The De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 6, 1953 Page: 1 of 7
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DE LEON FREE PRESS, DE LEON, TEXAS, THURSDAY. AUG. 6. iy5.5
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De Leon Products
Featured on TV
Show Over WBAP
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and Melon Festival
Leon August 13 - 15.
Sinclair Station
To Be Modernized
0. T. Denman Now
Minister of Local
Let’s all make plans for the
Peach and Melon Festival
in De Leon August 13 • 15.
Have a
Guest Ticket
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now deceased founded the Mount
Vernon Optic-Herald and later
for a number of years published
the Sulphur Springs Daily Ga-
zette.
Due to Peach and Melon Fes-
tival edition coming out early
next week it resquested that all
news items and advertising copy
be sent into the Free Press of-
fice as soon as posseible. News
left out of this particular issue
will be carried the following
week.
DR. REYNOLDS PATIENT
IN LOCAL HOSPITAL
Dr. A. M. Reynolds is a pa-
tient in the De Leon Hospital
suffering from an attack of pois-
on ivy.
W. R. KING
Route 1, De Leon
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THE LEON THEATRE
and the
DE LEON FREE PRESS
“CITY OF BAD MEN”
Friday, August 7
Present This Coupon
at Box Office
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O. T. Denman of Elkhart, Tex-
as has been selected as the new
minister of the De Leon Church
of Christ.
Mr. Denman has served eigh-
Bibby Variety Store
Nearing Completion
A H. Bibby, who has operated
a store in the Spencer building
for many years, has purchased
the building formerly occupied
by Black’s Cafe and has had
workmen busy for several weeks
overhauling the building and
modernizing it throughout. Mod-
ern lighting fixtures have been
installed and when the stock is
moved and set up, it will be a-
mong the most attractive stores
in town.
Childress the tourists
lor home. Everyone had
time and saw many
hat will be helpful in
g our ranges and fields.
nancial report which is made a
part of the records of the Club.
Mr. Terrill reported receipts and
disbursements in detail but a
brief summary shows that as of
July 1, 1952, there was a balance
of $798.48. There has been added
to thia by dues dnd donations
$1985 00, making a total income
of $2693.48. Expenditures showed
in detail a total of $1917.63, leav-
ing a balance of $775.85. To this
was added an unexpended bal-
ance carried over from the 1951
Peach & Melon Festival of •
$185.18, making a net balance of,
$961 03.
The De Leon Community Club
has given a good' account of it-
self since its organization many
years ago. A large percentage
of the business men, farmers and
property owners actively support
and encourage the Club.
Melon Growers to
Meet Next Week
The second Tuesday nigh
each month is the regular meet-
ing time for the De Leon Melon
Growers Association. The next
meeting will be Tuesday night of
next week, Aug. 11, at the city
hall at 8:00 p.m.
There will be some discussion
of plans for sales at this meet
ing. All members are requested
to attend.
I DON L. McCORD RECEIVES
HIS DOCTOR S DEGREE
Don L. McCord received his
Doctor’s Degree recently from
Southwestern Medical School of
the University of Texas at Dal-
las. Dr. McCord is a son-in-law
of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Price of
De Leon.
Shelby’s Install New
Candy Display Case
The Lex Shelby Pharmacy has
recently installed a completely
new and modern refrigerated
candy display case. The case is
attractively designed and glass
enclosed and is automatically
regulated to maintain the coirect
temperature at all times for the
proper preservation of the fine
candies featured by the store.
Mr. Shelby cordially invites
his friends and customers to
come in and see this modern ad-
dition to his progresaive drug
store. |
Polio Funds Sent to
Chapter by National
A check for $725.00 to help pay
for care for local polio patients
has been received by the Co-
, manche County Chapter of the
National Foundation for Infan-
tile Paralysis, it was announced
today by Mr. Elzo Brinson,
Chapter Chirman.
When March of Dimes funds
are raised, Mr. Brinson explain-
ed, half stays here with the local
Chapter and half goes to nation-
al headquarters for research,
professional education and emer-
gency aid to chapters whose own
funds have been exhausted by
the demands of patient care. The
check just received comes from
this pooling of chapter funds at
national headquarters.
Mr. Brinson said record-break-
ing polio incidence in recent
years had exhausted the treas-
uries of many of chapters and
that, in many cases, new March
of Dimes funds had been com-
i mitted to the payment of old
bills before this year’s first case
had been reported.
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Plans Being: Talked
For Proctor Reservoir
Surveys have been made and
plans proposed for building a
great dam on the Leon River
near Proctor. The Chambers of
Commerce, clubs and local citi-
zens are making new plans to
get the reservoir approved and
the dam built. Dublin has taken
the lead in this. Citizens of Co-
manche, De Leon, Hamilton and
all other places in this vicinity
are asked to set up a committee
to work on this. It Is planned to
have these committees meet soon
at some central location and urge
this project.
J. H. Vance, as president of
the De Leon Community Club,
has appointed C. M. Caraway Sr.,
Hiram Locke and A. C. Schuman
as the committee from this terri-
tory.
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Sales Are Fair on
Truck Products
Market Street has come into
the busy season with great quan-
tities of peaches, cantaloupes,
grapes, watermelons, etc. coming
in for sale. Many trucks make
regular hauls from the De Leon
market. This week melons are
being shipped by carlots. The
quality of all fruit crops, melons,
etc. are up to the highest stan-
dard. It is estimated that sales
on the local market will run well
above the $100,090.00 mark be-
fore the season is over.
The melon crop is more than
a week late this year because of
late planting and unseasonable
weather in the early spring. It
serving as treasurer made a fi- » estimated that melon planting
W. C. House of Comanche,
who owns the Sinclair filling
station property in De Leon, has
had a crew working and plans
a general overhauling and re-
building program. The office is
being moved out this week and
more room provided for the en-
larged building.
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nservationists PMA Elections Vital
To Texas Farmer
COLLEGE STATION, Aug. 4—
“To PMA county and community
committeemen to be elected in
August by Texas farmers partic-
ipating in PMA program will
fall the important duty of de-
termining farm acreage allot-
ments on any crops for which
allotments are in effect in 1954,”
State PMA Chairman Claude K.
McCan said today.
Secretary Benson has already
set in motion the preliminary
work necessary in preparation
for possible acreage allotments
and marketing quota programs
•n 1954 crops of wheat and cot-
ton if such controls should be
required for these crops.
Urging all farmers concerned
in any PMA programs to get out
and vote, Chairman McCan said,
“Establishment and supervision
of farm acreage allotments "when
they are in effect is not the only
duty of PMA committeemen.
Price support loan programs and
purchase agreements are locally
under their direction. Storage
facility loans available to far-
mers needing additional storage
space for grains and seeds on
their farm must be approved by
the county cofnmitee. These
loans are intended to supplement
regular means of credit to in-
crease grain storage capacity.
Local administration of Crop
Insurance, with the exception of
loss adjustment, is another pro-
gram under supervision of coun-
ty Committeemen.
h Tucker and wife, Louise
publishers of the De
Free Press for the past
this week announced the
t the paper to James F.
g, Comanche attorney.
>, who has been connected
he Freer Press for the past
sars, will continue his as
in with the paper and will
charge of the composing
‘Dub’ Brown Home
Destroyed by Fire
Mr. and Mrs. “Dub” Brown
lost their home and contents by
fire Sunday evening about 6:30
o’clock when lightning struck the
house.
The family had gone to the
storm cellar and didn’t know
what had happened until they
came out and found their home
demolished.
The house and contents were
covered by insurance.
in the De Leon trade territory
will run up to and possibly
above 5,000 acres.
There has been a good demand
for high grade peaches and the
supply will fall far short of the
demand. Prices for peaches va-
ry from grade to grade and to
some degree by variety.
Melons at the first of this week
were selling at about $20.00 per
ton but the price has been gov
emed much by grade, size and
variety.
L W. SEYMOUR
IGOES SURGERY
L. W. Seymour, District
Itendent of the Cisco Dis-
Ent under surgery Friday
5 a.m. at the Harris Me-
[Hospital m Fort Worth,
s reported to be getting
kicely. His address is Rm.
tris Hospital, Fort Worth,
Mr. and Mrs. Black
To Open New Cafe
L. M. Black, the popular cafej
man, has been on vacation while |
the stock of merchandise was be-|
Ing moved from the Spencerj
building and will have the build-1
ing worked over and will install!
the most modem cafe fixtures
where he will operate his cafe.
It is said to be a most excellent
location for a cafe.
Mr. and Mrs. Black have re-
cently returned from an extend-
ed tour which took them into
Colorado, California and many
famous tourist places.
O.E.S. HAVE STATED MEET
MONDAY EVENING
The O.E.S. No. 693 will have
their regular stated meeting
Monday evening, Aug. 10 at 8
o’clock. All members are urged
to be present. Visitors are wel-
come.
Castor Bean Plant
Is Needed Here
Many well informed persons
believe that the castor been will,
in time, become a prominent
crop in this territory. The past
two years have been discourag-
ing because of adverse weather
conditions. With the return of
normal rainfall it is thought the
crop could be made profitable.
There has been inquiry about es-
tablishing a castor bean process-
ing plant here.
This has been discussed at the
Community Club meeting. Whit
Sides, J. D. Tate and T. H. Wil-
liams were appointed as a com-
mittee to confer with those in-
terested in this endeavor.
NOTICE
The Annual Fisher - Strickland
and Nelson reuniop will be held
Friday and Saturday, Aug 7 and
8 at Lake Eanes, Comanche.
Friends are cordially invited to
attend.
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Last Saturday the Doc Ruh-
mann Farm Program on WBAP-
TV was devoted to showing
peaches, watermelons, apples and
cantaloupes produced in the De
Leon territory.
Mr. Rhumann, who is a for-
mer county agent of Comanche
County, has a very popular pro-
gram which is watched by a mul-
titude of people. Mr. Rhumann
and W. H. Smith worked out the
plans for the program and the
De Leon Community Club and
the Watermelon Growers Asso-
ciation carried out the plans. Mr.
Smith furnished the fine peach-
es and the apples and others fur-
nished melons and cantaloupes.
A list of all who contributed to
this program was not available.
However, some of the world’s
best products were shown.
The program was well receiv-
ed as was indicated by compli-
ments by those familiar with
such programs and phone calls
that came in making inquiry
about the availability of such
products. The purpose of the pro-
gram was to call the attention
to what we can produce here.
An ^musing feature was in-
cluded in which some Negro
children entered a watermelon
eating contest. They seemed to
enjoy the contest and incidental-
ly checked the complicated pro-
cedure and machinery for tele-
vision.
Mayor W. B. Nowlin officially
represented the City of De Leon:
O. H. Moore represented the De
Leon Community Club as secre-
tary of the club; S. W. Coan
represented De Leon Watermel-
on Growers Association as a
member of the executive com-
mittee; Cagfcr Mohon was on the
Drngram as a business represen-
tative. and Cleo Jenkins repre
sented the farmers generallv and
especially the cantaloupe grow-
ers. Charles Ross went Along but
did not participate in the pro-
grant However, Mr. Ross made
a good hand at the steak dinner
at the famous Chuck Wagon Ca-
fe which Doc Rhumann provided
for the De Leon gang.
De Leon products were well
advertised and all who went had
a most enjoyable time.
Community Club
Elects Officers -
At the regular meeting of the
Community Club held at the
Bearcat Grill Thursday night of
last week the Club elected offi-
cers for the coming year and
heard committee reports. The
meeting was well attended and
the work done by the Club for
several years justifies its suc-
cessful continuation.
R. V. Bond who has served
the past year as vice-president,
was elected to succeed Mr. J. H.
Vance in that office. Mr. Vance
had carried on the work faith-
fully and well and the accom-
plishments in his administration
have been significant, but the
custom of the Club has been to
promote the vice-president and
that no president can succeed
himself.
Mr. Bond has been active in
the Club and will carry on the
work successfully.
Elmon Kerby was elected vice-
president and Eldon Terrill was
elected treasurer. The president
will appoint the committees at
the next meeting.
Eldon Terrill who has been
Woodward the tour car-
[ group to Shamrock,
there they spent Thurs
it. Friday morning they
kn to Childress, Texas
r. Chester Hufstedler of
I conducted the group
I large Mill Iron Ranch,
fccipal grass planting
n this ranch was blue
I The Mill Iron has sev-
usand acres planted to
ss and is planning on
[more fields. With on-
" inches of rain all the
i grass is about two feet
0. E. Rippetoe Has
Resigned as Manager
Of Comanche CofC
O. E. Rippetoe announced
this week his resignation as
manager of the Comanche Cham-
ber of Commerce effective Aug
1, and announced that he is now
associated with Scott, McDonald
& Harrell. Consulting Engineers
and Architects of Fort Worth, as
a field representative. Rippetoe
will continue to make his home
in Comanche, he stated and will
travol a wide territory in the
Comanche area.
Rippetoe is a former county
judge of Comanche County and
served as county commissioner
from the De Leon precinct for a
number of years. During his ten-
ure of service as manager of the
Comanche Chamber of Com-
merce a great many worthwhile
community projects were under-
taken and successfully completed
by the Chamber of Commerce,
notably the construction and
completion by public subscrip-
tion of a $10,000.00 community
swimming pool at Lake Eanes
near Comanche.
Rippetoe’s many friends
throughout the county wish him
every success in his new field
of work.
having labored in many points of
east and west Texas, including
San Angelo, Kermit, Wink, Bu-
pon, Gilmer, Hague, Rosebud,
Marlin, Bartlett and also in the
states of Colorado and New
Mexico.
He attended Sam Houston
State Teachers College, Hunts-
ville, and is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. E. H. Denman of Grape-
land, Texas.
[ Fanning, the former
lie Woodruff, is a daughter
and Mrs. C. W. Woodruff
Bwnwood. She will act as
jseper and cashier. The
Jigs have three children,
plan to move to De Leon
i the near future.
ning at the present time is
ig as county attorney of Co-
le County. He has an-
ed that he will resign his
and take over active man-
hit of the Free Press with-
» near future.
ning was bom and reared
Iphur Springs in Northeast
, and comes of a long line
wspaper forbears. H i s
father, J. M. Fanning, and
ither, Will Fanning, both
Ray Kinnard entered the De
Leon Municipal Hospital around,
noon Tuesday for medical aid.
es F. Fanning Purchases the
Leon Free Press August 1st
Texas State College
M FESTIVAL STARTS THURSDAY WITH BIG PARADE
Farmers Are Urged to Leave Melons
For Slicing at Locker for Cooling
Murray Cox to Speak
Thursday Afternoon
Plans are now complete for
De Leon*,* annual Peach and
Melon Festival and advance re-
ports indicate that this year’s
celebration is to be one of the
biggest and best in the history
of this colorful event.
In charge of this year’s affair
are Eldon Terrill, L. H. Scales
and Arvil Setzler.
The Festival will officially be-
gin Thursday afternoon, Aug. 13,
with a talk by Murray Cox, ra-
dio farm editor at 4:30, followed
with a downtown parade starting
at 6:00 o’clock. A number of
floats are being made ready for
the parade.
Ralph Terrill who has beeen
heading this parade for four
year and doing a fine job, is
in charge again this year. All
merchants are asked to show
their appreciation by entering
a float of any description.
On Thursday evening follow-
ing the parade will be the coro-
nation of the queen and the
queen’s ball. One of the high-
lights of the Friday night pro-
gram will be the staging «f a
gigantic old fashioned square
dance with Owen Renfro from
Abilene as M.C.
Climax of the show Saturday
night will be an amateur show
featuring the Hillbilly Kids, a
Comanche County amateur group
that has made a number of high-
ly successful appearances on var-
ious shows through the state.
Drawing for cash prizes in
connection with merchandise
tickets now being given by De
Leon merchants will be held
each night of the Festival at
9:45. The merchants are helping
finance the Festival with these
tickets which is deeply appre-
ciated by the committee.
The traditional watermelon
sliotaxg will be ataged'^riMKW p.m.
Saturday.) Melons for this event
are still Being accepted at the
locker plant and any growers
who wbuld like to donate melons
for this purpose are urged to
bring them in as soon as possible
so they will get good and cold
for the slicing.
Cash awards will be made for •
the best melons entered in the
show. Growers desiring to enter
their melons in the prize compe-
tition are requested to contact R.
H. Campbell.
Home Demonstration Clubs
and other organizations desiring
to enter their wares for cash
prizes are urged to contact R. H.
Campbell or Milton Robertson.
Plans have been made to stage
a pet parade in connection with
this year’s show. Anyone desir-
ing to enter a pet is asked to
contact Delton Nabors, dial 3221.
The queen candidates and
their sponsors are Peggy Parks,
Country Dairymen; Gayle Done-
gan, Sorority; and Shirley Bas-
sett, Lions Club. The public is
invited to vote for their choice-
st any of the drug stores.
BeeBe Shugart, native of Gor- >
man, will bring his recently pur-
chased BeeBe Shugart Show to
the Festival together with a
troup of some 70 show people
who will man the rides, shows
and concessions featured by the
show. Mr. Shugart operates one
of the nicest and cleanest shows
on the road, and has entertain-
ment for both young and old.
A complete schedule of Festi-
val activities is carried, else
where in this issue.
nspection Tour
b of some 70 men, who
rested in Soil Conser
id range work, took a
ugh North Texas and
Oklahoma July 29 thru
t week in two large
[buses.
baking the tour from
tvere H. J. Huddleston,
hens, Walter Chapman,
L Morgan.
lup left Mineral Wells
kesday morning about
I first stop of the tour
rnon, Texas. There Mr.
Harvel, Area Conser-
of the Soil Conserva-
ce, conducted the group
is of the deep, sandy
ere they saw many
Iry land alfalfa. Some
fields had made three
Already this year.
lemon the group next
,t Altus, Okla. Here Mr.
■irrell, of the Soil Con-
| Service, showed some
bs seeding of blue parii-
[ on irrigated and dry
bt night of the tour was
IClinton, Okla. From
|y went to Woodward,
fcispect the work being
he Great Plains Experi-
jtion. Mr. E. H. McIL
Ke Ecologist, and a part
iff conducted the group
Hie station. Here plant
[and selecting is being
h such grasses as side
ba, buffalo grass, switch
|d many others. From
fciment station proper
t> went to the large
pied and opertaed by
Ion. This ranch was
Emiles north of Wood-
11 only about 15 miles
I Kansas border. Here
provement experiments
Ed on with many kinds
Free Press Increases
Subscription Rates
Outside of County
The Free Press this week re-
luctantly announces that it has
become necessary t o increase
rates on subscriptions outside of
Comanche County and surround-
ing counties from $2.50 to $3.00
per year, effective at once. The
che and surrounding SXI Church of Christ
will remain unchanged at $2 00
per year.
The necessity of this increase
in rates has been brought about
by the increased cost of news- ----- - „ ,
print, a change in postal regu- teen years as a Gospel minister,
lations governing distribution of having labored in many points of
newspapers and the general in-
creased cost of production.
at Com-
merce, where he was associate
editor of the East Texan. He later
worked on the editorial and ad-
vertising staffs of the Austin
Dispatch, the Austin Tribune and
the State Observer at Austin,
and the Amarillo Times in Ama-
rillo.
During World War II Fanning
served in the Army for some
three years as an agent in the
Security Intelligence Corps and
Counter-intelligence Corps. Fol-
lowing his discharge he studied
law at the University of Texas
and South Texas College of Law
at Houston, and was admitted to
the bar in 1948. He has prac-
ticed law at Comanche since
1949 and has been serving as
county attorney since Jan. 1,
1953
Fanning is a member of the
Masonic Lodge and the Metho-
dist Church. At the present time
he is serving as Senior Vice-
Commander of the Comanche
American Legion Post, is secre-
tary-treasurer of the 52nd Judi-
cial District Bar Association, and
is a member of the board of di-
rectors of -the Comanche Cham-
Fanning is a graduate of East ber of Commerce.
Library Opened in
Home of Mr and ‘
Mrs. G. H. Harmon
A new Loan Library is being
opened this week in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Guy H. Harmon
at the end of East Reynosa St.
They reserved their stock of
books when the business was
sold, and have since added a
large number of Popular Copy-
rights and late fiction. There are
also girls’ and boys’ books for
every age, and some children’s
books. A nice collection of ref-
erence books are also available.
New books will be added and
a collection of reading material
can be found in this Library,
which will be open from 2:30
until 5:30 on Tuesdays and Fri-
days. Will open at any time if
you telephone 3515. A small ren-
tal charge will be made on
books taken out of the Library.
With him are his wife, the for-
mer Geneva Nance of Thornton
and two children, Byron and
Pamela. The Denmans are mak-
ing their home at 604 Ross St.
RAY KINNARD PATIENT
IN DE LEON HOSPITAL
Ray Kinnard entered the
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