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Athletic Club
THE FARM PROBLEM
Officers To Be
Elected Saturday
fol-
FOR PRESIDENT:
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
Schemes Tried
FOR SECRETARY
Rosa
class
out
a friend
He
the
Demand Halted
Farmer’s Own Opinion
dcycle in good
a ser-
every
It has
foreign
Larry Clotfelter
Carnell Griffitt
Homer Evans
R. E. Sheridan
Lee Mackey was returned
home Saturday from M &
A. L. Brown
Joe Gaulden
Bill Murphy
this
last
will
The American Farm Bureau
Federation, whose 1,623,222
re-
re-
A. L. Brown,
Jim Leinart,
David Bram-
dis-
war.
high
con-
the grand
term of Sixth
reconvene on
The body has
to consider a
At the end of the war, the need
for ammunition crates in huge
volume abruptly stopped. My
friend attempted to convert his
plant to the manufacture of soft
drink crates. He sold a few
thousand crates, but the market
soon became glutted; too many
ammunition crate plants bad con- ’
verted to the same product. When
my friend’s production began to
pile up in his plant, he finally
halted operations, and told his
employees that for the time be-
ing there was no market for his
plant’s production. There was
never a thought of being paid for
unneeded crates. The carpenters
got jobs in the building boom
just opening up; and my friend
became a successful residential
building contractor.
A wood-working plant and a
farm are different enterprises.
But there are elements in the ex-
perience of my friend the crate
Manufacturer which apply to the
problem of Government stimu-
lated surpluses. When, through
any artificial device,'we “freeze”
people into productive positions
when there is no real outlet for
the fruits of their labor, we are
throwing a monkey wrench into
the whole process of the Amer-
ican system.
. President Eisenhower’s hand-
ing of the farm bill situation
Could prove to be a key factor in
returning our American farm
families to fuller independence
and in safeguarding the freedom
of all citizens. The action may
lead to indisputable proof again
that the free, competitive market
is the best system to govern pro-
duction and distribution. This
system has lifted production, in
all areas of our economy,” high
above anything ever before ac-
complished in the history of man-
kind.
High rigid support prices were
established during World War 11
as a purely emergency measure
to assure needed bumper crops
to help feed our allies. These
supports should have been
continued at the close of the
For political reasons the
rigid support prices were
tinued long after the need for
bumper crops diminished. Fan-
tastic, wasteful surpluses of farm
products have piled up. The
cost to the government now for
storage alone on the surplus
farm products is over one million
dollars a day.
J. M. Heard
Dr. R. D. Van Schoick
Jack Barbee
Children Need
Safety Rules
While In Street
Members of
are anxious to
club members
meeting as this
time this particular group’
serve breakfast.
Grand Jury Will
Reconvene For
Third Session
Mrs. L. Z. Norwood and Peggy
of Ft. Worth visited Mrs.
Hardman, Saturday.
member families add up to ap-
proximately 8,000,000 people on
the farms of America, believes
that rigid high supports jeopard-
ize the future of farmers and the
freedom of all citizens. Through
its state, county and local groups
the Farm Bureau is conducting
an educational program, de-
signed to give farm families a
clear understanding of the econ-
omic facts involved in the farm
problem.
There is sound logic in the
Farm Bureau’s “Platform for
Prosperity on the Farm.” “Pros-
perity can be enhanced, the plat-
form declares: ‘(1) By adjusting
the sfke of the agricultural plant
to market demands; (2) By get-
ting rid of price-depressing sur-
pluses; (3) By cutting costs—on
and off the farm; (4)By develop-
ing bigger markets—at home and
abroad; (5) By applying science
on the farm and throughout the
market system.”
the senior
have all of the
present at'
will be the
Members are urged to attend
the regular meeting of the Ath-
letic Club in the school cafetor-
ium at 6:30 o’clock Saturday
morning, May 5.
Officers for the new year will
be elected at this meeting. It is
very important that each mem-
ber should be present and help
elect these officers.
The nominating committee,
named by Larry Clotfelter, club
president, at the last meeting of
the club, has named four men as
candidates for president, three
men as candidates for vice presi-
dent and three men as candidates
for secretary. They are as
lows:
District Judge A. M. Harrison
issued an order for
jury for January
District Court to
Thursday, May 3.
been-.called back
number of cases that have de-
veloped since it met in March.
County Attorney Tibby Wright
said that 16 cases involving 24
defendants would be placed be-
fore the grand jury for investi-
gation. The principal cases to
be investigated are a murder and
rape case. Other cases are for
forgery, theft, felony and burg-
lary.
Mrs.
to her
S Hospital in Bonham where she
had been a patient for two
weeks.
from
were on
Maxey
Those
record
Moats,
National Guardsmen
Leonard and this area
gunnery range at Camp
near Paris last Sunday,
attending and firing for
were: L. C. Hill, Jerry
Joe F. Moats, Wade Marris, Tom
Peirson, Bobby Terry. Eddy
Backus, and Tilman Boyd.
“It’s one strike and you’re
when you play ball in the street!”
In those words Mr. E. C. Mc-
Fadden of Dallas, Vice President
of Employers Casualty Company
and President, Texas Safety As-
sociation, Inc., today warned
children to stay off the streets
when they play.
Mr. McFadden urged the young-
sters to do their part in the
Child Pedestrial Safety program
which the Texas Safety Associa-
tion, the Department of Public
Safety and the National Safety
Council are sponsoring in Texas
this month.
“Your folks aren’t trying to be
spoil-sports when they tell you
not to play in the street,” he
said. “They know that playing in
the roadway is a pretty good way
to get hurt, and it’s not very
smart to pay for an afternoon’s
fun with weeks or months in
bed.”
Mr. McFadden pointed out that
teachers, police and drivers are
all cooperating in this program
to help keep children safe in
traffic, but there’s not much they
can do without the help of
boys and girls themselves.
“Your safety is your own
sponsibility,” Mr. McFadden
minded the children. “When
you’re out with the other boys
and girls, you’re on your own.
No grown-ups can help you then,,
so it’s up to you to follow safety
rules.”
He listed the following rules
for children to observe in traf-
fic:
1. Obey all traffic officers,
school patrols, traffic signs, sig-
nals and pavement marking.
2. Use roller skates, tricycles,
wagons and scooters on the side-
walk only.
3. Practice the rules learned in
school about crossing streets and
playing in unsafe places.
4. Always take the safest route
between school and home.
5. Walk on the left side of the
road, facing traffic, if there are
no sidewalks.
He gave these additional rules
for bicycle riders:
1. Obey all traffic signs, signals
and laws.
2. Ride on the far right of the
street — with traffic.
3. Don’t weave or stunt, and
never hitch on to a passing ve-
hicle.
4. If you must ride at night,
have a good light and red re-
flector. '
5. Keep your
condition.
Red Cross Drive
Starts Friday A. M.
The quota has been set at $750
for Leonard in the current Red
Cross drive.
Dr. James W. Davis is chair-
man of the drive and the fund
raising program will be conduct-
ed by Mrs. Joe Myers, president
of the American Legion Auxil-
iary, and Mrs. David Manning,
president of the 1921 Literary
Club. These ladies will be help-
ed by members of the clubs.
The drive will begin at ten
o’clock Friday morning when the
workers will make a house to
house canvas of the residential
and business sections.
Father-Son
Banquet Will Be
Friday Night
The annual Father-Son ban-
quet of the FFA Chapter will be
held Friday night at 7:30 o’clock
at the school cafetorium.
All FFA students and their
fathers are expected to attend.
Scout Troop
Camped Out
Last Friday
Scoutmaster Connie Hollis and
W. M. McBroom took twenty
Eoy Scouts on an all night out-
ing at the Melton farm last Fri-
day night. Joe Ensminger went
out to the camp site late in the
afternoon to assist the boys with
their tents and fire. He remain-
ed with the group until bed time.
Friday night the Troop will
go to the Scout Camp at Bonham
for a night of camping out. Sev-
eral Scout leaders will accom-
pany them.
Those on the outing last Fri-
day night were
David McBroom,
David Campbell,
lett, Jimmy Heard, Tommy Ens-
minger, Gary Petty, Danny
Green, Billy Steele, Jean Car-
roll Toney, Jimmy McBroom,
Mac Lorance, Joe Thomas Sud-
derth, Don Kenneth Hollis, Ken-
peth McClendon, J. C. Daugh-
erty, Bill McClellan, Eugene
Jones and Joe Earl Morris.
Various schemes have been de-
vised for controlling production
by economic planning and rigid
control of the farmer himself.
But the high rigid support prices
acted like a dynamo on produc-
tion—surpluses piled higher and
higher. The farmer became, in
effect, a captive of the Govern-
ment “program,” rather than an
independent operator. In many
of our basic food commodities,
production has been largely for
Government warehouses and
graineries because the market was
glutted. It has become
ious problem, in which
American has a stake,
greatly diminished our
farm trade.
During World War II,
of mine, a carpenter by trade,
hired a few of his carpenter
friends and started a small enter-
prise to build ammunition crates
for the Army. The Army des-
perately needed the crates for
overseas shipment and it paid a
premium price to expedite and
expand production, to get the
thousands of people busy build-
ing crates. My friend rented an
old warehouse, set up saw rigs
and an assembly line, and turned
out crates by the thousands,
made a small ’fortune.
at
is
Exempt From Draft
Patrol
many small business
op-
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THE LEONARD GRAPHIC
LEONARD, TEXAS
Rev.
family
were
week.
died
in a
and Mrs. Gene Young and
of Fredericktown,
visiting in Leonard
Creek H. D. Club and
T. Reynolds of the Prai-
H. D. Club attended a
meeting for'food lead-
Mrs. Wayne Richardson of the
Hickory
Mrs. H.
rie Hill
training
ers of clubs in Hunt county in
Greenville, Monday. The meet-
ing was held in the REA kitchen.
The time has been set at three
o’clock Saturday aftenoon, May
5, for the drawing at Murphy
Chevrolet Co. when some young-
ster will be given the Kiddie
Corvette that is now on display.
This small car is an authenttic
reproduction of a big Corvette.
It has pedal and gear drive,
gearship with forward, neutral
and reverse. The sturdy fibre
glass body is finished in polo
white with red trim. The wind-
shield is Of unbreakable plastic.
The tires are heavy duty.
You still have time to regis-
ter. Go by Murphy Chevrolet
and see this “snazzy” corvette
2:30 p. m.
“IV-A” Means
Subscription rate is $2.00 a year in Fannin and adjoin-
ing counties. Sent elsewhere, the price is $2.50 a year.
For
erators who have no place to
turn in time of disaster, the Red
Cross in its small business grants
means the chance to rebuild and
live again. It is you and your
generosity in joining that makes
this help possible.
In an all-campus election
East Texas State College,- Bill
Wilson was elected a Student
Council representative.
Wilson, a pre-medical major,
is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Pat Wil-
son of Leonard.
Examinations To
Be Given For
Highway Patrol
State draft boards- are receiv-
ing many telephone calls these
days from men who want to
know what “IV-A” means.
Because of a recent amend-
ment in Selective Service regula-
tions, more than 100,000 Texans
are eligible for a change in classi-
fication. Nearly all of them are ex-
empt from further military serv-
ice unless Congress and the
President change the law in the
future.
“That is what the classification
IV-A means,” Colonel Morris
Schwartz, state draft director,
says. “It means that, under
present law, individuals receiv-
ing it have completed service and
are exempt from further service.”
The individuals receiving the
IV-A classification were formerly
classified in Classl-C (Discharge)
and Class I-C (Reserve). These
two draft classifications are now
abolished.
Pascual Adams,
Former Pike
Resident, Dies
The Texas Highway Patrol
accepting applications between
now and June 10 for appointment
as State Patrolmen.
Col. Homer Garrison, Jr., Di-
rector of thde Texas Department
of Public Safety, said that state-
wide examinations would be
given late in June and that suc-
cessful candidates will be select-
ed to begin training in Septem-
ber to fill the remaining original
vacancies authorized by the last
Legislature when the
strength was increased by 200
men.
He pointed out that applicants
must be between 21 and 35 years
of age, inclusive; have a high
school education, or equavilent;
be at least 5 feet 8 inches in
height; and weight must be in
proportion to height.
Garrison also emphasized that
applicants must have been resi-
dents of Texas for at least a year
prior to the date of examination
and they must be of good moral
character and in perfect physical
condition and able to withstand a
rigid character investigation.
Rookie patrolmen are paid dur-
ing training, Garrison said. Also
provided is two weeks paid vaca-
tion annually; sick leave, if neces-
sary and the benefits of both the
State Retirement Act and Federal
Social Security.
Murphy Chevrolet
to Give Corvette
Away Saturday
Bill Wilson Named
Student Council
Pascual (Pat) Adams
Sunday, April 29, 1956,
Greenville hospital after an ill-
ness for a year. Funeral serv-
ices were held Tuesday after-
noon at White Rock Baptist
Church, conducted by Rev. W. B.
Milner and Rev. W. W. Grant of
Dallas. Burial was in the Tid-
well Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Henry Boll-
man, J. T. Spears, Glenn Morgan,
Brodus Kay, V. J. Clark and
Carl Green.
Mr. Adams, a native of Pike
was born August 16, 1912, the
son of W. A. and Eva Clemons
Adams. He was living in Green-
ville at the time of his death.; and register up till
He was a member of the White | Saturday.
Rock Baptist Church.
He is survived by his wife, a
son, Rickey Dean Adams, two
daughters, Vicki Lynn and Pa-
tricia Ann; three brothers, Vesta
Adams, White Rock; Sgt. Almus
J. Adams, Lawton, Okla.; Jack
D. Adams, Memphis, Tenn.; his
parents, who reside at Pike.
COMMENTS
By TONEY
PICTURES
A few weeks ago Woltz Stu-
dios made pictures of children in.
the Leonard area which were to;
appear in The Graphic. These?
pictures are in this issue under-
the heading, “Citizens of Tomor-
row.”
$750.00 QUOTA
The Red Cross Drive begins?
this (Friday) morning at ten.
o’clock. Dr. James W. Davis*,
chairman, has secured the help,
of the 1921 Literary Club and'
the American Legion Auxiliary-
in making a house to house can-
vas of the residential and busi-
ness sections to raise the quota:
that has been set at $750.00 for
Leonard.
It has .been embarrassingly re-
ported that Leonard is the only
town in the county that has not
raised funds for the drive this
year. It is no fault of the citi-
zens of Leonard that we haven’t
met our requirements. The
chairman and quota were not
made public until this week.
Dr. Davis was named chairman
last Saturday and promptly be-
gan contacting workers. Let’s
help these workers by giving
generously to this worthy cause_
CLUB OFFICERS
The Athletic Club members
will elect 1956-57 officers at the
regular meeting of the club Sat-
urday morning. Personally, we
are convinced the club has been?,
of great help to the school and
community. Attend this import-
ant meeting.
RAINS
The rains came—and a lot of:
people were made happier by the
fact. But for a while we were-
beginning to think there would,
be too much of the good thing..
Farmers epecially are grateful!
for the moisture which was bad-
ly needed.
At noon Thursday 5.25 inches
of rain had fallen in the Leonard
area, according to unofficial re-
ports.
We are thankful we haven’t
been hit by floods and storms as
some parts have been.
TIGER GROWLS
Maybe some of our readers
fail to read Tiger Growls. If so,,
you miss out on lots of “goodl
reading.” Some of the articles
prepared by the Tiger Growls;
staff and reporters are worthy-
of “front page” news but we
don’t make a repetition of theses
articles because we want you to-
read them in Tiger Growls. Just,
last week an article appeared’,
telling about beauty queen Bar-
barba Evans, a high school,
student, chosen by members of
the local FFA Chapter. Miss-
Evans placed fifth in the district
contest held in Commerce.
SCOUTS
Scout leaders are planning to'
take the local scouts to Bonham.
Friday night for all night camp-
ing. There are 23 scouts in the?
troop.
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THEATRE CLOSES
The merchants and some indi-
viduals of Leonard certainly did
their part in trying to keep a
theatre open in Leonard. Mon-
day night’s show climaxed a
seven month’s operation of the
Leonard Theatre by Mr. and Mrs.
C. B. DeVinney.
SENIOR PLAY
The seniors of Leonard Hi did
an Excellent' job in presenting1;
“Just Ducky” in the school audi-
torium last Friday night.
LOOKING
AHEAD
by Dr. 1 Bmm*
MtKTO* - MtflONM
aWCATlOM M0O«AM
LEONARD, FANNIN COUNTY, TEXAS
NUMBER 26
FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1956
SIXTY-SEVENTH YEAR
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