The Clarksville Times (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 108, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 26, 1980 Page: 1 of 14
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CLARKSVILLE, TEXAS
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ESTABLISHED JANUARY 18, 1873
THURSDAY, JUNE 26; 1980
VOLUME 108, NO. 46
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national convention in New York City. Of the delegates from
the First Senatorial District 115 were committed to President
Carter, six were for Sen. Ted Kennedy and six were uneotn-
•ast weekend. Shelby Pace was elected as aa alternate ta the mitted. Staff photo.
will be featured in the Frontier Day
parade Saturday afternoon at 6 p.m.
• Judging for the Queen title will
be one third on horsemanship, one
third appearance, and one third
personality. The horsemanship por-
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Clarksville Times
The Oldest Business Institution In Red River County
BumperWheat Crop
Harvested Locally
A new star may be in the
ascendency on the agricultural hori-
zon in Red River County: one of the
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several items related to marijuana
was confiscated by the police.
A search was also made of a local
room rented by the men and two
other persons were found there,
along with a small quantity of a
Charges filed were possession of ' substance alleged to be marijuana.
All involved were charged in the
Justice of the Peace Court of Judge
J.B. Holley. Bond was set at $10,000
the most improtant which sustains
the staff of life.
Taking center stage locally for
the first time is wheat, a soft strain
suitable for cake mixes and such.
County Extension Agent Bob
Moody said that the present crop is
. the largest in history by far, not
surprising when one realizes that
local acreage is more than three times
as great as in any past year.
Moody estimates that 45,000
acres of wheat are planted this season
and that rain and sun and tempera-
ture have all combined to make this
a bumper crop.
And a booming one it is, with the
yield expected to be somewhere near
40 bushels per acre, making a
'•'potential for the County in the
neighborhood of 1,800,000 bushels. At
somewhere between $3.10 and $3.85
per acre, say a $3.50 average, this is
an income for local farmers of right
about $6,300,000, which is more than
pocket change even in these free-
spending days.
Moody says this is the first year
that wheat has really come into its,
own in the Red River County area
^parent substantial
harvest, it may be
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GETTING IT RIGHT: Red River County Jwdge Connie
Snlivan checks cnacus results with another local delegate at
the Texas Democratic Party State Convention in San Antonio
Much of the local grain goes
direct to the Gulf Coast ports, such as
Beaumont, for shipment overseas
pretty much all around the world,
local sources say.
An advantage to wheat as a crop
is that it can be followed by soybeans
in a normal year, giving local farmers
a two-crop income from a single tract
of land.
Those producers following the
dual system are now plowing the
wheat straw into the
soon plant soybeans..
Subscription Drive To Begin
The Clarksville Times is
pleased to announce a Summer
Subscription Sales Campaign for
six weeks beginning July 1st.
This bargain subscription of-
fer will give the youngsters and
opportunity to earn their choice of
a beautiful 10-speed bicycle or the
colorful 20-inch bicycle for shorter
legs.
Readers of The •'Times will
have an opportunity to renew and
new subscribers may sign up at
the present rate before the antici-
pated increase this fall.
Young salesmen who wish to
participate may obtain rules and
subscription books at The Times
office, beginning Tuesday. Win-
ners will be based on the point
system with two points for a new
subscription and one point for a
renewal. Any combination of 40
points claims • choice of bicyclesl i
Those making the 40 points 1
are the big winners but there are
no losers in this sale promotion: <
everyone selling subscriptions will
receive 20^>ercent of the subscrip-
tions collected. i
All youngsters in the county 1
who have wanted a bicycle but ,
have not bought one are urged to
come into The Times office for
details of the campaign, Tuesday
or thereafter.
Prices for subscriptons during
the campaign wil remain at the
present annual low figure of: $8.50
in the county; $10.00 for adjoining
counties; and $13.50 in other
areas. « i
This is for two issues weekly
delivered by mail, one of the real
bargains left in this inflated busi-
ness world.
CAB N. WOLF
...Announces Purchase
contributors made possible the pur-
chase of the site where Martin
Sprocket and Gear is now located and
has also given us the down payment
on the new sites,” Wolf added.
The President said an effort
would be made to collect all pledges
and that a supplementary drive might
be made later to Complete the yearly
installments.
Since the Foundation was formed
more than 25 years ago, seven local
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Foundation Buys Tract
industries now in operation here are
located on tracts provided by the
organization and two others were
assisted in finding suitable sites by
the group.
make the crop.
The two local storage companies,
9 H&H Soil Service and the Red River
most ancient of stars but also one of Co-Op Gin and Warehouse, have been
hard-pressed to handle the golden-
brown deluge, which Moody
estimates is now 85 percent harvest-
ed.
H&H during the off-season
added additional silos to expand
storage capacity, in addition to an-
other lift, but some grain has been
temporarily stored on the ground
until room could be found.
The problem has been difficulty
in obtaining timely transportation,
both truck and rail, for the wheat, but
it is hoped that the peak has now
passed.
e ground and will
i. Moody said most
will plant flat, not in rows, to
preserve the ground moisture, which
should be sufficient until mid-August.
He estimates that a rain will be
needed about then, and in the
meantime hot weather would be
acceptable. The Agent said most
producers will broadcast a post
emergence herbicide for weed and
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POT LUCK—City Police Sgt. Bill Person displays a quantity of what is
alleged to be marijuana and pot paraphrenalia confiscated early Saturday
morning following a search of a van involved in a wreck and a local room
occupied by the driver and others. City Patrolmen Kelley Slaton stopped the
van and Patrolman TonTTotty assisted with the search.
a substance believed to be marijuana
and an additional charge of leaving
the scene of an accident against the
driver of an automobile which was
alleged to have been involved in a
wreck.
The activity began about 5:30
a.m. when City Patrolman Kelly
Slaton observed a 1977 Chevrolet van -J
travelling west on Main Street leave
the street and return with a light out.
The vehicle was stopped in the 1100
block of West main and Patrolman
Slaton noticed considerable damage
to the right front of the van which had
not been present when he had seen it
earlier at a local convenience store.
It was discovered that the van
had apparently left the road at
McGuire's Used Car lot on the north ’
side of East Main, hitting one vehicle I
and knocking it onto the McGuire
home porch, then crashing into a
pickup which then smashed into I
another on the car lot. McGuire <
estimated all three vehicles as total
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City Patrolman Tom Totty ar- I
rived at the arrest scene and the
driver was detained for leaving the I
scene of an accident. A bag with 7-‘/i . I
ounces of a substance believed by the I
Police to be marijuana was found on I
the floor of the van, accordingto the I
police report, and City Sgt. Bill ■
’erson was called to assist. Another
idult in the van was arrested and a
uvenile passenger also detained.
Search warrants were obtained
or a complete search of the van and
Cab' N. 'Wolf, president of the
Red River County Industrial Founda-
tion, has announced the purchase by
the organization of some 105 acres of
land for development for future
industries.
Wolf told a special Board meet-
ing Wednesday afternoon that the
transaction, previously approved by
the Directors, had Seen completed.
The land is known as the old
Kurth Mill site, the J.H. McReynolds
Place in the John Ritchey Survey just
northwest of Clarksville. It is north
across the T&P Ry. tracks from the
present industrial park and is bound-
ed on the west and partially on the
north by the old Cherry Road.
“We are very pleased to obtain
this particular tract of land,” Wolf
said, “as we have had our eyes on it
for years. It is near other industries,
rail siding is available, the proposed
- Highway by-pass should pass along r
one side, and all utilities are close by,
including an elevated)water tank.”
The Foundation bought the land
from Rich Thompson and Forrest
Rohrback for a purchase price of
$85,427, an average per acre of
slightly over $817.
The down payment was $45,427,
leaving a note payable in four yearly
installments at 10 percent interest.
The President credited the drive
for industrial site donations some two
years ago for making the purchase
, possible.
“The generous support of the
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grass control
Soybeans should be ready for
harvest in the fall, about October-
November, if all goes well.
--------Observers of the agricultural
marketing scene say prospects for I
wheat prices holding up into next
year seem good. Soybean prices may
weaken somewhat as there appears
to be some evidence of at least a
temporary oversupply for available
markets.
However, weather permitting,
soybean producers would be expected
to have a profitable season bringing
the second welcome income for the
year into the farmers' pockets.
One advantage of the double „
whammy of wheat and soybeans is
that much of the same equipment can
be used on both. Tractors and discs
and other ground-working imple-
ments are pretty well standardized
and the only crunch might come in the
harvesting, as combining equipment
is expensive and impractical for any
but large producers to own.
This year, however, contract
harvesters have come into handle the
abundant grain crop.
The most standard charge for
their services int his locality is $12.50
an acre, plus 25c per bushel for
hauling.
Local residents with long memor-
ies recall the days of the cotton
harvest with long lines of wagons and
trucks lined up at the gins and
compress, and, this year, the line of
trucks with .wheat waiting at the
storage elevators brings back old
times in a somewhaat dinerent sense.
SEEMS LIKE OLD T . .
Warehouse, both on the railroad at State Highway 37, bring back memories of old times when the cotton trucks and
wagons used to line the streets in this vicinitv for service at the compress, where H&H now stands. Both warehouses are
•training to handle a bumper Red River County crop of wheat. *
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and, with an apj
profit margin this
Normal profits on a wheat crop
run near $70 per acre and this means
about $3,150,000 take-home pay for
wheat producers, plus a considerable
boost to the local economy generhted
by manpower and products needed to
fjueen lo Be Crowned
The big annual Bogata Rodeo and
Frontier Days Celebration is sche-
duled for a climax Saturday evening
with the final performance of the
three-evening redeo slated for 8:30
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Special activities for the last
evening will include a precision riding
routine by the Hella Temple Black
Horse Patrol, and the crowning of
Miss Bogata Rodeo, 1980-81.
Those in competition for the
royalty title include:
* Lisa Pollock, 14 Clarksville,
daughter of Frances Pollock and Jack
Pollock;
* Dana Fults, 15, Pattonville,
daughter of A.T. and Pat Fults;
* Jamie Finley, 14, Clarksville,
daughter of Barbara Finley and
James Finley;
* Amber Harvey, 15, Clarksville,
daughter of Bob and Mary Harvey;
* Darlene Brooks, 16, Bogata,
daughter of Doyle and Nancy Brooks;
* Vickie Zehetner, 16, Negley,
daughter of David and Dianah Zehet-
ner; and,
* Michelle Tomas, 15, Deport,
daughter of Kenneth and Betty
Thomas.
The contestants will ride in the
kick-off rodeo parade on Thursday
afternnone at 5 p.m., will be present-
ed each evening at the parade, and
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Bogata Mayor John Wprth Hood
was almost an eyewitness to tragic
history last weekend as he returned
from an overnight trip to the Gulf
Coast..
Hood had stopped at a service —
station in Daingerfield for gas Sunday
morning when he heard gunfire erupt
at the nearby First Baptist Church
and saw the gunman run across the
street and fall after shooting himself.
The Mayor is a retired Special
Police Courier with Purolator, re-
sponsible for transporting many mil-
lions of dollars of currency and Mocks
and bonds in his career, but says this
was about the closest he had ever
come to gunplay.
The gunman, a former school
teacher, killed five people and
wounded 10 others at Sunday morn-
ing worship service before seriously
wounding himself with a shot to the
head.
Five Arrested On Pot Charges
for the driver on charges of felony
possession of marijuana and leaving
the scene of an accident. The adult
passenger's bond was set at $2,500,
also for felony possession.
Bond on charges of misdemeanor
possession of marijuana was set by
Judge Holley at $300 each for the two
men found in the room occupied by
the group.
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Watson, Gavin, Jr. The Clarksville Times (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 108, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 26, 1980, newspaper, June 26, 1980; Mt. Pleasant, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1295762/m1/1/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Red River County Public Library.