The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 218, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 4, 1958 Page: 3 of 16
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Thursday, September 4, 1»58. THE DAILY NEWS-TELEGRAM Section 1 — 3
Druggist Points
To Many Changes
During Years
Sacul, Tex., tft — The myriad
chorea of a small-town druggist
have gotten a lot more compli-
cated over half a century.
Just ask Arkan Cranford, now
68 and in the business since he
w as 16.
He recalls when his job of dis-
pensing drugs here in the East
Ttxas piney woods was pretty
much a two-dose oporation. Now,
like many another in the profes-
sion, he sells dozens of items in
the field •' of so-called wonder
drugs alone.
To keep up with developments,
that means he’s read—just in his
spare time—thousands of words
dealing with what’s new for a
doctor to prescribe. Add a drug-
gist’s standard jobs of giving
first aid, fixing flashlights, sug-
gesting birthday gifts or com-
pounding a tasty ice cream soda,
and you begin to figure Cran-
ford’s has been a full life.
There’s even a gasoline pump
at his front door, but it’s used
“only if somebody come along
and wants some gas.’’
It was June 1, 1906, that "Mr.
Ark” started in the drug busi-
ness. He had moved here two
years earlier.
Sacul (pop. 250) .is a village
27 miles northwest of Nacogdoch-
es. Its name, incidentally, is a
reverse-order spelling of Lycas,
the name of an early settler do-
nating land for the townsite.
"Along about then is when I
used to stand in the door and
watch ox teams come by hauling
logs to the saw mill”, Crran-
ford recalls.
He went into business with a
brother-in-law. By 1914 he had
saved enough money to buy out
his partner.
“When I started in the drug
business, doctors had only a few
things to prescribe,” says Cran-
ford.
Calomel and quinine were the
basic medicines then. A doctor
would hardly go see a patient
without giving him calomel or
quinine."
In those days he also carried
a stock of chill tonic, extracts
of various herbs .and assorted
tinctures.
"Now there are very few calo-
mel prescriptions,” relates the
veteran storekeeper, “and hardly
ever do I get a prescription for
quinine.”
“But then people had a lot of
malaria and chi!) fever. I had
to buy chill tonic by the case.
/
ryt
Now I handle only a few bottles
in a year’s time.”
Doctors were few and their
prescriptions fewer at the time
Cranford obtained his license as
It pharmacists He’s learned a lot
since then.
“Of the prescriptions we get
today, we couldn’t have filled
over five per cent of them 25
ears ago—and even legs 50
ears ago,” relates Mr. Ark with
a nod of his silvered head.
- "These wonder medicines of
today can do much more than we
ever dreamed of when I got
started.”
NOT IN SEASON
Albuquerque, N.*M. iff — Er-
nie Ford fans take note: The
New Mexico Labor Department
says there was a big midsummer
shortage of one type of workers
in central New Mexico—pea pick-
ers.
Indefinite Stay
Won by Negro
Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 4 (J!—
Jimmy Wilson, the Negro sen-
tenced to die for robbing an eld-
erly white widow, won an indef-
ipite stay of execution today. lie
was scheduled originally to die in
the electric chair early tomorrow
morning.
The state supreme court, which
has upheld the death sentence in
Montgomery, said no decision
would be handed down today on
Wilson’s request for a rehearing.
That automatically put the elec-
trocution off, since no condemn-
ed man can be put to death while
his appeal is still in court.
Wilson, w h o previously had
served two prison terms for
grand larceny, was convicted of
robbing 82-year-old Mrs. Kstelle
Barker of $1.95 at her home in
Marion, Ala., July 27, 1957.
Under Alabama law, the amount
involved in a robbery is imma-
terial. The offense, which is pun-
ishable by death, is definecf as the
taking of money or goods of value
by force or threat of violence,
with or without a weapon.
School Shooting
Called Accident
Dallas, Sept. 4 ifl--'Dallas po-
lice have been told that the shoot-
ing at Booker T. Washington
Negro high school yesterday was
an accident.
A 16-year-old student said the
gun went off accidentally while
he-was showing it itt< other stu-
dents in a hallway.
The bullet wounded 17-year-oJd
Edward Williams as he sat in a
Latin class. His condition is im-
proved.
Sophia Loren
Receives Roaring
Welcome Home
Venice, Italy, Sept. 4 ta—Film
star Sophia Loren received a
roaring welcome home from' sev-
eral thousand ,Jfans at the Ven-
ice Film Festival. She said it
made her so happy she wept.
, however, a few hours after they
fled in the sheriff’s car.
| They fled after overpowering
and beating the sheriff and lock-
j ing him in a cell.
i.
Two Jailbreakers
Quickly Nabbed
Barger, Sept. 4 <.e—Texas .Pan-
handle officers were on the alert
for a time last night for two Lib-
eral, Kan., jailbreakers.
The men, held on check and
forgery counts, were captured,
Sweetwater Nan
Found Dead
Sweetwater, Sept/4 if — A 26-
year-old Sweetwater man was
found shot to death at his home
last night. Investigators said a
12-gauge shoigun was near the
body. i
I The victim was L. W. Hines,
f field employe of the B. J. Wells
Service Company. He is survived
by his wife and two small chib
dren.
Souvenir shops in Israel give a
20 per cent discount on putchases
made in dollars.
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Frailey, F. W. & Woosley, Joe. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 218, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 4, 1958, newspaper, September 4, 1958; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth827292/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.