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The One Newspaper in the World Most Interested In Bogata
BOGATA, RED RIVER COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1953
NUMBER 37
VOLUME 41
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CONDENSED STATEMENT OF THE
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
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Our Stores Will Be
At Close of Business June 30th, 1953
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Other Stocks and Bonds .......
Cash and Due from Banks ......
Banking House . _____________________
Furniture & Fixtures------------
Real Estate____________________
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LEGGETT CATCHES A
LARGE BARACUDA
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CLOSED MONDAY, JULY 6th
for the holiday —
PAUL DILL
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Tullus E. Perry
Dies at Roxton
Funeral service was held
Tullus
DRY GOODS
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Showers Break
Month Heat Wave
Chas. Floyd Killed
In Truck-Car Crash
Charles Floyd, 6 year old son
of Mrs. Leo Floyd of Amarillo
and Doyle Floyd of Midland, for-
merly of Milton, was fatally in-
jured Thursday morning, June 25.
at Amarillo, when a fire truck ]
rushing to answer a false alarm
and a car driven by his cousin,
Roselle Williams, crashed. .
Funeral services were conduct-
ed at 10 a, m. Saturday in Am-
arillo by Dr. Carl E. Bates, pas-
tor of First Baptist Church and
burial was in Llano Cemetery in
Amarillo. Attending the funeral
from here was his uncle, Hous-
ton Floyd of Milton.
$451,781.61
... 59,150.00
16,825.00
348,545.31
... 1,000.00
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. $877303.92
WHITTEN
LUMBER CO.
TALCO AND DOGA?A
Capital '...............____________________$50,000.00
Surplus ....... .............. 40.000.00
Undivided Profits ___________1_______. 5,924.93
Reserve for Taxes ---------..--------------- 551.48
Reserve for Contingencies______________ 15,743.19
DEPOSITS __________________._....._________ 765,084.32
$877,303.92
S . IM BOGATA. TEXAS
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An all day singing and home-
coming will be held at Johntown
next Sunday, July 5. Everyone
who will, come and bring lunch
which will be Spread at the noon
hour, picnic style, according to
James Ward, president. It was
voted to hold Red River County
Singing Convention the first Sat-
urday night and Sunday in June,
1954, at Rugby.
Mr. and Mrs. Billy A. Leggett
returned Tuesday from a two
weeks’ visit with 2nd Lieut, and
Mrs. Dean Leggett at Panama
City, Fla. While there, bathing,
sun bathing and fishing filled
most of their time as Dean and
wife live near the beach. Sharks,
bass and many kinds of fish were
hooked, and while out deep-sea
fishing, Billy Allen caught a 23-
pound baracuda, which proved
to be quite a tough one.
Enroute home, they stopped a
couple of days in New Orleans,
La., and made a sightseeing tour
of the city. The French quarter
was especially interesting.
Mrs. W.
at the Pete Johnson food store.
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1 Talco Youth Dies
In Auto Wreck,
Two Injured
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SEASONABLE MERCHANDISE
Radio Batteries, Gold Seal Rugs
New Patterns of Wallrite
Tacks to match
Ka-Bar Pocket Knives
Rods, Reels, Lines and Lures
Cane Poles and Hooks
Gas Lanterns, Camp Cots .
Flash Lights «
CLOSED MONDAY, JULY <th
RITT LASSITER HARDW
Much Activity at
TPL Generating
Plant on Sulphur
Those who have visited the new
Texas Power and Light Co. 80,-
000-KWH plant being construct-
ed on Sulphur near Johntown,
marvel at the magnitude of the
plant and well they may.
Steel frame work for the big
outdoor boiler and generator is
going up. A warehouse has been
constructed and a deep well for
good water drilled and an over-
head tank built.
Levee dirt work for construc-
tion of the 600 acre lake to im-
pound water looks like it is about
two-thirds completed.
Poles, cross-arms, great rolls of
copper wire and insulators have
been unloaded at Talco. The
plant is scheduled to be com-
pleted early next year.
Grad Class 1928
Holds Reunion
The 1928 graduating class
Bogata High School held a
union at the community house In
Bogata, Sunday. The house was
beautifully decorated with cut
flowers.
Those attending the picnic at
the noon hour were Mr. and Mrs.
Rayford C. Marshall of Corsi-
cana, superintendent of schools
in 1928 and class sponsor, Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Rodgers of Odessa and
Austin, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Lee
and Karen of Arlington, Mrs.
Truman Brice, Arlington; Mr.
and Mrs. Murray Franklin and
Norma and Deloris of Deport,
Camille Woodard, Deport; Mr.
and Mrs. Odie Reece of Paris, Mr.
and Mrs. Alvin Wood, Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Hutson and Jerry,
Mr. and Mrs. Britt Lassiter, Mr.
and Mrs. Laurel Peaden and
Spurgeon, Mrs. Gus Swaim, Mr.
and Mrs. V. Thedford, Mr. and
Mrs. John D. Wilkinson and Miss
Mary Lassiter of Bogata.
Open house was held during
the afternoon with Mis. Jack
Rodgers and Mrs. Laurel Peaden
serving punch and cake and Miss
Mary Lassiter registering guests.
Many visitors called during the
afternoon.
The class spent muefrof the day
reminiscing old times and look-
ing at scrap books and school pic-
tures. A number of wires, let-
ters and phone calls were receiv-
ed congratulating the class.
Gullion Reunion at
Fulbright Sunday
Annual reunion of descendants
of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. E.‘Gul-
lion was held Sunday at the Paul
Hill Park near Fulbright. Fifty- •
eight were in attendance for the
bountiful picnic dinner at the
noon hour.
Guests were present from Deni-
son, Houston, Dallas, Ft. Worth,
Denton, Amarillo, Clarksville,
Bogata. Deport, Fulbright, Okla-
home City and Wayne, Ok. Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Hill were afternoon
visitors.
The reunion will be held at the
same place in 1954 on the fourth
Sunday in June.
Honor Roll of
News Subscribers
The Bogata News takes
means of thanking subscribers
listed below for their subscrip-
tions:
Elizabeth Allums
Mrs. W. W. Kooken
Basil Robinson
Jack Rodgers
Mrs. Virgil Tyer
Mrs. Lula Thomas
Mrs. Sallie Provence
Clyde Hare
M. B. Trimm
Six Men Enter
Armed Service
The following six registrants
were forwarded by Local Board
No. 104, Clarksville, to the Main
Station in Dallas on June 23, for
induction:
Richard Earl Biggs, Manchester.
Norris Bell, Clarksville.
James McCulloch, Clarksville.
James Earl McCulloch, R6,
Clarksville.
Benjamin Beasley Samuels, II,
Clarksville.
James Weldon Newton, Rt. 6,
Clarksville.
Oil Activities in
Red River, Bowie
In southern Red River County
drilling has reached 5,435 at Sea-
board’ Oil No. 1 Coline Develop-
ment, I. Tejada survey, planned
Smackover lime test ten miles
northeast of Talco. On a drill-
stem test at 4,929-51 in the Travis
Peak the well got salt water with
no oil show.
In Bowie County over a mile
north of Simms townsite in the
central part of the county, Am-
erada Petroleum Corporation,
operating from Longview is to
drill No. 1 Dorothy Nell Watts as
a 4,500-foot Paluxy sand test.
Site is 660 from the north and
1,980 from the east lines of a 292-
acre tract in the David Looney
survey.
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Turner, Yakima', Wash.; Mrs. J.
E. Sides and Mrs. Norman
Knight, Ft. Worth, and Mrs. W.
R. Logsson, Aurora, Mo.; 14
grandchildren and three great-
grandchildren.
Scattered showers Sunday and
Monday dropped the mercury
from the near 100 degree temper-
atures, prevailing in this area for
the past month, to a low of 69
Sunday night.
While the showers were not
heavy enough to be of great bene-
fit to the corn crop, gardens, to-
matoes, pasture and grassland
were helped some. Much of the
corn crop is too far gone to be
benefitted.
Cotton, apparently doing all
right in the drouth and heat, will
also benefit from, the rains, but
farmers, will be on the look-out
for a build-up of insects. Some
late-planted cotton had not come
up because of lack of moisture,
and this may bring the seed up.
While the showers Sunday and
Monday broke the heat wave,
more rain is needed to put a good
season in the ground and to re-
plenish in some places dwindling
water supplies.
Total rainfall here this year is
27.90 inches as compared with
19.95 inches to this date last year.
Harvey Family
Reunion July 4
The Harvey clan will hold its
annual family reunion at the Mil-
ton community center on July 4.
These reunions have been held
for many years and attendance is
increasing each year.
There were ten children in the
family of the late Mr. and Mrs.
E. J. Harvey, and their descend-
ants now represent three genera-
tions.
THANK YOU, FRIENDS
Mrs. Marshall joins me in ex-
^^ressing our sincere appreciation
^Knd thanks to the Bogata and De-
port Volunteer Fire Departments
and Bogata citizens for their
work when fire b^oke out in our
garage. George Marshall, db-c
^HlOne Talco youth was killed
^roout 3 o’clock Monday afternoon
and two men were injured as a
result of an automobile mishap
on Highway 271, about a mile
south of Talco. All three were
residents of Talco.
• Killed in the accident was Rob-
bie Joe Easterling, 18, son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. E. Easterling. Char-
ley Lee Grissom, 28, was admit-
ted to Taylor Hospital, Mt. Pleas-
• ant, for treatment of serious in-
juries and Raymond Smith, 27,
was rushed to a Texarkana hos-
pital for immediate dental sur-
gery after many of hi? teeth were
knocked out and his jaw was
fractured, investigating officers
said.
The accident occurred during a
j^^iving rain, and according to
^Hky Mayes, highway patrolman,
the car skidded on wet pavement,
left the road and crashed into a
tree. Eyewitnesses to the acci-
dent reportedly stated that the
car was not traveling at an ille-
gal speed, indicating that some-
thing could have gone wrong with
the car mechanically.
K The trio, authorities said, were
enroute from Talco to the home
of Grissom’s father-in-law, Bert
Hanks, to get a trailer in which
they planned to move a cow.
Hanks lives on Highway 271,
about five miles south of Talco.
Young Easterling’s body was
taken to . Smith-Bates Funeral
home in preparation for funeral
services which were held at the
Calvary Baptist Church at 2
o’clock Wednesday afternoon. The
rites were under direction of Rev.
Jphn Dvorak, Rev. R. E. Baucum
'jUfepd Rev. Martin of Hagansport.
^Burial was in the Talco ceme-
~t^ry.
The youth is a native of Frank-
lin Countjj, and ,:was reared in
the Hagansport community. He
had resided in Talco for the past
five years, however, and is sur-
vived by his parents, and one sis-
ter, Miss Bettie Sue Easterling.
Active pallbearers for the Rob-
bie Joe Easterling funeral ser-
vice were his schoolmates: Billy
Rainey, Rex Sikes, Jack Smith,
Jimmy Stewart, Jackie Medlin
and Gilbert Burks. Honorary
pallbearers were J. W. Via, Roy
Primm, Lemuel Hargrove, Eu-
gene Brown and W. L. Cox.
Prayers for Rain
AUSTIN. — Gov. Allan Shivers
called Wednesday for a day of
prayer and fasting for rain,
thanked the Republican adminis-
tration for its speedy drouth dis-
aster relief program, and talked
of an inter-state meeting of
drouth-state Governors.
The Governor called on minis-
ters of all faiths and their con-
gregations to participate next
Sunday in a day of prayer in
seeking relief from the troubles
of drouth.
“A large area of Texas is in the
midst of a major drouth which is
adversely affecting the people,
the crops, the livestock and the
general welfare of the state,” said
the Governor in an official mem-
orandum.
“As much relief as can be giv-
en by human means has been
granted by agencies- of the state
and federal government.
“It is fitting that, in this time
of trouble, we should turn to the
One who is the source of all help.”
Shivers telegraphed President
Eisenhower that the people of
Texas appreciated the speed with
which attention was given by
him, Secretary of Agriculture
Ezra Benson and Civil Defense
Administrator Vai Peterson to
Texas’ request for a drouth dis-
aster area declaration.
Vegetable Supply
Short, Prices Up
Looking over the East Texas
tomato, deal this season we note
a carlot movement up to the end
of last week amounting to less
than 550 cars, it is probable that
the sum total for all East Texas
points will not exceed 600 cars
this year. Last year at this time,
East Texas shipments amounted
to 1163 cars which was consider-
ed a very short crop. This is the
second year in succession that the
volume of tqmatoes from this
area has been a disappointment
to both growers and shippers.
Prices to growers for green-
wrap tomatoes were most 1 to
12c per pound. Pinks and ripe
tomatoes were selling locally in
half bushel and, bushel baskets
at 20-23c per pound. Some grow-
ers are harvesting their tomatoes
as soon as they begin to sh6w
pink and holding them spread out
in the shade for several days un-
til they become red. This prac-
tice has reduced sunblister and
yellow skinned ripes to some de-
gree.
Other vegetables are short this
season because of drouth. Purple
hull, cream and blackeye peas
continue in strong demand at
around 15c per pound. Okra is
priced at $8 per bushel and
squash and bell pepper have such
a wide range in price that it is
difficult to quote. It sums up
that all produce is scarce and
high in price.
Dry weather is delaying the
maturity of Elberta peaches. It
will be the second week in Jyly
before any volume comes from
East Texas. Quality should be
good but sizes will be smaller
than was anticipated earlier. Cur-
rent prices—U. S. No. 1 peaches,
$5-$5.50 per bu, 2% inches’ and up.
Gov. Shivers Asks Mrs. Flemming
Buried Friday
Mrs. J. W. Flemming, 66, died
Thursday at home at Slabtown
near Biardstown, where she had
been ill some time. '
The funeral was held Friday at
Taylortown union church, con-
ducted by Sister Virgie Temple
and F. E. Lunsford of the Holi-
ness Church.
The former Miss Menah Steph-
enson, Mrs. Flemming was born
in Glory community, Dec. 25,
1889.
Survivors include her husbahd
and these children: .Jay Flemr
ming, Mrs. Wanda Ruth Hart and
Mrs. Nadine Von Deleski, all of
Biardstown vicinity; Mrs. W. O.
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S. Cody is employed i Jodie Craddock attended the fu-
| neral from Bogata.
PRESCRIPTIONS
When you bring your Prescriptions to Buckman
Drug Store, you can be sure they are properly
filled just like your doctor ordered, with no sub-
stitutions or alterations. This is why so many of
your friends depend upon our Prescription Ser-
vice. Prices are always right.
BUCKMAN DRUG STORE
Phone 59 AIR CONDITIONED BOGATA
Sat-
urday in Roxton, for Tullus E.
Perry, 63, a former Lamar Coun-
ty Commissioner.
Son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
John Perry, he was born at Pa-
ducah, Ky., Nov. 14, 1889, and
had lived in Lamar County about
45 years. He and the former
Miss Jett Lucy .King were mar-
ried Dec. 2, 1917.
He served a?, public cotton
weigher from 1919 to 1926 and
was elected county commissioner
for Precinct 2 in 1946.
Its Quality
MpAINT!”
Old Timers Attend
Motorcycle Races
Chas. E. Davis and Chas. Clif-
■ ton left Wednesday for Dodge
City, Kans., to attend the Cycote
Classic National motorcycle races
on July 4-5.
Davis is 68 years old and Clif-
ton 79. The former is an old
motorcycle racer, but quit racing
in 1916. He still rides for pleas-
ure. Most of his racing was done
at Wichita Falls and Lawton,
Ok. He has ridden a cycle up
Pike’s Peak.
These elderly gentlemen are
not making the trip on motor-
cycles, but in a Pontiac. They
expect to return home Monday.
TURNER’S
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4 Counties Plant
Pine Seedlings
Counties of Titus, Franklin,
Red River and Lamar all engag-
ed in tree planting with seed-
lings supplied by the State Nur-
sery, according to a report just
issued for all Texas counties.
Titus led the four counties with
16 planters who secured 23,000
slash pine, 2,500 short leaf and
1,100 long leaf for a total of 26,-
600 of all species.
Red River was second with sev-
en planters who put out 10,500
slash pine, and 1,000 long leaf for
a total of 11,500.
Franklin had four planters who
used 2,100 slash. 8,000 long leaf
for a total of 10,200.
Lamar had two planters who
used 1,000 long leaf and 200
others not designated.
Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Mohler,
Karen and Stacey of San Angelo,
arrived Wednesday for a visit
with her grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. T. L. Bryson. Mrs. Moh-
ler was Marylin Wood before her
marriage. Her brother, Jerry
Wood, accompanied them here af-
ter several weeks stay in San
Angelo.
OUT OF TOWN PEOPLE AT
MRS. ROBERTS FUNERAL
Out of town relatives and
friends attending the Roberts
funeral were:
From Dallas—Mrs. Mamie Reed,
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Clark and
James and J. H. Coppedge.
From Talco—Mrs. Effie Duty,
Mrs. Addie Stanley, Luther Bar-
ton and Mrs. Bob Pope.
From Fulbright—Arch Roberts,
Miss Helen Roberts, Miss Betty
Roberts and Wayne and Mack
Roberts.
. From Nacogdoches — Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Posey.
From Paris—R. S. Brymer and
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Anderson.
Mrs. John Howison is in Tyler,
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Carl
Click.
The Craddock family was noti-
fied Wednesday night of the
death of a cousin, Virgil Talley
of Winnsboro, who passed away
that morning at 5 o’clock in the
Veteran’s Hospital at McKinney
of cancer, where he had been a
patient the past three months.
Funeral services we‘re held Thurs-
day at 5 p. m. with burial at the
Lee Cemetery in Winnsboro. Miss
Loan Rate Down
On Cotton Seed
The government loan rate
1953 cotton seed will be less than
it was last year.
The new rate, based on 75 per
cent of parity, will figure $54.50
per ton.
Seventy-five per cent of parity
price will make them $54.50 un-
der the loan. That’s for seed
grading 100.
The loan rate last year was
based on 90 per cent of parity and
the loan rate was $66.40 per ton.
MM
NYLON, Value $1.79 yd—now -----------------$1.00 yd.
TISSUE GINGHAM, value $1.49—now 98c yd.
TISSUE CHAMBRAY, value 98c—now---------49c yd.
Light Weight BUTCHER LINEN I-------------------49c yd.
Short Length in PRINTS, reg. 49c—now 35c yd.
Men’s WESTERN STRAW HATS ..................4 - - $2.49
Men’s DRESS STRAW HATS ...------------------------- $198
Men’s NYLON SHIRTS ................-...... $2.98
Men’s* NYLON SHIRTS, value $4.98—now $3.49
New Box of REMNANTS -------------------% PRICE
One box of Odds and Ends, value $1.59—now 50c ea.
One lot of Boys SPORT SHIRTS, $1.98 val.—now $1.00
WE WILL BE CLOSED MONDAY, JULY 6th
FOR JULY 4th HOLIDAY
Mabry Awarded
$250 in Pasture
Improvements
A check for $250, representing
first place award in the 1953 com-
munity pasture improvement con-
test, sponsored by The Dallas
News in cooperation with the Ex-
tension Service, was presented to
the citizens of Mabry. The oc-
casion was highlighted by a gath-
ering of some 200 or more resi-
dents of the community and
guests for a barbecue supper,
served on the grounds of the pub-
lic school.
This was the second time Ma-
bry community had won money
in the pasture improvement con-
test. The first win was in 1952
when second place award was
received. The prizes in each in-
stance represented points earned
on a district basis.
Mabry residents are already
planning to enter the 1954 con-
test and their aim is to win the •
sweepstake award of $500. Money
received in previous contests has
been and will be used for com-
munity projects.
Aim of the pasture improve-
ment contest is not to distribute
awards in the form of cash prizes
or publicize the work of the spon-
sors^ but to achieve definite pro-
gress among East Texas commun-
ities in pasture building. Pas-
tures are the cheapest source of
feed for livestock and the extent
to which their carrying capacity
can be permanently increased de-
termines their value to the live-
stock industry. In dry periods,
such, as experienced in 1952 and
again this year, good pastures
hold up while the poor ones fold
up. This fact is significant.
Mabry community has.some ex-
cellent pastures and more are be- ,
ing added and improved.
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