The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 21, 1940 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME XXXII
DEPORT, LAMAR COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1940
NUMBER 42
Deport is Winner of West
Bracket District 17-B
The Bogata High School Bulldogs
outscored the Deport Tigers 6-0 ip
their game for championship of the
West Bracket of District 17-B on
Friday afternoon at Deport, but on
account of ineligibility of a Bogata
player the game was forfeited to
Deport.
One of the largest crowds ever to
witness a game in Deport saw the
fighting Tigers stop the speedy trick
plays of the favored Bulldogs after
the first quarter and hold them to
one 20-yard line penetration.
A blocked kick by Deport in the
fourth quarter almost tied the count.
Hoover was through fast to block
the kick and with plenty of block-
ers to escort him goalward, Skaggs
played in safe by covering the ball
instead of trying to pick it up.
Bogata kicked to Deport and
stopped the Tigers’ drive on the 50.
Oliver kicked to Hunt who picked
up nice blocking on a 70 yard run
which stopped just short of pay dirt,
only to have the play called back
and an offside penalty assessed
against Bogata.
The Bulldogs’ counter came when
Pike shot through a nice hole and
crossed over untouched after a 50
yard dash. Clifton was stopped on
the line when he took the ball after
a fake kick on the extra point at-
tempt. The Bulldogs threatened
on two more occasions, but the
staunch Deport defense held.
After the first quarter, it was a
defensive battle, Bogata being un-
able to make any appreciable gains
except on three interceptions of
Deport passes. The hard-charging
Tiger line kept the Bulldog backs
in trouble on punts and giving them
little time to get their running plays
started.
The Tigers completed 7 of 13
passes attempted and lost two other
scoring opportunities when Reese
stumbled and fell after receiving a
pass from Oliver in the clear, and
when a Bogata fumble was recover-
ed on the 25 but the play was stop-
ped and Bogata took over on the 18.
The Deport band and pep squad
presented a colorful and entertain-
ing show at the half time by march-
ing on the field with the band play-
ing several numbers and having its
picture made and the pep squad
drilling and giving cheers for both
the Bogata and Deport teams, cli-
maxing the formations by releasing
two pigeons bearing streaming rib-
bons in colors of the two schools.
Deport starting lineup was: Le-
gate and Rhodes, ends; Davidson
and Grant, tackles; Hoover and Wil-
liams, guards; Edwards, center;
Butler, Storey, Pomroy and Oliver,
backs.
Coach Hatcher used L. Sims, Wil-
son, Wright, N. Sims, Simmons,
Vaughn, P. Glover, Jeffery, Pike,
Hunt, Clifton, J. Grayson, Wimms
Tigers Play DeKalb
for District Honors
Deport High School Tigers will
meet the DeKalb Bears in the New
Century Athletic Club stadium at
Clarksville Thursday night, Nov. 28,
for district championship honors.
Kickoff is scheduled at 7:30 p. m.
Right to battle the Bears, win-
ners of the East Bracket of District
17-B, for district championship went
to the Tigers Tuesday night on an
ineligibility count in the Bogata
Bulldog lineup which defeated the
Deport eleven by a 6-0 score Friday
of last week.
Coach L. L. Morris takes his De-
]port Tigers to Cooper Thursday af-
ternoon (today) for a Thanksgiv-
ing tilt with the Cooper High School
eleven. The game is a non-confer-
ence tangle.
Deport High School band -and
pep squad accompanies the team.
Band members are to be admitted
free, Coach Morris says.
Hot Lunch Project
Now in Operation
Hot lunch project at the Deport
High School is in operation and
functioning favorably. Students are
taking advantage of the varied hot
lunch offered for the 5c contribu-
tion and the large stock of foods is
being replenished as fast as it is
used.
More than four hundred of the
students enjoyed a pre-Thanksgiv-
ing dinner Wednesday in the lunch
room, where 93 pounds of turkey
were served.
Name Leaders
for Lamar
Anti-Rat War
Pioneer Milton I
Resident is
Buried Monday
Lamar County Land Use Planning
Committee met Saturday with com-
munity leaders, the Extension Ser-
vice, vocational agricultural teach-
ers, agricultural workers, secretary
of the Chamber of Commerce, re-
pesentatives of the Fish and Wild-
life Service, and the colored County
and Home Demonstration agents to
declare a blitzkreig on the world’s
worst pest, the common rat. Coun-
ty Agent A. L. Edmiaston outlined
the program to committeemen and
bait order cards were issued.
Last year Lamar county had a
most successful rat campaign. This
success was due to excellent coop-
eration of citizens and agricultural
agencies. Every citizen will have a
chance to take part in this worth-
while public program. The organ-
ization reaches to every corner of
the county. Each community will
have a leader with whom he can
place his order and work out his
individual rat control program. The
assistants of the Fish and Wildlife
Service will also be available thru-
out the campaign. Your school
teacher, A. A. A. committeemen,
Home Demonstration Club presid-
ents, or any of the following in this
area will take your bait order: Mrs.
John Thompson, L. L. Jeffus, Mrs.
John Antoine, Clyde Barham, Joe
Scott, A. E. Ball, Mrs. Bob Denison,
Roscoe McClure, Mrs. Claud Mor-
gan, Sam Harvey, Mrs. Buster Wat-
son, Mrs. Vernon Shuford, Grady
Gann, Mrs. Arch Hatch, Richard
Pomroy.
Bait orders will be taken not later
than Nov. 30, it is reported.
John W. Sain, 90, pioneer resid-
ent of the Milton community, died
Sunday at the home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. S. E. Thompson, in Paris
where he had been making his
home.
Funeral services, in charge of the
J. M. Grant funeral home, were
held Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock
in the Milton Methodist church and
interment was in the Milton ceme-
tery. Services were conducted by
the Rev. H. C. Slate, Baptist min-
ister.
Deceased was born in South Car-
olina in July, 1950, came to Texas
in 1867 and settled at Starksville,
in Red River county. He later mov-
ed to the Milton community, in La-
mar county, where he had lived the
past 60 years. He had been in ill
health for the past eight weeks.
He was married in 1877 to Miss
Lida Mowery, to which union 12
children were born, seven of whom
survive and are: Mrs. Katie Sain
of Deport, Mrs. B. T. Farley, Clarks-
ville, Mrs. Sam Harvey, Milton, J.
W. Sain, M. M. Sain and Mrs. S. E.
Thompson, Paris, and John Sain of
California. Mrs. Sain preceded him
in death in 1930.
Blossom Druggist
Buried Wednesday
G. W. Cassady, druggist at Blos-
som for 30 years, died at 7:30 a. m.
Tuesday at his home, following a
heart attack Sunday. He was 67
years old.
Funeral services were held Wed-
nesday at the Blossom Methodist
Church with burial in the Knights
of Honor cemetery.
and Dawson in the game with
Wright, N. Sims, L. Sims, Glover,
Wilson, Pike, Grayson and Hunt
playing standout games.
Game Statistics
DEPORT BOGATA
8 ................ First Downs .............. 6
13............Passes Attempted _________3
7........... Passes Completed............0
0 ........Passes Intercepted by ........ 3
7 ...................... Punts 3
1 ......._... Punts Blocked by............0
0 ........ Fumbles---------------- 2
1 ................ Penetrations............... 1
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FOR LIFE, LIBERTY
AND THE
PURSUIT OF
HAPPIMESS
WE GIVE
THANKS
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We should be Thankful for the Americ
Way of Life that has made America
it is today—a peaceful and progressive Na-
tion. Let us strive to keep it peaceful.
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Preparing for New
Mattress Program
Community meetings for the pur-
pose of planning the new govern-
ment mattress program will be con-
ducted in 51 communities in Red
River county under the direction of
the supervisors for the previous
mattress making, it was announced
Saturday afternoon.
After the election of the commun-
ity supervisor at these community
meetings, this person will begin tak-
ing applications for the new pro-
gram. Any farm family who did
not make over $500 during the pre-
ceding calendar year plus $50 for
each member of .the family in excess
of four persons, may apply for the
50 pounds of cotton and 10 yards
of ticking to make into a mattress
at a public center in the commun-
ity.
Each eligible family may receive
one mattress for each two persons
in the family, not to exceed a total
of three mattresses; this number to
include the one made on the pre-
vious program.
OLD LANDMARK
BEING RAZED
SOUTH RUGBY
One of the oldest of the old land-
marks of this section passes with
the tearing down this week of the
old Daniel Chesshir house on what
is now known as the Ben Craven
farm south of Rugby. The old hewn
log structure was built by Mr. Ches-
shir immediately after he returned
from the Civil War, supposedly
about 1865. Mr. Chesshir reared a
family of 12 in the house which was
so substantially built that some of
the timbers are being used in a new
house being constructed nearby.
The logs were hewed square and the
fitted corners held with wooden
pins.
A smaller house was built of logs
when Mr. Chesshir settled the land
before the Civil War. After the
war he built the larger house and
the smaller was torn down several
years ago.
Bogota Man Gets
Same Draft Numbers
Early Thanksgiving
Being Observed
Most Deport people are observ-
ing the New Deal Thanksgiving
Nov. 21 (today). It’s a holiday for
banks, the postoffice and rural mail
carriers. Sunday hours are being
observed by a number of merchants.
Deport High School students were
dismissed Wednesday until Mon-
day, after partaking of a pre-
Thanksgiving dinner in the hot
lunch unm .at the school.
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JolHiton Attends
Annual TSTA Meet
Floyd Gray of Bogata, was one
of two registrants in the United
States which have been reported as
receiving the same order and serial
number in assignments for compul-
sory military service. Gray’s serial
number was 2152 and the same r-
der number was given him. The
order number was fixed through the
national lottery and after discard-
ing numbers above the Red River
county registration figure the coun-
ty draft board found his number
fixed at 2152.
L. T. Johnston, superintendent of
the Deport High School, is attend-
ing the annual meeting of Texas
State Teachers’ Association at Fort
Worth', which is in meeting Nov. 21,
22 and 28. Mr. Johnston is a i
gate to the State House of Delei
and isj representing the East T«
district of the association.
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LECTURE IN PARIS 7
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Captain Sir Hubert Wilkins, noted
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Deport Gins Turn
Out 4,006 Bales
Deport’s three gins had turned
out a total of 4,006 bales of cotton
up to late Wednesday, passing their
goal of 4.000 bales set early in the
season. Weigher Edgar Hood re-
ported about, 5,900 bales scaled at
the Deport platform to the same
date.
There is still quite a bit of scat-
tered cotton to pick in this area.
Lint continues about the same price,
but seed were quoted at $28 per
ton Wednesday.
nter-Communication System
Installed at Deport School
Burns Prove Fatal
to Mrs. Guy Foster
Burns received when her clothing
ignited from a heating stove proved
fatal Sunday to Mrs. Guy Foster,
34 of Clarksville. She died at Red
River County Hospital, where she
had been since she was burned at
her home Thursday.
Funeral services were held at 3:30
p. m. Monday at Mabry. Surviving,
are her husband, a son and her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Ogburn
of Clarksville.
Mr. Foster is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Sam Foster of Deport, where
he was reared.
Those from Deport attending the
funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Foster, Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Jeffus,
and Mmes. Lula Read, Ralph Ladd,
I. L. Read, Sam Read, Lowell Read,
John Jackson and Joe Grant.
McElyea Child
Dies Tuesday
Farris Glen, seven-month-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. F. O. McElyea, who
live south of Deport, died Tuesday
in a Paris hospital after an illness
of five weeks. Survivors include the
parents, two brothers, Kenneth and
C. W. and a sister, Dorothy.
Funeral services, directed by the
J. M. Grant funeral home, were
held Wednesday afternoon at the
Mt. Pleasant church west of Deport,
conducted by Mrs. Max Temple.
Interment was in the Highland
cemetery.
Revival doses at
Church of Christ
Deport High School took the lead
in Lamar county education Monday
by installing the first inter-com-
munication system in Lamar county
schools. The system, one of the
best, with eight stations in oper- •
ation and eight more available, was
installed and put in operation Mon-
day.
Sup’t L. T. Johnston says it in-
creases operative facilities of the
school about 35'/, and thinks it one
of the greatest administrative de-
vices obtainable.
The loud-speaking apparatus en-
ables Sup’t Johnston to sit in his
office and contact and carry on con-
versations with teachers in six of
the high school rooms, one in the
grammar school and one in the
home economics building. He may
also listen-in on the class work of
any or all of those rooms without
the occupants being aware of it.
The central device of the system
resembles an ordinary radio and is
operated in a similar manner. Num-
bers on a dial indicate rooms that
may be contacted by turning it to
the desired number. All of the
rooms may be contacted at one
time, enabling the man at the cen-
tral board to address them simul-
taneously. Contact with the cen-
tral room cannot be made until the
central operator presses a button. '
Various advantages of the sys-
tem include the saving of time, in-
creased interest among faculty
members -and students and a gen-
eral stepping up of operative facil-
ities. That the Deport High School
is the first Lamar county school to
secure such a system indicates the
progressiveness of the school board
and the school superintendent.
Operative and maintenance cost is
said to be small.
The series of sermons brought by
Oscar Smith, pastor of the Lamar
Avenue Church of Christ, of Paris,
came to an end Sunday night at the
Deport Church of Christ. Enlight-
ening sermons, fair attendance and
interest is reported. Two conver-
sions and one addition to the church
were made during the services.
Oscar Smith Jr. preached the last
two sermons, Sunday morning and
night. Sunday school will continue
to be held at the regular 10 o’clock
hour each Sunday at the church.
Paris Publisher is
New President TEA
Lon Boynton, publisher of the La-
mar County Echo at Paris, was elect-
ed president of tm. Texas Editorial
Association at the closing session
Saturday of its 29th annual conven-
tion at Brownsville. Boynton suc-
ceeds Lewis Bailey of the Dallas
Journal as president.
Shrubs Planted on
High School Ground
A committee, representing the De-
port Parents-Teachers Association
and the Garden Club, composed of
Mmes. W. M. Larimore, Ruby Lee
Hobbs, Sam Jones and Miss Thelma
Ladd, has secured and set out 40
cedars, 27 crepe myrtles, 10 popu-
lars and 20 lilacs on the Deport
High School grounds.
The transplantings are native and
were secured from nearby woods. A
number of FFA students assisted in
securing and planting them.
DRIVE FOR MEMBERSHIP IN
RED CROSS NETS $36
A total of $36 has been received
in the Red Cross membership drive
in Deport, according to Mrs. W. M.
Larimore who is heading the local
drive. A list of the donors will be
printed when the membership drive
is completed.
LET US GIVE THANKS
THAT THE
DEMOCRACY
BEGUN IN 1621
CONTINUES
IMPERISHABLE
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Rugby Man Makes
Big Cotton Crop
Chitty of Rugby, has a
say about the prolific cotton
prftluction talked so much about
this season. Mr. Chitty, has picked
9366 pounds of lint front 18 acres,
averaging 520 and one-third pounds
to the acre. And there is more to
pick. v .
The Aftfnfta ape supplied by Fred
f ot th* R
May we each year continue to have cause
for Thanksgiving that the great things that
make this a truly great nation are kept se-
cure and safe by our people.
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