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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
SERVING RURAL FANNIN
COUNTY.
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ONHAM HERALD
AS CONSOLIDATED WITH THE BONHAM NEWS
VOL. XXVIII
DEATHS
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Ed Kent Dies at
Whitewright;
Rites Wednesday
WHITEWRIGHT (Spl.) — Ed
B. Kent, Sr., 98, father of Fan-
nin County Commissioner John
Kent of Leonard, died at his
home at 2 p.m. Monday, Oct.
10, 1966. He had been in ill
health for some time.
Funeral services were held
at the Earnheart Funeral Chap-
el at 2 p.m. Wednesday. The
Rev. R. L. Gates of Bonham
and the Rev. George Hooper of
Whitewright, Methodist minis-
THE BONHAM (Texas) HERALD, THURSDAY, OCT. 13, 1966
—NUMBER 3
>1A Billion Recommended
igineers
oject on
ters, and the Rev. Ches-
ter Cooke, Assembly of
God, Trenton, officiated. In-
terment was in Burns cemetery
at Trenton.
Mr. Kent was born March 2,
1868, at Leighton, Ala., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kent. He
married Miss Sally Nichols at
Leighton in July 1888. She pre-
ceded him in death in 1.937.
Mr. and Mrs. Kent came to
Texas in 1896 and moved to Fan-
nin county in 1898.
He farmed in the Trenton area
until 1936 when he moved to the
Whitewright area .and retired
from farming in 1944. He was a
member of the Baptist church.
Survivors are five sons, Ed
Kent, Jr., and J. D. Kent of
Whitewright, John Kent of Leon-
ard, Ausie Kent of Wich-
ita, Kans., and P. P. Kent of
Chowchilla, Calif.; two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Lorene Johnson of
Whitewright and Mrs- Ossie Bell
Griffin of Sherman, 23 grand-
children, 45 great grandchildren
and 11 great - great - grandchil-
dren.
Gaston 0. Norman
Dies Tuesday in
Denison Hospital
SAVOY (Spl.) - Gaston 0.
Norman, 64, carpenter, died in
, a Denison hospital at 2:30 a.m.
Tuesday, Oct 1.1, 1966. He had
been ill three weeks.
Funeral services will be held
at 2:30 p.m. Friday at the Mulli-
can-Little Funeral Home with
the Rev. Houston Garner, pas-
tor of the Hebron
church, officiating.
Baptist
Interment
will be in Sunyside cemetery
He was born July 22, 1902, at
Farmersville, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Wyatt Norman. He mar-
Pried Mrs. Estell Bradshaw at
Sherman in 1951.
Survivors are his wife, a son,
David Norman of Glasgow,
Mont.; two stepsons, Billy Don
Bradshaw and Jerry Lynn
Bradshaw, both of Denison;
three stepdaughters, Mrs. Doro-
thy Randles of Pottsboro, Mrs
Peggy Sadler of Gladewater and
Mrs. Ray Eades of Tyler; two
brothers, E. L. Norman and
Woodrow Norman of Sherman;
a sister, Mrs. Pauline Bowen
of Sherman, four grandchildren
and one great-granchild. .
The family will be at the Mul-
lican-Little Funeral home be-
tween 7-8:30 p.m. Thursday.
•Bill Hooks'
Rites Are
Held Monday
■LEONARD (Spl.) — Funeral
services for William H. (Bill)
Hooks were to beheld Monday,
at the First Baptist .church with
the pastor, Rev. Ed Russell of-
ficiating. He died at his home
Sunday, Oct. 9, 1966, at 6 a.m.
He was 81 years of age. Inter-
merit was in Mt. Carmel ceme-
tery at Wolfe City under the
• direction of the Wilson Funeral
home.
Born in Little Rock, Ark., Aug.
3, 1881, he was the son of Mr.
and Mrs. John William Hooks.
He came to Texas as a young
boy and had farmed and been
a railroad worker until his re-
tirement. He was married to
Miss Mary B. Goodwin, Jan. 7,
1928.
Survivors are four sons, Claude
Hooks of Bonham, Charles Ray
Hooks of Leonard, Billy Roy,
Hooks of Grand Prairie, and
Robert Hooks of Amarillo;
/three daughters, Mrs. Peggy
Jean Pannkuk of Leonard, Mrs.
'Lois Walls and Mrs. Johnny Fae
Sizemore both of Dallas, and a
1 number of grandchildren.
Serving as pallbearers were
A. L. Brown, Ben Hall, Earl
• Dixon, Billy H. Martin, Leroy
Doyle and John Bilyeu.
IT’S BREAKFAST TIME — Jarvis, an 8-
year-old parrot, gets ready to eat his
usual breakfast — eggs and coffee — as
he perches on the table at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Walker, 803 South
5th. The Walkers have had Jarvis, for-
merly owned by the late Ray Smith, just
about six months, but he adapted himself
well to the schedule of the Walker house-
hold and wasn't one bit perturbed when
his picture was made. As a matter of fact,
he was hamming it up a bit.
(Favorite Photo)
vwrvvww-reerww'Coffee Not Enoughvy/arrrre
Jarvis Wants A Breakfast Egg
5
€
While a lot of folks will settle
for just a cup of coffee for
breakfast, Jarvis must have an
egg With his coffee.
Jarvis, you see is an 8-year-
old, parrot, who has. been mak-
ing. his home with Mr. and
Mrs. Virgil Walker, 803 South
6th, for about the last
six months. He was formerly
the, pet of the late Ray Smith.
In addition to the egg and
coffee ' -for “ breakfast, Jar-
vis. likes corn on the cob and
Hershey bars, but will eat most
For Raincoat ...
Bonham Firm Gets $827,997 Job
Bonham Manufacturing Co.,
has received a second contract
for rain coats for the armed
armed, forces that will assure
full employment at the plant
for the next six months
Milton Foster, plant manag-
er, announced Saturday the
Given Promotion . . .
John Jones is Named
Supervisor of Lab
John David Jones, radiologi-
cal health physicist at the Uni-
versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
has accepted the position of
Laboratory supervisor at the
Phoenix Memorial Laboratory
of the university where he will
be responsible for the manage-
ment and operation of the lab-
oratory.
Jones is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Fae Jones of Bonham and
Mrs. Jones is the former Miss
Linda Shuler, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Lowell Shuler of Bon-
ham. Both are graduates of
Bonham high school.
The Phoenix Memorial project,
an independent unit within the
university, has a large nuclear
reactor and 30 labs of its own.
Financed by trust funds and
contributions given by individ-
uals for the purpose of promot-
ing the peaceful uses of atomic
energy, the project per-
mits large industries and other
agencies to do research work
under a special agreement with
the university.
, The laboratory houses two co-
balt-60 sources, two hot caves
and labs equipped isotope re-
search in physics, chemistry
and biology.
Special facilities include x-ray
rooms, animal rooms, an
aquarium room and a green
house.
The building also includes an
Atomic Energy Commission de-
pository library and such re-
search-supporting services as a
machine shop, an electronics
shop and photographic dark
rooms.
Jones is a graduate of Bon-
ham high school and East Tex-
as State university. He receiv-
ed an AEC Fellowship in Ra-
diological Physics and studied
at Vanderbilt university, Nash-
ville, Tenn., and the Oak Ridge,
Tenn., National Laboratory.
He served several years as
a health physicist in Cincinna-
ti, Ohio, and was a member ofJackson arrested Dixon.
three
anything for his
meals a day.
The morning meal is eaten
with the Walkers at the
breakfast' table as he perches
on the edge and primly puts a-
way the egg arid coffee. He’ll
eat the other meals just where-
ever he happens to be.
Jarvis also likes to take
a ride with the Walkers and
will remain perched on the
Shoulder of either Mr. or Mrs.
Walker during the trip.
He has a couple of names for
company had received a con-
tract for 60,100 "nylon-rub-
ber coated rain coats for men.
The contract fiture was
$827,997.70, Foster said.
“We will likely start work on
the new contract within 60
days,” Foster said. "I am not
John David Jones
a party making a survey of the
pollution of the Animas river
in Colorado and New Mexico.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones have two
children, a daughter, Angela
Kay, 7, and a son, Randal Da
vid, 4. t .
$100 Fine Set
On Guilty Plea
A plea of guilty to a com-
plaint alleging driving while in-
toxicated brought a defendant
a $100 fine, three days in jail
and loss of his driver’s license
for six months.
County Judge Choice Moore
assessed the sentence against
Marion Dixon after he had
waived tral by jury and enter-
ed a plea of guilty.
Highway Patrolman
Jake
Mrs. Walker.
Jarvis calls her “Rough
House” — the name of their
pet dog — most of the time, but
when he wants a bite to eat or
another sip of coffee, or out of
polite and calls her “Mama.”
Virgil is “Carmen” to Jarvis
at all times. .
Jarvis isn’t a particularly big
parrot, but he is colorful.
Mostly, he’s green but y ou
can spot spots of red, yellow,
blue and turquoise in his coat
of many colors.
his cage, he becomes a bit more
sure if we will put on addition-
al workers at the present time
but all of the present employees
will be employed for an extend-
ed period of time, possibly six
months or longer." ,
Foster said the contract for
the contract for the coats
came through the Defense Per-
sonnel Support Center, De-
fense Supply Agency, Philadel-
phia.
“This is our second contract
for rain coats this year,” Fos-
ter said. “We are working on
a contract for similar items at
the present time and will be
busy on that for some
time yet.”
Bonham Manufacturing Co.,
recently completed a modern
and larger building at the plant
site at Jones Field which en-
abled the firm to increase em-
ployment and extend op
erations. /
Damage Set At
$255 in Wrecks
Damage in two traffic acci-
dents Monday was estimated at
$255 by city officers who made
the investigations.
Officer John W. Grisham iden-
tified Albert J. Underwood, 613
South 5th, and Wesley Albert
Guthrie, 1306 South 5th, as the
drivers of the two vehicles , in-
volved in a collision at South
5th and Sid streets.
Officer Sam Patton identified
Russell Sparks Spivy, 915 North
Center, and Billy Joe Nelms,
304 West Russell, as the drivers
of the two vehicles involved in
a collsion on East Sam Ray-
burn Drive, just east of Center
street.
Ector P-TA To
Plan Carnival
ECTOR (Spl.) — The Parent-
Teachers Association for Ector
schools will hear.the fourth and
fifth grades under Mrs. Hugh
Hunter present a program
at the Thursday night meeting
at the school.
Mrs. John Cox, P-A presi-
dent, said that a Halloween car-
nival will be planned at the
meeting. Everyone is urged to
attend the 7:30 p.m. meeting.
During a social hour refresh-
ments will be served.
Negro Man
Charged
In Shooting
Billy Ray Anderson, Negro,
was reported in a critical con-
dition in a Sherman hospital
Monday after being shot twice
with a .22 rifle in Bonham Sat-
urday afternoon.
Charles Frank King, Negro,
was being held in the Fannin
county jail in lieu of $10,000
bond in connection with the af-
fair. King had been charged
with assault with intent to mur-
der in a complaint filed in Jus-
tice of Peace Clark Benton’s
court.
City officers Kenneth Rice and
Fred Clark and Deputy Sheriff
H. R. Van Zandt made the in-
vestigation.
Officers said King went to the
jail late Saturday and surrend-
ered to officers.
The shooting occurred on East
6th street.
Depuy Sheriff Van Zandt said
King made a statement following
his surrender to officers Sat-
urday.
Walter Winston reported the
incident to the city police a
short time after it happened.
Anderson was taken to Allen
Memorial hospital and later
transferred to Sherman.
Shot in Oklahoma
Junior Mackey, Honey Grove
Negro, was reported shot in the
face with a .22 rifle in Okla-
homa late Saturday.
He was taken to a Sherman
hospital.
Merchants Are
Warned Against
Shoplifters
Bonham merchants were
warned today that shoplifters
were at work in the Bonham
area.
The warning came from Chief
of Police Thurman Renfro, who
said two women made, off with
several pairs of shoes from
BNC Shoe store Tuesday.
Chief Renfro said this was the
first report he had, received of
shoplifters, advised merchants
to keep an eye open for possi-
ble other shoplifters who might
be operating.
Just Around the Corner
Catalogs Going Out
On Fun-Filled Fair
More than 2,500 copies of the
Fannin County Free fair cata-
log were being distributed over
the county this week, reminding
that the big fall celebration
event is just around the corner.
It opens Thursday, Oct. 20,
for a three-day run at the Sam
Rayburn Memorial armory,
featuring the most popular
-events of previous years with
new and exciting entertainment
being added.
New this year will be the
Combo Blast — a competitive
event bringing together the com-
bo music groups of the county
on the opening night of the fair.
Highlighting the Friday night
entertainment will be the pop-
ular princess contest and on Sat-
urday night the top event, the
selection of Miss Fannin County
in the annual queen contest.
Chairman Jimmy Buford and
members of the fair board have
put together a program that
Provide Bank
Stabilization
Congressman Ray Roberts
was advised Wednesday by the
Army Corps of Engineers that
a $12 bllion navigation
and bank stabilization ap-
propriation for the Red River
has been recommended for Con-
gressional authorization by the
Board of Engineers for Rivers
and Harbors.
The Board of Engineers for
Rivers and Harbors is an inde-
pendent agency that scrutinizes
feasibility of rivers and harbors
projects.
Of particular interest to Fan-
nin county in the recommenda-
tion at this time, the Congress-
man said, is the provision f o r
Show Barn is
Planned For
FFA Activities
LEONARD (Spl) — The
Leonard Chamber of Commerce
will finance the construction of
a show barn in which the Leo-
nard FFA Members may hole
their annual stock show.
The chamber of Commerce
has asked the school board to
serve as an advisory board for
the barn and its: activities.
A lease has been drawn up
for the erection of the barn, on
city property.
If the city council approves
the lease at its regular meeting
Monday night, construction of
the barn will be started soon
with the FFA boys and vol-
unteers doing the work.
The barn will be built on the
old fair ground, just north of
the Saddle Club barn.
It will be of pole type construc-
tion 30x90 with a sheet iron roof.
Student Injured
In Short Jump
Jimmy Dunn, student at East
Texas State university, was in-
jured in a farm accident Sun-
day.
Dunn suffered injuries in his
leg when it was caught in a cot-
ton stripper as he jumped from
a stripper at Gober.
He was operating a stripper
and had decided to j ump down,
but misjudged the distance.
promises to be one of the most
exciting, fun-filled of any of the
events since, the fair was re-
vived in 1963.
Although the fair will not be
kicked off officially until 5 p.m.
Thursday with the downtown
parade, the public will get a
look at the contestants for Miss
Fannin County in a “Queen’s
Parade” to be held during the
dedicatory program for Fannin
county’s new court house Thurs-
day morning at 11 o’clock.
The contestants will serve as
hostesses for the dedication
program that is bringing Gov.
John Connally to Bonham for
the principal address.
Dr. E. G. Carney is serving
as parade chairman and his
committee will be offering a
$50 cash prize to the float judg-
ed the most original in its make
up.
Billy Barr is chairman of the
bank stabilization on Red Riv-
er from its mouth to the Deni-
son dam. Of the total recom-
mended appropriation, $229,-
966,000 wouid be for bank stabi-
lization, considered necessary
before navigation on the river
can be brought on to the Deni-
son dam.
Another $293,757,000 in the rec-
ommendation would be for na-
vigation channelization of the
Red River from its mouth to
Shreveport, La., and then chan-
neling. by way of Twelve Mile
Cyprus Bayou to Daingerfield
in Texas.
The amount recommended for
Congressional authorization for
the two major phases of the
Red River project is $523,-
723,000. Of the total cost of
the project, $47,543,000 would be
borne by local interests.
The waterway channel would
be 294 miles in length, 200 feet
. wide, 9 feet deep and would be
served by nine locks. Recrea-
tional areas, would be establish-
ed at each of the lock sites.
The engineer’s report pointed
to the heavy loss being incurred
by the instability of Red River’s
banks to both private and pub-
lic property, estimating that the
loss is running some $2 million
each year.
The proposal now goes to the
Chief of Engineers for submis-
sion to the Bureau of the Budg-
et.
Plaintiff is
Given $30,000
A judgment has been filed in
6th District Court award-
ing John C. Kincaid, administra-
tor of the Estate of Kenneth
Nevill Cunningham, et al, $30,-
000 in a suit against the Texas
and Pacific tnd Missouri-Kan-
sas and Texas railways.
Angela Kay Cunningham,
daughter of Cunningham, was
the chief beneficiary of
the judgment receiving $22,500
with the remaining $7,500 going
to attorneys.
Cunningham, an employee of
the Texas and Pacific, was kill-
ed in a collision between trains
of the T&P and MK&T last De-
cember.
Kincaid was named guardian
of Angela Kay and the estate of
her father shortly after Cun-
ningham’s death.
entertainment committee which
will present, among the many
other events, the Thursday night
Combo Blast. Immediately fol-
lowing this event on the open-
inb night will be a repeat of
the exciting tumbling act of last
year, presented by the Fannin
County Electric cooperative.
Saturday, of course, will be
the day filled heaviest with
special events, including the
horse show sponsored by the
Bonham Quarterhorse associa-
tion at 2 o’clock.
Other events Saturday will
include the hog calling contests,
women’s cow calling, and the
frog jumping contest, offering
$5 prizes to the winners.
Entries in the queen and prin-
cess contests are coming in, ac-
cording to Mrs. W. H. Cheatham.
Chariman. Wednesday, Oct. 12,
has been set as the deadline
date for entries.
Sales Pass 500
C. of C. Urging
Early Buying of
Barbecue Tickets
Ticket sales rose this week a-
bove the 500 mark for the bar-
becue at noon Oct. 20 immed-
iately following dedicationcer-
emonies for Fannin county’s
remodeled court house.
Chamber of Commerce ticket
sales committee workers . ex-
pressed belief more than 1,000
tickets will be sold and set an
eye on a possible 1,500. .
Adding interest to the event
is the visit of Gov. John Con-
nally to bring the principalad-
dress at the dedication
program, which starts at 11
a.m.
County Judge ChoiceMoore
said a number of other state
dignitaries have indicated they
will be here, along with mem-
bers of county commissioners
courts from throughout Texas.
H. A. Burow, chairman of the
C. of C. ticket sales committee,
said tickets have been made a-
vailable in every community of
the county. Virtually all of the
county’s seven banks have tick-
ets for sale.
Ernie’s of Greenville will be
serving the barbecue luncheon
at noon and will be set up to
serve at least four lines at a
time.
In Bonham tickets may be
obtained from the First Nation-
al and Bonham State banks, or
from Burow or Martin Halsell.
The First State bank and R.
F. Voyer have tickets in Honey
Grove, the Farmers and Mer-
chants National bank at Ladon-
ia, the First National - bank at
Trenton, Leonard National
bank, and at Ector they may
be bought from John Smith and
in Savoy from Claude Strick
land.
Bonham’s civic clubs have
dispensed with regular, weekly
meetings in order to join with
visitors from over the county
and state for the dedica-
tion program and barbe-
cue luncheon. ,.
“Get your tickets as soon as
possible,” Burow urged, point-
ing out that a preliminaryesti-
mate of the number of plates to
be served must be furnished to
the caterer early in the week,
and a definite number no later
than Wednesday.
Mike Robardyis
injured in Wreck
Robert Michael Robardy,
member of the Bonhi football
squad, suffered bruises anl lac-
erations in an auto-motorcycle
accident on East Sam Rayburn
Saturday afternoon- ,
Robardy, riding the motor-
cycle, was going east on Sam
Rayburn Drive when he was in.
volved in an accident with a
car driven by Laura Lee Aue-
tin, who was making a U-turn.
The high school athlete was
taken to Allen Memorial hospi-
tal. He had a deep cut on the
right leg and bruises and a-
brasions on the left leg and
thigh.
Cars driven by J. B. Johnson
of Ector and Anna P. Morris of
Bonham also were involved in
an accident Saturday afternoon,
Officer Bobby Madison inves-
tigated both accidents.
$150 Damage is
Done In Wreck
Damage was estimated at
$150 by officers in a two-vehicle
collision on North Center street
Tuesday afternoon. .
Officers Kenneth Rice and
Fred Clark identified the driv-
ers of the two cars as Jean Kil-
lion and Robert Weldon Rattan,
1020 Pecan.
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