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Leonard (graphic
VOLUME 76
LEONARD, FANNIN COUNTY, TEXAS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1964
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By COACH PERRY MORRIS
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New and Renewed
Graphic Subscribers
^Mr. and Mrs. Stokes
Note Anniversary
Al Sunday Party
Princeton Defeats
Leonard Tigers 14-0
Leonard To Have
Voting Booths For
November Election
Best Yule Mail
Service Promised
By Postmaster Gen
Chairman Indian
Creek Com. Club
Legion & Auxiliary
Membership Drives
Reported Lagging
Miss Jean Burke M
Bobby Sagely To
Marry In November
Enclosed find check or money order for $.
Send The Leonard Graphic one year to —
Fort
and
Mr.
BIRTHDAY DINNER
IN STEWMAN HOME
VISITORS OF
C. D. AVERY
and
Joe
Bill Rogers, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Claud Rogers of Leonard
underwent surgery at Harris Hos-
pital in Fort
Leonard
High next week.
THE LEONARD GRAPHIC
LEONARD, TEXAS
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
$2.00 a year in Fannin County
$2.50 a year sent elsewhere
$8.00 per year sent overseas
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COMMENTS
BY TONEY
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Mr. Gronouski outlined to the
Leonard postal head major new
steps he has taken “for the best
Christmas mail service the Postal
Service has ever had.”
The matter of the suspension
of the curtailed Saturday window
service will probably meet with
the approval of all Leonard post-
RETURNS FROM KANSAS
Mi’, and Mrs. Dick McCord
left Thursday for Mechanicsburg,
Pa., to visit their son, Mr. and
Mrs. Gerald McCord and family.
They traveled by car to Texar-
kana and took a train from there
to Mechanicsburg.
Absentee Voting
Began Wednesday
all of Grand Prairie.
Also Bud Williams,
Mrs. Roy Avery and Mrs.
Mill?, Dallas; Mr. and Mrs. Eva
Christmon, Whitesboro; Mr. and.
Mrs. M. C. Price, Dennison, Ohio; .
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Peek, Mi’, and
Mrs. Carl Porter, Red Smith, C.,al Patrons. The window service
Smith, Arthur I adjustments which went into ef-
Little and Bud Smith,
Leonard.
The following new and renewed
subscriptions to The Graphic
have been received recently:
Mrs. Artie Stewman entertain-
ed with a birthday dinner Sun-
day honoring Mr. Stewman and
granddaughter, Becky Creech.
Mr. Stewman’s birthday was Oc- j
tober 14 and Becky’s was October
13. Others present were Mr. and
Mrs. Archie Creech and children.
Mrs. Paul H. Taylor has re-
quested The Graphic be sent to
lher sister, Mrs. E. E. Clark,
Route 1, Bonham, for a year as
a birthday remembrance.
DOWNHEKE CALLED
3rd T.D. A drop kick for extra
point failed, leaving the score
Larry Bob Sowels, Irving
H. T. Purkey, Leonard
Fincher Harris, Leonard
Mrs. H. P. Addison, Leonard
R. W. Minchey, Leonard
Jack C. Ewing, Leonard
Mrs. S. L. Johnson, Leonard
C. A. Edwards, Leonard
W. H. Stapp, Lecnard
Zadie Dillard, Leonard
E. L. Jackson, Leonard
Frank Evans, Blue Ridge
Mi’s. R. B. Terry, Bonham
Melvin Barr, Leonard
G. R. Grimes, Leonard
Mrs. C. R. McLennan, Oregon,
Ohio
Kenneth Purkey, Amarillo
W. H. Freeman, Leonard
J. T. Groves, Leonard
M. H. Tate, Leonard
M. S. Ivy, Leonard
Mrs. A. B. Havens, Leonard
D. S. Jinkins, Leonard
Curtis Fugitt, Greenville
Frank Cruse, Fresno, Calif.
E. L. Sprinkle, Trenton
Mrs. Lillie Bates, Leonard
W. C. Howard, Wolfe City
C. N. John, Hereford
Mrs. Henry Dotson, Leonard
Mrs. T. B. Oakley, Leonard
Mrs. J. D. Davis, Leonard
Cara D. Davis, Tyler
Mrs. G. A. Huntington, Man-
hassett, N.Y.
Mrs. Jas. Gilstrap, Dallas
Leona Davis, Dallas
Arthur Little, Leonard
A. R. Roach, Leonard
C. T. Ferguson, Leonard
Mrs. Emma Rushing, Leonard
Mrs. Mary Mur ley, Leonard
Mrs. H. M. Jacobs, Leonard
Ozie Blackwell, Leonard
Paul McLemore, Leonard
Mi’s. Musa Golden, Leonard
Mrs. Ann Howard, Leonard
Mrs. R. A. Puckett, Dallas
Bert Stevens, Leonard
Mrs. Donnie Stapp, Leonard
Mrs. F. C. Bradley, Lubbock
Mrs. Elmer Lacy, Leonard
L. H. Edwards, Leonard
Jake W. Skaer, Dallas
Noel Grisham, Round Rock
Mrs. Robert Parnell, Waco
H. B. Wallace, Leonard
Othell McCorstin, Ballinger
Leonard Mallory, Dawson
Mrs. Joe T. Akins, Bonham
H. L. Hutchins, Newbury Park,
Calif.
Perry Morris, Leonard
W. D. McClure, Lamesa
Irleen Garrison, Porterville,
Calif.
Mrs. Paul Turner, Blue Ridge
Mrs. Verna Wharton, Mount
Pleasant
Joe Sudderth, Leonard
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Recent visitors in the home of
Mrs. Mae Fowler were Mr. and
Mrs. Kenneth Garrett, Fort
Worth, Mr. and Mrs'. E. J. Fowler,
Dennis and Randell, Grand Prai-
rie, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Fowler,
Greenville, Mr. and Mrs. B. O.
Jones, Pike, Mr. and Mrs. Billy
Martin and family and Butch
Fowler, all of Leonard.
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Burkfc
E. Sam Rayburn Drive, Bonhaia,
i have announced the engagement
and approaching marriage o£
their daughter, Miss Jean Burk.,
to Bobby Sagley. His parents
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Sagely, Route
1, Leonard.
The First Methodist Church te
Bonham will be the setting for
the Nov. 6 wedding to be held
8 p.m.
Miss Linda Duncan, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. June Duncan,
a senior at East Texas State Col-
lege, ■ Commerce, is living on the
campus and coming home on
week ends.
Howard E. Bilyeu, stationed
with the U. S. Navy Training-
Center at San Diego, Calif, visit-
Worth Saturday ed his grandparents, Mr. and
morning and was reported as do-1 Mrs. H. C. Bilyeu and his aunt,
2_v. I Mrs. Perry Darst, last week end.
ANYONE DESIRING to
their name printed on the hJriSi*.
day calendar the P-TA is pj»«.
paring to have published, M&aj?
call Mrs. Dick Caldwell, 587-3&95>
or Mrs. Pat Worley, 587-2236 xaafe
later than Monday, October 19th.
Mrs. Caldwell, who is ehaJr-
man of the calendar commit^
would like for those who wanf
j to buy a calendar to caK hex-
before October 26th. This re-,
quest is made to determine^ it*
possible, the number of caSca—
dars to be sold. The calendars^
will sell for $1 each.
Absentee voting in the No-
vember 3rd general election be-
gan Wednesday, October 14th.
The absentee voting — which
is only for those who plan to
be out of the county on election
day Nov. 3—will continue through
October 30 at county clerk
Pete Holman’s office in Bonham
during regular office hours.
Ballots must be in the hands of
the county clerk’s office by mid-
night, Nov. 2.
Persons expecting to be out of
the county on election day must
vote in person and display their
poll tax receipt or exemption. He
also must sign an affidavit de-
claring that he expects to be out
of the county Nov. 3.
Special provisions are made for
voters who are physically unable
to go to the polls Nov. 3, even
though they may be in the coun-
ty that day. The law requires
that the disabled voter make
written application for an absen-
ts^ ballot by mail, and the appli-
cations must include the voter’s
poll tax receipt or exemption
certificate plus an affidavit from
the voters physician that he is
physically unable to visit the
polls on election day.
**X WEAHED EOMEOKE
Lewis Bates Elected David A. Simmons Jr. High Tigers Win
Services Sunday In Fourth Straight
Wise Funeral Chapel Games Tues. Night
feet on May 4, 1964, will be su-
spended for the period November
28 through December 26. As a
general rule, daily window service
hours may be expanded beginning
December 7 for the sale of stamps
and acceptance of parcel post to
meet local needs. Money order
service and other financial trans-
tions such as meter settings, ac-
ceptance of trust funds, payment
of box rents, etc., may be provid-
other drives fail inside
Princeton 20 yard line.
Princeton scored in the
quarter on a 60 yard drive with
halfback Cotten going over from
the five. Fullback Jimmy Houlon
carried around end for the two
extra points and the 14-0 win
for the F-anthers.
Leonard goes to Sadler this
week for a game with S and S
Consolidated. This will be the
first class B school that the Tig-
ers have faced this year after
playing five straight class
schools.
The Leonard Tigers again went
down to defeat 14-0 at Prince-
ton last Friday night. Princeton
scored following the opening
kick-off. Halfback Johnny Cot-
ten went 30 yards for the score.
A try for the two extra points
by quarterback Mike Huddleston
failed. Leonard could not get a
scoring threat going during the
first half. Two times halfback
Tony Birchfield got behind the
Princeton secondary, but on both
occasions he could not handle
the ball thrown from halfback
Joe Allen.
The Tigers came back in the
second half and took the kick-
off and drove from their own
30 yard line to the Princeton 3
yard line where they lost the ball;
on downs. The Tigers had two
the
The
both the Legion i
were just about at a stand still ers of vision of the human eya,
this past week. It is hoped that and fitting lenses or prisms to
correct or remedy any defects pf
abnormal condition or vision,
A party celebrating the Golden
wedding anniversary of Mr. and
Mrs. Howard Stokes of Leonard
was held on Sunday, October 11,
\ 1964 in the American Legion Hall
Wn Leonard.
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Stokes of
Phoenix, Ariz. and Mr. and Mrs.
J. D. Stokes of Chicago, Ill., sons
and daughters-in-law of the cou-
ple, were hosts for the affair.
The Stokes were married on
October 25, 1914, at Whitewright,
Texas, and have resided in Leon-
ard most of the time since their
marriage.
Relatives in attendance were
Mrs. J. W. Keeling, Sherman;
Mrs. Lillian Allison, Las Cruses,
New Mexico; Mrs. Oscar Weige
and husband, Littlefield, Texas;
sisters of Mrs. Stokes; Mr. Jack
Robbins and wife of Sherman,
brother of Mrs. Stokes; Mrs. W.
A. Robbins and husband.
Worth, Mrs. Roy Butler
husband, Celeste, sisters of
Stokes.
Othei’ relatives included
and Mrs. Ben Dopson, Lamesa,
Texas; Mr. and Mrs. Robert How-
ard, Durant, Okla.; Mrs. A. B.
Harmonson, Keeler, Texas; Mrs.
J. B. Clounch, Mr. and Mrs. Dee
Robbins, Mr. and Mrs. R. E.
Stokes and family, Fort Worth;
Mrs. Wendell Knox, Arlington;
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Keeling and
family, Mr. and Mrs. O. W.
Presley and family, Major and
Mrs. Burl E. Coursey and son,
Sherman; Mr. and Mrs. Sim F.
Owens, Jr. and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Raymond Hampton, Wolfe
City; Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Marlow
and family, Bells; Mr. and Mrs.
James Holbrook and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Doyal Crawley, Dallas.
Friends joining in the celebra-
tion for the couple were Rev. and
31&s. John D. Riggs, Mr. and Mrs.
Dfruman Jenkins, Mr. and Mrs.l©MLLy 1
Earl Hopkins, Mi’, and Mrs. Jack; I JlwWllsCm
Barbee, Mr. and Mrs. John Kent,'
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Pitman, Mr.
and Mrs. Jack White, Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert Owens, Grace and
W.
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by news time next week the re-
port will be more encouraging.
All members are urged to get
their 1965 dues paid and all mem-
bers of both committees are urg-
ed to get out and contact mem-
bers for the 1965 dues. Let us
try for a figure of 75 percent of
each quota by next Wednesday
(news time).
The Legion is still looking for
volunteers to go as delegates to
the Fourth District Convention
at McKinney on Sunday. October
25th. If you are interested see
Adjutant Jean Toney.
Auxiliary members scheduled
to assist in the bingo games at
Bonham V. A. Hospital Tuesday
afternoon, October 20th, are Mary
La Roe (car), Myrle Jackson,
Prudence Kelsey and Lou Par-
tain.
OCTOBER 11-17
Newspaper Week.
Referns To Ft, Hood
Residents of the West
Leonard Area met Tuesday night
at the Indian Creek Baptist
Church and organized a Com-
munity Improvement Club. Lewis
Bates was elected chairman. Mr.
Bates called a meeting for Mon-
day, October 19th, at 7 p.m. at
the Indian Creek Baptist Church,
at which time other officers of the
club will be elected. Everyone in
the area from the Leonard City
I Limits to the Collin County
Line are invited to attend and
bring a covered dish and all eat
supper together.
Wayne Cranfill, Fannin Coun-
ty Farm Agent, was in charge of
the program and explained the
community improvement pro-
gram. Mrs. E. G. McClure of the
Nunnelee Club showed and nar-
rated slides showing the progress
of the Nunnelee Community Im-
provement Club. ;
The Community Improvement' Azlf ’
Mesquite and B. C. Simmons of
Albuquerque, N. M.; three daugh-
ters, Mrs. E. T. Munger of Anna,
Mrs. Clyde Berryhill of Bonham
and Mrs. J. R. Daniel of Ector;
one brother, A. C. Simmons of
Leonard; 22 grandchildren and
one great grandchild.
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_____________ Opal Hull, accompanied by her
i parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Old-
Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Pannkuk, ham of Fort Worth, returned
Carla and Bob and Mr. and Mrs. Monday night from Shawnee Mis-
Charles Hooks and family of sion, Kansas where they spent the
Dallas attended the Dallas Cow- weekend in the home of their
boys - New York Giants football daughter and (
game at the Cotton Bowl Sun-(Mr. and Mrs. Lee Jackson and needs during the above mention-
ed period.
Completion by Nov. 1 of Phase
HI of ZIP Code parcel handling
at about 130 more “sectional cen-
ter” post offices (strategically-
located mail massing points),
providing faster delivery up to
24 hours or more for pracels
with ZIP Code.
In addition, many other sec-
tional center offices with smaller
receipts will have the program
in operation by early December,
in time to help speed delivery of
Christmas gifts mailed with the
ZIP Code.
VOTERS WILL have three*
proposed constitutional amend -
ments to vote on when they ga
to the polls in the general ejec-
tion November 3rd. They are;-
1. To remove the authorize—
tion to transfer not exceedteg &
per cent annually of the totat
value of the permanent school
fund to the available school fund.
2. Establishing certain require-
ments relative to the enactment
of laws affecting particular con-
servation and reclamation dis-
tricts.
3. Giving the legislature the*
power to authorize vendor pay-
ments for medical care on be-
half of needy individuals 65 years
of age and over who are not
recipients of old age assistance*
' and who are unable to pay
' needed medical services; provid-
Leonard will have three voting
booths for the November 3rd
General Election.
The Fannin County Commis-
sioners Court has approved the
purchase of 28 booths to be plac-
ed in Leonard, West, East and
South Bonham, North and South
Honey Grove, Ladonia and Tren-
ton voting boxes.
The election booths purchased
will make it possible for the votei’
to mark his ballot in complete
secrecy as he will enter the booth
which is enclosed by a curtain.
A small shelf is provided on
which to place the ballot while it
is being marked.
After being used, the booths
may be dismantled and stored
until such time as they may be
needed again.
County Judge Choice Moore
recommended the purchase of the
voting booths to the court, point-
ing cut that at present in the
larger precincts, the voter had no
privacy.
“Anyone can look over the
shouldei’ of the voter and see how
the ballot is marked,” he said.
“Through use of the booths, the
voter will be assured privacy and
no one else will know how the
ballot is marked unless the voter
tells.”
Judge Moore said he under-
stood that the Republicans plan-
ned to have watchers at the polls
during the voting hours.
Ruth Reynolds, Mrs. J.
Hughes, Mrs. Ethel Hailey, Mrs.
R. W. Norris, Mrs. Marshall, Rob- j
inson, May Lyons, A. L. McMur-
ry and daughter, Carole, Leon-
ard; Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Stone,
Savoy; Mr. and Mrs. Charlie
>mch, Wolfe City; Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert Reynolds,\ Celeste.
Many gifts were received from
friends and relatives who were
unable to attend.
Tuesday night Leonard Jr. High
beat Anna Jr. High 38-8.
In the first minutes of the
game Leonard’s Bob Van Schoick
took the ball for 20 yds. and a
touchdown. The extra point was
made by Larry Hallmark on an
end sweep.
Leonard’s second T. D. came
when Sam Ivy took the ball for
a 35 yd. touchdown. The extra
point was made by Larry Hall-
mark on a pass play.
Just before the half Sam Ivy
broke away again on a quick pitch
In the second half Leonard
marched the ball down to the
Anna goal line where Larry Hall- I
mark took the ball over for the
touchdown. Robert Boyd carried
the ball up the middle for the
extra points.
Anna came back in the 4th i
quarter when John White struck
pay dirt for a touchdown and
the extra points.
In the last minutes of the
game the Tigers tried a double
reverse and Larry Hallmark car-
ried the ball for 40 yds. and
Leonard’s last touchdown. Rob-
ert Boyd went up the middle
again for the extra points.
The game ended with a score
of Leonard 38, Anna 8.
Outstanding on defense for
Lecnard were Steve Henderson,
Steve Weaver, Richard Freeman,
Earl Thacker and Bruce Sprinkle.. for the acceptance of funds
will host Bells Jr. from the federal government for?
! the purpose of paying such med-
, ical assistance; and provitth^
j that the amounts paid out ©f-
I state funds shall never exceed
I the amount that is matchabSfe-
out of federal funds; providecS.
' further, however that such medi-
cal care, service or assistance^
■ shall also include the employ—
, ment of or objective or subjec-
| tive means, without the use of
Membership Drives of drugs, for the purpose of ascer-
and Auxiliary taining and measuring the pow-
. -------- Wic xiuuixciiz eye.
Army Specialist . Bobby A.
Stewman, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Stewman of Trenton, has
returned to Ft. Hood, Texas, after
spending a 15 day leave at home.
Specialist Stewman participated Mr. a,nd Mrs. Trent Robertson,;
last spring in the two month “Ex- chock Williams, Mr. and '
ercise Desert Strike,” which took j Earl Avery, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. j master> Alwyn L. Golden,
place in the Mojave desert. Spe- I McFarland,’ Mr. and Mrs. Bob
cialist Stewman is serving in a Avery and Mrs. Sally McFarland,
U. S. Army Signal Corp strike
unit at Ft. Hood.
Longer post office window
Friends and relatives who vis- h°urs> necessary; suspension of
ited C. D. Avery while he was cui'tailed Saturday services,
a patient in the Veterans Hos- iand large-scale extension of the
pital in Bonham were Mr. and ■ ZIP-coded parcel post speedup
Mrs. Elbert Avery, Fort Worth; ! aie Planned for Christmas, Post-
and Mrs. Trent Robertson, | masfer General John A. Gronou-
. Chock Williams, Mr. and Mrs. i J1815 advised the local post-
place in the Mojave desert. Spe- McFarland,
C? .Qtenrmon io onriri’n rr in r* < •.
David A. Simmons, 69, of Bail-
ey, brother of A. C. Simmons of
Leonard, died Saturday, October
10, 1964, at 4:30 a.m. in M&S
Hospital in Bonham.
Funeral services were held at
2:30 p.m. Sunday in the Bailey
Baptist Church with the pastor
of the church, the Rev. Barnard
Holmes, and the Rev. J. E. Fen-
der, officiating. Interment, di-
rected by Wise Funeral Home
in Bonham was made in Arledge
Ridge Cemetery.
A retired farmer, Mr. Simmons
was bom at Tom Bean, April 25, for an 80 yd. run and Leonard’s
1895, the son of the late George
W. and Ella Warrington Sim-
mons. 22-0 at the half.
Survivors are the widow, Mrs.
Myra L. Simmons of the home
at Bailey; five sons, George E.
Simmons and James A. Simmons,
both cf Bailey, Glen E. Simmons
, David A. Simmons of
The Community Improvement1
Club Program is statewide and
is sponsored in this area by the
Texas Extension Service,
Community Public Service
the Texas Power and Light Co.,
the Fannin County A£ri-Busi-
ness Club, and the Leonard
Chamber of Commerce.
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