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LEONARD. FANNIN COUNTY, TEXAS
SIXTY - EIGHTH YEAR
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1956
NUMBER
AND LITTLE BUSINESS
WOLFE CITY EDGES TIGERS
Anna
of Texas, Mr. White
LADONIA WHIPS CELESTE
at
Teamwork For Progress
the
the E. I. du
AREA SCORES
all
11-B STANDINGS
W
BARGAIN DAY
good
iew Ones Established
W. HARRISON BAKER, PASTOR
Thanks, C. A. Kuykendall.
NEW ARRIVAL
4205
former
ATTEND CHURCH SUNDAY
CONGATULATIONS
a
amwork For Progress
years.
years
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1
2
3
From here on out we want to
be as fathful to you 'as you have
been to us. We wish_for you the
best of health and prosperity.
services
afternoon
the Bailey
Mrs. Delia
4, 1956,
She has
Team
Ladonia__
Wolfe City
Celeste___
Leonard __
Trenton __
McKinney 14, Greenville 1&.
Royse City 52, Frisco 0.
Rockwall 51, Emory 18.
Ladonia 41, Celeste 6-
Wolfe City 29, Leonardx26._
day.
closed November 22.
Congratulations to the folks' at
Kuyrkendall Grocery on their
36th anniversary. Friends and
customers will appreciate the
nice things Mr. Kuyrkendall said
about them in an article in to-
day’s paper, while expressing his
thanks and appreciation for the
patronage they have given him
during the past 36 years.
team—
for an
we ef-
Rattlers-
Johnny^
Hulseys
Water Superintendent J. R. Dillard and City Councilman W. R.
Sprinkle are dismantling the pimp on the water well to permit
the engineers to get to wbrk.. Mayor Albright, Supt. Dillard and
City Councilmen have been kept busy since early Monday morning
having water hauled here from nearby towns, calling special
meetings to arragne for engineers tb come to Leonard and find
the reason for the sudden end of our water supply and taking care
of various problems confronting them during this situation.
one
Pearl Bower of San
a niece and a neph-
LOOKING
AHEAD
bv Dr George $. Benson
OWECTOR - NATIONAL
EDUCATION program
Searcy. Azkomm
foot Tuesday afternoon
working for J. L. Myer &
who were removing the
and casing from the Leon-
The first Farmers Union meet-
ing of the coming organizational'
year will be Monday night, No-
vember 19, at seven o’clock. TSse5?,
new meeting place is the Prairie
Hill school house.
Richard Alexander, state secre-
tary of the Farmers Union,
be the chief speaker for the
tning.
All members are urged to attesstf
and bring their families as Wfc
meeting is a family affair.
Any farmer interested in tae
Farmers Union is invited.
Farmers Union
Meeting Nov. 19
foot in a cast which
be removed in 4 to 5
Fred Maelyn White Athletic Club
Services Sunday Fetes Football
Methodist Church And Pep Squads
Troy Berry Has
Fractured Bones
From Accident
In an fforte to bring the buy-
ing public to town, local business
men and women have offered
reduced prices on merchandise on
Wednesdays only for the past
three weeks- While contacting
these people today for next
week’s bargain we learned they
were not so enthusiastic about
Bargain Day as' they were in the
beginning. One service station
operator had been selling gaso-
line 2c cheaper per gallon on
Wednesdays only said “not one
customer has mentioned the re-
duction.”
We
wants
itinue
The first annual Cub Scout
Derby will be held December 1,
1956, at Bonham State Park. All
Cub Scouts in the county are
urged to attend.
The day’s activities begin at 3
o’clock in the afternoon and con-
tinue till 8:30 p. m.
Rules and regulations for tho
Derby have been mailed to
Cub Scout workers.
Th© pastor will preach morning
and evening at the Methodist
church Sunday, November 18.
The morning service at eleven a.
m. and the evening service at 7
p. m.
Sunday is Golden Cross Sun-
day for all Methodist churches
in the North Texas Conference.
Nearly $100,000 worth of free
service was given by the Method-
1st Hospital in Dallas througti
the gifts to the Golden Cross.
‘ The Leonard church is combin-
Mrs.
day from Lubbock for
with her parents, Mr. and Mirs.
R. L. Brinkley. Mrs. Hargis’
daughter, Mrs. Alfred Bailey of
Little Rock, Ark., isz expected
here this week end. FMrs. Hargis
will accompany her i home for a
visit. I \ ’
Guests inculded mem-
football squad and
their coaches and
Disunity blocks
saps a
know
have
Our 36th
Anniversary
First Annual
Cub Scout Derby
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hyde and
Hubbie of Burkburnet spent
Sunday night with his brother,
Bob Hyde ana family, at the
home of his mother, Mrs. T. N.
Satterwhite.
Methodist Church
Announcements
Honey Grove 12, Farmers viB®
7.
Griffitt presiding,
Thanksgiving Will
Be Observed Here
On November 29
work in America through which
any person could dial any other1
person in America or Canada on
his home telephone and be talk-
ing within a few sconds. The
Bell Laboratory scientists foresee
in the future the possibility of a
small wrist walkie-talkie over
which you may communicate
with any other person in any
part of the world, and see his face
las
Our
big
Dinner guests in the T. N.
Satterwhite home Sunday includ-
ed G. R. (Bob) Hyde, Mrs. G. R.
Hyde and Doretha, Mr. and Mrs-
J. H. Boudreau and Nanine
Starnes of Garland; Mrs. G. F.
Groves and J. T., Mr. and Mrs.
B. V. Newman and Dorothy of
Bonham and. Miss Daphne New-
man of Commerce.
Troy Berry had the misfortune
to have a bone fractured in his
right
while
Son,
pump
ard water well.
Dr. R. D. Van Schoick placed
Berry’s
should
weeks.
, ajor
public
bigger
ments
instance, du Pont spent $27 mil-
lion over a period of 10 years to
develop and produce nylon. To-
day nylon yard and plastic, sup-
y du Pont, are made into
Ids of articles by hun-
'of little manufacturing
lies which didn’t exist
its ago.
P. L. Hargis arrived Mon-
a visit
and
We
they
against employers, race
?iCa’s biggest company is
. r American Telephone and
^■cniegraph Company. In its Bell
Laboratories, it developed the(
tiny, miraculous transistor which
Js revolutionizing the science of
.communications and bringing
;reat benefits of thousands of
nail manufacturers as well as
i the public generally At our
iwanis Club the other day; a
dephone technician explained
•e role ahead for the tiny tran-
-tor. He said that within a
paratively few years it would
e possibly a telephone net-
AREA SPORTS
By JERRY SHAFFER
Since Nov. 15, 1920, you
people have madei it possible for
us to enjoy a wonderful grocery
business. I think the people who
have lived and are now living in
and around Leonard are the very
finest anywhere.
Robert Wasson led the Wolfe-
City Wolves to a 29-26 come—
from-behind victory over Leon—
ard Friday night at Wolfe Cfigr
Wasson scored on runs of 55...
70 and 99 yards, the latter on an
intercepted pass. He also played!
fine defensive ball. Wolfe. CStar
(scored the first time they got the'
ball on’ a long run by Wasson,
but Leonard came back witfe
quick tellies, one on a pass-to
Riddle and a five yard run hy
Partridge. Then Wesson inter-
cepted a Leonard pass and races!
99 yards to tie the. score- Leon-
ard came back again before the
half with Shaffer n nning over'
the tie breaking score.
The Wolves came back in -the?
second half, scoring two touch-
downs and a safety while 'tfe®
Tigers managed only one tally.
This was the last- game for
both teams with Wolfe City fin-
ishing in second place and. Leon-
ard in fourth place.
The Ladonia Rattlers sewed tsp-:
their third straight conference
championship Friday
militating Celeste 41-6
leste.
Leek Brawly led the
with two scores while
his brother, made one.
Burnett and Bramlett also scopes,
for the winners. Jimmy Milton'
plunged Celeste’s only tally ftoat
(one step out.
This was Celeste’s last garner
but Ladonia will face Royse Crfcf
In bi-district play.
i@ince the end of World War
l, more than 1,200,000 new lit-
tle companies have been estab-
lished all with fewer than 100
employees. The total work force
in American small business, in
the same period, has increased
45 percent. Today nearly 17
million people work in companies
with fewer than 100 employees.
Actually 98 percent of all busi-
ness—manufacturing, trade and
service establishments—have less
than 50 employees.
■ Very rarley do these little com-
mies have sufficient capital,
ihnical personnel and other re-
tirees or the desire to conduct
research so they and the
must depend upon the
companies for improve-,
and new products. For
were held
at 2:30
Church of
Kuhn, who
Trenton to
A broken bowl shaft caused
failure of the Leonard water
supply early Monday morning-
Contrary to radio, TV and
daily newspaper reports, the well
did not dry up or cave in; the
City Council did not let a con-
tract to begin drlling another
well, and the schools are not
closed. Citizens became alarmed
at all the reports, but the water
situation is not as serious as it
could have been.
J. L. Myer & Son, well contrac-
tor of Dallas, began Thursday
mornng replacing the bowl shaft
iand other damaged parts and ex-
pect to have the water pumping
at a normal rate by Friday.
Trucks are keeping the 50,000
gallon storage reservoir filled
with water from Celeste and
Trenton and- J. R. Dillard, water
superintendent, is turning on the
water from 7:30 to 8 .a m. and
the conversation goes on!
American business system—
and little companies work-
ing as an interrelated
holds out great promise
ever brighter future, if
fectively resist the forces which
/seek to tear it down.
The new daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. B. R. McCarroll of
Caddo St., Greenville, was born
Wednesday, November
in a Grenville hospital,
been named Jeanette.
Mrs. McCarroll is th
Jane Golden of Leonard. Grand-
parents are Mr-, and Mrs. Alwyn
Golden and Mr. McCarroll of
Leonard.
Funeral
Tuesday
o’clock in
Christ for
recently moved from
the Norwood place west of town.
Hollis Windom and Charles
Kuhn, grandson of Mrs. Kuhn,
officiated.
Burial was mfade in Leonard
Cemetery under direction of Wil-
son Funeral Home.
Pallbearers' were Gerald Mc-
Lain, . Dewey Kidwell, R. C.
Kuhn, James Bartlett, Tom Wat-
son and Wayne Roberts. *
Mrs. Kuhn died November 12,
1956, following an illness of more
than five years. She was born
September 3, 1873, in Franklin
county, Arkansas, the daughter
of Anderson and Frances Jones
Melton. On August 12, 1897,
she was married to W. C. Kuhn.
Surviving are her husband, W.
three sons, Robert
Kuhn,
Kuhn,
Mrs-
Mrs.
Ark.;
The City of Leonard is great-
ly indebted to Trenton and Ce-
leste for the cooperation receiv-
ed from these towns this week
while we were unable to pump
water from our only well.
Trucks have been hauling
water from these towns to sup-
ply Leonard with the daily needs
while the broken parts are being
repaired at the local well.
A strategy of the Communists,
-herever their Fifth Column is
,t work, is to create
,'and disunity
groups If they can get people
angry at someone or something,
they have a more favorable cli-
mate for their subtle disruptive
propaganda.
progress
'strength.
America
employees
against race, and various groups
gainst each other. In the Mid-
li East the Communists agi-
ted the Arabs against the
?aeli, alhough just a few years
ijo they were on the other side,
piping the Israeli to push the
[Arabs out of Palestine.
Recently we have seen efforts
in'America to agitate dissention
'between small business and big
business. Regardless of who car-
ries on this agitation, it is a form
Of class warfare characteristic of
that originated and constantly
whipped up by the Communists.
Where big business in any field
constitutes' a monopoly or seeks
to kill off competition the estab-
lished laws of our government
breaks it up. To anyone who
takes the time to dig up the
facts, the beneficial interrelation-
ship of small and big business in
America is indisputable.
nation’s
that in
agitated
don’t think the public
-the merchants to discon-
Bargain Day, but unless
is more response there is;
the possibility it will be dropped.
Compare these Bargan Day
prices with other prices to see'if
you are not being offered a good
buy. Let’s shop at home and
help our town.
C. Kuhn; three sons,
Kuhn, Tulsa, Okla.; John
Post, Texas; Claude
Leonard; four. daughters,
Edna Bartlett, Leonard;
Bertie Stacy, Quitman,
Mrs. Vera Mankin, Los Angeles,
Calif.; Mrs. Lily Davis, Arling-
ton, Texas. One sister, Mrs.
Mary Edwards, Blue Ridge;
twenty-two grandchildren and
twenty-four great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held for
Fred Maclyn White, a retired
70-year-old farmer, at the First
Methodist church Sunday after-
noon at 2 o’clock. Mr. White
died at his home here Friday,
Nov. 9, 1956.
Dr. -Harrison Baker, pastor of
the Methodist church, was assist-
ed by the Rev. Les Waddle, for-
mer pastor, for the services.
Interment was in Grove Hill
cemetery with Wilson Funeral
Home directing.
Pallbe | ers were Billy Joe Row,
Ben Hall, Ade Watson, Jack
Barbee, Lloyd Turner and Otho
Turner.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs.
Ethel White of Leonard; one son,
Carl White of Kaufman; one
daughter, Mrs. Mary Pearl Dohr
of Concord, N. H-; one brother,
Floyd White of Seagoville;
‘sister, Mrs.
Benito, and
ew.
A native
was bom Aug. 31, 1886, at Waco.
He had lived in the Bailey com-
munity for a number of years
where he farmed- His wife is the
former Miss Ethel McWilliams
and they were married Nov. 19,
1916- Since his retirement,
about five years ago, the couple
had made their home in Leon-
ard. He was a member of
Presbyterian church. I
Mrs. W. C, Kuhn
Died Monday;
Services Tuesday
from 6 to 6:30 p. m. each day to
supply residents with needed
amounts.
The Leonard well is 1603 feet
deep, with the water level at 410
feet, making the depth of water
in the well 1193 feet. The City
Council, in called session Tues-
day night, authorized J. L. Myer
& Son to extend the pump, cas-
ing, etc., an additional 80 feet
into the- well, to allow for the
gradual receding of the water
level.
The school dosed Monday and
Tuesday but Supt. C. K. Mc-
Clendon, with the assistance of
Lewis Bates and others, secured
a tank and a pump and have
connected them to the water line
at the school. Classes' were re-
sumed Wednesday morning with
sufficient water for normal op-
eration.
Baptist Church
Elem. Departments
Get New Look
dissenion
among different
COMMENTS
By TONEY
THANKS TO TRENTON
AND CELESTE
Leonard Water Expected To
Flow at Normal Rate Today
E While in Wilmington, Dela-
ware, last month I visited the
headquarters of
Pont de Nemours & Company,
one of the nation’s biggest enter-
•ises. They had compiled some
‘kta on their own relationship
h small companies. DU Pont
K-materials from,. -30,000 com
panies; and nine-tenths, or
27,000 of these are small com-
panies by any yardstick of} meas-
urement.
Du Pont has 75,000 customers;
!»f these 67,000 are small com-
panies who depend upon du Pont
for materials or products' which
give them their-livelihood. .Tjiis-
is'a pattern of interdependency
which characterizes the Amer-
ican business system. It is stimu-
lating to the creation and oper-
aion of little businesses as well
as to the growth of those busi-
nesses whose nature dictates ex-
pansion.
The traditional last Thursday
will be observed as Thanksgiving
in Leonard instead' of the fourth
Thursday which most of the na-
tion will observe.
The majority of the merchants,
including the Leonard National
Bank, agreed to close on Thurs-
day, November 29.
The Texas law designates the
last Thursday in November as
Thanksgiving Day while national]
law designates th© fourth Thurs-t
Th© Post Office will be ^he offerings for the C. C.
Young Memorial Home for aged
women; the Methodist Home at
Waco; the San Antonio Mission
and Training School with the of-
fering of the Golden Cross and
will use the month of Demceber
to lift these offerings before the
membership of the church. Some
will want to make the offering
next Sunday and an opportunity
will be given foi them to do so.
Mrs. F. M. Foster is Golden
Cross director for the Leonard
church.
The Elementary Department of
the First Baptist church will
look different Sunday since new
furniture is being placed in tha
room.
The Nursery is getting four new
beds that will add beauty to the
rooms. The general heating
system affords perfect safety and
a comfortable atmosphere for the
children. Care has been taken to
keep the Nursery extra clean.
Sheets are used only one time
and the workers use fresh clean
aprons each Sunday. The pas-
tor, Rev. Jimmy Heflin, says the
parents can feel safe in bringing
their children to the Nursery.
Mrs. John Petty is superin-
tendent of the Nursery and is
assisted by Mrs. J. C. Daugrity
and twelve other part time work-
ers.
The Beginners and Primary
departments have five new tables
to use for various class activities'.
They also have new coat and hat
racks.
Monday night at the regular
Deacons’ meeting one hundred
and fifty dollars was earmarked
for the Young People’s depart-
ment. New chairs have been or-’
dered for this department and* there
are expected to arrive soon.
Eighty, members and guests
were served breakfast by the sen-
iors at the regular meeting of
•the Athletic Club last Saturday
morning,
bers of th'e
pep squad,
leaders.
President
thanked the members for at-
tendance and interst in* the boys
and girls.
Fathers of the members of the
football squad and pep squad
were introduced.
Program chairman Homer
Evans introduced F. Boutwell,
who spoke on the change in foot-
ball during the past 51
Mr. Boutwell said it takes
Ito build a football team.
Pep squad leader, Mrs.
Mae Reagan, was introduced and
she in turn introduced members
of the squad.
Coach Don Emery introduced
members of the football squad.
In his remarks he stated he felt
Leonard has a right to be proud
of the team. Said the boys1
learned to take instruction and
do what he told them to do.
The next meeting of the dub
will be December 6, at seven p.
m. Members are urged to attend
and all interested in the athletic
department of the school are in-
vited.
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