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he Canton Herat
VOLUME 81
CANTON, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1964
NUMBER 16
Van Zandt County Wills Point Club
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Schaefer, Russell Eubank, Tom-
ing up the course . . .
secret ary-1 reas urer
We were loafing
People of Pruitt
community
plans to meet with
Girl
Thursday
morning,
in
Brownies and Girl Scouts is
pain. In the beginning, a danger
General Manager W. R.
mile relay.
on of Murchison.
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Tawakoni Claims
Six Dalias Victims
Eagles Lose Bid
For Track Crown
Mrs. Turner Heads
Cancer Crusade
Pro-
were
two
starts
against cancer?
symptoms may
Every
will be
weekend
bership cards as a guide in
liciting members.
The chamber’s new office
Todd
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Glenn
the
ex.
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signal may seem very unimpor-
tant to you, but it could be most
important to your life.
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Representing the Tyler
uction Credit Association
V
1 a homecoming on
June 14 to be held at the Baptist
Church.
By JACK CAMPBELL
We didn’t see him on TV, but
Cantonite Jimmy Boroughs was
present at the Masters Golf tour-
nament in Augusta last Sunday
Pruitt Plans
domecoming
on the lake, was found by
Wayne Battee of Floydada and
his son, Alvin Batte of Paris,
Monday morning. They said he
apparently had been fishing alone
when high winds came up on the
lake.
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it
; around the
know that 75 per cent of the 76,-
Reed of' 000 men and women who will
MEMORIAL SET
AT HIGHLAND
Memorial at Highland has
been set for Sunday afternoon
April 19.
Services will begin at 2 o’clock.
retary, Mrs. Penny Loven, met
with the directors and passed
out the membership cards.
square last week and meandered
into Ross Auto Store to shoot
mothers of
Brownies
Last Rites Held
For B. A. Fenter
Final rites for Byron A. Fen-
ter, 52, of Van were held Sunday
afternoon in the First Baptist
Church. Interment was in Union
Chapel cemetery'.
Mr. Fenter died Saturday in a
Terrell hospital.
A pumper with the Pure Oil
Co. at Van for 31 years, Mr.
Fenter was a native of Midway,
Ark. He was lived in Van for 33
years and was a long-time mem-
ber of the Baptist Church.
Surviving are his wife; a son,
Byron Fenter, Jr. of Van; two
daughters, Mrs. Herb Corder of
Tyler and Miss Virginia Fenter
of Van; three sisters, and two
grandchildren.
Mrs. Lockhart Sets
Special Meeting
On Scouting
Mrs. Sallie Lockhart, neigh-
borhood chairman from Athens.
contacted before the
so that the yearly
budget can be drawn up by the
Mrs. E. Pewett
Hostess To Club
The Elberta Home Demonstra-
tion Club met March 25, in the
home of Mrs. Ernest Pewett
Eight members were present,
Mrs. A. L. Curley of Van club,
and Mrs. Nicholson as visitors.
Roll call was answered with a
"Native Shrub in My Yard."
Mrs. Frank Warren discussed
diseases of shrubbery and lawn
grasses.
She named insecticides for the
different diseases.
Plans were discussed for rais-
ing money for the club treasury.
Games were played during the
recreation hour.
Refreshments were served by
the hostess.
without BROWNS CELEBRATE
50TH ANIVERSARY
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Brown of
Which type of cancer is increas-
ing most rapidly? What type of
cancer kills most Americans?
What can you do to protect your-
self against cancer?
But you should know cancer’s
seven danger signals and visit
your doctor if any one of them
Monday at noon at the Service
Cafe.
President Joe Hackney and
directors of the local civic organ-
ization met and received mem-
BANK TO CLOSE
SAN JACINTO DAY
First National Bank of Canton
will be closed Wednesday, April
21, San Jacinto Day. Patrons of
the bank are asked to make
plans accordingly.
mean cancer?
April 23, at 10 o’clock.
Anyone interested
P
said of the excursion on the lake.
The body of Mr. Shoemake, have planned
the sixth victim of the weekend 1
B. C.
when Arnold Palmer was bum- were three children, Sandra Jane - e
Tipton, 11, and her brother. Rich- ,oea J iAne La-y.
ard L. Tipton, 9, and Jamie Dell l -Ed-
directors. They include
Berry, Foye Riley, Curtis
should persist more than
it is important for you to
"Reception to the chamber of
commerce has been tremendous
and we hope to get the actual
drive for membership through as
soon as possible," President Joe
Hackney said.
search. education and service.
We urge you to give generously
to the April Cancer Crusade.
If you have not received your
Copy of "The Answers to These
Questions May Help Save Your
Lifee" the American Cancer So-
ciety will gladly send you one.
The turbulent waters of Lake
Tawakoni claimed six Dallas
area victims over the weekend
in two boating accidents, but
Thomas, 8. They were treated at
a Greenville hospital and re-
leased.
The drownings brought the
Mrs. John S. Turner has peen
appointed Canton’s chairman for
the annual April Crusade of the
American Cancer Society.
Mrs. Turner reported the Cru-
sade is first of all an educational
program and second an appeal
for donations. This is an effort
on the part of the American Can-
cer Society to make every indi-
vidual aware of the first danger
signals of cancer.
Mrs. Turner, at press time, did
not have a complete list of the
workers who will help her make
house to house calls where
pamphlets with important infor-
mation on the early detection of
cancer will be left with every
family with a request that the
pamphlet be kept in a place
available to each member of the
family.
The American Cancer Society
urges you to make these workers
welcome in your home and to
abide by the instructions of the
phamplets they will leave you.
Early detection of cancer saves
many lives, one of them may be
your own.
You may be asked some perti-
nent questions about cancer and
given the answers to them by
volunters of the American Can-
cer Society who will be calling
on you.
It is not necessary that you
know the answers to all the ques.
tions: Are we getting anywhere
membership drive for Canton’s
Chamber of Commerce was held
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Hackney, vice
Brown and
Emmett Steed.
A spokesman for the commun-
ity said "We are out of touch
with many of the former citizens
by reason of name and address
changes, and wish to take this
method of inviting each of you
to homecoming on June 14 at the
Pruitt Baptist Church. It is to
be an annual affair."
The pastor, Rev. Bob Swift,
has invited two former pastors,
Rev. S. D. Woodson of Biloxi,
Miss., and Rev. B. W. Orrick of
Waco, to be guest speakers for
the day.
The Pilgrimeer Quintet will
also be there.
Everyone interested is asked
to bring lunch and enjoy the day.
SINGING TO BE HELD
AT BEN WEELER
Sunday, April 19, is the regu-
lar third Sunday singing day for
Ben Wheeler. Singing will start
promptly at 2 p. m. at the Meth-
odist Church.
Singers from Smith, Hender-
son, and several other Northeast
Texas counties are expected.
Also singers from the Dallas-Fort
Worth area are expected as well
as quartets known throughout
the East Texas area.
Everyone is invited to attend.
the local
Scouts and
I treatment. The best protection
rectum this year could be saved
by early diagnosis and prompt
three children clad in life jack-
ets were rescued from the chop-
py waves.
All but one of the drowning
victims died when a 14-foot boat
overturned near the two-mile
bridge east of Quinlan.
A sixth death was recorded
when the body of Byron Eugene
Shoemake, 60, of Dallas was
found Sunday night. Mr. Shoe-
make apparently had been fish-
ing alone.
The Sabine River Authority
identified the other dead as Mr.
and Mrs. Weldon Thomas and
their four-year old son, Darrell,
of Dallas; Mrs. Ivan Tipton, 30,
of Mesquite; and Jimmy Thomp.-
son, 40, of Dallas.
Rescue boats on Lake Tawakoni
were still searching Monday for
the bodies of Mr. Thomas and
Mr. Thompson.
Pulled safe from the water
Risner, mile relay: Larry Hunt-
er, 440 relay; David Keahey, 440
relay; Joe Foster, pole vault;
Tommy Roberts, alternate 440
White Tours
With Band
Rex. D. White of Grand Saline,
a member of the North Texas
State University Brass Choir,
traveled with that group to six
cities in Oklahoma, Wednesday
and Thursday, April 8 and 9.
The 30 members of the choir,
under direction of Leon Brown
of the music faculty, gave con-
certs in high schools in Lindsay,
Oklahoma City, Konowa and Me-
Alester and also performed at
East Central State College in
Ada and Southeastern State Col-
lege in Durant.
White is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Claude D. White, 522 O’-
Hara. The sophomore music ma-
jor is a member of the NTSU
Concert and Marching Bands
and has served as alumni secre-
tary of Phi 'Mu Alpha, national
music fraternity for men.
seven. Another Dallas man, Dud-
iey Waldrop, 59, drowned in a
fishing accident March 8.
The capsizing of the 14-foot
boat carrying eight persons Sun-
day afternoon occurred in the
Caddo Creek area.
The children who were picked
up by Thomas K. Harris of Dal-
las..
Mrs. Harris, who was on her
husband’s fishing barge near the
scene of the accident Sunday,
said Mr. Thomas and Mr. Tip-
ton had come out to the Harris
fishing barge earlier to locate it.
Mr. Tipton stayed on the
barge and Mr. Thomas and Mr.
Thompson, who had been on the
barge, returned in the small
boat to pick up the rest of the
Thomas and Tipton families.
It was on the return trip that
the accident occurred.
Mrs. Harris said they waited
on the barge for about an hour
for the boat’s return and finally
returned to the docks, where
they learned that the families had
PCA Holds
Houston Meeting
Representatives of the Tyler
Production Credit Association re-
cently attended the eighth an-
nual meeting of stockholders
and patrons of the Federal In-
termediate Credit Bank of Hous-
ton. held April 5-7, at the Rice
Hotel in Houston.
The Credit Bank is discount
and supervisory agency of the
36 home-owned and operated
Production Credit Associations
and 14 other financing institu-
tions in Texas which provide
more than $500,000,000 annually
in farm and ranch loans to 30..
000 Texas farmers, ranchers and
dairymen.
Highlights of the meeting in-
cluded a dinner at historic San
Jacinto Inn, an awards luncheon
and addresses by nationally-rec-
ognized leaders in agricultural
! financing.
FFA And FHA
Members Speak
Local Lions were entertained
at their meeting Wednesday by
members of the FFA and FHA
from the school.
Ann Stanford and Suzanne
Shinn, representing the FHA, ex-
plained some of the purposes of
the organization. They also told
of the forthcoming project show
to be held May 8 and 9 at the
fair grounds in Canton when
members of the FHA will dis-
play food, clothes, etc.
Representing the FFA were
Larry Pilgrim and Ralph Beal.
They explained purposes of the
FFA. The boys will display shop
projects at the show on May 8
and 9. There will also be educa-
tional displays.
D. D. Mitchell, agriculture
teacher, also attended the Lions
Club meeting. He explained that
there would also be a livestock
project show on May 9 and that
there would tie an FFA and FHA
rodeo each night, May 8 and 9.
beginning at 8 o’clock.
Those interested in the upkeep
relay and Frank Todd, alternate. of Highland Cemetery are urged
' ’ . • to attend this memorial serbice.
180 low hurdles, 120 high hur-
dies and the mile relay. Second
in the pole vault and 440 relays
and the broad jump.
The following boys will make
the journey to the regional meet
in Denton April 25 Dennis Shaw,
180 low hurdles, 120 high hur-
dles and mile relay; Rickey Ray,
100, broad jump, 440 relay and
mile relay; Barry Burrage, mile
relay and 410 relay; Anthony
C Of C Membership Drive
Launched At Monday Meet
~ A kick-off lunch to launch the *
the breeze with Clint Ross total at Tawakoni this spring to
Ross introduced a couple of sales- * — - P 8 -
SS Benefits
2,867 People
About one out of every seven
residents of Van Zandt county is
now receiving a monthly social
security check according to Loye
M. Copeland, Tyler social secur-
ity district manager.
Copeland’s report listed the
number of Van Zandt county
beneficiaries as 2,867 at the end
of 1963. The dollar benefit
amounts total more than $1,905,-
000 yearly.
Of the total, 1,546 are receiv-
ing benefits as retired workers.
Disability benefits go to 126. The
other beneficiaries include wives,
widows and children of retired,
disabled or deceased workers.
Copeland forecast that the
number of social security bene-
ficiaries will continue to increase
in the future, but at a much*
slower rate than in the past 10
years. He said that, nationally,
the social security benefit rolls
increased about five million peo-
ple in 1954 to more than 19 mil-
lion at the end of 1963. This rap-
id growth in the beneficiary
population resulted from major
amendments to the Social Secur-
ity Act from 1950 through 1961.
He cited several amendments
Plans Show
Members of the Margaret
Wynne Garden Cub in Wills
Point are planning a flower show
Thursday afternoon, April 23.
Theme of the show will be
"Flowers in Song” and will be
held in the fellowship hall of the
Methodist Church from 2 until
6 p. m.
The club has extended an invi-
tation to the public to attend
this show.
★ * *
What’s this we hear about Turk
Barrier spending all the time at
one of the fishing camps at Lake
Tawakoni waiting for some real
fisherman to come in with a
large fish he can buy . . . The
old barber, Jiggs Reynolds, is our
informant . . .
* * ★
Politicians are approaching the
last 17 days of campaigning for
county ami state offices and the
tempo is picking up consider-
erably . . . This issue of the
Herald is carrying several polit-
ical messages for the considera-
tion of the voters of Van Zandt
President Joe
president Dean
prospective member
Mineola edged out Canton
high school for the district
track crown last weekend at the
track and field meet held at
Lindale.
The Canton Eagles made their
bid for the district 15AA cham.
pionship, but came up 1 15
points sort.
The outcome went down to the
wire with the decision hanging
on the mile relay. Dennis Shaw
was the high point man for the
Eagles, scoring 31 points in the
hurdles, pole vault and mile re-
lay. Rickey Ray was second high-
est scorer for Canton with 27
points.
Canton was first in the 100,
my Robinson,
liard, Jack Campbell,
Scott, Angus Travis,
one of the reasons why you
what signs or should support the American
Cancer Society’s program of re-
Brownies Tour
Telephone Office
Members of Brownie Troop
766 were taken on a tour of the
Southwestern States Telephone
Co. office in Canton Thursday
afternoon, April 9.
R. C. Hadley, telephone em-
ployee, conducted the tour of
the plant for the Brownies and
their leaders. The operation of
each section of the plant was ex-
plained to the girls by Mr. Had-
ley.
After the tour, the telephone
employees served th girls brown-
ies.
weeks. Cancer usually
quietly and spreads
College Student
Begin Practice
Teaching Here
A total of 227 East Texas
State College students are doing
their practice teaching in 29
North Texas school systems dur-
ing April and May.
Practice teaching is one of
the requirements for obtaining
a teaching certificate. Future
teachers actually go into the
classrooms under the supervision
and observation of teachers and
administrators in the participat-
ing system, and ETSC educators.
The list of practice teachers
includes John Thomas of Ander-
son, who is practice teaching
agriculture in Canton.
Mrs. Culwell Hosts
Study Club
Th Wednesday Study Club met
in the home of Mrs. Mark Cul-
well, April 1st.
Miss Martha Scott presented
a most interesting program on
Americanism.
The hostess served a delicious
refreshment plate assorted hors
d’oevers, frozen fruit salad. cho-
colate walnut puffs and coffee to
the following members. Mmes
Dean Brown, A. A. Dawson, Gro-
ver Goode, Joe Hackney, Irby
Mills, Terrell Ogletree, L. F.
Sanders, Jack Smith, Willis Ter-
ry, Thomas Todd. G. W. Tull.
John Turner, W. E. West, Miss
Ethel Lively, and two guests.
Miss Martha Scott and Mrs.
Charles Baker.
against death from this disease
is a simple proctoscopic examina-
tion once a year.
Cancer of the lung is the most
rapidly mounting cause of death
from cancer. What can you do
about it? Stop smoking cigar-
ettes if you are already a smoker,
and if you do not smoke, don’t
start. The American Cancer So-
ciety says that if no one smoked
cigarettes a great majority of
lung cancers would be prevented.
The American Cancer Society
is speaking in the interest of all
of us when it urges every adult
to have an annual health check-
up. Many cancers discovered dur-
ing an annual health checkup
can be cured.
As for the question: Are we
getting anywhere against can-
cer? ‘The answer is “yes.” More
than 1,200,000 men. women and
children are alive today, cured
of cancer. Improvements in sur-
gery. radiation, usee of drugs,
new techniques of diagnosis, bet.
ter facilities for treatment, the
public's concern about cancer
an daction onthat concern, are
saving the lives of tens of thou-
sands of Americans annually,
who would have died if they had
had the disease less than a gen-
eration ago.
Costly research has accom-
plished much of this. And this is
mnoF"CantonildontestoK Ere .develop cancer of the colon and
Ellis of Fruitvale and R. E. Sax- I
tended an invitation to this meet-
ing to be held at the Presbyter-
ian Church.
Thursday afternoon at 3:30,
Mrs. Lockhart will have a spec-
ial meeting with the local Girl
Scout Troop No. 841 at the
Methodist Church.
At seven o’clock, Thursday
night, Mrs. Lockhart will meet
with the Kiwanis Club at the
Service Cafe. The Kiwanis Club
is the local sponsor for the Girl
Scouts.
All the mothers of the Girl
Scouts and Brownies are urged
to attend this special meeting.
Candidate Rally
Set For Thursday
There is to be a supper and
Candidate Rally at the Sand Flat
Community Center near Grand
Saline. The time is Thursday.
April 16 at 7:00 p.m. Each candi-
date has been invited and will be
given equal time to speak. The
public is invited to come in time
lor supper and bring a covered
dish. Those who do not wish to
participate in the supper are urg-
ed to come for the speaking of
the candidates.
men to us . . . One was a fine
looking young man who was
known as Paul Dean, Jr. of the
famed baseball family . . . Clint
an avid baseball fan, didn’t know
his true identity, either until a
later period . . .
★ * *
Court Reporter Jimmy Gallo-
way said that District Judge
Thomas Crofts has been work-
ing in the Dallas courts the past
week . . . Jimmy said, “We begin
our court at 9 a. m. while all
other Dallas judges begin at 10
am... One case a day ap-
pears to be all that a city judge
can stand . . . Judge Crofts is
accustomed to night court in his
86th Judicial District . . .
* it *
Mr. and Mrs. Willard Sides of
the Martins Mill community had
visitors over the weekend . . .
This is nothing new, but . . .
these visitors rode all the way
from Dallas on bicycles . . . They
are Otis Kenny, Don Ingram and
Doug Riley of Dallas ... The
group left Dallas at 5 a. m. and
reached Canton at 9:15 a. m. . .
a total of 115.4 miles was riden
by the group on the round trip . .
* * *
Jack Sides, Jr. has purchased
one-half interest in the Canton
Gulf Service ... The firm is now
owned by Jack and Larry Davis
. . . Chick Chaney has retired
again . . .
set out earlier in their little
boat
“They were just having an out-
ing and fishing," Mrs. Harris
H. D. Council
Holds Regular
Meeting Recently
The Van Zandt County Home
Demonstration Council met Mon-
day, April 13, in the courthouse
assembly room at 2 o’clock for
the regular meeting. Mrs. Lloyd
Chitty, chairman, presided.
Mrs. A. L. Curley offered pray-
er and Mrs. R. K. Burns directed
the group in singing “Holy, Holy,
Holy."
Mrs. Gabe Scott was acting
secretary in the absence of Mrs.
B. A. Fenter because of the
death of her husband.
Club reports were given by the
presidents of the various clubs.
There will be a leaders train-
ing meeting forthe Foods and
Nutrition leaders Monday, April
20, at 1:30 p. m. in the assembly
room for the two programs in
May.
Mrs. Walter Norrell was pre-
sented a THDA pin by the Coun-
cil members.
The district meeting will be on
April 30 at 10 o’clock in Athens.
Registration will be at 9:30 a. m.
in the auditorium of Henderson
County Junior College.
Canton Club will send cookies
to the Terrell State Hospital in
May.
The next Council meeting will
be May 11 at 2 o’clock.
which extended social security
coverage to self-employed busi-
ness and professional men, farm-
ers and agricultural workers, and
other groups. As a result, sever-
al million people whose work
was brought under scojal secur-
ity are now receiving benefits.
Others qualified through amend-
ments which reduced the amount
of work needed to get benefits.
One change—lowering the age at
which older people can get ben-
fits from 65 to 62—accounts for
1.8 million out of th 19 million
people now entitled to benefits.
The amendments also introduced
a new protection under social
security — disability benefits —
and 1.5 million disabled workers
and their dependents now re-
ceive benefits under the disabil-
ity provisions of the law.
Rt. 2 Canton. celebrated their
golden wedding annibersary,
April 5th at their home 5 L
miles east of Canton on High-
way 61.
Some 150 or more people came
by the house to join in the cele-
bration. The couple received
many nice and useful gifts.
* it *
For the information of those
asking whether the Chamber of
Commerce is going through .
It has already gone through and
is now active with a full-time
office secretary, Mrs. Penny
Loven, wife of Bill Loven, now
occupying quarters in the Hack-
ney building two doors north of
the Plaza Theatre . . This is
just the beginning of a move to
boost ( anton ... in case any
stranger asks . . . "Canton is
the best place in Texas to live."
it * it
A meeting will be held tonight
in the county courtroom of the
steering committee for the Van
Zandt County Recreational Club
• • An engineering firm and an
architectural firm will lie repre-
sented at the meeting to discuss
getting the organization off the
ground ... We predict that the
committee will hire the two for
work on the Van Zandt county
project . . .
★ * *
Local Brownies . . , after mak-
ing a tour of the telephone of-
fice . . . were served brownies .
• . by the Southwestern States
telephone employees.
***
Brownies and Girl Scouts still
have a few boxes of cookies . . .
lor sale ... if you have missea
getting a box ... or boxes. . . .
see one of the girls or call . . .
EASTERN STAR TO MEET
THURSDAY NIGHT
tya Order of Easter Star.
Xzj.Chapter 6671 will hold
its regular stated meet-
* ing Thursday evening,
April 16, at 7:30 o’clock.
PARALEE HOWELL. WM
MYRTLE LANGLEY. Sec.
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