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Sixty-Third Year
Number 28
'Residents
hAM sEZ
To Christmas
Korea
resi-
city are
Local Hunters Are
business i through Friday were approximate-
a hunting trip
needed to complete the diagnosis Braunsfel.
Product
berculosis in the youth or adult,; each of the group bringing home
week
this
and
course,
Mrs. Wilson.
a
in Leonard on Fri-
Peck
and
the
home
are urge
picture 1
for winning, and any mem-
of the Legion Post can ac-
your contribution. See some
over
last
E. Carpenter, of Vernon, was
the first part of the week for
Control
Decem-
Cotton
to
be
at
from their an-
the past week
home
were
O. Akins,
resident
the past
are spon-
Christmas
December
func.
ai
pa
the
her
be pub-
week.
awfully
the
stu-
all
test
week
RCA
R. Morgan,.
Church,
the Power”
Ji
ad
d
ti
Don Mulkey in San Antonio
Cpl. and Mrs. John Lewis Col-
in Corpus Christi.
Other
$5,100
fund
Adda
activit
Worth, spent the week
with his parents, Mr.
J. D. Stevens Sr.
Week end guests in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hall during
the week end were Mr. and Mrs.
Oriville Latimer and children, of
Dallas, Floyd Hall Jr., of Bonham,
Harvey Hall and children of Sher-
man.
end
and
and the party is unable to pay for
the x-ray.
In addition to this work of seek-
ing to detect the presence of tu-
morning
R. Mor-
will de-
-by
are
Control of Cotton
Pests Making
Progress
Greenville Christmas
Parade To Be Held
December 2nd
$26,338 In State Fund
Received by County
Schools
In
cotton
396,74b
that several bands
including
and
and
“all
Governor Allan
the official memorandum desig-
nating the period from Novem-
ber 17 to December 25 as Christ-
mas Seal Month in Texas. Mrs.
Frances Rains, Seal Sale Direc-
tor for the Texas Tuberculosis
the 999th Armored Fiel
Battalion, for which h
chairman, donated $l,2t
69,
ot
36
Mrs. Joe WeaVer will spend
Thanksgiving holidays with
children in Dallas.
Dave Moore, Mrs. Flos^ Moor
and Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Owen:
of^Wolfe City, will spend Thanks
giving in Tulsa, Okla., where they
will visit Mrs. Sid Langley and.
daughter, Mrs. Edd Anderson.
and thank these men for
thoughtfulness.
—Ham Sez—
received a letter from Mr.
Mrs. Tom McDonald left
week for West Texas where
will visit with relatives in
lene, Pecos, Crane and
points.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Byers, of
Celeste, visited with friends in
Leonard Monday.
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Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gaulden were
guests of Mr. and ^drs. Albert
Cranberry at the Knife and Fork
club meeting in Greenville Tues-
day night.
Jim Ed Jacobs of the U. S. Navy
who is spending a leave with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roland Ja-
cobs in Greenville visited here
with friends Tuesday.
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Mr. and Mrs. Jack Barbee visited
with her neice, Mrs. John Barnes,
a patient in the Kaufman hospital
Sunday.
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Mr. and Mrs. Archie Evans and
Mrs. Floyd Hall visited in Green-
ville Monday)
a nice buck.
Abb Keen, Bob /Sheridan, Jackie
Sheridan, Grady Owens, A. R.
Stapp, and A. Ferguson hunted
near New Braunsfel, and returned
home the latter part of the
with seven bucks.
end of1
to be thankful
celebrate Thanksgiving
—Ham
sd to other
les will be
edition to
Christmas,
is getting
Claus has a lot to
time,
Console Television Set, which will
be given away in Leonard on
Christmas eve by the American
Legion Post. A small contribution
to the building fund of the Legion
is all that is necessary to be eli-
gible
bers
cept
Legion member today, and become
eligible to win this beautiful tele-
vision set.
Week end guests in the
of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Oliver
Mr. C. P. Vicker of Idalou, Okla.,
and Austin Hughes of Abernathy.
Sunday • evening the group visited
in the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. B.
Whitney in Dallas.
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Thanksgiving guests in the home
of Mrs. Scott Wright are Mr. and
Mrs. Scotty Wright and son, of
Tyer, Mr Scott Wright of Dallas,
and Homer Scott Evans, student
at NTSTC, Denton.
cotton farmers can ill af-
of nearly $341 million to
a two-year period. There
for further intensified
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Miss Louise Kaiser, of Electra,
will spend the Thanksgiving holi-
days here with her grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kaiser.
Dr. W. Harrison Baker, super-
intendent of the Dallas District of
the Methodist Church will speak
at the Leonard Methodist Church
Sunday evening at 7 o’clock.
Everyone is given a cordial in-
vitation to attend.
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The names of the following
persons have been placed on the
Graphic Honor Roll by virtue of
the payment of their new or re-
newal subscriptions to The Gra-
phic during the past week:
Johnnie Gilbreath, Houston
1. M. Henson, Leonard
Mrs. H. F. Clark, Dallas
N. M. Jacobs, Leonard
Mrs. Joe Weaver, Leonard >
Abb Carmichael, Celeste
Leon Coffman, Odessa /
R. B. Terry, Leonard
Pat Verble, Oklahoma City
E. R. Verble, Leonard
W. C. Flanagan, Dallas
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Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sikes, of
Dallas, spent Sunday here with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell
McDonald.
Mr. and
daughter,
Fuller of
the home
Hardman
mons over the week end.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Collins
son, Larry and Mrs. W. C. Mulkey
of Celeste, visited in the homes of
their children, Pfc. and Mrs. Jim-
my
and
lins
Corps in Korea—Arm
Thomas H. Price, son c
Mrs. A. H. Price c.
Texas, recently headed <
raise money tor the r<_
Mrs. R. O. Evans and Mrs. J.
K. Polk will spend Thanksgiving
in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Graves in McKinney.
Mrs. Betty Alice Ray, of Hom
ton and Mrs. Don Williams c
Dallas were guests here Thursda
in the J. D. Lyon home.
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Mr. and Mrs. Ozie Blackwe:
had as their week end visitor
their daughter, Mrs. Basil Sifforc
and Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Lance
all of Dallas.
conditions, which
some midnight oil.
being off many
Miss Jean Akins of Midland,
spent the week end here with her
mother, Mrs. Callie Akins.
and Miss Rose
visited here in
apd Mrs. G. W.
Sim-
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Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Hill and
children will spend Thanksgiving
with their families in Sherman..
Groups "returning
nual hunts during
included:
Wren Grimes, Arnie Golden, Loy
Owens, Slim Owens, and Wilford
Golden, who hunted near New
They returned home
with five bucks and a wild tur-
key.
Bob Norris, Everett Tarpley and
Roland Jacobs, of Greenville, with
Graphic Honor
Roll
Successful On
Annual Trips
get their paper a day early.
—Ham Sez—
survey this week revealed the
that almost every
G.
here
visit with relatives and friends.
the accounts of
their depositories.
in the funds receive
per capita paymei
to $4,674.
Fannin county’s rural school
Friday received $26,338 in sta.
iunds, County Superintendent
Moulton announced Saturday,
ing that the funds has been
posited to
schools in
Included
was a $3
amounting
were transportation
minimum foundation
ment of $16,564.
fact
house in Leonard plans to be clos-
ed for a Thanksgiving holiday on
Thursday. Possible exceptions will
be service stations and cafes. Al-
though no petition was circulated,
one is not necessary on a major
holiday, since most Leonard mer-
chants cooperate one hundred per
cent on the really big holidays.
—Ham Sez—
We have at last found out how
to get venison dinners from the
deer hunters' We started out last
year following the deer hunts,
complaining to every hunter about
not receiving any venison. The
complaint for a solid year have
. at last paid, off—this week we en-
joyed a venison roast, courtesy of
Mr. Bob Norris, and some steaks
brought to us by Mr. Everett
Tarpley. We really enjoyed them
hoth,
their
Union Service To
Be Held Thursday
Morning
Leonard deer hunters have been
enjoying the most successful sea-
son in years, with almost every
hunting party reporting at least a
deer each as a result of their
hunting expeditions.
Most successful hunter of the
area that we’ve heard about was
Jackie Sheridan, young son of Bob
^Sheridan, who succeeded in down-
ing two bucks on
Local Man Heads
Fund Drive In
Leonard Receives
4 1 -2 Inches of
Rainfall
Leonard received 4 1-2 inches
of needed moisture in two days
and nights of rainfall,- which cov-
ered most of the state. Rain began
falling in Leonard Sunday after-
noon and continued unceasingly
until Tuesday morning.
The rain fell slowly and soaked
the earth thoroughly as well as
putting out some stock water. Al-
most every pool in the
caught a
Creeks
first time
Leonard
smiles” following the downpour.
The rainfall was followed by a
brisk norther and Leonard had its
coldest reading of the season on
Wednesday morning when a light
skim of ice was evident.
With 1
First Lt.
Mr. and
Leonard,*
drive to
habilitation of war-injured Korea,
children.
Men of
Artillery
was fund
to the Korean Chidren’s Ampute
Fund.
The campaign was conducted b
I Corps, to which Price’s unit i
attached.
Donations totalling more tha
$70,000 from all 1 Corps forces a:
being used to set up an ampute
center at a civilian hospital
Seoul, the South Korean capital
Now serving as adjutant of ti
999th Armored Field Artillery Ba
talion, Price was stationed at Fo.
Sill, Okla., before his assignme:
in Korea.
Price has been awarded tl.
Korean Service Ribbon and tl
UN Service Ribbon.
He received his Bachelor -
Science degree from Texas A & .
in 1950.
Mrs. Joe Myers spent sever
days this week visiting in ti
home of her parents, Mr. and Mr
Elzie Taylor in Grahd Prairie.
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Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Skai
and Mr. and Mrs. Jake Skaer, (.
Dallas, spent Sunday here wi
Mr. and Mrs. -Paul H. Taylor.
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Motion Picture On
Scout Activity
Planned
the state association or
department which
to the county.
this
she
Abi-
other
Bill Shirley, of Muleshoe, visited
here last week in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Lewis Collins.
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Mrs. C. J. Hardman and
Mary,
Dallas,
of Mr.
and Mrs. Lillian
Cotton Insect
in Memphis,
the National
bringing together all
groups concerned with reducing
insect losses. Unified activity such
as this is a constructive step to-
ward halting crop ravages fceach
year by pests.
for the best decorated
city of Leonard.
Sez—
Christmas
a 21 inch
Mrs. D. Davis and children
Luda and Fred, and Mrs. K. 1
Millsap spent Saturday in Fc.
Worth.
Leonard folks, as well as Texas
residents, will find no
things for which
as they
Day this year. If the big rain was
the only thing in mind, people of
the state can be extremely grate-
ly for the moisture which broke
one ot the biggest drouths in the
history of the state. We here in
the United States have plenty to
be thankful for, and we should not
forget the purpose for which the
day was meant.
—Ham Sez—
It becomes apparent Wednesday
morning that we’re going to get
The Graphic out a day early de-
spite adverse
caused us burn
Electric power
times during the day Tuesday and
early Tuesday night caused some
delay, but at least the townfolks
will
All residents of this area are
urged to be on hand for the an-
nual Union Thanksgiving service
which is being held at the First
Daptist Church Thursday
at 9:00 o’clock. Rev. A.
gan, Methodist minister;
liver the sermon.
Most churches of the
participating in the union service
and the following program has
been arranged:
Organ prelude.
Call to Worship — Rev. Alfred
Grigsby.
Hymn of Praise, “O Worship the
King”—No. 2.
Invocation—Rev. Alfred Grigsby.
Choral response.
Hymn, “Come Ye Thankful Peo-
ple”—No. 136.
Responsive Reading, No. 505 —
Rev. Otis Swisher.
Prayer of Thanksgiving — Rev.
Otis Swisher.
Anthem—School Choir (Mrs. J.
?. Haynes, director)
-Offertory
Doxology (congregation stand-
ing)
Prayer of dedication.
Choir Number—Combined chair.
Sermon by Rev. A.
Pastor, The Methodist
1st stanza “All Hail
—No. 1.
Behediction—Rev. A. R. Morgan
Organ postlude.
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Dr. Harrison Baker
To Speak Here J
Sunday <
this week
and pep squads, including the
Greenville band and Greenville
Flashes have already accepted in-
vitations to take part in the par-
ade. Handsome prizes are being
planned for the best decorated float
the best band and other divisions
of the parade. Also included in the
Christmas season activities will be
prizeg
in the
From the National Cotton Coun-
cil comes the heartening news
that 1951 cotton pest damage in
Texas was more than $100 million
less than in 1950.
Total value of cotton and cot-
tonseed destroyed by bugs ana
worms in Texas in 1951 was esti-
mated at $119,714,800, as compar-
ed with $221,103,060 in 1950.
Council statistics reveal that the
boll . weevil and other marauders
kept 590,720 bales of cotton and
247,840 tons of cottonseed out oi
production in Texas in 1951.
1950, pests docked Texas
farmers 948,712 bales and
tons of seed.
Weather conditions, of
have a great deal to do with the
damage to cotton each year by
pests. It is encouraging, however,
to note that cotton farmers more
and more are becoming alert to
the serious Insect threat. They are
following control practices rec-
ommended b y entomologists.
Without these precautions, insect
damage to cotton in Texas in 1951,
undoubtedly would have been much
greater and yields and income re-
duced accordingly.
Texas
ford loss
pests in
is need
control efforts.
At the
Conference
ber 10-11,
Council is
A motion picture on Boy Scout
and Cub Scout work will be shown
at the Methodist Church, Friday,
Nov. 28th at 7:00 p. m.
All Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts,
Parents, Den Mother, Scoutmasters,
Cubmasters, Scout and Cub Com-
mitteemen, are urged to see
picture.
The Junior Chamber of Com-
merce and the Greenville Retail
Merchants Association
soring their annual
Parade Tuesday night,
2nd at 6:00 p. m.
Approximately twenty floats
have been entered into this an-
nual affair, and ten bands and
drill units will also be present.
Last year this gigantic affair
attracted some 12,000 people, and
more are expected for this year’s
parade.
“In recognizing our neighbors to
the north we would like to extend
a special invitation for you and
the members of your community
to be present for this worthwhile
civic affair,” a spokesman for the
Greenville group said Wednesday.
Santa Claus himself will be pres-
ent and will distribute candy to
the youngsters.
Remember the date, December
2nd, at 6:00 p. m., and make your
plans now to attend.
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Thanksgiving guests in
home of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Kuhn
will be Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Flana-
gan and daughter, Judy, of Dallas,
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Creech and
chidren and Georgia Flanagan.
Mrs. J. J. Pendergrass
Noble Pendergrass, of Wharton,
and Mrs. David Barkley of Pasa-
dena, Texas, visited here with
friends Tuesday.
The newly forming Scout Trot'
with Scoutmaster Otis. Swishe
will have a hike and cook-out thi
-Friday, after- Thanksgiving. Hil;
Emphasis: trail-finding and cool
ing. A trail will be laid out befoi
hand with Indian signs and roar-
ers which the troop is to find an
try to follow on Friday. Speci.
Cooking Project: plan a balance
meal, and cook poached eggs.
Meeting Place: the Scout biulc
ing (above the Dixie
Co.) 9:30 a. m.
Parents and Scouts
see the Scout motion
shown at the Methodist Churf
7:00 p. in. on Friday.
Association looks on. Inset is
Dr. Z. T. Scott, retired Austin
physician who instigated the
first Christmas Seal Sale in
Texas in 1909 and now serves as
treasurer for the statewide or-
ganization.
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Scouts Make Plant
For Cook-Out
veys made by the mobile x-rhy
unit of
health
brought
Larger x-rays are paid for
the association where they
Bonham—Fannin county
dents are showing a generous re-
sponse to the Christmas Seal Sale
uy the Fannin County Taberculosis
Association, it was revealed Sat-
urday.
The seals were placed in the
mails to some 6,000 residents of
Fannin county Tuesday with mem-
bers of the Bonham Jaycees help-
ing to load the large bundles of
envelopes into the mail truck for
transportation to the post office.
The seals had been stuffed into
the envelopes preparatory for mail-1
ing by volunteer workers.
Miss Billy Barnette, executive j
secretary of the Fannin County
Association, said Saturday that the
money received thus far this year
was in excess of the first week
after the seals were mailed out
last year.
Receipts from the seal sales
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Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Stevens of
vort
here
Mrs.
Former Resident of
Leonard Dies At
county
small supply of water.
were running for the
in several months,
residents - were
Mrs. Ray Murphy spent Sunday
in Denton with her parents, Mr.
and
ly $300.
The association carries on all |
its work with the funds received ■
from the Christmas Seal sales.
Work done by the county asso-
ciation includes the giving of
tubeculin patch tests to all
dents in the first grade of
schools in the county. This
permits nurses and physicians to
determine if the child is affected
with tuberculosis and in any sus-
picious cases, further tests ?are
recommended.
In addition to the patch tests
given each first grade student
free x-rays are provided for all
adults through the free x-ray sur- ;in south Texas.
We
and Mrs. Leon Coffman, of Odessa,
this week, asking us to begin a
subscription to The Graphic imme-
diately, or sooner. They seem to
be getting just a little bit home-
sick away out in that West Texas
city. Enclosed in the letter was a
photo of a sign which appears on
the
reading: “Stanton — the Home ot
3000 Friendly People, and a Few 5
Old Soreheads”. They suggested [
that perhaps a sign reading the
same should be placed at the city
limits of Leonard. Mr. Coffman is
i salesman for the Dixie Products
Do., of Leonard, working out of
Odessa.
—Ham Sez—
Youngsters in this area are re-
minded that The Graphic will fol-
low it’s usual custom of printing
Letters to Santa Claus in the an-
nual Christmas
fished during
Christmas time
close, and Santa
do in the short remaining
so we’d advise all youngsters to1
get their letters mailed as soon as
possible. We’d like to print a let-
ter from every child in this area— t
and, of course, there’s no charge
for publication of the letters. Sit
down now, and write to old Santa, i
Just address your letter to “Santa!
Claus. Care The Leonard Graphic, i
Leonard, Texas” . . and we’ll do
the rest.
—Ham Sez—
Big plans continue to go forward
‘for the 2nd annual Christmas par-
ade to be held
day, December 12. tt was announ-
ced
the association also carries on an
educational campaign in the
schools of the county in which
students are taught the value of
for
Haskell, Texas.—O.
retired farmer and
Haskell County for
years, died at 1:45 p. m. Friday,
Nov. 14 in the Haskell Hospital, a
few hours after he had been
stricken with cerebral hemorrhage.
Funeral services for Mr. Akins
were held in the First Baptist
C'iiurch Sunaay a#’3 i„ m., with
the Rev. M. D. Rexrode, pastor
officiating.
Deceased was born Sept. 14, 1883
in Blairsville, Ga., the son of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Joe L. Akins.
He came to Texas when a young
man, and married Miss Sarah Wil-
son of Leonard, Texas, April 23,
1905. They made their home in
Fannin County until moving to
this section in 1916, where Mr.
Akins engaged in farming until
his retirement. He had been a
member of the First Baptist Church
since 1932, and was a member of
the Masonic Lodge.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Sarah Akins, of Haskell; three
daughters, Mrs.. Bill Woodson ot
Haskell, Mrs. S. L. Gustafson of
Gonzales, Mrs. Ralph Bel of Fort
Worth; i.ur sons, Fred Akins of
El Monte, Calif., James Roy Akins
of Hemet, Calif., Odus O. Akins
Jr., of Fort Worth, Jack Akins of
Denton; seven grandchildren;
three sisters, Mrs. Jessie Sudderth
of Leonard; Mrs.'Ina Mae Hughes,
Dallas; Mrs. Pat Jackson, Cam-
den, Ark.; and three brothers, Y.
B. Akins, Greenville; Grady Akins,
Lake Charles, La., and Joe Akins,
Leonard, Texas.
IT’S A BOY
A nev* ruler began his reign
the Caston home in Carthage
week. A oouncing baby boy, Rob-
ert William, was presented by Sir
Stork to Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Cas-
ton on November 18. Grandparents
are Mr. and Mrs. Homer Caston
of Leonard and Mr. and Mrs. Joe
t Walton of Austin.
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Mrs. Fred Tucker is visiting in
the home of her daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. Leon Coffman in Odessa.
outskirts of Stanton, Texas, prevention and how to care
themselves.
BOOSTING ThfE BIGGEST LITTi-g TOWN IN NORTH TEXAS
Leonard, Texas, Friday, Nov. 28,1952
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