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The Fairfield Recorder
THE COUNTY PAPER—ESTABLISHED 1876
gEVENTT-rWBT YEAR
THE FAIRFIELD RECORDER, FAIRFIELD, TEXAS, APRIL 17, 1947
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In commenting on the investi-
gation and report of the Indus-
trial Commission which investi-
gated the recent Odessa tele-
phone strike, and whose decision
was accepted by both the tele-
phone operators and the tele-
phone company, Gov. Beauford
Jester said, “This seems to me
to be a very fine example of
good government in action,” and
we agree with the governor. By
agreement this strike was set-
tled promptly and caused little
inconvenience, and we trust fu-
ture strikes in Texas can be
handled in the same manner. We
commend Gov. Jester and the
Industrial Committee for the
method used in settling this con-
troversy.
The threat of Communism in
this country is not an idle one.
Communists are in every section
of the nation, most numerous
in the East. Remember, during
activities of the Congressional
investigating committee headed
by Martin Dies, and probing
subversive activities, this com-
mittee in a report named 500
government employees who
were outright Communists or a
deep pink. Many were Roose-
velt nominees, and the president
was considerably disgruntled
over the committee’s action in
putting th§ bee on some of his
pets. Now it seems, President
Truman and other high leaders
are beginning to see light and
are becoming aware of the dang-
ers that threaten America
through Communism and its
termites.
One of our-appreciated femin-
ine readers rushed into this of-
fice Saturday and demanded we
do something to stop littering
up the Wortham-Fairfield road
right>of-way with tin cans and
other refuse from Fairfield. We
tried to impress it on her that
while we did not approve of this
heinous and pernicious practice,
still we had no authority to stop
it, and that if there are any rules
and regulations to prevent it the
power was vested in either the
highway department or the law.
One good way ot help stop it
would be for Fairfield to buy a
plot of ground in some out of the
way place near town for a gar-
bage dump, and then for the
powers that be to insist on this
garbage dump being used for re-
fuse instead of dumping it in
ditches along the highways.
Hugh Wooton was heard brag-
ging that no one could hold a
candle to his products, as he
climbed into the cab of the bu-
tane truck he was driving.
A neighbor paper says the
real menace on the highways to-
day are drunken driving, thumb-
ing rides and spooning. In oth-
er words, hie, hike and hug.
Callan says that Dolly doesn’t
like to sit at home and listen to
her parents talk about the old
days. Dolly prefers to get out
and make some old nights to
talk about when she is old.
A commentator in one of our
exchanges wonders that the
Texas telephone strike precipi-
tated when some operators got
two pieces of candy and. some
only one, should peter out so
quickly. This was one of the
Judge B. H. Gardner Fairfield School
Dean Of EastTexas Makes Excellent
Lawyers Is Dead
PALESTINE, April 14.—The dean
of East Texas lawyers,. Judge Benja-
min Howard Gardner, was to be bur-
ied here today. The 92-year old jurist
died yesterday of a heart attack.
Best known for his work with the
board of legal examiners, of Which he
was chairman for 13 years, Judge
Gardner had a 70-year career in Tex-
as law and politics.
Active in Democratic party circles,
he was elected Anderson County dele-
gate to every Democraitc state con-
vention from 1892 to 1944.
He was district judge for Hender-
son, Houston and Anderson counties
from 1904 until 1912.
Bom in Montgomery, Ala., June 10,
1854, Judge Gardner came to Fair-
field, Freestone County, Texas, in
1876 and served as county attorney.
He was admitted to the bar at Troy,
Ala., in 1876.
Since his rseignation from the state
board of legal examiners in 1938, he
had lived in semi-retirement.
Survivors include six daughters,
Mrs. Walter Dealey and Mrs. John
Carpenter of Dallas, Mrs. Drew Kol-
stad and Mrs. Will Keller of Pales-
tine, Mrs. I. V. Duncan of Eagle
Lake, Colorado County, and Mrs. R.
C. Sewell of Houston; nine grand-
children and nine great-grandchildren.
His wife, the former Miss Carrie
Bonner, died in 1929. Their only son,
B. H. Gardner, Jr., was the first An-
derson County man killed in World
War I. The Palestine Post of the
American Legion is named for him.
Showing At Meet .
In the area meet held last week,
comprising five districts, the Fair-
field students in track’ and literary
events placed in all entries.
Marie Russell took first place in
the area jn senior girl declamation^
Alton PflTker, Jr., took second in
junior boy's declamation.
Betty Wisdom took first in High
School number sense.
Martha Bell Stroud placed second
in typing.
Christine Spivey took fourth place
in number sense.
The one-act play team, composed of
James Burkhalter, Deward Mullen,
Una Grace Glazener, and Marie Rus-
sell, also took first place. James
Burkhalter was selected by the judges
as best boy actor in both district, and
area meets.
In tra^k, Deward Mullin and D. A.
Bonner took firs^^nd second in -the
mile run.
Charles D. Robertson placed fifth
in half mile run.
Joe Kirgan did not make the trip
as he was sick. He had won first
place in senior boy’s tennis singles at
the district meet.
Soil Conservation
News
Homemaking Girls
Attend Area Meet
Official Warns Major Disaster
Against Dumping Wrecks Texas
Trash Near Roads Coast City
Article 696-A, Penal Code of the
State of Texas, provides: That no
corporation, private or otherwise, or
person, shall use or maintain any
dumping ground or dump any trash,
refuse, debris or dead animal or
permit the same to remain within or
nearer than 300 yards of any Public-
Highway, of the State of Texas., The
fine for violating this act, is not less
than $10.00 nor more than $200.00.
The fact that the public highways are
being used as dumping grounds,,
creates quite a lot of dissatisfaction
to the public generally, as well . as
being in violation of the penal laws
of this state, and all persons hereto-
fore guilty of such violations are now
warned, that they will be prosecuted
as the law directs.
Respectfully submitted,
J. G. ANDERSON,
Co. Attorney, Freectone Co., Tex.
This 14th day of April, 1947, at my
office in Fairfield, Texas.
Twice Told Tales
Fron. The Fairfield Recorder 25
Ypars Ago
J. C. Lambert, of the Freestone
Conservation Group, says be figures
he has saved a $200 feed bill on 81
calves by having 12 acres of vetch.'
During the winter of 1945-46 he kept
a record of the feed that he fed two
calves. Beginning with early winter
feeding unitl spring grass put out his
book showed that he had spent $50.
‘‘In the early fall of 1946,” Mr.
Lambert said, “I planted 12 acres of
vetch for a winter cover crop and
winter grazing. I have had 8 calves
on this vetch all winter and have fed
them very little hay. The only hay I
fed them was on some of the very
cold rainy days. After having as bad
a winter on cattle as we have had my
calves look better than they did the
year before from feeding. I figure I
saved at least $25 a head feed bill by
having the vetch to graze besides the
fertility it has added to my soil. I
believe in it so strongly that I am
going to put in all 1 possibly can this
fall.”
Four miles of large ridge type ter-
races have been completed on G. C.
Knight’s farm in the Luna Conserva-
tion Group.
One mile of terraces are under
construction on Frank Suttle’s farm
in the Freestone Conservation Group.
Saturdday, April 12, was a great
day for the Future Homemakers of
Area Will.
The homemaking girls, sponsor,
Mrs. Ellen Nettle, Mrs. Lavell Mc-
Adams, Mrs. John Willard, Mrs.
Everett Newman, and Frances Rob-
ertson, bus driver, left Fairfield about
6:30 to attend the area meeting at
A. & M. Consolidated, College Sta-
tion,
About one thousand girls registered
during the day.
The day was filled with a most in-
teresting program.
Miss Gladys Martin, Assistant
State Home Demonstration Agent, A.
& M. College of Texas, gave a most
interesting talk oh the future of the
future homemakers.
The lunch at Duncan Hall on the
A. & M. campus was enjoyable as
well as interesting. This was a
wonderful sight to see how quickly
one thousand girls could be served.
The majority of the girls had finish-
ed in less than thirty minutes.
The afternoon session was an in-
formal one consisting of a singsong,
a dance medley by Dcloris Romeo of
the Conroe chapter, monologue by
Betty Jo Murphy of the Bryan chap-
ter, a duet by Veldean Scott and
Bette Nettle of the Fairfield chapter.
The tour of the A. & M. campus
closed the list of entertainment of
the day. Betty Jo Smith was our
guide. She gave us several interest-
ing facts about the A. & M. campus
life.
Our next area meeting will be held
in Conroe next spring. We wish we
had a gym large enough to take care
of this group of girls so we could ask
them to Fairfield.
Those who attended the singing
Convention at Streetman Saturday
and Sunclay report a big crowd and a
fine time. T. L. McAdams was elect-
ed president, W. B. Coleman vice-
president, and O. C. Pullin secretary.
An explosion of nitrates
on a ship Wednesday morn-
ing started what proved to
be one of the world’s great-
est disasters, at Texas City.
Great chemical plants were
wrecked and the town al-
most destroyed. Late re-
ports give deaths at over
1,200 with thousands of in-
jured.
Ba scorn Black, son of
Robt. Black of Dew. is re-
ported in a hospital serious-
ly wounded.
The D. L. DuPuy and
Frank McDonald families
are reported uninjured; aL
so sons of Mrs. A1 DeBorde
are said to be safe.
Cliff Thompson went to
Texas City Wednesday af-
ternoon, and found his son,
Ralph uninjured.
The force of the explos-
ion was felt at Fairfield,
about 200 miles distant.
Probably Oldest
Living Native
Of County Dies*
Mrs. E. D. Radford, aged 96, died
Sunday, April 13, at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. C. H. Richardson*
Fairfield. Funeral services were held
Monday in the Calvary Baptist
Church, Fairfield, by Rev. H. L. Mc-
Kissnek, Teague; Rev. J. P. Jones,
and her grandson, Rev. Weldon Rich-
ardson, Jacksonville. Burial was in
Wilson Chapel Cemetery under1 direc-
tion of Burleson Funeral Home, Fair-
field.
M^s. Radford was born near Donia,
and was prpbably the Oldest native
of Freestone County at time of her
death. She has made her home with
her daughter, Mrs. Richardson, since
the death of her husband in 1922.
Near surviving relatives are her
five children: Mrs. M. D. Fogarty,
Buffalo; Mrs. Emma Henry, St,
Louis, Mo.; Mrs. Hiram Richardson,
Abilene; Mrs. C. H. Richardson, Fair-
field; Richard Radford, Fairbanks,
There are twenty-eight grandchil-
dren, thirty great-grandchildren, and
four great-great grandchildren.
Last Rites
Mrs. Joe Young, of Wortham, visit-
ed her son, County Clerk Tom Lind-
ley, here this week.
For J. H. Payne
John L. Johnson, of I.anely, one of
the county's pioneer citizens, was in
the city Monday.
E. Browne, of Wortham, was here
the latter part of last week.
Jim II. Payne, aged 78, died at his
home in Fairfield Tuesday. Burial
was in the Dew cemetery Wednesday,
following religious services in the
Fairfield Methodist Church, conduct-
ed by the Rev. I. O. Dent.
Mr. Payne was born and reared in
the Kirven section. For several years
he lived near Dew, recently moving to
Fairfield.
His nearest surviving relative is a
sister, Mrs. L. E. Riddle, of Corpus
Christi.
,Miss Beulah Holland, of near Buf-
-spent tb* latter part of last
week visiting Mrs. S. A. Weimer.
Mrs. J. R. Bell, of Teague, visited
relatives here Tuesday.
Walter Ely, of Fairfield, and Miss
Maurine Pyburn, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Oscar Pyburn, of Teague,
were united in marriage last Friday
evening at the Methodist parsonage^,
in Teague, by the pastoo, Rev. Daw-
son.
Tom Ferguson, an old citizen of
Butler, who is visiting his son,
Reagan Ferguson, at Teague, was in
Fairfield Wednesday, accompanied by
Reagan.
I^ast Friday Jesse Willett and Miss
Grace Black, of Dew, were united in
marriage at the Methodist parsonage
Drive For China
Relief Funds
Lasts Thru April
Admiral Jerry A. Steward requests
us to call the attention of all to the
fact that Fairfield’s quota to United
Service to China drive is $300, and
everyone is urged to help raise this
(juota. T^he drive continues through
pril.
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Soil Conservation
Committee Formed
A recent act of the Legislature pro-
vided for a Soil Conservation Com-
mittee in each county by appointment
of a member from each of four pre-
. cincts. L. L. Hunter, L. R. Boyd, B.
in Fairfield, by Rev. S. A. Weimer. B B,ack and j T Hu(rhes compose
the first committee.
Native Of Freestone
Buried At Dawson
Guy Coleman, Burleson Conserva
tion Croup, has finished seeding 12
acres to Kobe lespedeza for a meadow, i
J. T. Hughes, Kirven Conservation
Group, has set out 2 acres of Kudzu
for permanent-temporary pasture and
T. R. Bonner 4 acres of Kudzu for
gully control. Kudzu plants were
furnished by the Freestone-Leon
Soil Conservation District.
Tom Bonner Directs
Rotary Program
The above farmers were assisted in
establishing the conservation prac-
tices mentioned by technicians from
the Soil Conservation Service, as-
sisting the Frcestone-Leon Soil Con-
servation District.
few strikes, he said, that really
had any issue that one could get
his teeth into.
Tom Bonner, program, director for
Wednesday’s Rotary meeting, intro-
duced the Rev. Francis A. Fischer,
pastor of the local Methodist Church,
who in turn introduced the Rev. Wm.
S. Fisher, pastor of the Wortham
Methodist Church, as speaker for the
meeting. Mr. Fisher talked on “Ser-
vice” and brought out. some fine
thoughts in regard to service to oth-
ers.
Visitors introduced besides the
speakers wore Alton Talbott, Fair-
field and H. T. Childre, of Dallas.
Jack Barber will have charge of
the program next Wednesday and all
Rotarians are urged to be present.
An old Chinese proverb: If
there is righteousness in the
heart, there will be beauty in
the character. If there is beauty
in the character, there will be
harmony In the home. If there
is harmony in the home, there
will be order in the nation. When
there‘is order in the nation,
there will be peace in the world.
Convention To
Meet In Fairfield
The best cartoon of the month
was the one bearing the caption:
Many times a year the people
turn to the Red Cross—once a
year the Red Cross turns to the
people.
Freestone County Singing Conven-
tion will convene in the school audi-
torium in Fairfield on Saturday
night and all day Sunday, April 26
and 27. Singer* and a large number
of visitors are expected.
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Mrs. Elizabeth Hemphill died at her
home in Dawson at 2:30 Tuesday af-
ternoon of pneumonia. Religious ser-
vices were held at the First Method-
ist Church in Dawson at 3:00 Thurs-
day afternoon with the Revs. E. O.
Hearn and Roy Davis officiating.
Mrs. Hemphill was born at Brewer
(now Teague) January 27, 1873, and
had made her home in Dawson for
the past 20 years since the death of
her husband.
She is survived by two brothers.
Dr. W. A. Williamson of Dawson and
S. P. Williamson of San Antonio, one
sister, Mrs. J. J. Davis of Higgins.
Methodist Church
News
The Methodist Revival began last
Wednesday evening and will continue
through Sunday, April 27. During
this week htere will be evening ser-
vices only, at 7:30 P. M. Startfhg
next Sunday there will be regular
services at 10 A. M. and 7:30 P. M.; a
children’s service at 3:45 P. M.; and
a youth service at 6:45 P. M.
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The J. Coy Williams Sub-District
Union of the Methodist Youth Fel-
lowship met at the Lanely Methodist
Church for their regular meeting.
Despite the rainy weather fifty-eight
persons attended. The program next
month, May 12, will be held at tha
Fairfield Methodist Church. At this
time the installation of the pew of-
ficers will occur.
The Woman’s Soceity of Christian
Service met for a Yearbook program
and social at the home of Mrs. <3. B.
Steward. Mrs. E. I. Houser was CO-
hostess. Mrs. Hugh Reed was leadar
for the program, “One Hundrad
Years of Methodism in China.” Mrs.
Clyde Glazener, Mrs. J. C. Cely and
Mrs. W. A. Parker were speakers OH
the program. Mrs. Alton Parker led
the devotional. Twenty-two ladies
were present. Mrs. J. A. McDonald
was a guest. Members were Mihse.
Franklin Glazener, Clyde Glazener*
W. H. Walker, Annie Glazener, W. A.
Parker, J. C. Cely, Hugh Reed, M. K.
Webb, A. H. Benbrook, Alton Parker,
Edwarfl Parker, H. L. Williford, R.
W. Williford, Grace Lott, J. E. Lott,
Frank Day, J. H. Crawford, E, I.
Houser, C. B. Steward, R. G. Dickie
and F. A. Fischer.
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At a meeting in Fairfield, April
10, organization was completed by
election of L. L. Hunter as chairman;
L. R. Boyd was chosen to represent
the county in the district meetnig of
the State Board at Crockett on May
6.
After inspection of legumes on the
Boyd and Hunter farms, the meeting
adjourned to meet on call.
New Presbyterian
Pastor For Fairfield
Scouts Attend
Meet At Waco
The following Boy Scouts, Cubs
and adults attended a hobby show at
Waco, Saturday afternoon, April 12:
Roy Cranberry, Don Allen, Joe Red,
Tom Bonner, Jr., Warren Stroud,
Leslie Bonner, Jr., Don Harris, John
Wayne Barker, Billy Theo Glazener,
Harold Orand, Ieimar McGown, Buddy
Wood, Gary Parker, Douglas White-
side, Charles Dickie, Bobby DeBorde,
David Magouirk, R. G. Dickie, and
Aubrewy D. Dalrymple.
The Rev. C. B. Yeargan, Jr., new
pastor of the Fairfield Presbyterian
Church, and his family, Mrs. Yeargan
and two children, moved here this
week from Alvin. Mr. Yeargan will
preach at the morning and evening
services here Sunday. Installation
services will be held at 7:30 P. M.,
May 4.
Next Sunday is Church School Day,
Although we will not have a special
program, because of our revival, wa
do want to call to mind the inestim-
able work font our Church School is
doing week by week. Here is a bou-
quet to each of the superintendents,
taechers, assistants, officers and
workers. We want to thank you for
your loyalty and work, and we want
to pray for the Lord to richly bless
you personally and in your labors in
His vineyard!
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PROGRAM WORKERS MEETING
FREESTONE CO. BAPTIST ASS’N
TO BE HELD IN FAIRFIELD
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Baldree and chil-
dren of I/ongview and Mrs. Mary
Looney of Austin were visitors in the
John Baldree home last weekend.
Sumpter Daniel attended the Gin-
ners Convention in Fort Worth last
week.
Following is program, of Workers’
Meeting to he held with Calvary Bap-
tist Church in Fairfield, April 26:
7:30, Song and devotional.
8:00, Can We Baptist Union—Bro.
H. L. McKissack and R. L. Rybum.
8:30, What Are the Duties of God’s
Children—Henry Tisdale and Willis
Young.
9:00, Explain Matt. 26:14-30- L. B.
Culbertson and W. M. Barger,
Everyone eome.—J. P. Jones, pas-
tor.
What do your plans for the revival
include? Are you preparing a pray-
er list? Are you setting aside a time
for prayer, before and during tha
meeting? What plans do you havu
of attending the services? (Firnt
things ought to come first! ' Yeu
know.) Whom will you ask to attend?
Whom will you bring? Make several
calls each day from now until tha
meeting, asking and encouraging peo-
!
pie to attend.
"I am only one, but I am onel
^ I can’t do everything,
But I can do something)
What I can do, I ought to dot
And with the help of God,
I will do!”
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License plates for automobiles hava
arrived at the Tax Aasessor-Collec-
tor’s office in Fairfield and it ia re-
quested that motorists come by and
get same.
W. H. McRPADDEN,
Tax Assessor-Collector.
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