner,
Mrs. U. B. Nations,
Mrs. Albert Hash**,
. Albert Hashert,
Mrs. E. A. Bailey,
Mrs. Cons Williams,
Mrs. E. R. Slagle,
Mrs. Georgs Wtlderspin,
Jess Simp*on,
Mrs. Loy (Bill,
Mrs. Baker McClellan, and
Baby Boy Martin.
Cross of Wills Point is furnishing
the stock for the event, and entriea
from the five surrounding county
area will compete for prises. Hurt
will bs added money in each event.
Other entertainment scheduled
for Saturday includes an old fid-
dlers contest Saturday afternoon,
starting at 3 o'clock with the bant
four band* ter compete.for $100 in
prise* Saturday night at a bigj
ienca following
Scheduled for 2 p. m
afternoon is the
whic six hands will march
ed by numerous floats and
horses ard rider*. A total of I
will be awarded the winning
rade <*ntries.
J dxing of the various
of the fair will atari Satu
nytnn ng at 9 o’i
Special Events Offer
Much Entertainment
v It won’t be all education at Sat
urday** fair.
Beside* affording Ideal farmer
the opportunity to brag about
what good crops they raised aiyd
others to see what their neighbors
have grown and how they did it,
there is going to be plenty of en-
tertainment for all, regardless of
age or sex.
The rodeos on Friday and Sat-
urday nights, starting promptly at
8 o’clock, are expected to show
before a capacity crowd at the
local arena.
There* will he bronc riding, calf
roping, wild cow milking, hulldpg-
ing, boys’ calf scramble, and bull
riding on some the toughest and
meanest stock in nil of Texso b*-
ing furnished by' Pebf Cross , of
Wills Point.
NIGGER JIGS
r-LTSI«
throughout East Texas i
Old Tima Dancing
Will Accompany
Fiddling Music ,
Ever hear of the double back
Shuffle, the buck-wing, or the
o’possum-a-Ia?
They are old time Negro jig
dance steps, formerly much In
vogue when the peddle wheel show
boats churned up and down the
Mississippi River in the latter half
of the 1800’s, and Saturday night
people attending the big street
dance here following the rodeo*
will get to see them performed
by an expert. in. f
old
fa*
and
who lives just off Highway 80
near Mack’* switch, win do the
performing.
Of French descent, Beaupre has
been dancing all of his life. At
76'years of age be can still keep
one foot on the ground and kick
higher than his head with the
other.
Promising to attend the fair,
Beaupre says that he is now in
his second childhood but is getting
better at dancing every day. He
only dances by himself because he
says if a girl squeezes his hand
while dancing he forgets every-
thing he knows.
Beaupre will ride his bicycle to
Grand Saline, his principal meant!
of transportation. He often goes
as far as Dallas on his bicycle, an 1
during his life time ho has bo^n
struck by automobiles while On
his bicycle a total of eight times,
hut he still rides.
Beaupre says ho has won all the
dancing honors all «*or East Texas
for so long that ho no longer con
find anyone to compote against
him. Beside* dancing and riding
a bicycle, Beaupre like* animals.
Ho keeps throe dogs, a pot pig, a
pet o’possuat, o king snake, a
turtle and a horse. In fact he says
his home is a second Noah’s Ark as
as he trios to keep two of every-
thing, t t
The rodeo* will ho strictly rja ‘
tour performances with $10 aoBOL
money provided for each Averi$.
Entries close at 0 p. m. each
of the rodeo and must ho ^
with (Herbert dower.
Parade Fact*
Saturday afternoon, there
be a gigantic parade starting
the high school at 2 p. m. i
winding its way through the be
ness district. Parade entries
to assemble at the high school
later than 1:00 p. ah
Bustoses firms and drie organ*
izationa will bo represented
decorated floats. Ox high
hands have promised to march,
a record number of horses
expected to be
gitiHahtosUlaiinnt for
well as the *
is a fiddling convention, and
sponoos restored from over 1
Texas to date indteate that
the oMftoho so
-will bo plenty of fiddlers on
to compete for tike $100
money being offered. ,
A If Roberson is in charge oft-
arranging for the fiddlers. He In.
being assisted by 'Weldon Liftfc
Herman Lewis, and Don Ritchie*'
Street Dance Too
The host four fiddling hartdM.
are to be selected Saturday after-
noon when the fiddling starts ah.
8 o’clock. The chosen four banefa
will compete for their places Sab*
urday night at a street dsnee, ins* i
mediately following the rodeo.
Saturday afternoon thtf bands
"Will perform on a stage to 6* *-
Mated in the
of^O Steed!
Street to th* alloy
Fail Drug Co. wiH go roped
for the street dame.
Yea Zandt Native.
Funeral imevl.vo for Mr?, ffo
D. Allen, 't2, native Van Zandter
and sister of Mra T. D. Hutft
and J. H. Rucker* were held la|>t
Saturday afternoon In Providence
with Rev. B. C Dodd officiating.
Mrs. Alien died at about 1 a.
last Friday in
Hospital. She w
the Baptist Church in Santa Anna,
its in addition to Xn.
L L Allen, Ragan o, Items,
Allen, fcteiidra. Cab'L. JftU
Leo Angeles, CaBL/ j
hm, Anabeint Calif-, and i
Amaa, OaSL. Mrs. X. AI
Mr. and Mrs. Leland Carrey srs
the parents of s son, Danny ^ynn,
born at 8:90 a. m. Sept. 18 at the
Cozby-Germany (Hospital weighing
eight pounds and 12
Born to Mr. and Mrs. E. W
Rousseau a -daughter, Sue Ann, at
8:60 p. m. Sept 80 at the Cosby-
Germany Hospital weighing six
Bora to Pfc. and Mra. Coy Gone
Fisher a son, Gary Leo, at 6:50
pounds and 15 ounces.
PMA to Begin Taking
Applications for Aid
PMA community committeemen
for Van Zandt County prill begin
taking applications for assistance
under the 1958 ACP program next
Thursday, Oct. 1.
Farmers who believe they will
not need the assistance available
for conservation work are urged
to so inform their committeemen.
Individual farmers in the county
will bo visited by a PMA commit-
teaman and will he afforded the
opportunity to request ACP ae-
eistance to boar part of the Con-
servation work needed on his
funds will bs used up at that time.
Committeemen who will he tak-
ing assistance applications are as
follows:
Van—Homer Thom peon, Aubrey
Ellison, A. C. Davis, and Edd G.
Wlatson.
Grand Saline and Fruitvalo —
Tull Tho
and Edd
Fumkti are asked to raqueet
ACP assistance only on those con-
servation practices which wiH help
to sustain or increase prdouction
of vital crops.
Farmera must request ACP as-
one of Ms local som-
to Deo. 1 if he to
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Harle, Neil. The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 25, 1952, newspaper, September 25, 1952; Grand Saline, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1015982/m1/1/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Van Zandt County Library.