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Farmers Figure
Social Security
$ Several Ways
'^Self-employed farmers may
u^e an alternate method for
figtiring their earnings from
their farm, Marion L. Harkey,
district manager of the Sherman
Social Security Administration
office, and Ellis Campbell, Dis-
trict Director of Internal Rev-
enue, reminded farm operators
today.
Mr. Campbell pointed out that
self-employed farmers may fig-
ure their earnings for social se-
curity in several ways.
(1) If your gross income from
agricultural self-employment is
not more than $1800, you may
count as your net farm earnings
either your actual net or 2/3 of
your farm gross income;
(2) If your gross farm income
is more than $1800, and your net
farm earnings are less, than
$1200, you may use either your
actual net or $1200;
(3) If your gross farm income
is more than $1800 and your net
farm earnings are $1200 or more,
you may use the actual amount
of your net earnings.
Mr. Campbell added' that use
of the option will enable farm-
ers with gross income as low as
$600 to obtain social security
protection for themselves in
their old age and for their sur-
vivors in case of death. How-
ever, he emphasized that regard-
less of the way in which you
figure your net earnings, you
must have net earnings of at
least $400 (from farming alone,
or in combination with your
other self-employment earnings)
in order to get social security
credit for the year.
In addition to the revised op-
tion method, the 1956 amend-
ments extended social security
coverage to some farmers who
receive cash or crop shares from
tenant farmers. If the farm-
landlord, under his agreement
with his tenant, materially par-
tifc^phtes in the production or
management of production of
the farm crops raised on his
land, this income (formerly ex-
cluded as rental income) may
be reported for social security
purposes. This provision is ef-
fective for taxable years ending
after 1955.
Requests for information re-
garding taxes due and tax return
forms should be directed to the
Internal Revenue Service. The
Sherman Internal Revenue Serv-
ice Office is in the Sherman post
office building and provides in-
come tax advice each Monday
morning from 8:30 to 12:30.
Questions concerning the old-
age, survivors, and disability in-
surance program will be an-
swered by your social security
office. The social security of-
fice for Grayson, Fannin, and
Cooke Counties is located at 503
Commercial Building, Sherman,
Texas.1921 Club Hears
Book Reviewed By
Mrs. Manning
Mrs. Luster Stallings was host-
ess when the 1921 Literary Club
met on Feb. 5. The president,
Mrs. Ray Manning, conducted a
short business meeting, after
which the club enjoyed a review
of the book “The Valley of the
Vines” given by Mrs. David Mna-
ning.
The hostess served a refresh-
ment plate to 12 members and
one guest, Mrs. Robert ParnellASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH
P. Broyles, Pasor
Sunday School 9:45 a. m.
Morning Worship 11:00 a. m.
Evangelistic Service 7:30 p. m.
Mid-week Service 7:30 p. m.
Young People, Sunday 6:30
p. m.NEW ARRIVAL
The daughter born to Mr. and
Mrs. John W. Worley of Blue
Ridge Sunday, February 2, 1958,
at Davis Clinic, was named Lan-
da Kay. She weighed 8 pounds
and 15 ounces.
SIXTY-NINTH YEAR
LEONARD, FANNIN COUNTY, TEXAS,
Miss Martha Jane Crabb And
Mac W. Woodruff Engagement Revealed
MISS MARTHA JANE CRABB
Mr. and Mrs. Clymer H. Crabb of Leonard announce the en-
gagement of their daughter, Martha Jane, to Mr. Mac W. Woodruff,-
son of Mrs. Alton T. Woodruff of Trenton.
Miss Crabb was graduated from East Texas State College early
this year, where she was a member of Sigma Tau Delta, honorary
Society.
Mr. Woodruff will be graduated from East Texas State College
in May. He is a member of Kappa Delta Pi and Alpha Chi, honor-
ary societies. •
The couple plan a late summer wedding.
Mrs. Stewman
Services Friday
At Baptist Church
Mrs. R. A. Stewman passed
away about 4:30 p. m. Wednes-
day, February 5, 1958, at her
home west of Leonard. She had
been ill several weeks.
Funeral services will be held
Friday afternoon a 2 o’clock in
the First Baptist Church in Leon-
ard. Rev. Albert Click, pastor
of Celeste Methodist Church,
will officiate, assisted by Rev.
Jimmy Heflin, pastor of the First
Baptist Church, Leonard.
Grandsons will be pallbearers.
Burial will be in Bums Ceme-
tery near Trenton with Wilson
Funeral Home of Leonard direct-
ing.
Mrs. Stewman, who leaves 90
descendants, was a member of
Celeste Methodist Church. She
was born May 25, 1872, in Ten-
nesee, the daughter of John
Painter and Jane Story Painter.
She married Robert A. Stewman
in Tennessee in 1891.
Survivors include five sons,
Artie of Leonard, Tom, Robert
and Obie of Trenton; three
daughters, Mrs. Gladys Clinton
of Celeste, Mrs. Ed Hunter and
Mrs. Will Russell of Lubbock;
one sister, Mrs. Ollie Prowse of
Conway, Ar.; 21 grandchildren,
46 great-grandchildren and 12
great-great-grandchildren.
Harlon Woods
Opens Sinclair
Station Friday
Boy Scouts Have
48th Birthday
The Boy Scouts of America
will have their 48th anniversary
on February 7 to 15.
Membership grew in 1957 to a
high record or 4,480 boys and
adults in 5 Districts comprising
of 12% counties in Texas and
Oklahoma, of the NeTseO Trails
Council, Boy Scouts of America.
The greatest increase in mem-
bership occurred in Big Cypress
District, with headquarters in Mt.
Pleasant, with a 22% increase in
1957. The total membership
for the District was 1063 at the
close of the year.
Big Red District, with head-
quarters in Clarksville, was sec-
ond in per cent increase with
20%. They closed the year with
786 total boys and adults. Sec-
ond in total membership to Big
Cypress was LaPushTaw Dis-
trict, which Paris is a part of.
Their membership, at the close
of the year, was 1008.
Sulphur District, with head-
quarters at Sulphur Springs,
closed their year with a total of
685 boys and adults.
The council objective for 1958
is to have a membership of 3846
boys and 1399 adults which will
make a grand total of 5,180 in
membership.Rev. IL C. Broach
Interim Pastor
At Ector
Rev. U. C. Broach has been
employed as interim pastor of
Ector Baptist Church.
Rev. Broach will be at the
church for two services on Sun-
days and for the Wednesday
night services each week.Rev. W. H. Longfellow, pastor
of Leonard Methodist Church,
was ill at his home this week.Mir. and Mrs. J. W. Hughes
have purchased the home of Mrs.
Vela Inman on Connet Street.
Happy Birthday To
Vic Hall
W. E. Jenkins
Mrs. F. A. Boutwell
Mrs. Meddie Ruth Wilson
Wren Grimes
Mrs. Jeanette Crabb
Joe Earl Morris
A. L. Brown
Wayne Richardson
Mrs. Norval Townsan
Mrs. Josie Cobb
Barbara Broyles
Mike Perkins
Jerry Adams
Danny Joe Jackson is able to
be in school this week after a
recent illness.Mrs. Fred Green of Terrell
visited her sister, Mrs. Ernest
Tarpley, and Mr. Tarpley last
week end.
Harlon Woods has announced
he will have the Sinclair Service
Station on the southwest corner
of the square open for business
Friday, February 7
Mr. Woods is an experienced
service station operator, having
operated a station in Leonard
for several years. He has been
employed by a service station in
Greenville the past five years.
In making his announcement
Mr. Woods said he wants to in-
vite all his friends and old cus-
tomers to stop by his new loca-
tion.
First Presbyterian Church
Leonard, Texas
Sunday Calendar
Sunday School 10 a. m.
Morning worship 11 a. m.
Charles R. GalbraithW. E. Taylor returned Sunday
from Risser Hospital in Bonham
after undergoing surgery.
THE AMERICAN JFAY
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1958
NUMBER 38
Mrs- Bale Gaskill
Teaching Here In
Homemaking Bept.
Mrs. Dale Gaskill of Wolfe
City has accepted the place as
substitute homemaking teacher
in Leonard High Schcoo for the
remainder of this term.
The regular teacher, Miss
Zeda Conine, has been ill the
past three weeks but is improv-
ing nicely at Bonham.
Judge C. B. Berry
Bied In Ballas
Judge Charles D. Berry, 63,
Greenville, district judge of the
Eighth Judicial District, died
Monday in a Dallas hospital after
a short illness.
Born in Sturgis, Miss., Judge
Berry moved to Delta County as
a small boy. After receiving his
elementary and high school edu-
cation he attended East Texas
Normal College in Commerce re-
ceiving his Bachelor of Arts de-
gree there. He then became a
student of the University of
Texas but while a student there
World War I was declared and
he left his studies to serve as a
soldier.
After his return from World
War I he was a school teacher
in Delta County and returned
to the University of Texas for a
refresher course in law.
After beginning private prac-
tice of law in Cooper, he was
elected county judge of Delta
County, serving more than six
years.
On June 21, 1933, he was ap-
pointed district judge to suc-
ceed Linto L. Bowman, Sr., who
had died. This district includes
the counties of Hunt, Hopkins,
Delta and Rains and he served
as district judge for this district
for more than 25 years.
His father was the Rev. A. P.
Berry, a pioneer Baptist minister
in Delta and Hunt Counties.
Judge Berry was active in re-
ligious work, having been a dea-
con of the First Baptist Church
in Greenville. He taught a men’s
Bible class for more than 25
years.
Judge Berry was active in
many civic activities, having been
an officer in the Lions Club,
American Legion and Masonic
organizations. He is a past wor-
shipful master of the Masonic
Lodge in Greenville.
Funeral services were held at
2 p. m. Wednesday at the First
Baptist Church in Greenville.
Burial was at the Odd Fellows
Cemetery in Cooper.
Survivors include his wife;
one son, Charles D. Berry, Jr.,
Dallas; brothers and sisters; Gus
L. Berry, Dallas; Bester Berry,
Lewisville; jTohn E Berry, Spur;
Mrs. Ruby AppersOn, Fort Worth;
Mrs. Ida'Sargent, Grand Prairie;
Mrs. Velma Terry, Houston; Mrs.
Hatton Perry, Glendale, Calif.;
two grandsons; Charles D. Berry
III and Robert Young Berry.CHURCH OF CHRIST
Leonard, Texas
Lewis R. Fullerton, Minister
Barbara West Rites
Monday Afternoon
Methodist Church
Funeral services for Barbara
Jeanette, 11-year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Howard West of
Leonard, were held Monday
afternoon at two o’clock in Leon-
ard Methodist Church. Rev.
Jimmie Heflin, pastor of the
First Baptist Church in Leonard,
officiated, assisted by Rev. W. B.
Reaves, pastor of Wolfe City
Methodist Church.
Burial was made in Leonard
Cemetery with Eamheart Fun-
eral Home of Whitewright di-
recting.
Pallbearers were Gordon
Wright, Butch Fowler, Walter
Davis, Terry Williams, David
Bradley and Chester Savage.
Barbara succumbed at 3:30
a. m. Sunday, February 2, 1958,
at Wolfe City Hospital. She
had' been a patient there since
January 7, when she was seri-
ously burned when her house
coat became ignited with flames
from a bathroom heater at her
home. She was born August 24,
1946, in Leonard. She attended
Leonard Methodist Church Sun-
day School and was a sixth
grade student in Leonard ele-
mentary school. She had a host
of friends.
Survivors include her parents
in Leonard; 4 brothers, Jerry of
Garland, Harold Dean, Gerald
Ray and Mikel Lynn; one sister,
Donna Sue of Leonard; a grand-
father, J. M. West of Leonard.
New - Renewed
Subscribers
The following new and renew1-
ed subscriptions to the Graphic
have been received recently.
R. R. Thurman, Sinton
Dr. John Saunders, Monroe,
La.
W. C. Matthews, Leonard
A. N. Berry, Trenton
James Berry, Munday
Robert Berry, Dallas
Pfc. Billy Grimes, Germany
Thomas Moody, Leonard
Theda Mangrum, Dallas
Henry Jones, Leonard
Mabelynne Dotson, Celeste
Clay Albright, Shreveport, La.
Miss Perna McQuade, Dallas
John McKinzie
Associated With
Abilene Pharmacy
John McKinzie of Abilene*
who is married to the former
Laverne Wharton of Leonard*
has become a partner with Bill
Massey, also of Abilene, in River
Oaks Pharmacy in that city.
The pair are also co-managers
of the firm.
McKinzie, a native of Coman-
che, wen to Abilene four years
ago from Sweetwater. He at-
tended North Texas State Teach-
ers College before entering the
Army in 1942. He entered the
University of Texas after his
army discharge in 1946 and
graduated in 1948 with honors.
He has been a registered phar-
macist the last 10 years.
Mr. and Mrs. McKinzie have
four children, Mike, 12; Bob, 9;
Steve, 6; Peggy, 1. They live
at 1025 Grand Avenue in Abi-
lene and are members of Pioneer
Dr. Baptist Church.
Mrs. McKinzie’s parents are
Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Wharton of
Leonard.
POLITICAL
CALENBAR
The follewing announcements
are made subject to the action of
the Democratic Primaries of
July 26 and August 23, 1958:
For State Representative
Fannin County, District 24
WILLIAM FLOYD
For County Judge
CHOICE MOORE, re-election
For County Clerk
MORRIS BALLEW
For County Treasurer
MISS BILLY BARNETTE
For County Superintendent
J. W. (JIM) MOULTON, re-
election
For Commissioner, Prec. 2
HUBERT THOMAS
JOHN KENT, re-election
CITY ELECTION
The following announcements
are made subject to the action
of the City Election of Leonard
of Tuesday, April 1, 1958:
For Mayor
V. S. McBROOMFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Leonard, Texas j
Rev. Jimmie Heflin, Pastor
Sunday School 10 A. M.
Morning Worship 11 A. M.Training Union 7 P. M.
Evening Worship 8 P. M.NEW ARRIVAL
Robert Earl is the name of the
new son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Dixon. He arrived Tuesday,
February 4, 1958, at Allen Mem-
orial Hospital in Bonham and:
weighed 7 pounds.
Weekly Program
Bible Study, all ages 10 a. m.
Preaching 10:45 a. m.
Communion 11:45 a. m.
Evening Services 7:30 p. m
Wednesday services 7:30 p. m.
Come and bring someone withDAUGHTER FOR MACSISAKS
The new daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Stephen Massisak has been
named Alice Elizabeth. She was
bom January 27, 1958, at Perrin
Air Force Base, Sherman, and
weighed 7 pounds and 4 ounces.
Mrs. Macsisak and baby returned
home Friday and both are doing
nicely.Patronize Graphic Advertisers.
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