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THE DE LEON FREE PRESS, DE LEON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1952
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“SUBMARINE COMMAND1
April 4. 1952
Present This Coupon
at Box Office.
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Home
Demonstration
Club Work
and what it means to
the Women of Comanche
and Adjoining Counties.
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President Truman
Not Candidate for
1952 Nomination
Evang. James R. Stewart of
Waco will preach for us Sunday
April 6, and will be here thru
Turkey Growers
Meet at Carbon
Last Thursday
Dr. Ben H. Bradley, Rising
Star, was named President of the
Heart of Texas Turkey Growers
Association at a meeting of pro-
ducers of the big birds in Carbon
recently (Thursday night, March
27).
Other officers elected at the
initial meeting of the new or-
ganization included J. H. Tid-
well, Desdemona, vice-president;
Miss Buena Van Winkle, Gorman,
secretary, and Mrs. J. H. Tid-
well, treasurer. Thirty-five tur-
key growers from three counties
were present.
The name of the organization
i# only tentative and may be
changed it was explained.
A membership committee com-
posed of Lee Star, Cisco; Bill
Caraway. Gorman, and J. Elmo
Smith, Rising Star, were named
to institute a vigorous campaign
for members, both active and as-
sociate. It was brought out that
the active members were the
ones who grow turkeys and the
associates are people interested
in the progress and development
A regulation requiring restau-
rants and other eating establish-
ments to post dollars-and-cents
ceiling prices for their principal
meals, food items and beverages
has been issued by Ellis Arnall,
Director of the Office of Price
Stabilization.
city hall was reported.
a good indication that citizens
generally are interested in mat-
ters of this nature. Two elections
were held, each in separate rooms
at the city hall and each with
its own purposes and election of-
ficers. This arrangement made it
more convenient for voters. Only
those who lived in the city could
vote at either election.
Hazlewood Dairy
To Award Bicycle
To Lucky Winner
The Hazlewood Dairy, popular
milk producers, announce a bi-
cycle contest is now going on.
All the kiddies have to do is
save the top from a bottle of
this milk.
Second prize is a $25 defense
bond. Third prize is a Daisy
Pump Air Rifle or Cosmetic Set.
Fourth prize is a Red Rider Air
of the turkey industry in the [Rifle or Cosmetc Set. Fifth prize
is a Hunting Knife or a Vanity
Set.
The contest is open for boys
and girls fourteen years or older.
Read the large advertisement for
complete rules found elsewhere
in this issue.
Hazlewood Dairy Milk is sold
at all grocers. You are invited
to ask for it by name.
and some 300
a
MEETING AT SAND
HILL SUNDAY
There will be a meeting at
Sand Hill Sunday afternoon at 2
o’clock. All interested in the
church and cemetery be present.
G. M. Strickland.
PRE-EASTER REVIVAL
BEGINS AT BAPTIST
CHURCH, SUNDAY, APRIL 6
The annual pre-Easter revival
will begin at the First Baptist
Church in De Leon, Sunday,
April 6. Rev. T. J. Sparkman
will do the preaching and the
singing will be led by C. L. Mo-
tion Jr. The public is invited.
DE LEON RESTAURANTS
PRICES ARE FROZEN
FORT WORTH, April 3.—The
Office of Price Stabilization has
announced dollars-and-cents ceil-
ing prices for approximately
_ 500,000 restaurants, by ordering
organiratFon*7s"ue'-4i‘i^t of nxeal prices frozen.at levels.in ef-
ind in this area of the state, rect the week of February 3-9.
area. Dues were set at $5.00 an-
nually with the fiscal year be-
ginning on April 1 of each year.
The membership will not be lim-
ited to any one couunty it was
reported.
Mrs. John Thurman, Eastland;
J. H Tidwell, E. W. Everton,
Eastland and Cecil Carr, Rising
Star were named as a committee
to work up the Constitution and
By-Laws of the group for pres-
entation at the next meeting to
be held in the Agricultural Bldg,
at Rising Star Thursday night,
May 15.
Bandman Gaught
Picking Locks;
Freed Children
Last Saturday night a
friends met at the Legion
for a social gathering
f press Job Printing
not let the Free Press furnish
rt order of job printing? We pay
■d help support every activity in
Sunlty. It pays to buy at home.
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f ® Gorman.
iH*tred hO
Jim 1
Gaston Boykin, who is serving
his third term as Sheriff of Co-
manche County, makes his for-
mal announcement this week as
candidate for Sheriff for reelec-
tion. ....
He has been successful in the
three campaigns which he has
been a candidate and has many
strong supporters throughout the
county. He has a wide acquain-
tance among the peace officers
of this section and many of them,
as well as, others, have urged
him to seek reelection.
Mr. Boykin says he will be ap-
preciative of your careful con-
sideration of his candidacy.
JjjCHAREN
"G°ES SURGERY
MeCharen under-
• uravmy morning i nome opemiuiK
well Rodgers Sani-1 chinery repairs and other
penses i—----- “
Turkey growers in the area are
rapidly increasing both in num-
bers and in the size of the flocks.
The <
its kind in this area ...---------
Dr. Bradley, new President, is
an active practicing physician in
Rising Star and grows turkeys
on the side it was said.
this month to work with the
church, and will have services
Thursday' nights and each week
end. Bro. Stewart is well known
here, having preached for this
congregation many times. We cor-
dially invite the pubic to attend
these services.
few
Hall
And
course brought their youngsters
along, hoping they would enjoy
the party and, possibly, add some
interest and glamour, making
their parents even more proud
of them.
Among the youngsters were
Danny Donegan, little Michelle
Porche and Kenneth Jean, all
ranging about two years or a lit-
tle older. These children, follow-
ing the exploration instinct, went
into a cloak room and as the door
closed it locked with a Yale
combination in such a way that
they were securely locked in.
Others had keys, but it so hap-
pened the extra keys were in the
coat pockets and the coats had
been hung up in the cloak room.
The children began scrambling
to get out and indicating distress
at their predicament. The par-
ents, while not locked up, began
to ffrel a serious solicitude for
the children and probably began
to run In circles.
At this time Bandmaster Hil-
mar Wagner came to their res-
cue with his expert lock picking
proclivities and, no one knows
how he did it, but he was able
to open the Yale lock without
much delay and release the chil-
dren. The commotion broke up
the party and the drinks and
eats went untouched each of the
parents feeling glad to recover
their little fellows from the self-
imposed prison and thanking
Bandmaster Wagner for his time-
ly and expert help. ... I
CORRECTION
In the write-up last week of
a dinner given for Sgt. and Mrs.
Bobbie Grimes, the names of Mr.
and Mrs. A. C. Grimes and fami-
ly of Eastland were ommitted by
mistake. We apologize for this
error.
BE HELD AT COMYN
The Shiloh Singing Convention
with Uncle Lum Woods presi-
dent, is to be held in the Cornyn
Baptist Church on Easter Sun-
day afternoon, April 13. That
is the second Sunday in April.
This convention has met here
before and had a large atten-
dance. We enjoyed godd sing-
ing. A lot of singers are expect-
ed.
Everyone is invited to come
and bring song books. The sing-
ing is to begin at 2. Mr. George
Caraway is in charge of arrange-
ments.
Free Press Job Printing
Why not let the Free Press furnish
that next order of job printing? We pay
taxes and help support every activity in
the community. It pays to buy at home.
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The County Attorney and
County Tax Collector - Assesor,
John Nicholson and E. A. Sartor,
have had notice of a ruling by
the Secretary of State that poll
tax requirements for Texas Ser-
vicemen will be suspended in
1952, as they were by Constitu-
tional Amendment in the latter
part of World War II.
The exemption applies to ser-
vicemen of all components of the
Armed Services, ivho at the time
of an election in 1952, or within
18 months prior to such election,
were ou extended active duty.
Members of the regular estab-
lishment of the Army, Navy, Air
Force, and Marines, are prohibit-
ed by the Texas Constitution
from voting at all, and the ex-
emption of course, applies to
those active duty servicemen who
are not members of such regular
establishments.
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Tax Suspended
Can Vote in 1952
NEW LISTING TELEPHONE
NUMBERS PUBLISHED
In another part of the paper
will be found an additional list-
ing of telephone numbers. The
additional numbers are all new
phones and are alphabetically ar-
ranged for the convenience of
the public.
Mr. E. F. Stephen is asking
that the list be pasted in the di-
rectory recently published so that
all may have these additional
phone numbers when using their
new dial system.
The management of the tele-
phone company is to be con-
tion of a crop.
Credit is advanced under
thority of Public Law 38 and is
available to farmers who have
sustained losses, and who cannot
obtain from local sources the
funds needed to plant a crop this
year. Before a loan is made a
County Committee of three far-
mers must certify that the appli-
cant suffered a substantial pro-
duction loss. Farmers may apply
for loans at the office of County
Supervisor, William If. Gore, lo-
cated on the Second Floor in the
Masonic Building.
Funds will be available to
ranchmen whose herds have beer
depleted by the drouth. They
can borrow to restock their pas-
tures.
Farmers who qualify under the
disaster loan regulations may dis-
cuss their needs with the county
supervisor.
EINGTON, D. C., March
■jmsman Omar Burlesdn
Washington today that he
little more encouraged for
bifare of the 1952 peanut
m, since the Production
urketing Administration,
p the Department of Ag-
|re, has announced the
points to be followed for
top year.
k. however, still not fair
peanut farmers of Texas,”
irleson. “The J’MA nas not
letennined what charges
l made to the farmer for
I and handling of peanuts
lies to place in the loan.”
encouraging part of the
icement is that evidently
towers' Association and the
will be able to purchase
Is from the farmers and
I afford him a ready mar-
stead of forcing nim into
as was first recom-
Community Club Has Enthusiastic Meeting
Last Thursday Night at Bear Cat Grill
Bob Milligan, district highway SHILOH SINGING CONV. TO
engineer and E. M. Pritchard, as-
sistant district engineer, Brown-
wood told the members of the
Community Club at their meett
ing last Thursday night the road
to Desdemona would probably be
built and the time would in their
opinion sometime in 1953. Both
men explained the Gorman road
and said the money to be spent
there, some $750,000, would
likely be used elsewhere unless
some action was taken soon to
speed up the program of getting
right of ways ready for the work
to start. L. D. Stewart reported
for the committee to check with
the Commissioner’s Court in re-
gard to progress on the matter,
said it was the opinion of the
commttee that the county judge
and commissioners would take
care of the matter at once with
condemnation proceedings if
there was no other way.
A number told of the exper-
iences on seeking road building
and of the time it took to get
anything done.
The group voted to postpone
the naming of the dates for the
Peach & Melon Festival until the
meeting in April.
A committee composed of Her-
schel Gillock, Richard Stephens
and O. H. Moore was appointed
to check into the proposition of
securing a manufacturing plant
for De Leon.
\ Visitors at the meeting were
Gene Baker and E. L. Todd of
Gorman; Rev. J. W. Latiolait, B.
R. Spencer, Richard Stephens, W.
Heatly and Herschel Gillock.
Several members were present
who had been absent for several
months.
Meeting was held at the Bear
Cat Grill and a fine meal was
prepared and served to 42 mem-
ber*.
0,000 Hospital Bond Election Approved By 570
Vote Nearly 10 to One; Nowlin Wins
Over Scales, Coan Commissioner;
Largest Vote in Years Cast Tuesday
Heavy voting in the two city-
wide elections Tuesday at the
This is
The Hospital Bond election had
a total of 629 votes cast as fol-
lows:
For issuance of hospital
bonds ___________________1
Against issuance of hospital
bonds ______t_____________59
Total -----------------------629
For Mayor:
W. B. Nowlin, incumbent 363
Leonard Scales _____________________323
Total __________________________686
For City Commissioner:
Lloyd Coan .......... 460
W. S. Moreland ________________207
Total ............. 667
The variation in the number
of votes in these various races
was caused from the fact that
some may have voted in one or
more cases and not in others. Al-
so, legal qualifications were I|
slightly different for voting in t
the two elections. Large crowds .
waited for final reports which . ■
were posted as soon as counting C
could be completed.
At the next regular meeting of
the City Council on Tuesday nite,
April 8, Nowlin and Coan will
take their office.
Gorman Election
Mayor:
C. L. Jay ...............
G. C. (Giff) Acrea
Commissioner-
Gabe Wright _________
Check Smith_____
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Road Bed and Bridges for Highway 16
Is Completed to Desdemona Cemetery
Highway 80, about ten miles
east of Ranger at the intersec-
tion of highway 16, one can turn
right going from Eastland for
8 or 9 miles on the brand new
highway 16 that one day will
come right on into De Leon.
Pavement is laid and the bal-
anr~ of the distance from the
end of the pavement about 7 61
8 miles to the Desdemona cem-
etery the road bed and bridges
are finished—this is to the Co-
manche County line.
This road when completed
will take care of many cars each
day. It may be another year
before plans can be worked out
to finish the stretch between the
Desdemona , Cemetery and De
Leon.
District Engineer Bob Milligan
said at a Community Club meet-
ng last Thursday nght, in his
opinion, the road would be com-
pleted ih the next year or so.
Highway easements and all deeds
are complete and in the hands
of the proper officials according
to information.
Highway 16 on north will ben-
efit lots of people as the route
all the way is thickly populated
and much interest is manifest in
its completion.
gratulated for the way they are
*____ *** '■ ----and for
their desire to make the tele-
phone system one of the best in
this area.
That Manufacturing Plant
For De Leon
(By F. D. Hicks)
It is said that a city is like an individual—where there
is no enthusiasm and interest to do big and better things
nothing much can be accomplished. But this is not true of
the people of De Leon. Both business men and women and
the average layman are enthusiastic about the possibilities
of securing some sort of manufacturing plant here that will
give employment to our people, and enable them to work
and earn their daily bread without having to leave home.
A list of signatures of every business man and woman
in the city justifies the above statement that our people' are
definitely interested in some sort of cooperative move that
will encourage a plant to be built here—or at least plans
will be presented at a later date where all can know just
what can be expected. It is worth the try and effort put
forth by those who have been assigned the task of securing
F* insisted on this feature
[fullest extent,” said Burle-
knd am glad we have at
gotten this much concession
|hem.”
Fd'ng to Burleson, the
r price on peanuts will
F to 90 per cent of the Feb-
| 15. 1952 parity price of
rr ton, and it makes pro-
for proportionate increase
Iparity price at the start of
Meeting season is higher
I®8 minimum level an-
|® today.
I support price for peanuts
r purchase agreements,
I "’ill be available for the
r* Under this provision,
Prs may sig ncontracts be-
[no* and the end of Janu-
f*t year, and if at the end
[Market year, which is set
ft,”' 1953, they have not
Pk to market their crop qt
r. a°°ve the support price,
^estimated at $239.40 per
[the average for all types,
rt” then sell to the Com-
r Credit Corporation.
L, ®°uthwestem Peanut
P. Association and other
Fjyes will be offered
I®® they in turn can pro-
Pady market for peanuts
pt price.
P ‘L*s Practicable, produc-
rW1H be made on the farm
L *nd this phase of the
F/2,1* be handled by the
Fa County PMA.
F*®man Burleson said
F *ill continue every ef-
P® the PMA, insisting on
F Possible administrative
L meeting last week of
hmunity Club there was
LiiU discussion as to the
by of locating some sort
Eufacturng plant, or dis-
[ plant, here at De Leon
Could provide a pay roll,
kiding work for citizens
| town and for those
but this fanning area dur-
fslack season when farm
I completed.
lent C. M. Caraway Jr. of
bmunity Club saw a pos-
|of working out such a
Ld appointed a committee
bre any avenue that might
k or available to get such
toil arrangement. H. G.
[R. T. Stephens and O H.
[were appointed on this
tee to make such contacts
[could find.
k has been suggested a
I’s Wear manufacturing
ITiis might, if well
out, give employment to
k as 100 ladies in the sew-
Eartment of such a factory,
[suggestions have been
| The committee has held
gs and plans are already
bay to make contacts and
|at can be done. This com-
[will be glad to have any
lion along these lines from
le. A report will be made
i next regular meeting of
immunity Club.
MRS. CAMPBELL
UNDERGOES SURGERY
Mrs. George Campbell under-
went surgery Tuesday morning
I at Blackwell-Rodgers Hospital in
I Gorman.
All Texas Counties Now Under Drouth
Regulations — Farmers May Get Loans
All Texas counties are now un-
der designation as disaster areas
by proclamation of the U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture. The
action qualifies farmers who have
suffered crop losses and who are
unable to obtain credit elsewhere
for loans from the Farmers Home
Administration to put in 1952
crops. Announcement of the
designation was made at Dallas,
headquarters of the Farmers
Home Administration by L. J.
Cappieman, State Director.
Bad weather conditions in 1951
reduced crop yields materially
and tightened <up credit condi-
tions, to the extent that many
farmers were unable to finance
crop plantings. Disaster loans are
now available in each county.
Farmers who have sustained pro-
duction losses on crops and live-
stock may apply for funds to pay
for seed, fertilizer and materials
for insect control where needed,
gas and oil for tractors, feed for
livestock, essential farm and
home operating expenses, ma-
._r„_ __ ex-
incident to the produc-
Dear Diary,
What do you think of the home
and the homemaker, who, when
you step briskly up to her front
door, answers your ring, as one
member expressed it, “looking
like the tail-end of destruction?”
Grimy apron — dirty run-over
shoes — stringy hair.
Somebody asked that question
the other day at H. D. Club meet-
ing. We were discussing practi-
cal, comfortable and attractive
work clothes.
Dora spoke right out and said
in her emphatic way, “Well, I
don’t care how pretty and clean
a room looks behind a woman, if
she comes to the door looking
sloppy, I suspect there is dirt un-
der the rug and dust on top of
the picture frames.”
We all lauhged then, but when
I got home and changed into my
work clothes, I went to the full-
length mirror on the hall door
and gave myself an honest ap-
praisal. And was that mirror hon-
est'
Ther * I stood in what had been
a dress-up dress last year — of
course one sleeve was ripped and
it was too tight — the color nev-
er had been too good for me and
now it was faded in some of the
most obvious spots. My apron
had one pocket comer loose—of
course I’d pinned it back up with
a good strong safety pin. And
those shoes! I could have been
taken for the scullery maid in a
fairy tale!
Right then and there I vowed
to make a new resolution to take
the place of those poor fractured
new year promises.
I remembered what the agent
had said about the right fabrics t
for work clothes. Patterns too--
sleeves that don’t rip out and
skirts that don’t blow into every-
thing—pretty too! Seersucker
doesn’t take much ironing and
denim wears well.
And those old shoes! From now
in they stay on the back porch,
and don’t go trailing through the
house to give people the idea
there’s dust on top of my picture
frames!
Yours for more
door-openers.
Harry Truman will not be a
candidate for reelection. At least
that is what he told some 6,000
democrats at the Jackson Day
banquet last week. It was good
news for most of the country re-
gardless of how many politicans
feigned surprise. This now
throws the possibilites wde open.
Kefauver, Kerr and Russell are
all trying to get the nod while
the republicans are calling each
other names trying to get their
party’s endorsement.
Not manjrpeople in this country
believe that Truman could have
been reelected because of the
waste in spending, high taxes and
war.
The democratic convention will
be held in July and Truman will
probably have a big hand in pick-
ing the nominee.
With the withdrawal of hard-
luck Harry it looks like the re-
publicans are in for another
licking because they do not have
the attractive bait offered by the
democrats who have given the
country such wonderful prosper-
ity and good times for the past
20 years—2 wars i—2 —
billion dollars in debt. What
price.
Sgt. Stanley Hansford who is
visiting his father, H. S. Hans-
ford, is just back from 17 months
spent in Korea and Japan. The
Sergeant has served two hitches
in the armed forces, the first in
World War II that carried him
to Italy, and the police action to
Korea and Japan.
The Sergeant discusses the Far
East situation with much inter-
est—says while the supplies for
the armed forces are plentiful,
it is very hard to figure out what
to expect next. He thinks the
Japs will stand hitched after the
Yanks come home.
Sgt. Hansford was with the
quartermaster service supply un-
it. The Sergeant will receive his
discharge soon and said up to
date he does not know whether
he will try again or just settle
down for a change.
MRS. CAGER MOHON
UNDERGOES SURGERY
Mrs. Cager Mohon is in
Hillcrest Hospital in Waco where
she underwent surgery Thursday.
the names of the ones who are interested in the movement.
Some will say this can’t be done—it was done at Dublin,
Granbury, Garland, Nocona and a number of other towns
just like De Leon.
This same crowd told Teddy Rossevelt the Panama Canal
could never be built. Look at it today. The Wright Brothers in
trying io build airplanes were tofd it was impossible for men to
learn to fly like birds. Our people today tour the skies and spand
the oceans in a day. And on and on we could go.
All De Leon people are behind securing some sort of manu-
facturing plant for our people and will do everything within the
bounds of reason to carry the proposition to a successful conclusion.
Our hats are off to the Community Club for the •encourage-
ment and especially to its officers who were among the first to
sign the paper lending every assistance possible to the movement.
Keep the good work going.
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