The Clarksville Times (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, August 17, 1956 Page: 7 of 12
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THE CLARKSVILLE TIMES COMPANY
JAN HURT, 1893-19U .....................‘ . Publisher, 1947-1952
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Relief iciary of
Hurricanes
Approach of the hurricane sea-
son brings fear and anxiety to
areas where these devastating for-
ce« of nature have left their scars,
destruction of life and pro-
the rule in paths of tro-
| tional product in excess of foul
hunched billion, more than sixty-
j five million persons gainlullv ern-
! ployed and practically all major
components of the economic index
in new high ground, the Govern-
ment managed to show a modest
operating surplus.
If the Federal establishment
could be operated so that appro-
Steas i n g s° in'* he i r^ou t w ard" re aches -tl
WSSS^SS^ W,U* j fX TurTaUoL’Vld* cKd be
Mt damaging winda. liquidated in about 100 years. Such
Northeast Texas was the benefi-1 e pr0speef is not comforiing to
elary of a hurricane which lashed persons who worry because prac-
eastei n states in August, 1955. This | tical!y no progress has been
MRurbance. which played havoc as i .i,
WW1« de
party Is
pled .st.
Hollyman who Is with Mrs Hoi-,
lymxn and Master John Stephens.
Is spending his vaction in Kansas
City. Rev and Mrs Hollyman
made the trip in their car, join-
ing Mr and Mrs. V,’. C. Hamilton
at Sulphur. Oklahoma They reach-
ed Kansas City in five amf one 1
half days without a puncture or
trouble of any kind, traveling 800
miles.
The annual business meeting of
Reunions of UCV
Gala Events Here
During 45 years
The Clarksville Timas, Friday August 17, 1956 —Section 2
lederacy.
trator. said changes in the law
Camp Ground Still j w||l ;na*e it possible for cummu-
Retained ! nities to finance projects that were
The camp ground in northeast not feasible before.
Clarksville, a plot of about eight-. New legislation permit* the fed-
een acres, is st ill retained What eral government to pay the full
I will he done witli this property re- ' cost of that part of any project
The following, .which appeared mains to lie determined Some identifiable with flood control
..............m .....*n The Times \ugust It. 1926. is have suggested that it be sold and Sponsoring groups, generally soil
the members of the John C. Burks I reproduced for its historical in-j the proceeds turned over to the 1 coca rvation districts, still must
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Camp, L’.l'.N . concluded the offi- j t**rest, particularly in the ease of j Daughters ot Hit
cial program of the old soldier* | descendants of Confederate veter-1 such activities a-
nns in the future.
There was a time when the se-1
cond Thursday in August w as one ;
of the most gala of all days in I
Clarksville It was a high |xnnt in '
W. Graham as chaplain, and I the calendar of events from year |
annual reunion Capt .1 K P. Ja-
mison was re-elected as comman-
der of the camp Capt. W C Dan-
iel "ill serve as vice commander.
.Ino. T Mi Keii/ie as adjiitanl. Hev
W
Conlederacy lor
may be planned
............ in paying the Nation’s
far away as New England, sup-1 dvbts at a when substantial
plied moisture for one of greatest ; reductions might have been ac-
OOtton crops ever produced i n , compllshed. ,
pjd River County. ___
In 1900 the Galveston storm cau-
sed more death and destruction \C’ll'S
then any hurricane in the history
Of the United States, hut the rains KCpOTt
Which that disturbance brought to
Northeast Texas made possible a
cotton yield never equaled before
or since.
Allantic and Gulf Coast areas
Arvad the next three months, but
Inland communities are not dis-
turbed Most of this vast region ] of this kind involving anyone ex-
A Summary of Local News Happenings
Twenty-Forty Years Ago
From The Flies of The Clarksville Times
Dr. Allen of Detroit as surgeon.
Jno. If Latimer will build a new
borne on I he vile of his former
home, destroyed by fire. Mr Lati-
mer and family are temporarily
occupying the collage on West
I Main street, formerly occupied by
Air. and Mis (has. McDonald.
\ Automobiles registered No
| 503. Geo T. Wright. No 504. Mack
Tomlinson, No 505, Mrs. S. M.
Bryson
Clarksville’s first hale of 1910 cot-
ton brought 15'ir per pound.
The residence of G. Roberts of
Avery was burned
The commissioners court can-
vassed I lie i el ii'ns of the recent
election held m Levee District No.
1 of Ifed River County for the
purpose of deter'mining the wishes
of the property owning voters of
(lie district with rclcrcikc to a
bond issue of $55,000, and the can
vass shows that seven votes were
[Hilled for and none against Hie
Twenty Years A«ro
to >ear, even over a period of
several decades. Visitors from far'
and near were attracted to tins
city for what transpired on and
immediately following the -croud
Thin .-day in August
But the piih’iir foi gels. Tin- se
cond Thursday in \iicuM aimed
ill the year 19116 with tint a lew to
recall that il merciy commemora-
ted the high point in the hie of ati
institution, which was none other
than the John ('. Bulk- ( amp, l'
C \
The annual reunion ot the mem
hers of tin' group ot Civil War
vets was an out .landing event For
three days each year, beginning
on the eeitul Thursday in August,
these men assembled in Clarks-
ville lor (licit reunion Gatheling
with them wide thousands Irom
ovii Red River and adjoining
counties || via- a gland picnic, a
vast gathering of people in a fes
live mood Cert only the occasion
was one to be retm inbcted and
pay the rest of the cost.
Young described the federal go-
vernment as still the "Junior part-
ner" since watershed protection
! and flood prevention projects must
Be initialed. locally and financed
loeallv. except for the cost of
i dm i • flood control benefits.
The new law outs the watershed
j protection and upstream flood pre-
i veiition program of the depart-
, meat on a par with other flood
1 con! i o| -pian a a til -' The federal go-
. vciuMciit, m the past. has paid the
full cost of fl >od control fea-
Wushingtoil I' — \n official of lutes of pro|e< I ;>oti-ored bv the
j the Vgiuiiilure Department's Soil reel ni at ion bureau and the Army
j Con-erv at ion Soi vice said new le Fne.ueet s
|gisl.,lure will make il easier lor , ---------
| local communities to finance wa I.,..miniate medii ai needs use
tetsned pi oteet mil and upstream „n|v ;,(K, ,,r j tail) i«,n.- pf op-
.. |" in ciitlnn Itrojeets produced annually in the
Gladwin Young., deputy adminis- vinrld
Law Change Aids
Financing laical
Flood Projects
Where tropical storms cause lit- j cept a member of the Queen’s
At or no alarm Ls lornado con- | household would of course attract
(Clous, Persons who have ex-1 little or no attention. Many of our
perienced these cyclonic disturban-
ces would probably be willing fo
exchange the peril of a twister for
the threat of a hurricane.
strei t
The new business will be opera-
Weather records have been com- t/’d under (he name of the Bed
piled almost continuously at Clark- River Motor < ornpany. with Mr.
sville that people avoided the di- Osborn as manager. I he new own
ry. In all that long period the er has been engaged in the auto-
maximuin temperature was never ( mobile business ... Pans wvcral
above 110 degrees unti’, Aug. 10.-' years and will move his family to
1936. Between 5 00 and 6 00 o'clock < larksville.
on that date the mercury stood j Clarksville's new fire insurance
at 115. establishing a high, which, I key rate of 33 cents became ef-
if ever equaled or exceeded be- j fective August 14 and is the lowest
fore, was not officially recorded, ever allowed for Ibis city by the
J The heal was so intense in Clark-'.State Fire Insurance Commission.
| sville that people avoided the di-1 The following Bed River County
reel rays of the sun as much as teachers will receive degrees from
possible. Blistering winds swept | the Fast Texas State Teachers Col-
across fields to blight and wither j lege, Commerce, at the conclusion
the most hardy plant life. Cotton of tlie -present term, this week
Suffered and irsl heavily. Other | Lola Mae Bcllolle, Homer Nieho-
crops were badly damaged. The las, Lena Mae Crucc, II. M. , ,„
how come since several thousand I torridit.v w as devastating. | Templeton. Pelor Barnett, Evelyn | Worth He
of these faithful servants of the | At two places in Clarksville eggs W’itmer. Nadine ( hesshir, Ixmise
public had been similarly attacked ' were fried by the rays of the sun. ! Andeison tliddens Lena Smyre
before anyone became aware of Car experiment at the home " - "' ......... "
pro|H»sed issue 'I'his district cm
braces a section ot approximately i look tot ward In
four thousand acres of land in the j But as the years pa.ssgd and the
southwestern section of the conn- j thin ranks ni the velerans giew
ty, along Cllthand and Sulphur. thinner reunion days .'.eemed to
John Shailid and wife are now | grow l«*ks impoitanl. to attract tc
occupying their new re-idenee. on | wer people During the past ten
the block west ofVT. W Fergu- to fifteen years these events have
Foreign news of last week in-
cluded a very trivial incident at
Bucidngham Palace, where a
guard was nipped in the seat of . , , ,
his trousers by a nnt-too friendly sv,lle that people avoided the di-
pet of the royal heir. Happenings
mail carriers must be wondering
son’s new home. j been devoid of glamor and goner
Luther Carter, represent alive , al interest 'There came a lime
from Red River County in the last vvhn the veterans themselves
logi nature, left for Hugo, where J could no longer supervise arrange-
he will make his future home. I molds.. Reunions were p'lanncd for
,1. R. Chesshir, one of Iho oldest j them by the American l egion and
and best known citizens of the [ Daughters of the Confederacy. Of
Mali shorn section, died after a
long illness caused by dancer of
Hie stomach.
Prof. W. A. Dean and family,
who have been living in Sherman,
during the prist Year, moved to
Tulsa, Oklahoma,, where they wifi
make their future home.
J. II James, familiarly known
among his friends as "Uncle Joe”
died at Fort Worth following a
stroke of apoplexy while'on his
Opportunities ill
Irrigation Here
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tial portions of their trousers anil
many even more with not a line
in the press about these incidents.
When, however, a royal Corgi, pro-
A few year* ago suggestions j pertv of the prince, acted in a
that irrigation held interesting pos-4-strictly canine fashion In the pre-
ibilities in Red River County hard- senee of a stranger, that was news.
attracted notice. The Times re- J To the British subject perhaps il
heatedly called attention to oppor-'mav have been of negligible in-
tunities confronting numerous far- ' terest. Who in America would have
niers- by utilizing local water re- J been excited by the incident? We
of j Mrs. Willie Mae Witiner, Wm. Fos-
their plight.'TfundredsTosfsubstan- t Wade Clark on North Walnut street Iter Morehcad. Ruby lola Wright,
tiai nnrtinnii nt their trousers and was reported successful. Another j Orville Hunter, Mrs Mary E.
at the home of W. M. Parks on Igo.
West Broadway resulted in a cook- —----
ed egg in less than thirty mi-
nines. J Forty Years Ajfo
The demand for water and ire j .....— ■ —---r
sky-rocketed. The city hall water The funeral of Mrs. M M. Clark |
station w as a v ery busy place and | w ill be held followed by interment week
ice distributin'! stations had all at the Catholic cemetery. The ser-
the business thev could handle. I vice- were conducted bv Father
run between Wliitesboro and Fort
was stricken near Pi-
lot Point. "Uncle Joe" had been
in the service of the Texas &
Pacific railway for more than twe-
nty-five years and was one ol the
best known and most popular pas-
senger conductors in North Texas.
He was well known to many
Clarksville people, having served
on—a number of occasions as con-
ductor on the i* arkxvdte-Kherman
passenger run lor periods of two
or a month at a time.
The Times is furnished with the
following list of officials elected
by iho Sons of the Confederacy,
proved
on a limited scale. Since^these pio- Importance to
neering venturcs~Scores of farm- , luma headline,
ers have become interested. The I
extent to which the idea has been
accepted was indicated at tlie re-
cent irrigation clinic held near |
Clarksville. Developments of the [
last half dozen vears warrant the j
prediction that before a great while j
thousands of acres of Red River j
County fields will be served by j
privately operated systems, capa- j
ble of watering from one to a num- i
her of acres as long as necessary {
to carry crops through summer
and fall drouths.
8 Ol”l OF TEN
CHOOSE I)E SOTO AGAIN
I*. R. S. MOTOR CO.
fil ers of the l I > l' announced
that such events would lie held as
long as veterans were able to
assemble for roll call, the t ran -
•Sie'ion ol their business and to
partake of refreshments' provlil
cd Tv (heir friends
The forty fifth reunion was held
In 1935. It was the last Orgaiil
zed in the slimmer of 1890, the
John (' Murks Camp wa.s active
I limugh foi I v liv e \ears.
Today one charter member of
tin' organization is alive Two oth-
ers who joined in later vears are
also among the living. T. C C
Anderson, whose name was on
the list of the oiicinal membership
resides ill Arkansas |lis health is.,
not rood and ins physical condition
smh that lie could nol have been
here had another reunion been pla-
nned for this year .1 M Childers
resides in Ute < 'onleilerate home of
Austin lie lias been a subscriber
of The limes for quite a while
bill tc rent ly slat Ml in message to
the paper that he could no longer
see well enough to read and had
ex jje rjg need «nmp... Uai l into-v----t-ft-j*
getting others to read for him. Dr
John C Foster, third member of
cios in annual encampment and (Tain was the widow of (’apt. son, adjutant; Austin S. Dodd, I the surviving trio, is m Clarksville
training. ^ Jnrnrs Clark, one of the early ‘chaplain. land able to ♦sone stnd go as usual.
R. T. Oshurn of Paris has been settlers of the Claiksvillc section, j -------------- ' Thus the year 1936 finds the so-
il! Clarksville completing ariange- who died .several years ago. | The A mot lean Bible Society dis- coinl Thursday in August just .mo-
ments for opening a Fold agency i The Times is in receipt of an in i Intuited 14.918.353 volumes of llier day Reunion days are over
in flic Ford building on West Main (cresting letter from Rev. J. ('. '.scripture in 1955.___for Iho men who served the Con-
Company 1. 144th Infantry, Tex-; Reid, pastor of St. Joseph's church.
~pr.kfli.ahlv during answer, but at'least one pub-| as National Guard, returned to ‘ The death ol Mm Clark occurred mgani/cil during Hie recent i I'nn
dry periods. A few experiments ' IieaiTon wBTen YTrcuTales W THarks'- j t'tarksrHV frwnr-Pahwiws. Thwie ri> follow-mr an"tttTrz"'* TYTTOfniTg‘7fV/lf' hdr' “NdVfofi rolak. “ romm.aridcTg
proved the value of such practices [ villo thought the story of sufficient ] flemen spent two weeks at Pala- a period of several months. Mrmxo ] Wade Parks, adjutant; I) (’. Jami-
give it a two-co-
IT PAYS TO MAKE YOUR
AUTO LOAN
AT LOW RANK RATES
GOING TO BUY A NEW
OR USED CAR?
W in not ilc.il as a t'ash Buyer, with the help ol our
convenient bank auto loan plan.’ Yon get prompt,
personal and helpful n-«*, with monthly repay-
ment terms arranged to lit your .individual re
quirements
W hen you finance vonr ear pun base at this bank,
you may place your automobile insurance1’ with
sAour own msurame agent Ndu may have the m-
suranee on your old car endorsed to envoi' the new
ear Your bank auto loan here may include money
to pay for your insurance as well as the ear pur-
i hast*.
In 1174
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CLARKSVILL# TCXA*
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Moderately
Satisf ying
A Federal budget surplus of
nearly fwo billion dollars in the
last fiscal year was not an ac-
complishment to justify more
than a moderate amount of satis-
faction. This slim margin of re-
ceipts over expenditures occurred
during a period when the Nation's
economy had attained the highest
level in history. With the gross na-
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Striking It Rich ...
doesn’t happen too often
nowadays. But many of
us are already far richer
than we think Rich in
possessions . . . car, home,
furniture, clothing, appli-
ances.
Are you guarding your
property dollars with ad-
equate insurance? Better
make sure NOW.
A CLEANER CLARKSVILLE
DEPENDS ON YOU!
Hughston & Son
Insurance
Agency
First National Bank Bldg.
Phone 29
dutfdlk, Tom
HONEST GUZ, \TH' HECK YOU DIDN'T/
I DIDN'T DO J WHAT ABOUT YOU
TELLIN' UMDA T'CUT
MV RATIONS PAUSE
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I I'M TOO FAT, HE
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ON MY POTATOES,
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THINK YOU'RE
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RIGHT/
AN' T'SHOW NON
HOW MUPH WE.
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