The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 10, 1952 Page: 1 of 10
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’ Leon -Cox This Week'
Asks for Re-election
To County Judge's Post
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A race for the office of County
Judge developed this week as in*
cumbent Leon Cox announced that
he would seek re-election.
Cox’s only opponent to date is
G. D. iStaton of Wills Point. Thd
entrance into the county judge’s
race by Cox means that voters now
have three county contests to de-
cide in the July Democratic Pri-
mer:/ The offices of county crim-
inal district attorney, district
clerk, county tax assessor-collector,
and county treasurer all have only
one candidate seeking election.
In addition to the county judge’s
race, other offices in which two
or more men are seeking election
are sheriff and county clerk.
Billy Deen and J. T. Childs are
opposed for county clerk, and in
the sheriff’s race are Elmer Poole,
Forrest Sides, J. P. (Pat) Hed-
dins, and J. W. (Jew) Burnett.
The last day in which candidates
may file to have their names plac-
ed on the ballot in the July Demo-
cratic Primary is May 6. Demo-
cratic Party precinct conventions
will be held on May 8. .
BIGGEST VOTE IN HISTORY
IK 1952
Tea Pages Today Price T Coats
Anders, Garland,
Pugh Win Election
In a record turnout of voters
in a Grand Saline school election,
J. C. (Scout) Anders, Wiley Gar-
land, Jr., and 'Perry Pugh wore
elected to three year terms as
school trustees of the local district
last Saturday.
A total of 627 ballots were cast.
Anders led the race, receiving
£27 votes. Ho was closely followed
by Garjand with 817 and Pugh
with 242.
Other candidates running and
Round-Up Club May
Give Up Charter
If Interest Lags
An important meeting of all
.members and others interested
in the East Texas Round-Up
Club has been called for Mon-
day night at 7:30 o’clock in the
fire hall, it was announced
Wednesday by clab president
James Pugh.
Main business to be discuss-
ed will be to decide whether to
continue holding the organiza-
tion’s charter as a non-profit
organization or to give the
charter up.
Pugh said this week that if
less than seven members are
present at Monday’s meeting the
charter will automatically be
mailed back to the state. Ho
is encouraging all those inter-
ested in the activities of the
club to make every attempt pos-
sible to be present.
LOOKS PROMISING
their votes received were as fol-
lows:
Marion Quinn, 151
<W. L. Lewis, 75
J. V. Curnutt, 185
R. A. Davis, 131
Odie 8/ Knight, 92
Johnie Reid, 119
Gene Carroll. 231
This coming Monday night tho
new board will hold its first meet-
ing in which the old board will
canvass the votes and the three
new members will be sworn in re-
placing Quinn, C. A. Mayfieldy
and Foye Fowler.
Membership of the board for the
coming year will be composed of
Owen Kuykendall, Jack Roberson,
Johnny Smith, L. H. Burgess, An-
ders, Garland, and Pugh.
. . REV. LOYD P- WILLIAMS,
former pastor of the Pruitt Metho-
dist Circuit, describes trials and
tribulations of preacher's wife.
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Denny Judged Insane
At Hearing In Canton
Ulie Denny, convicted slayer of
Steve W. Bolt, of Myrtle Spmigst
and charged with the slaying of
two other Mytrle Springs men,
was declared Tuesday to be of un-
sound mind at a district court!
hearing in Canton.
Denny was sentenced to life
imprisonment last October for the
shotgun murder»of 80 year old
'Bolt. He is also accused of shoot-
ing to death George Henry Dix-
on and Ben Taylor.
In. the hearing Tuesday, a Dallas!
mental specialist testified that iri
his opinion. Denny was suffering
from delusions and hallucinations.
•Dr. George Homer Hilliard, Jr.,
county health officer, also recently
examined Denny and declared him
to tm of unsound mind.
Denny will be taken this week tm
the Terrell State Hospital.
40 Out for Spring Training
Hoping to Make Grid Squad
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Indian grid hopes for next fall
» being built around 40 boys
io reported for spring training
,u»s Monday including nine re-
turning lettermen and a host of
tsntising material coming up from
^ar’s B squad and junior
' high teams.
Only bad news for Indian sup-
•rters is that Roes Love, hard
rging full back of last year,
’ italy will not be eligible due
too many semesters in
school. * .
Other lettermen from last year
will be lost are Bobby Curtis
id Robert Camper, both too old,
graduating seniors Jimmy
. Gene Long, Don Vickery,
Teddy Lee Lawrence.
_ First String Contenders
•down first string berths
are ends Boyce Gene
and Bill Clinkscales; tackl.j
Briggs; guards David
Jones and Gene Callaway;
Wilson Cosby, Danny
Bfownie Hill, Don Ed-
and Doug Long. *
to coach Shirley An-
ion, the Indian coaches have
of good material, but the
e is putting it all together.
1 changes in position from
' are being considered for
lettermen including
Long who is alternating b«*
his tenter duties and as
fullback. Utility man
year, Clyde iDowdle, is
defensive end, and also
id tackle.
nt, a wide open first
ent has been receiv-
gun concerning Inst
titled, “Philosophy
which _ the author
unknown. •
HMILLER writes
the author is
the editorial
“Get
string berth is center where Jessie
Armstrong, Dale Madden, Earlon
,Lee, and Dowdle are all contend-
ers.
Lee, a 165 pound tackle from
last year's ft squad has showed up
well in eerly practice and possibly
will be the first string tackle
.selection along with Briggs. Two
junior high tackles who also are
making bids for the first team
are Larry Don Davis, 180 pounds,
and Bobby Carroll, 195 pounds.
Pushing • Davis and Qlinkscalea
for an end! berth haa been Junior
Curtis, who is described by cdaches
as one of the hardest, working
players out for spring training.
Due to see lots of action , at on*
of the guard alots next year is
Bobby Allen, 145 pound letterman
from Junior High.
Bsckfield Outlook
Of the bsckfield candidates, Hill
and Edwards have both been
showing up exceptionally well.
Hill, who last year played only
offensive, has shown marked im-
provement on defense, and Ed-
wards, who last year played only!
defensive, is now working out with
the offensive squad.
Promising backs up from the
B squad and Junior High include1
Lonnie Humphrey; Johnny Wayne
Clowers, who is proving to be a
good runner but having trouble
with getting off to a fast start;
Tommy Turner, a left handed
passer; and Billy Paul Presswood.
Hopes for another Don Vickery
are being carried for Billy Gene
Callahan, 146 pound senior who
lias not played football since he
was in Junior High. Indian coaches
say Callahan is a natural athlete,
plays defense and offense equally
well, and looks like a natural re-
placement for Vickery.
IWeak spots which have moved
up in early season practice are at
canter and in the kicking duties.
The Indians in spring training
are sticking almost entirely to a
double wing formation. Spring
training will continue for 80 days,
and the that two Friday nights it
Is planned to hold practice games.
Former Van Zandt Man
Authors Book Dealing
With Preachers Wife
Rev. Loyd E. Williams, Pastor
of First Methodist £hurch jn
Teague, is author of a book, “The
Queen Without A Crown,” which
will be released to the public by
the Naylor Publishing Company
of San Antonio on April 15.
Rev. Williams has many friends
in Van Zandt County by virtue of
the fact that he served as pastott
of churches in th# county for three)
years. He was pastor of the Pleas-
ant Glade Circuit of the Metho-
dist Church, now known as the
Canton Circuit, from 1989 to
1940. On the circuit were Pleasant
Glade, Odom, Wallace, and Moors.
In 1940 he moved to the Pruitt
Circuit, now known as the Van
Circuit, where he remained until
1942. (While on this charge he
served the communities of Pruitt,
Union, Watt, Myrtle Springs, and
Turner. I ’J- • I V
deals vrttUJjhf life of
it's wife. Explriencea in
k are not all the experiences
of the author’s family, but many
were taken from the experience^
of his friends, some from oth«*
denominations. The book is made
fiction by the use of imaginary,
characters to which all the ox-
periences are applied.
Legion Post Decides
Against Murrell's Lake
As Possible New Home
Local Pupils Win
In District 17 Conte:
John Beasley
Named to Lead
Local Lions Club
John Beasley was nominated
Monday night by a committee of
past presidents to fill the chief
office of the Grand Saline Lions'
Club during the coming year.
Beasley was nominated unop-
posed, and if elected will succeed
Herbert Clower/ as president.
Other officers nominated, all
unopposed, were Enoch Fletcher,
first vice-president; Fred Bufka,
second vice-president; Clyde Dar-
nell, third vice-president; Hulan
(Hoot) Smith, Tail Twister; E. R.
Slagle, Lion Tamer; and V. B.
Moore, secretary-treasurer.
Nominated as directors were
Howard Hill and Shirley Ander-
son. Hold over directors are G. R.
Pyle and Bill Whitehead.
In other business conducted at
Monday’s meeting, it was unani-
mously agreed that the club con-
tribute $100 towards construction
of the two tennis courts on the
east side of the fire hall, a pro-
ject now being undertaken by th«
local fire department. '
Reporting on past activities of
the club, Clower stated that two
pair of glasses were recently pur-
chased for local school girls who
were in need of glasses, but unable
to buy them.
Guest speaker at the meeting
was Bill Tipptom, official of the
newly opened Sugar Cree^ Cream-
ery in Mined*. Tippton explained
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Indians Prove Best in Liter*
Events, Poor in Sport Coi
Grand Saline walked off with first place
in the district 17-A spring meet of liter
track and field events held last week in
Placing only fourth
See LIONS CLUB, Page 8—
Slides Will Show
How To Raise Corn
Farmers interested in raising
100 bushels of field corn and
winning a share of the $250 in
cash prizes being offered by
local businessmen will have an
opportunity this Friday and
Saturday to see how it can be
done.
Arrangements were completed
this week with vocational agri-
cultural teacher L. W. Reeves
of Edgewood to set up a con-
tinuous showing of colored
slides in. the display window
of The Sun office, ahowing the
correct steps connected with
growing a maximum crop of
corn. ;
Twelve pictuies, some of them
taken loeally, will comprise the
series. They will be operated
mechanically, eontinu o u a I y
changing from one picture to
another, beginning Friday aft-
ernoon and continuing through
Saturday night.
DOWN TO 85 CENTS
Turnip Price Drops
But Demand High
The price of turnips and tops | ped 15 cents, greens and mustard
Red Cross Asks $1200
From Grand Saline Area
The annual drive in the Grand
Saline area to raise funds for the
Red Cross will get underway this
waek and bontinue through next
week, it has been announced by
chairman B. P. Friedline.
Goal set for this area is $1200
of which one fourth will be kept at
home to aid looal charity case# and
other Rea Cross work.
Last year Grand Saline contri-
buted o little over $1100 to R e d
Cross work. '
At o meeting of the local Lions
Club Monday night, the club voted
to assist' Friedline in the campaign.
Volunteers wno offered to solicit
business firms of the area for do-
nations were Enoch Fletcher, Rev.
J. E. Hanes, John
r Garland.
The campaign this year will be
conducted through the business
establishments, the school, Mor-
ton Salt Co., civic organisations,
and individuals.
Persona deairing to give dona-
tions who are not contacted by a
volunteer worker may mail con-
tributions to Fried! ins or contact
one of the volunteer workers list-
ed above.
In commenting on the need for
funds, Friedline this week remind-
ed citizens of the splendid work
which the Red Cross has been do-
ing in disaster stricken areas, and
also with the blood deuor program
At a regular meeting of
Grand Saline post of the Ameri-
can Legion last Friday night, it
was voted to drop the idea of buy-i
ing the Murrell'Lake site here as
a location for a new hall due to
prohibitive costs.
However, the building commit-
tee appointed last month, compos-
ed of Le Roy Carter, Willis Rob-
erson, George Bell, and Neil Harle,
was instructed by the membership
to continue investigating the pos-
sibility of buying a tract of land
within 10 miles of the city limits.
By unanimous vote, it was also
decided that Louis fternstsin b<r^ rec«*,ved
site investigating
added to the
committee.
In other business conducted at
the meeting, the post agreed to
send a letter to K. Wolens Depart-
Stores expressing the post’s
thank* for the Interest the K.-
Wolens company has shown in its
willingness to help develop the
town of Grand Saline.
The post also approved a motion
that the legion work towards creat-
ing a better community by striving
to develop a better spirit of co-
operation among all segments of
the Grand Saline area.
dropped this week from $1 to 85
cents per dozen bunches at the
the | Van Zandt Cotinty Vegetable
Growers Shed, but demand con-
tinued at a high level and associa-
tion manager Bill Hawkins report-
ed Wednesday that the association
could sell all the greens it could
get. t v
The movement of greens picked
up a little over last week with
Tuesday seeing three loads or a-
bout 2,000 dozen bunches shipped.
According to Hawkins, the green
crop in this area is not as large in
volume this year as last, but it
in dollars and cents is a better deal.
In April of 1951, local farmers
only. $18,000 for their
greens through the association. In
the first eight days of this month,
the association had already paid
out better than $6,500.
While the price of turnips drop-
10 Minute Parking
Beginning this week,, the city
ordinance limiting parking in
front of the post efflbe to It
ptfnutoe will bo enforced, It wna
announced Wednesday by Mayor
i. ■ Mr- Personae.
The two parking spaces di-
rectly In front of the.post office
will be the only onoa subject
to the It »iaate time limit, the
feWWMti
greens continue to bring 75 cents
per dozen bunches and onions 55
cents.
No Tomato Damage
Reporting from the Lindale Ex-
periment Station on the general
overall East Texas produce situa-
tion, J. F. Rosborough said that
last Thursday’s light frost did lit-
tle damage to tomato plants in the
field, although' high winds and
cool nights of the past week have
retarded plant growth.
A large shipment of tomato
plants from the Rio Grande Val-
ley to East Texas it reported by
Rosborough, and he advisee all
farmers using Valley plants to
dust them with a copper base to-
mato dust after the plants become
well established to eliminate the
possibility of late blight disease.
See TURNIP PRICES. Page 8—
Imaginations Run Wild
In Creating FRA Hats
"The jbost Weekend,” an original
creation by Keith Presswood fea-
turing a lamp shade, a beer can,
and beer bottle labels, took first
place prize of an Easter bonnet
from Sqllie’a Hat Shop In a comic
Easter hat contest presented last
Thursday under the sponsorship of
the Grand Saline chapter of thd
Future Homemakers ofc'tAmerica.
Miss Parker Williams, school li-
brarian, modeled the winning crea-
Second place winner was Jan
Roberson with "The Mess,” made
of a cardboard box holding num-
erous articles of junk. She model-
ed her own hafc
Third place went to Geneva
Prather with her "Maker’s Para-
dise” made of a milk strainer,
to,“' 'gjj |
lia
Sue . Whatley’s' "Methabelle”
made of a salad dish, towel, wash-
cloth, toothpaste, soap, and tooth-
brush; Elaine Skinner, "The Thing”
composed of a lamp shade and
acarf; Barbara toper’s “Fisher’s
Paradise” made of worms, tin can,
fish hooka, fishing pole, and craw-
fish; Kenneth Brier’s "(Dish Wash-
er's Dream” composed of two old
hats, dish towel, and Chore Girl
can; Patricia (Whatley’s “The Idea”
made of light fixture, light bulbs,
Easter eggs, chicken, and ribbon;
and Lovye McMakin’s "Tempta-
tion” made of potato sack, chicken,
eggs, and ribbon.
fudges were Leroy Gilbert, Mrs.
Ava Hines, Johnny Wayne Clow-
er, Maty Allea, B. R. SUgel, and
jraflI
field, which was we*-'
the Indiana overcame
deficit by taking eight I
and four seconds in the
events.
Carrying off first
were Betty Lu Fie
sense; Pat Herron, gir
Sharon Jordan, junior girl* '
mation; Annie Claude i‘
girls extemporaneous
Raines and Carolyn Burks
first in spelling; Betty Lu
er, typewriting; and Don
first in the track and field
of high jumping.
The previous week, Grand
line took both first and
in the one-act play contest,
first place awards went to ,
Senior girls for play
and the junior boys for play i
Second Place Wiaaera
Grand Saline second place win-
ners were Ix>vye McMaldn, girls
extemporaneous speo-h; Don
Ritchie, boys ‘
speech; the senior boy*
team; and Jimmy Barron,
putt.
Local third placa winner*
Lcvye Rhodes, girls debate; •
Minatrea, boys extempori
speech; senior boys plnp j
ball; Keith Presswood
Love, tennis doubles; Roj
Davis, low hurdles; Don 1
mile run; Jimmy Barron,
Bill Clinkscales, pole
Bobby Curtis, shot putt.
Don Vickery also tied fc “
in the pole vault and-Ross,'
fourth in high jumping.
Only entries not yet j«
the ready writing contestants, ’
results in ready writing
pected next week, but
of whether Grand Saline
not in that event, the In*
stiii win the meet.
Ruth Sayers and Pat Rai:
the local ready writing
Go to Kilgore
Second place honors in
went to Van. All first place
ners with the exception of
declamation will go to
week end of April 18-19
ticipate in the regional
Indian Om Act
Wins Commarea
The amazing
of Grand Saline High Schoo
tinued to win in competition
other schools last Friday aa
took first place in the area i
held in Commerce.
The week end of April
cast will journey, to Kilgore
they will produce their
titled “The Perfect
in the regional meet.
In the area meet, i
waa judged best ad
Quinn as third beat aihm:
Rcbekah* to
13th Anniveroary
IB Mr
An open house and covered i
supper honoring the 18th
vertary of the Grand Saline
bekeh Lodge No. 87, will be
tonight, .Thursday, starting
7:30 o’clock in the Are hall.
All members of both the
bekahs and the Odd
their famil.:*s are
Game* Tt
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Harle, Neil. The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 10, 1952, newspaper, April 10, 1952; Grand Saline, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1016904/m1/1/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Van Zandt County Library.