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Sixty-Fifth Year
Leonard, Fannin County, Texas,
Friday, June 18, 1954
NUMBER 5
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED
in
other relatives.
MISS BETTY JOVCE SHERIDAN'
Honor Roll
the
and
Partain, Ft.Worth
Latimer, Dallas
an-
any
—Reported
or think that the economic
have been repealed. We
much wailing that the sch-
have failed in this regard
cycle, he will either
for further training
in the techniques of
artillery or he will
B.
G.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Taylor
spent Sunday in Dallas with .their
Skaer and daughter, Debbis and
Mr. and Mrs. Terry Anderson.
Miss. Bettye Sheridan nad Vk
Hall of Waco spent the weekend
here with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Bob Sheridan, Sr.
bert V. Chambers and Edward W.
Bonn will be present along with
Game Warden, Clarence Jones
to discuss proposed changes in
the existing game regulations
and answer any questions re-
lating to them. An outline of
the work done on game problems
in tjie county since last Septem-
ber’s meeting will be presented
and ghme management work
planned for next, year will be
discussed.
The date for the wedding has
been set for Friday, July 23 and
will be solomized at the First
Baptist Church in Leonard, with
the pastor, Jimmie H. Heflin as
officant.
of
in
Fannin County sportsmen and
landowners are urged to attend
a meeting to assist in establish-
ing their 1954-55 hunting and
fishing regulations on June 25th.
The second annual meeting for
consideration of existing game
laws and chances proposed by
Texas Game and Fish Commis-
sion biologists will be held in
the County Courthouse in Bon-
ham at 7:30 p.m.
Biologists Jack M. Inglis, Gil-
Miss Pat Manning of Dallas
spent the weekend here with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Man-
ning.
permit Electors of the
Remembrance to fully
each nomination. Only
persons are eligible in
1954.
ELECTED UNION
PRESIDENT
J. D. Alexander of Dallas,
grandson of the late J. D. Lyon
of Leonard, was elected Presi-
dent of the Local 89’, VA.W-
CIO Union at Chance Vaught in
Grand Prairie at their meeting
this week.
Jackie M. Neeley, 20, husband
of Ruby L. Neeley, Route 2, Cel-
este, is completing his Air Force
basic military training course at
Lackland Air Force Base, the
“Gateway to the Air Force.”
Lackland, situated near San
Antonio, is the site of Air Force
basic military training for men
and women, headquarters of the
Human Resource Research Cen-
ter, and home of the USAF Of-
ficer Military School.
His basic training is prepar-
ing him for entrance into Air
Force technical training and for
assignment in specialized work.
The course includes a scientific
evaluation of his aptitude and
inclination for following a par-
ticular vocation and career.
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Sheridan,
Sr., are announcing the engage-
ment and approaching marriage
af their daughter, Betty Joyce
to Mr. Orley Victor Hall of Waco.
Jackie Neeley At
Lackland AFB
Roy McMillan gives baseball
fans pointers on fielding in the
article “He Makes His Own
Bounces” in the July issue of the
Progressive Farmer magazine.
Now considered the best glove
man around, Roy started his ball
playing as third baseman on a
local softball team in Bonham.
He never played baseball as
neither his grade nor high school
had a team. A soft-ball team-
mate talked Roy into going to
McKinney, Texas to a tryout
camp that the Tyler Baseball
Club was having. Jack Knott,
Cincinnati scout, and Hack Mil-
ler, Tyler manager, hit ground
balls to Roy and were greatly
impressed with his ability to
come up with them. However,
they had to coach him on his
curve-ball hitting before he was
farmed to Ballinger in 1947. He
Texas Heritage
Foundation
Information
BONHAM — Ambers Lee Tur-
ner and Calvin Ambers Turner,
Oklahoma father and son, have
been named in three indictments
charging forgery in connection
with a check-cashing spree in
Trenton and Leonard.
The Turners were captured by
a posse in Leonard after a chase
in which scores of resident of
both communities participated
They are accused of attempting
to pass checks drawn on Nath
Young of Trenton.
Others named in true bills re-
turned by the June term of the
Grand Jury of the Sixth Dist-
rict Court last week were Frank-
ie Lee Brackett, named in two
cases of alleged forgery; Billy
P. Butler, billed for robbery by
assault in connection with theft
from person, said offense occur-
ing in the Ladonia area, and W.
L. Manning, indicted for theft
over $50, in connection with the
theft of a trailer from Lloyd
Barr, this alleged ofense also
occurring in theLadonia area.
hit .275 in 107 games. The follow-
ing year with Tyler, he hit .307.
In 1949 he broke his arm while
playing with the Columbia Reds.
However, with Tulsa the follow-
ing year he came into his own as
a brilliant fielder.
He spent the entire 1951 season
with Cincinnati. Most of the
time was on the bench but he
took this part of his training in
his stride. In the spring of ’52
he was made regular shortstop
for the Cincinnati Redlegs.
Leo Durocher hails him as the
best defensive shortstop in the
game today. Pie Traynor says,
“McMillan makes his own boun-
ces. By that I mean he can take
the ball on a half-hop all the
time. He’s the only present-day
shortstop who can do that. It’s
a pretty tough play.”
J. D. Alexander of Dallas,
grandson of the late J. D. Lyon
of Leonard, was elected Presi-
dent of the Local 89’, V.A.W-
CIO Union at Chance Vaught in
Grand Prairie at their meeting
this week.
Fannin Sportsmen Asked
Meet June 25fh To Discuss
Game And Fish Regulations
THREE GREAT CANNOTS
What our children of today are
taught will determine the way
of life this nation will have in
the years ahead. Nothing, there-
fore, could be more important
to the future welfare of the peo-
--^ple of America than the sub-
stance of the education that will
be given to the 35,000,000 youngs-
ters who will enroll in our sch-
ools next September. A sound
observation regarding one phase
of this education has been made
by Mark C. Schinnerer, superin-
tendent of the Cleveland (Ohio)
schools.
John W. Studebaker, chairman
of the Scholastic Magazines’ edi-
torial board and former U. S.
Commissioner of Education, com-
mends Dr. Schinnerer’s state-
ment, and I hope it will be read
by all parents and teachers, by
everybody. “This is about the
teaching of economics,” Dr. Sch- I
innerer wrote. “It is not directed
just to teachers of economics, '
but to all teachers. It is directed
to all teachers because the job
that needs to be done cannot be
done by just the teachers of ec-
onomics.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Pollock
Dallas were weekend guests
the home of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Tom McDonald.
Mr. and Mrs. Royce Fuller
and son of Strawn have returned
home after a visit here with
relatives and friends.
3D DIV., KOREA. — Pvt. Tom-
my L. Berry, 20, son of Mrs.
Mattie Berry, Leonard, Tex., is
now serving in Korea with the
3rd Infantry Division.
The “Rock of the Marine” div-
ision, which saw bitter fighting
in the Iron Triangle and at Out-
post Harry, is now training as
part of the U. S. security force
on the peninsula.
Private Berry, a member of
Headquarters Company of the
division’s 7th Infantry Regiment,
entered the Army in May 1953
and was stationed at Camp Rob-
erts, Calif., before arriving
Korea last November.
Local S S Class
Holds Vespers At
Bonham VA Center
Sunday afternoon at 5:30 mem-
bers of the Vota-Vita Sunday
School Class of the Leonard Bap-
tist Church presented the regu-
lar Sunday afternoon Vesper
Service at the V.A. Center in
Bonham.
The thirty minute program
was opened with prayer by Joyce
Ann Heflin, with Rev. Otto Hil-
brich directing the congressional
singing.
The scripture was read by
Freddy Myers and Rev. Jimmie
H. Heflin brought the Devotional.
Special musical numbers were
rendered by Mrs. Sue Norris and
Rev. Hilbrich. The Benediction
was voiced by Kathreen Wood-
ruff.
Others attending from Leonard
included, Mr. and Mrs. Marion
Pierce, Lon Bradley, Norman
Norris, Doyle Norris, Mildred
Fowler, Ruby Lee Mackey, Doris
Williams and Marion Bradley,
class teacher who served as mis-
tress of ceremonies.
Can’t Equalize Ability
_^ajCN°. 3. You cannot equalize
anility by a handicap system.
It is wrong to expect as much
from a youngster with a low I.Q.
as is expected from a youngster
with a high I. Q. It is also wrong
to set up handicaps so that they
come out even. Leave that for
the exclusive use of the racing
stewards. Competition still has
a place in America, thank good-
ness, and I don’t want it any
other way.
“In every school day, there
are numerous incidents in each
student’s school experience when
these three fundamentals are pre-
sent. Just repeatedly bringing
them to the pupil’s conscious-
ness will work wonders. If all
our people accepted these three
economic axioms and lived by
them, we would live in an econ-
mic paradise.”
As I have written them down
here, it seems to me that Dr.
... -Schinnerer’s three fundamentals
are lessons on which we all need
to be refreshed — especially in
a world in which glittering pro-
mises of something for nothing
are being made by the Socia-
lists and Communists and their
dupes. It is good to see these
fundamentals propounded by one
of America’s top public school
educators.
Grand Jury
Reims Several
Indictments
The following readers of
Leonard Graphic have been plac-
ed on our honor roll since our
last report by viture of their
payment of new or renewal sub-
scription to the Graphic.
A. L. Miller, Leonard
Morris Monument Co., Denison
Tommy Murley, Childress
Mark Caskey, Bonham
Bliss Albright, Dallas
J. D. Stevens, Sherman
Ens. Frank T. Clark, Virginia
Beach
Mrs. E. E. Clark, Bonham
E. W. Robertson, Lubbock
W. L. Sowels, San Antonio
Mrs. W. H. Arnold, Leonard
Mrs. Carter Hayley, Seymour
H. T. Raynolds, Celeste
H. D. aller, Lubbock
Mrs. Earl, Hopkins, Leonard
W. L. Jacobs, Greenville
J. E. Stewart, Greenville
Bobby L. Ferguson, Washing-
ton
C. K. McClendon, Leonard
Gerald McLain, Leonard
Mrs. R. H. Sikes, Leonard
T. H. Sikes, Leonard
A. A; Devey, Farmersville
L. R. Wooley, Leonard
Mrs. W. E. Gibson, Leonard
Amos Burns, Leonard
Roland Jacobs, Greenville
Lt. Joe Tilger, San Antonio
Mrs. . E. Ashley, Leonard
G. D. Jones, Ft. Worth
Sam
Mrs. Joe Trusty, Leonard
Fred
Neil Wright, Carey
Dewey Kidwell, Trenton
J. R. Davis, Leonard
J. T.m Brinkley, Kress
Misses Hattie and Naomi Davis,
Leonard
Dave Moore, Leonard
Miss Ruby Grimes, Leonard
Baptist Men Be
Honored At Leonard
Church Sunday
On Father’s Day the men of
the Leonard Baptist Church will
be given special recognition.
They will be favored with special
music by the Junior Choir un-
der the leadership of Rev. Otto
Hilbrich. Every family in Leo-
nard is urged to honor Father
on his day by attending the
church of your choice.
At 11:45 A.M. the morning
services will close with a Bapt
ismal service. The Public is in-
vited to this service.
. -ocal’s Granddaughter
Injured
Miss Johnnie Nell Hall of
Albuquerque, N.M., who has been
visiting here with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. John Richard Hall
in the home of her grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hall was
injured on returning home last
Saturday.
Immediately following their
return to their home, Johnnie
Nell was struck by a taxi cab
in front of her home and very
painfully injured.
Is Leonard and Celeste
surrounding area the home of
a person deserving a place in
Texas Education’s permanent
Hall of Rememberance?
The Texas Heritage Foundat-
ion through its Chairman, Mr.
Karl Hoblitzelle of Dallas, urges
citizens in this area of the state
to carefully consider whether
local heroes and heroines of ed-
ucation should be among those
honored in this memorial project
being launched by the Texas
Heritage Foundation during this
Centennial Year of Public Edu-
cation in Texas.
The editor of the Graphis has
received a copy of the nominat-
ional blank, which has the'con-
stitution and rules of the Hall
of Remembrance printed on the
reverse side. A blank has also
been mailed to the local school
superintendent.
If you know of a person who
should be nominated, you may.
secure the necessary forms by
writing to the Texas Heritage
Foundation, 612 Capital Natio-
nal Bank Buiding, Austin, Texas.
Nominations considered in 1954
must be made prior to July 1st.
No fee is charged. Any citizen
of Texas may enter a nominat-
ion.
Sufficient information should
be attached to each nomination
blank to
Hall of
evaluate
deceased
the year
Th nominations may include
school administrators, teachers,
statesmen, educational philanth-
ropists, and other persons of
whatever occupation who have
had an important influence on
or, who have made an important
contribution to education in
part of Texas.
Baptist Bible School
Commencement
Sunday Night
The Comencement Service for
the Baptist Vacation Bible Sch-
ool will be held at the Church
Sunday evening at 8 o’clock.
A special program is being
arranged with each department
taking part. Special musical num-
bers will be presented. The pub-
lic is cordially invited to attend.
•r “We Have Failed”
“There is a colossal oversup-
ply of people in my country who
either never discovered some of
the basic principals of econo-
mics
laws
hear
ools
and the cry is for required cour-
ses in economics. We have fail-
ed — in school and out — but the
answer is not in required courses.
“The answer,, in my opinion,
lies in a continuous effort to
inculcate in children, from the
kindergarten through high sch-
ool, some basic and very simple
facts. There are three things
which almost anyone can be
brought to understand and if
these three are ingrained, we
can leave the more complicated
principles to the experts.
Nothing for Nothing
“No. 1: You can’t get some-
thing for nothing. Too many
thifik they can. That is the basis
.of gambling and most specula-
tion. Giving a higher mark in
school than is earned is proving
that the student can get some-
things for nothing. That is bad
1 ^iness. When parents urge no
homework, they somehow ex-
pect something for nothing. One
gets out of school work about
what he puts into it. Only para-
sites get something for nothing.
“No. 2. You can’t spend more
than you have and remain sol-
vent. The longer such a system is
followed, the more impossible it
becomes to keep afloat. Know
anyone who trades in a mort-
gaged car on a new one one and
has both a newer car and a big-
ger mortgage? The woods are full
of such people. It is bad econo-
mics. It’s somewhat like drug ad-
diction. This applies equally to
a person, a business, or a gov-
ernment.
Two Leonard Area
Soldiers At Ft. Bliss
FORT BLISS, Texas. — Two
soldiers of the Leonard area were
recently assigned to the Anti-
aircraft Artillery Replacement
Training Center at Ft. Bliss, Tex-
as, for their second eight weeks
of basic training.
They are Pvt. Joe L. Blanton,
son of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Blan-
ton 803 Cottonwood, Leonard,
son of Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Shaw
of Leonard, Texas.
Having recently completed
eight weeks’ of training in fun-
damental infantry subjects, they
will now take up the skills of
antiaircraft artillery.
During this second phase of
basic training they will be ex-
pertly schooled in the firing of
light and medium anti-aircraft
artillery weapons at low-flying
and high altitude aerial targets
on the one-and-one-half million
acre Ft. Bliss ranges. They will
also be familiarized with the
various electronic equipment used
by the AAA-RTC.
All will graduate at a formal
parade and retreat ceremony,,
and then be eligible for assign-
ment in a permanent anti-aircraft
artillery unit.
Mrs. Wilbur Joiner
Hostess To
Church Society
Members of the Presbyterian
Society met for their regular
meeting at the church Monday
evening with Mrs. Wilbur Joiner
as hostess.
The program for the evening
was under the direction of Mary
Melton. Thirteen members were
present.
Tommy Berry
In Korea
Roy McMillan Article In July Issue
Of The Progressive Farmer Magazine
Wayland Wilkins
At Ft. Bliss
FORT BLISS, Texas—Pvt. Way-
land L. Wilkins, son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. L. Snow, Rt. 1, White-
wright, Texas, recently began
pight weeks of basic training in
the Antiaircraft Artillery Re-
placement Training Center at Ft.
Bliss, Texas.
The first eight weeks of basic
training are spent on fundamen-
tal infantry subjects like army
drill, rifle, machine gun, and
bazooka marksmanship, and fam-
iliarization with army technical
subjects. This first phase of train-
ing is climaxed with a one week
maneuver in the field.
Upon completion of the first
eight week
be assigned
at Ft. Bliss
antiaircraft
be transferred to another train-
ing center for schooing in some
other army skill.
Should he remain at Ft. Bliss,
his second eight weeks will see
him learn the uses of various
electronic equipment employed
by the AAA-RTC. He will also
be expertly trained in the firing
of light and medium antiaircraft
artillery at low flying and high
altitude aerial targets on the
one-and-one-Kalf million , acre Ft.
Bliss ranges.
Farley & Hill To
Celebrate Fourth
Anniversary
Farley & Hill Grocery & Mar-
ket, on the east side of the
square in Leonard is celebrat-
ing its fourth anniversary in
business here Friday and Satur-
day. L. C. Hill, co-owner of the
store is local manager.
Fun and prizes are promised
during the two-day celebration.
On Saturday a Nellie Bell Jeep
will be given away as 1st prize
with a Betty Crocker Baking
Kit as second prize, and a beach
ball as third. In addition to these
prizes, three baskets of- groceries
will be given away during the
birthday celebration.
A large advertisment of their
special event appears on anoth-
er page of the Graphic.
4-H'ers Go To
Districf Camp
Af Trinidad
Eight Fannin County 4-H Club
members accompanied by Miss
Bess Brooks, county home demon-
stration agent, and County Agent
Zeke Green, left Monday for the
district camp at Trinidad. They
will return Thursday afternoon.
Girls attending camp are Misses
Lindy Haynes, Leonard; Brenda
Hines, Gober; Ann Wylie, Allen s
Point; and Bobbie Hall, Mul-
berry. Boys attending the camp
are Thurman Reed Allen, Ector;
Johnny Glover, Gober; Larry
Dobbs, Allen’s Point; and Danny
Jackson, Leonard.
Expenses of the eight 4-H Club
members at the camp are being
paid by the County 4-H Club
and County H. D. Councils.
County-Wide
Youth Revival -
Planned
The Methodist Youth Fellow-
ship of the West Paris Sub-
District will begin their Confer-
ence program with a Youth Re-
vival, at the First Methodist
Church of Bonham, Texas, Sun-
day June 20th. 8:00 P.M. and at
8:00 P.M. each evening through
Friday June 25th.
Rev. George Martin of Garland,
one of the finest young preach-
ers of the Conference, and a very
popular leader of youth, will be
the speaker.
Young People of all faiths are
invited to attend.
Lt. James A. Norwood of Knox-
ville, Tenn, landed his jet plane
at Perrin AFB during the week-
end and spent a brief visit here
with his father, Joe Norwood
and
Butler Family
Annual Re-union
Held Sunday
The Butler family held its
nual family reunion the second
Sunday in June, which was June
6.
All the families met at Bon-
ham State Park, taking picnic
lunch with them. At the noon
hour lunch was enjoyed by ap-
proximately 50 family members.
Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Butler and
Danny, Mrs. Ruth Butler, Mr.
and Mrs. Norman Butler, Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Butler, Judith
Gail Owens, Mrs. Fay Moats,
Linda Ann Atnip, Glenna Faye
Atnip, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson
Roberson, Barbara Jean Ohmert,
Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Fleming, Mr.
and Mrs. Ben Aldridge, Mrs.
Josie Butler, Dennis Butler, Lena
Butler, Mr. and Mrs. R. Lee Mc-
Broom and children, David, Lee,
and Carolyn; Mr. and Mrs. Lut-
her Dodson and daughter Bertie,
Eva Jean Blevins, Darlene Tho-
mas, Ida Butler, Mr. and Mrs.
C. M. Anderson and children
Gary and Barbara, Mr, and Mrs.
C. W. Butler and children, Betty
and Barbara, Mr. and Mrs. O.
Butler and son Larry, and
W. Withroe.
—Reported
BOOKING
AHEAD
by Dr, George S. Benson
DIRECTOR - NATIONAL
EDUCATION PROGRAM
Secrcy, Arkansas
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