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Leonard ©raphit
FOLUME 76
LEONARD, FANNIN COUNTY, TEXAS
JANUARY 3, 1964
NUMBER 30
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Mrs, Sarah Broach
At Baptist Church
ALL-AROUND PLAYERS
Mrs. Sarah E. Broach, 95, died
ALL TOURNAMENT
at
BOYS
GIRLS
of
Wolfe
City;
four
SPORTSMANSHIP
At the completion of the
Conrad of Achille, Oklahoma, and
a number of nieces and nephews. I
Political
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Announcements
Congressional Post
The Department of Agriculture
re-
Mrs. Mauldin To Be
OSBT CM6KLES h $• regi
On TV Show Jan 14
in
home
as
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Caddo Church
Name
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Street
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re-
state —
City
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Miss Taylor And
Jerry Richardson
Marry In Dallas
Services Wednesday Sister Died Sunday Services Friday At
In Sherman Hospital Wolfe City Church
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Ag. Department Will
Continue Hav And
ta’nn Program
Rev. U. C. Broach
Interim Pastor At
I State Rep., District 24
JAMES D. COLE, re-election
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Survivors include her husband, Church.
Survivors include two. sons, M.
and
won
award.
All seven counties in the Fourth
Congressional District are receiv-
The privileges were due to end
December 31, but were extended
UUDGE, DO you PAVOP
COMPELLING MAPPtED MEN TO
WEAP PINGS TO DISTINGUISH
THEM FROM SINGLE MEN ? ]T
directing.
were
Hughes,
Broach,
following an extended illness.
Funeral services were held at
Congress, 4th District
RAY ROBERTS, re-election
A. H. Price, vice president of'
National Bank, an-
Enclosed find check or money order for $
Send The Leonard Graphic one year to —
Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Brents ot
Amarillo spent Christmas withi
her parents, T. E. Wright.
The first business meeting;
1964 will be held at the Legkrt.
Hall Tuesday, January 7, 196S. aV,
7:30 PM.
There are several matters
Scotty's Cafe And
Groce™ Onenlno
Jan. 4fh
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H rff
terns, and completion of the
version of one exchange
common battery to dial opera‘raja .
Also included will be the ex- ,
pansion of the company’s carrae®>
and microwave radio systems,
dition of trunk circuits for
' at her home.
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CONG. RAY ROBERTS
Mrs, Ted McCaslin's Mrs. D. W. Leggett j South western States Telephone Company
........ .1 Plan Expansion And Improvemenl Project?
Bailey Boys And Ector Girls Win
Leonard Holiday Basketball Tournament
ATTEND GAME
Dr. and Mrs. R. D. Van Schoick
and Bob, Glenn Edwards and Mrs.
J. T. Randle of Booneville, Ark. I
attended the Texas - Navy foot- '
ball game in the Cotton Bowl New
Year’s Day.
Joe Tillerson, Celeste
Jimmy Pa¥nsh, Fannindel
Jackie Linert, Bland
Glen Fields, Fannindel **
y Boyd Robinson, Leonard —
Boyd Burrow, Van Alstyne
Larry Adams, Wolfe City
Mike Burrow, Wolfe City
Jackie London, Bailey
Joe Cox, Bailey
Glenna Dodson, Ector
Debbie Dodson, Ector
Eliza Beth Tony, Ector
Louanne Beasley, Ector
Kathy Pitts, Bland
Joyce Thomason, Bland
Nona Easton, Bland
Linda Davis, Wolfe City
Susan Parker, Wolfe City
Rogers, Callisburg
Fabor, Howe
Linda Mulkey, Celeste
Ector
girl
Announcements in this column
are subject to the action of the
Democratic Primary, May 2, 1964
Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Wilson of
Ardmore spent the holidays in
Leonard with Mr. and Mrs. A. N.
Berry.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
£2.00 (plus 4c State Tax) a year in Fannin County
^50 (plus 5c State Tax) a year sent elsewhere
HL) per year sent overseas
K______________-
' • } The Van Alstyne girls won the
, sportsmanship trophy, and Ector
/ won the girls trophy.
MRS. PEEK
BREAKS HIP
Mrs. Charlie Peek of Bailey was
admitted to Allen Memorial Hos-
pital in Bonham Monday after
breaking her hip when she fell
\ Legion Meeting Set
For January 7th
Assessor-Collector of Taxes
HENRY J. FLETCHER
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one of Leonard’s oldest citizens.
Funeral services were held at
2:30 p.m. Wednesday
Baptist Church in Leonard
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and Grocery Saturday, December
4th.
The business, formerly locat- '
ed on Highway 69 east of town,
is now in the newly decorated
building of Polly McLarry’s on
the northeast comer of the
square.
The owners will be serving free
coffee from 6 A.M. till '5 P.M. on
opening day and extend an in-
vitation to the public to visit'
them.
USE THIS ORDER BLANK
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Dallas. Her husband is a graduate
of Trenton High School and East
Texas State College.
Mrs. Sarah E. Broach, 95, died Mrs. Alene Conrad Gilges, 53, J
at 12:40 pan. Monday, December of Sherman, Wolfe City native, ti_.
30, 1963 at Risser Hospital follow- died at 9 p.m. Sunday, December 1 at
H
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Dillon -a;;
Durant, Okla, visited in the horns
of Mr. and Mrs. John Diller..;
Tuesday.
While Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
(Buck) Mauldin of Oklahoma
City were visiting in California
just before Christmas Mrs. Maul-
din was a guest on Art Linklet-
ter’s TV show.
The show was filmed and will
be shown January 14, 1964.
Friends here of the Mauldins will
be interested and want to see
the show.
Arch Ivy is seriously ill
M&zS Hospital in Bonham.
Ray Roberts Will
Seek Re-Election To
Kemp visited her sister, Mr. and ^>ra^iae an<^ their children, Mr.
Mrs. Jack Barbee, New Year's and Mrs- Will Salmon, Judy and
Day. Jeff of Midland.
Hickory Creek Mrs- Azalee Wiggens of Houston; ton West, all of Wolfe City, and
the two brothers, W. R. Conrad, Jr., Mrs. Minnie Johnson of Arling-
of Jackson, Mississippi and O. I. ton; 10 grand children and nine
great grandchildren.
THE LEONARlKGRAPHIC
LEONARD, TEXAS
Mrs. D. W. Leggett, 85, long-
time resident of Wolfe City, died
; 1 p.m. Wednesday, January
ing an extended illness. She was 22, 1963 in a Sherman hospital, 1, 1964t in a Wolfe City hospital
following a short illness.
Funeral services will be at 2
First 2 p.m. Thursday in the Owens p.m. Friday in the First Baptist
of Funeral Home Chapel in Wolfe ■ Church of Wolfe City with Rev.
which she was a member. Offi- City with Rev. E. G. Nelson of- ; E. G. Nelsen and Dr. J. H. Stan-
ciating ministers were Rev. John ficiating.
Riggs, the pastor, Rev. Kenneth ficiating. Burial was in the Mt?
Smith, pastor of First Methodist Carmel Cemetery, Wolfe City.
Church of Leonard and Rev. Paul ■ Pallbearers were Jack London,
Hunt of Sherman. Burial wa^ Jack Bench,
Rev. and Mrs. U. C. Broach are
living in Caddo, Okla, for an in-
definite period while Rev. Broach
is interim pastor of First Baptist
Church there.
They moved to Caddo last week
end but were called back this
week because of the death of his
mother, Mrs; Sarah Broach. ——
The Bailey Bulldogs and the
Ector girls took top honors in
the Leonard Holiday Basketball
tournament that ended Tuesday
night.
The Fannindel Falcons won the
consolation trophy in the boys di-
vision and the Howe girls defeat-
ed Tom Bean to win consolation
in the girls division.
The Bailey boys defeated Wolfe
City by a 56 to 50 score to win
the boys trophy. Joe Cox and
Jackie London scored 19 points
for the winners, and Larry Ad-
ams hit for 26 for Wolfe City.
The Wolfe City Wolves defeated
Celeste 54-48 to gain the finals
play-off, and Bailey knocked off
Ector 65-22 to gain the finals.
Glenna Dodson scored 20 points
for Ector in the championship
game, that saw them defeat
. Bland by a 47-30 score. Joyce
Thomason scored 19 for Bland.
The Ector girls gained the fi-
.j^iils by defeating Carroll 40-25,
«nd Bland defeated Wolfe City
34-33 to go into the finals.
Expansion and improvement
projects planned by Southwestern
States Telephone for 1964 call for
expenditures of more than 810.7
million. This is the largest pro-
gram of this type ever planned
by the company.
Additional projects of more panded long distance and extern
the company’s subsidiary, Four ed area service, expansion of otty-s
than $1.1 million are planned by er outside plant facilities, and
States Telephone, bringing plan- purchase of operational e-qrap
ned expenditures for the combin- ment and supplies.
ed organizations to almost $121 Strickland said extensive
million for the 1964 expansion velopment of telephone fadStSe^
program. j for suburban areas will be accom^.
D. T. Strickland, vice president plished, and much extension agf
and general manager, said the ex-
pansive program is necessary in
order to keep pace with general
growth and the demand for addi-
tional communications facilities [
in the areas served by the com-
pany.
Southwestern States and
subsidiary operate more 1
182,000 telephones through 173 program,
central offices in Arkansas, Loui- | One existing exchange is to 'hi-A
siana, Oklahoma and Texas. The acquired by Four States, and
company has its general offices in existing facilities will be expand-.
Brownwood, Texas. j ed. Other existing exchanges
Projects under the 1964 expan- der the Four States program arsj.
sion program will include the to be expanded.
construction of new central office;
buildings, additions to existing expansion program Southwest®:Tvt
buildings, installation of addition- States will have only one norrHSBal?
al central office equipment, crea- exchange. More than 99 per
tion of new dial exchanges, re-, of the combined company’s
placement of existing dial sys- tions will be dial operated..
Mr. and Mrs. Scotty Wright
are announcing the reopening in
a new location of Scotty s Cafe importance to be discussed;
I acted upon at this meeting. Eries®
i member is urged to attend
help reach the correct decajgfcr,
on these problems.
j The usual “Coffee xAnd” wilt
served after the conclusion cX
business meeting. Plan to atterw-s.
I The Post membership as of XM
cember 31 was 125.
AUXILIARY NEWS*
The ladies of the Auxilia^?
start their work for 1964 by as-
sisting in the bingo games at tfsfe
Bonham V. A. Hospital Tiiesd&3 ,
January 7.
Scheduled to help are Annettix
Kaiser (car), Dorothy Anderson^
Zephyra Grounds, Bobby Norris;.,
Lou Partain and Mattie Smith.
Reporter-
ley officiating. Burial will be in
Mt. Carmel Cemetery.
Owen Funeral Home of Wolfe
City will be in charge of arrange-
Burial wa: Jack Bench, Bobby McCaslin, ments.
made in Mt. Carmel Cemetei-y at Darrell Hardeman, Gilbert Nel-
Wolfe City with Wilson Funeral son and Trude Latimer.
Home of Leonard
Casketbearers
Hughes, Billy
Hughes, Clifton
Broach and Charles Breach.
Mrs. Broach was born Decem-
Out of town visitors in the
Otis McBroom home during
Christmas were Mr. and Mrs. Ed-
ward Shive and Charlotte of Big
Springs, Mr. and Mrs. Ottis Raper
cf Sherman, Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Galbraith and son, Brad, of Jack-
sonville, Ark., Mr. and Mrs. H.
O. Porter of Gober, Mrs. Harriet
McDonald of Commerce, W. S.
Salmon of Commerce, Mrs. Mike
Compton of Dallas, Mrs. Larry
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Haynie of Havena son, Kim, of Grand
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Mr. and Mrs. Jack Scherer and lAfS 11
Bill Harris, Mrs. Wass’ daughter, j JlvCKllulUGrS WSIj
Mrs. Ida Vass visited in Dickin- ■ « - j 1 < 1* I | a 1
rn> st and Mre- Meet At Sank Jan, 14 i
from Friday till Monday.
An 8 o’clock ceremony Satur-
day evening, Dec. 28, in the sane- will continue its program of al-
tuary of the Junius Heights Bap- lowing haying and grazing on
tist Church, Dallas, united in land in soil bank through March !
marriage Miss Carolyn Diane 31, 1964, Representative Ray j
Taylor of Dallas and Jerry Rich- Roberts said.
ardson of Garland.
The bride is the daughter of
James M. Tayolr of Dallas, her jng haying and grazing privileges,
husband is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Lonnie Richardson of No-
given in hue j,p drouth conditions.
i Roberts said the feed grain as-
sistance program will not be af-
fected by the haying and grazing
announcement.
All farmers and ranchers who
want to participate in the ex-
tended haying and grazing pro-
gram should contact their coun-
ty ASC office.
bility. The bride was
marriage by her father.
Rev. Milton Greer, pastor of the
church, was officiant. Nuptial
music was presented by Louise
Attwood, accompanied on the or-
gan by Mary Nell Johnson. 1
The bride was attired in a for-
mal gown of silk mist combined
with Chantilly lace. The molded
basque bodice featured a portrait
neckline edged in scalloped lace
and long, tapered sleeves ending
in petal points over the wrists.
The» bouffant skirt ended in a
chapel train. The tiered veil of
bridal illusion fell from a crown
of seed pearls.
;Mi.ss Detra Wade attended the
bride as maid of honor. Brides-
maids were Mics Jeannie Burden,
Miss Nina Higginbothem and
Miss Linda Smith. They were
dressed alike in red velvet frocks
fashioned with long sleeves and
' Tull skirts.
Attending the bridegroom were
’ his brother, Lonnie Richardson,
Jr., as best man, Johnny Smith,
Bobby Richardson, Bobby Butler,
Jim Lester and Russell Wallace,
groomsmen and ushers. Altar tap-
ers were lighted by Bobby Moss OUT OF TOWN GUESTS
and James Taylor. Phyllis Gale
Yarbrough was flower girl and
David Bradley served as ring
bearer.
Mr. and Mrs. Richardson will
make their home in Garland.
The bride is a graduate of
Woodrow Wilson High School,
/VOT AT ALL \
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HUSBAHP WHO'S L,
BEEN PROEEfiZ.LV
TfiZAINBO CAN EVER
BE MISTAKEN FOR
A S/NELE MAN f >
ber 11, 1868 near Conway, Miss., |
the daughter of the late App her mother, Mrs. Allie Conrad.
Hanson and Elizabeth Hill Han- ! Carpenter of Cartwright, Okla- ' S. Leggett of Leonard and Dale
son. She married Berry R. Broach home; three sisters, Mrs. Ted Me- Leggett
in Mississippi in January 1888 Caslin of Leonard, Mrs. Harry daughters, Mrs. John. L. Wasson,
and they moved to Texas in 1900,, D- Smith of Columbus, Nebraska, Mrs. Roy Hampton and Mrs. Fel-
settling in the Hickory Creek |
Community and......
Leonard area since
Broach preceded her
May 4, 1931.
Survivors are one daughter,
Mrs. J. W. Hughes of Leonard,
with whom Mrs. Broach made
her home: three sons, Rev. U. C.
Broach of Leonard, Russell
Broach of Houston and Charlie
Broach of Dallas. Also 14 grand-
children, 34 great grandchildren
and 15 great, great grandchil-
dren.
V
I BOrn May 13, 1879, in Arkan-
' sas, the daughter of James M.
| Mrs. Gilges was bom April 22, Williams, Mrs. Leggett married
Glen 1910, the daughter of W. R. and D. W. Leggett Jan. 4, 1902.
Jack A1He Hardeman Conrad. She| Mrk Leggett came to Texas
Alton married Ernest R. Gilges in 1951 when she was 14 years old and
j and was a member of the Presby- had lived in Wolfe City since 1923.
' terian Church. She was a member of the Baptist
lived in
1912. Mr.
in death
Jackie London of Bailey was
named the best all-around boy,
Louanne Beasley of
the best all-around
Congressman Ray Roberts has
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Peterson and Leonard National Bank, an- authorized The Graphic • to say
children, Signe and Jim, of Bay nounces there will be a meeting | he will be a candidate for
City were holiday visitors of their for stockholders Tuesday,. Janu- election.
parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. ary 14, 1964 at 2:30 p.m. at the' Roberts has served the Fourth
Owens. bank. i Congressional District since 1962
i when he was elected in a special
' election to succeed the late
; Speaker Sam Rayburn. He is a
j candidate for a second full term.
| A staunch Democrat and a close
personal friend of President
j Johnson since 1935, Roberts stat-
i ed, “I will continue to work for
‘ all the citizens of the Fourth
I District. I believe that our in-
terests lie in wholehearted sup-
port of President Lyndon B.
Johnson, and I intend to work for
his nomination and election in
1964.”
Roberts said that his official
announcement will be made
through this paper at a later date.
cable facilities will be done.
Four new dial exchanges-
to be created by Four StaW;
■ Telephone. This wholly .
. subsidiary develops and expavuds,;
telephone service in sparsely pap*
; ulated areas, contiguous to Sht <
its parent company’s operational
than ] area, under the REA’s telephony.
central offices in Arkansas, Loui- I
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