The Leonard Graphic (Leonard, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, April 14, 1967 Page: 2 of 8
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THE LEONARD GRAPHIC — Friday, April 14, 1967
LATIMER'S EN(O SERVICE STATION
Highway 69 & 78
A Return to the Middle Ages
Phone 587-3341
TIRES • TUBES • BATTERIES
ATTENTION FARMERS
DON’T DELAY — SEE US TODAY
J. A. ARNOLD Insurance
DILLON INSURANCE AGENCY
B
JOHN L. DILLON
HURST SPEED QUEEN LAUNDRY
Pho. 587-3524
Leonard, Texas
provide
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OPEN 24 HOURS
We Do Wet Wash and Wash and Dry
FOR ALL OF YOUR
AUTO - TRUCK - TRACTOR
REPAIR
Genuine Parts
Guaranteed Work
STOP IN AND SEE US
■danger was over, the wells near
FRANK CRAWFORD MOTORS
TIRES
TIRES
GOODYEAR TIRE SALE
FULL LINE OF
DUNLOP TIRES
SAGELY ASONS SINCLAIR
Hwy. 69 • Leonard • Pho. 587-3380
MUD & SNOW — All Sizes
PASSENGER AND COMMERCIAL
GM
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If you need tires—See me before you buy
STAPP HARDWARE A BUTANE, INC
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OWENS SPRING SALE
BARBED WIRE
$6.93
SP QUIET TILE
•1
$5.45
10%c Each
$18.95
PRE-HUNG STORM DOORS
CALL
COLLECT
OWENS
604 N. Center
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CHEVROLET
Protect Your Grain
With Crop Insurance
DERRELL LONDON
Airman
2 prong, 80-rod roll. Galvan-
ized, rust-resistant right
down to the core.
N. E. Corner Square e Leonard
7 DAYS A WEEK
Better To Have and Not Need
Than To Need and Not Have
O Leonard, Texas
Expert Washing, Lubrication
and Tire Service
The perfect ceiling tile. Dead-
ens sound. Beautifully
textured. 12”xl2”xlJ6”
To The Editor of
The Leonard Graphic,
fight a fire with except by draw-
ing water from wells near
square. I was working in the field,
East of Leonard when I noticed a
fire in Leonard. We had the only I
paceing mule I have ever iseen.■
empty
hole
big
of
tures. Luckily there was never a
major fire in that area. It was
in those days, Joe L. Bates oper-
ated a resturant on the East side
and featured fried cultivated oys-
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• FREE ESTIMATE
• ALL WORK GUARANTEED
LUMBER COMPANY, INC.
BONHAM • Phone 583-2913
— $2.00
$2.50
----$3.00
&
I
Subscription Prices
I year in Fannin County
1 year elsewhere in United States
1 year Overseas
RAY RUSHING
Pho. 587-3655 — Leonard
RUSHING PEST CONTROL
Termites - Roaches - Ants - Fleas
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COMPOSITION
SHINGLES
Square
PRE-FINISHED
PANELING
4x8
$116
CORRUGATED
ROOFING-SIDING
Galvanized steel, aluminum,
or plastic sheets, 26” wide
in various lengths
$9.75 Sq.
CRESOTED POSTS
& POLES
Long lasting, deep pressure
treated with grade 1 Creosote.
Lengths up to 50 ft. available.
fl. - 72c Ea.
IT'S UP TO YOU
By
Howard E, Kershner, L.H.D.
I- nh
Resolutions of Respect, Readers, Business and Professional
Notices will be charged for at the rate of 15c per line. Cards of
Thanks will be charged for at a minimum of $1.00 for 50 words
or less. In excess of that amount at the rate of 3c per word.
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London,;
“More For Your Money”
MA* Of tJCOlDCC
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THE LEONARD GRAPHIC
Published Every Friday
IE AN D. TONEY Publisher and Owner
Entered as second class matter April 12, 1890, at the post office
at Leonard, Fannin County, Texas 75452, under the Act of Con-
gress, March 3, 1879.
Mrs. Ray Aggutter, Kevin and
Jim of Denver, Colo, visited Mrs.,
He also played the Bass jact White and Jack this week. |
NOTICE — Any erroneous reflection upon the character, stand-
ing or reputation of any person, firm or corporation which mq>y
appear in the columns of this paper will be gladly corrected
when personally brought to the attention of the publisher.
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Lefler To Editor Derrell F. London
^rMeTton'coS'A* K^®'
Oklahoma ci"" 73732
April 6' 1967
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Compare CAMARO
and learn why it gives you that sure feeling
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- Phone 587-2258 0 Leonard, Texas
Som time ago I read with, in-
terest two letters by Buck Maul-
din and one from A. Melton pub- ’ |
lished in your good paper, both
reminding us of the good old days
of Leonard. Incidentally, since
the publication of those letters,
I have renewed my acquaintance
THE free market system of
economics has proven that
short hours — eight hours a day
or less, five days
|| a week or less,
rT| hotiPJ’wHh
U modern im-
J provements,
Mt g good education
and medical
'ZMZw care — all and
more are possi-
ble. If the free
market had not
done this, the so-
cialists never
would have
dreamed that
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Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price for the Camaro Sport
Coupe with the Standard Six. This Camaro shown has at extra
cost hood stripe, $14.75; style trim group, $40.05; wheel covers,
$21.10: and whitewall tires, $31.35. All prices include Federal
Excise Tax and suggested dealer delivery and handling charge
(transportation charges, accessories, other optional equipment,
state and local taxes additional).
moves you up to the hecid of the class* Camaro^
the sportiest looking and acting: lower, wider, heavier than any other
car at the price. With the biggest Six, the widest stance, the
roomiest interior. Drive it at your Chevrolet dealer’s
and see. You get more than your money’s worth.
it is hard to be -entirely weaned
I galloped and paced this mule away
into Leonard bareback and as 11 as one
arrived, a bucket brigade was ral- on 1—
lying under the leadership of Gil-
bert Sudderth who was a natural
leader under such emergencies
and the fight was quickly under-
way. The building which hous-
ed the Leonard Graphic, I believe
was saved. It appeared impossi-
ble to save the old Egbert Hotel,
, the only frame building involved
| on the SW comer of the square.
However, efforts were concentrat-
ed in that direction, keeping the
] roof and outside walls wet as pos-
sible. All contents of the hotel
1 were taken out and I remember
seeing pitchers and bowls pitched
out of upstairs ‘windows on one
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Howard Kerthner’e Commentariet,
i Inc., Box 450, Radio City Station.
I New York, N. Y. 10019
I any church choir. Prior to Hick- had in town.
man, I believe Bud Bates was the did not burn but by the time its
chief blacksmith.
Also, I wonder how many still square had been drawn dry.
living remember the big fire
; which destroyed most of the
Nite Pho. 587-3358 or 587-3629 • Day Pho. 587-3515
LEONARD. TEXAS
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quently became bogged down in nical training
mud right in the public square. MisS-> as a u>s. Air Porce coml
I remember helping to munications specialist.
extridate an empty wagon ( The airman recently completed'
from a mud hole in the basic training at Lackland AFB,
square after a four mule team Tex. His new school is part of the
failed to pull it out. W. J. (Bill) Training Cbmmand which
Hickman was„ the village black- conducts hundreds of specialized
smith then and had a thriving courses to
business at the SE corner of the trained personnel for the nation’s
square, making wagon wheels of aerospace force.
boisdarc obtainable in unlimited Airman London, a 1965 gradu-
quantities from alonA Boisdarc ate of Bailey High School, attend-1
Creek, North of Leonard in the ed Paris Junior College.
Taylorville community. The The airman iis married to the
wheels which new wagons came former Judy Livingston of Wolfe;
equipped with soon rotted out and City.
had to be replaced with non-1
decaying boisdarc. Bill Hickman,'
also kept our plow points sharp-
ened and our horses and mules
shod.
horn in the town brass band and
could and did furnish enough' • [
basso from his big bass voice in of the only concrete sidewalks we '
The Egbert Hotel
helping to
wagon (
in the
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with Buck Mauldin and his good |
wife, both of whom were reared g
in and near Leonard, after losing |
track of them for about 40 years.
I wonder how many still liv- j
ing remember as far back as 1910 Airman Derrell F.
and 1912 before the public square whose parents are Mr. and Mrs.
of Leonard was paved and in wet Charlie F. London of Rt. 1, Wolfe
weather buggies and wagons fre- city, has been selected for tech-
quently became bogged down in nical training at Keesler AFB,
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sw—' i '■' < :-l? ■' ■
i)r. Kershner
such things were possible, but I
would have continued as in the
late Middle Ages a system of
working from sun to sun, living i
in hovels with barely enough l
food to preserve life, and with a
death rate that made unneces-
sary any thought of family limi-
tation. That’s all that socialism
ever accomplished. Then came
the concept of the free market
under which hours were short-
ened, wages raised, housing im-
proved, food made abundant;
education for everybody became
possible, and art and culture
were diffused generally to the
masses.’ >
Whereupon, this having been
achieved by the market economy,
the socialists rise up and demand
to take over on the specious plea
that they will do even better.
They cannot point to an exam-
ple anywhere in the history of
the world of having done half
so well — and yet they demand
to be trusted by the people and
given full authority in the hope
that they will do even better
than the free market. Actually
they will wreck the accumula-
tion of the past 200 years, and
somewhere, sometime, a genera-
tion of poverty stricken people,
as a result of socialism, will have
to begin the slow painful climb
back to abundance by means of
the free market economy. <
If the people would only get
their eyes open and see the facts
as they are, they need not go
through this long nightmare of
hardship. Actually, the people
are not principally to blame. The
main fault is with the politicians
_ , who play upon the ignorance of
department, no water'available to to mighty hungry to eat six; the masses, deceiving them with
... ... t Via mnvoH QnH I falsp ■nromisps in rptnrn fnr
restruant at Bonham
and many people drove over to
Bonham to eat his oysters.
Once you have lived in Leonard, ■ terrible tragedy upon the people
1 1 \ 1 in return for a few short years
from Leonard. I think of it of power with the emoluments
? of the greatest little cities they thereby acquire.
earth and still count many
friends in and near there.
Alvan L. Roark
Those were the days when prac-
tically all of the East side of
South side of the square of Leon- i Leonard Square were frame struc-
ard in about 1912. I recall the
fire broke out in a cleaning and
pressing plant next door to the
Farmers Union Grocery and Mar-:
ket. That was before Leonard
had a city water system or fire tens and they were so big you had
of them. Later, he moved to and! false promises in return for
the opened a restruant at Bonham1 votes If Dante were writing to-
v day, he probably would reserve
| the lowest spot in hell for those
I who are willing to bring this
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The Leonard Graphic (Leonard, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, April 14, 1967, newspaper, April 14, 1967; Leonard, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1216864/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Leonard Public Library.