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VOLUME XXXIV
DEPORT, LAMAR COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1942
Heaviest Snow on Mrs. Chas. Anderson
Record Falk Early j Buried Wednesday
Sunday Morning [Highland Cemetery
A wet snow totaling 8Vfe inches,] Mrs. Chas. Anderson, age 72, died
which is the heaviest ever recorded! at 1 o’clock Tuesday afternoon 'at
by a United States Weather Observ-|the home of her daughter, Mrs. Max-
er at Paris, fell early Sunday morn-He Petty in Deport, following an
ir»g delaying farm operations a week! illness of several weeks’ duration,
and disrupting telephone and elec- [ which started with a stroke of para-
tric power lines. It was of a wet, lysis, and she had been seriously ill
clinging nature, and so weighted since that time.
down telephone lines that many Funeral services were held Wed-
went out about 9 o’clock Sunday nesday afternoon at 4 o’clock at the
morning, including ■ long distance Deport Methodist Church, conduct-
lines. I ed by the pastor, Rev. A. N. Boyd,
Electric power lines of the T. P. with interment at Highland ceme-!wor'c 1° bring down expenditures
Restricted Car Sales
Affect County Income
Food Stamps Buy
$3,281 in February
County governments throughout
East Texas are already hoisting
storm warnings because of war-
caused conditions, the Tax Depart-
ment of the East Texas Chamber of
Commerce reports.
County funds for road and bridge
work come in large part from auto-i
mobile license fees. With no new!
cars selling and restrictions on
tires, a loss of from 10 per cent to
30 per cent in automobile license
fees is expected during 1942.
A number of Commissioners
Courts are revising their 1942 bud-
get allotments for road and bridge.
& L., which supplies the Communi- tery by the Grant Funeral Home,
ty Public Service Co., serving Tal- Pallbearers were: Maurice V. An-
co, Bogata and Deport, were also derson, Murray Anderson, Elbert
out three hours Sunday, and lines Anderson, John Thompson, Jim Rol-
of the local power company were lins and Forrest Petty,
snapped in many places. Shade Mrs. Rossie Moore Anderson was
trees, shrubbery and timber suffer- born March 1, 1870 in Tennessee,
ed heavy damage from broken limbs.1 and came to Texas about forty years
A warm sun Sunday afternoon ago. She is survived by her hus-
rapidly melted much of the snow, band, and one daughter, Mrs. Maxie
and it had entirely disappeared by Petty; a brother and sister, Lee
Tuesday morning, except in very ! Moore of Luray, Tenn., and Mrs.
sheltered spots. This was the fourth Ada Brower of Henderson, Tenn.
snow for the winter, and more snow;
fell on March 1st and 8th than has
within the probable reduced income.
The creation of additional farm
markets in the amount of $3,281.50
as a result of the food stamp pro-
gram in Red River county during
February has been announced. This
amount represents blue food stamps
issued to needy families of the
county.
Orange food stamps clients were
required to purchase at the local
issuing office during the' month
amounted to $4,189.00, bringing the
total of food purchases under the
program to $7,470.50.
Participating in the program last
month were 428 cases representing
1.587 persons.
been seen in all the previous ten
years.
Farming land is in excellent con-
dition from the hard freezes and
heavy snows and many planters will
he running as soon as the ground1
dries sufficiently for the land to bej
worked.
McFadden Infant
Buried Friday
Kelsey Made Captain
When Do I Join the Army? Can’t Tell
Exactly, but This Will Give An Idea
By LLOYD PRICE in Dallas News
An ‘infant daughter born Friday j
to Mr. and Mrs. Steve McFadden of,
Ciardy community died about two!
hours later at their home.
Brief funeral service was held, ]
conducted by the Rev. S. Lee Kidd j
of Ramseur Baptist Church, with in- j
ferment in Evergreen cemetery,!
Paris. Surviving besides the par- j
ents arc three grandparents, Mrs.!
Nannie Middleton, Atlas Rl, and j
Mr. and Mrs. Tom McFadden of
Biardstown.
EVERETT P. GUEST IS
MADE A CORPORAL
Everett P. Guest of . Deport, was
recently promoted to the rank of
corporal. He is assigned to duty
with the 419 School Squadron, at
Sheppard Field, the world’s newest
and largest Air Corps Technical
Training School. Corp. Guest is the
son of Mrs. N. R. Guest of Deport.
His duties now are supply clerk.
Am I going to be drafted? If so,
when?
No more important questions than
these occur today in the life of every
able-bodied American male between
20 and 45.
And unfortunately, there are no
'specific answers. Selective service
, boards operate according to their
own individual interpretations of
1 general rulings.
j But certain general truths stick up
i like sore thumbs. No 1 is that Am-
•.rice is going to raise a magnifier nt
'aimy through selective si i vice,
j No. 2 is that such an army will >• ■•■
quire the services not only of young
' and single men. but many older and
married men.
No. 3 is that while every effort
will be made to recruit this array of
man power with as little disruption
of the economic scheme as possible,
many sacrifices apparently must be
made by individuals.
Mental anguish, minor physical
disabilities and the continuance of
economic statuses at levels to which
families have been accustomed de-
finitely are out since Pearl Harbor
as reasons for deferment. Vague el-
even definite financial losses which
sidcration should be given to men
with only one dependent, that is, a
working wife, a wife capable of
working, a child who might be sup-
ported by its grandparents, etc. That
was three months ago.
To date, some boards have reclass-
ified as high as 50 per cent of their
former 3-A’s with only one depend-
ent. Many have been inducted into
serve e. Some boards are not ncar-
1 Dr. Mavis P. Kelsey, former De-
J port boy, and a member of the staff
of Mayo Brothers Clinic at Roches-
ter, Minn., who entered the Army
as a Flight Lieutenant last fall, has nl*8ht be sustained b> induction imo
been promoted to the rank of Cap-]**'0 arm°d services aie out, too.
tain, according to a message to his Nation’s Welfare Comes First
father, J. R. Kelsey, the first of this] Selective service operates on the
week. His many Deport friends will conviction that the welfare of the
be glad to learn of his promotion.
Mrs. A. J. Ball of Quanah and O.
T. Ball of Dallas, are guests in the
home of Mrs, Ball’s daughter and
Mr. Ball’s sister. Mrs. A. C. Nixon.
From the Sea Bag of
BARNACLE
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By EDGAR L. BRYSON
Dear Editor: I had often heard
that the difference between civilian
and military life is as great as the
difference between n sweetheart and
a wife, but never having been a mar-
ch d man, I did not appreciate the
full significance of that difference
until I joined Uncle Sam’s Navy and
started out to throw an anchor cable
around Hitler’s adam’s apple. Since
that time I have found as many dif-
ferences between the two as a WPA
worker found ways to relax. Well,
almost.
Here is one difference that I feel
is no military secret and one which
I think everyone should know about:
ONLY ONE MAN IN THE NAVY
IS ALLOWED TO WHISTLE. He is
the bos’n’s mate. I am not a bos’n’s
mate, so I wish someone had told
me about it before I enlisted. I
would have been able to lay my
corns by sooner, for every time I
forgot and blew a few bars of “Dix-
ie” into the air I’d look around for
a Yankee officer and then take off
in the opposite direction at a rate
of speed that would have made a
Texas jackrabbit quit the trail and
go hole up with the prairie dogs. I
always believed in being on the safe
side, even if that side was a long
way off and on the off side, at
that. They are so strict against
whistling in tb« Navy that for a
while I thought AWOL meant After
Whistling, O Lord!
By watching my step (perhaps I
should say steps!, % have
to either get tor Without
or-Wl *
ever,.
nation far surpasses in importance
the welfare of any individual and
that when privations are demand 'd
of everyone the only reasonable act-
ion is to lorve into action tlm.-e
whoso sac: ifice will be smallest. j
This philosophy, of course, is tmi-|
pored by the demands of military
I expediency. The incurable diseas-
ed might face less sacrifice in ward
danger than the healthy, but to.
j Army cannot use them.
Ned Blaine, chairman of Selective!
| Service Board No. 7 and also chair I
be exceptions, but I am not one of ! man nf the co-ordinating committ> • j
Hum, One day I was performing - of Dallas •■county's thirteen draltj
my duty in the mariner I was order- boards. Saturday traced briefly In- !
ed. only throwing in a f,-w extras j situation to dale.
and taking a few short cuts now and “On Oct. 21. 1940.’’ he said, dvr
then of my own invention, when an j registered under the first seleetivt |
officer approached and stood watch- service act 58.137 men in the counl
he asked
about as
ins; me.
"What are YOU doing?
at last in a tone of voici
soothing as the song of a handsaw
in the hands of a woman.
“My duty, Sir,” I answered, let-
ting my swab swirl around in a fan-
cy flourish.
“What duty?” he demanded.
“The duty I was ordered to per-
form, Sir,” I replied, without look-
ing up from my work.
He was silent a moment. I think
he was thinking about something.
“You’re a queer one,” he mutter-
ed, more to himself than to me.
“Yes, Sir,” I answered to show
him 1 was listening and knew he
was an officer.
“You’re a queer one, all right,” he
repeated. “It’s a wonder they ever
took you m the Navy. Yes, it is a
wonder the Navy would have you.”
I said nothing, waiting for the sil-
ver lining that always underpins a
cloud.
“How long have you been like
this?” he asked.
“Well, Sir,” I said, “to tell you the
truth, ever since I joined the Navy.”
As I said before, one is bound to
be caught on the carpet now and
then, but I can see no reason why
he has to be'in it when it is being
beaten.
Wishing everyone a very merry
K«:
between the ages of 21 and 35. Tim.
came the national lottery and v.v|
began classifying them.
“The very fit, unmarried men with
no dependents, obviously were the
best material for military service.
Deferred (speaking generally, were
men with dependents, men essen-
tial cither to private or defense busi-
ness or industry, and the physically,
mentally and morally imperfect.
Everything Changed Dec. 7
“At first we took the cream of this
crop, no matter what their age with-
in the bracket. Then in June, 1941,
came the ruling that men more than
28 should be deferred.
“Some boards took married men
if their wives had ample independ-
ent incomes. Some boards did not
take married men at all. All boards
took men who had married after ual. But the national emergency
!y ■■•ii far along.
Tlif miily sure way to know your
i . • 'loot i vo service, ot:i11,.-; is to in-
on •■• of v, nir In ■aril. I>•;i: -loin-ral ly
. ; .;iig. Blaine iornuikited this
tank-:
"li you are 20 years old (that is.
registered in the Feb. 1(1 group) just
sit tight. Your lottery numbers will
not be drawn until March 17. Se-
lective service boards have received
no instructions as to how you shall
be tilted or infiltrated into the
schedule of inductions. You may
rest assured, however, that the Ar-
my wants men of your age group and
you will be called reasonably soon.
"If you are between 21 and 35
(that is. registered in either the 1840
or 1941 registrations) and single,
you probably already have been call-
ed before your board and know the
answer. If you are married with
one claimed dependent, you can ex-
pect to be interviewed by your
board at the latest by June of this
.'ear. If you have a dependent in
fact, that is a wife unable to work
or obtain other support, you pro-
bably will be deferred until some
lime later Ibis year or until govern-
ment allotments are made for •such
ease.-t. If you have more than one
ik-pendenl in fact; you probably will
not he called until considerably later.
"If 'oil are between 35 and 45
: (that is. registered with the 20-Vi ar.
jokls Feb. Hi' you aie ly in tlu-ir
j posit ion. Tlii- solective service
i‘nurds do not know when \ mi will
he calloil or jus! in■ w I lit ai my -v, ill
i art In taking older nan. Just wail.
"if you are now- a 2-A, ilia! i-, dr-
ier red only because you are d-i eased
essential to a hi.sine's not eoraw.-eled
with the war effort, gel ready to go
to the army, because the chances
.nr you will not be deferred again.
"If you are a 2-B. that is. deferred
because you are a necessary man in
a war industry, you probably will
be allowed to remain in civilian life
until someone can be trained to take
your place, and this probably will
be after war industries have reach-
ed expansion peaks and have time
to train women and older men in
vital jobs.”
General Classification
This general classification, he em-
phasized, assumes that you physical-
ly are able to pass army examin-
ations, are not specifically exempted
by law, a conscientious objector, a
criminal or among those otherwise
barred.
“No board member,” he said, “likes
to work a hardship on any individ-
Fifty-five Students
Will Graduate from from the Fulbright
Deport Hi in May
Deport High School will turn out
a graduating class of fifty-five this
spring, the first week in May. The
class has placed an order with The
Times for its invitations and cards,
and the class roll names the follow-
ing graduates:
Warren Anderson
Mary Frances Anderson
Alice M. Anderson
Addlene Anderson
Wayne Anderson
Joe Lee Bailey
Jane Bryan
Kelly Mack Brownlow
Ray Butler
Marie Chandler
Loyee Evelyn Chappell
Dudley Dearman
Ruby Estelle Davidson
Robert Jasper Edwards
Ruby Lee Elmore
Mary Jo Floyd
J. M. Fendley
Daune Glover
Sarah Ruth Grant
Roma Grant
Harry Wayne Hughes
Dick Haydoek
Edward Holmes
Jack Jeffus Jr.
Ji.- lla Jeffus
Christine Jones
Ruth Carlton Kimball
Martha Jo Kelsey
Knrlcne Land
Ruth Lawler
Nancy Miller **
(Ren McGill
Harvey Ray Nichols,,-.
Get aidine H!iill, y
Bilt Phillips
John Reese
Dorothy Irene Rook
Jimmie McFadden
Jerry Shuman
Lois Skaggs
Elisa Spear
Miriam Satchel-
Jim Threadgill
Dorothy Threadgill
Loti is Todd
Thomas Ray Upchurch
Hiram Russell Whitney
D, ryl Westbrook
Wesley Wright
James Williams
Bub Thomas Young
Dorothy Nicholson
Mary Wright
Murray Anderson
Billy Read
State Bank
With their money now available,
amounting to more than $42,000 in
cash, Fulbright folk appear to be
reluctant to draw their money out
of the Fulbright State Bank, accord-
ing to report reaching this newspa-
per. Withdrawals to date amount
to about $2,000.
After being closed since Novem-
ber, the bank was reopened Tuesday
of last week in charge of Grady
Height as cashier. Mr. Height was
formerly with the State Banking
Department, and had been in charge
of the bank since it was closed.
All depositors will be paid 100
cents on the dollar, available to them
25 per cent per quarter, and all of
it available if the deposit was less
than $50.00.
The bank was reopened after J.
N. Henry, Lonnie Turner and Mrs.
Edgar Hooker had subordinated
their claims as depositors against
the bank until all other depositors
had been paid in full, and stock-
holders had agreed to place three
experienced bankers on the board
of directors. They named J. M.
Pike of the First National Bank of
Bogata: T. T. Jeffus of the Deport
State Bank, and Albert Hutchinson
.of the Liberty National Bank of
| Paris.
j Issue $30,176 in
Food Stamps to
Lamar Clients
Fund stamps totaling $30,176- in
value were distributed among La-
mar county Food Stamp clients dur-
ing February, according to W. H. P.
Anderson. issuing officer. The
! month was the first of the Food
j Stamp Plan's operation in the coun-
! ty.
! Clients purchased a total of $16.-
! 916 in orange stamps and received,
i free, a total of $13,260 in blue stamps,
Anderson's figures showed.
The issuing officer also revealed
that tin- Food Stamp Plan office is-
sued a total of $12,288 in food stamps
during the past week—$6,756 in or-
ange stamps and 85.532 in blue
| slumps.
I
Mocker is Named
! Comity Attorney of
! Red River County
Sam : 1
ty attorney
l In - Comm:.-.-
- a named cimo-
le d Rh , a county l>\
lie. Cino 1 in a 1 aiI -I
i
am.
si-s. i, mi \V, ,i1 ,i -.day i, ; v. e, ■:. u>
■'ill tin- vacancy er, at-, d by tim ab-
. - net ■ o i I'm1 n, ■ 11 1.. V.’. i h I rep. v. bo
i- now seiioig in the army.
Waldrop bad asked for a mililaty •
■,'ave of abv.-nce. but sin.-., the coin'!,
v,as not rcrUbn about it- authority;
to grant it. the office was lib-d by I
appointment until Waldrop is in ;>••> FlU'ifCi'SOn Flucod OH
Carrier Pigeon Should
I>e Fed Then Released
Ausim.- If vim find a carrier pig-
|i">h with a hand marked "U. S.” on
; its righi leg. here's what you do;
Don't I'di'phnne the army. Take
Ilia' bird in, let it rest, feed it corn,
j It: -i short tine- il will be ready to
By agam. Thin, on a clear, sun-
■ m,\ mnr.i.ng. ' u; n it loose—it will
c - hme, i And don't try to read the
1 me.-.- is- o c. i! tie-, if an;.. Tout may
, i i, t. i
department found
"'■)) :' - o-' by i dling the signal
e s'!-■- a’ Ft. Sam !!■ art■ m, after a
ci o', n bad !<•;>,-rted such a find by
a w oni. n in in- d..-11 .i■ t,
xitinn to take over again. 1 locker
will lake over active
lice April 1.
duty of tin- of- (
All-Zone Team
Sept. 16, 1940, the date of the pass-
age of the original selective act.
“There were many, many individ-
ual exceptions to all of these rules,
but in the main we rocked along in
the above fashion until Dec. 7, 1941,
the date of the attack on Pearl Har-
bor.”
That attack changed everything,
he said. It immediately eliminated
deferment of all l-H’s, the men be-
tween 28 and 35. Then the boards
began going over the 3-A’s, the men
otherwise fit but who had depend-
......' HM*
must be met. It’s hard to speak gen-
erally about the situation of men
because so many factors enter. It
might be well for every man to take
stock of his own situation, just how
his induction into the armed forces
would affect his dependents and the
economy of the nation.
“War is no tea party. It breaks
up families, produces unpleasant cir-
cumstances in more ways than one.
But it must be faced, and the man
who refuses to face it, be it from
personal fear, personal selfishness or
greed, is unworthy of being-a citi-
zen of the United States.’
Mt. Vernon Negro
Baby Dies in Flames
Mable Jane, seven months old ne-
gro baby, daughter of Judge John-
son. was burned to death Friday af-
ternoon when the negro’s house was
destroyed by fire at Mt. Vernon,
just off Highway 67.
The baby’s mother bad left the
child on a bed while she went to a
neighbor’s house for water. Return-
ing, she saw the house in flames, and
the fire was out of control by the
time the alarm was turned in.
Sparks from a fireplace was be-
lieved to have caused the fire.
Travis Furgerson. big center from
Deport, represents Paris Junior Col-
lege on the official Northern Zone
basketball team which was selected
by coaches of the five member teams
and compiled by Ed Van Zandt,
Jacksonville scribe.
Travis is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Bud Furgerson of Deport, a gradu-
ate of Deport High School and is
now attending Paris Junior College.
Mrs. H. L. Johns Dies;
Burial at Sylvan
Death of Mrs. H. L. Johns, 81,
long-time resident of Sylvan com-
munity, occurred Friday in Lubbock
where she had been ill about two
weeks at the home of a daughter.
Mrs. S. A. Gibson. Burial was at
Sylvan Monday.
Surviving are these children: Mrs.
Gibson, Mrs. Ralph Dickson and
Ogle Johns, Lubbock; Mrs. C. M. Se-
crest, Paris, and Willie Johns, BlM»
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140,000 Enlist in Navy
Since Japs Attack
New York—More than 140,000
men have enlisted in the navy and
naval reserve since the Dec. 7 Jap-
anese attack on Pearl Harbor, it was
announced by the navy’s bureau of
navigation. The, announcement said
this total represents one-half the to-
tal enlistment strength of the navy
as of July 1, 1941.
LAMAR COUNTY MAY
LOSE ITS ATTORNEY
A call to military service has cost
A’!
Red River county its county attor- -ftjJI
ney and the same thing will
bably happen in Lamar.
Harrison took the physiaal
ation for military service H
[of the week. Bob Let
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