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NUMBER 20
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HILLBILLY KIDS WIN EXPENSE PAID TRIP
Buck Sides Killed
Iii Auto Accident
THE LEON THEATRE
and the
DE LEON FREE PRESS
Thursday, Nov. 26
THANKSGIVING DAY
Present Thia Coupon
at Box Office
1 be pies, cakes and
for sale.
and save time cook-
e and at the name
1 worthy cause. #
NOHCE
ans Society of Chris-
e of the Methodist
11 hold a bake sale
loming in the front
thams Dry Goods de-
Study Course Starts
At Northside Church
A study course in Stewardship
will start Friday evening at 7
o’clock at the Northside Bap-
tist Church and will meet Sat-
urday evening, also at 7 o’clock
and continue all day Sunday,
with Rev. Sherrod Stover teach-
ing adults, R. R. Harvey, young
people and intermediates. Mrs.
H. H. Inzer, juniors and Mrs.
Dave Slaughter, primaries and
beginners.
The nursery will be open at
all times.
Bearcat Band
In District Meet
This Weekend
DOYLE BROWNI.EE
Da Leon
and one
to see
“Affairs of Doble Gillis’
Friday, Nov. 20
NOTICE
Um
F. & M. NATIONAL BANK
Will Be
Closed
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MB. AND MRS. CARTER JOIN
GROUP IN DE LEON
FOR TRIP TO COAST
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Carter of
Olney came to De Leon Armis-
tice Day and left Thursday for
Aransas Pass for a few days outr
ing and fishing trip.
They were joined in De Leon
by Mrs. Carter’s mother, Mrs. J.
R. Hatt ox and her sister, and
husband, Mr. and Mrs C. S. Car:
ruth and by Mr. Carter’s sister
and aunt, Misses Alice Carter
and Mattie Redden.
•MhWO round out the backfield.
bnzc Star Medal for
|s service in Korea was
presented to Lt CoL
Eharp of De Leon, at
[Quartermaster Petrol-
pt, where he is dis-
bupply officer.
• Sharp, son of Caleb
I De Leon, was cited
e as chief of the 55th
1st er Base Depot’s pe-
Uvision in Korea. The
[ho is a veteran of 13
tny service, has been
f East since May 1952.
k of the Uhiversity of
Sharp, whose wife,
and two children are
in Japan, worked for
find Oil and Gas Co.,
in civilian life.
TO NATIONAL FHA CLUB MEET IN CHICAGO
I
De Leon Student
On Industrial Tour
AUSTIN, Nove. 14.—Fifty-
four University of Texas me-
chanical engiheering students
will take the senior field trip to
industrial plants in the Houston
area Nov. 15-19.
Students planning to make the
trip include Ryan A. Shook, De
Leon.
Carl Buck Sides was bom at
De Leon Sept. 11, 1927, and met
his death in an automobile ac-
cident near Seagraves, Texas,
Nov. 13. 1953, being 26 years, 2
< months, and 2 days of age at the
time of his passing. He resided
at Denver City, Texas, at the
time of his death, and was em-
ployed by Frontier Chemical
Co. at Seagraves, where he had
worked for the past two and one
half years. He was returning to
his home at Denver City at the
time of the accident.
He is survived by his father,
Whit Sides, and his stepmother,
Mrs. Mae Sides, of De Leon, by
two sisters, Mmes. Clyde C.
Hodges of De Leon and Ralph
Huisey of Seagraves; by six
brothers. Finis Sides, Murray
Sides, Pete Sides, and Dock
Sides, of De Leon, Hap Sides of
San Luis Obispo, Calif., and
Bill Sides of Denver City, and
Pension Group to
Meet Saturday
The Comanche County
sion Club will meet Saturday,
Nov. 21 at 2 p.m. in the Coman-
che County Court room. We
would like for all members and
their friends to be present.
The club has a good program
worked out. We expect some of
our statesmen to be there to
give talks. Come one and all.
Effie Shannon, Cor. Sec’y.
If
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or in June, and must be desir-
ous of pursuing a course in Ag-
riculture at the University.
Last years scholarship winner
was Louis Oran Little, a 17-year-
old FFA boy from Schulenburg,
Texas. He is now studying ani-
mal husbandry in the school of
agriculture at the University of
Houston.
Believing that "tne nation’s
progress depends to a great ex-
tent upon the conservation of
our land and other natural re-
sources,” Mr. and Mrs. Marshall
set up the Marshall Foundation I
Scholarship to be awarded annu-
ally. Mr. Marshall is vice presi-
dent of Quintana Petroleum
Corporation.
Applications and rules are be-
ing mailed from the Houston
Fat Stock Show office to each
boy and girl entering beef cat-
tle, dairy cattle or sheep. These
applications must be completed
and returned, not later than
Jan. 1&54, to John S. Kuyken-
dall, Livestock Manager, Hous-
ton Fat Stock Show, P. O. Box
2371, Houston, Texas.
Applications can be obtained
through Mr. Kuykendall’s of-
fice.
carlot-and-pen bulls,*
Herefords
as well
Dean
a great many friends. The de-
ceased was the youngest child
of the family.
Carl had served his country in
the United States Navy, having
received his Honorable Dis-
charge in 1946. He was a grad-
uate of Cornyn High School.
He was preceded in death by
his mother, Mrs. Bertie Holland
Sides, on Feb. 20, 1943.
Cari joined the T’
Church at New Hope in early
childhood.
Funeral services were con-
ducted from the First Methcdist
Church in De Leon Sunday af-
(Continued on back page)
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The Comanche County Agri-
cultural Agent’s office -was uott-
*fied by the State 4-H Club of-
fice this week that the “Hill-
billy Kids” were awarded an
all-expense paid trip to the Na-
tional 4-H Club Congress at
Chicago. The popular and talent-
ed 4-H Club stringed quartet
band won out in May over 25
Eight thousand dollars in prem-
iums is offered for Shorthorn
breeding cattle at the South-
western Exposition and Fat
Stock Show, dates of which are
Jan. 29 through Feb. 7. This
figure includes $2,000 for Short-
horn bulls in the carlot-and-pen
division.
The grand total of premiums
for the show is $173,235—largest
in the exposition’s history, this
figure including the horse show
and rodeo. The livestock breed
associations participate in the a-
mount of money to their respec-
tive breeds.
There are 33 classes in the
Shorthorn breeding show. Be-
sides the competition which de-
termines the grand champions[
and reserve champions, bulls and
females, there are awards for
two females, pair of yeylings,
get-of-sire, junior get-of-sire and
pair of calves.
In the carlot-and-pen division
of bulls. Shorthorns will be
shown in pens of five and pens
of three. These are divided into
yearling bulls, senior bull calves
and junior bull calves.
The open steer show offers
$600 in premiums for Shorthorns
and the junior steer show, $482.
Li-*.
Houston Fat Stock Show Winner to
Get $5,090 Houston U. Scholarship
For the second year the Mar- school year, either at mid-tenrt
shall Foundation will offer a $5,-
000.00 scholarship to an outstand-
ing boy or girl exhibitor at the
Houston Fat Stock Show, to at-
tend the University of Houston.
The 1954 Houston Fat Stock
Show opens Feb. 3 and runs
through Feb. 14 for the 22nd
annual exposition.
The scholarship, created by
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Marshall
of Houston, will be awarded on
the basis of leadership, scholastic
standing, financial need and
contributions to agriculture
through private farming, live-
stock raising, FFA, FHA, or 4-H
Club work.
The award enables the winner
to 5 years of college, leading to
a bachelor of science and mas-
ters degree in any course offer-
ed by the Agricultural Depart-
ment of the University of Hous-
ton.
Eligibility for the scholarship
requires applicants to have en-
tries in one or more of the fol-
lowing classifications at Houston
Fat Stock Show: beef cattle,
dairy cattle or sheep.
Applicants must graduate from
high school during the 1953-1954
' other entries in tne Conuuicue
County “Share the Fun Festi-
val” contest, and then won the
District contest held at Hamil-
ton. The boys then went on to
win the top honors at the State
4-H Club contests at Texas A&M
College, and were nominated by
the State 4-H Club office for
participation in the “Share the
Fun Breakfast” at the 4-H Club
Congress this year.
Delbert Reed, 15 year old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Reed of
Sidney, Texas, is the fiddler and
master of ceremonies of the
group. He has been in 4-H Club
work four years and has had
swine and beef calves for his
projects.
• Mac Pyburn, 14 year old pi-
ano P^yer for the group, is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Py-
burn of Sidney. Mac has been
in 4-H Club work four years,
and is now president of the Sid-
ney 4-H Club. He has had swine
and field crops as his projects
Jack Boen, 14, and Leon Boon,
13, are sons of Mr. and Mrs. Tru-
man Boen of De Leon. Jack
plays the bass fiddle, and Leon
plays the guitar and sings These
Methodist boys are in the De Leon 4-H
Club. Gardening has been their
project, and this year swine is
their project.
The Hillbilly Kids have been
playing together as a band for
approximately two years, and
have been well received at nu-
merous hoedowns and jambo-
rees all over central West Tex-
as. They also won the Texas
Hollywood Talent Contest at
Greenville last May, and elected
to split a $500 bill four ways
rather than choose which one of
the four would go to Hollywood
(Continued on back page)
M. Y. F. HAS CHARGE
OF PROGRAM SUNDAY
The Methodist Youth Fellow-
ship met Sunday afternoon at
5 o’clock at the church for their
regular meeting of worship. Fol-
lowing the worship hour ladic-s
of the Woman’s Society of Chris-
tian Service served delicious re-
freshments.
The young people then had
choir practice.
There were 22 present.
This will be the program for
the M.Y.F. in the future.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Little have
been elected sponsors for this
group.
A. H. Caraway to Head Shorthorn
Division at Ft. Worth Stock Show
FORT WORTH, Nov. 17. — If a Shorthorn is grand cham-
pion steer of the entire show,
there will be a special award of
$250 from the American Shor*
horn Breeders Association and if
the grand champion steer of the
entire show is a Shorthohrn ex-
hibited by a Texas Future Far-
mer or 4-H Club member, Texas
Shorthorn Breeders Ass’n will
give the owner a special award,
of $500..
A. H. Caraway of De Leon is
Shorthorn supt.; George R.
Shepherd and Jack Bourland,
both of Fort Worth, are supt.
and assistant supt., respectively,
of the
which include Herefords and
Aberdeen-Angus as well as
Shorthorns; and Dean W. L.
Stangel of Texas Tech is supt.
of the open and junior steer
shows (in which Angus, Here-
fords and Shorthorns compete),
with assistant supt. being Coun-
ty Agent G. S. Blackbum,
Throckmorton, and Vocational
Agricultural Supervisor Walter
Labay, Plainview.
W. A. (Bill) King, assistant
manager of the exposition, is
general livestock supt. and Wal-
ter Rice, also of Fort Worth, is
assistant livestock supt.
BAND MOTHERS WILL
HAVE BAKE SALE
The Band Mothers will hold
a bake sale Wednesday, Nov. 25,
in front of Smith’s Dry Goods
Store, starting at 2 o’clock p.m.
Comanche County Peanut Growers to
Vote on f
Comanche County peanut far-
mers will vote in a referendum
Tuesday, Dec. 15, to determine
whether marketing quotas will
be used for the 1954, 1955, and
1956 crops of peanuts. A similar
vote is being held on the same
day in all areas where peanuts
are grown.
According to A. E. Boyd,
Chairman of the County Produc-
tion and Marketing Administra-
tion Committee, all peanut grow-
ers are eligible to vote in the
referendum who shared in 1953-
crop peanuts produced on a farm
with a picked or threshed acre-
age of more than 1 acre.
At least two-thirds of all far-
Community Club
Meets Tonight
The Community Club
meet at 7:00 P.M. tonight in the
banquet room at Black’s Cafe.
A good dinner will be served,
and problems concerning the im-
provement of our town and
trade territory will be iscussed.
All club members are urged to
. be present, and are asked to
bring prospective new members
I as guests of the Community
Club.
STEPHENVILLE — The De
Leon High School Band will
compete here at Tarleton State
College Nov. 21 with 17 other
bands in a Region II Intersiholas
tic League Band Marching Fes-
tival. .
High schools to have bands
competing include Rotan, Abi-
lene, Throckmorton, Mason, Ran-
ger, Hamlin, Eastland, De Leon,
Coleman, Crowell, Cisco, Anson,
Stephenville, Santa Anna, Cross
Plains, Dublin, Moran, and Ris-
ing Star.
Competition will start at 7
p.m. on Tarleton’s Memorial
Field.
Bands will be divided into 4A,
3A, 2A, A, and B classes, and
each band will present a short
marching routine similar to that
given during halftime activities
at football games.
Judges will grade on general
appearance, neatness of uniform,
condition of instruments, and re-
sponse to oral commands.
Each band from the moment ii
steps on the field will be judged
on alignment, drum cadence, and
the nine required maneuvers.
These are forward march, halt,
column left, column right, left
and right oblique, halt while
playing and continuing to play,
reverse column, left and right
flank, and a special maneuver.
Honor awards will be present-
ed winners in each division.
Bandmasters to serve as
judges are A. H. Long, Ponca
City, Okla.; Bob Renfro, Texas
City; Everett Maxwell, Andrews
and Lyle Skinner, Waco.
Ive Baptist
Will Hold
I Bazaar
ttes of the Primtive
lurch will hold their
Pianksgiving bazaar,
Nov. 21 at W. H.
I Goods Store.
(election of hand-made
be on sale.
Browning
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though neither of these boys are
large, but they are fast and have
lots of drive.
At right end is the big Mexi-
can star, Chico Mendosa, who
can do almost anything that a
good end is called on to do.
The otoher end is Hines who
was Foreneys favorite passing
target. He is also a stellar pass
defender at defenive halfback.
During the first twenty min-
utes of the second half, the
Bearcats played the Bulldog sec-
ond string. It didnt score.
However the Bearcats
score in the last period when
Clyde Noonkester caught a short
pass and tacked on a brilliant
50 yard run to ring up the Bear-
cats lone touchdown. Nance con-
verted.
The Bulldog first team return-
ed with only a few minutes re-
maining in the game to score on
the last play of the game.
This week we venture forth
into West Texas to tangle with
another bunch of Bulldogs, the
Wylie Bulldogs.
The Wylie boys have not had
too much luck this reason, but
they have been improving and
we expect a good contest.
It’s a long trip, but the fel-
lows on the ball club will ap-
preciate your support.
Its the last time around for
six popular Bearcat seniors, so
come and say goodbye. They’re
a great bunch of boys. Kickoff
time for tonight’s (Thursday)
game at Wylie will be at 7:30.
k
Lynn Harrison
The Bearcats ran into a good
bit more than they could handle
when they attempted to raid the
stronghold of the District 7A
Champion Ranger Bulldogs last
Friday night, and were soundly
trounced by the powerful Bull-
dogs, 48-7.
The Bearcats kicked off and
from then on it became apparent
that they could just as well have
stayed home.
After Charles Massegee
bled around his right end for
the first BulJdog touchdown,
they never slowed up until the
half when the score was 41-6.
During the first half we got
a good look at the machine that
might well roll to State Cham-
pionship.
The man running the show is
a big-handed slipper gent named
Foroney. His backfield running
mates are headed by little
Charles Masegee, a click speed-
ster who is a constant threat to
go all the way.
Littlefield and
Held for Mrs.
Wednesday
all Rich passed away
acute heart attack
Evening, Nov. 9 at the
Mrs. Joe Atchley, with
e and her daughter,
L Carlin had been vis-
! was putting on her
reparation to go home
hras stricken. She nev-
(d consciousness.
Elizabeth Holland was
iapids Parish, La. Nov.
ler parents were James
: Jane Hopson Holland,
had resided in Coman-
ty 46 years.
I united in marriage to
th in 1908 and to this
re bom six children,
■and four daughters.
is are Holland Rich of
Sreen, Fla. and Clinton
[ouston. The daughters
. W. M. Woff and J. D.
if Houston, Mrs. Troy
of San Antonio, ard
L. Carlin of De Leon.
' children were present
Imeral but one.
[iso survived by three
(nd one sister, Dudley
[Port Isabel, Texas;
lol land, Olton; Tom
laskell and Mrs. Lula
Houston.
th was converted and
lh the Baptist Church
g girl and had been a
Imber since.
h preceded Mrs. Rich
Oct. 28, 1951.
services were held for
[Wednesday afternoon,
It 2:30 oclock at the
pst Church with Rev.
bfficiating, assisted by
Sparkman.
trs were John Gilder,
pors, Odell Bethany,
►, Tillman Hammonds
ued on back page)
Marketing Quotas Dec. 15
mers voting must approve the
quotas before they may be made
effective. If marketing quota*
are not approved, they will not
be used for the 1954 peanut
crop, and another vote will be
held next year on quotas for the
following three crops.
Explaining that the Secretary
of Agriculture is directed by
law to proclaim peanut market-
ing quotas, Mr. Boyd stated that
each year, between July 1 and
December 1, the Secretary must
proclaim the amount of the quo-
ta for the next crop. This quota
is converted into a national acre-
age allotment which is appor-
tioned to States and to farms ac-
cording to provisions of law. All
farm operations will be notified
in writing of their farm acreage
allotments prior to the referen-
dum, Mr. Boyd said.
The farm marketing quota is
the quantity of peanuts produc-
ed on the farm acreage allot-
ment. Peanuts produced on a
farm where the 1954 peanut
acreage is larger than the allot-
ment will be subject to a mar-
keting penalty.
If growers vote approval of
quotas, price supports on 1954-
crop peanuts will be available at
90 per cent of parity to peanut
farmers who harvest within
their acreage allotments. Sup-
port for the 1955 and 1956 crops,
under existing legislation, will
be available at not less than a
per cent of parity between 75
and 90 per will which depends
on the supply available at the
beginning of the marketing year.
If growers oppose peanut quotas,
the level of support of the 1954
crop to cooperators will drop to
50 per cent of parity.
‘Basic’ Price Supports Depend
on Allotment Compliance
To be eligible for 1954 price
support on any basic crop, a far-
mer must—with one exception—
comply with his farms acreage
allotments for all basic crops,
Mr. Boyd, chairman of the Coun-
ty Production and Marketing
Administration Committee, said
today. The basic crops are wheat,
cotton, com, peanuts, tobacco^
and rice. w
The exception applies to
wheat, where only those far-
mers subject to marketing quo-
ta penalties if they exceed their
wheat acreage allotments will be
ineligible for price support on
other basic crops if they fail to
stay within their wheat allot-
ments.
Mr. Boyd explained that mar-
keting quotas apply only on
farms with more than 15 acres
of wheat. Therefore, a farmer
who exceeds his wheat allot-
ment, but does not have more
than 15 acres of wheat on his
farm, will still be eligible for
price supports on other basio
crops provided he does not ex-
ceed the allotments for these
other crops. He will, however, be
ineligible for wheat price sup-
ports.
This ruling on eligibility for
price supports on basic crops
does not affect supports on non-
basic feed grain crops and flax-
seed, occording to the Chairman.
Thus a producer could be eligi-
ble for price supports on oats or
any other non-basic feed grain
crop or flax even though he ex-
ceeded a “basic” crop allotment.
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Texans Donate
Blood for
Disaster Relief
AUSTIN — Texans anet some ■
of their neighbors have donated !
a total of 163,686 pints of blood
for defense and disaster relief
purposes during the past 25
months.
Willian\ L. McGill, state co-
ordinator of civil defense and
disaster relief, said the total was
collected by Red Cross blood
centers and blood banks under
contract in this state. Also con-
tributing to the collections in
Beaumont were six Louisiana
chapters, while Fort Worth
blood center collections included
those . from six New Mexico
chapters.
The blood center at Waco col-
lected from the counties within
its jurisdiction 8,098 pints, while
the Beaumont center gathered
46,561 pints. Leading the' blood
centers was the one . at Fort
Worth with 81,219 pints.
Another 9,821 pints of blood
were collected under contract by
the Dallas blood bank. A total
of 716 pints was collected under
contract 1n Cameron, Hidalgo
and Willacy counties, while a
Harris County contract account-
ed for 17,271 additional pints of
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