The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 18, 1946 Page: 1 of 8
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[ Senator Connally has an-
nounced that he will be a candi-
date for re-election. We believe
the Senator comes nearer to be-
ing a real statesman than any
public man we know of in Wash-
ington. .His record is brilliant;
and besides he has been unfet-
I tered. While a strict party man,
the Senator has shown on dif-
ferent occasions he dares to be
right even if he does have to
trample on the toes of some
of the blue-bellied Northern
Yankee bosses of the party. The
Senator should not, and doubt-
less will not, have any opposition
for re-election. »
Anyone who studies the state
of things which preceded the
French Revolution will see that
the tremendous catastrophe
came about from so excessive a
regulation of men’s actions in
all their details, and such an
enormous drafting away of the
iucts of their actions to
tin the regulating organi-
that life was fast becom-
ing impracticable. And if we
ask what then made, and now
makes, this error possible, we
find it to be the political super-
stition that governmental power
is subject to no restraints.—
Herbert Spencer.
'not feel qualified to en-
i the discussion now going
tive W the merits or de-
of the new translation of
Bible or its superiority or
superiority over the well
King James translation.
' opinion is that if the new
ation results in more read-
©f the Bible it has been a
worth while effort. If it doesn’t
it;l»sn’t accomplished anything.
, »t people who say that they
• itot their paper to tell the
whole truth always, don’t mean
JftThey want an exception
‘ wide in their case, and in the
cfflp °f their family, and their
Wends, and their friend’s
friends, and this takes in about
everybody.
Poll Tax Paid In \
Freestone For 1945
There were 8,010 white, 616 colored
and 86 exemptions, making a total of
3,660 polls paid in Freestone County
up to February 1, by voting precincts
as follows:
White
Fairfield _____770
Luna_________32
Donie__|_148
Cotton Gin _ 40
Teague -----802
Kirven______I____108
--------868
Concord _
Streetman ___
Cedar _
Shanks ___
'Lanely___
Cottonwood _
Freestone _
New Hope _
Trinity Chapel
_ 80
_ 28
_ 36
4i
.. 29
.118
_ 30
.162
.. 27
. 14
. 60
. 25
. 64
. 10
j 8
TOTAL ________
3,010
Exemptions
Fairfield _ .
_................... 12
Donie .. ........._.
.................... 2
Teague
........................ 12
Wortham
....................... 3
Butler ........-
1
Dew ............
.......... ....... 3
Lanely .........
................... .. 1
Trinity Chapel
TOTAL .........
...................... 1
........85
Colored List
Flairfield
...........Ill
Luna . .....
______18
Cotton G<n
.................. 4
Teague
.................... 73
Kirven .. .
............... 12
Wortham
_ 80
St. Elmo ______
................. 6
Young
............ . 18
Stewards Mill
. ... ..... 26
Butler
..... _.109
We have come to the conclus-
ion that what we need in our
foreign relations committee is
Mveral good horse traders. They
we, in our opinion, the only
&roup of people equipped to
match wits with the foreigners.
. Rev. R. L. Rybum, accompan-
Mr. Huckabee and Mr.
Whitehead of Kirven were here
Monday. After arriving in town
JUl three dodgde each other so
none would think that they came
10 town together.
Many people thought the end
01 the war would bring an end
to our troubles. But far from
5 *v mere'y changed the form
them and added extra vexa-
tions and worries.
People wouldn’t crab so much
.Wing taxes if it wasn’t
tor the knowledge that their tax
,was being squandered
and foolishly wasted.
_.9n® °f our neighbors says his
iaw fore °* beauty and a
rtJ,f/.ou maintain a son or
r m college,, you and
Hu*n; wih agree that two can
uv* on less than one.
Accm^ to the Internal Revenue
w U 41,9®2,000 pounds of snuff
In lQ^>"lUmed in the United st,,te"
l**t year for which com-
* are available.
Tp* Mate
Concord _
Streetman
Lanely Z_
New Hope
17
26
6
22
86
2
Automobile license ]
through March, 1946:
1,686 Passenger Cars___
206 Commercial Trucks
203 Farm Trucks----
• 45 Trailers______
Poppy Day
Saturday May 25
Poppy Day will be observed in
Fairfield and throughout the United
States on Saturday, May 25, Mrs.
Hugh B. Steward, president of Wilbur
H. Bailey Post 190, Unit of the
American Legion Auxiliary, has an-
nounced.
Memorial poppies to be worn in
honor of the dead of both world wars
will be distributed on the streets
throughout the day by volunteer
workers from the Auxiliary and co-
operating organizations. Contribu-
tions received in exchange for the
flowers will be ueed in relief and re-
habilitation work for disabled veter-
ans, their families and the families
of the dead.
Extensive preparations for Poppy
Day are being made by the Legion
Auxiliary Unit under the direction of
Mrs. Clifford Fischer, Poppy chair-
nfan. The volunteer workers are be-
ing organized into teams and assign-
ed to locations in the downtown area.
Residence areas also will be covered
to give everyone an opportunity to
pay tribute to the war dead by wear-
ing a memorial flower. "
The poppies have been ordered
from State Headquarters where they
are being made by disabled veterans
of both wars, working under the
direction of the Poppy Department of
the American Legion Auxiliarvy.
They are crepe paper replicas of the
European wild poppy which bloomed
on the battlefields of France and
Belgium in both wars and which has
become a world-wide symbol of re-
membrance of America’s battle dead.
Poppies will be more generally
worn this year than ever before, Mrs.
ames E. Mecum predicted. She is
Chairman of National Poppy Commit-
tee.
“With peace restored and the men
coming home,” she said, “everyone
Now Coming Off
Assembly Lines
DEARBORN, Mich. April 15.—Pre-
diction of cars and trucks by, the
Ford Motor Company since last July
3 has passed the 200,000 mark.
With Thursday’s output, the total
number of units made in the Ford
plants was 201,829. This total is
mpde up of 102,114 automobiles and
99,715 trucks.
JM. L. Bricker, vice-president in
charge of manufacturing, said Thurs-
day production alone was 1,860 Fords,
2*1 Mercurys, 66 Lincolns and 1,044
trucks.
He said numerous obstacles still
remained, including procurement of
steel, threat of a coal strike and the
£*ct that many Ford vendors still
afe closed due to labor difficulties.
-■ J. B. Davis, director of sales and
advertising, has forecast Ford
V-
etion of 100,000 units in
tjiere is no halt in output.
Fairfield High
Has New Coach
.Tnkn P 1
pro-
May if
$18,083.75
_ 7,051.62
. 2,046.54
_ 1,658.00
of Georgia has the larg-
Populatipn of any state in
b 1,084,927, according to
I *• Census Bureau reports.
TOTAL ______________________$28,838.91
Note: This is about 1,000 more
poll tax than we collected last year
and we collected $2,672.75 more on
license plates than we did last year,
says W. H. McSpadden, Freestone
County’s courteous and accommodat-
ing Tax Assessor-Collector, who says,
“I certainly appreciate the coopera-
tion of all the people.”
Revival To Begin
At First Baptist
Church April 21
Rev. Ben Stohler wishes to remind
the people of Fairfield and surround-
ing communities, the beginning of a
revival in the First Baptist Church,
Fairfield, on Sunday, April 21.
Marvin Harris will conduct the
singing and Mr. Stohler will do the
preaching. He will use as the sub-
ject of his sermon, Sunday morning
at 11 o’clock, “The Empty Tomb.”
Sunday evening he will preach on
“Preparation for a Revival." He
suggests the scripture found in
II Chronicles 7:14 for a successful
revival.
The evening services during the
week will begin each night at 7:45.
Everyone is invited to attend.
-o-—
JOE ED EUBANK NOW
TECHNICIAN FIFTH GRADE
WITH THE 8TH ARMY IN NA-
GOYA, Japan.—A member of the
27th Regiment of the veteran 26th
(Tropic Lightning) Division of Gen-
eral Eichelberger’s Eighth Army,
Pfc Joseph E. Eubank, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Eubank, Fairfield,
and husband of the former Miss Ruth
Lane, Fairfield, has been promoted to
the rank of technician fifth grade.
Corporal Eubank entered the
Army in March, 1945, and trained at
Camp Hood, Texas, rfe left for over-
seas in October, 1945, and joined the
"Tropic Lightning” Division on
Luson. Prior to his entrance into the
Army, Corporal Eubank attended th»
Fairfield High School.
can never come back to us by wear-
ing a poppy in their honor on Pop-
py Day "
---o——'—■—
Eight Violators
Present At Price
Panel Conference
The Price Panel Conference of
Limestone and Freestone County
held recently had eight violators pres-
ent, all of them retail grocers. No
penalties were given, as the object of
the meeting was to discuss violations,
and try to impress merchants with
the fact that the Price Panel is func-
tioning, and that care must be taken
in regard to prices. Certain restric-
tions were placed on violators.
Officials in the two counties an-
nounce that there is a marked im-
provement in recent surveys in this
section, and an excellent attitude is
shown by the merchantsi As in the
past, most violations seem to be un-
intentional, but the Dallas District
Office states that merchants must j
be very careful in not repeating these
John B. Robinson is the new coach
Fairfield High School. Mr. Robin-
4®n is a native of Temple, and a
(tree year letterman in football at
Temple High School. Lettered three
years at Sul Ross State Teachers
College and was all Texas Confer-
ee Guard. He has served four
rs in the army and three years
rseas. He was a Captain of Engi-
ring Corps. His division fought
irough the Battle of the Bulge and
then went on into Germany with his
division.
After returning home he took a
brief rest and later entered Sam
Hjpuston State Teachers College
where he is now working on his
Masters Degree.
He comes to Fair-
iield twice weekly to work in spring
will want to pay tribute to those who Gaining with the boys. Mr. Robin-
Rotarians Hear
New Pastor
Fairfield Rotarians gathered at the
Methodist Church Friday for their
weekly luncheon meet with E.
Houser as program chairman.
Mr. Houser introduced Rev. Byron
Lovelady, new Methodist pastor, who
gave an interesting talk on his ser-
vice in the South Pacific as an Army
chaplain. Mr. Lovelady passed around
numerous articles that he had gather-
ed from the various islands on which
he was stationed and explained their
use. His talk was well received.
Jack Cely gave a short talk on the
U. S. D. A. food program, and asked
all members to cooperate.
Visitors present were Clair Clark,
Fred Wheelus, J. D. Davidson and
Weldon Owens, Rotarians of Teague;
Billie Bonner and Lee Judson Davis.
Program chairman for Friday will
be Joe Lee Kirgan.
Drilling Started
On Daniel Well
It is reported drilling started Wed-
nesday on the Daniel well located on
the Hill land known as the "Flat-
woods,” northeast of Fairfield.
The drill is down 6,600 feet on the
Texas well three miles west of Fair-
field, and drilling is progressing’ slow
but steady.
son hopes to raise the football ban-
ner for Fairfield Eagles.
Boil Conservation
*** News
Farmers cooperating with the Free-
stone-Leon Soil Conservation Dis-
trict started turning under vetch last
week. Plant food turned back to the
soil on these farms will not only in-
crease the fertility of the soil but
will help increase the production of
food that is so badly needed now to
feed starving nations.
* * *
Terraces were completed last week
on the following cooperators’ farms:
L. D. Hartley, Dew Conservation
Group, 2 miles; F. E. Hill, South Fair-
field Conservation Group, 4.7 miles;
K. A. Free, Clay Hill Conservation,
1.5 miles. Terrace lines were run by
Travis Stripling, Engineer, and R. G.
Dickie, Engineering Aid, Soil Con-
servation Service.
* * *
Ed Watson, Stewards Mill Conser-
vation Group, has a good stand of
Sericea Lespedeza on 2 1-2 acres of
severely eroded land.
» • *
Farmers interested in seeing hop
clover grow on poor sandy land should
From the Hockley County Herald
printed at Lavelland we print the
following story abcut a Freestone
County boy now serving as District
Clerk of Hockley County, and who
has many relatives and friends here:
C. D. Bass has announced purchase
cf the C. L. Hudgens Hardware in
Levelland, effective April 1. Earl
Daniell, who has been with Hudgens
for the past eight years, is now gen-
eral manager of the store.
Name of the firm has been changed
to C. D. Bass Hardware, the new own-
er said Wednesday. Other store em-
ployees include Jake Wright, who
handles Butane gas installation, and
Glenn Sooter, who is delivery
driver.
Bass is a well-known figure in
Hockley County, having moved here
from Freestone County on January
18, 1927. His avid interest in civic af-
fairs in Levelland is evidenced by his
participation in civic programs in the
plains area.
Now district clerk here, Bass
earlier served six years as county
clerk and for the previous 10 years
operated a garage and filling station
business in Levelland. He is now
serving as president of the Lions
Club and was recently designated as
member-at-large of the South Plains
Boy Scout Council.
The hardware store will continue
with a complete line of merchandise
to include butane and tanks, Servel
Electrolux refrigerators, Dearborn
heaters, Tappan ranges, Philco radios
and appliances, Maytag washing ma-
chines, Florence and Dutch oven
ranges.
Hudgens, who is now serving as
a Levelland city commissioner, an-
nounced with sale of his store that he
and his family will continue to live in
Levelland. His retail business has
sold to Bass, but Hudgens will whole-
sale butane systems over the south
city.
By BYRON UTECHT
In Star-Telegram
CORSICANA, April 16.—The Sixth
Congressional District is stirred up
politically speaking over a successor
to Luther A. Johnson, who is soon to
retire after serving the district in
Cngress since 1923, and who has just
been appointed a judge on the United
States tax court.
The appointment, for 12 years, was
confirmed by the Senate Friday, but
Johnson has not yet resigned. Satur-
day over the phone from Washington
he indicated that he will do so shortly.
Already there are seven prospective
Urges Larger
Hardens More
Feed Production
Freestone County U. S. D. A. Coun-
cil in regular session April 11, dis-
cussed the shortage of food as recom-
mended by Secretary of Agriculture,
Clinton P. Anderson. We have listen-
ed to radio programs and everyone
realizes there is a great shortage of
food. Since it has never come home
to us, we have never been hungry;
we do not realize the necessity of
conservation. Either our neighbors
must be fed or hungry people fight.
As President Truman said Feb. 6,
“For the world as a whole, a food
crisis has developed which may prove
to be the worst in modern times.
More people face starvation and
even actual death, for want of food
today than in any war year, and per-
haps in all the war years combined.”
We, .the people of Freestone Coun-
ty, can help meet this crisis by: First,
producing not a victory garden but a
garden even bigger than we produc-
ed in war time in order to feed our-
’ , j candidates for his Congressional seat,
rU< 1 two pf them having officially an-
nounced.. The list takes in Joe Cow-
ley, Hillsboro, a war veteran; Lynn
B. Griffith, Ellis County, a war veter-
an;; Alvis Vandergriff, now chief
clerk of the land office in Austin and
former Ennis resident; District Judge
Fountain Kirby, Groesbeck; District
Judge A. P. May^ Corsicana; W. T.
McDonald, Bryan, former member of
the Texas Legislature; Tom Tyson,
Corsicana, attorney and one of tha
active leaders in Texas Democratic
politics. Kirby and Mays were veter-
ans of the first World War.
The Sixth District is composed of
Navarro, Ellis, Hill, Limestone, Free-
stone, Leon and Robertson Counties.
'Citizens here Saturday said the
appointment of Johnson and his
forthcoming resignation has created
no surprise. But sentiment has not
cyrstalized to the extent that political
prophets will predict who will get hia
seat.
Governor Stevenson is expected to
call a special election to fill the un-
expired term. This election likely
would coincide with the August
Democratic primary when the party
will nominate a man to take office
next January.
However, there ia no advice out of
Austin just when the governor would
call a special election, and office prob-
ably will take no action until officially
notified of Johnson’s resignation,
new appointment of Johnson becor
effective-June 2. - • . j,
Tyson, who Saturday said that 1
is seriously considering running
Congress, and who supported the
Roosevelt faction in Texas actively in
conventions and in other maneuvers,
was the laeder at the Dallas State
Democratic Convention in 1944, and
as chariman of the party organization
committee thre* out the old and put
in a new state executive committee
with Harry L. Seay as its head.
L R , Boy*s f“rm- This cloveM STth^ Z-th^7ndTy‘ghblivestock
seeded in October of last year at, must b# fe<J and th,§ can be done
only by producing enough feed for
our livestock and a surplus for those
who are less fortunate.—Reporter.
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Twice Told Tales
From The Fairfield Recorder 25
Tears Ago
the rate of approximately 5 pounds
per acre. Two hundred pounds of 20
per cent phosphate per acre was ap-
^ plied before seeding.
LOCAL BAPTISTS ATTEND
WORKERS CONFERENCE
Rev. Ben Sothler, W. D. Russell,
Mrs. Stohler and Mrs. Joe Kirgan at-
tended a Workers Conference of the
Freestone-Leon Counties Baptist As-
sociation in Jewett, Monday. Rev.
Ben Stohler was on program for the
devotional. Other pastors in the As-
sociation on program were Rev. A. P.
Hamrick of Teague, Rev. A. C. Queen
of Oakwood, Rev. Marvin Kemp of
Donie and Rev. Ralph Smith of Cen-
terville used as his subject for’ the
sermon, “The Conquering Christ.”
Lunch was served at noon by the
ladies of the Jewett Church.
Dr. Dee Dixon, layman from Buf-
falo and moderator for the Associa-
tion, presided for the Board Meeting.
The next conference will be in Kirven
in May.
There are 4,770,647 Jews in the
United States according to U. S. Cen-
sus Bureau reports for 1940, the last
year for which complete returns are
available. Some 2,085,000 of these
are in New York City. No other
country in the world has as many
| Jews as ths United States.
PFC. CHESLEY W. WHITTINGTON
IN EL PASO HOSITAL
WILLIAM BEAUMONT GENER-
AL HOSPITAL, El Paso, April 15.—
Pfc. Chesley W. Whittington of Rt.
2, Buffalo, is a patient at William
Beaumont General Hospital, one of
the Army’s finest, El Paso, Texas.
Pfc. Whittington was inducted into
the service in February, 1942, at Min-
eral Wells, Texas, and sent to the
Hawaiian Islands in April, 1942, as a
member of the 811th Military Police
Company. He was injured in a jeep
accident, October 8, 1944, and return-
ed to the United States in December,
1944.
His father, A. L. Whittington, lives
on Route 2, Buffalo, Texas.
Burglars Visit
Vestal’s Store
Thieves broke Into Vestal’s store
on the highway in East Fairfield
shortly before daylight this morn-
ing, and got away with about $100
worth of cigarettes, lunch meats,
flour, etc. Entrance was made by
removing the glass from a back door.
Geo. Cooper, who had accompanied
his mother to Hubbard, where one of
her grandchildren is seriously ill, re-
turned home Wednesday.
• Report received here Wednesday
evening says the Butler country wm
visited by one of the heaviest hail
storms in the memory of the oldest
citizens.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Pankhurat, A
Austin, who have been visiting their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Robert-
son, returned home Monday.
Ernest Steward and Walter Ely,
Jr., were in Corsicana, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Minchew, who
have had situations at Austin, have
returned to Ward Prairie,
Lonnie Haydon, of Desdemona, ia
visiting here.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Edwards of
Teague were in Wortham Sunday en-
route to Tyler to attend the burial of
Elmer Shelton whose body was ship-
ped from France. Elmer waa a
brother of Mrs. Edwards. He waa a
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Shelton
who moved from Wortham to East
Texas a few years ago. He was a
soldier in the world war and waa
killed in battle the day before the
Armistice was signed. — Wortham
Journal.
According to the United States
Bureau of Revenue there was c
sumed in the United States last
1,173,667,000 gallona
liquor and 86.887.060
and other fermented liquors.
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