The Clarksville Times (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 29, 1973 Page: 4 of 14
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Time to Be Merry i
... and Wary
It s ironic that at this time of the year when good will toward
vour fellow man should prevail is the season when more fellow
men ... and women, ink© advantage of others than at any o er
season of the year. , ., 4 ,__,
I,aw enforcement agencies are cautioning folks to lock cars
that contain packages and gifts and to lock their homes during
periods then no one .is at home.
Shoplifters and hot check artists are more active at this tjjne
of the year than any other. This is due. of course, to crowded
stores and-frenaied activity of store personnel. Shoplifters can do
more pilfering when a store is crowded. The crowd unwittingly
provides covpr anld distraction. Clerks are so busy waiting on
customers they can’t keep an eye on the pilferers.
The same is true for hot check passers. The rush of the
season gives them an advantage in passing off their worthless
imper. Also gypsters find this is the best time of the year to bilk
! h«-public. The innocent victims are filled with good spirit and
generosity and are more susceptible to schemes than normal.
The National Better Business Bureau sometime ago made a
survey to find out what the top rackets were that bilk people out
of their money. .. u —. .
Heading the -list is the “bait and switch where a
fantastically low priced item is advertised as bait to lure the
customer, who is then switched to a higher priced product.
Next in order is the home referral scheme where a home
owner is offered a new siding job or paint job if he will help
promote the company to other friends. He is supposed to get a
rebate for every customer he secures, but usually when he pays
his money, that is the last he sees of it.
Other swindles or rackets in common .usage include charity
frauds, phone credit certificates, business opportunity schemes,
debt consolidation gouging by finance companies, victimizing the
aged, health quackery and earn money at home gyps.
None of these is new. all have been time tested. Most of
them lean heavily upoa the well-known fact that people are
gullible when they think they are getting something for nothing.
All these bilking schemes go on all year, of course, but
during the gay holiday season their victims are just a little easier
to bilk. .
So the Christmas season is the time to be merry , . . and
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only in night clothes, he was let
out near English.
A youth, whose age was
reported at fifteen was picked
up by local officers and
examined on a charge of
forgery. He was alleged to have
forged a check to a local
stablishment in payment of
merchandise. His home is in
laris, where he was wanted for
affenses committed in Lamar
bounty.
'■**> John Murphy, J.T. Glover,
Ross Whiteman and Willard
Moore returned home from
Blanco County, where they
hunted deer several days. They
were joined in Austin by A.M.
Graves.
One hundred and thirty-
eight deer were killed in
McCurtain county during the
recent open season, according
to a letter received by the
Gazette from Robert P.
Chandler, state game and fish
warden, Oklahoma City.
There were 86 deer
checked in at the Broken Bow
ranger’s station, 28 at Watson,
and 24 at Valliant, making a
total of 138 killed in the county.
More deer weye killed in this
county than in any other during
the recent open season.
, Miss Gale Cunningham of
Boyce. Louisiana, became the
bride of Thomas McConnell, son
pf Mr. and Mrs. T.L. McConnell
of Clarksville. The ceremony
was performed at the residence
of Rev. E.E. Colvin, pastor of
First Baptist church of
Alexandria. Louisiana. Mr. and
Mrs. McConnell stopped in
Clarksville en route to Cairo.
Illinois, where they will make
their home. ,
The list of charters
granted includes:
Red River Securities
Corporation. Clarksville: capi
tal stock $2,500, loans and
securities, Incorporators: A.D.
Simpson, C.E. Williams, S.B.
Fryar.
Sixty Years
Several Northeast Texas
farmers were running unopen-
ed cotton bolls through a
threshing machine in order to
facilitate picking. '
A list of 104 bales of cotton
from the J.M. Sivley farm sold
at 11 to 14c.
Dr. James Jones Farrier
and Miss Eleanor Dinwiddie
were united in marriage in the
American Presbyterian church.
Pat Lawson, 14, of Annona
was seriously wounded by the
accidental firing of a gun while
hunting.
Virgil Gates of Clarksville
and Mrs. Ruth Nichols,
daughter of Rev. Homer
Nichols, of Mangum. Okla.,
former pastor of Clarksville
Baptist church, were united in
marriage.
District court convened.
Grand jury members were:
G.D. Hoffman, W.H. Wolf. J.L.
Moore. V,E. Dooley. Wm
McMaster. W.H. Hufstedler,
Morgan Rozelle, F.A. Ford, O.
Greenwood, Jim Pope. J.J.
Walker and Banks Lennox.
W.A. McFarling of Cooper
was elected secretary of the
Retail Merchants Association,
succeeding C.M. Williams, who
resigned to become manager of
the new laundry. _____
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Burning Question
The government’s decision to clamp controls on the
distribution of propane gas. to be followed by rationing of heating
'TTil. together with predictions of severe fuel shortages anyway if
it s a hard winter, have caused a boom in sales of oldtime
wood burning stoves.
“It’s unbelievable." says a spokesman for one large
manufacturer, who says he already has more orders on file than
he can possibly fill. Ben Franklin’s fireplace, which always was an
efficient heater but has been considered mostly a decorator item
lor lo. these many years, is also enjoying a comeback.
The phenomenon raises the question, of course, of where
everybody is going to get the wood to burn in all these stoves,
not to mention the effects on air pollution, j o i
put oqe ffrobjegr/l^ .tipif. pleas*. ; , ,
What Leisure?
Contrary to anything you may have heard, we are still some
distance from becoming a leisure-oriented society with a lot of
unfilled and unfulfilling time on our hands.
True leisure time is actually shrinking among Americans,
says Prof. Roger Blackwell of Ohio SUte University, Even as
they become more affluent. More and more time in the 24-hour
day is taken Dp in getting to work, attending PTA meetings,
working on income tax returns and what-not.
Furthermore, he points out, the work week is not getting
shorter. Overtime and second jobs have kept the average work
week constant or lengthened it slightly. Also some 79 percent of
all families today have more than one wage earner, with 41
(icrcent of all wives working outside the home.
Twenty Years Ago
Approximately 200 deer
were killed during the five-day
hunting season in Northeast
Texas. More than 100 of these
were killed in Red River
County.
Three members of the
Clarksville High School Foot-
ball team received all district
honors. Buck Cagle, and Pete
Axline. fullback, were named to
the first team and Virgil
Taylor, tackle, was a second
team choice. Clarksville fin
ished the season tied with
DeKalb and Daingerfield for
third place. District winner
Atlanta was scheduled to meet
Henderson in Bi-district play-
offs.
* All preliminary arrange-
ments for the aifnual visit of
Santa Claus oh the afternoon of
December 4 had been com-
pleted.
Haywood Antone of El
Paso, formerly with the
advertising and editorial de-
partments of The Times was to
attend the Newspaper Adver-
tising Executive’s Convention
in Chicago.
In reorganization of Dis-
trict 15-A A football teams for
the 1954 season. Paul Pewitt
dropped out to enter Class A
and New Boston moved up to
AA. Other teams in the district
will be Clarksville, Atlanta,
Daingerfield, DeKalb, Hooks
and Linden.
Bernard Bollman of
Clarksville was in the Veterans
Hospital at McKinney suffering
from a broken leg. broken arm
and other injuries sustained in
a three car accident on
Highway 67 near Mt. Vernon.
Red River county gins
received 6,637 bales of cotton
during the month of October. In
the same period a year earlier
receipts were 4,949. The
difference would have been
greater if cotton pickers had
been more plentiful this season.
Forty Years Ago
The Southern Methodist
University museum has receiv-
ed a candlestick made from
wood chosen by Dr. R.S. Hyer,
from one of the pillars of
McKenzie College, the day
before he died. Dr. Hyer, first
president of S.M.U. preached
the baccalaureate sermon to
-the 1929 graduating class off
Clarksville high school on the
day he selected the wood to
carve for the museum. His text,
“Ye are the Light of the
World," inspired a student In
the Clarksville high school to
fashion the candlestick. Mc-
"Kenzie College was the first
Methodist school in Texas and a
forerunner of Southern Metho-
dist University. Superinten-
dent R.M. White was endea
voring to locate the Clarksville
student who fashioned’ the
candlestick.
When the final settlement
ha3 been made in connection
with the 1933 cotton acreage
retirement program several
million dollars will have been
recieved by farmers of
Northeast Texas counties.
Total funds coming to Red
River county from plow-up
checks and option contracts at
four cents will be subject to
such appreciation in the value
of option contracts as may
secure between December 1933
and the "time that they are
disposed of.
The Baptist of Red River
and Bowie Counties are making
plans to ship their annual car of
food and clothing to the
Buckners Orphans Home at
Dallas. The car will be loaded at
DeKalb on December 1st and
2nd. *;
Nat Quarles, proprietor of
West Side Cafe, purchased
from Judge Eugene Black
chairman of the United States
Board of Tax Appeals, the
Black home on West Main
stree, occupied since thfc
removal of Judge and MriL
-Black to Washington by C. P.
Robinson and family. Mr. and
Mrs. Quarles will occupy their
home on December, 1.
The Bogata telephone
company is completing the
work of placing overhead wires
with underground cables in the
business section of the town.
Approximately 1200 feet of
cable has been placed during
the month.
A filling sUtion operator
whose establishment is on the
highway a short distance west
of New Boston was kidnaped by
two men, who called at his place
of business, aroused him and
taking his car, which was
parked conveniently, forced
him to enter it with them and
drove toward Clarksville,
leaving the car in which they
had arrived at his place. Clad
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The Clarksville Times (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 29, 1973, newspaper, November 29, 1973; Clarksville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1021552/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Red River County Public Library.