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FRIDAY, MARCH 20„ 1964
AFFLUENCE AND POVERTY
LEONARD, FANNIN COUNTY, TEXAS
VOLUME 76
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THE LEONARD GRAPHIC
LEONARD, TEXAS
j City's Sewerage
Project Completed
Absentee Voting
Deadline April 3rd
W. H. Stapps Will
Celebrate 50lh
Anniversary Mar. 24
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American Legion
Birthday Party
Saturday Night
Enclosed find check or money order for $
Send The Leonard Graphic one year to —
Raymond A. Taylor of Ector
has authorized The Graphic to
announce he is a candidate for
sheriff of Fannin County subject
to action of the Democratic Pri-
mary May 2, 1964.
WHITE ATTENDS
SALES CONFERENCE
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES
$2.00 a year in Fannin County
$2.50 a year sent elsewhere
$3.00 per year sent overseas
FARMERS AND ranchers wel-
comed the nice rain Wednesday
night. Leonard and area got abQU%
2.7 inches.
is opening a farm implement an<5
parts store in his building on the
northwest corner of the square.
New business is always welcom-
ed in Leonard. It looks good
see these empty buildings being
occupied.
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attend
Warren Infant
Services Friday
COMMENTS
BY TONEY
Raymond A. Taylor
Seeks Fannin Co.
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Junior Class Will Sponsor Norfh East
Texas Domino Championship Tournament
James Dixon Opens
Barber Shop On
East Side Square
Coach Jim Hess To
Speak Al Local
Athletic Banquet
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hymer
turned Tuesday night after
tending funeral services
a sister-in-law of
Sincerely yours,
John P. Smouse, Chief
Construction Grants Section
TWO NEW businesses will
opened in Leonard this week emS.
James Dixon will be opening a
new barber shop on the east side
of of the square and Ray Marwiinsf
of
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brother and
Mrs. Hymer.
The brother,
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Whose Welfare?
The trouble with all this is that
it is morally wrong in a free so-
ciety for the State to seek con-
trol over the lives of its citizens.
It is moral weakness for the citi-
zen to submit himself to the mer-
cy of the government’s breadlines
in time of prosperity. Charity
and help for the unfortunate
have a place in our society al-
ready, President Johnson not-
withstanding. But not this! When
this nation comes to the place
where the government has to
guarantee everyone a job or so
Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Fullerton
returned Saturday afternoon
from Wichita, Kans, where they
visited their daughter and fam-
ily, Mr. and Mrs. Verlon Oliver
and family.
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James Dixon expects to open
his new barber shop on the east
side of the square Friday morn-
ing.
The young man has been em-
196-T at Wolfe City Ployed in local shops for almost
j five years and this week ventur-
ed into a business of his own.
Dixon invites his former pus-
Graveside rites for Chadley
Lem Warren, the infant son of
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THE AMERICAN Legion and
Auxiliary members of Loftin-
Predy Post in Leonard will cele-
brate this organization’s birth-
day with a dinner at the Legion
Hall Saturday night.
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Ronnie Jones, president of the
Junior Class of Leonard High
School, announces the North
East Texas domino championship
tournament will be held at the
Leonard High School gym Satur-
day night, March 28 at 7:30 p.m.
This tournament will determine
the champions of this entire
area. A large crowd is expected.
Men and women are both invit-
ed.
The largest trophies ever
awarded will be presented to the
championship team and the sec-
ond place team. The first place
trophies measure two feet in size.
Also door prizes will be award-
ed to some lucky entrants.
The tournament is sponsored
by the junior class of
High School and will be directed J day, March 28.
Mayor Tom \Hymer has receiv-
ed the following letter from the
Department of Health, Educa-
tion, and Welfare in Dallas. The ’ Mr. and Mrs. Jack Warren, will
letter states the Federal audit
for the City of Leonard’s sewage
project has been completed.
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Fighting Our Poverty
It was also ironic that the mag-
azine, almost coincidental with
the President’s announced drive
on poverty, should feature this
story in headlines suggesting that
, \1964 may well be the Affluent
Year. The “affluent society,” you
know, is the phrase of John K.
Galbraith of Harvard, formerly
on the Kennedy staff and later
Ambassador to India. His view is
that too large a portion of the
wealth of America is in private
hands, that too little belongs to
the government.
Just where Mr. Galbraith
stands with regard to the “war
on poverty” amid such prosper-
ity, we do not know. Perhaps he
What’s Good For You
Expanding the private economy
would be bad, in Mr. Gal-
braith’s view. All of this private
affluence predicted for 1964 would
serve to degrade our citizens and
undermine the society. More gov-
ernment spending apparently will
be fine, but the government would
have to forgo the tax cut. Yet,
any good New Frontiersman
knows that without a tax cut and
deficit spending, the nation is
heading straight for recession.
Well, we begin to see the am-
biguity of the position that ev-
erything must be done by the fed-
eral government. These Liberal
G-men like to insist that they
know exactly just how every-
thing should be done. They would
be completely at ease in the all-
powerful State as long as they
control it, just like the Commun-
. ists. Big Sam could easily solve
the unemployment by hiring the
4,000,000 or more out of work. Ev-
eryone is entitled to a job, you
know, even if it’s a government
job. It takes away your breath,
what the government can do for
you!
Sim-
Sim-
mons of Carlsbad, New Mexico,
Joe G. Simmons and George
Simmons, both of Miles, Texas,
Vandals Destroy ;
W. Meade Property Died In Amarillo
much income, two chickens in the
pot, and two cars in the garage
(one a Volkswagen), we are fin-
ished!
Medicare, at the top of the list
as one of the big guns in fight-
ing poverty, would cost about $1
billion annually to begin with and
nobody knows how much later.
This medical care for the aged,
under Social Security financing
like most of the programs of
compulsion, is not needed. With
the Kerr-Mills plan providing
help now to those who can’t af-
ford it, private health insurance
programs already cover most ev-
eryone. At the end of 1963, 60
per cent of Americans over 65
had private plans, and the total
coverage is more than 145 mil-
lion persons of all ages.
might ask: Whose welfare, yours
or the State’s?
| The group of boys that confess-
ed to stealing led officers to hid-
I ing places—barns, wells or buried
I in the ground. The loot included
razors, electric blankets, flash-
lights, books of trading stamps,
tools and many items of value.
Investigating officers said
much of the loot apparently was
taken with no intention of mak-
ing use of it in any way.
The arrest of suspects is ex-
pected to solve the answer to the
stealing of gasoline from farm-
ers and others.
Any eligible voter who will
out of town or physically disabl-
ed to go to the polls April 7th
to vote in the City of Leonard
election may vote by absentee
now through April 3rd.
Voters may vote at the City
Hall or write city secretary E. W.
Taylor for a ballot.
Your vote must be cast in the
presence of a Notary Public.
The dates for absentee voting
are March 18 - April 3.
The Legion and Auxiliary
the Loflin-Preddy Post 110
Leonard will hold an “American
Legion Birthday Dinner” on Sat-
urday, March 21st. This will cele-
brate the 45th anniversary of the
American Legion, which was
formed in Paris, France on the
15-17 of 1919.
This will be a family dinner
for the Legionnaires, Auxiliary
members and their immediate
one i families. The dinner hour is 7
| p.m. with the doors opening at
6 p.m. for the early birds. Each
wife of a Legionnaire and the
Auxiliary members are requested
to bring a covered dish of vegeta-
' bles. Everything else is on the
Warnock Simmons of Valeri, Tex- j Legion and Auxiliary,
as; two sisters, Mrs. Tom Hymer
of Leonard and Mrs. Wayne
Bennett of Abilene.
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Methodist Church.
They have one son, W. H.
Stapp, Jr. of San Antonio.
Mr. and Mrs. Stapp have at-
tended the same church during
their married life, having been
members of First Methodist
Church in Leonard for 42 years.
Bill and Mabe! as the couple j
Mr. and Mrs. W H. Stapn will
celebrate their 50th wedding an- ___________ __________
niversary at their home Tuesday,! ]____ ______
March 24th. is known to many
The former Miss Mabel Weaver very proud
and W. H. Stapp were married in
Leonard March 24, 1914 by Rev.
Davis, a Baptist minister. The
couple lived on a farm 2 miles
would hardly do, for this would north of Leonard until 1954 when
increase the wealth in private
hands. Several more billions (bor-
rowed) would thus be required
for socialized subsidization of the
poor. The nation presently spends
about $4(4 billions ($31 billions of
it federal money) each year to
help the needy, but it- has not,
so far, eliminated poverty.
be held at 10:00 A.M. Friday at
Celeste Cemetery. The child was
born at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, I
March 18, — ..---- ----
Hospital. j
The mother is the former Billie
Louise Payne of Wolfe City.
Maternal grandparents are Mr. (tomers and new ones to visit him
and Mrs. Hershel Payne of Wolfe in the new location. The shop
City. Mr. and Mrs. Lem Warren is in the McLarry building be-
of Celeste are the paternal, tween Scotty’s Cafe L __ "
grandparents. Georgia’s Beauty Shop.
Hugh P. Sim-
died in his sleep at his
Amarillo home Saturday night,
March 14. Funeral services were
held at 4 p.m. Monday at Ama-
rillo. Burial was made in an Ama-
rillo cemetery.
Surviving are
by Perry E. Morris, Athletic Di-
rector at Leonard. It will be a
double elimination type tQUma«
ment.
Admission will be one doHay
(1.09) per player. “We are aa-
nouMcing the tournament in ad<»
vance so as not to conflict
other school functions in thd
area,” Jones said.
Junior class members frond
Leonard will display the trophies!
and sell tickets sometime between!
now and March 28.
In order to avoid conflict witlj
the World’s Championship Doinid
j no Tournament at Yuba, Okla J
i on April 3, the North East Texad
Championship Tournament waJ
Leonard j changed from April 3 to Satur J
emment eliminate poverty by
bringing every family up to $3,-
000 in yearly income. But that
Early in the year a leading
trnagazine, U. S News & World
'Report, ^published a survey of the
business and economic outlook
for 1964. Every indicator on their
board, except two, showed pros-
pects upward: more spending,
more prosperity, more gains. The
two negative factors were decreas-
ing farm income and a higher
rate of unemployment, despite
creation of 3/4 million new jobs.
Everything else, mostly the result
of business optimism and bucy-
ance, was on the upswing. Europe,
too, the periodical said, and Ca-
nada and Japan are expecting
more jobs than people in some
countries, particularly West Ger-
many.
In Communist areas of the
world, however, the outlook is
bleak, with hunger and scarcity
rampant. This, it is obvious, is in
glaring contrast to the West. The
outlook is for the Communist em-
pire to remain the world’s poor-
house and for these countries to
fall farther behind the West.
This is not without its irony. To-
day, the world’s chief govern-
ment-run tyrannies are in fa-
mine. At the same time, the
chronic problem areas in the U.
S. that are not keeping up —
labor (unemployment) and agri-
culture—are the very areas where
government has dene the bulk of
its tinkering and adjustment.
The program for the dinner is
plenty of good food and an old
fashioned gabfest with your
friends. As there WTLL NOT be
any guest speaker you are urged
to bring all the young ones. Yo-Ui
can leave in time to meet their
bedtime.
Plan to attend as you are sure
to enjoy yourselves.
CONGRATULATIONS to Mr,
and Mrs. W. H. Stapp, a couple
who will be celebrating
Golden Wedding Anniversary
next Tuesday.
AUXILIARY NEWS
Scheduled to assist in the bingo
games at the Bonham V. A. Hos-
pital on Tuesday afternoon,
March 24th, are Lucille Scherer
(car), Zephyr Grounds, Pearl
McCrary, Lou Partain, Mattie
■’ Smith and Opal Westbrooke.
Department of Health,
Education and Welfare
Dallas, Texas 75202
March 3, 1964
Mayor, City of Leonard
Leonard, Texas
Dear Mayor Hymer:
Federal audit for your sewerage
project has been completed and
a voucher in the amount of $3,-
940.00 is being processed. Our
records indicate that you have
received previous payments in
the amount of $12,900.00, mak-
ing a total of $16,840.00.
You will be interested to know
that Leonard is one of 246 com-
munities in Texas to participate
in this program and one of 140
to complete a project. It is grati-
fying to see the improvements
in the control of pollution that
have been accomplished through
the efforts of the cities of Texas,
in cooperation with your Texas
State Department of Health.
We commend you and your Tex-
as State Department of Health
for making this progress possi-
ble.
THE JUNIORS in L.H.S. will
sponsor a championship domino
tournament at the school gym
Saturady night, March 28th,
Tickets are now on sale. The stu-
dents will appreciate your at-
tendance.
his wife, Mrs.
Jane Simmons, 2 sons, James and
Robert, all of Amarillo;
daughter of California.
Also five brothers, Bert
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Jack White was in Garland
Tuesday night to attend the
Frigidaire Spring and Summer
Sales Conference. He was accom-
John Jones is a patient at panied by Hutch Leatherwood of
Risser Hospital in Bonham. Bonham.
The Leonard Athletic Club met
last Thursday night and several
items of business were discussed.
The annual athletic banquet
honoring the high schol athletic
teams and pep squad will be held
Friday night at 7:30 p.m. Coach
Jimmy Hess who coached Rock-
wall High School to the AA foot-
ball championship this year, will
be the main speaker.
Coach Jerry Shaffer of Rock-
wall, formerly of Leonard, will
also attend as a special guest.
Tickets for the banquet can be
obtained from any member of the
senior class.
A nominating committee to
select a new slate of officers for
the coming year was appointed
by President Blacketer. The next
regularly scheduled meeting will
be on April 2.
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Sheriff Hoyt Ivey, Deputies
Charles Leslie and Troy McNear
began rounding up suspects in a
series of burglaries that has tak-
en toll across the southern part
of Fannin County over a four
month period, after learning the
Webb Meade home in the Valley
Creek Community had been hit
by vandals last Saturday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Meade came from
their home in Fort Worth early
Sunday morning to their country
home to find it had been ran-
sacked and wrecked. Meade re-
ported the damage to the sher- i
iff’s department and by Monday,
morning four suspects had been!
carried to Bonham and question-
ed by County Attorney Pat
Beene. The four involved others
who have been looting homes
across the county but apparent-
ly not connected with the inci-
dent at the Meade home.
By Thursday uiorning Deputy
Charles Leslie reported one girl
and nine boys had been question-
ed by juvenile officers and the
county attorney. The group in-
cludes 4 boys 17 years of age or
■over and five juveniles including
the girl who is 15 years of age.
Deputy Leslie said more arrests
are expected to be made.
The extent of damage done at
the Meade place was estimated
as a big loss. Groceries and other
household supplies were destroy-
ed mostly by being strewn about
the house. Motors on three out-
Mrs. Joe G. Simmons of Miles
died Monday morning, • March 16,
after a lengthy illness.
Funeral services and burial
were at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Miles.
Mrs. Simmons is survived by
her husband, Joe G. Simmons
and one daughter, Carolyn of
Miles. Also two sisters, Miss
Grace Damon and Mrs. Miriam
Manier of Dallas.
MR. AND MRS. W. H. STAPP
they moved to their present home i door machines, a sprayer and two
on Parmlee Street east of the lawn mowers were ruined. Tools
and hardware were thrown about
the property. Window screens
were cut, a window broken, cur-
tains torn from the windows, •'
lamps and other furnishing bro-
ken. Only a few things were tak-
en by the burglars, including
some canned goods.
Two other places, the home of
people, are Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Marshall
of the many fine and the farm home of A. R. Stapp
friends they have made in Leon- , had been entered by the boys,
ard and expressed joy in having
the opportunity to live in a clean
town like Leonard.
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