The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 9, 1940 Page: 1 of 8
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DEPORT, LAMAR COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1940
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John Garner
Favored by
Deport Vote
Deport voters registered a 100
per cent vote for John N. Garner
as a nominee for president at the
precinct election l\eld Saturday af-
ternoon in the Deport State Bank.
The full quota of eight delegates
to the county convention was nam-
’ ed and a resolution adopted to en-
dorse the humanitarian and for-
ward looking administration of our
national government under the peer-
less leadership of President Frank-
lin D. Roosevelt and the distin-
guished Texan, Vice-President Jno.
N. Garner. The resolution contain-
ed the clause, “We vote for our na-
tive son, Vice President John N.
Garner as nominee for President."
It was also voted to condemn the
“stop Roosevelt” movement, and the
delegates were instructed to vote
as a unit in the county, state and
naional conventions.
The following delegates to the
county convention were elected: J.
R. Hutchison, W. H. Thompson,
John H. Moore, L. E. Hayes, Dr,
John R. Brittain, Sam J. Read, Tom
Jeffus and Edgar Bryson.
Precinct Chairman J. R. Hutchi-
. son advised the assembled voters of
the importance of the election and
stressed the fact that it was their
only real opporunity. to have a say-
so in the presidential election.
W. H. Thompson was named sec
retery of the meeting and presided
in that capacity.
Officers Take
Man in Bogata
After Chase
Lamar County
Joins Texas
in Garner OK
John Nance Garner is running
more than 20 to 1 against President
Roosevelt for Texas’ 2,100 delegates
to the state convention in Waco on
May 28, according to reports Wed-
nesday from Garner headquarters
that were based on county conven-
tion results.
Lamar county delegates voiced an
overwhelming sentiment for Gar-
ner for President Tuesday at the
Lamar County Democratic Conven-
tion held at the county court house,
after credentials for 39 of the 54
voting precincts in the county had
been received on Wednesday. Thir-
ty delegates were elected to cast
Lamar county’s 20 votes in the
State Democratic Convention at
Waco.
J. R. Hutchison of Deport, was
among the representatives elected
to attend the Waco convention.
Lamar delegates were instructed
to vote for Joe Pollard as a na-
tional delegate.
Deport Track Men
Lose at State
Deport track men, Bill Hammond,
Jackie Griffin and Sonny Fagan, re-
turned Saturday night from the
stale interscholastic meet at Aus-
tin, where they were eliminated in
the preliminaries. They earned the
right to enter the state meet by
placing in the county, district and
bi-district events.
The boys visited many places of
interest in Austin and report a fine
trip.
Constables W. J. ■ Corbell of Bo-
gata and Lloyd Graff of Talco, as-
sisted by Nightwatchman Fred Hor-
ner of Bogata and the Talco night-
watchman closed in on and captured
an alleged hijacker and car thief in
Bogata on Sunday night. Cornell
responded to a call from Wilks
store at Hagansport that a man who
had attempted to rob the store was
headed north on Highway 37.
The Bogata constable chased a
car which had left the highway and
cut through residential streets of
Bogata and was almost run down
when he got in front and tried to
stop the vehicle. Graff, whp was
on the trail of a stolen car, was
close behind and made the catch
near the Bogata cotton platform.
Corbell had taken the car’s li-
cense number and it was establish-
ed that it had been stolen a short
time before from J. B. Lee of Talco.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilks arrived in a
short time from Hagansport and
identified the man qs the one who
had attempted a robbery there. Mr.
Wilks had answered the demand for
money with the statement, “I have
no money and I am closing thq
store.” He followed this by slam-
ming, the door in the robber’s face.
The captured man was placed in
jail at Talco. His statement im-
plicated two other men in the rob-
bery attempt, but officers doubted
if they were involved.
MOTHER’S DAY SUNDAY
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The bravest battle that ever was fought,
Shall I tell you where or when?
On the maps of the world you will find it not;
It was fought by the mothers of men.
—Joaquin Miller.
Annual Wild Flower
Show at Greenville
Fourth annual wild flower exhib-
it of Texas Highway Department,
District No. 1 will be held in Green
ville on Friday and Saturday, May
17 and 18. Last year it was held
in Sherman and the first two years
in Paris.
Purpose of the exhibit is to ac-
quaint people with the many vari
ties of local wild flowers and those
found in the district, which com-
prises Lamar, Red River, Franklin,
Fannin, Delta, Hopkins, Grayson,
Rains and Hunt counties. It will be
free to the public. \
Sweepstakes
Won at Meet by
Deport FFA
EARLY DEPORT RESIDENT
DIES AT GREENVILLE
J. M. Kerr, 77, died Saturday at
his home in Greenville less than
two weeks after he and his wife
celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary. Deceased was bom in
Missouri and cameto Texas at the
age of 20, settling, at Deport Later
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By ROBERT BRYSON
Deport FFA chapter won sweep-
stakes Monday, May 6, in the Dis-
trict Leadership contests held at
Commerce, by winning’ two first
places, one second place and one
third place.
The local chapter entered four
teams in the Chapter Conducting,
Public Speaking, Newswriting and
One-Act Play events.
First place in the one-act play
was won by John Mac Shuman,
Deryl Westbrook, Buford Legate,
Perry Shannon and Richard (Dick)
Nance.
First place in chapter conducting
was won by I^ay Rhodes, Rufus
Kelley Storey, James Stone, Ross
Skaggs, Charles Ball, Harry Hughes,
Troy Pomroy, W. B. Wright, B. C.
Grant and James Foster.
Second place in newswriting was
won by Robert Bryson.
Third place in public speaking
was won by Sam Hunter Grant.
The teams will be eligible to en-
ter the Area Leadership contests at
Commerce on Saturday, May 11.
Red River Co
Instructs for
John Garner
Aged Milton Lady
Dies Wednesday *
a„„, Milton
lady, died at 9 o’clock Wadn—iay
morning at the home of her son,
Wes Ingram of the Milton commun-
ity, where she had been living for
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Unqualiled instructions in favor
of John N. Garner for president
were given Red River county dele-
gates to the state convention at
Waco on May 28. Resolution adopt-
ed by the county convention in ses-
sion on Tuesday in favor of instruct-
ing for Garner was given a unan-
imous vote.
The convention met in the dis-
trict court room at Clarksville and
was addressed briefly by Tom De-
Berry of Bogata, who extoled prin-
cipals of the Democratic party. At-
tendance at the county convention
was the largest on record and re-
turns from 24 of the 36 precinct
conventions was reported the best
in years.
Delegates certified as eligible to
attend the state convention includ-
ed the following from Southwest
Red River county: Tom DeBerry,
H. H. Wilkinson, G. W. Bartlett,
Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Peyton, John
Ford Jr., Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Ches-
shir, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Branson,
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bradley, John
Wilkinson Jr., J. M. Pike, E. G.
Hutchings, Dr. W. H. Grayson of
Bogata; Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Dodd
and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tyer of
Rosalie; Sam Moore and Clyde Law-
ler of Rugby; Paul Hill, J. N. Henry,
L. A. Guest and Ed Scaff of Ful-
bright.
Watch the Way
You Park Cars
on Main Street
Watch the way you park your
car or truck on Main street, for the
City Marshal will be watching you.
Motorists who have become ac-
customed to parking their vehicles
anywhere and any way on Main
street in Deport may do well to
commit the above sentence to mem-
ory. It will not be a difficult thing,
however, to park motor vehicles, the
correct way, since the motorist will
be guided by large white stripes on
each side of the street, put there as
a result of a decision made Monday
night at a meeting of the City Coun-
cil to make the street a safer and
more convenient parking place. .
Motorists will be asked by City
Marshal P. H. Furgerson to park
their vehicles within the white
stripes which will be painted on
either side of the street as soon as
the weather permits.
The measure, backed by an or-
dinance, is to discourage and pre-
vent double and other dangerous
forms of parking and to make the
street a safer and more convenient
parking and de-parking place.
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Many Gather
for Lone Oak
Barbecue
Ben Warren
Farm Becomes
Show Place
Lone Oak is one of the best
schools in Lamar county with a
standardized program and a nine
months’ term at no increased cost
to the tax payers of the district,
County Supt. J. G. Brunson told a
gathering of several hundred peo-
ple in an open air meeting on the
school grounds on Monday night.
The occasion was a barbecue for
Lone Oak and surrounding com-
munities, with Lamar county can-
didates as special guests.
After the barbecue had been serv-
ed the Walker string band supplied
music and Prnicipal E. H. McFad-
den delivered a short address of
welcome. L. T. Johnston, super-
intendent of the Deport school, act-
ed as master of ceremonies. Mrs.
W. R. Brownlow, with Miss Anita
Westbrook at the piano, led a sing-
song, and County Supt. Brunson
spoke.
Mrs. Mattie Dancer, rural super-
visor of schools, was introduced and
conducted a program consisting of
more singing, a reading by Mrs.
Neal Duncan, and two vocal num-
bers by Mrs. Dean Oliver.
Rev. Raymond Smoot, pastor of
the West Paris Baptist church, kept
the crowd chuckling for twenty
minutes, and he was followed by
Howard Smith of Sulphur Springs
and Dick Waters of Texarkana, can-
didates for congress, who made
short talks. County and precinct
candidates were then introduced by
Mr. Johnston, and they made short
two-minute speeches.
DEPORT MAY GET
COTTON MATTRESS
MAKING CENTER
Home Blown Away as
New Cellar Used
Deport Man Makes
His Garden Pay
The Mt. Vernon Optic-Herald re-
ports the destruction by a wind-
storm of the home of Hiram Holder
in North ’ Franklin county last week.
It seems a new storm cellar was fin-
ished just a few hours before the
storm approached and in a short
time the Holders had a new storm
cellar but no home. Mr. Holder had
shepherded his family into the
storm house and paused for a final
look before shutting the door. His
glance was just in time to see the
home blown away and he remarked
to his family, .“Don’t get excited
folks, but we don’t have a home
anymore.” rr ,
There is more than one way to
make a garden pay, according to
W. D. Bagley who has already sold
nearly $40 worth of tomato plants
from a bed in his garden in North
Deport.
Mr. Bagley estimates he has sold
15,000 tomato plants to local people
from the bed this spring and he has
been growing such a bed with sim-
ilar sales results for about ten years.
Deport may get a mattress mak-
ing center to make cotton mattress-
es for low income families, accord-
ing to Mrs. Walter Grant, Deport
WHD club chairman of the project,
who has made application for such
a center in Deport. It is necessary,
however, that Lamar county get a
minimum of 120 applications for
mattresses before mattress making
centers can be established over the
county.
Any farm family with an inedme
of $400 or less, with at least half of
it coming from the farm, is eligible
to m^ke application for a cotton
mattress, Mrs. Grant says, and adds
that it also applies to families on
relief who have not heretofore re-
ceived cotton mattresses. Applica-
tions in Deport should be made to
Mrs. Grant, who will send them to
county headquarters for approval.
The all-cotton, 50-pound mat-
tresses will include 10 yards of tick.
The applicant is asked only to sup-
ply thread and needles, cost of
which is about tweftty-five cents.
Deadline for making applications
is June 30.
An ideal farm which is daily be*
coming more valuable is that <4
Ben Warren near Fulbright. Mr.
Warren purchased the 160 acrautNteb
which is bordered on one side by tlta
Fulbright-McCoy rock road, abOUf it
year ago and has made extensive*
improvements to the house and
barns, as well as to cultivated land
and pastures.
The home is served by the new
rural electric line and the power is
utilized for electric pumps which
supply running water, as well a*
for lights and household appliances.
Wells, supply plenty of water for
home use and there are numerous
well located pools for stock water.
About 98 of the 160 acres are in
cultivation and 4.7 miles of terraces
are a part of the soil and water con-
servation plan being used to build
up land. On about 17 acres of land
which had been badly gullied and
denuded of topsoil Mr. Warren hgs
seeded 12 acres of Hungarian hairy
vetch and 5 acres of Hubam sweet
clover. The vetch has attained a
growth estimated at 28,000 pound*
per acre and a portion of the crop
has been turned under to rot a*
green manure. This acreage will
be planted in late corn as an ex-
periment to determine if vetch can
be made to attain sufficient growth
to be turned under early enough for
the land to be utilized for corn and
cotton. Later the entire plot wilt
be turned under as a soil builder
and some other cover crop planted.
This section of the farm was bad-
ly eroded but two or three year*
of cover crops and erosion control
is expected to restore fertility and
do away with gullies.
' Cultivated pastures, properly
fenced have a good stock of white-
faced cattle and a trench silo sup-
plements the pastures in feeding.
Mr. Warren has purchased a fine
young registered male and some
good cows to build up his herd.
The farm .shows evidence of cane-
ful planning and much work which
have, in less than a year, made it 8-
beautiful home surrounded by im-
proving farm land and pastures.
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Farm Work is
Stopped by
Slow Rain
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Wildcat Test
Near Bogata
Due to Start
Honor Students of
Fulbright'School
Valedictorian and aalutotorian of
ht High School senior class
Monday. The yaled
Mt. Vernon Office to
Advance Class July I
Transfer of the postoffice at Mt.
Vernon from third to second class
will be made about July 1, accord-
ing to the Optic-Herald and L. W.
Davis, postoffice inspector was in
Mt. Vernon last week making final
arrangements for the change. Em-
ployes of the office will go under
0W1 service when the Office is adtefaations for the 'drilling contract
vanced.
NEW TEACHERS ELECTED
>AT LONE OAK SCHOOL
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Mitt Grace Morris and Miss May-
<*.Su!Phur
The last lease has just been
signed and we are telephoning op-
erators to make final drilling ar-
rangements,” Tom Cole told a re-
presentative of this newspaper on
Wednesday afternoon concerning
the proposed deep wildcat southeast
of Bogata. Mr. Cole has been one
of the group who have worked dil-
igently to assemble a 7,000 acre
lease block.
Announcement of location and de-
finite drilling plans are expected
momentarily, as arrangements with
drillers are Ming rushed. Nego-
Farm work in this area was stop-
ped Wednesday morning by a slow
rain that fell continuously through-
out the day, soaking the soil and
breaking pre-summer heat.
Although the ground has suffici-
ent moisture and water supplies arw
above the average, the rain was
welcomed by many. farmers who
say it will put new life into a soil
packed by recent heavy downpour*
and whipped dry by high winds.
It will also aid in bringing up late
planted crops that were being held
under ground by the hard crust' on
the soil.
Considerable foulness is reported
on most farms in this area, some ;||j
farmers saying it was necessary td
fiat-hoe their corn to save it from
weeds and grass. The hard crust .
on most land had prevented c|oMr-'
plowing. .
Corn is beginning to come Out’
of the set-back it suffered^
recent freezes and a few
of warm weather
ders with other crops
tarded by unfavorable ’.
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have been underway for some time,
but the deal has been hanging fire
on a few siAall leases within the
block which could not be signed.
were signed on a plan cell-
ing for a thorough test of the Trin-
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Meetings of Soil X
Election Given
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held on Thursday,
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