The Teague Chronicle (Teague, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 3, 1949 Page: 1 of 8
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[the current problem of se-
mg additional funds to
set a new O. M. Roberts
aeslaty School building.
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| the facts involved have
presented to the people,
I now the school board awaits
lie opinioiVto determine what
(o. Thus far, there has been
scant opinion expressed. A
board member told me the
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FFA Boys
Make Stock
week I predicted that the
clinic would be an over-
ling succep#. —
g into- consideration
mechanical difficulties en-
tered. I don't imagine any-
will dispute the accuracy
he prediction. Nor do I be-
that anyone would bare /^| T*hl
lUted the forecast, after Shf|W r lilllC
Tewing the magnlficant TT * HUIO
ration from scores of
c groups and individuals
Teague and all over the
of the county.
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hgratulatkms to Mrs. M. L.
r-nn-4ie opening nf her new
department. This is another
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TEAGUE, FREESTONE COUNTY, TEX*S, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1949
VOL. la, NO. 33.
Teague’s Future Farmers ..
America, under supervision of In-, rure|I
structor Ruel Wilson, are making
final preparations for their an-
nual stock shojv, to be held
April 1 at City Park.
“We’re planning for the big-
gest show yet.” Wilson said this
week.
rartlcipanb, and their entries,
will include Bo Callaway, white
face heifer; Hugh Fairly, Brahma
heifer and whlte face steer; Billy
Beene, white face steer; Benton
Baggett, white face steer; Sonny
Beene, Brahma steer; Robert Sen-
tor .two
day that “No one’s said aifa'ce steer.
white' face Steers; Dale
McCalg, white face steer.
Billy George, white face steer;
Joe Moore, white face steer; Jer-
rol Sartor, white face steer;
Charles Baty, white face steer;
Louis Eppes, Brahma steer and
angus steer; Benny Eppes, an-
gus steer; Max Alford, white face
steer; Cody Mulligan, white face
steer, and Kenneth Beasley, white
to me about it.”
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I he people would let the
they elect to public of-
town b£jw they stand on
igt, of public importance,
re wiould be a lot leas
ping about what tbe polici-
do and don't do.
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Idon’t have any Idea who’ll
the next Chamber of Corn-
president, but whoever he
he'll have a tremndous job
[iting him. - The present
iber administration has laid
groundwork for a lot of pro-
give measures.
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will be for tbe new ad-
biration to pick up where
has cut its predecessor
and caxry an from thsrs.
re are innumerable projects
important are rural road
ovements and new lndus-
. "
extend & welcoming hand
|tlantic Refining Company’s
of men who are locating
j with their families. We hope
like Teague, and are certain
all of us will do our best
hake them feel at home.
* • •
■m afraid a few persons who
re been., submitting., news..
1« to tbs Chronicle have
disappointed because
stories came in too lots
publication. Let me again
nd that the Chronicle is
going to press on Wed-
fay instead of Thursday, to
better service to readers
advertisers, end all news
tter must be turned in not
than Tuesday.
Cross
impaign ~
ler Way
annual Red Cross drive got
way here Monday, and
ting will start this week,
ck chairmen in the down-
business area are FLoyd
|>lon, James Neale. Mrs. M. L.
Alien Bendy, Dir. Jack CSS,
fling the campaign in the
ols are Principal G. C.
ory, Teague High School, E.
»llins, O. M. Roberts Ele-
[Booker T. Washington.
Feeding calves are being en-
tered by Danny Morris, Pat
Goolsby and Bud Beene.
Entering hogs are Boomer
Johnson, Jerry -Moore, Billy
Beene, Joe Moore, Bill Pallon!
Lewis Eppes, Orion Suttle, Bob
Harville, Cleo Barger, and Neal
Crumwell.
The Junior Chamber of Com-
merce is giving active assistance
in preparations, and contribu-
tions are being given by other
civic clubs and individuals.
Kids’ Photos
To Be Made
On Saturday
Engineer Is Due
In Teague Soon
For Road Survey
John Blair of Bryan, district
way Department, will be
to make a survey of Teague's
the weather permits. Cham
ber of Gommerae President N.
W. Bendy said this week.
The survey waS requested by
Bendy two weeks ago in a letter
to
X-Ray Clinic Will Remain
illn Teague Through Today
road improvements are
believed needed in tbe Teague
area. The deteriorated routes to
Toague, almost impassable
during wet weather, are receiv-
ing a major share of the blapte
for the town's loss - of rural
liudi
Road Group
Will Invade
State Capitol
A delegation to represent
Freestone County at the Senate
Finance Committee’s rural roads
hearing Monday at Austin is be-
ing organized by J. T. Hughes,
president of the Freestone Coun-
ty Rural Roads Association.
Hughes said that the associa-
tion will meet at 7:30 p. m. Fri-
day in the district court room in
Fairfield to enlist delegates.
Judge .Max Triplett of Hillsboro,
one of the state’s leading fig-
uers in the fight for rural road
improvements, will be the princi-
pal speaker.
Hughes said he would take a
petition demanding road im-
provements with him to Austin.
“Everybody in the county who
is interested, in rural roads is
urged to attend the meeting
Monday.” Hughes said. “We feel
like the iron is hot, so come on
and bring your neighbor, and
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Whitt Gunn, left, is shown above with 2,380 (count 'em) New Hampshire Reds which he raised bn
his farm near here on the Mexta Highway, and sold recently to E. and F. Enterprises of Hous-
ton at 29 cents per pound- Gunn startsd with
2400. losing only 20 chicks. Larry Cook, workers from
Attendance
Hits 2300;
More Due
The State Health Department’s
fiee x-ray clinic, which got un-
tier-way Feb. -g-trr ttre bTcT bank~
building, is remaining here an
extra day to- make up for loss
of time resultlhg from mechani-
cal difficulties.
The unit, which was to have
left Wednesday, will be main-
tained from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m.
Thursday (todayk
More than 2,300 persons have
re'ceived x-rays thus far, and
ESSAY WINNERS WILL
BE ANNOUNCED
Winners of the Chronicle's
chest x-ray eeeay contest will
be announced in next week's
edition by the board of Judges.
hundreds more had to be turn-
ed away after the mechanical
difficulties developed. Everyone
who has not been x-rayed has
been urged to attend the clinic
today. _
Free transportation can be ob-
tained by telephoning 9509.
All-out cooperation from civic
groups and scores of volunteer
center, owner of Cook's Foed and Produce Store, assisted in the project, and furnished the thick-
ens with a diet of .Purina Feed. Gunn will start on his next flock shortly. The young lady is
Gunn's daughter. Jr.
Saturday will be the big dayvjleta hit together,"
for youngsters in this area, who
will be .photographed free of
charge in the old band building
between 10 a. m. and 8 p. m.
The pictures will be published by
the Chronicle in a “Citizens of
Tomorrow” feature.
All children accompanied by
their parents or guardian will
be photographed, and their pic-
tures published.
There are no other require-
ments. Woltz Studios of Des
Moines, Iowa, are in charge
the photography. _
3 Collective Terrace
Outlets Are Staked
In Freestone County
Three collective terrace outlets
were staked in Freestone County
and two of them, sodded to Ber-
muda grass this week, acocrding
to the District Soil Conservation
board.
W. T. Moore, Shanks Conserva-
of tion Group, sodded one outlet
that will take care of 40 acres
Although there will be no ob- of terrace water,
ligation to purchase pictures, ad- j Winston Olives, West Dew Con-
ditional prints can be obtained servatlon Group, has sodded one
Bendy Given
Service Cup
through ararngement
studio.'
with
the collective terrace outlet that will
take care of terrace water from
and has
Suel Hill Named
President of County
Game Association
Suel Hill this week was elected
president, Fred Carter, vice-presi-
dent and Bill Sheffield, secret a-
ry-treasurer , of the Freestone
Coupty Game Management As-
sociation. Elected to the board
of directors were Clyde George,
C. R. Williford, Wesley Smith,
Edward Watson, Otis Utley, Tom
Bortner, H. C. Grahberry, Lloyd
Webb, J. W. Neal apd Johnny
Horton.
All Freestone County landown-
voted to continue bounties on
wolvee and bobcats after it was
reported that 240 in bounties
have thus far been paid on eight
wolves and eight bobcats.
All Freestone County aindown-
ers have been invited to join the
on, which expressed ap-
== cozzrzz ** asr-ars? srtts
| is $2500. |P
itributiops can
Crow, City
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be mailed
Red Cross
->■Chronicle,
[rid Prayer Day
M Be Observed
Churches Here
(lurches base will Jedn with
* than 10.000, groups
tbs work! Friday In ob-
ef World Day of
protect game|
placed in the county by the
Game, Fish aijd Oyster Commis-
sion of Texas. The hunting per-
mit system was reported work-
ing successfully, -and hunters
have been urged to receive per-
mits before hunting on land
owned by members of the asso-
ciation. - ^
An estimated 150 farms have
been signed up with the organi-
zation.
30 acres, and has another one
staked off and ready to sod. Ter-
race water will not be put on
these .outlets until Bermuda grass
is well established.
* B. B. Black, West Dew Conser-
vation Group, has constructed
two miles of terraces, and 1200
feet of field diversion*.:_:______r
Apporximately 27 acres have
been seeded to a mixture of na-
tive tall grasses composed of
Little Blues tern, Big Btuestem,
Indian grass, and Swltchgrass.
These grass seed were furnished
by the Freestone-Leon Soil Con-
servation Dltsrlct, and were seed-
ed on/W. G. Smith’s farm, Young
Conservation Group? W. J. Tate’s
farm, Grange Hall Conservation
Group, and J. C. Shield's term,
Antioch Conservation Group.
N. W. Bendy this week was awarded the W. R. Boyd
Service Cup for “outstanding service rendered to the com-
munity during the past 12 months.”
Bendy, who held the cup in 1936. is the only person ever
to have been awarded the tro-
phy twice.
Bendyrpresident of the Cham
ber of Commerce, has been high-
ly active during the past year in
Chamber activities, and has led
Mrs. Lowe’s
Final Rites
Conducted—
Death Takes
Dr. Driver,
Ex-Countian
Funeral services were held
Tuesday in Dallas for Dr. Sim
Driver, 58, soft-spoken native of
Freestone County who became
one of the world's leading or-
thopedic surgeons. •
Dr. Driver, who died Sunday in
a hospital at Dallas, was born
near Fairfield Aug. 1, 1890. His
grandfather was a pre-Clvil War
Texan who settled in Freestone
County in 1851.
movements to reeain Teatme’s Follow,n« h,s graduation from
movements to regainTeague S Baylor University School of Medi-
ruffcl tradeL secure rural road
Improvements and attract new
industry. _
He will remain active in the
*cine7 Dallas,
have made the clinic a success
despite the mechanical break-
down and unfavorable weather
conditions.
The total number of persons x-
rayed in the fight to stamp out
tuberculosir in the county is ex-
pected to exceed 3,000 by the
time the clinic enda tonight
Reports on examinations will
be forwarded by the State Health
Deparment to the family doc-
tors of persons who have symp-
toms of tuberculosis, and those
whose tests are negative will be
notified by the department. In-
formation is expected to be re-
ceived in two or more weeks.
John M. Clark
Receives Degree
At Texas Tech
Barger and Roy
Chamber Directors
WillNamePrexy
To Succeed Bendy
The Chamber of Commerce
board of directors will meet at
3 p. m. Thursday (today) to elect
a new persident to succeed N. W.
Bendy.
Bendy will continue his Cham-
ber of Commerce as a director.
He was elected to the board
earlier this month.
tor, Homer
Beene.
Survivors include six
daughters, Mrs. Jack Hawkins of
Hubbard, Mrs. W. E. Madera of
BrueevlHr, Mrs: J. H. Gresham
of Houston, Mrs. R. E. Sartor of
Teague, Mrs. Orval Turman and
Mrs. M. T. Harris of Waoc, three
brothers, tour sisters and 10
Will Meet
Funeral serviecs were held Feb.
23 for Mrs. Mondy Ellen Lowe,
56, who died the previous day
in a local hospital following an
illness of several weeks.
Mrs. Lowe, a former resident
of Hubbard, had lived for the
past two years with Wr daugh-
ter and daughter’s husband, Mr. hr the past are
and Mrs. R. E. Sartor of Cotton
Gin. She was the widow of the
late L. J. Lowe of Hubbard.
Services were held at Union,
Rev. W, M. Barger officiating.
Buiral was in the Union ceme-
tery under direction c* Ham
Brothers Funeral Home. Pallbear-
ers were Odell Sartor, gt. (S. Sar-
tor, Eipory Sartor, Weldon Sar- &*v> N. B.-Crawford, 1947.
with prominent surgeons iiT
York and Los Angeles, and
_____ _ ithc Mayo Clinic- in Roches
Ojamber of Commerce as a di-^Mlnn He Dal]as
Serving on the committee
which awarded him the cup were
Dr. W. P. Harrison, L. Notley and
C, 1. Cobh.
h.,d cup
and messages of condolence'
ly after he was discharged
service following World
and specialized in bone d{
and surgery.
Dr. Driver endeared hlms
McNeiJl Drumwright, 1927; Dr.
J. D. DaVidson, 1928; Rev. E.
Homer They, 1931; J. E. Woods,
1933; N. W. Bendy, 1936; P. T.
Weatberholt, 1937; Miss Sally
Mouhger, 1938; Mrs. W. J.
Stringer, 1939; Llewellyn Notley,
1940; Dr. William P. Harrison,
1943; Herbert Neyland, 1946
The cup is donated by W. R.
(Bill) Boyd, Jr., formerly of
Teague, now President of the
American Petroleum Institute in
New York City, for
grandchildren.
Distributive Class
Is Being Planned
For County Vets
Veterans interested in starting
a class in distributive education
were asked thin week by J. O.
Nash, coordinator, to write him
or apply in person at his office
in Fairfield.
dered to the people of Teague,^
No One Announces
As City Orders
Alderman’s Election
. An-election to name two aider-
men for places four and five on
the city council was ordered this
Week by the city administration
tor April 5, but no one has thus
far announced for the offices,
either officially or unofficially.
Mayor Fenton Smith, Jr. said
that March 26 would be the fil-
ing deadline.
A. C. Hall holds place four,
If to
ers
ere
sent by a large number of
Teague and other Freestone
County residents after pews of
his death reached here.
He had a reputation of being
hard-working, patient, unassum-
ing, and always able to find
time to help a friend.
John M. Clark, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Clair Clark, 400 South—i
Eighth Avenue, graduated in
:ed 1 midterm exercises from Texas
ew Tech College.
He holds a Batchelor of
Scienoe degree in Agriculture
and specialized in animal hus-
bandry. He belonged to the Na-
tional Block and Bridle Club and
was a member of the Aggie Club.
After serving three years in
the Naval Reserve he returned to
Texas Tech to complete his col-
lege work.
He Is a graduate of Teague
High School.
Shoe Department
Opened for Women
At Riley Shop
TT^i,r Opening of a shoe department
at The Riley Shop, local women’s
ready-to-wear firm, was an-
nounced this week by Mrs. M. L.
Riley, OWner and manager.
Leading, nationally-advertised
brands will be carried, Mrs. Rttey
said. The trade-names include
Jacqueline, Connie, Natural Poise
and Paris Fashion.
The first shipment of shoes ar-
rived this week, and the new de-
partment is now open for busi-
ness.
CORRECTION
The names of three person*
were mispelled in a poem sub-
mitted last w«ek by Mrs. Eva
Duggan. They were Katie Hen-
Ima Rutherford and
Bristow and Mable
Dunn.
drlm
Maude
VISIT MOTHER
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. McSpadden
and children Barbara Jo and
Buddie. Houston, spent Friday
through Sunday with Mr. Mc-
Spadden’s mother, Mrs. A. P.
FREE!
Free- tickets to see ...
WHISPERING
SMITH
at
The Lee Theater
Sunday or Monday for the
five subscribers whose names
appear in the local advertise-,
mente of this issue of the
Chroaide.
If your name appears
any at the ads, simply a
this coupon and present it at I
the Lee Theater box office.
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Crow, Bob. The Teague Chronicle (Teague, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 3, 1949, newspaper, March 3, 1949; Teague, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1140745/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.